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.