Is the Emergencies Act a terrorist-financing act? Or is the financing statute within it simply only scoped for terrorism? (I'm just going off the names. Emergencies Act sounds like a Swiss army knife law.)
In any case, thought the original claim that "Canada listed the freedom truckers as a terrorist group" was B.S., and appreciate your confirming as much.
Covid brought out authoritarian regimes in Canada and the US. We should have investigations and prison time for many of these leaders, but instead we have boot lickers like you that outright deny it happened it the first place.
I now see how the Nazis took over Germany so easily.
By listing them as a terrorist group. Like they have the IRGC.
There is legitimate criticism of Ottawa's crackdown on freedom truckers. But that doesn't make untrue statements true. Like, warantless surveillance is a problem in America. That doesn't make every derogatory comment about the IC true, and rejecting those untrue statements a defender of warantless surveillance one does not make.
I find analogy in how people who were hysterical with the data on climate change undermined, in the long run, public trust in those data. Echo chambers work in the short run, but they corrode in the long.
> see how the Nazis took over Germany so easily
The Nazis' Big Lie was in the Weimar Republic being illegitimate. (Lying, and then making anyone who corrects the lie out as an enemy of the party was another common tactic.)
Re: "The Nazis' Big Lie was in the Weimar Republic being illegitimate. (Lying, and then making anyone who corrects the lie out as an enemy of the party was another common tactic.)"
Perhaps the big lie, starts as, that the Freedom Convoy are dirty Nazis - having the leverage and reach, power, of the state-funded media like CBC et al - to propagate and train-teach people to believe that, to then avoid anyone associated with the Freedom Convoy - or
For example, have you heard about the National Citizens' Inquiry and testimonies that have been being collected, on video and published, starting in 2023 and continuing in 2024? These testimonies include whistle blowers from various Canadian government institutions [medical and otherwise] - and also CBC - as well as those who were harmed/permanently injured by the COVID mRNA shots [and gaslit by the government institutions]: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/
Sure. They were treated like terrorists. They weren’t listed as a terrorist group.
This wouldn’t be material out in the open. But in response to an article about another entity actually being listed as a terrorist group, it’s a false equivalence. (In the way saying, in general, sugar and Splenda are basically the same thing is fine, but in response to an article about the health effects of Splenda it’s not.)
Maybe reply to them and link my comments so they'll be at least aware there's a more thorough explanation-history shared with them?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734834 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734859