The Canadian government is now freezing the bank accounts and personal assets of those who donated to support the Freedom Convoy, which is an organized political protest of the vaccine mandates.
One of the many sketchy tactics employed by advocates of covid lockdowns was to insist that we had to choose between two bad options: the first option was to damage the economy with lockdowns. But in that case, we’d be saving countless lives. The second option was to not impose lockdowns. But the experts insisted in that case, the economic devastation would be far worse because most people would be too sick to work at all.
Last Sunday, US regulators suspended avocado imports from Mexico after a US inspector in Michoacán allegedly ”received a threatening message on his official cellphone.”
On February 14, Canadian deputy prime minister and minister of finance Chrystia Freeland announced a government crackdown on the now infamous “Freedom Convoy 2022.” Freeland stated, “If your truck is being used in these illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen, the insurance on your vehicle will be suspended.” The announcement follows Canadian prime minis
While geopolitical commentators are fixated on Russia’s border with Ukraine, a more interesting development is slowly boiling underneath the surface of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that could potentially reorder international relations—namely, the death of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
It has become something of a habit in both the American and Canadian media to insist that the Canadian trucker protest against vaccine mandates is an “illegal protest.” They are “illegal border protests,” one American news affiliate proclaims. Canada’s National Post dutifully refers to the protests in its headlines as illegal acts.
On February 14, Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to crack down on the peaceful truckers’ protest in Ottawa. The Emergencies Act became law in 1988, and it has never been used until now. The act contains
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By David Graeber and David Wengrow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
Xii + 692 pages
