Like how we freeze bank accounts of protesting truck drivers and "right wing extremists"? We should be blushing, as imitation is a form of flattery. Or are we going to pretend to be shocked and appalled here, because it's only okay when we do it?
There are many crimes for which freezing ones bank account is a pretty good idea. On the list of crimes that this is an inappropriate punishment would be: refusing to wear a piece of fabric on your head for the arbitrary reason that some book says it should be so.
I want the punishments to fit the crime. I'm okay with murders going to jail. I'm not okay with jay walkers going to jail.
> refusing to wear a piece of fabric on your head for the arbitrary reason that some book says it should be so.
What abouts (not) wearing pants and underwear infront of children?
> I want the punishments to fit the crime. I'm okay with murders going to jail. I'm not okay with jay walkers going to jail.
How do you know someone actually commited murder? Shouldn't there be a process, with investigations, lawyers, proof, judges, juries, etc. first?
It’s still seems crazy to lose money because your hair is destabilizing to society.
It’s okay for other cultures to think that it seems crazy to punish someone for showing hair.
Most Iranian women (and Muslim women in general) support the hijab law. Not all do of course, but to claim that women are opposed to this is not true. And of course there are those who support wearing a hijab, but oppose the penalty.
And what makes you think truckers were OK with a law banning protests that block a bridge? I suspect truckers have never been OK with a law limiting their protests, it just never came up before.
I'm Canadian
The thing that really scared the shit out of all my peers wasn't punishing people, it was the locking bank accounts and taking money from people with absolutely no due process at all.
No trial, no charges, just government doesn't like you, you're money is now gone.
This is a line that had never been crossed before and instantly hurt Canada's reputation on the world stage. I had friends from the Bahamas, not FTX related:) and Europe reach out on the day after it went public to ask what the hell is going on with Canada.
It was a huge black eye for Canada.
I know alot of people who immediately sent money out of the country, to the US, crypto, to foreign realestate.
I'm still proudly Canadian, but the harm our government did by taking money with absolutely no judicial oversite can not be overstated.
We used to be a country of laws, the government just set the precedent that they no longer need courts.
I still live here, have assets here and pay taxes here, but governments bypassing the courts and taking peoples assets with no oversite is a line that just should never have happened.
And to be clear, I wasn't happy about the convoy and I do think that blocking border crossing was something that shouldn't have happened, but the police should have dealt with it, not the government by reaching into peoples accounts and taking money from them without a court order.