Thread by @ChepekaCollin

As the rhetoric of police intervention ramps up, it's important to remember that the police used this situation to expand their powers so that, when Indigenous/BLM comes in to protest, they can shut it down immediately /1

https://twitter.com/mspratt/status/1492168020269178880

The police have successfully pressured the Ford government to begin passing and implementing 'Essential Infrastructure Bills' which work to protect capital, not citizens /2

DoFo said himself that he is going to use the emergency declaration to immediately pass these bills while planning on maintaining them after this situation is resolved, whatever that looks like /3

It is a classic excuse to justify the expansion of police power - a grassroots right wing movement has fuel poured on it by right wing politicians who then call for heightened surveillance, police power and 'law and order' generally /4

We will see police action at the Ambassador Bridge before we see action in Ottawa. They fucked with the money and now the US (the biggest protector of capital) is putting intense pressure on our government to increase the use of policing to protect capital to the same extent /5

It isn't *ironic* that this 'freedom protest' (organized by white supremacists and neo-nazis) has led to the decrease of civil liberties for all citizens of Ontario (and eventually Canada); this is how fascism makes its creep into centre out of the fringe
#acab #cdnpoli /6

I have seen this country lurch further to the far right in the last 3 weeks than I have in my life - this doesn't end when they go home - this is going to be the first battle in a long (culture) war /7
#OttawaSiege #cdnpoli #FluTrucksKlan #Clownvoy #AmbassadorBridge