Category: Mischief Is Important

TD in Hot Water Again

A British Columbia Human Rights complaint has been lodged against TD Bank by a man who is both a Muslim and a First Nations member:

When Sharif Bhamji, 37, completed the online portion of a Toronto Dominion Bank account application, he thought the process had gone smoothly.

That changed four days later on May 5, 2021, when he appeared in person at the TD branch near his Surrey residence to verify his identity. When he presented his Indian status card, he alleges the teller told him the ID was fake.

Isn’t this one of the same banks that froze the bank accounts of other Canadians without a court order and without an approved Emergencies Act?

“Mischief”

I’ll take political prisoner for $500, Alex.

Sun- Protest organizer Tamara Lich deemed risk to reoffend and denied bail in Ottawa

Lich was arrested last Thursday and charged with counselling to commit mischief. During the bail hearing, Lich promised to leave Ottawa by vehicle and give up her advocacy of the protest, saying she would need several days to make those arrangements because she does not have the required vaccine passport enabling her to fly and because her bank accounts are now frozen.

Ontario Court Justice Julie Bourgeois said in the decision that the effect on the community from the actions of the convoy were immense and that she felt Lich was obstinate and disingenuous in her responses to the court during her bail hearing on Saturday.

“I cannot be reassured that if I release you into the community that you will not reoffend,” Bourgeois said.

“Your detention is necessary for the protection and safety of the public.”

CBC version

Related: Man accused in hit-and-run at Manitoba Freedom Convoy protest granted bail

“Be The ‘Quit’ In Equity”

The goal wouldn’t be to encourage mass resignations; since most people look out for themselves, we shouldn’t expect many to actually resign. Rather, it would be to “get the incentives right” – to internalise the externality of advocating “diversity.” At the moment, white academics who have jobs can go along happily, waxing lyrical about “diversity,” while white academics who don’t have jobs bear the consequences. If those incumbents were pressured to resign, they might start to rethink their ideology.

Noah Carl makes mischief with a point.

Hold The Line

From an email I received a few minutes ago:

Hi Kate:

This is happening to my family members.

Hate calls and hate email continue today. Any ideas how to combat this?

This is my advice, and my life’s guiding principle.

“No matter what they say, don’t answer,” Allesandro told Nicolo under his breath, “and don’t move.”

“Why? What for?” Nicolo protested.

“To enrich their folklore.”

One of the women began to wail. Soon it was a chorus. The truck that had left the line quickly returned, and the farmers drive away, crossing themselves.

“In a thousand years,” Alessandro said, “this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or a dragon that breathes fire — but we have given this rock a story that will be passed on.”

“What good is that?”

“It isn’t to our advantage, if that’s what you mean. However, it’s pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously. You never know, the line may be unbroken all the way to the last judgment…. Nicolo, mischief is important….”

From Crisis To Opportunity

Don’t just curse the darkness — shine the headlights.

Saskatchewan could resolve our own shortage of truck drivers by becoming an Emergencies Act sanctuary province.

Simply offer to any truck driver currently parked in Ottawa, who has not been convicted of a violent act but loses their license or insurance due to civil disobedience on Parliament Hill, the opportunity  to relocate and be reinstated to drive by the Province of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Government Insurance.

Because mischief has never been more important than it is right now.

Pollspotting

I took a phone call from a pollster on behalf of “the federal government” this afternoon. Not a party, mind you. The government.

I answered every question except the one on racial identity: they included agreement with Covid policies, major concerns, direction the country was headed in, and was I vaccinated? (Always answer “yes” to this question if you oppose mandates, because it runs counter to the narrative).

HONK.

The Ottawa War Zone

BREAKING NEWS FROM OTTAWA:

Crack Ottawa police officers have finally made an important arrest in order to restore peace in the nation’s capital.  They have apprehended the racist, Islamophobic, hatey, hateful, antisemitic, transphobic, misogynist popcorn maker of doom. 

I don’t know about you, but I’m so very relieved that that horrible weapon of mass destruction is off the streets.

But Ottawa police cannot get complacent. There’s still much work to do. Because we all know that the Cotton Candy Insurrectionists are the most dangerous threat to our democracy. 

#HONKHONK

The honking will continue until the freedom improves. 

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