“Criminalizing Dissent” – Page 36

‘There was no plan’: Ottawa police floundered as convoy protest grew

On Friday, Feb. 4, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Supt. Craig Abrams was at his command post watching Ottawa’s then chief of police Peter Sloly speak to reporters on live TV.

It was the eve of what was expected to be a second weekend of mayhem in the capital, with hundreds, perhaps thousands of anti-vaccine mandate and anti-government protesters ready to descend on the city to join those already encamped downtown, creating what Sloly described as an increasingly volatile and potentially dangerous environment.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 22, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

OPP head told MPs that Freedom Convoy was ‘threat to national security.’ His own intelligence said otherwise

OTTAWA — The OPP commissioner told MPs in March that force intelligence concluded the Freedom Convoy posed a “threat to national security.” His own head of intelligence told a public inquiry otherwise Wednesday.

Documents tabled at the public inquiry investigating the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act also appear to contradict information provided by acting Ottawa Police Service chief Steve Bell to MPs regarding firearm-related charges against Freedom Convoy participants.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 22, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Parliamentary Committee Votes Against Disclosing Unredacted Documents on Feds’ Actions Against Freedom Convoy

A special joint parliamentary committee has voted to block the release of uncensored documents that detail the federal government’s rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy.

Sponsored by Bloc Québécois MP Rhéal Fortin, the motion that federal agencies “be required to provide the committee with unredacted versions of those documents” was defeated in a 6–5 vote, with Liberal MPs and Liberal-appointed senators voting against it on the night of Oct. 20.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 22, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ontario police considered ‘covert’ surveillance of anti-government group ahead of Freedom Convoy

The Ontario Provincial Police’s intelligence division suggested that the force consider “covert” surveillance into an anti-government group ahead of the Freedom Convoy’s arrival in Ottawa, newly-released documents reveal.

The suggestion came as part of the OPP’s Project HENDON, a more than two-year rolling investigation into “criminal extremism” and “large-scale protest” movements in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article cites the Trudeau subsidized far left extremists at Antihate.ca so you know it’s garbage. Still that the OPP is actively surveilling people for “islamophobia” among other crimes of opinion is concerning to anyone who values freedom. We are all criminals now living in a surveillance society.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 22, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Islamophobia", "Surveillance Society"

‘Freedom Convoy’ was huge, odd and terrifying. But is it still a threat?’… Of course it is says Blackies Star!

… There have been lots of moments of high-level intrigue during the past week, but it was Ontario Provincial Police Supt. Patrick Morris who provided the content most likely to be turned into a spy novel.

Since about 2019 or so, Morris testified, police, security and intelligence agencies at all levels across Canada have been keeping their eyes on a “significant amount of protest, dissent, some of which caused us reasonable grounds to suspect or believe that those issues would engage in criminal activity or illegal activity that would have a public safety impact.”

What they’re monitoring are brush fires of dissent that can explode into larger conflagrations, such as the rail blockades of early 2020 that started as an Indigenous land protest in B.C. No doubt Hendon was also keeping an eye on the 2021 election protests that dogged Justin Trudeau, which seemed to be a sneak preview of the convoy.

Pity the authorities didn’t devote an equivalent of the considerable resources expended on the Bouncy Castle uprising to hunt down the perpetrators of the Coastal GasLink terror attack or the massive hate crime arson of some 50 Catholic churches that resulted directly from Trudeau endorsing the Fake Graves Hoax.

I used to cover a great many “events” in the GTA for the blog until I realized that criminalizing dissent had become the pre-occupation of our “law-enforcement” agencies.

Back in the day the Hate Krime Kommisars at the CHRC would visit my blog every day including Christmas and how can I ever forget having the TDSB sic the cops on me for routinely embarrassing them in Libs of TikTok fashion.

I have spoken to someone who admitted to contact with the OPP unit in question and who hung about the periphery of “all sides.” Which isn’t to suggest they were compromised only that it firmed up a generally held assumption that we were all likely “suspects” in some organization’s files.

At one point I feared I was the target of an entrapment effort by another individual, someone I considered a friend.

I have always found it interesting that this person, once very active in certain circles, “disappeared” after I didn’t give him an answer he was obviously pushing for. It was such a ham-fisted effort involving so serious a matter that I believe he knew I suspected something was up. Who knows maybe he was doing me a favour in providing the nudge I needed to step back and reassess my situation and associations.

At any rate it should be clear now that if you oppose the Trudeau government you are a criminal.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 22, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

‘Freedom Convoy’: Public safety minister stands by ̷c̷o̷m̷m̷e̷n̷t̷s̷ outright lies he spread about extremist elements after OPP critique

OTTAWA – Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino stands by his assertion that the “Freedom Convoy” had extremist elements.

A member of the Ontario Provincial Police appeared to question the claim in a document tabled at the Public Order Emergency Commission, the inquiry examining the circumstances surrounding the use of the Emergencies Act.

“I do not know where the political figures are acquiring info or intel on the extent of extremist involvement,” OPP Supt. Pat Morris wrote in an email.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 22, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Retired OPP officer says he doesn’t think Emergencies Act was needed to clear Freedom Convoy protesters

A former senior officer with the Ontario Provincial Police said that while the emergency powers granted through the Emergencies Act helped police cope with the Freedom Convoy, he does not believe they were needed to clear the protesters who gridlocked Ottawa streets for weeks last winter.

Carson Pardy, a now-retired OPP chief superintendent, told the Public Order Emergency Commission that he believes there was policing solution to the blockades.

“We did not need the Emergencies Act,” he testified Friday.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 21, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Top OPP officer says ‘political interference’ made it harder to stop the ‘Freedom Convoy’

OTTAWA—Senior Ontario Provincial Police officers believed it was clear that demands from the so-called “Freedom Convoy” could never be met, but “political interference and deal-making” made their jobs harder during the protest occupation around Parliament Hill.

The political and law enforcement challenges of ending the convoy protests — and turf wars — were central to testimony and evidence Friday at the federal inquiry.

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2022October 21, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Rupa Subramanya: Justin Trudeau’s case against the Freedom Convoy falls on its face

The Public Order Inquiry Commission began public hearings October 14, exactly eight months after the declaration of a state of emergency by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. Let’s recall that the Trudeau government claimed that the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa were so dangerous that they imperilled public safety and this necessitated the use of draconian and emergency powers, that have only once been previously invoked in peacetime. The hearings give us an opportunity to test Trudeau’s claim, and so far the government’s rationale has all but fallen flat on its face. Of course, there could be remarkable revelations in the future which put a different cast on the events, but so far, a range of witnesses give reason to be highly skeptical of the government’s rationale and the narrative that fuelled it.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2022October 21, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

When you’ve lost the Star … “nothing we’ve heard so far justifies bringing down the hammer of the Emergencies Act”

“… But so far it’s all about governments and police failing spectacularly right down the line. None of what we’ve heard supports the Trudeau government’s argument that the convoy protest, as disruptive and offensive as it was, presented the kind of threat to national security that would justify bringing down the hammer of the Emergencies Act.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2022October 21, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Kelly McParland: Doug Ford’s puzzling support for Trudeau using the Emergencies Act

It’s still early days at the inquiry into Ottawa’s great convoy crisis. So it remains possible testimony will emerge contradicting the impression thus far that none of the high officials responsible for handling the situation had a clue what they were doing, or the inclination to act.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2022October 20, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Ottawa police chief warned he’d ‘crush’ anyone who interfered with his ‘Freedom Convoy’ response, deputy testifies

OTTAWA—Two weeks into the so-called “Freedom Convoy” occupation of the nation’s capital, outside police agencies deemed the Ottawa police response to be confused, poorly informed and lacking in leadership.

An assessment of the Ottawa police “deployment plan” on Feb. 10 by the RCMP and Ontario Provincial Police determined the response to the crisis up to then was in disarray.

by Blazingcatfur•October 20, 2022October 20, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Watson Told Trudeau Convoy Protesters Were ‘Nasty’ and Un-Canadian: Phone Call

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a phone call that the Freedom Convoy protesters were “nasty people” that don’t represent the country, saying they remind him of the Republican Party, documents presented at the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act show. His comments were shown at the inquiry on Oct. 18, where he later denied to the convoy protesters’ lawyer that he had politicized the protests.

“A challenge for everyone. Still a pretty unstable situation. Nasty people out there that just don’t represent Canada,” Watson told Trudeau on Feb. 8, according to a transcript presented at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Our political class lives in a bubble without contact to Canadians.

by Blazingcatfur•October 20, 2022October 20, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Former FBI Official Will Testify About White House Pressure to Inflate Domestic Extremism Numbers

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday that they would be calling a former top FBI official to testify before Congress to address claims that the Biden administration pressured agents to label cases as domestic extremism or a white supremacist threat even if they did not meet that criteria in order to match Joe Biden’s rhetoric.

Isn’t it interesting that the sudden focus on an imaginary surge in “white supremacism” & “domestic terrorism” coincided with the The Great Reset and its Green-Scam.

It happened simultaneously and most noticeably in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Germany. It’s as if governments were attempting to criminalize their citizens in order to stamp out opposition to unpopular policy decisions like unfettered mass immigration or economically ruinous “green energy” initiatives.

The Trucker Convoy was portrayed as a NAZI Panzer division driving on Ottawa by Justin and his media. Just coincidence I’m sure.

by Blazingcatfur•October 20, 2022October 20, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Terrorism - Domestic

OPP Intelligence Head Concerned With False Allegations of Extremism made by Politicians, Media Against Convoy Protesters

“So when I read accounts that the state of Russia had something to do with it, or that this was a result of American influence, either financially or ideologically, or that Donald Trump was behind it, or that it was un-Canadian, or that the people participating were un-Canadian and that they were not Canadian views and they were extremists, I found it to be problematic.”

Wow an honest public servant. Compare and contrast with Justin, the CBC and the rest of those frauds.

by Blazingcatfur•October 20, 2022October 20, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media