On February 1, 2020 had somebody asked you to pick the country whose citizens would mount a mass protest against government tyranny that would spark a worldwide movement,
and which country would zoom from freedom to tyranny in something like zero to sixty in three seconds,
Note: you can’t play this as it has, of course, been taken down.
I’ll bet your pre-lockdown answers would not have been, respectively, Canada
and Australia.
The new rule was introduced by the Western Australia government, not the supermarket chain
Note bene: Australia’s dictates have nothing to do with “health.” This mechanism is intended to reward compliance and punish non-compliance. It’s not even subtle anymore, their “incentivizing” their citizens to behave as they wish is simple in-your-face tyranny. This week it’s alcohol, next week medical care and the following food and fuel. That is how tyrants work and if you don’t think it could ever come to that go back and read some more history.
But for the record, you - and I - would have been wrong in our 2020 predictions. I might have guessed it the other way around but not as it actually played out. The only thing that I would have forecasted correctly 2 years ago was that no matter how it turned out the media, as usual, would side with power and against the people:
Disdainful media, of course, spent days warning of violence to come and searched supporters’ messages for evidence of racism. “ ‘So many angry people’: Experts say online conversation around trucker convoy veering into dangerous territory” read a CTV News headline. CBC, Canada’s PBS and NPR, called Saturday’s protest “a raucous demonstration that has police on high alert for possible violence even as organizers urge the crowd to be peaceful.” Police said that night that “no incidents of violence or injuries” were reported and no protesters faced charges.
The elite media also paint the protesters as stupid hicks, claiming they don’t understand that provincial governments all have restrictions that Ottawa can do nothing about. But Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe told truckers he supports their “call to end the cross border ban on unvaccinated truckers” and announced his government will soon “be ending our proof of negative test/proof of vaccination policy in Saskatchewan.”
As somebody with the Truck Frudeau movement noted, Justin should stop worrying about the truckers coming, and start worrying about what happens if they don’t.
Parting shot:
Workers of the World Unite: This Time Against the Socialists/Communists! They think your life is theirs to rule and will not stop until we stop them.
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