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Everyone keeps talking about how “no one expects the face of fascism to be friendly liberals.”
Firstly, I’m not going to go into the whole thing about right-wingers labeling things “fascism,” except to say it’s really exhausting. Left-wingers don’t go around accusing right-wingers of being “Leninists,” and everyone would think it was ridiculous if they did. Even if you’re against fascism, okay – it’s still a right-wing ideology. So what you’re saying is “actually, the far-left is even more right-wing that we are!” This is confusing and stupid. If leftists started calling me a Leninist, I would consider it a big win.
Secondly, everyone did expect neoliberal leftists to be hardcore authoritarians.
Thirdly, every authoritarian regime in history, whether left or right, has always put forward an image that the leaders were nice people who smiled a lot. I guess maybe Mussolini himself would put out pictures of himself looking stern, but that was probably just to make up for the fact that he was overly affable and hedonistic in real life.
But yeah, that third thing is really the top point here – “who would have thought the people from the government were just pretending to be friendly???” is like the dumbest ever observation.
Canada’s largest government-run agricultural lender Farm Credit Canada ordered a blacklist of customers who supported the Freedom Convoy
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, internal documents show that Farm Credit Canada, a crown corporation based in Regina, told its employees to secretly make records of customers who supported the Freedom Convoy.
Emails reveal that staff kept a list of names even after the Emergencies Act (EA) was revoked on February 23, after protesters had been cleared out of Ottawa.
Sophie Perreault, chief operating officer, said in the revealed emails to staff, “If you become aware of a customer’s involvement report it immediately.”
According to Perreault, customers had no indication from the bank they were being surveilled.
The email went on to state that if the staff should “become aware of potential customer involvement in blockades, occupations and other support of activity related to the ‘Freedom Convoy,’” they must “submit a tip to the customer diligence centre.”
The email said that the customer’s “name stated involvement, date and any other pertinent details” should also be included in the report.
“Please do not complete any investigative work yourself or communicate any information about FCC’s approach to customers who voluntarily disclose their involvement,” the email said.
Staff questioned the surveillance requestAccording to the emails, some staff, including managers, questioned why they were asked to keep records of anyone involved with the Freedom Convoy.
“Why are we investigating this,” one manager wrote.
“I expected we would get a list from the RCMP.”
Earlier this month, Members of Parliament (MP) from the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) demanded a federal privacy overseer look into banks’ requests to freeze Freedom Convoy supporters’ accounts.
This came after testimony from Canadian bankers showed the financial targeting of some Freedom Convoy supporters might have breached privacy laws.
Canada’s draconian COVID measures were the catalyst for the Freedom Convoy, which took to the streets of Ottawa to demand an end to all COVID mandates for three weeks in February. As a result, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 14 enacted the EA to shut down the Freedom Convoy.
More than 230 people were arrested during the Freedom Convoy crackdown. Also, the Trudeau government took the unprecedented step of freezing the bank accounts of hundreds who donated to and sympathized with the truckers to the tune of almost $8 million.
Let me talk more about the thing I am sick of talking about: why calling this “fascism” is dumb. In actuality, this is just total lawlessness, and totally unreasonable. I don’t think there has ever been any political system in history which has gone around saying “we’ll put anyone who disagrees with the government through strange forms of personal hardship.”
Maybe if you were going to say “we’re just going to kill them,” that would be okay. But saying you’re going to cause them personal torment – no one wants to do that. I guess it’s women.
But yeah – I’d have a lot more respect for Trudeau if he was just issuing “shoot to kill” orders on anyone who disagreed with his policies.
