‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters facing ludicrous – Latest News
According to Canada’s prime prosecutors, the one factor worse than tyranny is “mischief.” And the worst doable “mischief” is objecting to tyranny.
In a sentencing listening to earlier this week, the Canadian authorities sought a ludicrous eight-year sentence for Chris Barber, one of the leaders of the Covid “Freedom Convoy” protest that riled Ottawa in early 2022. For one other chief, Tamara Lich, the Crown requested for an outlandish seven years.
In April, a courtroom ruled that Barbers and Lich weren’t guilty of obstructing police or intimidation during the demonstrations. But they had been convicted of “mischief” — partially as a result of the truckers within the 40-mile convoy honked their horns to protest some of essentially the most oppressive Covid mandates on the planet.
Canada’s truck drivers protested a vaccine mandate in early 2022. REUTERS
Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher justified the tough jail sentences saying “it’s difficult to imagine an offense of mischief with greater impact.”
Ironically, that was the identical method that many truckers felt in regards to the Canadian authorities’s Covid mandates. And now Canadian prosecutors are hounding the previous protestors, pretending that a Canadian decide didn’t raze their whole legal home of playing cards a yr in the past.
From the beginning of the pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acted as if Covid entitled him to absolute energy. Anyone who refused to get the authorised Covid vaccines was castigated as a public enemy.
Tamara Lich was one of the leaders of the “Freedom Convoy.” REUTERS
Trudeau responded to the trucker protest by invoking the Emergencies Act, successfully dropping a legal nuclear bomb on his opponents. Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced that the federal government was “broadening the scope of Canada’s … terrorist-financing rules so that they cover Crowd Funding Platforms and the payment service providers they use.”
The Trudeau authorities didn’t formally redefine horn-honking as a terrorist offense however that didn’t impede their crackdown. Banks had been licensed to freeze the personal accounts of anybody suspected of donating to the truckers.
The Covid vaccines had been catastrophically failing to stop infections on the identical time Trudeau dropped an iron fist on anti-vax protestors. Almost 90% of Canadian adults had been vaccinated by the beginning of 2022 as Covid instances had been hovering, setting information virtually each week. Even although he was vaxxed and boosted, Trudeau himself got here down with Covid during the trucker protest.
At the tip of July, Lich attended a sentencing listening to for her function within the protests. The Crown requested that she be sentenced to seven years. REUTERS
Trudeau pretended that no Canadian had a proper to not get injected as a result of he personally proclaimed that the Covid vaccine was protected. But the rushed approval course of ignored potential hostile unwanted effects. (The Food and Drug Administration now requires formal warnings about Covid vaccine dangers of pericarditis — stabbing chest pains — and myocarditis.)
In January 2024, Canadian federal decide Richard Mosley ruled that Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act had been unreasonable, unlawful and unconstitutional. Trudeau’s rules “criminalized the attendance of every single person at those protests regardless of their actions.” The decide slammed “the absence of any objective standard” for freezing bank accounts, however the courtroom determination offered no aid for any of the victims whose bank accounts had been unjustifiably seized or whose freedom and privateness was shredded.
America noticed related absolute immunity for politicians who fueled worry and fabricated emergencies to grab absolute energy, together with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous decree forcing nursing houses to just accept Covid sufferers, President Joe Biden’s unlawful vaccine mandate for giant personal firms and Covid Czar Tony Fauci’s presidential pardon for sending U.S. tax {dollars} to the Wuhan Institute of Virology that killed 7 million people worldwide.
The Canadian authorities sought an 8-year sentence for Chris Barber (heart). AP
The persecution of trucker protestors is a stark reminder of the two-class system that permeated the pandemic in Canada and the U.S. There had been no true “lockdowns.” Instead, the laptop computer class and officialdom stayed home and loved full wage, whereas the comparatively downtrodden delivered their groceries, fancy meals, and limitless knick-knacks from Amazon.
But all these doorstep deliveries had been forgotten when the Canadian political and media elite teamed up to vilify any citizen who didn’t undergo official instructions. All the judicial precedents established since THE Magna Charta CARTA? had been virtually expunged by a ruling class that justified even Quebec’s idiotic Covid decree prohibiting people from leaving their houses at night time
Perhaps the best punishment for the 2 Canadian trucker protest leaders could be to televise them standing in entrance of a blackboard the place they write a hundred instances: “I’m sorry I objected to tyranny.” An even more apt punishment could be to compel all of the Canadian politicians and officers who enforced oppressive Covid insurance policies to put on ashes, sackcloth, and a signal: “I’m sorry for my tyranny.”
Is a little “mischief” the one strategy to get politicians to heed a Constitution?
James Bovard is the writer of 11 books, together with “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty.“
