Can this policy choice be deemed a bioterrorism attack by provincial governments on the public?
It fits the definition of bioterrorism.
Conservative govts are holding the citizenry hostage using bio terrorist tactics.
Honestly, how can this be legal?
Do we literally have to wait for the governments in question to order police crackdowns on random unarmed citizens before we collectively figure out this has moved from passive to overt fascism? Are people that afraid of the word fascist? It’s a word that describes behaviour.
What kind of government intentionally removes public health restrictions, requirements and protocols to contain & mitigate transmission of disease in the middle of a pandemic that has killed millions across the globe? Especially with a new, more contagious and deadlier variant?
One that is attempting to infect & harmits citizens.
There is no doubt or question that this is blatant and overt fascism. It’s undeniable. Yet many will still try to convince themselves it’s conservatism. It’s not.
This is fascism. This is what fascism looks and feels like.
While an agreed upon definition of what constitutes fascism remains elusive, this is a reasonable place to start.
UCP’s, Sask Party’s & Ontario PC’s main supporters are ALL far right:
*Dominionist Christian Nationalists
*White Supremicists
*Q’Anon
*Far Right Libertarians
Moe, Ford and Kenney are not conservative. While they’ve been labelled that way and work to maintain that branding & framing of their ideology, it’s actually paleolibertarian, not conservatism.
Paleolibertarians practice antebellum libertarianism and Gilded Age economics. Conservatives do not believe in removing the social safety net. They just don’t like change much. So they maintain the status quo.
Paleolibertarians want zero taxes, rules & government.
Rothbard defined paleolibertarian beliefs and values in the early 1990’s. Right when people like Harper and Kenney, Moe and Ford were in their young adulthood.
Paleolibertarian values are what most Canadian conservative leaders’s espouse as their ideology.
Conservativism hasn’t changed. This isn’t conservatism. It’s Southern slave state libertarianism. The same libertarian beliefs that Hitler admired and incorporated into his design of Nazism.
I have been writing about this history and the connection to the origin of Nazism for 4 years. I’ve been trying to warn people what’s happening since Kenney came to Alberta.
Earned the reputation of conspiracy theorist in the process. But that’s not what I am.
I was correct.
Other than being a real world Cassandra, my effort was to warn before we found ourselves in dire circumstances.
That ship has sailed.
Our government is actively and intentionally removing any protection during the emergence of the deadliest COVid variant of the pandemic.
That is a direct threat to every man, woman and child.
Fascist goals seek to reshape society. Killing a large number and disabling many for life would definitely reshape society.
UCP has always valued the economy over lives. The new policy reinforces that belief.
When a political leader forces you to make a decision between working and sending your kids to daycare or school vs staying home to ensure they aren’t infected by Delta variant, they’re reshaping the labour force to exclude women. Few mothers will devalue their children’s lives.
Most will choose to protect their children. But some, for various reasons, will be forced to send their kids to school or daycare.
It’s those children who will be infected first. It’s those children who will suffer the most.
Not only them, but the young adults will be sacrificed as well. Developmentally at the stage where they value social interaction over everything else & still convinced of their own invincibility. My fear is that the number of deaths will be like WW1 or WW2. Wipe out a generation.
We cannot permit this. We cannot obey the commands of a fascist leader.
We must fight back.
This move is called consolidation of power. UCP and other “conservative” parties are testing how compliant the population is. We must demonstrate we are not compliant at all.
A society that sacrifices its children doesn’t deserve to be a society. If we sacrifice our young for economic security, we deserve the societal collapse that will follow.
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A paradigm shift is required to understand what and why they are doing what they are doing.
Most of us have not considered the AB government is actually trying to harm people. Because it’s unconscionable and unthinkable for a govt to intentionally harm the population it governs.
But that is precisely what is happening. And it’s why we are all filled with incredulity and shock as we process the policy Dr. Hinshaw and Jason Kenney announced.
It’s completely insane to those with a democratic & progressive frame of reference and worldview.
I am imploring people to accept the fact that UCP is full of Dominionist Christians who either don’t believe in covid (hoax) or believe god will protect them from death and long term illness.
75% of UCP MLAs are Dominionist Christian. That includes Barnes and Loewen.
Every Albertan needs to review, comprehend and accept this is reality.
People need to stop wondering why Kenney and UCP make such awful disastrous decisions and start learning about Dominionism.
Kenney and UCP are installing paleolibertarian beliefs that support a theocratic government that creates social expectations. Evangelical Christian nationalists are the top of the hierarchy, along with wealthy donors. That Venne diagram is seriously overlapped.
This is not the time to hide in fear. Make your voice heard.
Dr. Vipond is doing the correct action. Calling out this policy for what it is. It’s a policy of certain death. We witnessed Trumps 600K murder spree. We’ve witnessed India’s catastrophic disaster.
All I can say is I warned people Barnes and Loewen were a distraction.
Kenney isn’t suffering any loss of support. The Churches, liberty & patriot crowd (white supremacists) and business owners have been given what they want. Zero restrictions, no masks. Voluntary compliance.
I said Kenney and his party were performing political theatre.
I wasn’t guessing. The Dominionist Christian community and Rebel media were making threats they would withdraw support.
The UCP base voters pressured Kenney to comply with their demands.
Kicking Barnes and Loewen out of the party served to distract the public, decrease public concern and deflate interest in the topic. Within days Kenney moved to withdraw all covid restrictions and announced he would not reinstate them, no matter what.
I grew up in Edmonton’s inner city. And I mean inner city. For a while I lived on the fringe of downtown, in Parkdale. But moved to 96 st & 106A Avenue after grade five. Went to Sacred Heart church and school. When we moved, my mother had a new boyfriend/common law partner.
In 1977, McCauley and Boyle Street were highly populated with the working poor. Some of the older residents were Slavic (mostly Ukrainian) immigrants. Diversity was abundant. Italian, Ukrainian, First Nations and Métis, East Indian, and Chinese people lived in close quarters.
I don’t remember problems with cultural conflicts. Each cultural group kept to themselves & were polite & cordial to neighbours of differing origins. But everyone was poor/low income.
Except my mother’s boyfriend. He was 20 years older than my mom & owned a construction company.