Evidently there was another anti-mask rally in Calgary. As Artur Pawlowski is currently in Vancouver for the anti-mask rally set to occur there tomorrow I'm not sure how well attended today's event in Calgary was. 1/17
660citynews.com/2021/02/28/sec…
660citynews.com/2021/02/28/sec…
That said, yesterday's event was interesting in that it might have been the most overt example of the marriage of anti-mask/anti-lockdown/anti-vax conspiracies with the discredited sovereign citizen movement. 2/17 
One of the keynote speakers was Christopher James Prichard, a "common law expert" from Burlington
@nolifeneet does a fantastic job of presenting who Prichard and directing his arguments here. 3/17
neetnewz.substack.com/p/the-sovereig…
@nolifeneet does a fantastic job of presenting who Prichard and directing his arguments here. 3/17
neetnewz.substack.com/p/the-sovereig…
During the event yesterday and in addition to claiming Covid vaccines will kill people instantly as well as other dangerous disinformation, Prichard spoke about how the sovereign citizen movement was a means of defeating laws the credulous participants didn't like. 4/17
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And finally this where he promises future retribution to those he claims have wronged them. 8/17
Sovereign Citizens. Freemen on the Land. Detaxers. This movement has been around for decades and has been adopted by numerous extremist groups. For example the Canadian Nationalist Party has also adopted this position (it isn't going well for Mr. Patron however). 9/ 17
It is also a pseudo-legal ideology that has thoroughly and definitively debunked. 10/17
ablawg.ca/2013/04/08/wha…
ablawg.ca/2013/04/08/wha…
Yet it, and other conspiracies, persist. 11/17
Why is that?
@aoifegall does a really fantastic job of explaining the psychology of this in the following thread. 12/17
@aoifegall does a really fantastic job of explaining the psychology of this in the following thread. 12/17
https://twitter.com/aoifegall/status/1366039278397054976?s=20
We certainly see it this in how Artur rails against the media and political leaders. 16/17
Ultimately, belief and acceptance of these conspiracy theories endanger all of us. 17/17
https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/1365829069049376768?s=20
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