Hurting in Ottawa - Updated!

Updated: The fellow from Quebec is pleading guilty to charges. He's not yet been convicted. I've changed the piece to reflect this.

The fellow from Quebec who claimed the Global Elite/World Economic Forum/blah blah blah were setting forest fires has been charged with setting forest fires. I personally think Pierre Poilievre should be charged with him for fuelling this life destroying madness, but I guess then we'd have to charge the groomers and radicalizers of Pierre Poilievre, too.

Oh, and while I'm on the topic of Pierre Poilievre's groomers and radicalizers, has Stephen Harper claimed credit, as head of global fascism's laundromat, for the election of another racist misogynist populist, the new President of Argentina, yet?

Sorry, but if the IDU isn't a laundromat for global fascism, I'm Mary Poppins.

I foolishly got into it on Facebook over Pierre Poilievre's lack of a security clearance so he can be read in to national security information - like a normal leader of His Majesty's "Loyal" Opposition. If you're buying it's because he doesn't want one, be careful, lots of scammers out there, not just in our Parliament.

In the meantime, what's wrong with me that I engage with men online but also in real life who'd argue the moon is made of green cheese, they love gaslighting me so much.

What's wrong with me that in spite of the hurt they cause I still need them to like me? Is it being fatherless? Well enough. Grow the fuck up, Kathryn. You've been fatherless for 60 years now. You don't need one to protect you from all the other fathers out there. They're dead, too.

Whoa! Breakthrough!

Grown men, all my life, since I was a little fatherless feminist growing up in Sault Ste. Marie, have gotten a charge out of showing off how little they care if Conservatives are elected to public office. Why? They consistently pooh pooh the threats Conservatives pose to our (women's) health and well-being, as if we're a bunch of hysterics. Why? What's with the smug superiority, the laughing off of our concerns, the pretending the threat isn't real?

Yeah, I'm talking to you, men of the Left. Liberal/Tory same old story. GFY. There are no Tories in Parliament and there haven't been since Stephen Harper created a party in his angry white Christian male feminist-hating image in 2003.

Fact: If Canadian men cared about violence against us, his Christo-Fascist gun lobby wouldn't be enjoying Official Opposition status in our Parliament. His disciple, Pierre Poilievre, would've had to resign in disgrace years ago, not be elected its leader following an attack on us by a bunch of Neo-nazis - including Diagolon Accelerationists, ffs - he, along with Trump and every fascist shithead online and off PUBLICLY supported, and certainly not after being outed secretly handshaking with Men Going Their Own Way, violent misogynists who want to eliminate us from society.

Instead this odious creep is leading in the polls to be Prime Minister of Canada. Wtf, fellas? What's wrong with y'all? Mad at mommy for having sex with daddy? What is it? Why do you want a Christo-Fascist gun lobby to be the Government of Canada?

Anyway, I don't get it. I just know I'm done pretending it doesn't hurt. Because it does.

Remembrance in Ottawa

It's an unpopular opinion, certainly one considered gauche to voice on Remembrance Day, hence linking to it on November 12, but how can we claim to be honouring the sacrifice of the fallen, specifically with regard to WWII in which my own 60-years-dead father fought, giving me the gift of reflected glory, no small inheritance, when so many us are voting, whether intentionally or not, for the latest iteration of fascism brought to us by conservative populists opposed to liberal democracy?

Because lest we forget the more recent past, the Freedom Convoy was a three week white power rally supported by Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Putin Puppet Donald Trump and his treasonous Republican Party, Vladimir Putin and his Russian Mob/Mafia state, Hell's Angels, Sons of Odin, Diagolon Accelerationists, and so on and so forth and more of the same down to every vile, hateful and treasonous shithead, homophobe and woman-hater online and off all over our endlessly warring world.

Veterans for Freedom, by the way, is not just on the side of it, it's part of it, so Christo-Fascism, as are not just a few of our publicly funded police and armed forces members from coast to coast to coast.

They're my declared enemy, anti-democracy. That makes their number one supporter in my Parliament, Pierre Poilievre, my enemy, too. It's not a right/left thing. It's a Christo-Fascist/Liberal-Democracy thing. Please, I beg of you, stop voting for my enemy. I get it, you don't like Justin Trudeau. Well pretend it's not his name on the Freedom Convoy's hate flags but mine, my daughters' - your daughters'.

Heck, my son's, your son's. Because gender IS a social construct, Patriarchy a death cult.

Pretend those nooses were meant for my neck. Or your own. Because there's nothing democratic about nooses, not in the hands of a mob, which was also what the Freedom Convoy was.

As I keep pointing out, because I do remember, the entire time we were being terrorized by the Freedom Convoy - and make no mistake, we were its target, civilians living in a LPC/ONDP riding in the aptly named Centretown in Ottawa, the capital of Canada - Russia was readying to invade Ukraine, which it did shortly after the Emergency Act was invoked to finally end the occupation and drive the Freedom Convoy mercenaries out of our downtown and back to Alberta from whence most of them came.

Ten million dollars amassed in a few days. Meanwhile they shut down our economy for three weeks. Ordinary people unable to access public services and private businesses. They swarmed us in our grocery stores, ffs, causing them to close, ripped our anti-COVID masks off, polluted our air, assaulted our ears - as everyone in Canada should know since it was all proven, testified to under oath, during a mandatory Public Inquiry into the invocation of the Emergency Act - voted against by the law and order Party, doncha know - as per the legislation governing its use.

They weren't truckers. They were sign-ups once CERB ran out who got really angry when at least one city councillor suggested stopping the flow of funding that kept their engines running and horns honking - not that he, the recently come out mayor, Black police chief, and Liberal/NDP MPs weren't already receiving death threats aplenty.

They went to his house. Not his public office. His private residence.

Oh, and one more time, there were a lot of flags being flown by the Freedom Convoy, including American, Confederate and yes, the swastika, but not one of them was Ukrainian.

Lots of nooses alongside "Fuck Trudeau" flags flown from massive rigs (not to mention a few cranes, just in case we didn't get the violence inherent in the message, which was they they were there to lynch our leaders and take over our government) that may as well've been tanks for all local law enforcement seemed capable of dealing with their drivers.

Please, anybody else would've had their vehicle window smashed, door unlocked, and been dragged off to Ottawa's detention centre at the first parking violation. It's Ottawa, ffs. You can be fined AND have your birdhouse-sized free library ripped out for it being considered too close to the sidewalk for by-law enforcement to turn a blind eye and just let it be.

And just in case you haven't been following along with the trial of the ringleaders here in Ottawa (although from Alberta, ground zero for this latest iteration of fascism, Christo-style) Ottawa Police have likely blown the prosecution's case because, gosh golly gee, a software update deleted all their relevant text messages with the parties on trial.

Meanwhile, a party born in 2003 of guns, the Bible, and white nationalism, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada, is leading in the polls to form the next government of Canada. This in spite of the fact - the fact - its leader can't even get a national security clearance and publicly supported the Freedom Convoy while it terrorized civilians living and working in downtown Ottawa - later hosting its insurrectionist leaders in OUR Parliament - in the very spot our national Remembrance Day ceremony takes place every year.

Dying for News

I'm not a REAL military strategist, but, if the current Israeli government really wanted to whack Hamas leaders, instead of carpet bombing Gaza and wiping out its captive population of Palestinian families, while we watch helplessly in horror, just as we watch helplessly in horror while Russia's mafia state does the same to Ukrainian families, why isn't it bombing 5-star hotels in Qatar or deploying its world famous assassins to off 'em in their 4000 thread count sheets, instead of pretending it's still David and not Goliath, slaughtering helpless, unarmed, and trapped Palestinian families - just as Hamas did to families in Israel on October 7?

No, please, stop. The facts are quite clear. Netanyahu is a proven unconscionable liar, crook and autocrat who should be in prison, his government openly genocidal in its rhetoric, the settlers homicidal fundamentalist zealots, many of them from Russia, armed to the teeth, who've been terrorizing Palestinian families for months. Years. Israelis themselves, ordinary families like the ones slaughtered by Hamas terrorists, have been in their streets, demonstrating against Netanyahu and his genocidal government for months. Years. They know how dangerous he and his government are and they want him gone. He's their Trump. Period. End of.

And now we know - we know, ffs - he and his government have been deliberately and with intent empowering Hamas for years.

Years? Decades.

The fact is, and it is a fact, not a conspiracy theory, not anti-Israel/pro-Palestine sentiment (which is no such thing, it's pro-citizen sentiment, but whatever, it wouldn't be a pointlessly divisive war of words without incendiary labels, would it) a fact, Netanyahu and his government have been in bed with Hamas leaders for years. Why? Because extremists are always on the same side against civil society, they're against you, me, the Israeli citizens demonstrating against their corrupt government, the Palestinian citizens just trying to survive from day to day without going stark-raving mad as I surely would be by now, that's why.

It makes no sense, no one is safer, and it doesn't matter to the dead children and their bereaved parents which extremist pulled the trigger.

I. Would. Be. Insane. With. Grief. And. Rage.

What about you? Pretend for a minute instead of defending this eye for an eye for an eye and so on and so forth and more of the same etc etc on Twitter, slandering and attacking people who don't share your apparent zeal for reactionary slaughter, you're facing down the fact - in real life - that you and your children have no place to be on this Earth anymore, that even this open air prison you've been consigned to is being destroyed, and no one is offering you and your children refuge because the leaders who can are pretending the Goliath bombing you is still David and supplying them with ever more bombs and you with, well, what difference does it make if they send you food or not. There's nowhere to eat it anyway.

Sorry, but there's only one side to be on here, mine, your own, humanity's, and if you think by slandering your co-citizens for pointing out the insanity of responding to a terrorist attack on Israelis by carpet bombing Palestinians trapped in Gaza, which, by the way and in case you haven't bothered to google while you mindlessly rah rah this so-called defence, is 41 km long and 10 km wide, you need to climb down off your virtual hobby horse and get a life.

It's painful watching the news. I still take it as my responsibility, the least I can do, bear witness to news delivered conveniently to my home by journalists, many of whom are killed in the process, targeted for slaughter now by terrorists and governments alike, such is the decreasing daylight between them these days.

Ukraine is defending itself from Russian state terrorism.

Israel isn't defending itself. It's raining death and destruction down on Palestinian families. Families just like yours, mine, and the Israeli ones slaughtered by Hamas terrorists.