Criminalizing Dissent in Canada

Lefties in western countries keep bemoaning “authoritarianism” while behaving like authoritarians. Orwellian convolutions of language are used to redefine their political opponents, no matter how powerless, as “authoritarians” even while they accuse them of sedition and incitement which is the sort of language actual authoritarians use to stifle political dissent.

The Trudeau government has followed the familiar political blueprint of the EU and the American Left in defining anyone opposed to their rule from the center or the right as dangerous seditionists, along the while criminalizing participating in those protests.

Two serving members of the Canadian military’s elite counter-terrorism unit are under investigation for allegedly taking part in protests in downtown Ottawa.

The individuals are members of Joint Task Force 2, this newspaper has confirmed. JTF2 is the unit that would be called upon to deal with terrorism and at times provide protection for VIPs such as the prime minister.

The actions of a third Canadian Forces member, who had served with JTF2 but is now assigned to the procurement section at the Department of National Defence, is also under scrutiny.

Maj.-Gen. Steve Boivin, the commander of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, confirmed he has ordered the two investigations into the alleged activities of those in his organization.

“The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command does not condone its members supporting and/or actively taking part in causes that jeopardize the apolitical imperative associated with their functions,” Boivin said in a statement to this newspaper. “I expect our members to act in ways that demonstrate Canadian Armed Forces values and ethics, and to uphold them both on and off duty.

Would members of the Canadian Armed Forces who participated in racial protests, environmental protests, or pro-immigrant protests get this kind of treatment?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/02/criminalizing-dissent-canada-daniel-greenfield/

France: Colombian arrested for stabbing 18-year-old girl in her throat

A 34-year-old Colombian was taken into custody for the Feb. 5 after the violent stabbing of an 18-year-old French girl in the town of Nantes. The victim remains in the hospital, but is no longer in critical condition.

He was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a judge in the town of Agen in the southern part of France, according to French paper Le Figaro.

The young woman, who is a student in a scientific preparatory class in Nantes high school, was violently attacked this Saturday, Feb. 5, at Avenue Camus street in Nantes. At 8 a.m., the student from Bordeaux was stabbed seven times, including once in the neck, and then hospitalized, according to the public prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul. She was hospitalized for a severe hemorrhagic wound on her neck, resulting an attempted murder charge for the migrant.

Alerted by shouts, passers-by intervened to scare away the perpetrator, who was initially described as looking “African,” but later determined to be from Colombia.

The public prosecutor indicated that the suspect was from Bogota. The day after the events, Sunday Feb. 6, a veterinarian working near the scene of the attack, reported to the authorities that she had treated an individual who had a wound on his hand. This information was shared with French law enforcement, which police used to track down the suspect after his wound matched an individual checked by the border police in Rennes after he got off a train from Nantes on Saturday.

The Colombian was referred Friday evening to the prosecution and presented to an investigating magistrate. He was indicted for “attempted murder”, “theft”, “concealment of theft” and “fraud” and remanded in custody by the judge of freedoms and detention. “During his police custody, the person concerned admitted the facts, without explaining the reasons except for massive alcoholism and consumption of narcotics,” said the public prosecutor of Nantes.

“The checks immediately carried out, including genetic analyses, made it possible to gather sufficient elements to justify his placement in police custody for attempted voluntary homicide”, details the public prosecutor of Nantes.

https://rmx.news/article/france-colombian-arrested-for-stabbing-18-year-old-girl-in-her-throat-in-nantes/

Syrian wanted to kill sister in Germany: “If I can’t kill my sister today, I’ll do it tomorrow. If I can’t do it tomorrow, I’ll do it the day after tomorrow…”.

“If I can’t kill my sister today, I’ll do it tomorrow. If I can’t do it tomorrow, I’ll do it the day after tomorrow…”

The slender, small defendant (18 years, 1.60 metres) who is said to have said these words hides his face behind a briefcase. Since Friday, he has been standing trial for attempted murder at the Dortmund Regional Court.

Abdullah A. did not have a good day on August 21, 2021. His big sister (20), married in their home country, two children, exchanged voice messages with a strange man. While the brother confronted her, gave her a “slap in the face”, his fries burst into flames on the cooker, according to police investigations. The Syrian ended up in hospital. Smoke poisoning.

The next day, the next argument about the smartphone messages, which were immoral in the eyes of the short brother. This time he hit her with his fist, his father intervened.Apparently Abdullah had gone berserk and chased his sister down the street with a sharp courgette slicer. Prosecutor Andreas Brendel: “He intended to kill her in order to restore what he saw as the family honour.”

On the pavement, the younger brother (13) stopped the violent offender, at the same moment a patrol car braked – alerted by another sister. Police officer Jannis K. (20): “We drew our weapons and shouted at him to drop the knife. He hesitated, his eyes looked around wildly. Then his father came to him. We shouted for him to step out of the line of fire. That’s when the accused then dropped the weapon.”

Later, Abdullah A. told of his murder plans without being asked and was instructed about his right to remain silent. On the next but one day of the trial, the accused will testify to the accusations.

https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/er-jagte-sie-mit-einem-gemuese-entkerner-syrer-18-wollte-schwester-21-toeten-79121798.bild.html###wt_ref=https:/m.bild.de/&wt_t=1644839285469

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Germany: Turkish associations are stirring up trouble against a philosophy teacher who raised the issue of Islamic forced marriage in class

Assignment in philosophy lessons at the Alleestraße grammar school in Siegburg

Learning is not just for school, but for life.

That’s what a philosophy teacher at the Alleestraße grammar school in Siegburg probably thought and gave his students the following task:

“A Turkish father in Germany marries his daughter to his brother’s son without her consent in order to secure him a residence permit for Germany and thus a livelihood. Discuss the situation with the person sitting next to you. What conflicts do you see in it?

The topic of the philosophy lesson is likely to occupy us for some time in the multi-cultural Germany of the 21st century. It is:

“An ethics for all cultures? – Opening up problems in the field of tension between cultural relativism and universalism.”

So the inevitable happened. The Dortmund-based “Federation of Turkish Parents’ Associations in North Rhine-Westphalia” got wind of the matter. It could just as well have been the red “” Union for Education and Science”” or the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. The usual charade began, the school had to publicly ask for the indulgence of its sins – and the philosophy teacher was lucky if he got out of the affair relatively unscathed. Maybe he should do something “against right-wing extremism” next? Somehow he has to get rid of the smell of racism.

Remarkably, the “Federation of Turkish Parents’ Associations” does not even claim that there are no forced marriages of Turkish girls by their fathers in Germany. No one is allowed to talk or philosophise about it. And this is so obvious to all the so-called educated and cosmopolitan participants in the hunt for the Siegburg philosophy teacher that they do not even think it necessary to say a single word about it.

Incidentally, the controversial assignment is said to have been taken out of context and to have come “from a textbook approved in North Rhine-Westphalia”, according to the “Bild” newspaper.

https://www.pi-news.net/2022/02/streit-um-schulaufgabe-an-siegburger-gymnasium/

Slavery Was Illegal Under English Common Law

By Bob Ryan

The left tells us that black slavery is unique to Anglo-Saxon culture. But the reality of the matter is that slavery was always illegal in its motherland, England. How so?

Going back to 1215, start with the fact that England became a unique nation in the world around the issue of individual rights.

That began with the Magna Carta, which established for the first time that a king, in this case, the hated King John, was forced to admit he did not have absolute power. It may have been at the proverbial end of a sword and broken soon after by King John, but he was the one who marked the wax and was carried through by every king and queen to follow with some ignoring their limitation at great cost to them.

It should have rippled throughout Europe to other powerful lords who wanted the power the English barons gained, instead it remained localized to England. After King John’s defeat by the barons, others of equal rank should have followed. Outside Britain, it never went anywhere.

There was a ripple that did happen, but not throughout Europe, and not immediately realized. It was a ripple through time that led to English Common Law being written. It was a system of laws that bound everyone. The Magna Carta started with the limiting of kings and queens who ruled Britain. It spread to other royals who could not claim they had absolute power when not even a king or queen could make that claim.

No one was above English Common Law throughout Britain. If not even a king or queen had absolute power, no one did.

In order for any British colony to legally exist, Common Law was required by London. It was the reason representative governments were set up, whether the powerful governors liked it or not. Any governor could be removed and replaced by London for any number of reasons, including dragging his feet on the matter of installing representative government.

Outside Common Law were various codes backed by various crowns and high-ranking people. Due to Common Law being the law of the land, the codes were not lawful. The only thing considered lawful was what was written in Common Law.

The codes were an attempt to bypass Common Law. They had no legal standing in the courts. For something to be legal, it had to be included in Common Law.

Slavery was one of those issues that was included in code, but never added to Common Law. Considering the penchant of peasants for rising up and killing royals in England, none would dare risk their lives to make slavery legal.

In 1772, Somerset v Stewart was heard by Lord Mansfield, the presiding judge in that case. It makes for an interesting case of code versus Common Law, since it was dealing with slave code over what was permissible under the Common Law.

From History on the Net, The Case of Somerset v Setwart:

“That famous case involved a slave from [J]amaica, James Sommersett, who escaped when his master brought him along on a business trip to England. After he was recaptured, Sommersett was placed in chains aboard a ship that was to take him to Jamaica to be sold. While still aboard the ship, however, Sommersett was brought by habeas corpus before the Court of King’s Bench.”

Lord Mansfield was known for being a stickler with the law. He was not the judge anyone on the side of slave codes wanted sitting in judgment over that case. Without slavery included in Common Law, they had no legal grounds, since codes were not law.

From the UK National Archives, The Somerset Case:

“The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law,…It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged.”

The positive law Lord Mansfield referred to was something that had to be included in English Common Law. Since there had only been slave codes and never a word about slavery being included in Common Law, the slave codes as a whole were found to be illegal.

Thomas Hobbes had one of the most brilliant legal minds of his day. His book, Leviathan, continues to be studied, despite it being written in 1651. He wrote about what made positive law in his book.

From Britannica, Thomas Hobbes:

In his magnum opus, Leviathan (1651), he wrote that “law in general, is not counsel, but command” and that civil (i.e., positive) laws are “those rules which the common-wealth hath commanded…by word, writing, or other sufficient sign of the will” that certain actions are to be done or not done.

The entirety of English Common Law consisted of positive laws. Positive is not a reference to a moraly positive, but something that was legal.

Since there were no slave laws included in Common Law, there was no positive laws to support the abhorrent practice. Slavery had no legal foundation to exist anywhere in Britain.

Any law written in a given British colony had to follow Common Law, not codes. Any law passed in a colony that violated Common Law was an illegal law. Slavery should have been stamped out by London the moment a single colony made slavery legal.

The failure of London to act immediately after the first illegal code was written resulted in the horrors of slavery that followed elsewhere. Slavery was a clear violation of English Common Law, since it never included slavery as being permissible under any circumstances.

The only legal thing that could be done regarding lifelong servitude was if an indentured servant violated the law, which included running away. A servant, if found guilty of violating any law could have his contract extended for the entirety of the servant’s life. It did happen on occasion and was legally allowed under Common Law.

Lord Mansfield was a rarity in his time and any other. He had the courage of his convictions that English Common Law took precedence over code. He was the Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of his day. Someone who cared about law over everything else.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/slavery_was_illegal_under_english_common_law.html

Climate mania is costing Greek lives

Climate mania imposed by the eco-socialist elites has degenerated into a real drama in Greece, the cradle of Europe.

The alleged climate apocalypse is being touted by the mainstream Greek globalist media as the reason for drastically rising energy prices and thousands of citizens have been left to fend off the cold.

In the capital Athens, in the port metropolis of Piraeus as well as in other large cities, impoverished people are desperately trying to warm their freezing flats at least a little with old wood stoves or even charcoal grills. Often they start fires that eventually lead to fire disasters.

For example, sixteen people died in just one month, from 20 November to 20 December 2021 in such accidents. The youngest were just twelve and thirteen years old.

The reason for the fact that people, in their sheer desperation and fear of dying from the cold, are heating their homes with whatever they can get their hands on, is the drastically increased price of energy.

Natural gas, for example, has risen by almost 200 percent. Electricity has risen by as much as 300 percent. Electricity bills for two months, which normally amount to around 100 euros, are now running up to 300 euros, according to consumer associations. For the four-month final payments, even additional payments of up to 500 euros could be due.

The energy crisis in Europe is being manufactured according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, clearly in a bid to stop Russian gas from flowing through NordStream2. “You see what is happening in Europe. There is hysteria and some confusion in the markets. Why? Some people are speculating on climate change issues, some people are underestimating some things, some are starting to cut back on investments in the extractive industries. There needs to be a smooth transition.”

But the elites have focused on creating a flashpoint in former gas hub, Ukraine, to continue the process of energy inflation. This makes it possible for governments and large corporations to confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of citizens.

Meanwhile, the climate insanity of the German Greens, a party of Davos infiltrators, continue, while literally costing lives in Greece.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/02/13/climate-mania-is-costing-greek-lives/