What has made these actions all the more radical is the absolute secrecy with which Obama has draped all of this. Not only is the entire process carried out solely within the Executive branch - with no checks or oversight of any kind - but there is zero transparency and zero accountability. The president's underlings compile their proposed lists of who should be executed, and the president - at a charming weekly event dubbed by White House aides as "Terror Tuesday" - then chooses from "baseball cards" and decrees in total secrecy who should die. The power of accuser, prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner are all consolidated in this one man, and those powers are exercised in the dark.
The hostility was focused on Trudeau’s vaccine policies but it was a broader, deeply malicious sense that Trudeau has changed the country in ways the protesters find unacceptable. The Liberal leader said he witnessed a level of anger he’d never seen – not in 12 years as a politician, or as the son of prime minister. He said the event was cancelled because the safety of the people in attendance could not be guaranteed.
Pre-election polls that suggested most Canadians are comfortable with the direction in which the country is heading clearly did not talk to anyone present at the campaign stop in Nobleton, Ontario, or in Bolton.
There is a level of coordination in the protests – many of the same people attended both. In Nobleton, one woman with a child screamed that the Liberal leader is a “f*ing ahole.” Another with a baby on her hip could be seen flipping the bird in Trudeau’s direction.
The Liberal leader held an impromptu press conference with reporters and candidates on a Brampton sports field after the cancelled rally. He was asked about his impressions. “In the past 18 months, we have seen an increase in anxiety, anger and frustration – a sense of powerlessness in a bunch of people that the world is unfolding in ways that they can’t control,” he said.
“We all need to reflect on whether we want to go down that path of anger, division and intolerance.”
He is right. But that feeling of being under siege by the engines of change is not happening in isolation. Trudeau wants to go forward and create a world made in his progressive image. “I’m ready to do big things,” he said.
Yet he has no tolerance for anyone who dissents from his vision of the future. Those who disagree are not just in error, but in sin. There is no recognition in this vision that it is as divisive, if not more so, than Stephen Harper’s brand of hardball politics.
The anti-vaccine protesters are a crackpot fringe. One woman in Nobleton bellowed that she had COVID. “It’s a f***ing cold,” she screamed. But they are only the most vocal representation of a significant minority of Canadians who don’t want to go forward into Trudeau’s brave new world; they would prefer to go backward to a world where their status and place in the world was more assured.
They are entitled to their opinions, if not the shameful way their resentment was expressed – always with an undercurrent of violence.
Trudeau said he is confident Canadians will reject the sentiments being expressed. “It’s not who we are as a country. We are comfortable with differences,” he said.
He is right about that too. Reasonable Canadians will repudiate such tactics and look more sympathetically on Trudeau because they find the protests not only inexplicable but abhorrent.
The agitators should reflect that all their antics are likely to achieve is the return to power of their nemesis.
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>We’ve produced some preparedness advice for Mandarin speakers in the path of Hurricane
According to genetic studies, the mandarin was one of the original citrus species; through breeding or natural hybridization, it is the ancestor of many hybrid citrus cultivars. With the citron and pomelo, it is the ancestor of the most commercially important hybrids (such as sweet and sour oranges, grapefruit, and many lemons and limes). The mandarin has also been hybridized with other citrus species, such as the desert lime and the kumquat. Though the ancestral mandarin was bitter, most commercial mandarin strains derive from hybridization with pomelo, which give them a sweet fruit.
Balloon Enterprise
Washington, June 16 1861
To President United States:
This point of observation commands an area nearly fifty miles in diameter. The city with its girdle of encampments presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station and in acknowledging indebtedness to your encouragement for the opportunity of demonstrating the availability of the science of aeronautics in the service of the country. T.S.C. Lowe.
While we were longing for balloons that poverty denied us, a genius arose and suggested that we send out and get every silk dress in the Confederacy to make a balloon. It was done and soon we had a great patchwork ship for use in the Seven Days campaign. One day it was on a steamer down the James River when the tide went out and left it high and dry on a [sand]bar. The Federals gathered it in, and with it the last silk dress in the Confederacy. This was the meanest trick of the war.