As Canadian Prime Minister ‘Kim Jong’ Justin Trudeau assumes extraordinary emergency powers to shut down the truckers’ vaccine protest convoy, USA truckers plan a freedom convoy of their own. Will the Biden Administration crack down more harshly than the polite Canadians?
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33 replies on “Will It Happen Here? As Trudeau Amps Up His Powers, Vaccine Protest Convoy Revs Up in USA”
Bill and company… the attached link is to an analysis of what is happening in Ottawa Canada. I have a unique perspective… I am Canadian by birth, then in 1968, naturalized as an American Citizen having crossed the border to enlist in the American armed forces during the Nam war. The link attached will take you to a commentary by Jordan Peterson… perhaps the most articulate and human of beings, a blessing to not only Canada but the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRSyLI15ZCw
Canadian Deputy PM Freeland is on the WEF Board of Trustees.
Watch the head of the WEF explain how they have “penetrated” cabinets.
https://twitter.com/RudyHavenstein/status/1493381707407364097?s=20&t=655rRa8qoBz3QaNraPmc0w
I have some questions that hopefully somebody could answer.
1 – I saw some guy saying he was the hacker of GiveSendGo and he bragged about hacking other sites, such as Parler, Gab, etc., and he supposedly has worked for the Canadian Gov’t. Did he hack it because he’s that way, or could the Canadian Gov’t. have sanctioned it?
2 – If he did it on his own, wouldn’t that information be obtained illegally and usage by “journalists” and the Canadian gov’t also be illegal?
3 – If it was Canadian Gov’t sanctioned, why is Canada hacking US-based businesses? Wouldn’t the US State Dept. or some other Dept. have to sign off on it? Why would they sign off?
I thought of these while I was listening to the episode this morning and I really don’t know the answers. The legality of the hacking seems so capricious to me. I know somebody here will know the answers so I’m hoping they will explain all this.
Thanks in advance.
No “hacker” is going to admit that he’s committing felonies. Unlawful intrusion into a computer system is a felony. Please try not to be quite so naive. The rest of what you asked is more naivety. The person you “saw saying blah blah blah” is a liar. If he’s not, he’s in custody right now so … same result.
I cannot comment on 1 or 3, though ACTS is likely closer to the truth in that a hacker likely wouldn’t be bragging to regular news media.
As to 2, illegally obtained information that reflects badly on the Right is in the public’s need to know and thus may be published without fact checking or other verification, as long as it makes the right Right people look bad. An abandoned journal that makes a drug addled daughter of a presidential candidate look bad was stolen and cannot be used as it represents illegal gains, the person that found it must go to prison and anyone who might have looked at it, tried to return it (and was rebuffed) deserves to have his door smashed in, all of electronics stolen, and private information and information related to a lawsuit “leaked” to said defendant in said lawsuit to publish as appropriate to make him look bad and themselves look better.
Or at least those are the rules we are led to believe exist. It isn’t wrong when WE do it… (which of course goes back to that malice vs stupidity discussion).
Thanks for your response, Karl,
As far as the hacker goes, it wasn’t mainstream media, I first heard about him on “Libs of Tik Tok” on Twitter. I think anyone that would hack and dox people has mental problems prohibiting normal societal function, and I’d imagine that narcissism would be one of those. The guy might be saying it to pursue clout, or he could be stupid enough to brag about it. And TikTok sounds like the perfect place someone like that would be.
I am naive in that I trust people to be truthful, decent and respectful, but I’m willing to admit that living in Japan for the past 20-odd years has probably skewed my threshold for what I consider respect and decency in daily and forum interactions.
I read about the Project Veritas raids when it happened. I’ve been working with a group in Germany recently doing subtitles in English & Japanese for a documentary about Helmuth Hübener and his anti-Nazi resistance group in Hamburg. The raids sounded like what the Gestapo did in Germany. I read the Project Veritas news, then I’d be reading the biographies of the two guys that helped Hübener and read what they wrote about the Gestapo when apartments were raided in their buildings. It sounded exactly the same. Tactically, it’s probably best to do it that way, but the ideology behind it sounded similar, too. It was a double standard then, and it is now as well. Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, one of the Hübener Gruppe’s members, said those days were “when truth was treason.” Looking across the waves to home in the US, it looks like it’s happening there now. FBI = Gestapo? Sure sounds like it sometimes. Fox Mulder’s poster, “I want to believe” isn’t about the paranormal any longer, it’s about believing that there are still honest, decent people in government and governmental organizations. But maybe ACTS is correct and I’m too damn naive.
A number of other people have made the comparison to both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Govt of the USSR.
The other phrased used, especially in relation to knocking in doors (though O’Keefe’s door was not damaged, iirc) is that “the process is the punishment” in that, while you might not get sent to prison, the people in power can arrest you, maybe eventually charge you, though not always, confiscate your stuff, make you go through the procedure to get it back and in general make your life difficult if you are making trouble for those in power.
It is entirely possible that someone could brag about what he did on tik tok. He might think that because he attacked the right kinds of people law enforcement won’t come after him. He might also think he is anonymous enough that they cannot get him. We have seen some people bragging about doing things that did get the attention of the law and others dumb enough to post pictures or video on Facebook containing evidence against them for mugging, theft and other acts of illegal violence.
I would say that something like that would not be sanctioned by the Canadian gov though… they can just obtain the same info via search warrants and orders.
As to expecting people to be truthful… that does work to an extent. People that present anti-social behavior have shown themselves to be not decent people and should not be treated as normal. It seems that more people are becoming infected with the various derangement syndromes and people that would otherwise be considered normal no longer can be. The masking Karens are one example.
Before I say anything else I’m all for the Canadian Trucker’s protest and wish them nothing but success.
Might there be a truckers convoy protest in the US like the one in Canada?
Maybe. Though the impetus for such a thing is rapidly waning as even Blue States lift their mandates and restrictions. But it’s possible.
Might the US Government crack down as hard on such a convoy if it even manages to put itself together?
Not a chance. The Democrats in office know which side of the bread their butter is on. They might be doing some stupid things right now as a result of their Party being hijacked by the Left. However, when push comes to shove a lot of them are going to buck what amounts to political suicide if they’re told to do that. It would be an order to act in a way that goes against their own self interests. In all but a tiny minority of Congressional Districts doing that would not only unseat many of them, it would see them replaced by Republicans.
Which would be a fairly easy thing to do if they insist on Trudeau-like drastic reactions. We’ll start by pointing out that the Democrat Party has not only abandoned its tradition “little guy and labor” base but is now actively working against that base. That will drive former Democrat voters, including the hereditary Democrats, to the polls in droves.
Oh, the Biden Left might try it and if they do they’ll be made to regret it. Whether they’ll admit that regret or not is another matter entirely.
What about a “worst case scenario” sort of situation?
Well, Biden has already threatened to use nukes and jet fighters on his own people —
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-mocks-gun-right-advocates-who-say-assault-weapons-needed-fight-government-2021-6
That sounds pretty “worst case” to me. Ol’ Tater Head Joe said that in response to American gun ownership. Do you think he anticipated peaceful protests using trucks instead of guns? I’m pretty sure the idea never bestirred itself inside his brittle, foggy, demented brain.
Ok, well something less than worst case then …
How about declaring martial law, shutting down banking and cancelling elections until further notice until “the crisis has passed”?
Yeah, that’s what he’ll do, huh?
Nah. Every step in that direction further delegitimizes his administration and the Democrat Party in general. The thing they’re gasping and grasping for right now it to re-orient what is considered legitimate in this nation. They’re not having as much success with that as they would like you to believe. Hence indicators like CNN down to 10% of its former viewership, the Gutfeld! Show cornering the market bumping off all other late night “comedy” shows and a Republican Governor named Glen Younkin winning a traditionally Blue State. Oh, and that state just happens to surround most of Washington DC, BTW.
So do you seriously think they’re going to toss the legitimacy they’ve gained so far out the window by taking a huge, irrevocable step like that? Do you really believe they have the power to do that? Because if you do, you’re thinking like them and their thinking holds onto reality by the thinnest of threads as it is.
I don’t think that will even become an issue because as Scott points out in the video — Truckers are not generally rich people that can just do whatever they want. Many live paycheck to paycheck. It’s a lifestyle as well as a vocation and many of them just enjoy the lifestyle enough to stay seated way up there behind that great big steering wheel. Most don’t own their rigs and drive for someone else. While they may have the choice of routes and sometimes even loads, that’s about as far as it goes. They don’t own the trucks they drive and would be fired the instant the truck they operate isn’t making a profit.
As they should be in a capitalist society. Anything else is just anti-Capitalist so if your sympathies lie athwart Capitalism then you should take a long, hard look at them. Because down that road lies tyranny.
There are owner-operators that own their own rigs, that’s true. Only 9% of the trucks on the road fit that category. Those owner-operators mostly don’t really own their trucks either, the bank does. Because they have loans on their rigs and payments to make. How many of them are likely to toss their career and investment away on a political statement? Probably a lot less than that 9%.
That’s not to say that there aren’t some who will throw caution, prudence and economic stability to the wind and join a Canada-style trucker’s convoy. They’ll make the news if they do that but they won’t make a lot of impact. Do you really think that the Biden Left will trash its political influence over that? I don’t think even the Democrat Left is that stupid and …
I kind of wish they were.
I share your skepticism with a couple of caveats.
First, panic is definitely in the air over the upcoming midterms. When Gavin Newsom suddenly proclaims he has received divine revelation that it’s an endemic now, you know that the panic is at catastrophic levels. The other Blue State Governors who are still holding out will probably follow his lead, but panicky people don’t always act rationally. Their brains just can’t process the fact that loosening up the reins and giving up control is the right move, when they’ve been holding that control so tightly for so long. Most people will do the thing that lets them survive, but some won’t be able to help themselves. They’ll run around grabbing and clutching at stuff as the road to safety bursts into flame. Justin Trudeau is the perfect example. It’s not in his best interest professionally or personally to do what he’s doing, but he can’t seem to get out of his own head and do the best thing for his country.
Second, Leftists have built quite the network of drones. There are legions of people who have Kool Aid stains on their face. They’re the ones like the teachers who still insist that masks save lives. They’re the ones who run corporations that shut down websites, close bank accounts, censor speech and force employees to mask up. They’re the ones who screech at people in elevators or at parents who just want relief for their kids. They are trained to fear. Simply telling them that it’s over and we shouldn’t take drastic steps to keep the status quo in place won’t work. They need deprogramming.
So, while I agree the Left will be stupid and self-destructive if they take these kinds of steps that Trudeau is taking, I think that there will be those who do the stupid stuff, and others who will think they are doing the right thing to save our civilization.
I can’t argue against any of that and I think you’re right. I’m not sure about the actual size of the Legion of Stupids but there’s no doubt that whatever size that group might be, their voice is louder all out of proportion to their actual numbers.
Until we start calling them stupid and humiliating them in public for their stupidity as a nation that’s not going to change. The only thing that can counter their fear is a greater fear of being exposed for the dire, absurd, destructive nuisances they actually are.
For example — Wearing a cloth mask is exactly the same scale as using a chain link fence to keep out mosquitos. If someone in a cloth mask starts screeching in your presence point that out to them and tell them to “follow the science”. Preferably appended with insult about their ignorance. Then walk away. You can’t fix stupid but you can point at it and laugh.
i agree wholeheartedly. No one likes to be publicly shamed, especially in front of people they admire. That’s why Cancel Culture can be so effective at reducing normal people into groveling wretches. The Left has perfected public shaming to an artform, but only because they first set up a system of digital (non-physical and anonymous) platforms where their opinions couldn’t get the face to face scoffing they deserve. Their stupid ideas didn’t get the scrutiny they deserved, and instead they built their fan base of sycophants who didn’t ever hear the other side. Now that they’ve got the followers trained to filter out anything other than the sound of their digital voice, they can spout the ridiculous stuff on display, and be pretty well insulated from real scorn if they choose not to listen to it or see it. I like what Scott did several days ago when his topic was the laughable proposal rolled out by the current Sec. of Transportation, calling for a ‘zero traffic deaths’ campaign. Scott said his comments should have been met with full-on laughter, because the comments were ridiculous. We need to laugh at them more often when they say the things they say, instead of becoming angry and legitimizing their stupidity. When you get mad, you give power. When you laugh, you take it away. Laughter itself is powerful, because it projects that you are able to see the absurdity in what is happening. In that way, it diminishes the power of the evil because it does shame it, in some cases enough into seeing itself for what it is. Think how the situation in Canada would look now if the Parliament would have laughed in Justin Trudeau’s face when he said the emergency should be never-ending. Too many agreed with him, and now I think that country is in for years of doom.
The Left learned this “laughter is power” thing quite some time ago. The sarcastic, deriding, condescending comeback, commonly called a “zinger” has come to dominate their social intercourse.
I even remember back when that took hold. It started showing up in TV shows and movies when I was in primary school. Kids were walking around the playground being smartasses to each other all the time. The more smartassed a kid could be, the more regard they got from the other kids … Except the one(s) being cut down that is.
This resulted in more than a few fights with the smartassed generally coming out on the worse end of a pounding. They didn’t learn even so. Their children are the kind that vote for The Squad of Horrible Harpies today.
Conservatives are generally more serious minded and not prone to that sort of frivolous one-upmanship. We expect people to discuss and treat serious issues in a serious manner.
When they don’t do that and resort to smart-assed derision instead, we get angry. At least I know I do.
Then all the other little twerps go “Ha, ha! He/she really showed you!”
When in fact he/she did no such thing at all.
The funny thing is that the Left has gained the tactical high ground by making its narrative out like it’s “just common knowledge” … Which it doesn’t even come close to. If anything, we hold that high ground by dint of intellect and facts.
We need to realize that and laugh at their absurdities. Not get ticked off, not give them the pleasure of a red faced sputtering “but … but … that’s just not true! The facts are …”. Just give them a zinger back and drop the mic.
I.E. Somehow the topic in a conversation works its way around to say … global warming. This happened recently with a buddy of mine’s wife, a school teacher and notorious Liberal — not a Leftist but libs enable the Left — so it’s best to be wary when talking to them. There were my buddy and several other people present.
The conversation went something like …
Her, “Global Warming is going to kill us all in 12 years blah, blah, blah …” (The usual talking points.)
Me, “I love global warming. When the polar ice caps melt the Gulf of Mexico will flow up the Mississippi River Basin all the way to Minnesota. There will be thousands of miles of new semi-tropical beachfront property. The climate in the US will be moderated by the Gulf Stream in both the interior and on the East Coast. That will sap the power of hurricanes originating in the Gulf of Mexico basin and bring more rain to the Great Plains and up into Canada. Already the rise in C02 has increased crop production by 10%. ”
Her, incredulously, “Where did you get that nonsense?”
Me, “Freeman Dyson, arguably the greatest living mind on Earth since Albert Einstein, who was Dyson’s mentor. Dyson has forgotten more about dynamic systems than most climatologists ever knew.”
Her, (here resorting to her Liberal scoff because she can’t back up her own argument) “How long have you been a member of the Flat Earth Society?”
Me, returning as good as I’m given, “Your scientific ignorance is adorable. Especially for a school teacher. I just love it, please don’t ever change.”
… at which point for some strange reason she no longer felt like discussing climate change. And has never broached that topic in my presence again. Go figure.
I knew the scoff would be coming and I was prepared with more science to continue the discussion until it reared its ugly head. She wouldn’t have liked that because I was presenting information she had not been exposed to, being solely “educated” by the indoctrination of politicized and biased science.
Things like “CO2 is an indicator not a driver, water vapor is the driver and has 95% more influence on climate than CO2 does. Tens of thousands of scientists agree on that, you just don’t hear it because you’re not listening to real science, you’re coloring a political agenda with science-like arguments. That’s not scientific, it’s political and climate is not subject to politics.”
The whole time my posture was “You poor ignorant dear, let me help you.” I was giving her a choice. She could either show us what a great teacher she is by discussing science facts or she could drop back and punt with condescending derision. Condescending derision is capitulation and I was ready for whatever choice she made. It’s not my fault she chose to humiliate herself and I am not required by civility nor social convention to allow her to try to humiliate me.
I laughed at her ignorance and it hurt.
My buddy, her husband, later told me “Wow, that was great. If I tried that I’d be sleeping on the couch for a week so thanks. She had that coming.”
You have to be mentally prepared to meet these people where they live, not where you think they should be. The best way to do that is to never lose sight of their lesser grasp of reality and treat them as such. If they ‘get your goat’ it’s all over and they’ll believe they’ve won.
As to your CO2 being an indicator, not a driver of climate, l like to proposes test that anyone can do. Take a cold carbonated beverage (beer, champagne, pop, seltzer, etc) and put equal amounts in equal glasses. Keep one glass cold. Put the other one in someplace warm (say 90 degrees) for an hour. See which has more “fizz” (CO2). Cold wins. Any gas dissolves in any liquid better when cold. So global warming would send more CO2 into the air. (CO2 is a bigger molecule than oxygen or nitrogen, so it would go out on greater proportion.) I ask “Is higher CO2 levels a cause or result of warming.?” It tends to mess with peoples minds.(Which I enjoy, admittedly too much.)
Good point. The characteristics of dissolved gasses in liquids are well known, scientific paradigms. That is in fact “the science”. It is a known, measurable, common condition that has been a part of real science for a century or more.
If that didn’t work the way it does, and utterly reliably, then we’d all be dead. Oxygen must dissolve in a liquid (blood plasma) and be absorbed, carried and released by hemoglobin, in order for human beings to live. That much science is irrefutable, unequivocal and well understood.
Most of the rabid climate alarmists really know little or nothing of actual science. They are taking the word of those whose positions support their narrative and advance their agenda. This discredits their position entirely but … That never stopped the Left before so there’s no reason to think it will now.
I confess that I too derive an unreasonable and excessive enjoyment from messing with the minds of nincompoops.
Thank you for the information regarding “Give, Send, Go,” as an American/decency alternative to the Leftists!
If the American truckers copy Canada then the FBI will infiltrate in order to incite violence to give the media the excuse to demean the truckers.
Meh … Not too worried about that for more than one reason.
It’s one thing to buy a MAGA hat, some khakis and a windbreaker to cover your sidearm then infiltrate a protest march. It’s a whole ‘nother thing to get your hands on a half million dollars worth of big rig and join a convoy. I have my doubts that there are more than one or two bona fide, badge carrying FBI Special Agents who can even operate a rig like that. It’s not something you just hop in and take off for parts unknown like you would with your family station wagon or pickup truck.
A lot of the truckers in a convoy like that know each other at least in passing. Many years ago I took an OTR job that I worked for two years and put in well north of a half million miles behind that big steering wheel. (My Dad and Grandpa had both been OTR truckers for considerable periods of their lives, I learned from them on their rigs when I was a kid.) It’s not hard to tell the genuine from the fake.
We need to be very careful about laying blame. Especially right now. It’s easy and chickenshit to say the FBI did something that someone else actually did and it’s just as easy and chickenshit to say that someone did something when the FBI is responsible.
I know, I know, it feels good to blame the Feds but … A liar is a liar is a liar. If you blame the Feds and it turns out that you’re wrong, you lose credibility and the confidence of others in what you have to say. Especially those others who are deciding if they should join you or run from you.
If you blame someone else when the Feds are responsible you’re providing just exactly the cover that the Feds want you to give them for free.
All that glitters isn’t gold, not every problem is a nail and you’re the hammer, not every act of political unrest that comes from the Right is instigated by Feds. This is a very difficult time and promises to get worse before it gets better. Discernment, intelligence and wisdom are what we need. Hotheaded, hotblooded rhetoric that’s not factual and provable is counter productive.
6 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.17 Be on your guard … (Matthew 10: 16-17a)
Whether you’re religious or not, that’s some very good advice.
If a list of usurpations this long isn’t going to get American’s going I am not sure what will. I have serious doubts about being able to vote our way out of this as the phrase goes. The Canadian truckers have been about as peaceful as possible and the government has now shut them and anyone who supports them out of society. I am not sure how we can accomplish anything peacefully when Trudeau has essentially declared himself dictator of Canada and large chunks of that country are just going with it.
What you’re bemoaning is Canada, not the US. The power structure is different there than it is here in the United States. It always has been. It follows the British Model which puts much, much more power in the hands of the government. That is true also of Australia, which is practically the exact same form of government that Canada has.
Canadians will tell you they have guns but they don’t. They don’t have them in the same way that we think of firearms ownership here in the US. That’s a really big difference that I hope is not something which must be resorted to but … The fact speaks to the character differences between the US and Canada.
A lot of people think of Canada as though it were some sort of extension of the US. It’s not. Not at all. Not one bit. It’s a sovereign nation that we happen to be (mostly) friends with, share a common language and a lot of interaction but they’re not us and we’re not them.
The US Government doesn’t have the same sort of powers that Trudeau just activated in Canada. Even on our worst day nothing like Trudeau is doing, or Australia with their Covid Concentration Camps, has ever been done in the US.
To do what Trudeau and the Aussie government have done is what you get when you give the government too much power “just in case they need it” without the necessity of getting clearance from something like our three branches of the Federal Government.
Do you really think Joe Biden has the power to declare Martial Law and seize property and financial assets if something like the Trucker’s Convoy happens here in America? I hope you know your own government better than that because he does not.
That’s not to say he absolutely will not try. If he does within days he’s going to be blocked by Congress (even Democrats know better than to slit their own political wrists, at least many of them do.) and challenged in the SCOTUS. Where he will lose on both counts. If he can’t get a sneaky, sly OSHA mandate past those blocking forces he’s going to have even more trouble with something like declaring Martial Law over a peaceful protest and the reaction is going to much swifter and more decisive than the OSHA vax mandate.
If Biden and the Left try something drastic they’re going to have a LOT more to worry about than some trucks parked in inconvenient places. I doubt even the Left has that degree of stupidity but if they do, they’re not going to like the results and I’m pretty sure they know that. They really screwed up by allowing “peaceful protests” that were not peaceful, “defunding the police” and all the rest of the things that are going to come back to bite them in the ass next election. If they’re stupid enough to compound that then they’re stupid enough to face the consequences.
I’m saying all of this because it’s vital we do not feed into the “ignorant hicks in flyover country” narrative of the Left in this nation. If you really want to cripple checks and balances then flying off the handle is the best way to go about it right now.
I 100% agree about Canada I am just trying to say that this would have gone to open rebellion with what is happening here in America a long time ago if we as a people generally had a stronger backbone.
Yes we have elections and yes our government is no where near as strong as Canada’s (relatively, in absolute terms ours is stronger but so are our people) but we haven’t been able to vote our way out of this situation so we need to get a little more direct. I am not talking 1776 come again (yet) but thinking that just because the Demoncrats will loose badly in November doesn’t mean that the gears of power (a lot of which are heald by the deep state not elected officials) will stop crushing us is a bit short sighted. We need to ensure that there are consequences for each and every person who has tried to inflict this nightmare on us.
I am not sure what that entails yet, my personal opinion is Make Tar and Feathers Great Again but I think people smarter than me (aka pretty much everyone on this site) can come up with something better.
Good points all. I’m not saying that a single (or several) huge Democrat loss(es) at the polls will remedy all our problems. It won’t.
Because our problems go deeper than that as you point out.
Bear in mind that something like 95% (a statistic I made up but make no apologies for) of Americans just don’t pay that much attention to politics. Things have to impact them directly before they wake up to what’s going on. The mistake the Democrat party is making right now is in creating that negative impact on the vast majority of Americans.
That’s not the only problem but it does open the door to a non-violent, political solution.
That said, whether or not Americans have the wisdom and the unction to seize that opportunity is very much in question.
Step 1 Hate Crime crime Laws , who can be against that?
Step 2 Expand the definition of Hate to mean mere disagreement with.
Step3 Everyone who disagrees with us is a criminal
Isn’t it amazing that there are no adults at Gofundme to step up at the mere suggestion and say ‘Wait a minute we can’t seize and reallocate the money, that’s stealing’
Not really, since we ceded the schools to these demonic forces they have now filled up company board rooms with true believers. They don’t care if they loose money now if they can just convince the government to mandate them customers in the not so distant future.
Trying to log onto Gofundme now to cancel my account. So far, I’m unable to log on; hourglassing. Makes me wonder if that’s a “good” sign.
I understand that man. Loosing my old email was a blessing in disguise since I used to have accounts in a lot of places like that and now they are just connected to a dead email address.
Trudeau may have the legal power to halt/confiscate cryptocurrency transfers and possibly even confiscate the bank accounts that the money came from, but does he have the physical capability to do so? It was my understanding that the whole purpose of cryptocurrency is that it’s private and untraceable.
I am not intimately familiar with the technology, but if he CAN do that, doesn’t that pretty much negate the whole purpose of cryptocurrency?
For crypto since it is essentially public (for the most part) they don’t need to stop transfers just arrest anyone who uses it. With banks it doesn’t matter if the government itself doesn’t have the capability they just tell the banks (who are generally on their side) to do it and there isn’t much the individual can do about it – aside from runs on the banks before the ban hammer comes down -4chan has recommend that course of action.
So, that is an attack on the endpoint in Canada, the point where crypto is converted back into cash. But Trudeau is threatening to confiscate (or at least freeze) the accounts in America that made the donations. Presumably the Canadian ‘endpoint’ bank would have no way of knowing the source of the individual donations.
It is common knowledge that the donations were originally handled by ‘GoFundMe’, who then refused to cooperate. Then ‘GiveSendGo’ stepped in. They’ve essentially told Trudeau to ‘pound sand’ and that they are not in any way under Canadian jurisdiction. So I don’t see any way (short of GiveSendGo leaking donor information) that Canadian officials could determine who the donors are.
And even if they did, if American banks started confiscating/freezing the accounts of Americans, based upon ‘requests’ from the Canadian government… well, I just don’t see that ending well.
Having deep, open to receive pockets has worked to gain powerful govt. positions in Canada’s past. and in our past. That’s how elections are controlled—by giving traitors a pay day. How much of his own graft does \Trudeau have to hide? Mountains of it I would imagine.
It’s so obvious that the tyrants would try to take the money away and to libel the truckers. Money-making made the govt. who they are. Same goes for King Justine.
I listened to the Trucker’s meeting this morning. Many who were there are wearing the symbols of their service to their country. Bullies like JT have to try to bully righteous MEN WITH CHESTS on which medals of courage and honor are displayed. Good luck with THAT!
This comes after 2 years of “lockdowns” so its the final straw, not just against one mandate……as I understand it……
P*ssing off truckers just does not seem like good idea, and I don’t think that Justin Castreau has thought through what a general strike by the truckers would look like. I remember as a kid reading in Mad magazine something to the effect of, “The only union more feared than the Teamsters Union is the Soviet Union!”
“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes, And Our Sacred Honor.”
The final line of our Declaration of Independence.
We may have to step up to that high order of duty soon.