Freedom

Driving Means Freedom

Rising expenses and regulatory hurdles limit Americans’ mobility.

When I started driving, my folks planted me behind the wheel of a nearly unbreakable late-’70s Jeep Wagoneer. “The tank” got me to work, rock concerts, and parties. It got me through snowstorms that stranded lesser vehicles on the roadside. In a pinch, it could fit me, 10 of my friends, and a keg of beer in relative comfort (at least for the keg).

I miss the tank. Unlike our newer SUV, it would have barely suffered a scratch when my 16-year-old son hit a signpost. But I’m glad my kid, even without the tank to learn in, has taken to life behind the wheel and the freedom that comes with driving.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom, Green-Scam

The New Campaign for a Sex-Free Internet

Sex, money, and the future of online free speech

For more than a decade, both amateurs and professionals shared their sometimes sweet, sometimes weird, and often graphic sexual activity on Pornhub. Launched in 2007 not long after YouTube and with a similar free-for-all spirit, the site represented a new wave of “adult entertainment” in which anyone with an internet connection could partake and anyone with a digital camera could become a star.

Dubbed “tube sites,” Pornhub and its various peers began to dominate web traffic generally and porn consumption specifically. These sites trod on porn’s established business model, but for savvy sex workers the tube site network could provide a way to break into the business or reach audiences directly, without the porn industry’s usual middlemen. To monetize one’s presence in the early days took some creativity, but tube sites would eventually offer content partnerships that allowed people to get paid directly for their videos. Their competitors, such as cam sites and clip stores, made the process of charging money and getting paid even smoother.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom, Freedom of speech

Free Speech, Freedom Among Top Issues of Concern for Canadians after abuses by Trudeau Liberals: New Poll

Canadians are becoming increasingly concerned about the issues of free speech and freedom, a new poll finds.

Conducted by Nanos Research, the poll found that of all national issues of concern, free speech and freedom came in second as the “most important” to Canadians at 8.3 percent, just behind the coronavirus at 13.1 percent, and of higher priority than the environment at 7.5 percent.

With the latest numbers released on March 15, the ongoing survey has tracked Canadians’ top concerns every week since its launch in Jan. 2020.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Freedom, Freedom of speech

Tamara Lich Says Goodbye (Lower Video)

Canada Cops Arrest Freedom Convoy Leader After Warning Protesters In Ottawa To ‘Get Out Now’ And Flooding Capital’s Streets With Officers: Trudeau Fights To Keep His Emergency Powers Alive

Canadian police arrested one of the most high-profile leaders of the Freedom Convoy on Thursday afternoon, hours after Ottawa police warned protesters that they had to move their trucks from the center of the capital.

Chris Barber is being held in custody and is expected to face criminal charges, CBC reported.

Barber, a truck driver who led the Saskatchewan portion of the protest convoy that has been in Ottawa for the last three weeks, was walking down the street with several friends when police detained him.

Canada Trucker Protest – Live: Convoy Organizer Arrested As Police Take Action On Defiant Ottawa Occupation

Under the Emergencies Act invoked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, law enforcement officials have the ability to arrest people for obstruction of roadways and disruptive behaviour within a no-go exclusion zone. Authorities also have the power to seize vehicles and freeze bank accounts.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inA Slice Of Life, Canada, Freedom, Protest

Five Freedoms: Julie Ponesse’s Speech to the Trucker Convoy

 

Dr. Julie Ponesse was a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron University College for 20 years. She was placed on leave and banned from accessing her campus due to the vaccine mandate. This is her speech during the weekend when the Canadian truckers arrived in Ottawa to protest pandemic restrictions and mandates that have been so harmful to so many. Dr. Ponesse has now taken on a role with The Democracy Fund, a registered Canadian charity aimed at advancing civil liberties, where she serves as the pandemic ethics scholar.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Freedom, Freedom of speech, Protest

Canadian Patriots Rise Up Against Mandate Tyranny – Spread the Word

I have never been more proud of my Canadian roots than during the last few days as I have tracked the “Anti-Vaccine-Mandate” trucker convoy making its way across Canada to its final destination of the national capital of Ottawa to scream out as one against the dictatorial edicts of the entrenched-establishment elites who “lead” the country.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Comply!", "Elites vs. Populists", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom, Government is never your friend, Government regulation of every breath, Protest

NP View: The ongoing and unnecessary erosion of Canadian’s civil liberties

Many aspects of Canada’s pandemic response have been nonsensical and burdensome. As we learn more about Omicron and what works to limit spread and hospitalizations (spoiler alert: it’s still largely vaccines ), we must focus on swiftly restoring the freedoms that have been so easily waved away. The time for pondering whether granting freedom is selfish is over. Individual liberties are an essential part of what it means to be Canadian and the longer we infringe upon them, the further we move away from what our society stands for.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, civil liberties, Freedom

Which States Are the Freest?

Our liberties have taken a beating in recent years, accelerated by governments’ enthusiasm for leveraging COVID-19 as an excuse for further tightening control over society. We long ago arrived at the point where newly published assessments of the health of personal and economic freedom elicit winces before we even read the gloomy summaries. So the arrival of the latest edition of the Cato Institute’s Freedom in the 50 States is welcome both for its somewhat optimistic take on the future of pandemic-fueled restrictions as well as for the handy guide it offers for people looking to relocate within the United States to places where valued freedoms enjoy protection.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom

This is the single bravest thing I have seen in years

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", Freedom, vaccine controversy

As America Has Become More Secular, It Has Become Less Free

Why freedom in America is threatened as never before.

Here is something any honest person must acknowledge: As America has become more secular, it has become less free.

Individuals can differ as to whether these two facts are correlated, but no honest person can deny they are facts.

It seems to me indisputable that they are correlated. To deny this, one would have to argue that it is merely coincidental that free speech, the greatest of all freedoms, is more seriously threatened than at any time in American history while a smaller-than-ever percentage of Americans believe in God or regularly attend church.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Why are the police handcuffing street preachers?

Why are the police handcuffing street preachers?

British police are arresting and investigating people over entirely legal speech.

This week police in Uxbridge, Greater London, handcuffed, arrested and detained a 71-year-old grandfather for fear he might have offended someone.

Naturally, the whole incident was filmed and uploaded to YouTube, where we can watch in horror at our hard-fought freedoms slipping through our fingers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, UK