Those in power flex their muscles against the Freedom Convoy
You’ve probably read about some of the developments in the ongoing saga of the Canadian government verus the people – that is, the Freedom Convoy. You can get up to semi-speed on the crackdowns by reading this as well as this (the latter article also delving into the “Trudeau is Castro’s son” meme going around).
The leftist leaders who for so many years pretended to be for the working class and “the people” never really were, as anyone who studies history knows. Or rather, they were for the people as long as they got to tell the people exactly what to do and what not to do.
The BLM/Antifa riots, which actually were destructive and violent – unlike the Freedom Convoy – didn’t really threaten those in charge. But those in charge are quite aware that the convoy and what it represents is a very direct threat – and a nonviolent one – to their power. They fear a general strike, although the way they’re treating the truckers and their supporters just might be the best way to precipitate one.
In the history of this sort of thing, a turning point usually comes when the police and/or army refuse to do the government’s bidding and refuse to clamp down on the people. We certainly haven’t reached that point. And I don’t know whether this will all fizzle out in the face of pressure and threats of January 6th type arrests, or whether it will grow. I do think that resentment will grow, however – even in a relatively polite place like Canada.
We got halfway to that point. They brought in riot police because the Canadian military said “not us!”
If the co-bloggers at Legal Insurrection are correct, the truckers’ convoy has already prompted some of the premiers in western Canada to begin lifting COVID restrictions:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/02/canada-alberta-joins-saskatchewan-in-preparing-to-end-covid-19-restrictions/
Video at the link.
According to the folks at Small Dead Animals, “Canada’s Chief Medical Kook, Dr. Teresa Tam, is publicly sending out pivoting smoke signals. What do you think? I think this is a sign that the Great Honkening is working its magic. . . . Tam said the Public Health Agency of Canada is talking to its provincial and territorial counterparts to chart a path forward for a country exhausted after two years of enduring some of the most restrictive measures in the developed world. Together, she said, these agencies will review the current ‘suite of measures,’ including severe border restrictions and travel limitations. ‘I think the whole concept is, we do need to get back to some normalcy,’ Tam said.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/02/07/the-great-honkening-is-working-its-magic/#comment-1581478
Related (mythically speaking, of course):
“Winnipeg Terrorist Who Ran Over Trucker Protesters Identified As Antifa”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/02/07/winnipeg-terrorist-who-ran-over-trucker-protesters-identified-as-antifa-member-david-zegarac/
(Yep, they’re in Canada, too…)
Oh, yes – my daughter and I had a small bet going on – that Winnipeg Terrorist Who Ran Over Trucker Protestors would be some kind of self-identified minority, possibly a teacher, and one with a viciously-violent line of palaver on social media. Well, two out of three.
I watched a few hours of Viva Frei doing a walkaround in downtown Ottawa, talking with the proverbial man in the street. It seemed very quiet and relaxed for a city in a state of emergency. The cops he interviewed said they were not to confiscate food or fuel, IAW instructions from the Governor General, who is a proxy for the Monarch. Justin Trudeau has made himself an object of ridicule, so we shall see if he has bought himself a vote of no confidence in parliament.
I’ve heard that some of the truckers are threatening to stop all deliveries to Ottawa.
I have seen the Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son thing. And yes, he does look like Fidel Castro. He also looks like Pierre Trudeau… Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. But Fidel didn’t raise him in Cuba.
His parents were nut jobs. I went to hear Jane Pauley give a talk back in the early eighties. Her name is actually Margaret Jane Pauley and the she married Gary Trudeau, so her name was really Margaret Trudeau. That got a HUGE laugh. And I mean HUGE. Because Margaret Trudeau was known to be such a… Flake.
Now, Fidel didn’t raise little Justin in Cuba, but he was raised by his crazy mom in a milieu filled with her fellow travelers. So, little Justin is very likely a nut job as well. And who knows, maybe she taught him to worship Fidel.
But I really don’t care if he’s Fidel’s whelp, or Pierre’s brat. He was underqualified to be prime minister, but survived two no confidence votes. Good knows how it why.
Under their parliamentary system the Canadians can replace their central government in the twinkling of an eye (by US standards).
The Canadian government’s reaction to legitimate protest has effectively de-legitimized itself. But of course they’re just following the Biden administration’s example.
Every major Commonwealth nation is well down the road to becoming a police state.
“Spreading Covid disinformation to become criminal offense in Britain…”
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/spreading-covid-disinformation-to-become-criminal-offense-in-britain/
Now, Fidel didn’t raise little Justin in Cuba, but he was raised by his crazy mom in a milieu filled with her fellow travelers. So, little Justin is very likely a nut job as well. And who knows, maybe she taught him to worship Fidel.
Margaret Sinclair is a dope-smoking disco denizen. It’s doubtful she has a serious thought in her head.
Her husband was the living embodiment of a half-dozen nasty cliches about liberal academics as social types. He wasn’t a red.
Their son is an unserious person, like his mother. His life course between the ages of 17 and 36 suggests he’s a person of normal-range intelligence with no particular talents. It’s a testament to the frivolity of the Liberal Party’s kingmakers and the Canadian electorate that he is where he is.
Canada is becoming a theater of the absurd.
A Public Safety minister vows to criminally prosecute Americans who donate support to the truckers.
Ontario Judge grants injunction against honking.
Evil people gonna evil. Not just wrong. Not just morally defective.
Malevolent and evil.
There is a well known quote attributed to Justin Trudeau when he was an adult but before he was elected.
https://quotefancy.com/quote/1739324/Justin-Trudeau-I-don-t-read-the-newspapers-I-don-t-watch-the-news-I-figure-if-something
“I don’t read the newspapers, I don’t watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.”
As systems (like societies) grow in size, they run into the problem that people rise to or sustain elite status within the system NOT by merit or genuine achievement but by becoming really good at manipulating the system itself. The result is you get people in charge who are fairly good at maintaining the status quo but are spectacularly incapable of handling any external challenge to or internal breakdown of the system.
Essentially, you get leaders who are actually WORSE at dealing with a crisis than some random shlub picked off the street would be.
Mike
. . . which unavoidably leads this reader (me) to the William F. Buckley, Jr. quote:
“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”
— WFB Jr. in an interview with Esquire, January 1961
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/31/telegovern/
The more popular version, however, is:
“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.”
(as paraphrased in the New York Times)
I am ignorant to the ways of Canada’s provincial / parliamentary electoral system. What are the prospects, at this point, of triggering an election? Is it a vote of ‘No Confidence’ or something similar? Is the country approaching this Rubicon?
It would seem the Conservative Opposition bears an unfortunate resemblance to our own RINO culture, even when presented with platinum-plated, diamond encrusted, golden opportunities such as this one. I am amazed at the silence from that quarter, in light of the sheer number of people that have mobilized.
Jordan Peterson gave a great one hour podcast on this subject yesterday, and he characterized Trudeau as an adult teenager, one who felt the need to manufacture two excuses to evade his responsibilities and flee the scene.
That chat is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km5Em_xz8RI
Peterson, like Turley, views the corruption and collusion between GoFu**Me and the Canadian bureaucracy as a very poisonous thing, and an important line that has been crossed.
The freedom protesters have closed the bridge that joins Detroit and Windsor, Ontario:
“The Ambassador Bridge land border crossing that connects Windsor, Ont., and Detroit is ‘not accessible,’ police say, as protesters demonstrating in solidarity with the ongoing anti-mandate protests in Ottawa are blocking traffic. In a notice Monday evening, the Ontario Provincial Police’s Essex County detachment said as of approximately 8 p.m., the Ambassador Bridge is ‘not accessible in both directions going into the United States as well as entering into Canada.’ The force said those looking to travel into the United States should utilize the Bluewater Bridge in Sarnia.[…]”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/02/07/the-honking-will-continue/
Aggie,
There almost no chance of a ‘No Confidence’ motion passing. There are 338 seats in the House of Commons and Liberals hold 169 and NDP, who are left of Liberals, holding 25. Those two parties combined have enough seats to ensure that the motion won’t pass. Plus, nobody wants to campaign in the winter.
Liberal party is one of the most successful parties when compared to other democracies based on the amount of time they have governed. That is just how Canada is and in my opinion it is not approaching anything close to Rubicon. This typifies the Canadian mentality: https://www.cbc.ca/archives/just-watch-me-when-pierre-trudeau-confronted-the-october-crisis-1.4676740
Thanks @Andy!
Secessio plebis
GENERAL STRIKE
SOLIDARITY
This is the way…
A BIG BUT HERE:
We all must be prepared for the consequences in many different ways. Got a minimum 4 weeks of food/water/supplies. Can you weather the weather, not being able to go out buy things or have things delivered.
How are you prepared to support a general strike? Food, water, fuel, shelter, medical, morale, protesting, counter-protesting, organizing.
And what if you support a popular movement that then fails…
As systems (like societies) grow in size, they run into the problem that people rise to or sustain elite status within the system NOT by merit or genuine achievement but by becoming really good at manipulating the system itself. The result is you get people in charge who are fairly good at maintaining the status quo but are spectacularly incapable of handling any external challenge to or internal breakdown of the system.
Essentially, you get leaders who are actually WORSE at dealing with a crisis than some random shlub picked off the street would be.
Bingo.
“…Jordan Peterson…”
A bit disappointing here, though:
‘He said the [CBC] should no longer receive any public funding due to its “appallingly corrupt” practices.’
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/02/08/jordan-peterson-blasts-cbc-as-appallingly-corrupt-ideologically-warped/
Um, Dr. Peterson, HELLO!! That’s PRECISELY THE REASON why they’re getting so much public funding. That, and because without public—i.e., Government of Canada—funding, they wouldn’t be able to hold their heads above water.
(This is why “Biden”‘s “infrastructure” bamboozlement includes a hefty payment to support the Corrupt Media in the US….)
PA+cat
Windsor to Sarnia is about an hour and a half, presuming no unusual traffic. That will give you an idea of how far out of the way you’d be if your desired crossing were the Ambassador Bridge.
There’s a tunnel under the river. Not sure why the cops didn’t mention that except clearing it if blocked would be a huge logistical issue. Were it me, I’d close it off–from the outside, both ends.