Thread by @sunnshiiny

Please check this out.

Check the lame attempt to distance this behaviour from Conservatives & pin it on People’s Party. A fringe party. When CPC clearly contributed toxic rhetoric to the two assassination attempts on PMJT this past July 2020.

globalnews.ca/news/7600018/r…

This article makes me feel very unsafe.

A sub machine gun. Not that I’m familiar with gun terminology, but yikes!

This arrest does demonstrate that the unhinged far right stochastic terrorist (or many of them) is a probability in Canada.

But how many of them are there?

The article doesn’t say. But “where we go one we go all” is the Q’Anon motto. And there are literally millions of Q’Anon in Canada.

Q’Anon is a internet based death cult, spreading globally like wildfire.

Many of the Capitol rioter insurgents have been confirmed as Q’Anon.

The guy in the weird horns and naked chest is a Q’Anon shamen. Whatever that means. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Worse, many of the Capitol insurgents were also evangelical Christians. Declaring god was on their side and provided moral absolution for their ambitions of murdering Democrats.

So there could be literally millions of Canadians with these insane beliefs and a stock load of guns and ammunition.

Kinda makes one want to lock the doors and hole up at home, forever.

But that will only give these unhinged radical extremists what they want. Power & control.

It’s time we start demanding politicians to condemn this behaviour. Stop feeding red meat toxic rhetoric to domestic terrorists and deplatform the propaganda amplifiers.

We need federal and provincial legislation to address stochastic terrorism.

Fat chance we will ever see that in Alberta. But federally declaring Proud Boys a domestic terror entity is not nearly enough.

We require a federal response to domestic terror threats.

We need public service announcements informing the public of what the threat level is.

We need to build public awareness of stochastic terrorism and the rhetoric that accompanies it originating from politicians and political pundits. Like this garbage from Preston Manning: nationalpost.com/opinion/presto…

For one, he has no valid reason to be given a public platform to attempt to equate livelihoods with the value of actual human lives. Additionally, his assumptions that the federal government need address his foolish opines is hubris and political posturing.

And finally, his focus on the loss of charter rights vs the realities of a deadly global pandemic is tantamount to suggesting the population he represents will not tolerate further covid measures that prevent citizens from earning a livelihood. It’s a veiled threat.

How this opinion article made it past editors at National Post is no secret.

Some owners and board members of Postmedia are directly connected to Donald Trump. And Postmedia news outlets have been publishing propaganda and disinformation for years.

Ever since Harper removed restrictions on foreign ownership of key Canadian cultural assets; i.e. the news.

These issues must be dealt with immediately.

Make proposed legislation widely known to the public. Along with the cause and effect of stochastic terror speech.

Use public pressure and the knowledge of January 6, 2021 act of treason and insurrection to protect Canadians from foreign agents publishing incendiary material. Hold these news organizations to account. Fine them heavily and force public retractions for amplifying toxic BS.

We are not powerless. We can pushback on demagoguery and populist rhetoric that creates alternate realities.

We don’t live in the US and Canadian freedom of expression is not an unlimited right to create chaos and feed red meat to extremists and radicalized menaces.

That’s what we do with our fear. Turn it into action and public pressure to support the government to protect all citizens.

Because there will be backlash from those who use the unregulated internet and foreign owned and controlled MSM to amplify disinformation narratives.

We will have those who bellow it’s an infringement of their rights to mitigate lies and false information.

But until we can effectively quell the multiple echo chambers that have created alternate realities that promote hate and violence, we live in a state of constant fear.

Stochastic terrorism is about probabilities. We know toxic rhetoric inflames vulnerable unhinged citizens, but we have no way of predicting who will use the tacit approval to employ violence or when or where. We just know through calculating probability that it WILL happen.

This is the modern form of terrorism. Perfected by foreign terrorist groups and now employed by domestic far right politicians and organizations.

January 6, 2021 attack of the US Capitol was only possible because there were no limits imposed on American free speech.

Rhetoric is verbal psychological manipulation. It’s persuasion. And it’s powerful.

The power of speech is well known and studied. Toxic forms of speech cause violent outcomes. That’s fact, as factual as water is wet.

There is a cause effect relationship between violence & speech known as incendiary provocation.

If it’s illegal to encourage vulnerable people to harm themselves, then it should be illegal to encourage vulnerable people to harm others. Regardless of plausible deniability.

Public speech and those who speak publicly must be held to account. It should NOT be permissible to incite hatred, insinuate violence is warranted or acceptable, and it should be a crime when it happens.

This is a long-standing and well known social norm that needs to be codified. And it needs action now. Not later when we collectively forget about the absolute treason caused by the President of the US and an assortment of his complicit henchmen.

The public is afraid.

We need some armour to protect ourselves from stochastic terrorism, since it is now being used by far right to intimidate and create catastrophe.

Good thing it’s already in the works.

https://twitter.com/s_guilbeault/status/1353813841247875072

What the federal government requires is vocal public support. Just like the long gun ban. The majority of the public must demand this legislation be passed and reach royal assent.

This isn’t partisan, but read the comments on the article arguing hate speech should be free.

You want to turn your fear into action and make Canada a better and safer place for all, then show this legislation your support. Write a letter or email. Follow @s_guilbeault and let him know we want and need this legislation.

Stop stochastic terrorism. It’s killing democracy.