Police on horseback against the truckers in Canada
Well, one thing is settled – sufficient numbers of police in Canada are cooperating with the arrests of the demonstrators, and so it is being accomplished. For a populist movement like that of the truckers to succeed, it either has to get big enough to overwhelm the authorities, or the alternative is that the authorities’ enforcers – that is, the police and/or army – have to refuse to cooperate with the roundup and thus prevent it from happening.
Neither of these things have occurred so far. And I doubt they will occur, because public opinion in Canada – according to polls, anyway – seems to be mainly against the truckers. Perhaps that’s the result of the effectiveness of government propaganda combined with the general Canadian tendency towards compliance and obedience and not liking to make a fuss.
Horses are sometimes used in a responsible manner for crowd control. But the police have to know exactly what they’re doing and control the horses, as well. In Ottawa, we have the story and video of police on horseback charging into the crowd of peaceful protestors and knocking down two people, one a woman with a walker. There were some reports that she was killed, but they don’t appear to be true. On the other hand, authorities’ excuses that someone threw a bicycle and spooked the horse also don’t appear to be true.
In the usual irony, the same people who were so incensed by fake reports of border guards on horseback using whips on people trying to cross our southern border illegally seem quite unperturbed by Canadian officers on horseback mowing down people not too far from our northern border.
You don’t understand, these, these “workers” were disturbing those who work or lobby on Parliament Hill. They had to temerity to bring bouncy castles and hot tubs into these rarified environs. As Michele Goldberg describe it in the NYT, “Imagine Occupy Wall Street, but set up by construction workers and military veterans with logistics training.”
This type of insult could not be permitted to stand. And in the end, the police just want their middle class house and a pension. Thinking is not rewarded. But now they will have to think about trampling a grandma. Although what is likely scaring them is that she was reportedly an Indigenous tribal elder. Trudeau may be forced to denounce his merry band of thugs.
These things take time to fester. I have to wonder how many are rethinking their media driven opinions of January 6th after seeing Canada. And Trudeau is trapped, if he relents, there is the real possibility of accountability.
“In the usual irony…” But of course. There are plenty of people out there who would cheer the Cossacks charging with whip and saber. You can’t let these peasants get uppity. They have to know their place.
I sympathize with the truckers as far as opposing the COVID power grab. And I believe that is exactly what COVID has been used, and maybe even designed for. I do wonder if they would have been better off by having a rolling protest , rather than blocking bridges. The whole “ protest” thing is tricky to begin with, whether you help or hurt your cause.
Keep in mind however, once you bring in riot control troops and horses, things may look a little messy. When cops wrestle a basic criminal to the ground, It looks messy, perhaps especially to people who do not live very “physical” lives.
The politicians and the media are to blame for this. I hate to see our side play the crazy game the other side plays and claim everything is “ excessive force”.
Well, they want the truckers to go home so maybe they should do just that and then stay there. That has always been their strongest card to play.
On last night’s program Tucker commented very astutely on the lack of any criticism from the illegitimate Harris/Biden regime of Trudeau’s terrifyingly tyrannical tactics. Just as our richest and most privileged elites look to the CCP as a model of governance, so too would it seem that our government must be at least tacitly endorsing the attack on freedom (construed as “racist’ or “right-wing”) north of the border. One wonders whether the phrase “sic semper tyrannis” will perhaps come to be more frequently uttered.
There is a petition posted on Change.org requesting the Governor General of Canada to dissolve Parliament:
https://www.change.org/p/her-excellency-the-right-honourable-mary-simon-the-governor-general-of-canada-the-people-of-canada-call-on-the-governor-general-to-dissolve-parliament
About 1,800 Canadians have signed as of 3:30 p.m. (EST).
And there is David Solway’s latest blast against JT: “It is now common knowledge that Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau, a former part-time high school teacher, snowboard instructor, and two-time university dropout—Trudeau studied environmental geography at McGill University and engineering at the Université de Montréal, failing to complete degrees in either faculty—is not and never was leadership material. If one studies the checkered history of Canada’s prime ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to the present moment, one finds the inevitable gallery of eccentrics, short-lived tenants and corrupt operators among them, but none so feckless and inept, so morally impaired and puerile, in short, so unfit for office as the current occupant of 24 Sussex . . . ”
Much more at the link: https://the-pipeline.org/who-is-justin-trudeau/
The truckers need to go to a new plan – passive aggressive. Withdraw from Ottawa and then refuse to deliver anything to Ottawa. Supply chain disruption in spades.
Neil Oliver
‘People Ought Not To Fear The Power Of Governments’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-836RNdDZKg
jon baker: Perhaps Boston Tea Partiers should’ve considered writing protest messages on the tea chests instead of tossing them in the harbor.
I do like the idea of declaring Ottawa a trucking no-go zone, along with whatever else can be done to inconvenience its tyranny supporting inhabitants.
I was impressed by the truckers’ discipline (physically and in messaging) and by their logistical and organizational sophistication. Not their first rodeo; and I suspect it won’t be their last. This was an early skirmish and IMHO they won convincingly. They retained (and gained) moral authority and they enjoy strategic initiative. They, not Trudeau, will decide what happens next. If they do “rolling demonstrations,” hindering but not blocking traffic, that will give the authorities fits. If they “work to rule” or launch a sick-out, the economic and moral effect could be considerable. What can Trudeau and his Stasi do in response? Freeze more bank accounts? Beat up more old ladies?
jon baker,
But there is brutality happening there. I say this as someone who has had to arrest people who were fighting me. I know what excessive violence looks like.
There is video of the cops in Ottawa- though not necessarily Ottawa cops* -butt-stroking protesters with their rifles and beating them with batons while the protestors are already prostrate on the ground and of a reporter with Ezra Klein’s Rebel News being shot by riot ammunition (less-than-lethal…mostly) in the thigh. No one was resisting. The Ottawa PD tried to claim it was because one of the protestors attempted to grab a cop’s firearm and a scuffle ensued. Possible, I guess. But they also claim no tear gas was used, and there’s video of that too, as well as fogger deployment (looks like a small fire extinguisher) of pepper spray. In the case of the tear gas, they later said protesters threw it at them, which in videos, you can see, the protestors are throwing the canisters back at the cops who aren’t using the gas, “allegedly”.
For what it’s worth, between the bank seizures and the arrests in Ottawa, I think the truckers and protesters are playing the game perfectly. In every video I’ve watched (and I’ve spent way, way too much time this week watching live streams) the protestors have not resisted any arrests and they have not fallen for any of the attempts to bait them into violence**.They’re keeping the moral high ground, allowing themselves to be cuffed (which has been the plan since day 1, if you watched any of the organizers’ press conferences), often kneeling first so they can be taken. As more videos leak that contradict the official OPD narrative, eyes will open. And protests are now sprouting up in more cities, especially in Toronto and Montreal, where they are now short police. Popping up like whack-a-mole. Trudeau’s Canada is showing the world they are rapidly losing their legitimacy.
Who would trust a Canadian bank now? Who would trust the authorities? A disturbing number would. But less people every day.
Buckle up.
*Reports are, most cops enforcing the Emergency measures in Ottawa are bused in from Toronto and Montreal.
**One tactic I’ve seen is that the police will launch tear gas or flash bangs behind protests, in an attempt to make the protesters charge INTO the cops, to provoke a more violent response.
Could it be something besides propaganda making people think the protestors are just fascists, or the peaceful nature of Canadians? Maybe some people have been genuinely scared out of any support they might have given to the protest, because of the threat of repercussions. They don’t want their bank accounts frozen. They don’t want to come under surveillance.
“And in the end, the police just want their middle class house and a pension.”
I think that’s a lot of what’s going on. People think they can just obey their superiors for a few more months and get through this era of tyranny and have their careers and save for retirement and be happy. They think Covid’s almost over and they don’t want to rock the boat now.
Viva Frei has cited video 9f glad bang grenades used against the demos, on YT.
On Violence in Canada to force submission of truck anti-mandate protesters, opening topic of the day:
CAN a comment on inflation causing the decline of the middle class, and intended and welcomed but the Ruling Class fit in on a thread on Canukistan PM Zoolander’s tyranny fit in here? Who’s good intentions against the middling sorts rebellion is still slaved to, nationally, according to surveys?
Of course, I’m imputing American reaction to inflation as now relevant to Canuckville Times — yet I see comments on this post at ZH from the UK and Australia chiming in — is Canada immune to the Great Inflation destroying the middle classes?
One imagines not. Consider that in inflation adjusted terms, US middle class incomes are declining FASTER than during the Great Recession a decade ago! And this will go on longer, likely:
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/cost-living-us-rising-absolutely-absurd-levels
Unseen before costs of living rises: $7 a gallon gas coming to CA. And in the last quarter of ’21, credit card debt rose at a higher rate never before seen, as middle classes stretch themselves out into debt (over $50 billion, $0.85 trillion in all).
And US debt levels reached all time high record of $30 trillion.
Klaus Schwabe and the WEF promised us that we would not own anything in the future (2030 mentioned), and we will be happy, they promised.
It’s all coming true: serfs to the state’s plan for us, here in the US and elsewhere. Justin’s tyranny is just another stage where the middle class is to be beaten down into submission to the Ruling Class State’s “needs.”
Inflation AGAIN as the cruelest tax. Yet again in the ZH column comments, someone quotes Lenin (and I studied Marxism-Leninism during the inflationary late ’70s under a card carrying Communist Physicist — therefore I ought to have learned this quote if he really said it — yes, I doubt the attribution): that communists would grind down the middles classes between the grindstones of inflation and taxes into submission, or some such.
Whatever. This seems to be coming true.
The comments in the ZH piece are dire, edgy, and take previously questionable prophecy seriously. Worse, more ominous times are coming.
Trump wanted to see the middle classes rise and enjoy renewed vigor. The deep state and it’s World Government (transnational progressive) leaders do not.
Obama promised 7 or $8 a gallon gas. Xi-Den is now delivering it.
What next in horrors of middle class decline will be visited upon us?
Several folks noted the idleness and indifference in their once rebust neighborhoods: free second day old sandwiches get tossed out because nobody even wants free food.
We import the third world through open borders and are surprised when crime levels rise to their world levels.
Soon the invading migrants will openly march to state Capitals demanding middle class home. (I’m sure Soros funded NGOs are preparing for just this BLM echo-ed intimidation tactic.)
Crime is visiting Minnesota suburbs with carjackings by the dozen….
Hellscape is coming, and between Zoolander’s demonstration of brute street tyranny and social media policing and “state” media censorship, how does any effective opposition get organized?
Historian John Fonte some eleven years ago argued that if the Globalists win it will because the West has embraced the suicide of it’s own generative and protean values.
Well… THAT’S what we’re witnessing…in real time. And in Canada, by Canadian’s, too.
(My God. How do I hate being alive, here and now? Now that it’s no wonder.)
“public opinion in Canada – according to polls, anyway – seems to be mainly against the truckers.” neo
It’s the lack of public support for the truckers that leads me to think that they will not be successful. The irony here is it those people that support Trudeau and his government’s actions will come to deeply regret it. Too stupid or willfully blind to see where this must lead if the majority of Canadians don’t reject Trudeau and his party in the voting booth.
“Well, they want the truckers to go home so maybe they should do just that and then stay there. That has always been their strongest card to play.” Griffin
Not sure that’s as strong a play as it might seem to be. Most of the protesters have been vaccinated. Which indicates most have been going along till now. I think it likely that a lot of truckers did not protest and are thus unlikely to join a strike. Also replacements can be trained to operate the protester’s seized trucks.
Here is the Viva Frei clip of the protesters chanting ‘we love you’ and getting percussive grenades in response from the police.
https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1495159877328674820
Geoffrey Britain @ 5:43: “…Too stupid or willfully blind to see where this must lead if the majority of Canadians don’t reject Trudeau and his party in the voting booth.”
To “stupid or willfully blind” I would add “cowardly.” People have been ground down into a chronic depressive state, a grey anxious mood where every prospect has been dimmed or closed off. We can thank Wu Flu for that, and more precisely we can thank the authorities’ policies: the endless urgings to “hunker down, just a few more weeks” and surrender all initiative: “Follow the Science. Don’t challenge the Experts. The Experts will tell us what to do, and when to do it, so until the next ukase is issued, don’t make trouble. Patience. Patience. Patience.”
At a certain point –and I submit we’ve passed it– “Patience” is indistinguishable from learned helplessness. So we should not be surprised by the lack of (reported; observed) reaction from the wider public. That said, people will not forget. And some may feel what’s been done to the demonstrators is a mortal insult directed at all Canadians.
My long-standing belief is that Canada was settled by American colonists who could not accept the independence of the newly-created United States. They were loyal to the British Crown, so fled north into Canada. Their mind set was and has been more obedient to higher authority than the US tradition.
So it is quite refreshing to see trans-Canadian truckers resist the arbitrariness of COVID testing, etc, as they reach each provincial border. No one is less likely to transmit any virus than someone who drives alone, and often sleeps in the truck too, feeding on takeouts.
In the USA we appear to have lost the spirit of resistance to arbitrary and stupid authority (Biden’s unconstitutional mandates, and Fauci’s spouting of opinions, never one fact, come to mind).
Pfizer wants to do a trial to inject the m-RNA which causes the body to make the spike protein (!) into children ages 6 months to 5 years. But they never get ill with COVID!
What’s the point, besides transferring funds from the Treasury to Pfizer?
I still see many people wearing the useless masks, especially if they’re employees and their company has issued a mask mandate. I am glad to read that a truck convoy is being organized, headed to D.C. in protest. But I fear the USA has become a nation in which sheep are the majority.
The politicians and the media are to blame for this.
Note the media are playing the flip side of the tune they crooned for the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020. In the US, real violence and arson and looting against urban infrastructure, and the media crooned ‘peaceful protests’, excoriated the police and fawned over the crude character of George Floyd.
In Canada, NOT ONE bit of arson nor looting nor damage to buildings, a genuinely peaceful protest, yet the media harp on unevidenced misbehavior of unnamed truckers, fawn over the pretty-boy Justin Trudeau and his arrogation of dictatorial powers and bank confiscations, and the police use 1917 Cossack tactics to ride down unarmed citizens in the streets while media clucks approvingly.
All power to the one who owns the TV cameras and the printing press.
I’ve been wondering about the mentality of the police involved – not only of the police in Ottawa, but also the police in Hong Kong during the demonstrations there (and then the subsequent violence). There must be a very narrow set of blinders which allows them to ignore the fact the person they’re beating is unarmed and unprotected and unresisting. There must be a very narrow set of moral blinders which allows them to ignore the fact the person they’re beating is fighting to uphold what is touted to be a cherished value of the country (i.e., freedom).
There were rumors in Hong Kong that the local police had to be augmented with people (perhaps police, perhaps soldiers) from the mainland. If true, the case there is more understandable since someone from the Chinese mainland would have no idea of the ideal being fought for and also the Hong Kongers, at the end, did resort to a pitiable violence (watch one try to throw a Molotov cocktail).
Another analogous situation may be Tiananmen Square where troops had to be called from other provinces since the local soldiers didn’t seem to have the will to crush the students. Again, the troops who were called in were most likely ignorant of any ideals of freedom and may have believed they had to deal with a serious threat to civil order.
The police in Canada who were sent to Ottawa have no such excuse, so I wonder how they justify what they do. Perhaps the media coverage has blinded them to what they’re actually opposing. Perhaps they’re only following orders.
Owen,
A certain percentage of cowards and sheep are always with us. They are the natural prey of the predators that exist in every time and place.
Those who blame the protesters will reap the reward of every coward, “to die a thousand deaths” and the willfully blind sheep are certain to be sheared. While those who support Trudeau’s tyranny have declared themselves to be enemies of liberty.
People unwilling to fight for their liberties lack the ability to keep them, nor are they deserving of those liberties. May their chains rest heavily upon their necks for what they are bequeathing to their children and to the generations to come.
Les:
I think in most cases their main motivation is to not lose their jobs.
Also, many may take in the propaganda and believe it – that these people are dangerous, are Nazis, whatever bad things are said about them.
Does willfully blind cowardly sheep shat stink?
No.
My sense it that the polls are correct about most Canadians supporting the government. Most rebellions fail unless they gain the support of state actors. Canada is probably a lost cause.
This thread from Ezra Levant shows what some of the RCMP think and say when talking amongst themselves.
Just awful.
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1495232670497918976
To hammer home the point… popular discontent only means something if there are elements of the existing elite superstructure of society willing to and desirous of stepping up to cajole, lead, and ultimately rule in the aftermath.
An army of MAGA Hats or Truckers or Duck Dynasty characters can disrupt… massively so… but without backing by some segment of the existing elites are very unlikely to prevail.
Do tell, oh sage of the Far East. Probably knows as much about Canadians as he knows about Americans. Arrogance and Ignorance,
Enjoying my APOCALYPSE I see.
Shorn of the entertaining persiflage, Zaphod is IMO correct on the basic theory:
“Successful revolutions tend to require disaffected segments of the Elites to flip sides *and* often also do most of the instigation and legwork.”
Or, at least, the theory, as I learned it in graduate school and have seen in my later reading, mostly jibes with the Wikipedia article he cited.
A few more random gleanings from the internet, while looking for a contrary theory, which I have not yet found, but I didn’t look very long.
https://pressbooks.buffscreate.net/revolution/chapter/the-russian-revolution-history-and-theory/
The following is an overview, and doesn’t directly address the question, but has some interesting theoretical frameworks that have some overlap but not total agreement.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333578294_Theories_of_Revolution
This is the one that I found most interesting and applicable.
He could almost have been writing about Canada today.
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/99087457.pdf
The source site doesn’t allow copy-paste, and neither did the downloaded PDF, but it gives some credence to Zaphod’s assertions about opposition-elite support for successful rebellions against the ruling-elite.
In particular, see page 6 (8 on the screen images; add 2 to each page number following) & page 8 (reveals a slight left-leaning orientation by the author, probably inescapable in academia, but not obtrusive) & page 9 for some rebuttals of the “ideology is everything” models & page 10 (describes his own model, which is directly applicable to Canada and the US and probably the UK if Johnson doesn’t get his act together soon) & details, which follow to page 21, which starts getting into the real meat of his analysis.
Quoting another writer: “The major power of movement is exerted when opportunities are widening, elites are divided and realignments are occurring.”
Parsa has 3 books on Amazon, and this one appears to have been developed from his short article (or the article is a summary of the book).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HOQ5F6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2
I might even get a copy.
Another interesting find for the topic of elite movements, revolutionary or otherwise.
https://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/
I don’t think the lower tier of quasi-elites (bourgeois anti-capitalists?) is ready to join the truckers, but they might be willing to USE the truckers & other populist rebellions in their own interest, if they weren’t so abysmally stupid.
They are also the “useful idiot” class that Lenin manipulated successfully in Russia, and then purged after they delivered the successful Revolution.
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Here’s the Glenn Reynolds post cited by Anderson.
https://instapundit.com/130648/
@ Griffin > “This thread from Ezra Levant shows what some of the RCMP think and say when talking amongst themselves.
Just awful.”
That was truly frightening.
I hate Twitter, but this should be read by everyone, and copied, because I’m sure Twitter is aching to suspend Ezra (and Viva Frei too, on YouTube) – don’t know how long they will remain uncancelled).
I hope they don’t ever find out who it was.
Following the Tiananmen Square Rule – never use locals who might see their own grandma in the crowd.
Tell me again who was carrying Nazi flags?
Oh yeah, the ones who were applying the analogy to Trudeau, not themselves.
Looks like the rule of promotion by ideology instead of competence: do they not know that in today’s world nothing on a phone or the internet is private?
But, of course, they won’t be.
So, I think he’s telling us that Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties is no more, except possibly this one, soon to be ex-.
I guess the RCMP is almost completely woke-ified.
It’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, after all, not the Free Canadian People’s Police.
Most of the entertaining persiflage has been shorn by our not entirely gracious hostess, leaving just the postscript which begins:
“To hammer home the point..”
Still, AesopFan says more about Elite Theory in a more palatable way to the readership here than I could manage. All good!
Plug though for the Academic Agent Channel on YouTube. He got me interested in Pareto/Mosca/Michels and cured me of any romantic notions of mass action being all that’s required. MAGAdom and HK Protests enough context to sell me on the idea.
Well, the trucker protest has been squashed; it’s over:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10530603/Riot-cops-clear-final-Freedom-Convoy-protesters-Trudeaus-Ottawa-doorstep.html
And, I found this short article by Derek Hunter this morning to be particularly enlightening regarding not only Canada, but also NZ, and Oz. We may share a common culture and language, but we don’t share a common love of individual freedom. I think it’s telling those 3 countries never rebelled against Britain, but underwent, in their view, a more “civilized” separation.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/02/20/canada-shows-why-its-called-american-exceptionalism-n2603533
It was great while it lasted. But it couldn’t last for long. The bad guys won . . . again. And, sadly, I think they’re going to keep winning. In Canada, in America, everywhere.
And, sadly, I think they’re going to keep winning. In Canada, in America, everywhere.
Well, crawl into your closet and quit making a nuisance of yourself.
“Well, crawl into your closet and quit making a nuisance of yourself.”
So tell us your reason for such great optimism instead of responding with snark.
Consider that in Canada we don’t know what is happening except that Brandeau has the media shaping the message. Choose to give up or not.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/02/20/crackdown-sparks-even-more-massive-protests-across-canada-crisis-for-trudeau-n525046
Not that the media would lie or the Police Chief of Ottawa, Dudley and Horse can be trusted. Has the Fat Lady finished her final aria? Z and Yammer know. Or both are blowing smoke again.
I’m not optimistic about other countries. The US has a chance, but that is diminished by the large number of spineless, feckless members of the GOP. If the Republicans were more reliable to stand their ground, I might be more encouraged.
OM, your link is encouraging; today is another day. I hope Viva Frei will be out again.
Sometimes “not wanting to make a fuss” is the verbal expression of a gelatinous backbone.
physicsguy:
Viva Frei is on Locals and on Rumble too. So the Alphabet monster may not be able to easily memory hole him.
https://rumble.com/vvcuty-interviewing-counter-protesters-at-ottawas-freedom-convoy-2022-its-awesome.html
Neo (in response to Les): “I think in most cases their main motivation is to not lose their jobs.”
I remember watching some videos a few years back about Desmond Tutu’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee. They had South African police telling why they attacked unarmed black South Africans in the townships. While it was true many of the officers stated that they believed they were restoring order; many stated that they were afraid of losing their pensions along with their jobs.
I could see someone using more force than they otherwise would if threatened with losing their financial future – something they may have worked decades for only to have it taken away because they didn’t obey orders one day, even if they didn’t want to follow the orders as they believed the orders were wrong. It wouldn’t just be themselves that would be hurt, it was also their families ending up destitute. THAT is a strong motivator.
As for Hong Kong, many of the police are now hired from mainland China. They are migrants to Hong Kong from the mainland and the only way that happens is if you have strong support for the CCP. Also, many mainlanders believe that Hong Kongers are arrogant and would have no problem with taking them down a peg or two. Especially given how so many of the leaders for Democracy in Hong Kong are so young the mainlander police would see them as disrespectful youngsters who need to be taught respect for their elders (and the CSP is in some sense their “elders”). Even with this attitude I could see some of the mainlander Police who might not like what they are ordered to do; but, if they disobey they could not only lose their job; but, end up back in mainland China without any job prospects. They would also be labelled as not being loyal to the party. Very strong motivators!
Lastly, I have no doubt that people like Trudeau believe they know better than others, especially working class folks like truckers, and are appalled that such people would challenge them. So, the truckers need to be “taught respect for their betters.”
Well, the trucker protest has been squashed; it’s over
While the RCMP was trampling little old ladies, this was happening:
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/millions-in-damage-after-attack-on-coastal-gaslink-work-site-rcmp-say-1.5786320
Any thoughts on what the official reaction will be?
Think we cannot become Canada?
Today Slow Joe extended his National Emergency declaration.
The Capitol is being fenced off again, in apparent prep for Corruptocrat Joe’s State of the Union speech March 2 (or is it 3?).
Roger Kimble on Brandeau, Canada’s ‘Premier for Life’ (in his own mind anyway):
https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/19/justin-trudeau-and-the-alchemy-of-irony/
The Capitol is being fenced off again, in apparent prep for Corruptocrat Joe’s State of the Union speech March 2 (or is it 3?).
Personally I take this as a sign of weakness. It might work in Canada, but I don’t believe it will here.
There is a reckoning coming in the midterm elections. The only question on my mind is how desperate the elites will become between now and then.
Sarah Hoyt says, “Keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.” She might be right. I’m not much for prepping, but this year is different.
huxley:
Weak, pathetic, and afraid. The Patriot Front clown show didn’t work trying to smear the March for Life and the Jan. 6 House of Clowns show isn’t working either. Desperate parties and people are still dangerous.
Some Europeans are beginning to notice. Well, more specifically, East Europeans:
“European Parliament member compares Trudeau to communist ‘dictator’;
“European Parliament’s Cristian Terhe?, of Romania, blasted Trudeau as acting like a ‘tyrant'”—
https://www.foxnews.com/world/canada-freedom-convoy-european-parliament-member-compares-trudeau-to-communist-dictator
(And this guy’s a former Communist to boot… Talk about street cred? Or maybe he’s just had it with supposedly charismatic authoritarians…. Curious no matter how you look at it.)
And some WEF pushback. (Revisited, as it’s been mentioned here over the past few days….)
The WEf revelations, if they ever manage to get out to a wider audience, will likely be huge.
(Looks like just one more “thing”—or coup?—to cover up massively and spin about hysterically…)
“WEF ‘Infiltration’: Rogan Redpilled, Canadian MP Cut Off For Asking – Accused Of Spreading “Disinformation”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/wef-infiltration-rogan-redpilled-canadian-mp-cut-asking-accused-spreading-disinformation
Key grafs:
‘…Other [than Trudeau,] notable Young Global Leaders include: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda “this will never end” Ardern, French President Emmanuel Macron, and other high ranking officials from Germany, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands and Denmark. It might even explain Pete Buttigieg’s odd success-to-competence ratio….
‘Three years after Schwab bragged about having ‘penetrated cabinets’ of world governments, he wrote in a June 2020 publication titled Now is the time for a ‘great reset’ how the pandemic presented a “rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future.”….’
@Charles:
The HKP are not ‘hired from Mainland China.’
But they are increasingly recruited from young mainland immigrant HK residents. Men (none of this PC crap from me) who came to HK as boys who had already had 6 or 7 years of Mainland kindergarten and Primary School. You don’t need to be a Jesuit to own the child if you have him until ~10 or 12. Plus of course they grow up in their mainlander parents’ households in HK watching plenty of mainland media and many of them have to learn Cantonese on the fly just to get by –> bit more alienation and bile added to the mix. When they join the force, they’re all set to rock and roll.
Ever since the 1984 Joint Declaration on the return of HK (1997) China has had the right to send 150 immigrants per *day* 365 days per year to HK. No vetting permitted by the HK Side. So 150 every day since the mid 1980s. The only time this has stopped has been due to Covid restrictions. Think on the numbers.
The Chinese understand and have always understood Great Replacements even if ConservaCucks refuse to: see Tibet and Xinjiang. They act with great finesse. A good deal of the new arrivals are Fujianese — deliberately chosen because tend to be one of the most hyper-patriotic groups.
The local people here have had to live for nearly 40 years now with new strange faces arriving daily and magically swanning into public housing in one of the most expensive real estate markets on the planets while locals born and bred here are reduced to living some of them in ‘Cage Homes’. They get to see the physiognomies of their beat policemen become recognisably more alien as time goes by… and a thousand other little signs which all add up to the message: ‘You People are History.’ They also get to watch their ‘Elites’ sell out in real time and prosper by doing so.. Never a pretty or encouraging sight.
This Great Replacement was one of *the* major driving factors for what were sold to the West by lying Western media as pro-Democracy protests. There was of course a strong element of anti-local Quisling officials to the protests but the major underlying cause of anger and despair is this Great Replacement. Of which you have heard nothing because it is being done to you, too.
I should add that those 150 immigrants per day are generally unskilled. The point is to bring in an army of government supporters who are reliant on low level government jobs and government housing.
Obviously there are other avenues for the Mainland Elite and their children to take up residence in HK for business and other reasons. Generally they don’t want to live here permanently though as if you come from the right kind of background and have a Beijing or Shanghai residence permit, you’re almost certainly better off there in terms of living the good life.
@Charles: Having said all that, I can assure you that there were plenty of HK Born police and even some remnant pre-97 recruit Western senior officers who went at quelling the protests with more than just gusto. It’s called Esprit de Corps, you know.
And there will be ever increasingly more of it. Do you think a policexirson in the West today can be promoted without undergoing all kinds of pure straight out woke indoctrination? Guess who invented on the job political indoctrination? 🙂
It may not have been Dudley and Horse after all. What would Nell have thought?
No, it may have been the Ottawa cavalry called in to rescue Brandeau.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/02/20/heres-more-on-the-ottawa-freedom-convoy-woman-run-over-by-police-with-their-horses-n525440
I can’t seem to fully shape my thoughts, but here goes and please bear with me.
neo (and also charles):
“I think in most cases their main motivation is to not lose their jobs.”
It is a strong motivation indeed. (It’s the rationale I give for Jefferson not freeing his slaves). I wonder if any of the policed have followed the practices of a good bureaucrat and did the minimum – genteel shoves or small pushes instead of strong, hard ones (as with what happened to the Rebel News reporter). Perhaps many police do this and aren’t on tape because precisely nothing is happening and thus it’s not video worthy.
What’s happening in Canada has brought about a deeper appreciation of the American Revolution. The Canadian truckers remind me of how the American colonists must have felt when they were still loyal to the British Crown. The leaders (the “elite”) in America, in order to strengthen their case and their tactics set up an infrastructure (such as the Committees of Correspondence). They also debated and argued which helped to shape and sharpen the principles involved. I haven’t read of anything similar in Canada, especially of the latter. Perhaps it’s all understood by saying the “Charter of RIghts”, but I think there needs to be a strong affirmation and confirmation of what it means in this situation. “Freedom” is such a vague concept by itself. Thomas Jefferson, where are you?
The founding fathers (getting back to not losing your job) were extraordinary men because unlike the police I’ve been thinking of, they believed in and lived by their principles. One only has to read this last line from the Declaration of Independence:
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Our sacred Honor.
Zaphod:
It seems you live in Hong Kong. I wish you well and hope you will always be so.
@Les:
I do. And thanks.
It’s no paradise but it’s not half as bad as it’s made out to be. Virtually zero violent crime, no Drag Queen Story Hours for kindergarten kids. And there’s only one thing I could say which would get me cancelled. Pretty decent odds.
Glass half full. Although nothing is certain in life. TW Strait fun times could conceivably harsh my mellow.
Best wishes to you too!
It all sounds pretty awful, this betrayal by the elites of their countries, traditions and principles (for a bit of measly pottage? Immense power? Total control? Riches?) but there may be—though this sounds a bit odd—hope. (Or maybe, “hope”….)
“Central Banks Are Now Insolvent”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/macleod-central-banks-are-now-insolvent
IOW, elites getting bit on their backsides by their sheer stupidity. And cupidity…
“Central Banks Are Now Insolvent”
This is a nonsense statement.
@ Art Deco in re Barry’s link “Central Banks Are Now Insolvent”
“This is a nonsense statement.”
Not really; the author is precise about that being a technicality based on the ratio of assets to liabilities on the books.
The question he explores in quite some depth is how the central banks can get back into balance, and preferably excess assets rather than excess liabilities.
Small commercial enterprises are technically insolvent temporarily when payments due are greater than expected receipts at that particular moment, but the discrepancies are regularly resolved through the play-out of the actual cash flow through the outgo/income cycle.
[that’s a rough statement of my rudimentary knowledge of business economics]
If I understand correctly, the article is about the same kind of thing on a bigger scale, including assets other than just cash-on-hand as in my example.
I found it very interesting.