#1
Yeah, do what we did all through the 19th Century, put the Army on the border. First 2 miles on this side of the border and outside any incorporated village or town greater then 1,000 should be classified a military zone and so posted.
[BBC NEWS] Tesla boss Elon Musk has accused US regulators of targeting him for "unrelenting investigation" because of his criticism of the government.
In a court filing, the billionaire says the Securities and Exchange Commission has engaged in "outsized efforts" to monitor the firm that "seem calculated to chill his exercise" of free speech.
#1
He's young, he's white, he speaks with a slight Afrikaans accent, he's brilliant, a wealthy self-made millionaire, highly successful at numerous endeavors, employs thousands of people. Most importantly, he dislikes the government and he's too much like Donald Trump.
SNIPPET:
[Babalú Blog] "It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President. Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation," said Justin Trudeau in 2016. "I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba. On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader."
#3
You should see the video of him explaining why he admires China the most. He really does want to have the same dictatorial powers as found in China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FuHuUhNZ0
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#4
Xi is riding a tiger. China has postponed their Andropov-Chernenko-Yeltsin moment, not averted it.
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Trudeau warms the heart of his mother's dead lover - Castro?
Look at what is happening - a person is being trampled by the Canadian Police horse #FreedomConvoy Sources telling me it’s getting far worse. pic.twitter.com/4eDdJIjAy4
[EpochTimes] Police put the number of arrests at over 100, and the number of vehicles towed at 21 on the afternoon of Feb. 18 as law enforcement escalated its confrontation with protesters in Ottawa.
Mounted police and officers on foot advanced on crowds to push them away from the designated secured area, in some instances knocking down protesters.
The police slowly pushed back the crowd for most of the day, but in the afternoon increased pressure by deploying pepper spray and using police on horseback to gain more ground while advancing against the protesters.
Some coppers carried assault rifles and what appeared to be rubber bullet launchers.
Earlier in the day, protest organizer Benjamin Dichter took to Twitter to urge protesters to leave and pleaded with the OPS to let the truckers "leave in peace."
"One of Freedom Convoy Canada drivers had his truck windows smashed by Ottawa Police, guns drawn & dragged out of his vehicle by force. It’s time to leave. Ottawa Police please allow the remaining trucks to leave in peace."
Dichter confirmed to The Epoch Times that the decision to leave was made by convoy leadership.
"We had a meeting with all the road captains and they came to the conclusion that it is the safest option," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... protesters could be seen making snow barricades on Wellington and Metcalfe streets to slow the police advance toward the core of the protest in front of Parliament Hill.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) called out the OPS for telling media earlier in the day to stay away and warning that "anyone found within areas undergoing enforcement may be subject to arrest."
"Warning journalists about safety risks in the protest zone is reasonable. Threatening them with arrest for doing their jobs is not," wrote the CCLA on Twitter.
ORGANIZERS ARRESTED
Two Freedom Convoy organizers, Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, were arrested on Feb. 17. Former RCMP officer Daniel Bulford, who coordinated security at the protest, was also arrested on Feb. 18.
Barber is charged with "counselling to commit the offence of mischief," "counselling to commit the offence of disobey court order (s. 127," and "counselling to commit the offence of obstruct police." Lich is charged with "counselling to commit the offence of mischief." Both were scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 18.
Dichter said on Twitter on the afternoon of Feb. 18 that in the case of Barber, the presiding judge ruled that he can be released on condition he goes home.
"This is why de-escalation is important & to communicate it to law enforcement. I do not want my friends stuck in jail or other drivers to get injured," Dicther said. "To everyone who has shared #love & support for #CanadasTruckers, thank you, we love you all. I & many others have left Ottawa."
The House of Commons sitting on Feb. 18 was cancelled due to the expanded police operations, the Speaker of the House said.
"Given these exceptional circumstances, and following discussion with all recognized party leadership, the sitting today is cancelled," said a post on the official Twitter account of Anthony Rota.
On Feb. 14, the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act to confront the ongoing protests. The House of Commons is currently debating the measures under the Act. While the Tories are opposed to the move, so far NDP have spoken in support of the use of the Act, giving Liberals enough support for its passage once it goes to vote.
"To deal with the current threats, our government is invoking the Emergencies Act. The scope of the Act is time-limited and targeted, reasonable, and proportionate—and it gives law enforcement agencies more tools to restore public order and protect people," Trudeau said on Twitter about his government’s decision to invoke the act.
Ottawa police have set up fences and barriers in downtown Ottawa to establish a secured area, banning travel and assembly of people within the zone. The secured area is from Bronson Avenue to the Canal, and the Queensway to Parliament Hill.
Only local residents or people who work in the area will be allowed to go into the secured area.
"We want you to be aware that entering the Secured Area for the purpose of contravening the Emergencies Act, may result in you being arrested and/or charged," Ottawa police said in a statement.
Interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell said on Feb. 17 that the secured area includes close to 100 checkpoints, to ensure those who want to enter the area for an "unlawful reason, such as joining a protest, cannot enter the downtown core."
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), which has provided legal representation to Freedom Convoy organizers, said in a statement that it has issued a "cease and desist demand letter" to Bell.
"The Charter ensures that Canadians are free to peacefully assemble, to express their ideas, to gather to discuss them and communicate them widely to other people, including vigorous political dissent. These activities are basic forms of individual liberty. They are essential to the basic functioning of a democratic society like Canada. In Canada, people are free to discuss matters of public policy, to protest and to criticize governments," JCCF said in a statement.
"The Interim Police Chief’s improper attempts to scare Canadians from exercising their Charter rights is disturbing," added Keith Wilson, JCCF lawyer and external lead counsel for the Freedom Convoy 2022.
Civil liberties and constitutional rights groups have launched legal challenges against the government’s use of the Emergencies Act in the face of the protests.
"The government’s emergency declaration is unprecedented and seriously infringes the charter rights of Canadians," Canadian Civil Liberties Association executive director Noa Mendelsohn Aviv said at a presser on Feb. 17, after announcing that her organization is intending to take the government to court over its use of the act.
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) also said it’s taking legal action against the government over its use of the act on Feb. 17.
"Prime Minister Trudeau has set a dangerous precedent by invoking the never before used federal Emergencies Act to address the current situation. The high threshold for declaring a public order emergency in the Emergencies Act has not been met," said CCF litigation director Christine Van Geyn in a statement on Feb. 17.
With the new powers granted under the Emergencies Act, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Feb. 17 that information is now being shared by law enforcement with Canada’s financial institutions to cut off funding for the ongoing protests.
"The names of both individuals and entities, as well as crypto-wallets have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions, and accounts have been frozen, and more accounts will be frozen. Crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers have started the registration process with FINTRAC," Freeland said at a presser.
According to the protesters, tow trucks are stationed nearby and are believed to be waiting to clear the area of trucks.
"The tow trucks are not labeled, they’ve had their plates removed and their companies covered so they are hiding their identities from the world," one of protesters on the livestream said.
National Review fellow Nate Hochman, who is in Ottawa to cover the Freedom Convoy protest, tweeted Friday that "thousands of police" have surrounded the protest area near Parliament and are beginning to move in on the protesters.
"Thousands of police have surrounded the Ottawa convoy over the course of the past 90 mins. More continue to come in to back up the front line, which has been methodically pushing in, foot by foot. An air of panic on the ground. Starting to feel like the beginning of the end," Hochman tweeted.
Opposition Conservatives say the Emergency Act is not needed and have accused Prime Minister Trudeau of "coming down on peaceful protesters with a sledgehammer."
Parliamentary tempers flared during debate on Wednesday, for instance, when Trudeau responded to Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, who accused him of "fanning the flame of an unjustified national emergency."
Trudeau fired back, saying: "Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag. We will choose to stand with Canadians who deserve to be able to get to their jobs, to be able to get their lives back. These illegal protests need to stop, and they will."
Conservatives leapt at the opportunity to accuse Trudeau of injurious comment. Lantsman, who is of Jewish descent, demanded an apology, which Trudeau refused to give.
Trudeau's comments and those of his opposition colleagues earned rebuke from House Speaker Rota. The incident was widely covered by right-wing media outlets.
Though such symbols have been sighted at the protests, they have been denounced by parliamentarians. Nevertheless, the new leader of the Conservative Party, Candice Bergen, has eagerly met with the anti-government protesters calling for Trudeau's removal from office.
#2
Another view. These incompetent goons beat the shit out of another protester AFTER their Maple-Cossacks stomped and killed his fellow citizens.
These fvckers are creating a Stasi in front of our eyes.
As they hide and distort and delete data showing that their experimental gene therapy has caused orders of magnitude more harm to our young men than their WuFlu.
Which actually took only a small fraction -- 6% by some estimates -- of the lives these deranged liars claimed it did.
#5
Wave your grand old Canadian flag,
Dodge a cop on her goosesteppin' nag,
And RUN! Who's pursuin'?
The Mounties? You're doin'
That Upside-Down Maple Leaf Rag.
#8
Government covid in action. Crimes against humanity and they get a pass as Hitler did. Just have black lives matter show up. Then they will wither away. Down goes a country as we are losing ours. These crimes are historic. This will never be forgotten.
#12
I'm interested in how the Canadian public will react. I get the sense the truckers do not have wide public support. If they were held in high regard by the public I think more people would have stood with them during their protest. Parliament did not have many supporters of the trucker protest. Opponents of Trudeau would have jumped all over him if they thought the people were supporting the truckers.
"Dirty work," eh? You're saying that protest is "dirty"? How so?
True, we're all little people here, of no consequence. This site exists so that truth is not extinguished. That gives hope, which is not to be sneered at.
#14
American Pravda (nytimes.com) has no mention at all of trampling or deaths. Just a bland, brief mention of Ottawa police "clamp[ing] down" as "crowds clash." Buried below the digital homepage, requiring a few clicks to arrive at.
#15
Yes, the vaunted image of Canucks as mellow liberals. It's gone downhill since they basically rewarder Omar Khadr for being a terrorist.
Now, when I think of the Canadian National Character, I think of it the same way I think of Jackson Brown punching Darryl Hannah while singing "Somebody's Baby." Which is to say I think of a rancid hypocrite.
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Zero mention of "trample" or "injured," "died" or "deaths" in US / Canadian / UK Pravda and Izvestia.
Did it happen? Was anyone trampled or injured?
Per the right-leaning Washington Examiner, Ottawa police deny it:
Ottawa police released a statement on Twitter assuring the public that authorities are unaware of any injuries.
"We hear your concern for people on the ground after the horses dispersed a crowd. Anyone who fell got up and walked away. We're unaware of any injuries. A bicycle was thrown at the horse further down the line and caused the horse to trip. The horse was uninjured," police said.
Another tweet from Ottawa police later in the evening reads, "Please note: No one has been seriously injured or passed away in any of today's police actions. Safety is our priority."
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#20 my understanding is that it has to be ratified by Parliament in 7 days. If it isn't, it is not legal beyond that (not that dictators care about 'legal'). Sort of a pocket veto. It's one way for the MPs to avoid showing their hand to the public where they stand.
#25
At least they're talking about ratification of "emergency powers."
We South North Americans in the USSA have been living under emergency powers from the likes of Whitless, Fred Flintstone, Brylcreem et al. and various little County kommissars for two years now
#27
People pay stupidly large amounts of money for the opportunity to be thrown or stomped by a horse. Ask Christopher Reeve (oh, you can't, he's dead) or lots of rich kids from royal families in Britian or Fauquier County, VA.
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#28
So the trucker protest is a coup attempt on par with our Jan 6 event...
#29
Just think: A street person feeling up your daughter in public is legally protected. Saying you don't want a vaxx that doesn't work and may harm you is a terroristic act.
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#30
The womans family just posted she had a dislocated should and is alive.
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#32
The seizure of bank accounts should have LOTS of Americans re-thinking how they go about their business. The corrupt and unelected Biden administration would think nothing of enacting similar "emergency" procedures and is likely licking their chops for an opportunity to give it a whirl.
Visa gift cards, paid for in cash--the only way to buy or support anything that a corrupt regime might declare a "crisis".
#38
Before Turdo got dictatorial and the government staged a riot, the protest was peaceful. The government has likely driven things underground in the future; things could turn uglier.
I never thought we Americans would have to go to ground, use barter, самиздат and employ all the other techniques of passive resistance to a totalitarian regime.
[Breitbart] A total of 20 former and current elected Republicans are named in Peter Schweizer’s new bestseller Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win as having business dealings and political ties to the United States’ largest adversary, China.
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Looks like a lot of them are 'former' office holders and at least one is in prison. So who is selling out today?
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#4
20 Pubs sold out. How many Dems sold out? If you don't comply with your oath of office or have conflicts of interests seems like cause to be dumped out of office.
[AmGreatness] Three months after Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed veteran and Trump supporter, was killed by a Capitol police officer on January 6, 2021, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division closed its investigation into the fatal shooting.
Omitting the name of Lieutenant Michael Byrd—the media, law enforcement officials, and congressional leaders concealed his identity for months—the Justice Department concluded Byrd did not violate 18 U.S.C., section 242, a federal criminal civil rights statute, when he shot Babbitt at point-blank range without warning, barely missing her face, around 2:45 p.m. that day. “The investigation revealed no evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer willfully committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242,” the Justice Department said in an April 2021 statement.
Reports later revealed that Byrd had refused to participate in any substantive probe of his conduct on January 6. Not only did Byrd escape criminal charges or any internal reprimand, he is still employed as head of security for the House of Representatives and heralded as a hero in many quarters, including the national news media.
At the same time the civil rights division exonerated Byrd of any wrongdoing, the office was investigating a Louisville police officer for allegedly violating the civil rights of a Black Lives Matter protester during riots in that city following the police-involved deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Louisville, Taylor’s hometown, was rocked by nights of violent protests resulting in millions of dollars in damages. Seven people were shot on the evening of May 28, 2020; rioters vandalized government buildings and looted stores downtown while attacking officers attempting to restore order.
One of those officers was Cory Evans, a member of the Louisville Police Department. A former Army special forces operative with a tour in Afghanistan, Evans was part of the department’s special response team to deal with large crowds or political protests, which included the BLM riots over Memorial Day weekend 2020.
#4
the American people have lost control of the elected government
That control, such as it was, was based on "consent of the governed." If it's now something that has been stolen and is held by a cabal, they have to work 24-7 to keep it. That gets tiring over time. Who thinks they won't wind up having their own Rowsenbergs, Ames, Hannsson and so on? And remember, those were just the ones that were caught...
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#5
If you don't think besoeker is correct you haven't been paying attention for quite some time.
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#6
He is undoubtedly correct.
@ walking unvaxxed: Yes, I'm hiding. If I did not have a family I would be more bold or brave. Regardless, I don't know what we can do at this point. I and those around me have already paid such a heavy price... just trying not to be crushed now
#7
I'm not sure compliance buys your family any safety or security at all. Still, like getting vaxxed, or not, I think that's your personal choice to make. I won't second guess it.
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#8
^ not compliant any longer. Hence all our grief.
#9
Well, it (compliance) is a spectrum. Some of us really don't have anyone else to protect and don't gain much from a low profile. Others do. Again, I would not second guess their choices. As I'd expect them not to second guess mine.
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#10
^ Nor people who side with authorities that want to crush me because they think the alligator will eat them last.
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#11
The other side does not calculate that when it all starts to collapse how few people will show up to defend them. Sheep remain sheep.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A total of 20 former and current elected Republicans are named in Peter Schweizer’s new bestseller Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win as having business dealings and political ties to the United States’ largest adversary, China.
