... either the constables Sloly supervised were instructed not to intervene, while they stood by and watched rioters smash windows, harass medical workers (our heroes), and hurl all manner of obscenities at members of the racialized communities, or those constables were negligent and committed repeated acts of misfeasance (failure to act) while on duty, or both. Reuters, and others, must immediately turn over the video evidence they collected and reported upon (5 February 2022).
But to whom should the video evidence of offences and police misfeasance be sent? For a discussion of this matter see {below) sections entitled '... the Ottawa Police Service', and the subset of that section: '... the highest echelons of government, military, and law enforcement'
It is noteworthy that just before the white-supremacists show of force began to fizzle out, several Liberal MPs came out in support of the truckers' criminal enterprise. Yes, there are Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin characters, who are Liberals in name only. At least Sinema was censured by the Democrats.
There were at least seven active members of the Canadian Armed Forces identified as active participants in the upheaval in Ottawa. One can but assume that the 'base' recruiter Matthews plied in fertile ground within the Canadian military, and that the new chief of the Ottawa Police Services promise to hunt down every participant in the riots, is more sincere than the military's promised report on the Matthew's matter. Well, is it?
... conduct unbecoming an MP
... the awesome power to fine, is the power to destroy E LaMont Gregory MSc Oxon
... six deplorables, now face ethics inquiries, for conduct unbecoming an MP, which none of them will survive, resignations and by-elections, loom
Five smiling Saskatchewan MPs and Sen. Denise Batters pose to show their support for hate speech brandishing protestors railing against rational COVID-19 public health and safety measures. While, shocked Ottawa residents watch as these same protestors carry Confederate, Nazi, and Trump flags as they parade through the city's downtown core area mere steps from Parliament Hill.
Pictured in the photo, from left to right, MPs Warren Steinley, Kevin Waugh, Andrew Scheer, Sen. Denise Batters, MPs Fraser Tolmie and Rosemarie Falk. (Kevin Waugh/Twitter)
It's a grift ... the axis of evil, Confederate flags, swastikas, and Trump signs
... it is the growing presence of counter protests and the possibility of conflicts between them and supporters of the illegal occupation that are spurring the intervention of those sworn to protect and to serve, that is, to safeguard the right of all Canadians to live free of hate speech and harassment that is bringing an end to the convoy of violence and illiberal hate mongering.
CBC takes giant step into the moral abyss
In an article entitled 'For many inside the Freedom Convoy, faith fuels the resistance' by Jorge Barrera, CBC News, Posted: Feb 15, 2022 4:00 AM ET, the CBC reached a new low, and one might think that was impossible, in its pandering to illiberal supremacists.
Barrera, quotes the subject of his report, parading as investigative journalism, as saying, "Faith led him to Ottawa, and faith is what keeps him there."
First of all, the first two words in the CBC report, "for many...", is factually unsupportable. In fact, the only word that could be used with any sense of intellectual honesty, is not many, but the word, some, at best. And, even with the more honest word, some, there is no evidence that the reporter, Jorge Berrera, was in possession of any statistical facts to support that anyone, other than the person he interviewed, and one or two other people who travelled with him, were on some sort of pilgrimage.
So, Jorge Barrera, faith, as yet to be defined, led your subject to mingle with Confederate flag, Nazi swastika waving, and Trump banner brandishing rioters, who smashed windows, harassed healthcare workers in scrubs, and hurled all manner of slurs towards members of racialized communities, while sympathetic constables stood by and watched, as a man of faith?
If, it were possible, the editors of the CBC, ought to be ashamed of themselves. And, begs the question, what is more important to the CBC than its reputation as fair and objective observers of current events?
Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam, and I'll show you a dirty house.
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The Journal, Sun and CTV news reports on the trucker anti-mandate, so-called 'freedom convoy' event, which appears to be, in part, a major fundraiser for the Medicine Hat based 'Wexit' group, albeit surreptitiously, is ill-informed, at best, and otherwise is just another example of their typical pandering to the illiberal element in Canadian society.
Perhaps, it is a sign of our times that Canadian flag waving supporters of the anti-mandate convoy, are actually funding a group of people who preach hatred and want the split Canada asunder. And, Canadian flag clad participants in the charade, stand shoulder-to-shoulder with hate speech, racial resentment, and anti-Semitism.
Interestingly, the interim Conservative opposition leader, Candice Bergen, has also expressed support for the mask-shunning protesters, who are engaged in a super-spreader event in the midst of a pandemic. Bergen's term in office will be short-lived, and her Marjorie Taylor-Green clone act will also end abruptly, like a candle in the wind.
Candice Bergen can chart another course, but old Harperites cling to the adage that once you know who you hate, everything else makes sense. But, it is the counter protests that are bringing an end to the convoy of violence and hate speech, not the intervention of those sworn to protect and to serve the right of all Canadians to live free of hate speech and harassment.
When the US deployed National Guard troops to Washington DC in January 2021, the FBI interviewed each and everyone of those to be deployed for any ties to militant, white supremacists, or hate groups, among other prohibited organisations. Some of those interviewed were removed from possible deployment, because they were linked to such groups. Each member of the guard also signed a sworn statement of non-association with such groups, or their objectives.
The screening did stop there, the FBI continued its background checks, and after deployment had to remove several dozen (more than 48) members of the guard from the Washington DC deployment, because they had lied, under oath, to the FBI about their association or affiliation with militant, white supremacists, separatists and other hate groups.
GoFundMe, initially in response to donors who were surprised to learn that they were donating to an Alberta-based separatist group, as well as, American and European intelligence agency inquiries, have frozen the millions that the Wexit group raised, so far, pending an investigation, it appears that the source of some of the international donations, have even reached the attention of the post-McFadden CSIS.
What role, if any, the RCMP is playing in these investigations, is a complete and utter mystery.
It should be rather obvious that GoFundMe failed its obligation of due diligence, when we learned that contrary to GoFundMe rules and regulations for setting up an account with their service, which requires that a plan be filed when that account is established, stating in detail as to how the funds will be distributed, and how one qualifies to receive the funds. These plans must, naturally, be in accordance with the stated goal of the GoFundMe account.
No such plan was in place when GoFundMe, contrary to their own rules and regulations, and relevant banking regulations, allowed the separatist group to open the account ostensibly to provide financial assistance to truck drivers who wanted to participate in the super spreader, so-called anti-vaccine mandate freedom convoy event. Simply stated, the separatist hate group took in millions with no plans to assist anyone, whatsoever, other than themselves.
This could not be possible, if there were not separatists hate pandering sympathizers within the upper echelons of the GoFundMe organization. How many other hate groups are GoFundMe helping? An understanding of the chief executives, even that derived from open-source material, of that organization, is revealing.
... the Ottawa Police Service
... the Ottawa police have largely stood by and watched the commission of statutory, hybrid and indictable offences (Reuters, February 5, 2022)
According to reporting by Reuters (February 5, 2022), "Protestors have shut down downtown Ottawa. the Canadian capital, for what was by that date eight days, with some participants waving Confederate or Nazi flags and some saying they wanted to dissolve Canada's government. To the increasing fury of residents, Ottawa police have largely stood by and watched as some protesters smashed windows, threatened reporters and health-care workers, and abused racial minorities."
It seems that Reuters did not get the 21st-century memo, concerning the use of the term racial minorities, which furthers the racialization of racialized communities. To paraphrase the disgraced illiberal Jim Jordan, 'That's Reuters."
Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly, leaves little doubt that he fails to understand the nature of the problem his force faces vis-a-vis the current anarchy in his community, at an emergency meeting of the Ottawa police services board this past Friday, Sloly stated:
"This is a city under siege, this is a threat to democracy, this is a nationwide insurrection, this is madness."
These are not the sober words of a commander able to gather all the pertinent information necessary to lead his forces to meet a challenge.
Ottawa police also warned of a crackdown on the protest and dedicated more officers, but also stated that they do not have enough resources to end the protests.
"We have done our very best." chief Sloly said in conclusion.
If, the constables under Sloly's command and leadership are going to stand by and watch laws being broken, then an increase in their numbers seems superfluous.
These same police services, and we are addressing all 25 chiefs of the largest cities in Canada, have year in and year out peopled their traffic courts with members of the racialized communities, without any judicial review of the extent to which there may be prosecutorial bias in police policy and in policing practices involved. The revenue taken from racialized communities through these policy driven policing practices is, to put it mildly, substantial, that is, a burden placed upon these communities.
And therefore, it is a burden to Canadian society that exists under Constitutional rule of law, which is different from Canadian society as constituted by those who would cast the Constitution, and their sworn oath to hold it, aside.
And yet, in the face of massive traffic offences by non-racialized community members the police stand by and watch, and as such Sloly's resignation was inevitable, and all together fitting and proper.
The fact that serving constables stood by and watched statutory, hybrid and indictable offences being committed is a matter of urgent concern. The fact that serving members of the Canadian Armed Services were active participants in the illegal activities is also a matter of urgent concern. Given the fact that we are still waiting for the result of the case, accused of recruiting for a global neo-Nazi terrorist group while serving in Canada's army reserves, that fled Canada and was subsequently arrested in the U.S..
... the highest echelons of government, military, and law enforcement
... the power to fine, is the power to destroy (E LaMont Gregory)
And, now that our divisive press and media realize that the last horse they championed into the premiership, Jason Kenney, is being relegated to the ash pile of sordid pandemic response history. Our every ready print and broadcast media are trying to warm their slice of the public imagination, to a return of Rachel Notley, a wholly degenerate (lacking normal and desirable moral qualities) and highly repugnant (extremely distasteful and unacceptable) idea.
A rational press and media would call attention to this so-called freedom convoy, and at least caution as to its potential as a super-spreader event, but that would require an informative and responsible position in relation to matters of public health. - in process -
... under the dome, or under the pointed hood, that is the question
the election of Amarjeet Sohi, as Mayor of Edmonton, has propelled Edmonton onto the world stage, and adds to the bewilderment as to how, Alberta's provincial government got the response to the pandemic so horribly and deadly wrong, and being on the world stage has placed politicians, the press, protectives services, the pulpit, & the people under the microscope