Correction, for the first time since WW11. I think this is ridiculous. It is a peaceful protest and a righteous one. Trudeau is a dictator - at least that is what I wrote up at my blog. I cannot stand that man.
Trudeau Sr. also suspended rights during peacetime under War Powers, but it was a different act meant for War time, not peacetime emergencies. Beamish knows all about it.
I suppose now we can expect Permanent Emergency powers during peacetime. Every criminal and protesting demonstrator is now a terrorist...
What is it like living in a country where the government can freeze your back account for donating $10 to a Christian fund-raising website? Would you leave your money in those banks? There are going to be consequences for Canada, mostly of the un-intended variety.
Totalitarian progressives are now openly bearing their fangs, and they have showed us their true colors over the past few years. People don't like it. I pray to God that they pay one hell of a huge price
Are there any skull-cracking videos to enjoy with popcorn? Playing stupid games should win stupid prizes. Foreign terrorists shutting down our trade passages deserve every mop handle rape they get.
Reminds me of a video of an anti-abortion protester getting run over by an ambulance she laid down in front of to block passage. +2 for using horses so I rate this one 7 outer of 10.
We can only imagine the contents of the squish video of that guy that stood in front of the tanks in Tiennamen Square, so the horror is little more that what the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre fooled you into thinking you saw. At the other end of the spectrum is probably badly made Palestinian propaganda mockumentaries.
If you remove the "sovereign citizen" nonsense of the "Freedom Convoy's" abortive manifesto, and curb the yokels showing up with trucks full of guns and bombs with a furtive Molotov cocktail supply chain, I might agree with the intent of getting rid of Covid mandates. I don't follow them. I don't have to challenge the government's monopoly on force when it lacks the manpower to force me to do a damned thing.
The "Freedom Convoy" is perhaps off on the wrong foot. Becoming a speed bump wouldn't be my first choice.
That's where we differ, beamish. You blame the protestors, and I blame the politicians in Ottawa for not listening.
The protestors argument was "trucks" and the parliament's interpretation of it was "insurrection". They then said that they'd "heard" the protestors arguments, and that they should now remove their "trucks".... and then immediately told their Praetorians to "crush the insurrection" by removing the "trucks".
Trudeau's communication style is a recipe for what Slavoj Zizek labels "Divine violence".
So what is divine violence? Its place can be defined in a very pre cise formal way. Badiou already elaborated the constitutive excess of representation over the represented: at the level of the Law, the state Power only represents the interests, etc. of its subjects; it is serving them, responsible to them, and itself subjected to their control; how ever, at the level of the superego underside, the public message of responsibility etc., is supplemented by the obscene message of un conditional exercise of Power: laws do not really bind me, I can do to you WHATEVER I WANT, I can treat you as guilty if I decide to do so, I can destroy you if I say so ... This obscene excess is a necessary constituent of the notion of sovereignty—the asymmetry is here structural, i.e., the law can only sustain its authority if subjects hear in it an echo of the obscene unconditional self-assertion. And the people's "divine violence" is correlative to this excess of power: it is its counterpart—it targets this excess and undermines it.
"If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the patrie [homeland, fatherland]." - Maximillien Robespierre, taproot of the left-wing "kill people for their own good" ideology tree.
The trucker sans-culotte wannabes don't give a shit about the collateral damage they will inflict upon people that might otherwise agree with their cause. I don't give a damn why the road is blocked by inconsiderate jerks, get the F out of my way.
...and in this version, it's the MSM who are baking all the briskets for Joel.
The only real problem with the show is that it pretends that there were female versions of Lenny Bruce performing comedy in the 50s/60's. Its another re-imagining of the past like "Queen's Gambit" that pretends that there were also female Chess Grand Masters. I guess that our "woke" hyper-reality still suffers from a lack of female and minority role models.
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero. Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
You know damned well if some other group of dickheads - BLM, Greenpeace, NAMBLA, whatever - shut down trade and transit with trucks, hippie sit-ins, roadside bombs, whatever... you'd want to strafe the bastards with autocannons.
As I said, I don't care why they are protesting. Find a different way to protest. When the protest assumes to overstep boundaries to inescapably scream in my ear, it's time to mulch a protester. My way to anything is largely by road and highway. Anyone illegally blocking my freedom of movement better have a tank. With a big piss bottle so they can stay inside it.
BAMN is a two way street, beamish, but only one side currently holds a gom jabbar to your throat. So Ecclesiastes 3... time to see how willing they are to use it.
The entire core of downtown was blocked off by police and whatever all those brown uniforms are that say police, but obviously are not a civilian force. They in fact did, what the truckers were accused of doing. Blocking streets completely and making the downtown core inaccessible.
In fact the protestors did none of those things for the whole three weeks. The streets always had a lane open for emergency vehicles, and people could come and go from hotels with at least as much ease as a normal day in Montreal or Toronto. Certainly NYC. We were there doing interviews and at the various protest areas and at no point was commerce interfered with.
Well that’s not quite true.
The mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, ordered all businesses to close in order to inconvenience the protestors. So yes, commerce was affected, but had they done what the truckers asked, open up and not ask for passports or made people mask up, they would have had the best 3 weeks in years.
No doubt authorities blame the protest for the loss of business.
The first sign of the authoritarian state is that it operates on lies, and works very hard to protect those lies. Usually at the expense of the citizenry in every way expense could be measured.
Today, on my way to photograph the giant gate blocking Sussex from Rideau st. a petite Romanian woman approached us and said, “I’m from Romania. I have lived your future. See you in 50 years”. I knew what she meant. But she turned to explain anyway. “Fifty years” she said, “is how long it will take before you get your basic freedoms back”.
The flaw of left-wing Bakuninist, Emma Goldmanist, Trumpist thinking is if you have to use terrorism to provoke a government response to spin propaganda from for sympathy - "help help I'm being repressed!" - you weren't being repressed in the first place.
I am sickened by all politics today, ours, Canada's and worldwide but everyone wants to be heard in the elitist media. Yes, they talk - all talk, and solve not a darn thing.
There has never been a worse Vice President than Kamala Harris. All she ever does is play the race card from the bottom of the deck. Maybe It’s because its all that she knows how to do Well, that’s not really true, she also knows how to cackle a lot when she’s asked a question that she doesn’t want to answer!
I forget who it was that originated that saying that the Vice Presidency is "not worth a bucket of warm spit." In Kamala's case... No, I'm not going to go there. I went there in mind and it embarrassed eve me.
"The trucker sans-culotte wannabes don't give a shit about the collateral damage they will inflict upon people that might otherwise agree with their cause."
Perhaps they care about the tree of liberty. A government which is insensitive to the common sense logic and appeals of their People; a government which believes ratcheting up the punishment against the cry for civil liberties and freedom - is a government which is deserving of being shaken a bit in their moorings. Respect and fear are a two way street. Twiddle Trudeau does not respect the spirit of democracy nor the issue of due process for the citizen in a court of law.
What is worth fighting for? It was the same thing for which we gave millions of our own youth in WW II. It is called freedom. Too bad the beachhead is now our own shores. Freedom. Die free. Or die a slave. Django, baby.
"You know damned well if some other group of dickheads - BLM, Greenpeace, NAMBLA, whatever - shut down trade and transit with trucks, hippie sit-ins, roadside bombs, whatever... you'd want to strafe the bastards with autocannons"
Well, no, Thought Criminal. We would not attach a bomb to a ship, as did the French against Green Peace. (Rainbow Warrior)
The rest of us might listen to our neighbors, not call them dickheads, and consider their concerns. It only became a demand when a concern fell on deaf ears.
One man's dickhead, is another man's citizen seeking freedom from Draconian mandates.
The experiment has failed. In the last couple of weeks, everyone going to get checked in my region has "the flu". God forbid they learn they have COVID after three jabs and loss of liberty with medical martial law.
Trudeau? He is a fuckhead who will lose his next election.
Despite the f-bomb at the end, I let this comment stand. Tammy, my dear friend, doesn't use the f-bomb on a regular basis, but rather only to shock so as to get a point across.
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ReplyDeleteJustin Trudeau: a liberal despot
When protests aren't progressive
The Price Of a Permanent Emergency
Canada has invoked their Emergency Powers act for the first time. What happened to civil disobedience and the right of protest?
ReplyDeleteCorrection, for the first time since WW11. I think this is ridiculous. It is a peaceful protest and a righteous one. Trudeau is a dictator - at least that is what I wrote up at my blog. I cannot stand that man.
DeleteTrudeau Sr. also suspended rights during peacetime under War Powers, but it was a different act meant for War time, not peacetime emergencies. Beamish knows all about it.
DeleteI suppose now we can expect Permanent Emergency powers during peacetime. Every criminal and protesting demonstrator is now a terrorist...
Its the first time since this law was passed in the 80's.
DeleteThe previous law was used three times: WWI, WWII, and during a Quebecoise terror attack.
People like Trudeau believe that 'C' stands for 'cookie'... whilst the rest of us know that 'C' stands for "Charter".
ReplyDeleteWhat is it like living in a country where the government can freeze your back account for donating $10 to a Christian fund-raising website? Would you leave your money in those banks? There are going to be consequences for Canada, mostly of the un-intended variety.
DeleteAs for us, its' time we built a NORTHERN wall...
erratum - 'bank' for 'back' above.
DeleteFJ The US is on their way to that very same place. Not much better here.
DeleteFarmer, I pray you are right.
DeleteTotalitarian progressives are now openly bearing their fangs, and they have showed us their true colors over the past few years. People don't like it. I pray to God that they pay one hell of a huge price
DeleteTrudeau vists America...
DeleteCanadian elites have declared class warfare on Canadian workers.
DeleteAmerica's elites are NVS.
DeleteI love Fred armisten. Did you see him in the j mascis video every morning?
DeleteHe'd make a great Venezuelan (or Canadian) general... and no, haven't seen him much, lately.
DeleteThe Canadian jackboots started cracking heads this afternoon in Ottawa. The Canadian bankers have also declared it "Doxxing Day" on donors.
DeleteEventually, just like in Venezuela, the streets will be cleared.
DeleteThe police just need to calculate the proper jack-boot to tear-gas ration.
DeleteThey need to change tactics and take advantage of their inherent mobility. On to Toronto? Montreal? Both?
DeleteAre there any skull-cracking videos to enjoy with popcorn? Playing stupid games should win stupid prizes. Foreign terrorists shutting down our trade passages deserve every mop handle rape they get.
Delete...cuz nothing beats watching RCMP on horsback crush little old ladies with their walkers to death, right, beamish!
DeleteReminds me of a video of an anti-abortion protester getting run over by an ambulance she laid down in front of to block passage. +2 for using horses so I rate this one 7 outer of 10.
DeleteJust shy of Rachel Corrie pancake videos.
DeleteThe walker deserves at least +1, IMO.
DeleteParliament will back Trudeau. Too bad the Truckers couldn't have been sponsored by the BLM Corporation...
DeleteYes they will. The Canadian elites must follow their masters in DC... before the populist "movement" gains steam.
Delete@ sf: Did you perchance see Jordan Petereson's analysis of Trudeau's response to the Truckers? IMO It's his best work in quite a while.
DeleteExcellent. Thanks for the link.
DeleteOur politicians in DC could learn a lot from Mrs. Maisel.
DeleteThey've been listening to Academicians instead of workers for far too long now.
DeleteIronic...since Peterson is an "Academician", eh?
DeleteWe can only imagine the contents of the squish video of that guy that stood in front of the tanks in Tiennamen Square, so the horror is little more that what the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre fooled you into thinking you saw. At the other end of the spectrum is probably badly made Palestinian propaganda mockumentaries.
DeleteIf you remove the "sovereign citizen" nonsense of the "Freedom Convoy's" abortive manifesto, and curb the yokels showing up with trucks full of guns and bombs with a furtive Molotov cocktail supply chain, I might agree with the intent of getting rid of Covid mandates. I don't follow them. I don't have to challenge the government's monopoly on force when it lacks the manpower to force me to do a damned thing.
The "Freedom Convoy" is perhaps off on the wrong foot. Becoming a speed bump wouldn't be my first choice.
That's where we differ, beamish. You blame the protestors, and I blame the politicians in Ottawa for not listening.
DeleteThe protestors argument was "trucks" and the parliament's interpretation of it was "insurrection". They then said that they'd "heard" the protestors arguments, and that they should now remove their "trucks".... and then immediately told their Praetorians to "crush the insurrection" by removing the "trucks".
If ever their was a failure to communicate, THIS was it.
Trudeau's communication style is a recipe for what Slavoj Zizek labels "Divine violence".
DeleteSo what is divine violence? Its place can be defined in a very pre cise formal way. Badiou already elaborated the constitutive excess of representation over the represented: at the level of the Law, the state Power only represents the interests, etc. of its subjects; it is serving them, responsible to them, and itself subjected to their control; how ever, at the level of the superego underside, the public message of responsibility etc., is supplemented by the obscene message of un conditional exercise of Power: laws do not really bind me, I can do to you WHATEVER I WANT, I can treat you as guilty if I decide to do so, I can destroy you if I say so ... This obscene excess is a necessary constituent of the notion of sovereignty—the asymmetry is here structural, i.e., the law can only sustain its authority if subjects hear in it an echo of the obscene unconditional self-assertion. And the people's "divine violence" is correlative to this excess of power: it is its counterpart—it targets this excess and undermines it.
If the Trucker protest were an episode of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Trudeau would be Mr. Joel Maisel.
Delete...and Candace Bergen would be Mrs. Maisel.
Delete"If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the patrie [homeland, fatherland]." - Maximillien Robespierre, taproot of the left-wing "kill people for their own good" ideology tree.
DeleteThe trucker sans-culotte wannabes don't give a shit about the collateral damage they will inflict upon people that might otherwise agree with their cause.
I don't give a damn why the road is blocked by inconsiderate jerks, get the F out of my way.
...and in this version, it's the MSM who are baking all the briskets for Joel.
DeleteThe only real problem with the show is that it pretends that there were female versions of Lenny Bruce performing comedy in the 50s/60's. Its another re-imagining of the past like "Queen's Gambit" that pretends that there were also female Chess Grand Masters. I guess that our "woke" hyper-reality still suffers from a lack of female and minority role models.
See Justin Trudeau as Robspiere, author of "The Terror".... BWAH-HA-HA-HA
DeleteYou kill me, beamish.
ps - Cue to 5:15 above.
DeleteI can hardly wait for Joe Biden to terrorize us all into carbon neutrality. "No more brisket burning for YOU, Mrs. Maisel!"
DeleteThe Revolution begins!
...as we re-imagine the history of Leviathan's to better suit our new Woke Hyper-reality!
DeleteYou can picture a good reason for a stranger to burn your house down, maybe even hand them the matches.
DeleteI don't play with fire nor encourage it.
Sounds like a "caritas" issue, beamish.
DeleteUbi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
DeleteCongregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur.
Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Try defying gravity for a change.
Delete"By any means necessary" rarely unites.
DeleteYou know damned well if some other group of dickheads - BLM, Greenpeace, NAMBLA, whatever - shut down trade and transit with trucks, hippie sit-ins, roadside bombs, whatever... you'd want to strafe the bastards with autocannons.
As I said, I don't care why they are protesting. Find a different way to protest. When the protest assumes to overstep boundaries to inescapably scream in my ear, it's time to mulch a protester. My way to anything is largely by road and highway. Anyone illegally blocking my freedom of movement better have a tank. With a big piss bottle so they can stay inside it.
BAMN is a two way street, beamish, but only one side currently holds a gom jabbar to your throat. So Ecclesiastes 3... time to see how willing they are to use it.
DeleteI'm sure that the Torry's felt pretty "inconvenienced" in 1776, too.
DeleteI've lost patience with the hyper-real hyper-woke "imaginings" of the current crew at 1600.
DeleteI contribute this to the discussion above...Vlad Tepes Testimony On Downtown Ottawa (emphases mine):
DeleteThe entire core of downtown was blocked off by police and whatever all those brown uniforms are that say police, but obviously are not a civilian force. They in fact did, what the truckers were accused of doing. Blocking streets completely and making the downtown core inaccessible.
In fact the protestors did none of those things for the whole three weeks. The streets always had a lane open for emergency vehicles, and people could come and go from hotels with at least as much ease as a normal day in Montreal or Toronto. Certainly NYC. We were there doing interviews and at the various protest areas and at no point was commerce interfered with.
Well that’s not quite true.
The mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, ordered all businesses to close in order to inconvenience the protestors. So yes, commerce was affected, but had they done what the truckers asked, open up and not ask for passports or made people mask up, they would have had the best 3 weeks in years.
No doubt authorities blame the protest for the loss of business.
The first sign of the authoritarian state is that it operates on lies, and works very hard to protect those lies. Usually at the expense of the citizenry in every way expense could be measured.
Today, on my way to photograph the giant gate blocking Sussex from Rideau st. a petite Romanian woman approached us and said, “I’m from Romania. I have lived your future. See you in 50 years”. I knew what she meant. But she turned to explain anyway. “Fifty years” she said, “is how long it will take before you get your basic freedoms back”.
...time to see how willing they are to use it
DeleteAsk Neil Young and Ashli Babbitt
The flaw of left-wing Bakuninist, Emma Goldmanist, Trumpist thinking is if you have to use terrorism to provoke a government response to spin propaganda from for sympathy - "help help I'm being repressed!" - you weren't being repressed in the first place.
DeleteIncrease your B1 intake. The acid flashbacks will subside.
DeleteDon't wear a mask. Don't get vaccinated. Patronize businesses that don't comply with the mandates.
DeleteDo you really think the police that don't hurry to anything except when a cop is shot are going to stop you?
Be free of everything. Including delusions.
TC, Spoken like a good little government patsy. They will eat you last.
DeleteMhm. You have to mask up at all times on a flight. You're going to charge the cockpit of a passenger jet when?
DeleteI am sickened by all politics today, ours, Canada's and worldwide but everyone wants to be heard in the elitist media. Yes, they talk - all talk, and solve not a darn thing.
ReplyDeleteThey're lazy. They can't "Lead" so they immediately reach for "Bigger Sticks".
DeleteIn the multitude of words sin is not lacking,
DeleteBut he who restrains his lips is wise.
Prov. 10:19
BAYSIDER
A nice selection. So many creative dialogues from that movie scene.
ReplyDeleteBAYSIDER
ReplyDeleteThere has never been a worse Vice President than Kamala Harris. All she ever does is play the race card from the bottom of the deck. Maybe It’s because its all that she knows how to do Well, that’s not really true, she also knows how to cackle a lot when she’s asked a question that she doesn’t want to answer!
I forget who it was that originated that saying that the Vice Presidency is "not worth a bucket of warm spit." In Kamala's case... No, I'm not going to go there. I went there in mind and it embarrassed eve me.
Delete"The trucker sans-culotte wannabes don't give a shit about the collateral damage they will inflict upon people that might otherwise agree with their cause."
ReplyDeletePerhaps they care about the tree of liberty. A government which is insensitive to the common sense logic and appeals of their People; a government which believes ratcheting up the punishment against the cry for civil liberties and freedom - is a government which is deserving of being shaken a bit in their moorings. Respect and fear are a two way street. Twiddle Trudeau does not respect the spirit of democracy nor the issue of due process for the citizen in a court of law.
What is worth fighting for? It was the same thing for which we gave millions of our own youth in WW II. It is called freedom. Too bad the beachhead is now our own shores. Freedom. Die free. Or die a slave. Django, baby.
"You know damned well if some other group of dickheads - BLM, Greenpeace, NAMBLA, whatever - shut down trade and transit with trucks, hippie sit-ins, roadside bombs, whatever... you'd want to strafe the bastards with autocannons"
ReplyDeleteWell, no, Thought Criminal. We would not attach a bomb to a ship, as did the French against Green Peace. (Rainbow Warrior)
The rest of us might listen to our neighbors, not call them dickheads, and consider their concerns. It only became a demand when a concern fell on deaf ears.
One man's dickhead, is another man's citizen seeking freedom from Draconian mandates.
The experiment has failed. In the last couple of weeks, everyone going to get checked in my region has "the flu". God forbid they learn they have COVID after three jabs and loss of liberty with medical martial law.
Trudeau? He is a fuckhead who will lose his next election.
Despite the f-bomb at the end, I let this comment stand. Tammy, my dear friend, doesn't use the f-bomb on a regular basis, but rather only to shock so as to get a point across.
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