This comment is exactly why we need Charter Rights the government can't easily suspend. The utter lack of understanding of why these protections are needed is astounding. I wonder what they are teaching the kids in school.

The government (and voters) won't hesitate to call the opposition "terrorists" and claim donating $5 to a cause is "supporting terrorism" and freeze your bank account so you can't pay rent or buy food.

It's really scary. This time it's the other side, next time it's you.

From what i understand, a significant portion of those people would have had their bank accounts frozen from civil lawsuits anyways. So even without the emergencies act it was likely to happen anyways.

> This time it's the other side, next time it's you.

First they came for the violent criminals, and i did not speak up because i wasn't a violent criminal... oh wait i'm actually totally ok with that.

A donation to a cause is now a "violent crime"?

It doesn't seem like anybody who donated had anything happen to them.

However, generally speaking people who give money to someone in order to further a criminal act are comitting a criminal act. This is hardly a new concept.

Blowing horns is a violent crime? No, wait. Donating to people blowing horns is a violent crime?

If the horns are loud enough to cause permenent hearing loss, than yes (these weren't just car horns). Allegedly they were significantly above that threshold, even from inside buildings.

There's also mental torture aspect of doing it 24/7 (literally a tactic used in war to break troops).

Additionally people living in the area reported experiencing significant harrasment from protestors.

If people don't educate themselves on why the government acts against others, then when the government acts against them, who will listen to their cries?

> terrorists

Right, honking horns and blocking roads is pretty much the same as setting off bombs and murdering people for political ends.

They were torturing civilians in order to extract political concessions from the government. It's not called murderism.