Trudeau calls trucker protest an 'insult to truth'

[mentalfloss]

Better get your cryptos ready..

Banks are moving to freeze accounts linked to convoy protests. Here's what you need to know​

Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the federal government has directed banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation's capital.

According to the regulations published late Tuesday, financial institutions are required to monitor and halt all transactions that funnel money to demonstrators — a measure designed to cut off funding to a well-financed protest that has taken over large swaths of Ottawa's downtown core.

What new powers do the banks have under the Emergencies Act?

The government's new directive, called the "emergency economic measures order," goes beyond asking banks to simply stop transferring funds to protest organizers. The government wants banks to stop doing business with some people altogether.

The order says that banks and other financial entities (like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts and cryptocurrency platforms) must stop "providing any financial or related services" to people associated with the protests — a move that will result in frozen accounts, stranded money and cancelled credit cards.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6353968

 

[mentalfloss]

Here’s the mother of all questions for Trudeau and it is one that he cannot, and will never, answer: what was so difficult about having a talk with the leaders of a group of Canadians who found some of the government’s COVID regulations to be a grievous burden?

When Black Lives Matter flooded the streets, Trudeau not only met with them, he went into the streets and joined in on the their American-inspired protest. He gave them a knee and bowed his head. But he would not meet with the truckers. He would not talk to their representatives. There was certainly no kneeling.

He rhetorically abused the citizens in the protest. He suggested they were racists and misogynists and that they hold “unacceptable views.” Which was a deliberate tactic to isolate them, to marginalize them, to mark them as somehow unCanadian.

The most egregious, polarizing agent in this entire protest has been the leader of the country. Two hours of talking, a little respect, a touch of democratic process and the whole affair could have been washed away. And we would not now have half the world asking: what in God’s name is going on in Canada?

Rex Murphy: Trudeau's monumentally misguided emergency measures are an insult to Canadians — National Post

This is the most monumentally stupid, monumentally arrogant, and monumentally misguided decision by a prime minister since 1867. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his sophomoric musings on the nature of Canada some years back, famously declared that Canada has “no core identity,” most of us...

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[Ron in Regina]

Better get your cryptos ready..

Banks are moving to freeze accounts linked to convoy protests. Here's what you need to know​

Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the federal government has directed banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation's capital.

According to the regulations published late Tuesday, financial institutions are required to monitor and halt all transactions that funnel money to demonstrators — a measure designed to cut off funding to a well-financed protest that has taken over large swaths of Ottawa's downtown core.

What new powers do the banks have under the Emergencies Act?

The government's new directive, called the "emergency economic measures order," goes beyond asking banks to simply stop transferring funds to protest organizers. The government wants banks to stop doing business with some people altogether.

The order says that banks and other financial entities (like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts and cryptocurrency platforms) must stop "providing any financial or related services" to people associated with the protests — a move that will result in frozen accounts, stranded money and cancelled credit cards.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6353968

It will be interesting to see this used in the future against other protests, or perceived enemies of the Liberal Party.

Sabrina Maddeaux: Publicly outing and shaming Freedom Convoy donors is repugnant and dangerous — National Post

This is a good way to push people from the mainstream to the fringes

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[mentalfloss]

It will be interesting to see this used in the future against other protests, or perceived enemies of the Liberal Party.

Sabrina Maddeaux: Publicly outing and shaming Freedom Convoy donors is repugnant and dangerous — National Post

This is a good way to push people from the mainstream to the fringes

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It won't, as long as they're not illegal blockades.

If you look at France, they've already done much worse than anything in the Emergencies Act.

But honk go the honkers.

 

[Ron in Regina]

It won't, as long as they're not illegal blockades.

If you look at France, they've already done much worse than anything in the Emergencies Act.

But honk go the honkers.

Yeah but what about….look over there!…at France!

What about Canada? What blockades in Canada in the last 5 years where legal?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It won't, as long as they're not illegal blockades.

If you look at France, they've already done much worse than anything in the Emergencies Act.

But honk go the honkers.

If you look at China, they call out the army to mass murder protesters. How is either of those relevant?

 

[mentalfloss]

Blockades aren't legal.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Blockades aren't legal.

What law, specifically, is being broken?

Betcha it comes down to a minor misdemeanor like "obstructing a public right-of-way."

 

[mentalfloss]

Blockading bridges, roadways, ports and legislatures is indeed illegal

Strictly speaking, a protest isn’t a magical shield against criminal behaviour. This was learned most recently by three Extinction Rebellion members arrested for mischief by blockading Premier John Horgan’s driveway. And while Victoria Police took a very non-interventionist stance on the February 11th blockade of the BC Parliament Buildings, they are investigation allegations of assault at the demonstrations.

However, the signature element to many of Victoria’s recent protests – the blockading of public infrastructure – is also illegal. “A desire to protest affords no lawful authority to blockade bridges, highways or rail lines,” Victoria defence lawyer Michael Mulligan wrote in an email to The Capital. “There are, after all, all sorts of opportunities to protest that don’t involve unlawful conduct.”

How Many of These Blockades Are Actually Legal?

Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge has been blockaded by protesters three times since October. Strictly speaking, you're not allowed to do that.

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[Tecumsehsbones]

I'm not sure you were responding to my question, but if so, fail.

 

[petros]

What's your point flossy?

 

[mentalfloss]

What's your point flossy?

That a blockade is illegal.

 

[petros]

That a blockade is illegal.

No shit Sherlock. It just dawned on you now?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

No shit Sherlock. It just dawned on you now?

I question whether a "blockade" is illegal. As I asked and was not answered before, is there a criminal statute forbidding "blockade," or does it come under some weak tea like "obstructing a public right of way?"

 

[mentalfloss]

No shit Sherlock. It just dawned on you now?

You're the one that asked when I already mentioned it lol

 

[petros]

I question whether a "blockade" is illegal. As I asked and was not answered before, is there a criminal statute forbidding "blockade," or does it come under some weak tea like "obstructing a public right of way?"

Even weaker than Dollar General tea. Mischief. This is different though. Eco-radicals usually block trucks, this time the trucks are doing the blocking. It's a level not seen in 80-90+ years.

 

[mentalfloss]

Yes, that's why there's an emergencies act to help deal with them.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Even weaker than Dollar General tea. Mischief. This is different though. Eco-radicals usually block trucks, this time the trucks are doing the blocking. It's a level not seen in 80-90+ years.

"The Almighty says to quit changin' the subject and answer the fockin' question."
--Stephen, Braveheart

 

[Twin_Moose]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1494296597076787221

 

[Twin_Moose]

Better get your cryptos ready..

Banks are moving to freeze accounts linked to convoy protests. Here's what you need to know​

Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the federal government has directed banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation's capital.

According to the regulations published late Tuesday, financial institutions are required to monitor and halt all transactions that funnel money to demonstrators — a measure designed to cut off funding to a well-financed protest that has taken over large swaths of Ottawa's downtown core.

What new powers do the banks have under the Emergencies Act?

The government's new directive, called the "emergency economic measures order," goes beyond asking banks to simply stop transferring funds to protest organizers. The government wants banks to stop doing business with some people altogether.

The order says that banks and other financial entities (like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts and cryptocurrency platforms) must stop "providing any financial or related services" to people associated with the protests — a move that will result in frozen accounts, stranded money and cancelled credit cards.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6353968

Only if you're pro Trump

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