“Criminalizing Dissent”

“New Tech Launch” sounds so much nicer than “Surveillance State Citizen Criminalization Cameras”

WRPS hosting public info sessions ahead of new tech launch

In an effort to remain transparent, Waterloo Region Police Service (WRPS) will be hosting several public information sessions ahead of the installation of new closed-circuit television (CCTV) and automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.

WRPS plan to use new CCTV equipped with ALPR systems to help prevent and investigate crime.

Every day the screw tightens until it’s too late …

h/t Patti Jo and Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

GRAHAM: In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Canadians should reject Liberal censorship

On Sept. 10, political commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated. He did not just die, he did not euphemistically “pass away.” He was murdered in cold blood. Even worse, he was viciously gunned down as he participated in the very thing he advocated for: Free and civil debate.

As a society, we have a duty to condemn this violence as barbaric, unjust and anti-human. Not only has some of the Canadian media failed at this basic task, but their response has revealed a pathogen that has infected our culture and politics: The coercive spirit of censorship.

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

RCMP tried to get photojournalist Amber Bracken charged and detained without bail, documents show

The RCMP wanted a well-known photojournalist kept in custody for months or more after Mounties alleged she assaulted a sheriff following her high-profile arrest at the 2021 Wet’suwet’en pipeline standoff.

Documents filed with the B.C. Supreme Court as part of a civil suit launched by photographer Amber Bracken and The Narwhal media outlet against the RCMP showed how the Mounties tried – and quickly failed – to get Ms. Bracken charged and detained without bail for an incident related to her release from three nights in jail.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Free Speech Under Attack in the U.K.

The country’s censorship regime is targeting ordinary Britons.

“Free speech is at the lowest ebb it has been in Britain since the eighteenth century,” the U.K. Free Speech Union’s founder and president Toby Young, recently ennobled, told me over lunch at the House of Lords last week. The Peers’ Dining Room was sedate—the average age in the upper house of Britain’s parliament is 70—but beyond the Palace of Westminster’s well-guarded gates, the United Kingdom is in crisis, especially in the realm of free expression. Since Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party returned to power last year, Young’s organization—which offers advocacy and representation for people facing consequences for their speech—has seen membership skyrocket. It’s risen from 14,000 in July 2024 to 35,000 now, he says, alongside a record number of requests for help.

The ruling class must fear rebellion and retribution for their traitorous crimes.

What else explains this attack on citizens?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

The sinister arrest of my autistic son over a Hamas tweet

THE evil Starmer has been writing in the Telegraph, confessing that the Left ‘ignored immigration fears for too long’.

His response is to offer a plan for ‘patriotic renewal’ (whatever that is) which he asserts is the only thing that will counter ‘the rise of the populist right’. Towards the conclusion of his piece, he writes: ‘For Labour, we are clear that we must absolutely respond to the reasonable concerns about immigration.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

Trump rages at bombshell report alleging FBI had 274 plainclothes agents in crowd during Capitol riot

WASHINGTON — President Trump raged Saturday at the bombshell report alleging the FBI had 274 plainclothes in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021 — declaring that the bureau’s former director Christopher Wray “has some major explaining to do.”

The FBI had privately acknowledged the existence of those plainclothes agents, despite a Justice Department Inspector General report denying that they were there, according to a Blaze report on Thursday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Deep State"

Canadian musician says broadcast rules forced redaction of lyrics on dissent and policing

Changes to Canadian broadcasting rules have raised concerns among musicians and free-expression advocates, as artists report being unable to advertise their work unless certain lyrics are altered or removed.

On a recent episode of Liberty Talk with Odessa Orlewicz, Canadian musician Jayme Knyx said he was told that his songs could not be promoted with original lyrics that referenced political dissent and social issues. One example came from his track Freedom’s Call, which originally included the line “The chains of power silence our voice.”

(Incognito)

Unrelated

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Censorship, Censorship in Canada

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis warns Liberals’ ‘hate’ bill will allow for prosecution of free speech

Canadian Conservative Party MP Leslyn Lewis blasted a new Liberal “hate crime” bill, calling it a “dangerous” piece of legislation that she says will open the door for authorities to possibly prosecute Canadians’ speech deemed “hateful.”

In an X post on Tuesday, Lewis slammed the Liberal government’s Bill C-9, or the Combating Hate Act, in a scathing post.

Lewis observed that the bill, as written, “expands state power to prosecute speech under unclear rules and with fewer checks on government abuse.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom of speech

Ottawa Detective Found Guilty for Examining Child Deaths and COVID Vaccine Thinks About Case ‘Every Waking Moment’

OTTAWA—Helen Grus, an Ottawa Police detective found guilty of discredible conduct for investigating the COVID-19 vaccination status of the mothers of deceased infants, says she still thinks about the case frequently.

“When I sleep, I sleep soundly, but when I am awake, I do think of this every single breathing moment that I’m awake. About what has happened, what is happening, what will the future bring,” Grus said in an interview with The Epoch Times at a fundraiser for her legal case in Ottawa on Sept. 20.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent"

How the British Flag Became a Flashpoint in a New Culture War

RUGBY, England—Stuart Field raised his first flags in July: the English red cross of St. George and also a smattering of the British red, white and blue, hanging them from his hometown’s streetlights.

His daughter had just been sent home from her school’s annual cultural celebration day for wearing a sparkly dress designed around the Union Jack. Field was infuriated. A flyer from the school had described the event as a way to recognize the diverse cultures represented among the students. “Wear your traditional cultural dress to school instead of your usual school uniform,” it said.

“Your attire must reflect your nationality or family heritage.”
Field’s daughter, 13-year-old Courtney Wright, had prepared a speech about what British culture meant to her, focusing on everything from afternoon tea to the royal family to the British sense of humor. But she never got a chance to deliver it: When she arrived at the school, she was isolated from the other students and then told to go home.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", UK

Defence Lawyer Says Crown Has No Grounds to Seize Freedom Convoy Organizer’s Truck ‘Big Red’

OTTAWA—A lawyer representing Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber argued in court that the Crown can’t seize Barber’s long-haul truck “Big Red,” as the property has been neither seized previously nor subject to a restraint order.

“This is a very strange thing that the Crown is trying to do. It makes no sense within the statutory scheme,” lawyer Brendan Miller said in an Ottawa court on Sept. 12.

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Proposed unneeded anti-hate legislation could help police not apply existing laws more efficiently: analyst

Proposed anti-hate legislation could help police in ‘cloudy areas’: analyst

A proposed anti-hate legislation could help police during protesting amid rise in hate crimes in Canada, a public safety analyst says.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to introduce a bill this week that will prohibit people from restricting access to places of worship, religious or cultural buildings, and schools.

The bill is also slated to include three new hate-related Criminal Code offences: willful intimidation, obstruction, and standalone hate occurring near places of worship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", hate crimes

Toronto police arrest 10 at Christie Pits anti-immigration protest marred by the usual Astro-turfed suspects

Astro-Turfed antifa counter protester arrested

Toronto police arrest 10 people at Christie Pits during duelling rallies

Toronto police say they arrested six people at Christie Pits Park where a large anti-immigration rally and counter demonstration took place Saturday afternoon.

Police said one man was arrested for assault at an ongoing demonstration in the Bloor Street West and Christie Street area at around 12:40 p.m. in a social media post. In an update posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, shortly after 3 p.m., Toronto Police Service said six people were arrested at the demonstration

The MSM version of today’s anti-immigration protest would have you believe that the pro-immigration counter rally was a spontaneous grass-roots assembly. It wasn’t & you can rest assured your tax dollars funded the so called counter protesters.

Check out Caryma Sa’d’s channel, she has more rally video and also provides excellent insight into the political connections of the astro-turfed protesters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", Antifa

France’s New Guillotine: Silent Dictatorship

In a cruel twist of history, France, the self-proclaimed cradle of the Enlightenment and freedom, has turned into a regime where democracy is nothing more than a mask, concealing a dictatorship that is still in its infancy but nonetheless unflinching. It is not a dictatorship of boots and uniforms; it is a hushed tyranny, judicial and institutional, crushing any hint of real change under the weight of its legal trappings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", France