The Police State Moves North



So you don't have to.

Authorities in Montreal have installed similar, extreme "emergency measures"  just like we have in the good ole USA. These assaults on citizen rights are straight out the fascist handbook. Designed to reign in protesting by using disingenuous tactics against students upset over tuition hikes, Canada has begun following America's lead in the struggle to preserve the status quo, and it's not working. 

Though the jackboots and billy-clubs might be Made in Canada , the increasing intolerance of protesting is a mirror image of our own ever-expanding police state, complete with the propaganda.

Some things Made in America are not worth the trouble to export.

After months of student protests over rising tuition costs the police state has decided it's time to put an end to allowing citizens to redress their government by gathering in large groups. The new emergency measure restricts protests to less than ten people at a time, any more than 10 would require advanced notification as to where and when and what time of day they wish to gather for an event.

This is kind of like asking permission for a revolution in advance.

On its heels, the city of Montreal also passed a bylaw prohibiting wearing masks after several cloaked protesters smashed storefronts and clashed with police during demonstrations continuing into a 14th week amid a deadlock in negotiations.

Fines for breaches of the two laws range from $500 to $250,000. An exception to the no-mask rule, however, is allowed for the Halloween holiday.
Students, unions and the opposition party criticized the government over the emergency law, with one former premier calling it “barbaric.”
Louis Masson, president of the Quebec Bar Association representing 24,000 lawyers, said it goes too far by restricting fundamental “freedoms of expression… to a point that begs the question, who would now dare protest.”

But isn't that the point?


This law has effectively eliminated the "right" to protest in Quebec.  "If we are no longer able to protest in our society, it becomes a totalitarian society,' said Louis Roy, head of the Confederation des Syndicats
Nationeux which represents most university and college teachers in the province. "We are telling our members to defend their fundamental right, the right to demonstrate', he added.

So being an authoritarian closet fascist isn't a uniquely American experience now? How's that working out for you Montreal?

Massive student revolt after emergency measure goes into effect.

Thousands of student protesters flooded the streets in Montreal last night after Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced a proposal for a new ‘emergency law’ in a bid to end the ongoing 14 week old student uprising and strike.

The demonstrations on Wednesday night followed this announcement, as several thousand students met with police, who have started cracking down on the protests across Quebec. Up to 122 students were arrested, as “the acrid scent of police crowd-control chemicals billowed in the cool nocturnal air.”

Shortly after the protests broke out, riot police used tear gas and sound grenades on students. Police have come under criticism for excessive force caught on video that shows patrons on a bar patio getting blasted with pepper spray. Apparently they didn't get prior permission to gather on the patio first. According to the bar owner," People were falling on each other running inside to get away from the pepper spray, breaking things." The waitress thought about calling police until she realized it was the police who were the attackers.

You just can't make this stuff up.


Just Stay home and be quiet



"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."  as quoted by one president who found out the hard way what happens when you put Democracy before Authoritarianism. (JFK)

We feel your pain Canada.

Just blame America.

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