Lawfare Comes to Canada as the Coutts Four Get Their Day in Court | Opinion
A trial is currently underway in Canada, and the rights of every Canadian citizen are at stake. Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert are facing farcical charges stemming from their participation in a peaceful protest against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s COVID-19 response. It turns out, the United States is not the only country where the ruling political establishment is using lawfare to test the limits of the freedoms we all once took for granted. Olienick and Carbert may be average working-class men, but their trial is comparable to that of President Trump’s many legal battles; as in the U.S., the Canadian court system has been turned into a crucible upon which elite warfare is being waged against the masses—or their duly elected representatives.
Olienick and Carbert are the remaining two of a group of political prisoners arrested in Canada and held without bail since the Freedom Convoy in 2022. The Freedom Convoy was a populist revolt against Trudeau’s authoritarian approach to COVID-19 in the form of a mass act of civil protest led by truck drivers. To combat this peaceful protest, the largest of its kind in Canadian history, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to suspend civil liberties across Canada, freezing bank accounts and laying numerous spurious charges against hundreds of peaceful protesters.
Read the full piece by Gord Magill
No contempt of court from the tax paying citizen,will ever rise to the contempt of court demonstrated by the “Judiciary” who are performing this mock trial.
From the laying of the charges,to this court theatre,the dripping hatred and contempt for law,order and justice demonstrated by our bureaucrats demands their dismissal.
Although public execution would be a more fitting punishment for such treason.
Including those who stand silent witness.
Imagine, these two guys have been arrested and held without bail since 2022. If our government can do this to these men, then they can do it to every one of us. And don’t think they won’t. Trudeau rules, and the RCMP march to his orders. We are completely screwed as a country.
Consider, if you are a gang member, known to police, on probation, with lifetime bans on the possession of firearms, and you get arrested in a car full of your gang members, and are caught with a firearm in your possession, you will get bail in short order.
But not if you are enemy of the Liberal Government.
c’mon Canaduh !!! c’mon SDA !!! tell us WHY so MANY of you/them WANT this and show it by constantly CHOOSING it at the ballot box. why is that? you want all the truckers in jail that were in the protest? how do your clothes, hardware and food GET to where you pick it up from where it starts its existence? hmmm???
In Canada conspiracy to falsely prosecute someone is second only to conspiracy to commit murder. Why is that part of the law? Because the lawmakers knew it was an issue.
7] Section 465 sets out four separate conspiracy offences: (a) conspiracy to commit murder; (b) conspiracy to prosecute someone for an alleged offence knowing that the person did not commit the offence; (c) conspiracy to commit any other type of indictable offence; and (d) conspiracy to commit a summary conviction …
Yup. Turdo’s political prisoners. Smith’s too.
Blockades and street occupation are not peaceful, prosecuting those carrying it out is not ‘lawfare’, and you are not victims of anything in this context but your own bad judgement.
Reminder that some of the convoyants called for negotiations with the Governor General to
form a new government, including them:
Seems to be a common wet dream of wannabe insurgents.
Rather than the U.S. example of that visit to the “People’s House”, clock this:
// Among those on trial in Munich are Hildegard Leiding, 60, a member of the rightwing AfD party and an astrologer, who was allegedly destined to become the group’s “trans-communications minister”.
Together with a welder from the Bavarian rocker scene, Leiding was said to have used “spiritual criteria” to pick out appropriate candidates for the future government, including a celebrity cook from Austria, tasked with feeding the new regime a healthy diet, and a practising GP, described by former patients as “established and respected” in her community. //
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/trial-begins-of-eight-accused-of-plotting-to-overthrow-german-state
negotiations with the Governor General to form a new government
Sounds an awful lot like peaceably assembing and petitioning the government for redress of grievances to me. Like it not, the GG does have the power to dissolve Parliament at any time and there’s nothing illegal about petitioning the GG to use that power if you believe the current government is illegitimate.
Perhaps a few details to supplement Gord’s lamentations:
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2024/06/17/trial-resumes-for-two-men-charged-with-conspiracy-to-commit-murder-at-coutts-blockade
These fellows are being tried using anonymous hearsay evidence. That is about as thin as it gets.
It’s not even hearsay…it’s even weaker than that.
Essentially some female cop (undercover?) claimed she’d asked them if they had guns in two hockey bags and they looked at each other, so she’s claiming that was a “positive” affirmation.
Reading the comments in the original Newsweek article, it looks like they’re already convicted in the court of public opinion.