Tamara Lich, one of the organizers in Ottawa, was arrested tonight.
The government is vanishing Trudeau's political dissidents off of the sidewalk in the dark of the night.pic.twitter.com/AA3CuaRjQB
— K2 (@kiansimone44) February 18, 2022
Tamara Lich's last message before she was hauled away on the streets by the Trudeau regime https://t.co/C9ZjD1WmJS
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 18, 2022
When a government uses force to attempt to stop a protest movement, the original grievances that generated the protest movement remain, along with the new grievance of the government engaging in dictatorial action. Trudeau is too weak to be a real dictator, but enough of a dictator to damn his memory in the history of Canada.
The Convoy just put out a “Road Map to Freedom.” It has 7 points
1) End vax mandates
2) Cancel local vax mandates
3) end state of emergencies
4) give people their jobs back
5) give kids back to their parents
6) more small business support
7) respect freedom of choice pic.twitter.com/Vkjqm8byB2— Mackenzie Gray (@Gray_Mackenzie) February 17, 2022
Forget Ukraine. Save Canada !
It’s the moment of truth for Canada’s MPs. About a quarter of those in the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party, the Bloc Quebecois, and the Green Party have to cross the floor. If the Bloc and the Greens vote against the government, about 10% of those in the other two parties have to defect.
This reminds me of how the War Powers Act has been treated in America: get as much done before Congress votes. Then not only are you able to get much of your goal done even if it is later ruled you should not have been able to, but you also make Congress hesitant to act to “interfere with a developing situation.” Congresscritters may be willing to stop the president if nothing is on the line, but if it looks like the military intervention may actually succeed then they don’t want to take the heat for “preventing our victory.” See for instance Obama’s actions in Libya where the most the Republicans could do was discuss passing non-binding resolutions which would criticize the way that Obama went about things but do absolutely nothing to prevent him from acting further, even after Obama blatantly exceeded all deadlines set by the War Powers Act.
Similarly here I think it is a lot easier for Canadian politicians to deny Trudeau emergency powers before any arrests are made. If he manages to arrest say half of the protestors before the vote, then then start analyzing it like this: Maybe if we just keep arresting people the protests will stop and people will stop complaining. And it’s not like I can stop the abuse of powers, since there are a lot of people already arrested. What’s a few more? But if I vote against it I get people mad at me for the protests, and the protestors are still mad at the government for the initial arrests, so it’s lose-lose.
Too weak to be a real dictator? Ah, no. The guy will Tiananmen Square this if given the chance. Plenty of reports of military grade crowd dispersement weapons making their way to Ottawa.
Gosh hope he’s finished. It’s not just the truckers protest which should end him, the guy has had more lives than the cat next door. If this doesn’t end him then Canada deserves everything that comes its way.
That being said, about 30% of the population will never resist, no matter what happens, as long as they are being fed their media narrative.
I know someone in the Twin Cities whose reaction to this, and to the January 6th protestors, is “the only thing the government is doing wrong is not shooting them for treason.” Meanwhile he had to live through the George Floyd riots which destroyed a store he frequently went to that was only blocks away from his house. His reaction to those riots? “Well I don’t appreciate some of the damage that they did, but you have to understand that they had a good reason to be concerned and maybe if violence is the only way that they can make themselves heard then we can’t really criticize them.”
It literally doesn’t matter when the violence is visible to his own eyes and affects him personally. He’ll still be more mad at whomever the news told him to be mad at.