An update on the international headlines the "freedom convoy" is making in Canada's capital. I'm in Toronto, roughly 280 miles or 450 km away from Ottawa, so certain things are hard to gauge. When the protest extended here, pick-up trucks & tractors arrived & left peacefully for the area requires immediate access to its hospitals & clinics.
From the media coverage, the incompetence of the police is obvious. Since surveillance would have indicated the convoy's funding & strength as it was organizing, how could the police have been so unprepared? This weekend marks a month into the protest. Unfortunately, force will now be applied & the embarrassment will grow.
To a targeted individual, this once again proves selective abuses of power & the disenfranchisement of innocent people. For untargeted individuals, be they perpetrators or observers without access to surveillance tools, this underlines the complicity to exploit cruel treatment while benefitting from it. Targeted individuals have been part of Canada's mosaic for decades & documentation verifies it.
The police are unionized. Ottawa's police budget is over $340 million, Toronto's over $1 billion & both cities are now searching for a chief-of-police. Before the last selections were made, Toronto's black community was split as to who could best represent the city - one candidate favoured surveillance & the arbitrary stopping of individuals & the other did not.
An aerial view of the protesters in Ottawa streams on one of Toronto's television networks. The network owns several stations & a national newspaper. Spinning headlines - constructing & reconstructing reality - law & disorder.
After months of silence, I called The Canadian Civil Liberties Association this morning & left another message regarding my situation & the use of direct energy weapons against me. A response would be a pleasant surprise.
There's a calculated effort to undermine the existence of a social contract - be it on a global, national or local level & further extend the poverty gap. (How's the stock market today?)
Love & Peace (make love not war)
