Crisis Update - Canadians Face To Face With Fascism

Liberal left begins to recognize the tyrannical impulse behind The Great Reset

Canada’s deputy PM moves to make some emergency powers permanent.
Property seizure seems central to the Trudeau-Freeland putsch.
Middle class wake up to the implications of arbitrary rule.
The Great Reset becomes plain as day to sleepy heads.
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Democracy now resides outside of Canada’s parliament

Feb 21, 2022

People are suddenly aroused by the spectre of fascism in Canada. Like Sleeping Beauty even self-described left-liberals are dusting themselves off, discovering that they have been comatose these past two years. We are into third period.

What hit them like a puck to the chest was the first-time use of the Emergency Act (1988), to issue a “burn notice” on truckers, freezing their digital presence including bank accounts and threatening to cancel insurance, rendering them unable to work.

The political targeting of bank accounts alarmed the middle class, who started to withdraw their money leading banks to suspend operations. They saw the freezing of funds as a capricious act, a sign of instability. Property is a fundamental right, and government officials are riding roughshod, not only over assets, but physical bodies.

If the first whiff of protest brings forth this response, why are the rulers so touchy? Suspending rights as a health measure is one thing; this is brutal force.

Canada’s national story has evolved from rugged pioneer individualism to a faith in finding common ground and rational resolution of needs. For Canadians, who tolerate being stereotyped as boring because they cherish the reliable and trustworthy, this is a profound shock. [1]

It’s true, some people cheered the attempt to disperse the protest against vaccine mandates but others see prime minister Justin Trudeau’s measures as off the charts, setting an intemperate precedent.

The country’s Civil Liberties Association has mounted a legal challenge saying there is no way the vehicles obstruct “the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada,” the pretext for bringing the Act into force.

The truckers rounded a blind bend and came face-to-face with despotism.

"Canada appears a long way from Trumpist fascism. However, one should recall that fascism does not storm bastions of power; it is let into power’s corridors by those in charge.

Today, Canada’s leaders appear as prone to do that as any others. Yesterday’s invocation of the Emergencies Act could come to count as Mr Justin Trudeau’s worst political decision."

That is what you call an awakening from University of Manitoba politics professor Radhika Desai, president of the Society for Socialist Studies. [2]

Fresh tyranny

The latest moves by Canada’s tyrannical duo include extending the Emergency Act to make may of its powers permanent, covering the freezing of assets.

Canada’s deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland struck an authoritarian last Thursday as she spoke enthusiastically about closing more bank accounts, both personal and corporate, and insurance, with “zero tolerance” for any further protest.

We now have the tools to follow the money. We can see what is happening and what is being planned in real time and we are absolutely determined that this must end now and for good.”

Choose your spectre

For years the liberal left has failed to identify fascism. As with the communists confronted by Stalin’s purges they put near-term objectives ahead of rationality.

Through the Trump years it was considered fair play to use fascism as a portmanteau for demagoguery, but it gradually lost meaning as did populism as a synonym for far-right. The Washington Post carried an article, “How fascist is President Trump? There's a formula for that,” which graded him on 11 measures. The 2016 assessment was updated in 2020. The conclusion: “Not that much, at least compared to the 20th century's leading fascists.”

I disagree, not with their findings on Trump but the metrics they ignored. Over the past two decades the United States has moved in the direction of fascism, empowering the state relative to individuals, privatising many functions of national security, adding ever more secret police, militarizing law enforcement and giving finance capital and corporations an outsize role in government. We just didn’t see it coming in Canada.

The key definition and warning sign is the merger of state and corporate power, along with the submission of human or spiritual values to the state. Carl Schmitt legal theorist of the Third Reich said the leader must judge who does and does not belong to the civic community. [3]

Politicians increasingly claim the right to grant and withdraw citizenship by decree. Britain’s Nationality and Borders Bill, now approaching its third reading in the House of Lords, provides that the government would not even have to inform people that their citizenship is being removed until after the decision.

Dissenters have quibbled, these past two years of lockdown, which flavour of statist power grab we are witnessing. The argument is futile because we are not going back to 1917 or 1933 but forward to something much worse. Aldous Huxley warned that a scientific dictatorship, once launched, would be almost impossible to overthrow. That is why we must stop it now.

Senseless sensibility

The tender liberal sensibility was reluctant to confront this horror. We have all been there. My working definition of today’s liberalism is that it is a defensive posture from a position of relative financial security. It welcomes social novelty as a badge of status, so long as the novel status of other people costs it nothing.

Others have summed this in the phrase socially liberal, economically conservative. That is vague but captures the gist.

Hard political distinctions are avoided. Terms like fascism are used as political epithets to hurl at opponents.

Until you are hit on the rebound. The Trudeau administration’s decision to spy on, and freeze, bank accounts sent a ripple of terror through the comfortable classes.

Re-entering reality

Your galactic mileage may vary but I proceed on the course that reality is concrete, whatever the structuralists say. If all humanity disappeared off the face of the Earth tomorrow, the planet would still spin. Animals live in varying degrees of isolation, cohesion, cooperation and brutality, and our traits include gangsterism and thuggery dressed up as cartels, syndicates, and justified by claims of superior breeding and genes.

Humans often confuse criticism with deceit. This prevents them criticizing others, even when their security is at stake. “It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled,” said Mark Twain.

People will march through gates emblazoned “Der große Neustart ist eine Verschwörungstheorie” (The Great Reset is a conspiracy theory) rather than heed your warnings not to jump aboard the cattle wagons.

Once they see it with their own eyes, they’re in the stage of the game where the outcome is in sight. And Canadians may just have entered the final period.

Der große Reset

It is dismissed out of hand. Talk of an alleged takeover by the elites is “implausible,” said The Guardian in Dec 2020. The BBC said there were several books of that title but they got “hijacked by conspiracy theories.”

The following is a simplified explanation. For what it might feel like to live in The Great Reset see Moneycircus, Nov 21, 2021 — The Great Reset Is Complete: A future retrospective

Prince Charles pitched The Great Reset, on Jun 3, 2020, while speaking for The Investors, the wealthiest families who own the raw materials — minerals, energy, food, water. They aim to perpetuate their advantage by locking the rest of the population down into digital servitude. It would be little different from slavery as people’s ability to work and thus eat would be linked to their identity.

It is essential to understand that although you have a social security number, it is based on a piece of paper, a birth certificate. You enter into contracts via that paper, which is a placeholder for your real person. What TGR proposes is to bind your physical person to your digital identity. At that point you will no longer be free to contract. You shall be owned.

The financial strategist Catherine Austin Fitts strengthens this argument: slavery was in truth abolished because it was losing money. When slaves escaped, they could not be identified and the insurance companies could not collect on collateral. Once people are branded digitally, they can never disappear and slavery once again becomes profitable.

Ultimately, you cannot grasp TGR unless you understand the mentality of the extreme rich. They want to power, like The Godfather writ large, to raise men up and take them down. It is all about control.

That is all you need to know, except who is behind it. Stripped of the jargon it is a basically the biggeset owners of corporations and natural resources using the mechanism of the United Nations to take over or direct the government of all nations, starting with the Anglo nations.

In reality TGR is a merger of two projects: United Nations sustainable development Agenda 2030, which plans to vacate much of the Earth and herd the remaining human population into smart cities; and the World Economic Forum, founded in 1971, which represents the 1,000 biggest corporations, and aims to revive 1930s business practices that created the modern German powerhouse. [4]

Of course, the project goes deeper and wider. TGR itself is very complex: you can visit for yourelf the detailed “transformation maps” for every industry on the WEF site. [5]

The Reset is a forest that you can’t see for the trees. Fly above it in a private Gulfstream jet and you will appreciate the topography, the landmarks — you might even catch a glimpse of Elon Musk’s lithium mines, or Bill Gates 240,000 acres of farmland or Jeff Bezos’ island or the corporate-run private cities.

From ground level it is impossible to grasp the tendrils that link different aspects of mineral extraction and industry, and the complex mechanical and economic systems intended to account for energy use, offset and capture of “greenhouse” gases, to restrict human consumption and hence to reshape every aspect of life, culture, activity and belief.

For added complexity the project goes by many names: in addition to TGR and Agendas 2021 and 2030, you have Build Back Better, Green New Deal. This is easily simplified because the same bodies stand behind all these projects: the UN, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, several tax-evading foundations like Rockefeller and Gates, the 1,000 biggest corporations, and the world’s big three asset managers who own them: BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard.

When he launched TGR, Prince Charles was clutching a book of the same name by the WEF’s founder Dr Schwab, who added in his inimitable, gutteral lack of oomph: “Now is the historical moment, the time, not just to fight the real virus but to shape the system.”

It’s interesting that he felt the need to assure us the virus was real.

The bald head has replaced the trim moustache as a macho symbol. In other ways little has changed. In its German uniform, Der große Neustart will be no less stark than the version attempted almost 100 years ago when another group of technocrats was promoting the danger of a virus.