New Pieces at Compact and Newsweek

The Fight to Free Canada requires missives launched from South of the Border.

Good Morning all.

A short note to promote a piece I had published this morning at Compact, and another which I helped facilitate over at Newsweek.

In "Trudeau's War on Truth" over at Compact I give a short examination of Trudeau’s recent sperg-out over the layoffs at Bell Media, and the general degradation of Canadian Media as a whole, and show that its mostly his own fault.

Nothing like a nation wide code of silence on an issue of extreme import to make people averse to consuming state financed propaganda.

Some snippets -

What passes for journalism in Canada has certainly eroded in recent years, but it is Trudeau himself who deserves much of the blame. In 2019, when executives from the same “corporate entities” he recently decried came to him and begged for taxpayer assistance to keep their unprofitable operations afloat, the prime minister lavished nearly $600 million upon them, followed by several “top-ups.” The effect has been to make Canada’s Fourth Estate a ward of the state, especially considering that, in addition to these handouts to nominally private broadcasters, our largest broadcaster, the CBC, is wholly government-owned and receives $1.3 billion a year in taxpayer funds.

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It was the first attention the Coutts case had received in some time. Ostensibly, this lack of coverage was owed to a ban on publishing certain information pertaining to the case, imposed at the request of the men’s defense counsel. The judge who agreed to the ban noted that amplifying “unsubstantiated allegations” against the men would reduce the pool of impartial jurors for a trial.

But the publication ban has come to serve as a pretext for media outlets not to report on details of the case that contradicted the narrative they had helped the government construct. In this way, inconvenient questions about the case could be suppressed.

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In the plea deal that saw Morin and Lysak released, the very serious charges of “conspiracy to murder police officers” were dropped, replaced by minor firearms-handling violations that weren’t part of the original suite of charges. If the state can accuse you of serious crimes, keep you locked up for two years, and then—when it appears the state is about to lose badly in court at a point when the case has lost its political utility, the charges are tossed—what right does anyone have to protest?


The whole thing is worth a read, and I would appreciate it greatly if you could pass it around so as to help us defeat both the algorithms which skew our information flows, and get us over the deafening Wall of Silence about this case in Canada.

Compact is a reader supported publication which regularly puts out great content which asks questions not often asked by the rest of the media, and is a great place to find ‘third-way’ thinking and ideas - perhaps you could purchases a subscription and help them publish more people like myself.

A few weeks back my editor at Newsweek, Batya-Ungar Sargon, asked if any of the Coutts Four men would like to write an Op-Ed describing their story of becoming political prisoners in Canada.

Three of the men have as yet to accept the offer, but our man Tony Olienick, whom I have referred to as Boethius in a Dump Truck was happy to tell his story.

I’m very proud to have helped facilitate this, and I hope you enjoy Tony’s piece -

Letter from a Canadian Political Prisoner

Excerpts -

How did I end up here?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I started to see the world I knew and loved crumble. The mandates under Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and the provincial premiers were destroying businesses, rupturing families, and harming the mental health of everyone I encountered.

People became desperate and wanted answers as to why the government was imposing such harsh restrictions on us, but our government was unresponsive.

In these dark days, I began attending freedom protest rallies and met like-minded people who shared my sentiments about getting our lives back.

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The love and affection and common humanity we shared in Coutts was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

That all came to an end on the night of February 13, 2022, when a heavily militarized police force entered the village and a number of us were arrested.


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Throughout this carceral purgatory, I have been witness to the overcrowding of jail facilities in Alberta. We are often three men to a cell with only one bunk bed, and I've spent many nights sleeping on the floor. I've spent long weeks in tiny cells with people going through extreme withdrawal from drug problems, and all of the bodily and mental excesses this entails. At least that was better than when I was kept in solitary confinement—a recognized form of torture—for at least 80 of the 730 days I have been in here.

I am told that one of my co-defendants, Jerry Morin, has also spent many periods in solitary confinement, though when not in solitary, he was mostly kept at a gang unit in Calgary with some truly unsavory convicted criminals and repeat offenders.

This is how Canada treats those who have yet to face trial and are guilty of nothing but peaceful protest.


As with the Compact piece above, please read the whole thing, and if you could spare a few seconds, send it along to those interested, especially anyone you know in Canada. It really is something that we have political prisoners in a modern western country in 2024, and more people need to understand what time it is.


Though two of the men now walk free, Tony and Chris Carbert are still facing a Kangaroo Court Star Chamber, and all four men and their families have enormous legal bills, and will require quite a bit of assistance in rebuilding their lives after this utterly disgusting railroading operation at the hands of the government.

Every little bit helps, and you can donate at this GiveSendGo -

https://www.givesendgo.com/trudeauspoliticalprisoners

Thanks again to all of my readers for paying attention, and hopefully for your care and consideration towards what is going on all around us.


Questions, comments, suggestions, corrections and Hate Mail are welcomed and encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com