1/x You have a right to protect yourself. You do not have a right to take away someone else's rights and freedoms to do so. Your rights end where mine begin and vice versa. This principle is the basis of ALL liberal democracies.
2/x 🇨🇦's Charter does NOT allow govt to suspend Charter rights and freedoms without FIRST passing the Oakes Test in a court of law in which ALL evidence is weighed. This was NEVER done. These public health measure are unlawful.
Ignoring legal principles does not make it right.
3/x Reasonable measures to protect health do not include:
- eliminating public debate
- media acting as a propaganda arm for govt
- suspending court access via evasion tactics
- limiting right to protest
- ignoring informed consent
- coersion
These are symptoms of tyranny.
4/x A new age of pandemics? This is pure fiction, a figment of fevered imaginations. There is no period in history without respiratory virus pandemics. This is not new or unprecedented. But the lockdown response is unrestrained medieval hysteria.
5/5 Solidarity is another word for tyranny when solidarity involves restricting evidence-based debate, govt propaganda, and censorship.
It used to be a liberal value to convince people through two-way evidence-based debate, not through one-way lecturing and brute force. #Tyranny
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