“Criminalizing Dissent”

‘Anger that I haven’t seen before’: Singh harassment incident puts renewed spotlight on politicians’ security

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s recent encounter with protesters at an Ontario election campaign stop, where he was verbally harassed, is casting a renewed spotlight on politicians’ security, with Singh telling CTV News that he’s witnessing a level of anger he hasn’t seen before.

“What I’m noticing is true is that there is more of a polarization and an aggression and an anger that I haven’t seen before,” he said while visiting a pro-choice counter protest to the March for Life demonstrations on Parliament Hill on Thursday.

Singh received a barrage of insults earlier in the week as he exited a rally for Ontario NDP candidate Jen Deck, who’s running in the Peterborough – Kawartha riding.

Politicians verbally assaulted in Public! Why it’s an insurrection! Jail the peasantry!

Reap what you sow commie.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, WTF?

Threat of violent extremism increasing due to misinformation reports Liberal Party broadcaster that spread blatant lies about Freedom Convoy

Threat of violent extremism rising in Canada, MPs told.

The threat of violent extremism has increased in Canada during the pandemic — fuelled by misinformation and resulting in threats to politicians and public servants — top security and policing officials told members of Parliament on Thursday.

But while police and intelligence agencies are taking steps to detect extremists and prevent them from carrying out attacks, the government must also work proactively to counter the extremism in the first place, they added.

It should be law that all CBC articles come with a “paid content stamp”

Related – Democrats warn potential Trump return to Twitter could foment more violence

Democrats on Capitol Hill are sounding alarms this week over the possibility that Donald Trump could return to Twitter, warning that providing the former president with such a powerful megaphone could lead to violence on par with last year’s Capitol riot.

Trump was banned “permanently” from Twitter on Jan. 8, 2021, just two days after a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol in a failed effort to overturn President Biden’s election win.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", "extremists"

Another Liberal Excuse For Imposing Emergencies Act Has Been Exposed As False

“When you have the truth on your side, you don’t need to keep coming up with a bunch of new and easily-discredited ‘justifications’ for your actions.

Unfortunately for the Trudeau government, the truth is against them.

Hence, they flail around attempting to explain why they were so eager to take away the rights and freedoms of Canadians and use authoritarian state power to try and quash dissent.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Protest

CSIS was concerned about ̷e̷x̷t̷r̷e̷m̷i̷s̷m̷ uppity citizens in relation to trucker convoy, director says

 

CSIS was concerned by the threat of ideologically motivated, violent extremism and the potential for serious harmful acts in relation to the trucker convoy, says the head of the national intelligence agency.

David Vigneault, Canadian Security Intelligence Service director, told a special committee of parliamentarians examining the invocation of the federal Emergencies Act on Tuesday that this form of extremism, which he referred to as IMVE, represents a significant national-security threat.

… “IMVE is a threat that thrives on division and festers in the online space. But the hateful online rhetoric associated with these views is spilling over into the real world.”

In the leadup to the convoy, CSIS closely monitored known IMVE actors to assess any threat of serious acts of violence, Mr. Vigneault said, adding that this was informed by context. For example, he said, the intelligence agency has observed a rise in anti-authority, violent rhetoric, particularly in relation to pandemic public-health measures.

God Forbid anyone tells Junior where to stuff it. Vigneault is the most political of CSIS directors to date, dutifully criminalizing dissent on behalf of the Liberal Party. Go incognito.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, CSIS

Giving The Government Control Over Defining ‘Misinformation’ Will Lead To Opposition Being Branded ‘Misinformation’

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government often talk about fighting ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’.

When they do so they aren’t talking about persuasion or respectful disagreement.

Rather, they’re talking about using the power of the government to define what is and isn’t ‘truth’.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Internet

Majority of Canadians support federal government’s plan to regulate internet, poll shows

The federal government’s broad push to regulate the internet has the support of a majority of Canadians, according to a new survey, even though the details of Ottawa’s plans are generating strong pushback from policy experts.

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‘Trust us’ isn’t enough to win confidence in Emergencies Act inquiry: law’s author

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 in an effort to quash blockades that had taken over the streets of the capital and major border crossings in protest against COVID-19 restrictions and the Liberal government.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Protest

Groups surprised at government ‘secrecy’ over online harm bill consultation

Some advocacy groups and individuals who submitted feedback to the federal government about its proposed online harms legislation say they were surprised the government didn’t make their consultation documents public, which would have ensured concerns about a “disturbing” and “extremely problematic” plan were heard widely.

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Federal government must do more to fight spread of disinformation, polarization on social media: CSIS director

The spread of disinformation and polarization via social media is one of the biggest threats to social cohesion in Canada and the federal government needs to do more to fight it, says the head of Canada’s spy agency.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media

The White House can’t imagine why Americans would fear their dystopian disinformation board led by a far-left Mary Poppins’ impersonator

Biden branded his political rivals and millions of Americans, who opposed his radical plans to gut Senate tradition and pass partisan election reform, as enemies of the state.

Democrats colluded with the National School Boards Association to threaten to send federal law enforcement after parents who committed the ‘crime’ of challenging the Democrats’ destructive far-left school indoctrination.

Two weeks ago, former President Barack Obama warned that unregulated social media threatens to inflame ‘humanity’s worst impulses.’

Now – lo and behold – we have the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board, announced seemingly out-of-the-blue during a Senate hearing by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Batshit crazy lefties, Government is never your friend

The Battle for Control of Your Mind

In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” This striking image served as a potent symbol for totalitarianism in the 20th Century. But as Caylan Ford recently observed, with the advent of digital health passports in the emerging biomedical security state, the new symbol of totalitarian repression is “not a boot, but an algorithm in the cloud: emotionless, impervious to appeal, silently shaping the biomass.” The new forms of repression will be no less real for being virtual rather than physical.

These new digital surveillance and control mechanisms will be no less oppressive for being virtual rather than physical. Contact tracing apps, for example, have proliferated with at least 120 different apps in used in 71 different states, and 60 other digital contact-tracing measures have been used across 38 countries. There is currently no evidence that contact tracing apps or other methods of digital surveillance have helped to slow the spread of COVID; but as with so many of our pandemic policies, this does not seem to have deterred their use.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

How Republican Senators Can Defund Biden’s Dystopic ‘Disinformation Board’

In an apparent homage to George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” — one the rest of us realize is a pointed political allegory but the Biden administration apparently views as a handbook — the Biden White House is establishing a Disinformation Governance Board.

Yes, you read that correctly. The government is going to decide what’s true and what’s false, and punish disseminators accordingly. The bureaucrats who run the Department of Homeland security, where this board will be housed, are going to be parsing fact from fiction, obviously to keep us all safe from the scourge of independent judgment and thought.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", Government is never your friend, Thought Crime

Justice minister invokes cabinet secrecy around use of Emergencies Act

Justice Minister David Lametti repeatedly invoked cabinet confidentiality in his appearance before a special committee tasked with investigating the government’s use of the Emergencies Act.

Lametti was asked pointed questions Tuesday evening about federal consultations with provinces and others before declaring an emergency, and when the government received advice to revoke the declaration. On multiple occasions, he responded that he “would not betray cabinet confidence.”

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