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If one’s accounts are frozen and one is both left without resources and without the ability to transact, it is at best extremely difficult to participate in society. In pursuit of this, they have tasked not only the banks but a wide variety of payment processors and others who handle money, including those handling cryptocurrency, with spying on their customers to determine which ones participated in activities disapproved of by power or the government, and freezing their accounts. In that clip they also say that they are doing this without the Democratic process in part ‘because an opposition party exists to frustrate any government attempt to pass legislation.’ In particular, this clip makes it very clear that it is intended to include anyone who donated to either of their crowdfunding campaigns.If you give the wrong amount of money to support a protest the Canadian government decides it dislikes, they may well freeze your bank accounts and you will have no recourse even if it was in error.

CRACKDOWN 3 TV TROPES TRIAL

In particular, it was about giving the government of Canada the permanent power to freeze, without trial or legal recourse, all the bank accounts and other assets of anyone it decides was ‘directly or indirectly involved’ in an ‘illegal protest.’ In practice this translates to ‘freeze the assets of the families of anyone that power or the government dislikes.’ The Emergencies Act may have been a little bit about the need to commandeer towing capacity, but we can now be very certain what it was centrally about. There were less than 200 arrests and they towed less than 50 trucks.īefore breaking up the protest, as I noted last time, Prime Minister Trudeau 1 invoked the Emergencies Act. When one engages in civil disobedience and makes oneself intentionally obstructing traffic for weeks, one eventually gets arrested and faces the consequences of being briefly in jail and having a record, and perhaps more if one committed more serious crimes and the state can convince a jury of that. A few people are still hanging around, but they no longer threaten public order. The convoy has been broken up by police without incident and with zero violence (or at least, zero violence that didn’t involve police acting like police usually act), only minor threats to permanently confiscate people’s dogs, in exactly the most basic and obvious way. Every edit seemed like it reflected more information from more sources, but more often that not that only meant increased uncertainty. As far as I could tell the protests were unpopular but that too was disputed. There were big disputes over the essential nature of the protest, the protesters, what they wanted and why they were there. Violence was a distinct possibility, or at least the fear of such violence was informing decisions and rhetoric. The situation was somewhat out of control. Previously in Convoy and Convoy Continued, the puzzle was what was happening and what might happen next in response. Yet Tyler Cowen was clearly correct that this will be a very important event.

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