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Have we forgotten Covid so quickly? People involved in a legal protest had their bank accounts seized.
by johnny99k 2y ago
Have we forgotten Covid so quickly? People involved in a legal protest had their bank accounts seized.
- transcriptase 2y ago[flagged]
- lupusreal 2y ago[flagged]
- tensor 2y ago[flagged]
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- lupusreal 2y ago[flagged]
- tensor 2y agoI used to live in Toronto near queen's park. There were very frequent protests down yonge and in queens park. Never once in all the time I lived there was I prevented sleeping by protestors honking outside my building all night. I was also never once confronted, cornered, harassed, or yelled at by protestors. Not once. These actions are not ok and not typical of any protest. Yes I was frequently inconvenienced with the street blocked, but that's fine, the cost of living in a democracy. Protesting does not involve attacking fellow citizens.
- frabbit 2y agoDid the protests achieve anything besides re-affirming your perception that you live in a democracy?
- adamomada 2y agoThe horn usage did not go on for weeks on end. It was an early concession to stop
- tensor 2y agoIt was not a "concession" it was stopped by a judge issuing an injunction because the truckers were sued by locals. That lawsuit is still ongoing.
- HappySweeney 2y ago[flagged]
- lupusreal 2y ago[flagged]
- mardifoufs 2y agoIs blocking a bridge also terrorism? Or is it just federal employees that get to not have anyone bothering them?
- pookha 2y agoDisagree with everything you're trying to say. Terrorism has evolved into a doublespeak term used to describe your systems' quasi enemy...This was just civil disobedience and like any form of civil disobedience (that isn't directly sanctioned by government actors) they got slaughtered. The government in Canada pushed through extremely draconian Wuhan-styled lockdown rules and, just like what Camus wax-philosophized over, there's a breaking point with subjugated humans and a price those subjugating put on their own "hurt". "The six thousand crosses which, after such a just rebellion, staked out the road from Capua to Rome demonstrated to the servile crowd that there is no equality in the world of power and that the masters calculate, at a usurious rate, the price of their own blood."
- Marsymars 2y ago> The government in Canada pushed through extremely draconian Wuhan-styled lockdown rules Pretty much none of "lockdown" rules were federal - and at least in my province, I never felt more than mildly inconvenienced. Literally the worst thing I experienced was a shutdown of indoor team sports for a season.
- richardlblair 2y ago[flagged]
- naasking 2y agoNo it wasn't.
- richardlblair 2y agoIt absolutely was.
- adamomada 2y agoYou weren’t there and are full of shit. What else have you been told?
- richardlblair 2y agoYou have no idea if I'm full of shit or not.
- ImJamal 2y agoThen maybe you should provide a source as somebody else has asked you to do to show you are not full of shit?
- richardlblair 2y agoWhether convoy supporters think I'm right or not doesn't particularly matter to me. You all have an internet connection, look it up. It's not hard to find. Edit - a friend provided me with the following article. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642231166885#bibr42-00027642231166885 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642231166... Enjoy
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- tenpies 2y agoNot just seized: seized extra-judicially, and retro-actively. These two details are important because: 1) no laws were passed and no courts were involved. 2) activities that were perfectly legal at the time, were deemed retroactively illegal and persecuted (not prosecuted - no courts, remember?). The only regimes in which you see this are tinpot dictatorships and Trudeau's Canada. Just imagine how powerful those two precedents are for any future radical who seeks to follow on the footsteps of the petite tyrant Trudeau.