Category Archives: Insurrection

Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers, by Margaret Anna Alice

Here’s a fitting tribute to the Canadian truckers’ heroism. From Margaret Anna Alice at margaretannaalice.substack.com:

Celebrating the Winter of Love & the Worldwide Freedom Convoy Movement

Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers; Man Flying Free on Maple Leaf

“The importance of the event [the storming of the Bastille] lay simply in the psychological fact that for the first time the people received an obvious proof of the weakness of an authority which had lately been formidable.

“When the principle of authority is injured in the public mind it dissolves very rapidly. What might not one demand of a king who could not defend his principal fortress against popular attacks? The master regarded as all-powerful had ceased to be so.

“The taking of the Bastille was the beginning of one of those phenomena of mental contagion which abound in the history of the Revolution. The foreign mercenary troops, although they could scarcely be interested in the movement, began to show symptoms of mutiny.”

—Gustave Le Bon, The Psychology of Revolution (paperback, Kindle, audiobook)

This profile may seem like old news. The Canadian Truckers Freedom Convoy is so February. The hypnotizing bauble is now yo-yoing over the Ukraine. That’s what we’re supposed to be fixated on now.

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Time For the Great Resist

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I’m not “Brave”;You’re Just a P—y. By Dr. Naomi Wolf

Sorry, there’s no middle ground between courage and cowardice. Dr. Naomi Wolf refuses to play along with those who choose the latter. From Wolf at naomiwolf.substack.com:

On courage. And on the DMs that I am sent that seek to justify cowardice, at a time when some bravery is needed from us all.

Some people who love me advised me not to write this essay, and not to use its current title. “Take the high road,” I was advised.

Usually that is a good idea, but not in this case — not at this moment. In this essay I need to talk about some people — mainly privileged people, people who could make a difference in areas where most can’t — who are trying to justify their monumental, world-changing cowardice, at a time when we all need to be at least somewhat brave.

I am done with tolerating this quietly.

For a year and a half now, after it became clear that this crisis was never about “the virus” but rather about a global bid to kill off our free world and suppress all of our freedoms — since I and many others have been publicly vocal about this danger and doing all we can to alert our community — that is to say, humanity — I’ve been getting direct messages (“DMs”). And they are all kind of similar. And they gross me out. Here’s why.

In the DMs, people whom I know socially or professionally — people from journalism, from politics, from medicine, from science (most of them upper-middle- class ‘men in suits’) — say something like: “Naomi, I really respect your actions right now. I totally agree with what you are saying. But of course I can’t say anything publicly because [fill in the nonsensical, craven reason].”

The nonsensical and craven reason that follows this shameful message is typically something along the lines of, “My boss will get mad at me” or “My professional peers will have a problem with my speaking up.” It’s never even, “I have bills to pay.”

Your boss will get mad at you, O you who DM?

Do you understand what is at stake? If you continue to comply and collude with what has become a tyrannical oligopoly, your kids will live as slaves and as serfs forever.

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Patricians vs. Plebeians: The Realignment, by Jeffrey A. Tucker

We plebs are tired of being stomped on. From Jeffrey A. Tucker at brownstone.org:

When I was a kid — and the same with my parents when they were young — you could count on certain fundamentals in politics. The Chamber of Commerce represented business, and business generally favored free enterprise. Not always, but mostly.

Small businesses could become big and big could become small, but they generally opposed socialism, big government, regulation, and high taxes. For this reason, they generally supported the Republican Party.

It was also a time of class malleability, with people moving in and out and up and down. There were always gaps between rich, middle, and poor but they were not as wide as now, and there was a healthy rotation among them.

In the last ten years, and accelerating dramatically in the last three, this has changed. Big business consolidated and centered on tech and finance. Then it became entrenched. The laptoppers educated at woke universities ported their values into the workplace, gained managerial control, and deployed HR departments as their mechanism of control. The politics of these industries followed, and now it is the base of the Democrats.

It’s strange because I’m old enough to remember when everyone on the left defended: civil liberties, freedom of speech, the working classes, schooling, small business, the poor, public accommodations for everyone, peace, and democracy. It opposed witch hunts, segregation, class privilege, big business, war, and dictatorship. Or so it seemed.

Anyone paying a modicum of attention to modern political trends knows that this is no longer true, and that accounts for why so many on the left are disaffected (and that includes many writers at Brownstone). The evidence is everywhere (the apostasy of Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein come to mind) but sealed by two reliably left publications: The Nation and Mother Jones. The former’s push for forever lockdowns has been relentless while the latter just launched an anti-trucker campaign against what everyone used to think were basic civil liberties. (Both sites are hard to navigate for all the pop-up ads and commercial pushes.)

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Newest Homeland Security Bulletin Labels Many Americans “Domestic Threat Actors”, by Hailey Sanibel

You might get the DTA tag just reading this post. From Hailey Sanibel at thebluestateconservative.com:

Just when you thought your government couldn’t hate you more, it turns out that the Department of Homeland Security has been meticulously crafting memorandums outlining ways to silence its critics with an umbrella term they’re calling MDM: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation.

The entire Newspeak bulletin can be read here, and opens this way:

“The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.”

You got that? That’s you and me they’re talking about. We are now “domestic threat actors.” Apparently noticing something that becomes common knowledge a month or two later is grounds for being labeled not only a conspiracy theorist but a domestic terrorist as well. It’s not just this thought, though; every single sentence, not just the opening salvo, reads like a Pravda’s Greatest Hits number, utilizing such phrases as “exacerbate societal friction” and “sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.”

Of course, this memo is not saying anything new. All it’s doing is saying the quiet part out loud. For two years, there has been an active campaign on the part of Big Brother, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Business to control a tight narrative on Covid, from its origins to its treatments. Remember when it was considered misinformation to wonder if the virus were artificial and leaked from a lab? Remember when level-headed people once wondered if boosters would be required to be considered fully vaccinated?

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The Unmasking, by James Howard Kunstler

They can’t hold back the truth any longer. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:

O Canada, the Great White North, hovering ominously above Niagara Falls somewhere, is a winter wonderland, and one of the great pleasures of the season there, apparently, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is skating on thin ice. Why is that? Perhaps in all the hollering you have forgotten how Mr. T has kicked off a civil war: by forcing government-mandated shots on his country’s working class of an alleged “vaccine” that doesn’t work and harms people, at the dwindling end of a worldwide disease scare that scientists in Canadian labs may have helped to create.

The great truckers’ convoy that converged on Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, has exposed the ugly truth at the heart of this historic moment for Western Civ: that governments have declared war on their own citizens. It happens that PM Trudeau represents his country’s Liberal Party, which is suddenly the party of unchecked government power to interfere in the lives of citizens, the party of speech suppression, news management, forced unsafe vaccinations, and the seizure of citizens’ property outside due process of law.

Under the Emergencies Act, Mr. Trudeau’s police have now arrested the leaders of the trucker’s revolt, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, on charges of “counseling to commit mischief” (O, dear…!), and seized their bank accounts, while also freezing the bank accounts of anyone who donated money to the truckers’ cause. That action led, naturally, to runs on Canada’s major banks, leading to bank shut-downs on Wednesday — d’uh… what do you expect when the authorities send the message: your money is not safe in Canada’s banks, and might not even be your money if we say it’s not?

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Fringe Minority Report, 2/18/22, by Francis Marion

The battle to the north:

Two of the organizers of the trucker protest have been arrested. Charges are mischief etc. There are still thousands of people in Ottawa with more on the way in the face of increased police presence. The convoy’s lawyers are going to have a busy weekend. Trudeau suspends Parliament in order to cut debate and delay voting on the EMA.

An RCMP member sends a message to his coworkers encouraging them to contract the blue flu. Some will head his call. Others will not.

Seven Great Truths, by Robert Gore

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The truckers’ rallying cry—Freedom!—inspires the many and thrusts greatness on a few.

Justin Trudeau and his globalist ilk are an unimpressive lot. Trudeau’s interminable Wikipedia profile is over 8000 words and has 324 references. Never has so much been said about so little except, perhaps, in other globalist profiles. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, was, like Trudeau, one of Klaus Schwab’s Young Global Leaders, a finishing school for the Davos set.

Trudeau’s resumé lists bachelors’ degrees in literature and education, and studies but no degrees in engineering and environmental geography. He was a substitute and then a permanent teacher in secondary schools. Wikipedia says he gave his father, Pierre, prime minister from 1980 to 1984, a nice eulogy. He started a winter sports safety fund after his brother was killed in an avalanche, portrayed a distant relative in a CBC miniseries, started the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, fought a zinc mine in the Northwest Territories, and was master of ceremonies at an award show and a political rally. (That comprehensive summation took three sentences and 105 words.)

His featherweight resumé screams politics and government as an ultimate career. He’s a Canadian Barack Obama. See the fawning Wikipedia entry for thousands of words on his ascent up the political ladder. In 2015 he was elected Prime Minister, a position he holds to this day, but perhaps not much longer.

Ottawa, Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels are filled with globalist politicians, functionaries, and toadies who differ from Trudeau only superficially. Power, their “right” to tell and force others how to live, is really a self-bestowed entitlement. They are the insiders, and outsiders are ignored or deplored. Whatever differences they have among themselves, they close ranks when fellow insiders are under attack. The Wikipedia profile mentions several Trudeau scandals, including blackface photos, that might have ended the career of an outsider politician, but from which he survived.

Once in a while something cuts through the muck of modern life with diamond-cutter precision and finality, yielding a moment of clarity. The juxtaposition of two images creates just such a moment. The one: thousands of Canadians braving the the bitter cold to cheer and succor 18-wheelers and their drivers rolling towards Ottawa. The other: the empty chair of an empty-suit prime minister who absented himself rather than face what his arrogant totalitarianism had wrought.

Revolutions dawn when an appreciable number of the ruled realize their rulers are intellectual and moral inferiors.

Much More Than Trump,” Robert Gore, March 3, 2016

Justin Trudeau has done more to usher in that dawn than any other globalist. His invective and cowardice have rendered him contemptible in the eyes of millions of Canadians and others around the world despite the best efforts of the kept media to protect him. That he and his ilk are intellectual and moral inferiors is the first great truth to emerge from the truckers’ protest.

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In a modern economy, goods and people must be transported. Cars, trucks, trains, ships, and airplanes, and the people who operate them, are essential. Southwest Airlines’ pilots brought the company’s operations to a standstill with a few days of sickouts. The truckers established a chokehold on Ottawa and blockades at U.S. border crossings, exacerbating supply chain issues. Canadians will survive just fine without Ottawa, but supply chain issues bite in a hurry. Which prompts the second great truth: Production is the essential primary, everything else depends on it.

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Fringe Minority Report, 2/17/22, Francis Marion

The latest from the north, from Francis Marion at theburningplatform.com:

The only thing they have is fear. And we’re not buying it.

The report this morning is very short. I wish I could post the videos from the truckers that I’ve seen on social media but I simply can’t so let me summarize.

The world is watching. From Israel, to Great Britain to the US the love and support that is flowing into our nation is almost unbelievable.

The truckers in Ottawa know this. They have pledged to remain and are prepared to be arrested. Those who have had their bank accounts froze continue to  find and receive support.

Canadians are responding to Trudeau’s fear tactics by pulling money out of banks and either going physical or moving it to credit unions. To what extent this is happening is difficult to say but mass ‘bank glitches’ just don’t happen by accident.

On the ground in Ottawa truckers want you to remember that they hold all the cards. They know that even if they are arrested more trucks will arrive (there are thousands of them sitting in reserve) and that the tow companies the government hijacks cannot handle them.

The message is – DO NOT BE AFRAID. Be peaceful, be forgiving and when you act, act from love not fear.

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Fringe Minority Report, by Francis Marion

From Francis Marion (a Canadian) at theburningplatform.com:

A few updates.

Regarding Coutts

I watched a video interview this AM with some of the organizers (I couldn’t snag the video). Because of the arrests of some outsiders who had firearms (apparently there were two – not eleven – and they were arrested at their residence in another community) they did not want to remain and end up associated with the bad actors and the press they had attracted. They have decided to move on and it sounds like they will be going to Edmonton.

While i understand the motivation behind border blockades they were not a winning strategy on a variety of fronts. Additionally, with no blockades remaining at major border crossings Trudeau’s use of the EMA seems even less appropriate than it did yesterday.

In the end most police removed their masks as the remaining protesters shook their hands and sang the anthem. Sort of reminded me of the end of a hockey game.

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