Before Jonah Goldberg was infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome, he wrote a book called Liberal Fascism. It’s very long, it’s very dry, but, still worth the read. In it he calls Progressivism “nice Fascism.” It doesn’t mean they’re nice, it means they’re doing this for your own good. Oh, and the Fascism part. Here’s the Canadian Globe and Mail
The Ottawa truck convoy has revealed the ugly side of freedom
During the truck convoy protests, we have watched banners demanding “freedom” waving over big rigs parked in front of Parliament. But what does this vaunted “freedom” mean?
The answer is, everything and nothing.
Everything: the right not to wear masks in public places; the right not to be vaccinated; the right to hold Ottawa’s downtown residents and businesses hostage; the right to malign public officials and call for the Prime Minister’s death; the right to shout epithets at people of colour.
And nothing. Because freedom is an empty word unless you ask further questions: “Freedom from what?” “Freedom to do what?” And beyond that, “Where do my freedoms end and the freedoms of others begin?
Freedom is not absolute. We live in a social matrix, where one person’s exercise of freedom may conflict with another person’s exercise of freedom. Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states this plainly. The Charter gives Canadians a bundle of rights and freedoms. But it prefaces them with this caution – these rights and freedoms, precious as they are, are not absolute. Governments, it proclaims, can limit freedoms, provided the limits are “reasonable” and can be “justified in a free and democratic society.”
Once again I’ll note that those freedoms, specifically speech, protest, and redress of grievance, are specifically meant to be about being able to do that against government without fear of reprisal, just like here in the U.S. And every single one of these people running around hating on the Freedom Truckers and cheering on cops acting like the Stasi, and things like
BREAKING: Tamara Lich, one of the key organizers of the protests in Ottawa, has been denied bail.
An Ontario court judge said she was not convinced Lich would not reoffend. pic.twitter.com/HDLDNSOKNe
— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) February 22, 2022
keeping her in jail because she might fundraise for protesters again, and
.@JustinTrudeau's deputy tells Canadians the only way to get their bank accounts "unfrozen" is to stop protesting the government. pic.twitter.com/n3ieSOLG5c
— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) February 21, 2022
That’s some stuff that would get organized crime prosecuted. This is what the lefties in Canada and the U.S. are cheering.
(Breitbart) Most Americans disagree with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the Canadian freedom truckers in his country, but a majority of Democrats support his protest crackdown, a Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday found.
“Do you approve or disapprove of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the trucker protest in his country?” the survey asked.
Overall, it found 55.3 percent disapproving, compared to 35.1 percent who approve and 9.6 percent who are unaware of it.
Notably, there is a significant partisan divide, as 87.3 percent of Republicans disapprove of Trudeau’s handling of the protest, but 65.7 percent of Democrats approve of it. Most independents, 74.4 percent, disapprove.
Those who support the government crackdown, acting like a repressive government, should remember that they the next ones on the chopping block could be them. Democrats spent 4 years calling Trump literally Hitler. A Fascist. A dictator. And now they’re throwing their support behind government repression. Look at the top of the blog. Look at that tag line: if we don’t believe in freedom of speech for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.