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Emergency Act & Ottawa Occupation & ...
Feb. 14th, 2022 11:12 pmI have a lot of noncohesive thoughts about all this.
I do think the Ottawa police could have done more than they did.
I am surprised that Ottawa police and Ontario RCMP together couldn't/wouldn't do more together than they did.
On the other hand, nobody was expecting an occupation. Protestors come, rant, and go. This was different. It was also different in scale.
I do think the Federal response has been slow because they were scoping out the bad provocateurs, etc, and the lacksidaisical approach meant that BPs relaxed. People know a lot more about the sorry web of authoritarian haters and rich people planning to stay rich by feeding off misfortune.
There's also the whole "but rational people don't think this way" nonplussedness - one doesn't think that these people will so non-thoughtfully continue.
I did notice in the news footage of the Paris copycats that people were behaving like it was Mardi Gras. I think a lot of the energy powering the followers (both here and there) is cabin fever - getting outdoors and wearing crazy flappy costumes.
I also don't think the application of the Emergency Act is going to be on a faster track. It will be slow, and probably concentrate on behind-the-scenes strangling by financial means.
I do think the Ottawa police could have done more than they did.
I am surprised that Ottawa police and Ontario RCMP together couldn't/wouldn't do more together than they did.
On the other hand, nobody was expecting an occupation. Protestors come, rant, and go. This was different. It was also different in scale.
I do think the Federal response has been slow because they were scoping out the bad provocateurs, etc, and the lacksidaisical approach meant that BPs relaxed. People know a lot more about the sorry web of authoritarian haters and rich people planning to stay rich by feeding off misfortune.
There's also the whole "but rational people don't think this way" nonplussedness - one doesn't think that these people will so non-thoughtfully continue.
I did notice in the news footage of the Paris copycats that people were behaving like it was Mardi Gras. I think a lot of the energy powering the followers (both here and there) is cabin fever - getting outdoors and wearing crazy flappy costumes.
I also don't think the application of the Emergency Act is going to be on a faster track. It will be slow, and probably concentrate on behind-the-scenes strangling by financial means.
