“Criminalizing Dissent” – Page 39

Emergencies Act Public Inquiry Releases Official Witness List

The official witness list for the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act has been released by the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) and includes the prime minister, key Freedom Convoy organizers, and prominent cabinet members.

The commission, which will begin its public hearings on Oct. 13, lists a total of 65 anticipated witnesses, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Attorney General David Lametti, along with convoy organizers Tamara Lich, Benjamin Dichter, and Chris Barber.

by Blazingcatfur•October 11, 2022October 11, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Proud Boys founder scrambling to salvage ‘bitterly divided’ group after new revelations: report

According to a report from the Daily Beast, the founder of the Proud Boys, who has been keeping his distance from the right-wing group, headed to Las Vegas weeks ago for a meet-up of members and attempted to put down a civil war in the organization that is reportedly coming apart at the seams after revelations that one key leader was an FBI informant.

With Gavin McInnes later describing it as the “weirdest experience of my life,” the report by Will Sommer states the group is still “bitterly divided” into two camps (the “Nationals” and “Standard”) with McInnes himself noting on his radio show: “Both sides say that the other side is racist and tolerates pedophiles.”

According to the report, the Proud Boys are reeling after criminal indictments and finger-pointing in what McInnes labeled a “massive civil war” between members.

by Blazingcatfur•October 9, 2022October 9, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "extremists"

How your right to know is getting stymied by the Denial Machine

Thirty-nine years ago, after a wave of post-Watergate epiphanies about government secrecy, the Canadian government passed the first federal Access to Information Act. Ever since then it is has been building a denial machine.

It would be easy to pin the blame on secretive politicians trying to obstruct the public’s ability to know what is going on inside government, because they have done that. Prime ministers including Justin Trudeau and his predecessor, Stephen Harper, have broken promises to open government.

by Blazingcatfur•October 8, 2022October 8, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Big Brother

UK 1984: Priest’s Wife Arrested ‘Without Warrant’ for Gender Wrongthink

Britain’s woke police have come under criticism again after they arrested a mother of five, the wife of a priest, for allegedly posting offensive statements on the internet.

On Monday, while she was cooking dinner for her family, Caroline Farrow — an activist and outspoken critic of modern far-left gender ideology — was taken from her home, frisked “for drugs”, and arrested by Surrey Police.

by Blazingcatfur•October 7, 2022October 7, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", WTF?

Canadians ‘Dissatisfied’ With Feds’ Treatment of Freedom Convoy: Internal Federal Poll

Many Canadians say they are unhappy with the police response to the Freedom Convoy in February, according to an internal survey conducted for the federal government. Even those who opposed the protest said the freezing of bank accounts would never have been necessary if “more had been done” to engage with protestors.

“Participants were generally dissatisfied with the response of the Government of Canada,” said a Privy Council Office report, titled “Continuous Qualitative Data Collection Of Canadians’ Views.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 4, 2022October 4, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Prime minister to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be called to testify at hearings into the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end anti-mandate protests earlier this year.

The Public Order Emergency Commission, led by former Ontario Superior Court justice Paul Rouleau, is scheduled to begin hearings next week, with the mandate to assess the government’s use of the Act for the first time since it became law in 1988. .

by Blazingcatfur•October 4, 2022October 3, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ottawa Police Constable Kristina Neilson to take Plea Deal for $50 Convoy Donation – A hollow victory for the prosecution

(Ottawa) Informed observers of the recent September 29, 2022 online video-hearing for Ottawa Police Constable Kristina Neilson were astonished to see that the officer appeared without a lawyer.

Neilson’s representative, police union Sergeant Patrick Laflamme, asked the Trials Officer to set a date for a 2-hour joint defense-prosecution submission on the facts of the case and an appropriate sentence. Constable Neilson will plead guilty to the charge of discreditable conduct for donating $50 to a Christian website to purchase food and gas for the ‘Freedom Convoy’.

by Blazingcatfur•October 3, 2022October 2, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

Decline of the English Bobby, Part I: The Old ‘Peeler’

… One thing that the English constable absolutely was not to be was an enforcer of whatever happened to be the current fashionable ideology or creed of the governing party. In fact, the police constable was not to be political at all. He was a fellow civilian and subject just like everyone else, what Peel called a mere “uniformed citizen.” As Peel wrote elsewhere, the English policeman was just “a person paid to perform, as a matter of duty, acts which if he were so minded he might have done voluntarily.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 2, 2022October 1, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

NY Times, Fast Friends With FBI, Suggests It’s ‘Toxic’ ‘Misinformation’ to Call for Defunding

New York Times technology and regulation reporter Cecilia Kang made the front of the Business section Monday under the headline “Toxic Election Narratives Spread Tentacles on Web.”

But Kang wasn’t content with yet another “misinformation” excoriation of the theory of a “stolen election.” She conflated opinions espoused by conservatives under that same “toxic” label, suggesting that merely calling for defunding the FBI (a new proposition in some conservative circles) and the idea that LGBTQ are “grooming” children for pedophilia were also examples of dangerous misinformation…

by Blazingcatfur•September 30, 2022September 30, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", FBI, New York Times

Police officer who donated to Freedom Convoy protest was praised for dangerous rescue

The Ottawa police officer facing dismissal for donating to the Freedom Convoy protest was recognized for exemplary service in the Canadian navy and commended for assisting in a dangerous rescue as a rookie cop.

As Const. Kristina Neilson awaits her fate in an Ottawa Police Service disciplinary hearing, new details are emerging about her years of public service in the military and policing.

Neilson, 41, joined the Ottawa Police Service in 2013 and previously used the last name Correa.

by Blazingcatfur•September 30, 2022September 29, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

Public Online Hearing for Ottawa Police Officer Kristina Neilson for Convoy donation – Thursday Sept 29th

Suspended Ottawa Constable Kristina Neilson will make her second appearance before an internal hearing on Thursday, September 29, 2022, at 9:30am. The hearing will be broadcast to the public via Teams videoconferencing.

Neilson was charged with ‘discreditable conduct’ after the criminal theft of donor Identity Information* from the Christian website ‘GiveSendGo’.

by Blazingcatfur•September 28, 2022September 28, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

Glenn Greenwald Excoriates The Left: ‘Democratic Politics Is About Criminalizing Opposition’

Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald unloaded on the Democratic Party over the weekend, calling them out as authoritarians who did not just want to win, they wanted to criminalize their opposition.

by Blazingcatfur•September 26, 2022September 26, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Far right demonstrators demand British government overturns its immigration policy as Met police make arrest and keep them apart from ‘anti-fascist’ counter-demo

The Metropolitan Police have arrested one man and are seeking to keep apart rival demonstrations of far-right protesters and anti-fascists in Westminster.

Pro-Putin and Tommy Robinson-aligned group ‘Patriots for Britain’ held an anti-immigration march at Parliament Square from midday.

Anti-fascists (known as ‘Antifa’), meanwhile, gathered at nearby Marsham Street to protest at the Home Office just yards away.

“Pro-Putin and Tommy Robinson-aligned???”

ProPutin and Tommy Robinsonaligned group Patriots for Britain held an antiimmigration march at Parliament Square from midday
Police confirmed one man was arrested for vehicle interference after climbing onto a bus at Parliament Square#ProPutin #Tommy #Robinsonaligned #group pic.twitter.com/oeElBnWobL

— Shahryar Sultan (@Shahryar_Sultan) September 24, 2022

This way to the promised land: SUE REID sees a human trafficker brazenly leading a 70-strong line of Iraqis and Iranians to catch a bus to the beach in Dunkirk… Hours later they were sailing to Britain. How WILL our new Home Secretary end this crisis?

Police name eight men charged over Leicester clashes between Muslims and Hindus – including suspects from Birmingham and London – as they investigate 158 violent incidents

by Blazingcatfur•September 25, 2022September 24, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Islamophobia", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Camp Of The Saints, UK

PayPal Sparks Outrage After Shutting Down Account Of Britain’s Free-Speech Union

U.S. financial tech company PayPal has been accused of a “sinister form of cancel culture” after its decision to shut down the accounts of the Free Speech Union, a U.K. body that defends and supports members who are unfairly targeted or discriminated against by their employers for exercising their legal right to free speech.

h/t DM

by Blazingcatfur•September 23, 2022September 23, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent"

German “Office for the Protection of the Constitution” Admits it Operates Hundreds of Fake Far-Right Social Media Accounts

The German federal state is operating hundreds of fake far-right social media accounts online, a mainstream newspaper in the country has revealed.

Hundreds of fake social media accounts espousing far-right ideology on platforms such as Twitter, Telegram, Instagram and Gettr are being operated by the German Federal State, a report by a major mainstream newspaper in the country has revealed.

Office for the Protection of the Constitution operates hundreds of right-wing extremist fake accounts itself

BERLIN. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has revealed that it operates hundreds of fake social media accounts that are classified as right-wing extremists. “This is the future of information gathering,” said an unnamed head of a relevant state office of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

You can take the boy out of the STASI but you can’t take the STASI out of the boy.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2022September 22, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Germany, WTF?