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
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

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Feb 12
Hi everyone! I'm going to start a new thread as the day goes on - heres what happened last night until approximately 2:00AM /1
It's definitely a stand off now, with the line of police officers facing what seems like a pretty committed group of people - hearing reports that people have brought there children back to #AmbassadorBridge - there are snipers on roofs /2
#Windsor #windsorontario #cdnpoli
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Feb 12
Cops seem to giving the protesters a light show now that injunction is in place - still lots of children at the event, and no officers out of vehicle to be seen /1 #cdnpoli #AmbassadorBridge #windsor
It's hard to tell if pick up trucks are leaving or just going in laps around the block /2 #AmbassadorBridge #cdnpoli #Windsor
Honking is swelling in waves - one trucker at the front closest to the cops expressed concern about starting another one - lots of speculation about tear gas, runner bullets, etc. /3 #Police #AmbassadorBridge #windsor #FluTruxKlan
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Feb 9
I went to Ottawa today to see for myself what was going, a thread/1
I was only there for about an hour and a half, but managed to walk through the majority of what remains of the protest - my first impression was the smell, particularly diesel /2
I saw a lot of company trucks, including one @uhaul truck that must have been rented by someone for the ongoing occupation /3 Image
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