In the 1999 cult film “Fight Club,” a character named Robert Paulson was shot by police (details here). On Jan. 6, 2021, a rumor circulated on Twitter that a woman named Roberta Paulsen had been shot at the U.S. Capitol. While the incident was true (and widely covered by media), the Capi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Protests’
February 20th, 2022 - 12:37 am § in Politics
B.S. Alert: Ottawa police horse didn’t trample elderly woman
February 14th, 2022 - 9:14 pm § in Politics
Why is this needed for peaceful protest?
“Alberta RCMP submitted this photo of what they say is a cache of firearms and ammunition found in three trailers near an ongoing blockade of the Canada-U.S. border.” Read story here. Trudeau invoked the “Emergencies Act” to “address the impact of continued protests acr[...]
February 11th, 2022 - 11:50 pm § in Law and Courts
What will happen to blockading truckers who defy injunction?
A Canadian judge issued an injunction against the trucker blockade of the U.S.-Canada border crossing in Windsor, Canada, on Friday afternoon, February 11, 2022. Hours later, “little had changed” at the border. “Dozens of people were still on site well after 9 p.m.,” when the[...]
Should Rep. Cawthorn be banned from re-election for “aiding insurrection”?
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) is controversial, to say the least; see his profile here. And while he’s not popular everywhere, he’s certainly popular in his district; in 2020, he easily defeated a retired Air Force colonel and former Guantanamo prosecutor, 54%-42% (details here). Some of [...]
Canada’s approach to Covid-19 is different and better
“Canada’s provinces have generally employed strict Covid-19 measures such as school mask mandates and vaccine passports … [that] have enjoyed broad public support in doing so; even the strictest restrictions are less controversial in Canada than in the US,” Vox says (here). ̶[...]
February 7th, 2022 - 3:13 pm § in News Media
Who’s telling the truth about Ottawa truck protesters?
Here’s how U.K.-based tabloid newspaper Daily Mail describes the ongoing trucker protests against Canada’s border vaccine mandate: “Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the d[...]
February 2nd, 2022 - 12:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Cop gets 2 years in prison for clubbing protester
It was May 3, 2020, a few weeks after Breonna Taylor, an innocent black woman, was killed by police shooting into her apartment. Protests against her death, and other killings of black people by police, were occurring. In Louisville, Kentucky, where Taylor was killed, a protester “was kneeling[...]
Truckers behaving badly
“What started as a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates has snowballed into a blockade in the Canadian capital and the obstruction of a US-Canadian border crossing,” CNN reported on Monday, January 31, 2022. But that’s not the half of it. Their behavior has been unruly a[...]
A reminder that Hong Kong’s freedom is gone
The “Pillar of Shame,” 26 feet high, had stood on the University of Hong Kong grounds since 1997 “as a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.” The sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt included an inscription that said, “The [...]
Why the right targets BLM and “critical race theory”
It’s simply about white supremacy. Conservatives like a status quo that puts white people in charge, gives white people preferential treatment, and keeps black people “in their place.” After George Floyd became yet another black man murdered by a white cop, millions of Americans pa[...]