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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by throwaway894345 on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:45PM (#30340260)
Two thirds doesn't seem like a particularly significant majority for such an authoritarian measure, and moreover the masses will always trade principle and liberty for a mere moment of catharsis--that's the whole reason we elect representative politicians: to be the prevailing cool heads who look out for our rights and liberties and not just the emotion of the moment.
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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by malermeister on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:55PM (#30340394)
A small minority has decided to infringe on everyone's right to liberty by occupying their city with heavy machinery.

The pro-liberty move is to get rid of the occupiers.

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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by throwaway894345 on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:09PM (#30340551)
Ah yes, the age-old liberal tradition of using the military to suppress peaceful protest.
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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by lariati on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:01PM (#30342156)
These truckers did nothing other than grease the wheels of authoritarianism anyway.

This is the last real protest in Canada. Next time, these "emergency" powers will either be immediate or these new powers are just new permanent government powers.

2/3rds the citizens will practically be demanding that this never happens again.

A lesson in why Ben Franklin said that democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by throwaway894345 on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:25PM (#30342358)
Greasing the wheels of authoritarianism by peacefully protesting—that seems a lot like victim blaming to me. Something is really wrong if our democracies can’t handle peaceful protest.
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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by malermeister on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:10PM (#30340558)
It's not peaceful. https://twitter.com/travisdhanraj/status/1493281411364700161
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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by throwaway894345 on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:50PM (#30341007)
Admittedly that group of 11 people weren’t protesting peacefully, but one group acting in concert doesn’t indict the wider movement.

On the scope of major protests in the last several decades in western democracies, this one definitely is about as close to the “peaceful” extreme as any have been.

As a society, we should also strive for fairness in our rhetoric. It betrays our credibility to describe a riot which leaves a city in ashes as “mostly peaceful protest” simply because we agree with the cause and then to characterize these protests as “violent” because we don’t agree with them.

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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by nathanaldensr on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:52PM (#30342577)
It's a manipulation of language, and one that is becoming more obvious to more people by the day. Remember, the internet never forgets. Remember when the definition of vaccine was changed? The internet remembers. These tactics don't work anymore.
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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by pkd on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:22PM (#30340693)
The military is explicitly not being used in this measure.
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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by throwaway894345 on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:35PM (#30340834)
The context of the thread:

> Two-thirds of Canadians support military force to end Ottawa protests

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