Despite their denials, Western leaders did make a promise to the USSR that NATO would not expand to Central and Eastern Europe when Moscow agreed to Germany’s reunification, Willy Wimmer, a former vice president of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has claimed in an interview with RT
And in Canada, we were promised a Charter of Rights.
ReplyDeleteThere were absolutely promises made by Bush 42, James Baker, other members of the Bush Administration and European officials. No treaty was signed, but promises were made that Clinton broke. Anyway, treaties are broken all the time. Look at Trump and INF, etc. Contracts are broken, too. A promise is a promise. And the US broke it unilaterally and not some condition where both US and Russia wanted to negate it.
ReplyDeleteUnder Canadian law, we have a charge of counselling a crime which gives you the same penalty as if you committed the crime yourself. To wit:
ReplyDeleteCounselling offence that is not committed
464 Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, the following provisions apply in respect of persons who counsel other persons to commit offences, namely,
(a) every one who counsels another person to commit an indictable offence is, if the offence is not committed, guilty of an indictable offence and liable to the same punishment to which a person who attempts to commit that offence is liable; and
(b) every one who counsels another person to commit an offence punishable on summary conviction is, if the offence is not committed, guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
source: Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)
So while Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives Canadians the right of peaceful assembly, the same Charter gives the right to gain a livelihood, which the so-called Freedom Convoy is preventing. Because of that, contributing money for example to someone blocking a road will get you the same penalty as if you blocked the road yourself. The same for encouraging others to block roads.
In any event, martial law overrides all of that.
As an aside, we have a bigger problem now with eco-terrorism.
Trudeau ignores REAL violent terrorism: 20 eco-terrorists armed with axes surround Gaslink pipeline workers, shoot flare guns at them and cut fuel lines in British Columbia - causing MILLIONS of dollars in damage
The Charter of Rights doesn't give workers the right to strike, as that might bring down a government.
ReplyDeleteWe were promised a Charter of Rights and received a roll of toilet paper.
What if someone blew up the Ambassador Bridge?
ReplyDeleteWould that qualify as economic terrorism?
...the same Charter gives the right to gain a livelihood...
ReplyDeleteExcept when there's a vaccine mandate, or unemployment, or when you support someone the government disapproves of.
Not even 2-ply toilet paper.
You're right, but two wrongs don't make a right.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention that in Ottawa, the truckers were honking their horns throughout the night. Lack of sleep causes traffic accidents, workplace injuries, etc. Imagine a doctor that had to do brain surgery the next day, unable to sleep.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean granted a temporary 10-day injunction Monday, banning the horn honking and air horn blowing that has echoed through downtown Ottawa since demonstrators arrived in the city on Jan. 28. The ongoing noisy protest has interfered with “citizens’ right to quiet,” he said.
The plaintiff in the case is 21-year-old downtown resident, Zexi Li. In his evidence, Champ said Li has measured the noise in her apartment at more than 80 decibels, which he likened to “having a lawn mower running in her living room, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” Others have registered noise at street level in excess of 120 decibels when so called “train horns” are sounded.
While Li is the only one named in the case, the $9.8-million class action is open to as many as 6,000 downtown residents who live in or close to the demonstration’s “red zone.”
Incidentally, this is no longer a rhetorical issue for Americans, as the Freedom Convoy is heading their way. I wonder how they'll deal with it.
Capitol perimeter fence erected after January 6 riot will be REINSTALLED ahead of Biden's State of the Union address on March 1 as the truckers' Freedom Convoy heads for Washington
The alternative would have been for Trudeau and other members of parliament to meet with the protest organizers. Instead of calling them names.
ReplyDeleteThe federal mandates are pointless, as are the travel bans. There's no excuse for not negotiating an end to them.
That class action suit should name Trudeau as the defendant.
A lot of these protest organizers belong to hate groups. Search their backgrounds and you will see that. Here is the key to understanding hate:
ReplyDelete“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.” — Ibn Rushd, Averroes: Antologia
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale
“Fear always springs from ignorance.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” — Titus Livius (Livy)
So no, it's not just vaccines they're afraid of.
The ‘Freedom Convoy’ Is Nothing But A Vehicle For The Far Right
They say it is about truckers, and have raised over $6 million dollars on GoFundMe. But if you look at its organizers and promoters, you’ll find Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, and incitements to violence.
In the past King has gone on record about his feelings about the “Anglo-Saxon replacement,” that plans to “flood [Canada] with refugees,” and subvert the education system -- a thin rebranding of the great replacement theory touted by ethnonationalists.
At other points, King has expressed overtly racist and antisemitic statements. In a 2019 stream about the then-upcoming federal election King complained that he had to leave the movement due to their lack of success: “[The election] won’t matter…unless you want to change your national language to Chinese or Mandarin or Hebrew,” and going on to compare Chinese names to the sound of change falling down stairs.
He’s publicly distorted established facts about the Holocaust – a form of Holocaust denial – saying, “I do know that the Holocaust [sic] was reduced to 1.5 million and not the 6 million that it was said to be.” He then invoked the antisemitic conspiracy theory that the Jewish people are secretly in control of world governance, media, and finances: “The questions have been asked several times to the ADL and the Jewish government and communities. We have Jewish world [bankers] who are dictating our government policies and controlling our Politicians.”
They say the Jews control the world. That's funny. I'll make a separate post.
Fox News Interview With Yasser Arafat
ReplyDeleteA quote from the interview:
COSBY: Are you worried about being assassinated by your own people, by extremists?
ARAFAT: Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.
Nice try at deflection, but the demands of the Freedom convoy were reasonable and concise. Get rid of the mandates and allow Canadians to travel, as "guaranteed" in the Charter of Rights.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to tar the protest with an extremist tag, then lets do the same with people who have names like Ahmed. They're nothing but a bunch of jihadists, and apologists for the Trudeau Liberals.
4 charged with conspiracy to murder after raid on Coutts blockade
ReplyDeleteEleven people involved in the Coutts border blockade were before a court Tuesday facing various weapons and mischief charges — and three among them were also charged with conspiracy to murder.
Two more individuals were later named with charges, including one more with conspiracy to murder.
The charges follow an early morning raid on Monday where RCMP found a cache of 13 long guns, handguns, body armour, large amounts of ammunition and high-capacity magazines in three trailers.
Also, I just saw this on a Reddit post:
If there is a single Nazi flag at your event, and the
guy who brought it doesn't immediately get the
shit kicked out of him, you're at a Nazi event.
The Coutts blockade will be credited with ending Alberta's restrictions. Bad boys will be bad boys, peaceful protestors will return home as heroes.
ReplyDeleteWe were probably about two months away from ending the restrictions in Alberta because while cases were rising, ICU numbers were falling. The protests pushed the date forward by about a month.
ReplyDeleteSo they can take credit for ending restrictions a month sooner than would have otherwise been the case.
Freedom Convoy DC trucker reveals plans to clog capital's vital Beltway interstate and likens impending protest to ‘a giant boa constrictor that squeezes, chokes and swallows'
ReplyDelete^ Nice. Lets see if Brandon goes full Trudeau on them.
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