Democracy died in my country yesterday.
Our esteemed PM has invoked the Emergencies Act for a peaceful protest in the capital city. Our Members of Parliament voted to uphold this, 185-151.
Including the New Democratic Party, who by their actions have lost their right to be called that. From now on let them be known as the New Dickhead Party.
Not creative, but gets the job done.
For reference: the Emergencies Act is the successor to the War Measures Act — they are the same act under different names. The Emergencies Act in its current incarnation / name had never been invoked until now. The WMA was invoked before — in times of actual emergency. War. Kidnappings. Bombings.
Actual strife.
The Trucker Protest, contrary to what bile CBC, CTV, and Global have been spewing, has been peaceful and Canadian to the core. Flags everywhere. A dance floor. An outdoor hot tub.
It was noisy at times, but not violent.
So now the Emergencies Act has been invoked, and before the MPs could even vote on it they began using it to arrest people in the capital. Police brutality, again, because at this point all the decent cops have resigned (and some have been arrested themselves, like Cpl. Bulford, former sniper for Trudeau).
It's telling that right before the violent crackdown in the capital, the Police Chief in Ottawa resigned.
It's pretty clear he did because he wouldn't give the order from up high. The new guy did.
Kinda reminds me of all the times Darth Vader fired someone for not following his orders to his liking (well, ok, his version of firing was murder, but we're only a year off from that or so). The new guy was very quick to make things happen for Lord Vader.
So, Lord Trudeau, Lord Chickenshit, Lord Coward — I could go on — after hiding from the protesters, maligning them, calling them Nazi sympathizers and saying anyone who defended them was one as well, has actually gone full Hitler himself and invoked this act “for our safety”.
The “blockade” (not that they actually blocked the streets, but okay) has already been lifted and he's saying they need to keep the Emergencies Act for the full 30 days.
Why?
If the emergency was “Ewww, the working class have come to Ottawa and want to be heard” and that's ended by virtue of police brutality and crackdowns, then why keep the Act powers in place for the full 30 days?
I mean. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure this out.
Chrystia Freeland — descended from a Nazi collaborator, of note, which she knew about and tried to hide for years — has made it clear already that they'll be making some powers of the Act permanent.
Well, she says some.
Our Deputy PM and noted WEF puppet smiled and laughed when she talked about taking away freedoms of Canadians.
They've frozen bank accounts of people involved in the protest or if they THINK they're involved in the protest. The cops have threatened Ottawa business owners for staying open during the protest.
But still, I'm proud of my countryfolk. Lord Chickenshit invoked the EA to stop the protests, and he managed to crack down in Ottawa — but protests have sprung up all across the country.
Coast to coast to coast, Canadians have had it. They are fed up and they want their freedom.
My lefty friends sit on Facebook and think they know the whole story because someone shared a “freedumb” meme and Mr Star Wars Socks himself said the truckers were all Nazis, so it must be true.
But across Canada a movement that is, at core, apolitical is brewing.
You may argue that it's not apolitical, that's very political. But I disagree. I think a movement that is about our freedoms and our Charter Rights is by its very nature apolitical.
Because these are things that should matter to us no matter where we consider ourselves at home on the political spectrum, or if, like myself, we are politically homeless.
No matter what other views you may have, we can unite over this: we deserve our freedoms. They are inalienable, or they should be. And the government has trampled over them long enough.
We're fed up and we're not going to take it anymore.
My friends — current and former, and I'm sure a lot more of the first category there will join the latter before this is over — can malign me all they want, call me a murderer and a plague rat and whatever else. They can call me and other protesters spoiled children having tantrums.
They have freedom of expression, after all.
I hope that at some point, they realize that these protests weren't just for the protesters.
They were for all Canadians. Even the ones that hate us with every fibre of their being.
Especially those ones.
Because if your rights do not apply equally to a person who has declared himself your enemy, then they are not inalienable.
And isn't that the whole point?