THREE PROTESTS AND A TRIAL:
an exposé in photographs
I’m writing this on a very bumpy train back to Ottawa for more trial coverage this week. Are all trains in the world like this or does VIA not believe in track maintenance? Still, better than driving and competing with all those murderous plain white vans, in contract to Amazon, clogging our highways and upticking road fatalities. Yes folks, all those logo-less white trucks sneaking around your ‘hood are under contract to Bezos. If you knew how many are out there dangerously hogging our highway infrastructure — you would never shop at Amazon again. Well, you would swear to that and then give-in a week later, like I always do. But I do avoid highway driving at all costs. I’ve dodged too many safety bullets in my life to take the chance my number won’t finally come up. Train is better but bumpy as hell.
It’s hard to follow this trial, even when in the courtroom. First, there were rumours it was going to be shorter which I believed, given the Crown’s troubles with logging and entering evidence. And we still don’t know exactly what Justice Heather Perkins-McVey is going to allow in. I thought, personally it could end any day. But now I’m hearing another week has been added.
I’ll try and get it sorted before I head back to Toronto mid-week for an event with Robert Malone who I haven’t talked to for ages. His popularity took off like a rocket and he has become a sort of Covid-dissident rockstar who is flown around the world to speak to people who afford him their rapt attention. Like Bobby Kennedy Jr., Malone moved the needle. We were one of the first podcasts to interview him and for a while it was our highest rated episode. Anway, I like to show up for people when I can and occasionally I get to meet some of you, which makes it even better.
Joe Warmington wrote a really smart piece last week about the irony of an Eritrean protest in Ottawa — unfolding with the help of police who blocked streets while Tamara and Chris are on trial nearby — also for blocking streets. The irony was not lost on Tamara’s counsel or The Sun. Here is an excerpt:
Hypocrisy seems to be the hallmark of Western politicians and their governments right now and here in Canada there are times when it is on full display and this is one of them. As I ready myself for another day of observing and notetaking — ponder the following picture.
Photo One: Tamara Lich is arrested for Freedom Convoy protest in 2022.
Photo Two: Police block streets for Eritrean Protest in Ottawa last week.
Photo Three: Prime Minister Trudeau takes a knee for Black Lives Matter after weeks of violent protests in the US.
Off to the courthouse after my morning coffee. I’ll Tweet and post them here, later.
Stay critical.
Yes, the hypocrisy is quite astounding. And now we get the latest revelations that while the government was claiming Jeremy MacKenzie's Diagolon -- was the group behind the Coutts arrests, we find out that RCMP intelligence reports indicated, back in February of 2022, that Diagolon posed no criminal or national security threats. It also questioned the veracity of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network's depiction of Diagolon as a far right militia group with revolutionary ideals--which of course, is what the government and the mainstream media went with. For the government to help justify its invocation of the Emergencies Act, and the media to echoed it. There are still four men locked up in Alberta remand centres because of this subterfuge. It is all in the Hate-Gate report released by Caryma Sa'd, which outlines a very deep dive into the workings of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.
Happy to hear everyone’s take on Malone.