“Criminalizing Dissent”

John Carpay: The Glaring Double Standard in the Prosecution of Lich and Barber

If Chris Barber and Tamara Lich had organized a series of massive rallies in Ottawa to protest the federal government’s failure to control the earth’s climate, would they have been criminally charged with mischief and held responsible for clogging up Ottawa’s downtown core?

If Tamara Lich had urged thousands of Canadians to come to Ottawa to support indigenous rights, and if this very large protest had inconvenienced some Ottawa residents for weeks on end, would they have been portrayed in the media (even before they arrived in Ottawa) as dangerous and potentially violent members of a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views”?

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

Poilievre, Conservative MPs criticize Crown ahead of Freedom Convoy leaders’ sentencing

Several Conservative MPs and leader Pierre Poilievre are criticizing the Crown’s approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests, with the party’s deputy leader calling it an act of “political vengeance.”

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief in April for their roles in organizing the demonstration, which blockaded streets around Parliament Hill in Ottawa for more than three weeks in early 2022.

They may do more time than the ISIS Bitch, she got a whole day.

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

What’s Next in the Lengthy Trial of Freedom Convoy Organizers Lich and Barber

While Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been found guilty of mischief following a trial that lasted nearly two years, the pair will soon face sentencing, with Barber waiting to hear whether proceedings against him will be stayed.

On July 23, Lich and Barber are set to begin a sentencing hearing that could continue until July 25. Lich said on X that she is “hopeful we will have the sentencing by mid to late August,” which would bring the pair’s trial length to 24 months.

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

German state bans AfD members from civil service

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) members have been banned from public-sector roles by the regional government of Germany’s sixth most populous state. A new policy in Rhineland-Palatinate requires candidates to submit a written declaration of loyalty to the constitution, and to state that they have not been a member of an extremist organisation in the last five years. Anyone who fails to pass this test will not be permitted to take up any public-sector role in the region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Germany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

Armed forces needs to strengthen screening to weed out extremists: expert

CAF Tampon Brigade – not extremist!

OTTAWA – An expert in extremism says recent arrests linked to an alleged plot to create an anti-government militia show the Canadian Armed Forces needs to do a better job of vetting at the recruitment stage.

University of Alberta political science professor Andy Knight says the fact that two of the four men charged Tuesday in relation to an alleged anti-government plot are active members of the military shows the Canadian Armed Forces isn’t doing enough to screen out extremists.

He says extremism within the forces needs to be “explored and stamped out as soon as possible” so it doesn’t fester and spread.

I hope this expert has campaigned against the extremists at CAF who decided covering the surgical mutilation of mentally ill “Transgender” soldiers was a swell idea, installed tampon dispensers in men’s washrooms and instituted the DEI insanity regime that lays at the root of it all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Far Left Extremism"

EU-Backed Report Labels Pro-Family Christians as ‘Extremists’

Last week, on June 26th, the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) launched The Next Wave, a “report” that purports to expose the rise of so-called “anti-gender” and “anti-feminist” religious actors in Europe, whose goal is to “dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.”

Cloaked in the language of human rights, the document is, in truth, a politically charged dossier; reading more like a counter-terrorist threat assessment, and explicitly paints religious advocacy groups as part of an organized extremist threat that needs to be stopped at all costs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civilizationists", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Far Left Extremism"

Lawyers seek answers from RCMP and TD Bank over freezing of Freedom Convoy protester’s accounts

Lawyers for Evan Blackman are demanding that the RCMP and Toronto Dominion Bank hand over records detailing why his personal bank accounts were frozen following the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced Thursday it would argue that the freezing violated Mr. Blackman’s constitutional rights.

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

Steep rise in hate toward South Asians in Canada documented through social media posts says left wing extremist Soros funded anti-free speech org

Canada has seen a steep rise in hate toward South Asians on social media in recent years, with a large spike occurring during the recent federal election — especially aimed at former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, according to a new report.

The report, titled “The Rise of Anti-South Asian Hate in Canada” and published by the U.K.-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, used the social media monitoring tool Brandwatch to analyze posts that mention Canadian cities and regions and South Asians on X.

Between May and December 2023, they found 1,163 posts containing explicitly hateful keywords toward South Asians. During the same period in 2024, that number rose to 16,884 — an increase of more than 1,350 per cent.

Note that the Soros funded so called “Institute For Strategic Dialogue” is notorious for its dubious reports and is really just a front designed to criminalize dissent.

Carney’s media are a font of lies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", Canada's Government Owned News Media

School councillor objected to one of those stupid land acknowledgements and got suspended by the usual Little Hitlers

Terry Newman: She objected to land acknowledgments. Now she’s paying the price for her heresy

An elected Ontario school board councillor has been suspended by her board for expressing an opinion about land acknowledgements. It was not explained to her the exact offence she had committed, or who complained, only that the opinion she expressed apparently caused harm.

Catherine Kronas was first elected to Ancaster High Secondary School as chair in 2023 and then re-elected as a council member in 2024.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke", WTF?

Address to supporters of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus Helen Grus by Donald Best

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

UK gov’t anti-radicalisation programme labels concern over immigration “Terrorist Ideology”

Believing the West is under threat from mass migration has been classed as a “terrorist ideology” that could merit intervention from the government’s anti-radicalisation programme.

An online training course hosted on the government’s website for Prevent lists “cultural nationalism” as a belief that could lead to an individual being referred to the programme, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Staff taking the course were told that this encompasses a conviction that “western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups”.

It’s called criminalizing dissent and the Liberal Party has engaged in it for the last decade. Got that you Islamophobes!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Islamophobia", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

EU Spends €650 Million of Taxpayer Money on Policing ‘Hate Speech’

A new report reveals how the EU is spending more on censoring speech than curing cancer—using taxpayer money to crush dissent.

Ever since the withdrawal of USAID, people have started looking at how the EU spends their money—and each week seems to bring new shocking revelations of the absurd waste, corruption, and socio-political engineering that Brussels has been financing.

Now, a new report from the conservative think tank MCC Brussels, released today, sheds light on yet another troubling trend—taxpayer-funded “research” on so-called “hate speech” and “disinformation,” described by the author as a key part of the EU’s efforts to control the narrative of public discourse and crack down on dissenting voices.

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

U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt

President Donald Trump’s administration is set to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle a lawsuit brought by the estate of the Trump supporter who was fatally shot by police when she tried to storm the House Speaker’s Lobby during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Babbitt’s family filed the wrongful death lawsuit in early 2024, seeking $30 million. Lawyers for both sides told a judge this month that they had reached a settlement in principle, reversing the Justice Department’s earlier opposition in the case, which had been set for trial in July 2026.

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