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.
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.
- 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
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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