Ontario Court Freezes Donations to Truckers' Protest from GiveSendGo
It's obviously all about power
A couple days ago we obliterated the idea that ‘private companies’ weren’t being ordered around by government when the Freedom Convoy’s money was ‘stolen’ by GoFundMe at the order of the Canadian government.
The truckers quickly moved their fundraising to GiveSendGo, (If you don’t like GoFundMe’s rules go somewhere else, they said) once again raising vast sums of cash to help the protest.
But tyrants gonna tyrant, and the donations have been frozen once again.
The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to the convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at several border crossings.
The province obtained an order from the Superior Court of Justice that prohibits anyone from distributing donations made through the website's “Freedom Convoy 2022” and “Adopt-a-Trucker” campaign pages, said a spokeswoman for Premier Doug Ford.
Ivana Yelich said the order binding “any and all parties with possession or control over these donations” was issued Thursday afternoon.
Are you starting to see the appeal of bitcoin? The truckers are. And government better be extremely careful not to push more people into ‘the wild west’ of crypto.
Organizers have also touted the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as another way to generate funds for protesters and avoid other potential fundraising shutdowns, including during a news conference that was livestreamed to supporters on Wednesday.
Give credit to GiveSendGo, they aren’t taking this lying down. (If you want to get depressed, just look at how many comments are mentioning ‘illegal behavior’. These are the people who would have turned in Anne Frank.)
Hmm...so, GoFundMe is for Statists (redundant?), and GiveSendGo is for Classical Liberals.
We seem to be naturally bifurcating into two societies. Talk about an experiment the founders (perhaps) did not anticipate! I've got a hypothesis as to which will produce sufficient wealth to survive, but I won't bore anyone with it.
Spent most of yesterday with good friends, intelligent people, but deluded. The topic of censorship & state surveillance came up. I’ll save the details but she quickly resorted to the well worn “I have nothing to hide” & “I don’t care if the government knows where I am and what I’m doing” trope. The implication, however implicit, is always a slightly puritanical “so you must have something to hide”. That’s how the governed subtly align themselves with the government in the misguided expectation that they are complying their way to freedom. Nop, you’re just bringing the rest of us down with you more quickly by willingly playing the part of useful idiot.
I asked her if she ever disagreed with anything the government said, ever, and would she want to be free to express her views on whatever it was. She said she did and would. I reminded her that that could count as dissent, or misinformation. Did she know how close the establishment is getting to passing legislation to brand the expression of views counter to the state endorsed narrative as “domestic terrorism”? How long before she with nothing to hide finds the liberties she thinks the state has the right to bestow and withdraw according to its ideological whim are no longer hers by default?
Poco a poco, but there is so far to go with apparently intelligent people that I can see us losing this fight.