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Good Vs. Evil: Canada’s Truckers Battle Justine Trudeau For Us All

Ilana Mercer — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 05:24:45 +0000

WHERE in the story of the travails of the World’s heroes, the Canadian Truckers for Freedom, are we?

Justine Trudeau, who fled like a girl into hiding when the lorry drivers, kids in tow, first arrived in Ottawa, has done what this writer had feared he’d do: After instituting some of the most diabolical Covid restrictions in the world, Justine has the dubious distinction of invoking “the never-used Emergencies Act,” martial law, in essence, to quash peaceful, democratic civil disobedience, with nary a democratic debate in the People’s House of Commons.

“With the emergency powers,” warns legal scholar Jonathan Turley, “Trudeau can now prohibit travel, public assemblies, conduct widespread arrests, and block donations for the truckers. This also includes freezing bank accounts and ramping up police surveillance and enforcement.”

Been there done that, Mr. Turley, Esq.: Trudeau had already instituted some of these measures through Covid restrictions. Countrywide, unvaccinated Canadians have been locked out of society, turned into untouchables. They cannot travel within their own country, work for their own government, attend university without being shamed and segregated, or take employment in the health sector, public or private.

And he’s done this evil with vim and venom. Never before have I heard a Western leader boil over with bile for his mostly-white, working-class countrymen. With his daily invective, Trudeau outdoes the Democrats, stateside. Having libeled the truckers as racists, misogynists, insurrectionists and confederate sympathizers—Trudeau likewise regularly calls the unvaccinated racists, misogynists, and anti-science extremists, even pondering whether he should “tolerate these people.”

It can hardly escape those of us who’re familiar with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s gleeful invocation of the War Measures Act against Quebecers, in 1970, that Justine, his weak, simpleton, low-intelligence son, might have always dreamt of besting his father, this time against Canada’s freedom convoys.

Back in the good old days, the national Canadian broadcaster, CBC, had been scathing about Trudeau senior’s overreach; now they are cheering tyranny on, filled as they are with contempt for all COVID-orthodoxy deviationists.

Yet, the protest against anti-constitutional Covid-motivated segregation just keep growing; and province-by-province, the indomitable resistance is toppling the regimen of restrictions and discrimination. Bickering words from Ontario Premier Doug Ford notwithstanding, the truckers he derides are leading the once-Free World’s resistance against a tyranny unprecedented in recent memory.

The world owes Canada’s finest a debt of gratitude.

Certainly, their model of protest has been impressive—after all, the lory drivers aren’t burdened by BLM brains. The big rigs had initially managed to halt commerce on the Ambassador Bridge, between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, as well as at Coutts, Alberta, opposite Montana; and across from North Dakota at Emerson, Manitoba.

Inspired by the quixotic Canadians, liberty loving Europeans are rising against the continental Covid cartel that has created tiers of subjects—some better than others. In France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria brave men and women are demanding their liberties be reinstated, many waving the Canadian flag in recognition of those who went before. They are doing the same in New Zealand and Australia, even in Israel.

In quick succession, the system of segregation developed around vaccination has begun to crumble across Canada in the wake of trucker persistence:

“Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Prince Edward Island and British Columbia announced forthwith plans this week to roll back some or all ‘precautions,’ with Alberta, Canada’s most conservative province, dropping its vaccine passport for places such as restaurants immediately and getting rid of masks at the end of the month.”

As Mr. Ford announced, his government would be removing its “proof-of-vaccination-system on March 1.” He was quick to stress that this reprieve was “despite the trucker protest not because of it,” but the verbally flatulent premier is not kidding anyone. He and his ilk are running scared.

Lucky are the little children who have freedom-loving parents. Luckier still are the kids who’ll get to witness their parents triumph over pure evil. We learn that there are children in 25 percent of the trucks which occupy Ottawa. Victory notwithstanding, the calibrations and considerations the Ottawa Gestapo is making as to how to evacuate the resistance, which includes so many kids, is foreboding, given the license that martial law lends.

Moreover, Canadian Truckers For Freedom have said they’re “willing to die” for principles they articulate clearly and plainly: I want to see the provincial and national Covid restrictions rolled back, said one. And I want a mechanism put in place to ensure the travesties we’ve endured don’t ever repeat themselves, said another.

Wait a sec: Canada already has such a mechanism. It has a constitution. While not nearly as glorious as the American one—for no men in living memory were as magnificent as the intellectual warriors in periwigs who gave as the founding documents—it nevertheless apes the US Bill of Rights, albeit poorly, by including a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Rights-violating, country-wide Covid tyranny and the actions taken by the Ottawa police, where truckers are stationed, such as jailing innocents for honking and stealing their private property: How do these jibe with the venerable documents aforementioned?

They don’t! Inherent in the first are “violations of Charter rights, including mobility, life, liberty and security of the person, privacy, and [freedom from] discrimination.” So too has the Ottawa police, to quote from their (violated) Oath of Office, have a duty to uphold the Constitution of Canada, and protect the right to peacefully protest.

Alas, the Blue does not always defend you. Theft’s the theme: Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson had instructed his goons to steal private property from the truckers. Shameless armed police officers and firefighters descended on the protesters to pilfer thousands of liters of fuel from these heroes struggling to keep from freezing in near-arctic temperatures.

Not only is the tinpot dictator Trudeau currently moving to arrest protesters—but he is freezing private property in the form of funds belonging to these brave, working-class individualists.

Corporate theft has followed courtesy of GoFundMe, a crowd-funding site which had no issue collecting and distributing funds to detritus like BLM, which, by the most basic of measures, are scum of the earth. Having received $8 million dollars in donations for the truckers, GoFundMe right away announced it would appropriate the funds and funnel them to charities of its choosing.

Here was a crime in progress. GoF-ckMe were, 1. threatening theft of private property entrusted to them, and 2 perpetrating fraud by initially promising donors to act as a trust-worthy fiduciary and then violating that promise. The thieving outfit soon backtracked when Florida Gov. Ron De Santis, and one or two other attorneys general, threatened to stop the looting by investigating the looters.

To counter the corporate steal, GiveSendGo, an American Christian crowdfunding website, began receiving donations for the “Freedom Convoy.” To complement state-approved theft, the Ontario Superior Court enjoined GiveSendGo to stop its fundraising. The U.S.-based arm of freedom promptly gave the Canadian Kangaroo court The Finger, reminding the banana jurists of the limits of their jurisdiction.

Picture our heroes. On the one hand, you have working men and women, who already do the most dangerous of jobs, plainly often poorly clothed, trying to keep warm, as the Ottawa Gestapo steal their fuel jerry cans and their fire wood. Yet wave the Maple Leaf Flag patriotically the truckers do, as their loathsome overlords level the worst possible pejoratives at them.

On our behalf, the merry band of truckers face a malevolent “alliance of government, social media companies and the mainstream media.” The malicious lies about the country-wide, freedom convoys just keep coming. To wit, not one reporter stateside had discharged his duty to tell the story of the protest. In Quebec, for example, the unvaccinated have been threatened with a fine. Even as Covid was on the wane, morphing from pandemic into mild, endemic illness—Premier Legault’s government saw fit to bar the unvaccinated, masks and all, from big-box stores like Walmart, Costco and Canadian Tire.

On the side of Gangland Government, you have a pompous, vainglorious, plodder press, and mean-minded media bad mouthing good people. And a cowardly, morally craven prime minister who initially ran from his official residence, rather than meet with a large swath of the Canadian people, whom he assiduously blackens as marginal, insufferable and unsavory.

Juxtapose truckers and families, the epitome of storybook goodness, with the charmed circle of that privileged ponce, Justine Trudeau. Words fail. In fact, my good friends at Junge Freiheit, a German weekly of excellence, had requested I write a 5,000-word piece about Justine. My reply:

“Trudeau is not worth 5,000 words—for how do you write so much about a nullity?” I’ve come up with just the right number of words for him. Here they are: _ _ _ _.

Trudeau is a dim dilettante, who inherited wealth, but no sense of noblesse oblige and none of his fabled father’s smarts and charisma. Just look at sonny boy’s mincing stride, sausaged as he is in designer suits. Observe the vain coif, the pasty, rapidly decaying (from moral rot à la Dorian Gray) doughy face and hollow gaze, so like that of his mom, Margaret.

Justine was practically conceived and raised at the debauch Studio 54. In all his forced, affectatious attempts at gravitas, this dirigiste is now telling Canada’s salt of the earth, the truckers, to turn tail and return to life as his much-maligned second-class subjects.

A look at Trudeau’s demonic deeds and his vacant demeanor and one is reminded of the words of famed French novelist Jules Renard: “I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn’t.”

Trudeau has inflicted horrifying material destruction and lasting moral damage. He has battered the truckers but not bettered them. It’s time for this dreck, this spawn of Studio 54, to go on home, for good. Good people want no truck with Trudeau.

©2022 ILANA MERCER
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Media’s Sickening Sentimentality On Egypt

Ilana Mercer — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:00:00 +0000

Romanticism is man’s revolt against reason,” wrote the great classical liberal economist Ludwig von Mises. Minds ravaged by the rot of romanticism were everywhere on display in mainstream media’s coverage of the revolt that began in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and swept the Egyptian President, Mohamed Husni Mubarak, from office.

I’ve finally figured out what it was that repulsed me so about American opinion makers’ slobbering response to this anti- authoritarian upheaval.

It was not so much that the media ignored the likely possibility that democracy in a country that has become progressively more Islamic since the 1950s might not have a happy ending.

It was not that the media pretended that the Muslim Brotherhood, also the “best organized opposition force in the country,” would not field a viable presidential candidate.

It was not that, in their jubilation, Anderson Cooper (CNN), Neil Cavuto (Fox News), and Christiane Amanpour (ABC) failed to mention the precedent set in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has deployed the democratic process to get the better of the country’s Maronite Christians.

It was not even the fact that the journalistic imperative to provide nuance, detail, and an economic and historic backdrop to the unfolding events was replaced, by the journalistic jet-set, with the telegenic drama of the man on the street.

None of this bothered me as much as the patronizing position these American reporters adopted; the neat bifurcation they managed to maintain between “Us” (the “free” men and women of America) and “Them” (those pathetic, shackled Egyptians).

The fact is that the heroic movement for democracy in Egypt dovetails with an ongoing flirtation with fascism in the US; the twilight of individual sovereignty in the US contrasts with its rise in Egypt.

So it was that America’s intellectual “Idiocracy” pontificated about the obvious need for liberty in Egypt, as its political masters worked to refine Mubarak’s methods. No sooner had Mubarak pulled the switch on the internet, than Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, re-introduced a bill designed to give Obama similar internet-killing powers. All under the cover of democracy.

Foolish reporters fulminated about Egyptian freedoms, but hardly flinched when a Republican-led House of Representatives extended certain provisions of the Patriot Act. All the better to help the home-grown terrorists of the TSA to obliterate those pesky Fourth-Amendment rights.

The same intrepid reporters failed to mention that, when he was not ordering rendition and torture in the service of the US, Mubarak’s dictatorial powers were directed, unjustly indubitably, against the Islamic fundamentalists of the Muslim brotherhood.

American justice, on the other hand, proceeds boldly against … tokers, seven hundred and fifty thousand of whom languish in our prisons. By Wikipedia estimates, “The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world.” By logical extension, the US imprisons more individuals than Mubarak did, millions of who are innocent (arrested for behavior that is licit in natural law). According to “420Magazine,” “Approximately 4 million Americans are arrested each year for victimless crimes.”

According to the CIA World Fact Book, Egyptian unemployment hovers around 9.7 percent. How different is that from American jobless rates? The Egyptian government’s debt is 80.5 percent of GDP (an admittedly iffy measure of economic Brownian Motion, or expenditure). At $14.13 trillion, the debt our government has incurred stands at 96.4 percent of GDP.

For a while, the gilded elites had reason to worry. The natives were growing restless over being manhandled at the nation’s federally controlled airports. But American travelers soon relaxed, and turned, instead — and with a vengeance — on a freedom fighter: WikiLeaks proprietor Julian Assange.

Genghis Bush lied us into war in Iraq, causing the direct and indirect deaths of 108,864 Iraqi civilians and of 4436 (mostly working-class) American men. At least 32,977 of our soldiers were maimed and disfigured for life in that escapade. Most Americans were as upbeat about the carnage as comedian Dennis Miller still is.

Tame tea-partiers (who were easily cowed when called racists) excepted, Americans last took to the streets in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War protests.

American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Their efforts to create reality on the ground — instead of reporting on it — notwithstanding, here’s what we know about the inchoate Egyptian uprising: the movement’s members hated their ruler and did what was necessary to be rid of him.

Egyptians united in non-partisan detestation of their dictator. Whereas the Egyptians held no delusions about their top dog; we in the US lionize ours, mistaking political overlords for benefactors.

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THE INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY TO HELL

Ilana Mercer — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:00:00 +0000

The admixture in so many American men of maniacal, missionary militarism and humbug humanitarianism follows decades of emasculation – legal and cultural – at home.~ilana

Who hasn’t heard soldier after American soldier burble on about how freeing Iraqis inspires him? Or, if injured, this archetypal GI will often say how eager he is to get back to his “buddies,” those he considers his real family. (Come now, Objectivists: How do you finesse such lack of enlightened self-interest – such sacrificial lamb’s lunacy?)

Noblesse oblige and all that, but I confess to pangs of jealousy, the kind felt by the kid whose mother is always away making ugly things for the poor. How selfish and parochial of me, I know. One can’t cage citizens of the world. And our soldiers certainly are that. (Although, in their role as conquistadors, they ought to work on better accommodating the different cultures of the world.) We might be paying their wages, but their hearts belong in faraway exotic places with which Main Street U.S.A can hardly hope to compete.

I can see why the Commander-in-Chief and his army’s universalist creed are garnering plaudits aplenty from liberal worthies and global social democrats at home and abroad. Mark my words, they’ll eventually win over the ossified opposition at the United Nations too. After all, with every passing day our men and women in uniform increasingly replicate the tone of that “beloved” socialist leveler, albeit more aggressively.

Little wonder too that many members of the military arm of the New American Empire reacted with overblown moral indignation when tsunami-stricken Indonesia expressed alarm at the sight of the USS Abraham Lincoln at its shores. If you recall, Indonesia had demanded the Americans and other foreign soldiers leave by the end of March – or sooner if possible. Maybe those Indonesians need a taste of the “liberty” we’ve been doling out so liberally in the Middle East. (Or at least some gunboat diplomacy.)

Befitting this brave new world order was the sight of Iraqi Americans – our neighbors and fellow citizens – voting in the Iraqi election. Despite our generosity in granting them asylum, they are evidently confused as to whether they are more Iraqi or American. Had they been Israeli-Americans, of course, the dual loyalty accusation would have long since surfaced.

As an expatriate of Israel, South Africa, and Canada, and now a U.S. patriot, I would never be so audacious as to vote in the elections of any of the countries I once called home. I have tremendous sympathy for the plight of those – family and friends included – living in the places I left. But who am I, from the calm and comfort of my American abode, to decide which “son of 60 dogs” (an Egyptian expression for political master) they ought to vote for?

Am I threatened with systematic extermination, like the Boer Afrikaner? Have I, like so many in “Canuckistan,” been stricken with the Nordic morbidity that cannot fathom life without the Nanny State? (The Swedes who inspired filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s long-suffering zombies could fit easily in Canadian shoes.) I might be able to claim an affinity with Israelis, if Mexicans began crossing into Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and beyond, not merely to work illegally, but to blow up Americans to avenge the occupation of the American Southwest. But this, thankfully, is not part of my daily reality. So why would I dare vote for the past after I have already voted with my feet?

The most bizarre, misplaced loyalties came from elderly Iraqi-Israelis who also wanted to partake in the “historic” election. (No disrespect intended: I’ve lived among members of this community in Israel, and they are as charming as the Iraqis I’ve encountered in North America. The latter were also the only lively people I met during those long, lean years in Canada.) Some forms of multinational neurosis are more baffling than others. The absurdity of an Israeli, born in Baghdad or Basra over 70 years ago, voting for Iraqi candidates in 2005 is one. This reminded me of an incident in a previous life.

A black South African once called me after attending a lecture given by my father (here on the right). So inspired was the young man that he wanted to convert to Judaism. I couldn’t help myself, and burst out laughing: “Let me get this straight. Being a black man in apartheid South Africa is not enough, you now want to become a black, orthodox Jew, living in apartheid South Africa.” Talk about a sucker for punishment!

Nevertheless, it seems patently obvious to me that patriotic Americans should be perturbed by the sight of compatriots who remain vested in a foreign polity. I’m convinced that healthy patriotism is associated with robust particularism – petty provincialism, if you like – and certainly not with the deracinated globalism exhibited by our military GI Joes and Janes.

It’s a question of self-confidence. If you’re sufficiently secure in who you are, if you possess a distinct sense of yourself as separate from The Other, you’ll be less likely to become enmeshed in his affairs, and interfere with – or rescue – him. The last is a rotten impulse that enables and compounds helplessness in others.

Perhaps the admixture in so many American men of maniacal, missionary militarism and humbug humanitarianism follows decades of emasculation – legal and cultural – at home.

Does suppressed manhood in America result in rampant militarism abroad?

Who knows? But the arid, abstract, creepy, and self-destructive sentiments too many American soldiers express – their willingness to give their lives for Iraqis; their wish to rejoin their battalions as soon as they heal from being carved up in combat – indicate a profound alienation from all that’s important.

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