Thread by @Neoavatara

This is why the Supreme Court was right to rule that the power to spend is the power to speak.

Citizens United was the correct decision.

https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1493347561876471809

If the government can shut down your income, your banks, your saved wealth, and financial assistance because the politicians don't support your message...you don't really have free speech.

You just have the mirage of it.

Free speech means you defend SPEECH YOU DON'T LIKE.

Again, this is all so stupid.

If Canada wants to remove the truckers, forcibly...remove them. They absolutely have the legal right to do so.

They simply are too cowardly to pay the 'political costs' involved.

Imagine other protests movements that government could use this against.

This is leading edge of authoritarian rule. Arresting them and putting them up for trial? Fine. Accusing them of a crime and just libeling them? That shouldn't be how govt works.

hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022…

In many of these places, the power of the govt to paint protesters as some kind of terrorist organization is DANGEROUS.

And in a free society, those groups should be able to use money to push back against these accusations.

But these govts are stopping that!

Again, lot of these countries like to pretend they support free speech...but ultimately don't really feel comfortable with it, in practice.

Again, the convoy protesters have a right to say what they want. They have a right to spend their money as they wish.

If you want to arrest them for specific actions? FINE. That is what is supposed to happen in a fair society. Arrest them, put them on trial, let them defend themselves.

But what is happening here is not what a free society does.