“Criminalizing Dissent” – Page 41

UN Education Agency Launches War on ‘Conspiracy Theories’

UNESCO is training and recruiting teachers as a key part of its global effort to combat what it considers problematic information and ideas

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, better known by its acronym, UNESCO, is escalating its global war on ideas and information it considers to be “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.”

According to the Paris-based U.N. education agency, which released a major report on the subject for educators this summer, conspiracy theories cause “significant harm” and form “the backbone of many populist movements.”

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2022September 6, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", UN, United Nations, WTF?

Freedom Convoy organizers want donations unfrozen to fund appearance at Emergencies Act inquiry

Organizers of the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa have asked a court to unfreeze $450,000 in donations they received so they can pay for lawyers to represent them at an upcoming public inquiry into the Emergencies Act.

Money given to the convoy through crowdfunding platforms GoFundMe and GiveSendGo was put into escrow under court order, pending a proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ottawa residents and businesses.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2022September 2, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Shocking Details Emerge on How Biden’s White House Colluded With Social Media Companies to Censor Americans

Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana are on a mission to detail the scope and depth of how the Biden administration is using Big Tech companies like Facebook/Meta to curb the free-speech rights of Americans. On the heels of shocking comments by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the FBI’s role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, initial e-mails related to a lawsuit filed by Schmitt and Landry show even more evidence that the Biden administration is using Big Tech to do what it is not, allowed to do according to the Constitution.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2022September 2, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Ex-NYPD cop is jailed for 10 years after beating an officer with metal flagpole as he tried to storm Capitol in January 6 riots

A former NYPD officer and Marine Corps Veteran was give ten years in prison for his role in the January 6 riots on Thursday, marking the longest prison term handed down in the US Capital attack to date.

Thomas Webster, 56, of Goshen, NY, was charged with felony assault on a police officer. Unlike the other 11 people who pled guilty to a similar charge, Webster was the first to opt for a trial by jury.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2022September 1, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", USA

In Canada fears of ‘dangerous’ politics mounting

Online threats, racist or misogynistic insults, public harassment and outright physical intimidation are just some of the behaviours that officials warn are changing the face of Canadian politics.

The issue was highlighted last weekend, when a man was filmed launching an expletive-laden verbal assault at Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

The incident – which was posted to social media – shows a man shouting at her as she approached a lift in Grande Prairie’s city hall during a visit to Alberta.

The only “danger” Canadians face is from the Liberal party.

by Blazingcatfur•August 31, 2022August 31, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber to go on trial in September 2023

OTTAWA – Two of the main “Freedom Convoy” organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are expected to go on trial in September 2023 for charges related to the massive protest that gridlocked downtown Ottawa earlier this year.

Thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Ottawa at the end of January and stayed for three weeks to protest COVID-19 restrictions and the Liberal government.

A year?

by Blazingcatfur•August 31, 2022August 30, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

LPC Thuggery: RCMP “investigating” harassment of Chrystia Freeland in Alberta

The RCMP says it is investigating the verbal harassment of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland that occurred in Alberta on Aug. 26, saying it “takes threats against public officials seriously.”

“The RCMP, or local police of jurisdiction, review all incidents to determine the appropriate course of action,” said RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Caroline Duval in a statement to CTV News. “Physical action and statements made in person or online can have a significant impact and can be against the law.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 30, 2022August 30, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

‘These people are not guilty’: Documentaries on historic Jan. 6 protest cover rest of the story

What really happened on Jan. 6, including the killing of Ashli Babbitt, and the costly human impacts that followed with the imprisonment of hundreds in D.C.’s “American Gulag” is examined in new documentaries.

by Sarcasticat•August 25, 2022August 24, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Insurrection, Protest

FBI: Trust Us, We Swear We Got It Right This Time!

Five summers ago in August 2017, FBI counterintelligence agents were still working the last of four ill-gotten FISA spy warrants used to investigate former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Then, earlier this month, the FBI counterintelligence team executed a search warrant on the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Trump. The latest of many terrific reports from Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations raises the possibility that many of the same agents were involved in both investigations.

Despite illegally using of one of the most intrusive surveillance weapons in their toolbox for a year, the Bureau discovered no wrongdoing by Page, who held onto his presumption of innocence throughout the ordeal. It’s now fair to say the FBI and the media managed the clumsy and legally needless trick of proving Page innocent after stomping on his civil liberties, putting his life under a microscope, and yet still finding nothing.

by Sarcasticat•August 25, 2022August 24, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", FBI

Trudeau Hiring “Climate Police” As Canada Moves To Neo-Dictatorship

According to a Federal government website, Environment and Climate Change Canada “informs Canadians about protecting and conserving our natural heritage, and ensuring a clean, safe and sustainable environment for present and future generations.”

Sounds innocuous enough. Too bad it isn’t. In what appears to be a paean to George Orwell’s “1984,” the federal Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is building a new facility in Winnipeg that will “be home to a firearms armoury, interrogation rooms, biological labs, media relations offices, “controlled quiet rooms,” and intelligence facilities.”

by Sarcasticat•August 25, 2022August 24, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Authoritarianism, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Climate Change, Global Warming Hoax

Admitting Defeat: The Crown Is Dropping Charges Against Freedom Convoy Supporters

According to The Democracy Fund (TDF), a supporter of the Freedom Convoy 2022, who they had their legal team representing in court, has had the charges against them stayed by the Crown prosecution.

The unnamed client was facing up to 45 days in prison and had been charged with mischief, disobeying a court order, and obstructing a police officer, which is arguable an equal set of charges to what convoy spokeswoman Tamara Lich has put against her.

From the vague details that TDF has given about this case, it sounds like the organization’s lawyer, Mr. Adam Blake-Gallipeau, representing this particular client had taken a strategy of aggressively pushing the Crown to provide details to back up its charges, which evidentially it could not.

It sounds like TDF is taking the position that the onus is not on them to scramble around citing the Charter to defend their client’s attendance at the Freedom Convoy protest when the Crown cannot provided evidence a crime was even committed.

by Sarcasticat•August 19, 2022August 18, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", A Little Good News, Ottawa, Protest

False Flag Incoming? FBI Warns Of “Dirty Bomb” and “Civil War”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that the threat of a civil war is increasing. A bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security and FBI was sent to law enforcement agencies warning of increased threats following the FBI’s execution of the search warrant at former President Trump’s Florida estate.

The DHS and FBI also said that a threat involved a “dirty bomb” that would be placed in front of FBI headquarters.

by Sarcasticat•August 17, 2022August 16, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "far right", "Feminists", False Flag, FBI, Terrorism - Domestic, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump is literally Hitler!

Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever

Freedom of speech is one of the most slippery concepts in political philosophy. John Stuart Mill pronounced it absolute but qualified it, as he did all liberties, where it causes “harm” to others. On that tenuous footing has grown an edifice of laws on slander, libel, incitement and, more recently, the causing of offence.

by Sarcasticat•August 17, 2022August 16, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", Censorship, Freedom of speech, Hypocrisy

Bending The First Amendment Past Breaking

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

the first amendment is a simple, powerful thing. and the message is clear: “congress shall make no law.”

what is unfortunate in this structure is how the government has changed in a manner the framers did not anticipate. we have becomes a government not with a weak executive branch facing mostly outward but one with an exceedingly powerful one facing mostly in. we are, in our domestic lives, affected FAR less by congress than by the ever expanding alphabet soup of agencies that have grown like bureaucratic slime mold to cover nearly every aspect of every action and activity.

by Sarcasticat•August 13, 2022August 12, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Authoritarianism

Alberta minister faces calls to resign for awarding essay linking immigration to ‘cultural suicide’ in government contest

Alberta’s associate minister for the status of women no longer represents the province at the Canadian division of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians and is facing Opposition calls to resign from cabinet, after serving as the head judge in an essay contest that awarded a prize to a submission accused of misogyny and racism.

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by Blazingcatfur•August 12, 2022August 12, 2022•0•"Because Shut Up!", "Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent"