Oligarchy’s Response to the Freedom Convoy Bodes Ill for Them

[Kamaji]

Oligarchy’s Response to the Freedom Convoy Bodes Ill for Them

The deposition of Canada’s prime minister is unlikely to be so sanguinary as the Ceaușescus in Romania. But it will be no less definitive.

By Roger Kimball
February 12, 2022

As I write, Canadian police, many dressed in military garb and supported by armored vehicles and snipers(!), are moving in to enforce several court orders and demands of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and others that the “Freedom Convoy” of Canadian truckers stop blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the major artery between the United States and Canada, and disperse. Some of the protestors are leaving while many others are standing their ground.

Will the heavy hand of the state succeed in crushing the protest? In the short term, perhaps.

On Friday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a montage of Canadian and American officials berating the truckers and threatening all sorts of dire retribution should they fail to obey their masters. Carlson was right: the hysterical squeaking of Justin Trudeau, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the other political mannequins was pathetic—a sign of impotence, not strength.

But impotence comes in long-term and short-term varieties. Long-term, I think Carlson is right. Officialdom’s response to the Freedom Convey is a desperate effort to put the genie of liberty back in the bottle. Ultimately, it will not work. But on the way to that failure there will be plenty of opportunities for the coercive power of the state to manifest itself.

As General Mark “White Rage” Milley, the anti-Trump chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put it when commenting on the January 6, 2021 protest in Washington, D.C., “We’re the guys with the guns.” Well, some of them, anyway. Joe Biden was trespassing on the same territory when he said that if you want to take on the government, you’ll need “some nukes and F15s.”

I do not think that is true. In fact, I would say we are rapidly approaching a situation that the columnist Matt Taibbi evoked when he suggested that Justin Trudeau’s response to the Freedom Convey might be his “Ceaușescu moment.” After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the oxygen of legitimacy rapidly went out of Communist dictatorships throughout Eastern Europe. Romania’s Nicolae Ceaușescu was one of the unlucky tyrants. He went from delivering a speech to an angry populace to facing, along with his wife Elena, a firing squad four days later on Christmas Day.

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Source:  https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/12/oligarchys-response-to-the-freedom-convoy-bodes-ill-for-them/

[catfish1957]

Tyrants can only succeed on the fears of their oppressed populous.

The Freedom Convoy may not ultimately succeed in their intent, but the seeds have been sown.  The U.S and Canadian goverments, and most of the world in genreal have overplayed their hand of opression.  People aren't stupid.  they reaize that something that might appear innocuous as Vax and Mask mandates are only trial baloons toward something much more sinister in Government Control of it's people.

I still be believe there will be a pivotal Torch and Pitchfork moment in the next 5 years. And this one will make J6 look like  tea and crumpets.

[sneakypete]

He went from delivering a speech to an angry populace to facing, along with his wife Elena, a firing squad four days later on Christmas Day.

That SEEMS,on the face of it,to be an hysterical proclamation.

Then again,it COULD be as real and as serious as a heart attack if the Canadian Po-Po start using those sniper rifles to open fire on the truckers.

The Po-Po ain't the only ones that have bolt-action rifles,and if push comes to shove,they are outnumbered by a number vastly larger than 100 to 1. Remember,this IS Canada.

By Day Two of a POSSIBLE insurrection,you will see dumpsters filling up with police uniforms as they make for easy target selection.

When,IF that happens,look for Canadian pols to come to America seeking political refuge.

We SHOULD deny it,but Slow Joe and his commie handlers will without a doubt approve it for their comrades.

Which COULD lead to more interesting consequences.