A group called Canadian Civil Liberties Association will be announcing litigation of "significant public interest" sometime today.

The other scary thought is this behavior emboldens other leftist loons in power to try the same stuff.

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A group called Canadian Civil Liberties Association will be announcing litigation of "significant public interest" sometime today.

Hopefully, this organization is unlike the American ACLU, which is a collection of hypocrites.

Almost zero chance of them busting the crypto wallets. Gov't likes to talk a big game but the reason crypto scares them so much is that they cannot access or seize it.

Easy solution - set up American bank accounts for the Canadian protesters and transfer the funds.

Pretty sure the smart ones already did that pre-emptively. Hopefully they cashed out as much as possible before the "Emergency" declaration. Using such a law, intended for reacting to things like a Nuclear War, is being used against a few protesters in the capital that don't seem to have really stopped much of the necessary function of the government.

I have always been able to get cash from my Chase Account at any ATM I've tried around the world - China, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, UK. Only issue was India where they suspected fraud and denied it until I called it in as legit. Which is probably a good thing.

But suspending Due Process and seizing assets without a court order is a big big step in totalitarian direction. And they are doing it for political reasons, not safety or security. The Truckers aren't hurting anyone, they are just protesting with a "park-in". Go meet them and talk and resolve it like an elected representative of the people. Nope, can't do that.

When the tear gas and riot cops and beatings to get protesters in cuffs happen, the whole of the citizenry should show up and stand in the way.

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Almost zero chance of them busting the crypto wallets. Gov't likes to talk a big game but the reason crypto scares them so much is that they cannot access or seize it.

They can and do siege crypto wallets all the time. Maybe they can’t get to the funds but neither can you.

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The infantile Trudeau is ignorant of history.

He's ignorant of the present as well.

He's ignorant (and a moron) will suffice. Effeminate, cowardly, and stupid is no way to go through life.

Ahh... they are bringing Ted Cruz and Ilhan Omar together.

The RCCMP of Canuckistan.

Wow. When what you do gets Ilhan Omar and Ted Cruz on the same page it might just be time to rethink your position.

Society vs State: Canada Reveals the Core Conflict of Our Age
By David McGrogan

Justin Trudeau’s confrontation with the Canadian truckers may be the single most significant event of the Covid pandemic – not because of its eventual outcome, whatever that may be, but because of what it symbolises. It captures, in perfect microcosm, the tensions between the competing imperatives of the age: freedom versus security; the rule of law versus flexible ‘responsive’ governance; the priorities of the workers versus those of the Zooming bourgeoisie; the need for real-world human interaction and belonging versus the promises of splendid online isolation; the experiences of the common man, who knows where it hurts, versus those of the professional expert class, who know nothing that cannot be expressed as a formula.

More than all of that, though, it gives us a lens through which to view a much deeper, much older conflict of much larger scope – one which underlies not just the struggles of the Covid age, but of modernity itself. On the one hand, the state, which seeks to make all of society transparent to its power. On the other, alternative sources of authority – the family, the church, the community, the firm, the farm, and the human individual herself.

For centuries, the state has waged a quiet war against those competitors, and bent them to its will. It has done this not through conspiracy or deliberate strategy but merely through the single-minded pursuit, across generation after generation of political leaders, of one goal: legitimacy. Governments and other state organs derive their legitimacy, and therefore their positions of rulership, from convincing the population that they are necessary.

They do this by suggesting that without their intervention, things will go badly; left to their own devices, ordinary people will suffer. The family, the church, the community, the firm, the farm, the human individual – these are inadequate to the task of securing human well-being. That task, only the state is equipped to achieve, for only the state can keep the population educated, healthy, safe, prosperous and satisfied. Since this is the case, only the state is fit to deploy power – and only those who govern the state are fit to rule.

read more...

https://brownstone.org/article...conflict-of-our-age/

If I lived in Canada, I'd withdraw every penny except one in my bank account in support of the truckers. I hope a large number of people do the same. It doesn't take much to cause a run on the bank, it's a self fulfilling prophecy. Just announce one and you may end with one when people panic.

Either way, it's now known that legally acquired money can be seized for legal activities (donating money). Many will never trust a bank again, who knows when you could be targeted for donating to something the King doesn't approve of?

Vladimir Poutine will finally get a vote of no confidence, I hope.

The Leftist Tyrant Up North
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embodies all the worst elements of the Left.

And we think our leftist leader is a loser.

President Joe Biden might be a lying dog-faced pony soldier, and he might be deep in the throes of cognitive decline, but at least he can point northward and say: “It could be worse. I could be Justin … er, uh … the guy who runs that outfit up there.”

Indeed, Trudeau would be a thoroughly forgettable leader were he not making himself so despicably unforgettable. As Our Nate Jackson pointed out earlier this week, Pierre Trudeau’s pajama-boy progeny has resorted to the favorite tool of tyrants everywhere: emergency powers. “These blockades are illegal,” Trudeau the Younger declared, “and if you are still participating, the time to go home is now.”

To which the freedom-loving truckers have gently replied: Pound Alberta tar sand.

Oh, how the flighty have fallen. It was little more than a year ago when Trudeau saw fit to meddle in the internal affairs of a nation halfway around the globe — a nation that was at the time beset by its own little episode of trucker truculence. As Not the Bee notes, Indian farmers were peacefully blockading the roads around New Delhi when Trudeau declared, “Canada will always stand up for the right to peaceful protest and human rights anywhere around the world, and we are pleased to see moves towards de-escalation and dialogue.”

Got that? Trudeau will “always stand up for the right to peaceful protest.” Unless his own muskox is getting gored, in which case it’s straight to the never-before-used Emergencies Act, which he dubiously claims “is necessary to reinforce the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free.”

Because nothing says “principles” and “values” and keeping “all Canadians free” like confiscating the protesters’ diesel fuel; like arresting elderly men who deign to support them; like failing to denounce the vicious leftists who use their vehicles to run over them.

No, nothing says “freedom” quite like freezing the bank accounts of folks who are linked to this undeniably peaceful protest and doxing them, all but announcing an open season on political violence toward them. Take Ottawa’s Stella Luna Gelato Café, whose owner made a $250 donation to the protesters. As the Wall Street Journal editorial board notes: “When this became public, callers threatened to throw bricks through her store window. She ordered the shop closed. On Tuesday she recanted her support for the truckers to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.”

Leftists are always clamoring for “donor transparency,” and this is precisely why: They want to be able to turn their Brownshirts loose to terrorize donors whose causes they disagree with. This is what leftists do. It’s how they roll. Anyone remember Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, the brilliant entrepreneur who in 2008 happened to donate to a cause that supported traditional marriage? That donation caught up to him six years later, and it forced his resignation. This is what donor transparency means for those on the Right.

Not surprisingly, the Leftmedia has joined in to do Trudeau’s dirty work. As the Journal’s editors continue: “Major news outlets in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. are contacting the [Freedom Convoy] donors, asking them to justify their contributions. Many donors feel pressure to recant or desist from further financial expression of their views. For many journalists, that is no doubt the goal.” Not even Ilhan Omar can defend this practice.

Finally, we haven’t heard much from Trudeau in terms of “de-escalation and dialogue,” but we have heard plenty from him about swastikas and such. It seems that the last refuge of a leftist scoundrel is the “Nazi” card, which stateside Democrats tend to keep tucked in their sleeves, and which Trudeau played Wednesday against a Jewish member of Parliament who had the temerity to criticize his handling of the truckers’ protest: “Conservative Party members can stand with people who wave swastikas. They can stand with people who wave the Confederate flag,” he said.

Imagine: a head of state accusing a Jewish woman — and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors — of being a Nazi acolyte. What a disgrace.

https://patriotpost.us/article...-up-north-2022-02-17

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Almost zero chance of them busting the crypto wallets. Gov't likes to talk a big game but the reason crypto scares them so much is that they cannot access or seize it.

False

When the DNC got hacked they indicted Jullian Assange.

When Give Send Go gets hacked. Crickets. I would not be surprised to learn a government did the hacking this time.

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When Give Send Go gets hacked. Crickets. I would not be surprised to learn a government did the hacking this time.

Kind of an apples/oranges comparison.

What Julian Assange and Wikileaks did was publish confidential DNC emails leaked to Wikileaks by actors unknown. Assange, a clearly-identifiable individual, and Wikileaks clearly published them.

In the GiveSendGo instance we have an unknown hacker allegedly responsible for the hack/breach. (A hacker named Aubrey Cottle, known as "Kirtaner," claims responsibility, has publicly taken full or partial responsibility, but some people have expressed skepticism.)

Perhaps authorities are investigating the hack. (One would hope so.) Perhaps they're not. But the two incidents are not the same.

ah, Castreaux lite just stepped into it a bit

he just accused Jewish people of standing with the swastika's if they're anti-vax

thats gonna go over well with a portion of the population

imagine that - a former teacher is about to get taught a history lesson