Trudeau BTFO by German MEP
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The right wing will criticize Trudeau on his actions surprising nobody. We can ignore them.
The important distinction is that left-wing folks also criticized and denounced Trudeau. Bernie Bros, Antifa, etc all opposed. The only people who seem to not criticize Trudeau tyranny are the Canadian left. Why?
Canadian media represented the protest as nazi confederates looking to overthrow the government. This absolutely absurd story got the international media on the ground. Who saw the truth. Only the Canadian media saw this protest as a bunch of nazis and racists. CBC literally called for the denazification of the protest. People like Bill Maher literally called Trudeau Hitler. Russel Brand is much the same.
Then you have Trudeau calling a jewish MP a nazi. He was called Hitler right before he did that...
Then suddenly Putin invaded Ukraine to denazify the jewish president. Everyone saw what happened. Everyone has been super confused why Canada has been getting actively excluded from diplomacy. We now know why.
Ultimately none of this matters. Nobody cares that 90% of the EU walked out on Trudeau.
What does matter is the precedent that the right wing does not have the right to protest. They will declare a national emergency and crush our protests. They will charge us with petty vague crimes like mischief to remove our charter right to protest.
Do you know why this is a disaster? Why peaceful protesting should be protected and not be made illegal.
Because when peaceful protests are not legal, like is the current case, we must resort to other options. Is Canada ready for those other options?
Got any links?
If you want something specific you'll need to ask. To note: these are leftist folks denouncing Trudeau. There's ample videos from right-wing folks or centrists calling out Trudeau. No need to share those. I provide leftits sources to show that this is a huge problem.
NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/opinion/ottawa-trucker-protests.html
NYTimes: We disagree with the protesters’ cause, but they have a right to be noisy and even disruptive. Protests are a necessary form of expression in a democratic society, particularly for those whose opinions do not command broad popular support. Governments have a responsibility to prevent violence by protesters, but they must be willing to accept some degree of disruption by those seeking to be heard. Entertaining the use of force to disperse or contain legal protests is wrong.
By NYTimes own words, they assert what Trudeau did was wrong. They are right.
Vaush-Antifa: https://twitter.com/vaushv/status/1493511896351211520?s=21
Jimmy Dore-Bernie Bro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AK1b9Cx_QY
Please note: Jimmy Dore's video talking about Putin. This was pre-war. When the war actually happened, it made Trudeau's tyranny that much worse.
One of Russel Brands' videos: https://youtu.be/WUdg-qn7WjE
Bill Maher calling Trudeau Hitler before Trudeau even pulled the trigger on the emergency act: Bill Maher called Trudeau hitler BEFORE he crushed a legitimate protest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i72czkSUsM
Trudeau calling a Jewish lesbian politician a nazi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-GrEc5Kv0
I'm sure I could provide many more links. What's important or what I'm trying to show. It's not just some right wingers opposing Trudeau. It's the entire political spectrum.
It's a hard pill to swallow but we have a tyrannical government. The Canadian media is publishing propaganda. Nobody would have guessed this would ever happen to Canada but it has. Peaceful protest is now illegal. As the NYTimes says, Protesting is a necessary form of expression in democracy. Since Trudeau and Singh made protest illegal.
We now must look at the consequences of this reality.
I can't read your Feb 10 NYT editorial board's opinion piece because I don't have an account, ...
but since the opinion piece is from Feb 10 and Trudeau didn't invoke the Emergencies Act until Feb 14 you can't really claim NYT disapproved of that action, can you? They say protesters can be disruptive but they aren't asked to say if there's a limit to that disruption. On Feb 20 the NYT printed this article and it doesn't doesn't criticize Trudeau at all: https://www.nytimes.com/article/canada-trucker-protests.html
I don't know Ian Kochinski (Vaush) but no one should be surprised that a libertarian market socialist (https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Vaush) would be upset by a government crackdown. They don't believe in government period.
Are you sure Dore is still a Bernie Bro? The Internet tells me he's a bit of a fascist now (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/29/dore-j29.html). If he has switched then you have a point - I thought fascists were in favour of strongman governments.
He doesn't sound like a Trudeau supporter at the best of times. He is so far left no doubt Trudeau looks right to him. He believes in "A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, [with] heavy taxation of corporations...I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced...I say profit is a filthy word, because wherever there is a profit there is also a deficit." https://web.archive.org/web/20201111191127/https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2013/no-1312-december-2013/russell-brand-attacks-capitalism/
"I am not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations now, and which has now reached fever pitch, where we have a disenfranchised, disillusioned despondent underclass that are not being represented by that political system. So voting for it is tacit complicity with that system. And that’s not something I’m offering up." https://web.archive.org/web/20170809091429/http://www.newlistener.co.uk/home/russell-brand-with-jeremy-paxman-on-newsnight/
I think I'll call that hyperbole for now. The comparison to Hitler will be more apt when Trudeau starts building big ovens and rounding up people to put on trains.
Let's stay in the real world, shall we? What he said was "Conservative party members can stand with people who wave swastikas", and it was Conservative members of parliament who were out there for photo ops with the protesters.
No, it's largely vocal right wingers. "Two-thirds of Canadians support use of Emergencies Act and want Freedom Convoy cleared out: poll" https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/two-thirds-of-canadians-support-use-of-emergencies-act-and-want-freedom-convoy-cleared-out-poll. Two thirds of Canadians did not vote for him but two thirds of Canadians supported him on this.
Too young to remember the use of the War Measures Act, eh?
Now you're getting hysterical. I've spent every weekend for three months visiting at a hospital within spitting distance of Queens Park, and for a lot of those weekends there were hundreds and sometimes thousands of protesters in the street there. The protesters were so thick one time my normal 25 minute drive home took 2 and a half hours, that's how many people were out. All I ever heard of in the way of arrests was one guy for a smoke bomb and another one for throwing shit at someone.
So calm down.