State Propaganda
Canada has its mouthpieces - its Glavit. I've seen them both and they compare well.
OMG. I have spent all week forcing myself to watch the CTV, the CBC, Global News and a few other Canadian news outlets. I’m here to testify before my brethren - it is nothing but propaganda.
The Truckers’ protest is legitimate. I’m not even going to debate it or lay out reasons. People can and MUST protest when governments enact laws that are over-reach and draconian, commanding, totalitarian, divisive, I’m the king and you listen up and comply or else.
But watching the news, reading the Canadian news, you got to really wonder if you haven’t been zapped to an alternative universe. It’s just bizarre. It’s state-sponsored pap and propaganda. Who is signing their checks to make it so? Racist? Huh? Fringe? Huh? Desecration of monuments? Huh? And we have PM Trudeau stating that the truckers are stealing food from the homeless? Huh? What’s he smoking? It’s the campaign to discredit the protesters that has started, that’s what. And it’s all lies. State propaganda.
Listen - I’ve been there. I spent a good number of years on the lines of real protests. People fighting for their rights. I wrote recently about my time in Kyiv and the “as cold as Canada” camps in the middle of their capital. But NEVER would I have thought that media would be so one-sided and so spiteful, inconsiderate, not understanding and TOTALITARIAN, aligned with big business and big government.
Let me tell you - the Truckers’ protest is about socio-economics. It’s about the working class, those like myself, a poet, half-time teacher struggling for a dime. Struggling to put shoes on their kids AND the other part of Canada that just says, “All is ok. I got my investments. I got my online job. I got a 1,000 dollars in the bank (thank you Tom Petty for that line!).
Now, I think there are many sympathetic for the Truckers on the well-to-do side.. The people that come from places where you lived hand to mouth, where you know about what it is like to live in constant stress of where the next dime comes from, where you lived in fear of your life. Like me, I spent a good number of my formative years in Jamestown Cres. - Doomstown in local Toronto folklore. Murders every week, suicides, people just stressed by the poverty, the crush of life. As a kid witnessing the wreck that is poverty and being socially closed out from getting ahead.
I reject the media and Trudeau labeling Truckers as “disobedient, hateful” and to be soon swept off the sidewalk and streets like some litter. I reject this view of a cosmetic, obedient Canada. Compliant like the Soviet and the Glasnik (General Directorate for the Protection of State and Press) of old.
In Kyiv years ago, I spent all winter bringing coffee and food and money to those fighting for legitimacy and change on Maidan. Alas, they were bulldozed down, tents swept up in a night and 100s never seen from again. This won’t happen with the truckers. If there is the threatened government “enforcement” - I’ll be right up there and I won’t back down (thank you again Petty). I’ll drive my tractor right up to 24 Sussex.
We need a country free to express its views. Free to push back against tyranny without police terror.
I ask all of those in the socio-economic “good” in Canada, to listen to this video below. To reach out to the dispossessed of Canada. To realize there is so much beyond how soft we’ve had it. We need healing not police action.
PS> the producer of this video makes some damn good content. Find him on Youtube.