Yesterday was a busy day in Canada, with government moving in on Ottawa protestors with pepper spray and gas in order to get them to exit the ‘illegal protest’ area. Later, the government assured the public they would track down and prosecute the protestors. Today in a Biden-esque move,
Is it really libertarian or more simply a matter of demanding our human rights be respected? And I understand there’s a crossover but I feel like this is far too nuanced for traditional labels.
The lack of critical thinking skills amongst Canada's ruling elites is stunning, to say the least. If you threaten to take everything away from people, and completely disenfranchise them from society, you have left them with nothing to lose. This makes the elites feel powerful, but what they don't realize is that it actually strips them of any long-term power that they ever possessed. People with nothing to lose get bolder and braver, not more cowed and cowardly. People with nothing to lose created the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Underground Railroad.
Robert (4th) Reich channels Tricky Dick.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/19/white-house-biden-inflation-corporate-power
Is it really libertarian or more simply a matter of demanding our human rights be respected? And I understand there’s a crossover but I feel like this is far too nuanced for traditional labels.
A police horse tramples a woman with a walker, and they say someone threw a bicycle at the horse. Walker = bicycle. Threw = got jostled. Very smooth.
Edit: More on the trampled lady who seems to have a broken clavicle and is hopefully recovering:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/02/20/heres-more-on-the-ottawa-freedom-convoy-woman-run-over-by-police-with-their-horses-n525440
fences dont stop trucks or tractors
The lack of critical thinking skills amongst Canada's ruling elites is stunning, to say the least. If you threaten to take everything away from people, and completely disenfranchise them from society, you have left them with nothing to lose. This makes the elites feel powerful, but what they don't realize is that it actually strips them of any long-term power that they ever possessed. People with nothing to lose get bolder and braver, not more cowed and cowardly. People with nothing to lose created the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Underground Railroad.
No fucking shit (you should pardon the language).