Journalist Glenn Greenwald called out Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “despotic” power grab as “a long time in the making” meant to crush dissent.
Greenwald published a new piece entitled “The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West” on Substack Monday aimed at drawing attention to Western governments that have thus far concealed or softened their despotic behaviors through the rose-colored lens of democracy.
Greenwald aims his piece at the most recent actions taken by Trudeau who has extended the Emergencies Act granting him dictatorial powers.
NOW – Canada's PM Trudeau: "Even though the blockades are lifted… this state of emergency is not over." pic.twitter.com/DY75gIqrsg
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 21, 2022
The day this power was set to expire, Trudeau claimed that the emergency was not over, despite also saying the blockade that brought him to invoke the Emergencies Act had been cleared. This is precisely what Greenwald is talking about when he talks about weapons of despotism.
Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism.
The tactics Trudeau is employing are a decade in the making, and are part of a much broader plan to criminalize and then crush dissent.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 21, 2022
Greenwald explained the notion that an ally engaged in tyrannical behavior is somehow good is perpetuated through “brittle mythology” and “reinforced by large media corporations” that either ignore the wrongdoing or attempt to prohibit any discussion of it.
There are approximately 100 police checkpoints surrounding the secured area downtown. Police will simply ask for your reason for travelling within the area.
#ottnews pic.twitter.com/vDr63iZw1h— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 21, 2022
This appears to be an otherwise innocuous checkpoint, until someone documents that you need “authorization” to be there.
Rebel reporters @lincolnmjay and @TheMenzoid are asked to show hotel reservations with their IDs to be allowed through Ottawa's downtown police checkpoints.
Officer Dyke remarks that they should register with the city for "authorization" to pass through.https://t.co/cTm6cKHpsA pic.twitter.com/fJdEA6HRhU
— Efron Monsanto 🇨🇦🚜🚛 (@realmonsanto) February 21, 2022
The police are only the most visible aspect of the overreach that Trudeau is utilizing. Greenwald went on at length in his piece about former President Obama’s Department of Justice and how WikiLeaks was thoroughly investigated by Attorney General Eric Holder but produced no “evidence of criminality.”
Nevertheless, then-Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used his position as Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee to pressure “financial services companies such as MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Bank of America to terminate WikiLeak’s accounts and thus banish them from the financial system.”
These are the “standard weapons” being deployed now against the truckers who cannot feed their families because they are frozen out of their bank accounts. Similar pressures were applied to Google and Apple in the short time it took for them to remove Parler from their host servers.
Once Western elites realized the depth of rage and contempt for them, they embarked on a strategy to criminalize dissidents and outlaw protest movements. They did it to WL, Catalonia protesters, MAGA supporters, Canadian truckers. That’s the justifying rationale for repression. pic.twitter.com/s4Hfyb3WZj
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 21, 2022
Obviously, Western liberals and their neoliberal leaders can never admit, even to themselves, that they’re repressive. They believe that attribute belongs intrinsically only to their enemies. But whatever you want to call it, they do not tolerate dissent:https://t.co/mANSxUc1Gi
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 21, 2022
Greenwald’s assertion that the Western liberals do not tolerate dissent is supported by the vote held yesterday in the Canadian parliament. With the Emergencies Act powers expiring, Trudeau used the guise of democracy to extend his authority, and the House of Commons went right along with him.
BREAKING: The House of Commons has affirmed Trudeau's tyrannical power. Parliament is now adjourned and parliamentarians are returning to their homes across the country.
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) February 22, 2022
In going along with the support from “large media corporations,” Trudeau is not answering questions from those who elected him to office.
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau will not respond to direct questions asking him why he is holding on to emergency power. "Even though the blockades are lifted, this state of emergency is not over."
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) February 21, 2022
The key, Greenwald explained, is elevating a political adversary into “a faction of sustained criminality” which permits “anything and everything, from censorship and detention to extra-legal means of banishment such as no-fly lists and exclusion from the financial system,” to become “justified, even necessary.”
If you equate opposing ideas with crime, you no longer have to worry about civil liberties apparently.
— Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (@gruffydd_ap) February 21, 2022
“Once a person or movement becomes convinced that their opponents have exited the ordinary playing field of politics, then they are instantly convinced of the righteousness of any and all tactics used to attack them.”
— Done With The DNC ⌛️ ❌ 🌹 (@BernieTulsi2020) February 21, 2022
“Once a person or movement becomes convinced that their opponents have exited the ordinary playing field of politics, then they are instantly convinced of the righteousness of any and all tactics used to attack them.”
— Done With The DNC ⌛️ ❌ 🌹 (@BernieTulsi2020) February 21, 2022
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 21, 2022
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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