One American commentator observed that even amongst Canadians famed for “niceness,” truly absurd restrictions on freedom will create pushback.
He saw a pivotal symbolic moment in the refusal of citizens to obey the ban on taking fuel and other supplies to the truckers in the face of a police crackdown, describing it as perhaps “the greatest act of civil disobedience in (Canadian) history.”
This teacher is the definition of a narcissistic groomer pic.twitter.com/ZLRJRqBTui
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 18, 2022
The accused New York City shoplifters that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended as struggling families forced into a life of crime due to lack of federal support are actually repeat offenders who have lengthy rap sheets.
After a string of shoplifting thefts of retail stories in the Bronx, NYPD officers in the 44th Precinct arrested a dozen people on February 8, 9, 11 and 12. Police touted the arrest on Twitter with photos of the arresting officers and the $1,800 worth of household goods, including diapers, recovered.
From BJ Dichter, one of the organizers of the Ottawa protest. If you don’t think this could happen to you or someone you love you’re a fool. He’s been made a nonperson. Without being charged or tried. Is this what we’re now doing to people who differ in political opinion? pic.twitter.com/Po5rbKUbxJ
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 19, 2022
It’s Friday as I write. The police in Ottawa are already fully engaged in exercising their powers under the Emergencies Act. Arrests. Checkpoints. Blocked-off areas.
Parliament was supposed to meet to debate the imposition of the act. That got cancelled.
I hope everyone appreciates @JustinTrudeau’s Canada… “Protesters” chant “we love you” to the police. Police respond by setting off two percussion grenades. Any MP who does not unequivocally condemn this outrageous escalation is a disgrace to Canada https://t.co/9sz3Cmwf4O pic.twitter.com/Ow09utn691
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) February 19, 2022
For years, Republicans have been predicting that Nancy Pelosi’s embrace of the so-called “squad” would lead to a political backlash, and that backlash appears to have arrived. Democrats are now lamenting the fact that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, and Ayanna Pressley have been allowed to define their party at such a high level.
A group of top Israeli researchers and physicians denounced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday for repeatedly comparing a group of protesters in Ottawa to Nazis.
Nearly two dozen professors and experts wrote a letter to the prime minister on Friday, denouncing his comments toward the protesters and members of Canada’s opposition Conservative Party. The group also hit Trudeau over his refusal to lighten “draconian” COVID-19 restrictions in light of the protests.
Strategic incompetence has always plagued Beijing
When I first arrived in China in 1976, four years had passed since Nixon and Kissinger had gone to Beijing to meet Mao, kicking off what Nixon would label “the week that changed the world”. But that interval was not long enough to dispel the thick fog of misrepresentations and outright lies spun during that visit by both the Americans and Chinese — though none of those tales concerned what really mattered: the geopolitical victory that came from that trip.
Imagine, if you will, a world where governments froze the bank accounts and seized the coinbase wallets of Epstein and his co-conspirators, who routinely raped and trafficked women and children, with the same tyrannical abandon and politically-motivated vigor that they are freezing the bank accounts and seizing coinbase wallets of the truckers and their donors.
Yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sent us a Mareva Injunction, ordering us to freeze and disclose information about the assets involved in the #FreedomConvoy2022 movement.
Here is our official response. pic.twitter.com/iuxliXhN5y
— nunchuk_io (@nunchuk_io) February 19, 2022
The Durham deniers’ talking points remain gibberish. They are furiously attempting to hand-wave away the facts the special counsel has found.
The problem with becoming a dictator is that madness often quickly follows. Caligula is an example from the past, for he was genuinely insane and died as a result of that. Closer to our time, so obsessive was Hitler’s effort to exterminate Europe’s Jews, he diverted resources from the Russian front, essentially assuring Germany’s military defeat. And in Canada today, we have a ruling party that’s equally obsessive, this time in its determination to destroy all political opposition. To that end, Canada’s ruling class is willing to bring down its entire banking system.
Just now Chrystia Freeland details how some Emergency Act powers will be made permanent. (we actually thought she might wait a few days before enacting a permanent police state) pic.twitter.com/HavsTUeo0P
— not inklessPW 💎 (@inklessPW) February 18, 2022
