last night at midnight, a “state of emergency” went into effect in ottawa proving once more that if you grant government excess powers in emergencies, they will inevitably claim such exigency any time they want more power or when your rights become inconvenient.
this was used as pretext to send in heavily armed police to steal fuel and supplies from the protesters, arrest peaceful people, and erect blockades to stop the flow of food, water, fuel, and support to the protesters.
all manner of rank hypocrisy, double standard, and tactical morality was on display.
it’s important that the world see this so that they may know just what sort of people we are dealing with here.
the would seek to inflict misery by force onto those who fail to comply with their demands on bodily integrity and then when peacefully opposed using a more benign version of the same tactic, they once more resort to force.
because those who cannot convince, compel.
there is a name for governance like this.
it is not “deriving one’s just powers from the consent of the governed.”
if you would like to understand every possible meaning of the phrase “self-deluded irony” watch as the literal architects of
lockdowns, forced masking, and business and school closures,
vilification of those who fail to comply and the terrorization and deliberate infliction of misery upon of any who refuse to submit,
the destruction of two years of lives and livelihoods to chase failed pseudoscientific plans rooted in taking the rights and freedoms of the people through abuse of unaccountable agencies and an oppressive state
attempt to brand people simply demanding their freedom back as insurrectionists and cast themselves as protectors of the very people they seek to subjugate.
“tone deaf” does not even begin to describe it.
they might as well just scream “that’s our job! only we get to bully and force!”
this is the commentary of diane deans, city council member. (transcribed by me.)
dianne sounds like she wants to go to war. every bit of framing here is militarized and evokes violence. (of course, ms deans will not be among the fighters. she has people for that.)
“we are on day 8 of this occupation. our city is under siege. this group is emboldened by the lack of enforcement by every level of government. they are terrorizing our residents, torturing them with incessant honking, threatening them, and preventing them from leading their lives. people cannot go to work or open their businesses. the cannot sleep, walk, shop, go to medical appointments or enjoy their neighborhood.
this group is a threat to our democracy.
this is a nationwide insurrection.
this is madness.
we need a concrete plan to put an end to this now.”
you’re not seeking freedom for people. you’re seeking a return to being the one holding the whip hand of their oppression and you are willing to use force against peaceful people to do so.
and that makes you a villain.
you and others like you did this with your nasty, small minded smug little tyrannies. you turned every level of government into an apparatus of oppression and you turned it upon we the people.
you closed the schools and the businesses because of your fear and superstitious beliefs in snake oil mitigations and your desire to wreck things so they could be “built back better.”
you showed no respect for the rights to personal choice, human agency, or bodily integrity and yet now you would wrap yourself in their mantle and claim to be their champion?
you sought to make others miserable to bend them to your will.
not so fun on the receiving end, is it?
you are not a champion of civil society.
you are its underminer and you are getting ready to call for violence against people who want nothing but to be left alone.
they have tried to speak to you. they have tried to negotiate with you. and you have refused.
instead you backed them into a corner and poisoned civil discourse.
you did this.
everything you just said (and then some) could far more aptly be said of you.
i mean, is “threatening them, and preventing them from leading their lives. people cannot go to work or open their businesses” ringing any bells here? because it ought to be.
this has been the overt platform of the vaccine mandate policy. how can you possibly not see this?
your desperation and delusion are on display for all to see.
bouncy castles and genuinely peaceful protests are not an insurrection.
the insurrection was how outlandishly government overstepped its bounds and become inimical to basic human agency and thriving. it is the just right of any free human to oppose such predation.
this is the backlash of your theft of liberty.
i seem to recall that many of you had some pretty concrete plans for the “intolerables.”
turnabout is fair play.
of course, fair play is not in your vocabulary, is it?
you will oppose peace with violence and return to systems of bio-apartheid while farcically mouthing words like “inclusion.”
astonishingly, the very police used to enforce these actions against vaccine mandates are, themselves, exempted from vaccine mandates.
if this looks like a system working to you, then you’ve shown your hand on just how despicable your systemic vision is and how antithetical to the the concept of rights.
but everyone is watching.
how do you think you’re going to look?
there is a also name for governments that must use force to suppress their own people.
it’s not “the good guys”…
perhaps you can prevail for a time. perhaps not.
but this sort of suppression only fuels movements for liberty.
i had not, until now, felt a need to donate to this group. but now i do.
i hope that many others like me will feel similarly.
you are not fighting “extremists.” you ARE the extremists.
you are fighting your own people who are simply asking to be allowed to live in peace.
and that sort of system will not prevail for long.
your taking of fuel fuels our determination.
be a shame if people responded by bringing more trucks.
The number one takeaway of the last 2 years is simple and clear: we must remove emergency powers from our law books. Or, at an absolute minimum, make them very hard to enact and only for very specific criteria and with very, very limited timeframes. What the city of Ottawa is doing to my peaceful, liberty-minded countrymen is a disgrace to all we stand for in this country. And why I doubled my GiveSendGo contribution.
I've donated as well and will continue to do so, weekly. How disgusting that the police would enforce these orders. We do need more trucks, more farmers, more non-compliance; the war has begun.
In Nova Scotia the minister of municipal affairs signs the SOE every two weeks. Mr. Lohr does so without having read the emergency measures act. They all have fallen in line without question. We now know who will be the people to escort those out of the catlle cars.
It’s really disgusting that in NS we have - essentially - a complete abrogation of all laws at the whim of our “leaders”. The definitions in the Act are so broad that any Premier could just hijack this province infinitely. Thus, a $10k fine for standing on a highway overpass in support of the freedom convoy truckers.
And the lie in it all is there is no emergency – and hasn’t been since *maybe* week two or three of the pandemic once the actual data started to come out.
I think it depends on which emergency they are declaring and if it's local (city) or state. Some red governors aren't any better than the Nazi governors in the blue states about some of the emergency powers. Our governor just re-upped his for the 23rd time. 😑
Maybe the government should only be able to declare an emergency for long enough to hold a referendum of the people who can then vote on it. Right? Something like 2 weeks max, and then the people vote. And then they re-vote every 4 weeks. Make it difficult and democratic.
In the USA, there's no "emergency power" in the constitution as the framers knew this would be a trap door for abuse.
I suspect there are military experts in the Convoy and trust they are preparing strategic responses to this (latest) provocation by the government. The challenge is keeping it non-violent... especially when the government is so willing to use violence against the protestors.
There are. If you watch their press conference from yesterday, they have a former military intelligence in their group on strategy, a former RCMP sniper / counter-terrorism officer on security and a former military logistics person running their logistics. I hope they can persevere!
They are. They said in the press conference today they have lots of staging areas and Canada has more than one city. 😂😂😂. Keep donating on GiveSendGo (I’m donating daily). The organizers aren’t frazzled……. It seems they are prepared though.
Oh, sorry. They posted it on GETTR. Truckers4freedom. Lara Logan and Brownstone Institute are on GETTR too! It’s a bit if the Wild West still, but improving by the day. 😊
They will also need to change tactics. A convoy of unarmed vehicles that (thankfully, for now anyway) cannot fight its way in, will not work the next time. The police will just set up roadblocks and send them to holding lots, as they've done in Ottawa.
Next time they will need to come in under stealth. Coordinated in advance. A few at a time, staging temporarily in non-obvious groups and locations. Then at the pre-arranged time, they all move in synchrony to their destination. From all directions simultaneously. Run silent, run deep.
I just drove yesterday from Utah down to California on the I-15. There were several Las Vegas Metro Police units in AWD pickups staged along the way. These were not your normal traffic cops -- they were, I suspect, the advance guard looking for anyone in an organized procession heading for Las Vegas (this was ~100 miles North of Vegas, BTW) and possibly further South to Los Angeles or San Diego.
With talk of disrupting the Super Bowl next Sunday in LA, it looks like the cops are taking no chances. (And BTW, disrupting the Super Bowl would be a terrible strategic mistake. The Super Bowl is one of those key events in the sporting world that just about all of the folks who are supporting this effort find important. Disrupting it would alienate supporters unnecessarily.)
I hope (and expect) that this Super Bowl talk is all misdirection. The plan is likely quite different, and while the cops are sitting on the side of I-15 (and I-10, I-5 etc) looking for convoys or whatever, the good guys are stealthily working on a completely different plan.
I think this is true -- evidence of much planning in the Canadian convoy is described already by others above.
As this evolves, tactics must change. The success of the Ottawa event is proof that there was extensive planning. Folks capable of this level of organization know that surprise is an important part of the strategy. Keep them guessing, alternate your moves, don't do the same thing twice. They can't keep waiting for every possibility forever; they will tire and lose focus. That is when you surprise them.
In Desert Storm, the Iraqi military was absolutely gobsmacked by the US Army coming across the barren, featureless desert in their vehicles, flanking the dumbfounded Iraqis. "How did you get here?" they asked. The GIs pointed to their GPS units -- game-changing technology. Just one example of how to surprise your opponent. Doing something unexpected almost always provides a strategic advantage.
keeping it non violent won't get you anywhere. Force is needed to remove them from power. All you idiots who say don't use violence are a bunch of pussies and do not realize what it will take to win. They will not give up power without violence. Anyone who thinks differently is not a critical thinker. This only ends one way.
Name call all you like, but you insult your most likely allies in any war to come at your peril. I come from a family of military-trained, well-armed folks who know that the best way to win a war is without having to fire a shot. That said, we're well prepared to aim true and be efficient with our ammo if the day comes that our enemies do.
Trudeau and his ilk have almost total control of the media, the media will be used as a weapon to mischaracterize ANY act of violence (even justified self-defense) into a 24-loop on the supposed "insurrection" happening in Ottowa, which will then be used to call in the military (who will have the tacit support of the 80% of the populace who believe everything they see on TV) to suppress the unarmed, peaceful protesters. And by suppress I mean kill or imprison without due process or trial. See also: Jan 6 political prisoners in the USA.
Much harder to convince the mindless idiots glued to their TVs that the protesters are "the bad guys" when they can't get any video evidence of them doing anything wrong. Psyops are a big part of this campaign... and have been used against the people for the last 2 years. Now a very well-trained, well-organized group of people are using this demonstration as a psyop to retake power they let be taken from them. The longer they can keep it effective (it clearly is... or the government wouldn't be shrieking so loudly) and free of violence, the harder it is for the government to justify their continued tyranny and overreaction.
I was wondering if maybe a something mysterious was afoot when my computer keeps flashing "no internet" Seems to happen only when I am on substack. (of course I spend a LOT of time on substack)
Long overdue to blockade and set up pickets at major media for consistent lying, by omission and commission. Make friends with the workers if possible but isolate their bosses. Ridicule is our friend.
"The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
Yes. But it requires patience in the face of threats condemnation and total hate. Very few humans are built to withstand that. I pray for patience for the truckers.
These Brownshirts need to be put on notice. Pronto.
In “Letter to a Colluder” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling), I cited the Niagara Police Department as an example of courageous refusal to enforce tyrannical measures against the people. They formed the Niagara Regional Police United for Human Rights group and issued the following statement:
“Niagara: We stand behind you. We stand beside you. And if you need us to, we will stand in front of you. Discrimination has no place in Niagara, Ontario, or Canada. We took an oath to uphold the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and respect everyone in this Country which thrives in diversity and inclusivity. We hear you, and we are here for ALL of you.”
ONLY THE HEART OF GOVERNMENT here in Ottawa is “under occupation”. Its a damm small part of the city. Medical appointments wtf is she talking about? It’s all government offices. Most bureaucrats have been working from home for 2yrs anyway.
The city has not sanded or salted the sidewalks. A guy broke his leg yesterday and I almost went down 3 or 4 times. Where is the concern for our safety?
As for the other clip they did not take much but a slip tank. They legally cannot take Jerry cans. You are allowed 200l max fuel storage so anything over that (ie slip tank) they legally can seize. But coming in fully armed? Holy shit is this Canada anymore?
You can see in Google Maps with the traffic layer turned on exactly how much of Ottawa is going on perfectly normally. The hysterical Twitter antics are beyond over the top. It's a version of Ottawa populated entirely by Pajama Boy.
They sent 40-something fully-armed SWAT vehicles against the truckers and farmers in Coutts... then backed down when the unarmed protestors started walking calmly toward them.
All right but in all fairness how the hell can the city salt or remove snow with so many people there walking to n fro blocking everywhere🤌Let the folks n truckers salt on area they took over.. what else they got do to all day..
I have no idea eh 🤌I live in Ottawa .. sure many streets have access BUT where that guy broke leg and where I nearly fell too on dry ice, is near action where all gathered.. unless you expect them
To come by foot and bags shovels.. come on now.. hilarious that leader with broken leg blamed mayor for not doing job🙃 good luck having salt truck going thru and around trucks n people
They're fighting a non-violent war. Supply lines and logistics are like Rule #1. The initial response from the police was pretty lackadaisical so the protestors were lazy. It's time to upgrade and obfuscate the supply system. The protest won't last without it.
Yes. From the beginning, I wondered whether they had a plan for what to do when they got to Ottawa, and how they were going to get fuel.
They've done miracles bringing the Canadian people together, and igniting action around the world. But . . . "Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics."
Followup to my earlier comment: The following link just came across my radar. It starts with "The people organising this quite clearly have experience and serious training in logistics. You don't get a result like this by just a couple of guys jumping in their cabs and taking off one night." And goes into depth from there. Gives me hope that the convoy has a plan, even if we don't know what it is.
Thank you for this. It was good to read on how very well prepared the Convoy is, ready for so many variables that we might not have thought of. How extraordinary their preparations have been!
There seems to be an almost devilish look to every one of these monsters. Anyone who has seen depictions of "the bad guys" in Grimm's Fairy Tales knows what these despots look like without even looking.
The city councillor via the use of Ottawa police removing the ability of the truckers to keep warm, not only for themselves but for their families they have brought with including children. What kind of government sets out to intentionally harm its citizens including children? Although they already have done this with the injections and now feel they can get away with harming their citizens whenever they feel like it. Just like Brandon is doing.
It is a crime under the Geneva Convention and I suspect depriving citizens who need the fuel to survive is also against CA law. Hopefully, a court will step in and stop this overreach.
It's grave that the government won't back down from a mandate. What kind of governments do we ALL actually have now? Has there been any that refused mandates and passports from the start.
Start with Magafuli in Tanzania, an extremely popular good guy president who sent in samples from a goat and a papaya with fake human names and got "positive" covid tests in return. He was trained as a chemist,and made a mockery of the tests. Others in Africa too. Then there was the Haitian president who was not liked but was executed in broad daylight in a military type operation.
The escalation ladder is in place now. The biofascists will play to their audience -- the Cult -- as they gradually up the pain threshold. Maybe the cops will resist, but I doubt it. Time to call for a general strike, not just truckers, who have real power due to their ability to stop transport, but everyone.
Diane Deans can go f*** herself, get a life instead of running ours and the Ottawa PD should be ashamed of themselves-stand down and tell your so called bosses to blow it out their a**. We are free men and women and we ain't going to take it anymore and if you try and force us, you have no idea what hell we can rage against the machine. We will not obey you, we will not hear you, we will do what we have to in order to shut you down.
Every police officer who agrees to participate in this tyranny needs to be photographed and have his or her name and badge number taken down. Then that information needs to be made public.
I believe in peaceful Civil Disobedience. Before Texas came to its senses and repealed covid mandates, I'd be the sole #unmuzzled person in a sea of masks. Some folks & managers screamed at me (I now #boycott #Sprouts), but I was accepted at most stores and never feared the vitriol hurled at me by Luddites: I was armed and quietly walked away from these confrontations.
R Heinlein once wrote, "An armed society is a polite society." Well, given what I've experienced lately it's not necessarily polite, but at least the mob will pause for a moment before rushing me.
Australia defanged its denizens (denied citizens) in the 1990s. Canada continues to strip its hapless population of firearms to protect them from themselves, — 17 2.2021, "Government of Canada introduces new firearms legislation to protect Canadian communities," is.gd/YdS6E6
Remember #BigBrother & the #NannyState have your best interests at ❤️, — that's why they're running the largest #Mengele experiment in #Faucist history on millions of unsuspecting children.
In the long run, little gets delivered without these truckers. If they are treated poorly, do you think they are going back to work because the government says so? Is that a long term government strategy? Good grief, we have truly seen the absolute stupidity of elected idiots. In the US, I’m not sure why they don’t just stop delivering to the DC area and see how long this lasts.
Absolutely. Imagine a truckers strike - no food, milk, meat, gas, clothes, furniture, repair goods, electronics, nothing!!! Those in power will come begging on their knees in two weeks, or face the wrath of hungry people
Empty bellies focus the collective mind of a nation incredibly. I don't think TPTB see this endgame coming, even with all this telegraphed notice. Amazing.
Food stores would be stripped bare within hours. My supermarket has deliveries 5 days/week. Already have seen empty shelves here & there, even on delivery days.
Seems to me we're in that dangerous (surreal) end-stage of the collapse of a totalitarian system, and we've seen this before. The anarchy that has been flowing from 'the elites' of the planet has been met - finally - with coherent and resounding resistance across the globe.
But this is that point where anything can happen, including outright chaos.
If you think these Marxists in Ottawa (and across the rest of the planet) are just going to acquiesce and let go of the power they've conferred on themselves, then, respectfully, you don't understand history and what is coming next...and it seems that most folks are basically sleep-walking into a conflict they really don't understand.
Because this isn't 'just' a stance against Ottawa; it's an alignment against the wealthiest on the planet who have been funding academia, defense and intelligence, media and the 'deep state' unelected/unaccountable hiding in the shadows of multiple countries.
Everything you're watching play out in Ottawa is meant to protect the wealth, and the power of these folks, and they aren't going to give it up without a very REAL fight.
Yes, all true. But as with the fall of the USSR, events, once initiated, become difficult to foresee much less control. I'm fond of the expression, "You can start the fire, but you cannot control the wind."
Everyone knew that the USSR would fall, they all predicted 'wag the dog' and that millions might die; they though it would not happen for another 10-15 years. Nobody foresaw Gorbachev handing the keys to the kingdom to Yeltsin. But that's what happened.
The 'powers that be' of the Global Reset and New World Order do indeed have a lot to lose. They will not give up without a fight, and this is indeed about much more than just Canada and a group of truckers fighting unconstitutional vax mandates. But still, faced with insuperable odds, there comes a time when retreat is the only option. That time is when the truckers continue to gain support, police no longer want to oppress their countrymen, and the political opposition senses an opportunity to stand up.
Maxime Bernier is the one most likely to see the light. If things keep going as they are, it is only a matter of time. Tick-tock, tick-tock.
I like that saying about fire. If the powers that be don’t see that the world is behind these truckers with the amount of money that has been donated then they are serious imbeciles. I would guess that most of these donations are fairly small which means a massive number supporting this.
You are right, KatLee. I wrote this on another of Gato's posts couple days ago, and it is worth repeating here (as it is more on topic; the other was musings of a kitty in a rainstorm in paradise -- amazing where Gato's followers can take a thread):
Somebody(ies) really don't want those truckers to succeed. They see the freedom convoy for what it is: the lead galleon, coming up over the horizon, in a flotilla of hundreds or perhaps thousands of ships, still a distance away -- but that distance is closing. Sails whipping cleanly and proudly in the wind, inexorable in its progress.
And all of those (us) who are supporting them, not only give them aid and comfort -- our mere existence sends chills down the spines of the wannabe puppet-masters. With convoys starting all over Canada and the world (Helsinki today, apparently), that flotilla looms large over their dream of a totalitarian, fascist world with them the elites. With every cash donation, every person donating food, fuel and encouragement, their ramparts look weaker and smaller, their defenses wholly inadequate to the task.
That is why 'they' are doing this. Don't let them win.
(ps -- I should add that 'this' in the last line refers to the DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyberattack which was launched against the truckers' new GiveSendGo crowdfunding page. 'They' don't want the truckers to know that they aren't alone, that tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of supporters are out there and sending help.)
Not just bringing more trucks, but redeploying them to blockade every major transportation artery into the city with more big rigs and tractors than can possibly be moved.
Then blockade power stations, port facilities, and roll rigs onto airport runways.
Then start blocking smaller roads.
In three to five days the shelves will be empty, the gas pumps dry and the trapped rulers will start to behave like the vermin they are.
Be sure the pigs fire the first shots and it is all captured on camera for the world to see.
Bring the fucking government to its knees, and then kick it to the curb.
Blockading government buildings and police stations would:
1. Give them a propaganda advantage as it could be further spun as an "attack" with a veneer of credibility and be ripe for a false flag.
2. It would concentrate their forces into a small area rather than distributing them over a wider territory, thus making them vulnerable to encirclement themselves and allowing the government to concentrate forces against them.
3. Ottowa is a government town, obviously. The best way to get through to craven government creatures is by making them cold and hungry, not by overtly targeting the hand that feeds them and enforces their gravy train.
I wonder if it might be better to move on to actions like wide spread strikes and sick outs. The authorities can attack and disperse protests, especially in difficult climates like Canadian winter where they are depending on delivery of supplies. They can arrest key leaders and fog up leadership communications. They can commit false flag acts of violence.
With general strikes, they simply cannot force people to perform their work. I do believe that it is true they want to crash global markets and blame it on covid to cover for the inevitable crash of 12 years of bubble inflation by central banks; however, the more important focus for now is to break the stranglehold that the elites have on government power.
Waking up normal people won't happen by anything like a protest, which relies largely on news coverage for impact and reach. Perhaps total market dysfunction and the the disruption of many services might penetrate the veil of media propaganda more effectively.
From some of the twit comments it's pretty clear that many of the kool aid drinkers don't know what the protest is really about. They don't understand that at it's core it's about being made to have something injected into one's body that one doesn't want in order to keep one's job.
Forcing or coercing someone to take something into their body that they don't want is a form of assault, a form of rape. It is unethical and immoral. To
those who say --- "Well I took the shot so it's no big deal" --- you consented. It is a bit like saying --- "I had sex with my partner so what right do others have to complain if my partner forces sex on them."
Have these people lost the ability to think? Are they that party trained? Are they that loyal to the tribe they identify with that they will support whatever the tribal leaders say?
If all the current elected officials in Ottawa find themselves unelected in the future. The first thing the newly elected officials should do, is find every single officer that is willing follow these orders against peaceful citizens, and fire their ass, no pension, nothing. Their services are no longer needed.
The United States needs a trucker's strike. The truckers here need to stop delivering, organize massive sickouts. My dad was a trucker, it can be done if there is the will to do it. Ask for God's grace for freedom and the truckers worldwide.
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The number one takeaway of the last 2 years is simple and clear: we must remove emergency powers from our law books. Or, at an absolute minimum, make them very hard to enact and only for very specific criteria and with very, very limited timeframes. What the city of Ottawa is doing to my peaceful, liberty-minded countrymen is a disgrace to all we stand for in this country. And why I doubled my GiveSendGo contribution.
I've donated as well and will continue to do so, weekly. How disgusting that the police would enforce these orders. We do need more trucks, more farmers, more non-compliance; the war has begun.
I doubled my donation too, after Gofundme stole the first one. And I'll keep donating, as long as the truckers need help.
Isn’t emergency powers for no more than 6 months?
In my province, Nova Scotia, it lasts two weeks. Then they just re-declare it. Every second Friday. Apparently forever…
https://novascotia.ca/coronavirus/docs/Declaration-of-Provincial-State-of-Emergency-by-Minister-Porter-Signed-March-22-2020.pdf
Maybe Justin is hidden on Oak Island😉
Haha! Awesome!
Then they'll never find him, for sure.
Got it! LOL
😂🤣😂🤣 Hopefully, he drowned in the pit.
In Nova Scotia the minister of municipal affairs signs the SOE every two weeks. Mr. Lohr does so without having read the emergency measures act. They all have fallen in line without question. We now know who will be the people to escort those out of the catlle cars.
It’s really disgusting that in NS we have - essentially - a complete abrogation of all laws at the whim of our “leaders”. The definitions in the Act are so broad that any Premier could just hijack this province infinitely. Thus, a $10k fine for standing on a highway overpass in support of the freedom convoy truckers.
It’s absolutely obscene.
That's dispicable.
Tell that to Icky Ige in Hawaii who just keeps extending and extending and extending ad nauseum those "temporary emergency powers".
And the lie in it all is there is no emergency – and hasn’t been since *maybe* week two or three of the pandemic once the actual data started to come out.
Exactly right.
6 weeks is too long...
Maybe someday it could be extended, but in the current reality even 6 SECONDS is too long.
I think it depends on which emergency they are declaring and if it's local (city) or state. Some red governors aren't any better than the Nazi governors in the blue states about some of the emergency powers. Our governor just re-upped his for the 23rd time. 😑
Same down here in the People's Republic of California with Comrade Newssolini.
The "emergency" is so acute that L.A. is hosting the Super Bowl next week.
I'm sure our Democrat "leaders" in attendance will be wearing their masks along with the help, like they never do.
I want a fun name for Dictatress Hochul!
I just call her The 'Ho, because that is what she is.
Oh, I like it!
That works, too, Pug :)
Hochul the Harpy.
"Bird-bodied, girl-faced things they are; abominable their droppings, their hands are talons, their faces haggard with hunger insatiable."
~ Virgil
kathy nazgul also has a nice ring to it.
(sorry-man, pun was irresistible)
Oh, perfect! Hochul the Harpy. Thank you!
Ask her:
Hey Hochul, how'd my dictate last night?
Then her name should be Ho'chul Dic-tate.
Or like Yoga-pants Garcetti...."I was holding my breath".
Same in Hellinois. I think our SoE is 30 days at a time. About the amount of time it'd take Pritzker to do a full pushup.
Assuming his arms are long enough to even get his corpulent carcass off the deck.
It utterly escapes me how anyone could vote for him or Beetlejuice for anything other than class clown. Even that would be a stretch.
Beetlejuice's campaign was ID politics from beginning to end and it shows!
I did find footage of Pritzker trying to do pushups: https://youtu.be/Z3ynEs09cOE
🎯🎯🎯
what I would give to be able to neuter (literally) these blowhards and yank out their testosterone and hopefully with it, their egos.
I wonder if neutering him would make him less egotistical, dare to dream:}
Yeah from Hitler to Palpatine it literally starts with emergency powers every time
Maybe the government should only be able to declare an emergency for long enough to hold a referendum of the people who can then vote on it. Right? Something like 2 weeks max, and then the people vote. And then they re-vote every 4 weeks. Make it difficult and democratic.
In the USA, there's no "emergency power" in the constitution as the framers knew this would be a trap door for abuse.
Nice copservative loophole. Have any others to recommend?
I suspect there are military experts in the Convoy and trust they are preparing strategic responses to this (latest) provocation by the government. The challenge is keeping it non-violent... especially when the government is so willing to use violence against the protestors.
There are. If you watch their press conference from yesterday, they have a former military intelligence in their group on strategy, a former RCMP sniper / counter-terrorism officer on security and a former military logistics person running their logistics. I hope they can persevere!
At the presser, they told folks that the fuel seizures would not hurt them. The organizers know what they are doing...
I hope so!
He was a former sniper for Trudeau! Lots of former high ranking intelligence types on our side. They see this for what it is.
Their team is solid. They also have lawyers.
No wonder Trudeau ran away and his!
They are. They said in the press conference today they have lots of staging areas and Canada has more than one city. 😂😂😂. Keep donating on GiveSendGo (I’m donating daily). The organizers aren’t frazzled……. It seems they are prepared though.
Do you have that link? I can't find it...
Yes. This is the official one. 😊
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
Sorry, I wasn't clear ~ 🤦♀️. I meant the link to today's trucker press conference.
Oh, sorry. They posted it on GETTR. Truckers4freedom. Lara Logan and Brownstone Institute are on GETTR too! It’s a bit if the Wild West still, but improving by the day. 😊
Telegram group
The OFFICIAL Freedom Canada Convoy 2022
Is the best most up to date. It’s got some bs actors but pretty easy to figure them out.
They will also need to change tactics. A convoy of unarmed vehicles that (thankfully, for now anyway) cannot fight its way in, will not work the next time. The police will just set up roadblocks and send them to holding lots, as they've done in Ottawa.
Next time they will need to come in under stealth. Coordinated in advance. A few at a time, staging temporarily in non-obvious groups and locations. Then at the pre-arranged time, they all move in synchrony to their destination. From all directions simultaneously. Run silent, run deep.
I just drove yesterday from Utah down to California on the I-15. There were several Las Vegas Metro Police units in AWD pickups staged along the way. These were not your normal traffic cops -- they were, I suspect, the advance guard looking for anyone in an organized procession heading for Las Vegas (this was ~100 miles North of Vegas, BTW) and possibly further South to Los Angeles or San Diego.
With talk of disrupting the Super Bowl next Sunday in LA, it looks like the cops are taking no chances. (And BTW, disrupting the Super Bowl would be a terrible strategic mistake. The Super Bowl is one of those key events in the sporting world that just about all of the folks who are supporting this effort find important. Disrupting it would alienate supporters unnecessarily.)
I hope (and expect) that this Super Bowl talk is all misdirection. The plan is likely quite different, and while the cops are sitting on the side of I-15 (and I-10, I-5 etc) looking for convoys or whatever, the good guys are stealthily working on a completely different plan.
I think this is true -- evidence of much planning in the Canadian convoy is described already by others above.
As this evolves, tactics must change. The success of the Ottawa event is proof that there was extensive planning. Folks capable of this level of organization know that surprise is an important part of the strategy. Keep them guessing, alternate your moves, don't do the same thing twice. They can't keep waiting for every possibility forever; they will tire and lose focus. That is when you surprise them.
In Desert Storm, the Iraqi military was absolutely gobsmacked by the US Army coming across the barren, featureless desert in their vehicles, flanking the dumbfounded Iraqis. "How did you get here?" they asked. The GIs pointed to their GPS units -- game-changing technology. Just one example of how to surprise your opponent. Doing something unexpected almost always provides a strategic advantage.
keeping it non violent won't get you anywhere. Force is needed to remove them from power. All you idiots who say don't use violence are a bunch of pussies and do not realize what it will take to win. They will not give up power without violence. Anyone who thinks differently is not a critical thinker. This only ends one way.
Name call all you like, but you insult your most likely allies in any war to come at your peril. I come from a family of military-trained, well-armed folks who know that the best way to win a war is without having to fire a shot. That said, we're well prepared to aim true and be efficient with our ammo if the day comes that our enemies do.
Trudeau and his ilk have almost total control of the media, the media will be used as a weapon to mischaracterize ANY act of violence (even justified self-defense) into a 24-loop on the supposed "insurrection" happening in Ottowa, which will then be used to call in the military (who will have the tacit support of the 80% of the populace who believe everything they see on TV) to suppress the unarmed, peaceful protesters. And by suppress I mean kill or imprison without due process or trial. See also: Jan 6 political prisoners in the USA.
Much harder to convince the mindless idiots glued to their TVs that the protesters are "the bad guys" when they can't get any video evidence of them doing anything wrong. Psyops are a big part of this campaign... and have been used against the people for the last 2 years. Now a very well-trained, well-organized group of people are using this demonstration as a psyop to retake power they let be taken from them. The longer they can keep it effective (it clearly is... or the government wouldn't be shrieking so loudly) and free of violence, the harder it is for the government to justify their continued tyranny and overreaction.
Just so. Well said, mate.
The Canadian army already refused (non-officially) to move the trucks.
Why can't I heart this comment? I keep hitting on the heart button with no results.
It takes the heart, but you have to refresh your browser sometimes... substack bug maybe.
It's been like this for about a week. So frustrating.
I was wondering if maybe a something mysterious was afoot when my computer keeps flashing "no internet" Seems to happen only when I am on substack. (of course I spend a LOT of time on substack)
Long overdue to blockade and set up pickets at major media for consistent lying, by omission and commission. Make friends with the workers if possible but isolate their bosses. Ridicule is our friend.
Found the glowie.
Tell that to Gandhi and King. Oh, and Jesus.
"The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
–Mohandas K. Gandhi
The state is violence. Individuals can choose nonviolence.
Yes. But it requires patience in the face of threats condemnation and total hate. Very few humans are built to withstand that. I pray for patience for the truckers.
These Brownshirts need to be put on notice. Pronto.
In “Letter to a Colluder” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling), I cited the Niagara Police Department as an example of courageous refusal to enforce tyrannical measures against the people. They formed the Niagara Regional Police United for Human Rights group and issued the following statement:
“Niagara: We stand behind you. We stand beside you. And if you need us to, we will stand in front of you. Discrimination has no place in Niagara, Ontario, or Canada. We took an oath to uphold the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and respect everyone in this Country which thrives in diversity and inclusivity. We hear you, and we are here for ALL of you.”
Would that the Ottawa police had such integrity.
ONLY THE HEART OF GOVERNMENT here in Ottawa is “under occupation”. Its a damm small part of the city. Medical appointments wtf is she talking about? It’s all government offices. Most bureaucrats have been working from home for 2yrs anyway.
The city has not sanded or salted the sidewalks. A guy broke his leg yesterday and I almost went down 3 or 4 times. Where is the concern for our safety?
As for the other clip they did not take much but a slip tank. They legally cannot take Jerry cans. You are allowed 200l max fuel storage so anything over that (ie slip tank) they legally can seize. But coming in fully armed? Holy shit is this Canada anymore?
You can see in Google Maps with the traffic layer turned on exactly how much of Ottawa is going on perfectly normally. The hysterical Twitter antics are beyond over the top. It's a version of Ottawa populated entirely by Pajama Boy.
They sent 40-something fully-armed SWAT vehicles against the truckers and farmers in Coutts... then backed down when the unarmed protestors started walking calmly toward them.
All right but in all fairness how the hell can the city salt or remove snow with so many people there walking to n fro blocking everywhere🤌Let the folks n truckers salt on area they took over.. what else they got do to all day..
Easy, the sidewalk plows could easily enter from many points. They decided not to.
You have no idea what it’s like. Several blocks are simply blocked off by police with no truckers on them. Its quite a chaotic scene.
Really appreciating your on the ground reports, MikeyB.
Anytime. Just got home.
The whole “gas can” threat was BS. Swarms of people with Jerry cans just walked past da police today.
Weather is getting better with 36f or 0c. Much better for the truckers and protesters alike. Friday was COLD.
I have no idea eh 🤌I live in Ottawa .. sure many streets have access BUT where that guy broke leg and where I nearly fell too on dry ice, is near action where all gathered.. unless you expect them
To come by foot and bags shovels.. come on now.. hilarious that leader with broken leg blamed mayor for not doing job🙃 good luck having salt truck going thru and around trucks n people
They're fighting a non-violent war. Supply lines and logistics are like Rule #1. The initial response from the police was pretty lackadaisical so the protestors were lazy. It's time to upgrade and obfuscate the supply system. The protest won't last without it.
Yes. From the beginning, I wondered whether they had a plan for what to do when they got to Ottawa, and how they were going to get fuel.
They've done miracles bringing the Canadian people together, and igniting action around the world. But . . . "Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics."
Followup to my earlier comment: The following link just came across my radar. It starts with "The people organising this quite clearly have experience and serious training in logistics. You don't get a result like this by just a couple of guys jumping in their cabs and taking off one night." And goes into depth from there. Gives me hope that the convoy has a plan, even if we don't know what it is.
Here's the link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1488128816434266115.html
Thank you for this. It was good to read on how very well prepared the Convoy is, ready for so many variables that we might not have thought of. How extraordinary their preparations have been!
As the police confiscate the fuel (illegal BTW), people are arriving with jerrycans of fuel. See #FreedomConvoyCanada on Twitter.
⬆️⬆️ This ⬆️⬆️
Why, oh why, did I know what Dianne Deans was going to look like before I even saw her pic? Why?
There seems to be an almost devilish look to every one of these monsters. Anyone who has seen depictions of "the bad guys" in Grimm's Fairy Tales knows what these despots look like without even looking.
Ogres and Trolls
Karen - She's everywhere.
🎯💥🤣
The city councillor via the use of Ottawa police removing the ability of the truckers to keep warm, not only for themselves but for their families they have brought with including children. What kind of government sets out to intentionally harm its citizens including children? Although they already have done this with the injections and now feel they can get away with harming their citizens whenever they feel like it. Just like Brandon is doing.
It is a crime under the Geneva Convention and I suspect depriving citizens who need the fuel to survive is also against CA law. Hopefully, a court will step in and stop this overreach.
amazing what the Canadian government is doing to its people. at this point elections may not be a solution, a more timely solution is needed...
It's grave that the government won't back down from a mandate. What kind of governments do we ALL actually have now? Has there been any that refused mandates and passports from the start.
well 5 countries refused the vaccines and those leaders will killed or had assassination attempts. it is a nasty world wide plot.
Would you be willing to list the 5, or share some details?
Start with Magafuli in Tanzania, an extremely popular good guy president who sent in samples from a goat and a papaya with fake human names and got "positive" covid tests in return. He was trained as a chemist,and made a mockery of the tests. Others in Africa too. Then there was the Haitian president who was not liked but was executed in broad daylight in a military type operation.
The escalation ladder is in place now. The biofascists will play to their audience -- the Cult -- as they gradually up the pain threshold. Maybe the cops will resist, but I doubt it. Time to call for a general strike, not just truckers, who have real power due to their ability to stop transport, but everyone.
Diane Deans can go f*** herself, get a life instead of running ours and the Ottawa PD should be ashamed of themselves-stand down and tell your so called bosses to blow it out their a**. We are free men and women and we ain't going to take it anymore and if you try and force us, you have no idea what hell we can rage against the machine. We will not obey you, we will not hear you, we will do what we have to in order to shut you down.
Every police officer who agrees to participate in this tyranny needs to be photographed and have his or her name and badge number taken down. Then that information needs to be made public.
I will "back the blue" when police officers stand up for freedom loving citizens and not governmental tyrants.
I believe in peaceful Civil Disobedience. Before Texas came to its senses and repealed covid mandates, I'd be the sole #unmuzzled person in a sea of masks. Some folks & managers screamed at me (I now #boycott #Sprouts), but I was accepted at most stores and never feared the vitriol hurled at me by Luddites: I was armed and quietly walked away from these confrontations.
R Heinlein once wrote, "An armed society is a polite society." Well, given what I've experienced lately it's not necessarily polite, but at least the mob will pause for a moment before rushing me.
Australia defanged its denizens (denied citizens) in the 1990s. Canada continues to strip its hapless population of firearms to protect them from themselves, — 17 2.2021, "Government of Canada introduces new firearms legislation to protect Canadian communities," is.gd/YdS6E6
Remember #BigBrother & the #NannyState have your best interests at ❤️, — that's why they're running the largest #Mengele experiment in #Faucist history on millions of unsuspecting children.
https://captainmanimalagonusnret.substack.com/p/bigbrother-and-nannystate
Thank you for your service.
In the long run, little gets delivered without these truckers. If they are treated poorly, do you think they are going back to work because the government says so? Is that a long term government strategy? Good grief, we have truly seen the absolute stupidity of elected idiots. In the US, I’m not sure why they don’t just stop delivering to the DC area and see how long this lasts.
Absolutely. Imagine a truckers strike - no food, milk, meat, gas, clothes, furniture, repair goods, electronics, nothing!!! Those in power will come begging on their knees in two weeks, or face the wrath of hungry people
Empty bellies focus the collective mind of a nation incredibly. I don't think TPTB see this endgame coming, even with all this telegraphed notice. Amazing.
We just need to democracy harder!
Give it about 2 weeks. 😂
Food stores would be stripped bare within hours. My supermarket has deliveries 5 days/week. Already have seen empty shelves here & there, even on delivery days.
Probably, but that’s what happens when people support ridiculous mandates and wage war on the people who actually make society run.
Seems to me we're in that dangerous (surreal) end-stage of the collapse of a totalitarian system, and we've seen this before. The anarchy that has been flowing from 'the elites' of the planet has been met - finally - with coherent and resounding resistance across the globe.
But this is that point where anything can happen, including outright chaos.
If you think these Marxists in Ottawa (and across the rest of the planet) are just going to acquiesce and let go of the power they've conferred on themselves, then, respectfully, you don't understand history and what is coming next...and it seems that most folks are basically sleep-walking into a conflict they really don't understand.
Because this isn't 'just' a stance against Ottawa; it's an alignment against the wealthiest on the planet who have been funding academia, defense and intelligence, media and the 'deep state' unelected/unaccountable hiding in the shadows of multiple countries.
Everything you're watching play out in Ottawa is meant to protect the wealth, and the power of these folks, and they aren't going to give it up without a very REAL fight.
Yes, all true. But as with the fall of the USSR, events, once initiated, become difficult to foresee much less control. I'm fond of the expression, "You can start the fire, but you cannot control the wind."
Everyone knew that the USSR would fall, they all predicted 'wag the dog' and that millions might die; they though it would not happen for another 10-15 years. Nobody foresaw Gorbachev handing the keys to the kingdom to Yeltsin. But that's what happened.
The 'powers that be' of the Global Reset and New World Order do indeed have a lot to lose. They will not give up without a fight, and this is indeed about much more than just Canada and a group of truckers fighting unconstitutional vax mandates. But still, faced with insuperable odds, there comes a time when retreat is the only option. That time is when the truckers continue to gain support, police no longer want to oppress their countrymen, and the political opposition senses an opportunity to stand up.
Maxime Bernier is the one most likely to see the light. If things keep going as they are, it is only a matter of time. Tick-tock, tick-tock.
I like that saying about fire. If the powers that be don’t see that the world is behind these truckers with the amount of money that has been donated then they are serious imbeciles. I would guess that most of these donations are fairly small which means a massive number supporting this.
You are right, KatLee. I wrote this on another of Gato's posts couple days ago, and it is worth repeating here (as it is more on topic; the other was musings of a kitty in a rainstorm in paradise -- amazing where Gato's followers can take a thread):
Somebody(ies) really don't want those truckers to succeed. They see the freedom convoy for what it is: the lead galleon, coming up over the horizon, in a flotilla of hundreds or perhaps thousands of ships, still a distance away -- but that distance is closing. Sails whipping cleanly and proudly in the wind, inexorable in its progress.
And all of those (us) who are supporting them, not only give them aid and comfort -- our mere existence sends chills down the spines of the wannabe puppet-masters. With convoys starting all over Canada and the world (Helsinki today, apparently), that flotilla looms large over their dream of a totalitarian, fascist world with them the elites. With every cash donation, every person donating food, fuel and encouragement, their ramparts look weaker and smaller, their defenses wholly inadequate to the task.
That is why 'they' are doing this. Don't let them win.
(ps -- I should add that 'this' in the last line refers to the DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyberattack which was launched against the truckers' new GiveSendGo crowdfunding page. 'They' don't want the truckers to know that they aren't alone, that tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of supporters are out there and sending help.)
Truckers could end it in a hurry. Just stop driving. Park your rigs. Widespread urban unrest in maybe 3 days after that?
I would love to see this!!
That might well be the exact plan. Time will tell.
Not just bringing more trucks, but redeploying them to blockade every major transportation artery into the city with more big rigs and tractors than can possibly be moved.
Then blockade power stations, port facilities, and roll rigs onto airport runways.
Then start blocking smaller roads.
In three to five days the shelves will be empty, the gas pumps dry and the trapped rulers will start to behave like the vermin they are.
Be sure the pigs fire the first shots and it is all captured on camera for the world to see.
Bring the fucking government to its knees, and then kick it to the curb.
Enough.
Then start blockading police stations and key government buildings. Maybe not "then". Maybe *start* there.
I disagree.
Blockading government buildings and police stations would:
1. Give them a propaganda advantage as it could be further spun as an "attack" with a veneer of credibility and be ripe for a false flag.
2. It would concentrate their forces into a small area rather than distributing them over a wider territory, thus making them vulnerable to encirclement themselves and allowing the government to concentrate forces against them.
3. Ottowa is a government town, obviously. The best way to get through to craven government creatures is by making them cold and hungry, not by overtly targeting the hand that feeds them and enforces their gravy train.
I wonder if it might be better to move on to actions like wide spread strikes and sick outs. The authorities can attack and disperse protests, especially in difficult climates like Canadian winter where they are depending on delivery of supplies. They can arrest key leaders and fog up leadership communications. They can commit false flag acts of violence.
With general strikes, they simply cannot force people to perform their work. I do believe that it is true they want to crash global markets and blame it on covid to cover for the inevitable crash of 12 years of bubble inflation by central banks; however, the more important focus for now is to break the stranglehold that the elites have on government power.
Waking up normal people won't happen by anything like a protest, which relies largely on news coverage for impact and reach. Perhaps total market dysfunction and the the disruption of many services might penetrate the veil of media propaganda more effectively.
A general strike ended the Kapp Putsch in four days. Berlin, 1920.
From some of the twit comments it's pretty clear that many of the kool aid drinkers don't know what the protest is really about. They don't understand that at it's core it's about being made to have something injected into one's body that one doesn't want in order to keep one's job.
Forcing or coercing someone to take something into their body that they don't want is a form of assault, a form of rape. It is unethical and immoral. To
those who say --- "Well I took the shot so it's no big deal" --- you consented. It is a bit like saying --- "I had sex with my partner so what right do others have to complain if my partner forces sex on them."
Have these people lost the ability to think? Are they that party trained? Are they that loyal to the tribe they identify with that they will support whatever the tribal leaders say?
If all the current elected officials in Ottawa find themselves unelected in the future. The first thing the newly elected officials should do, is find every single officer that is willing follow these orders against peaceful citizens, and fire their ass, no pension, nothing. Their services are no longer needed.
Canada needs a trucker's strike: nothing gets delivered until all mandates are ended.
The United States needs a trucker's strike. The truckers here need to stop delivering, organize massive sickouts. My dad was a trucker, it can be done if there is the will to do it. Ask for God's grace for freedom and the truckers worldwide.