These are highly specific, closely tailored emergency measures. Towing illegally parked vehicles is not exactly the first step on the road to totalitarian night ...
https://twitter.com/Alex_Panetta/status/1493636589901295625
As I read it, there are new financial *reporting* provisions, but no new financial *restrictions*. Since the people doing the truck-protest crowdfunding seem so far to be keeping most of the money for themselves, it's not clear that the protesters would notice any cut-off anyway
Correction to the above: financial institutions will be directed to temporarily freeze accounts suspected of supporting illegal activity without a court order. That is a bigger deal.
Although it remains a tailored and proportional measure, one likely to be approved by courts. And I also expect it will bear on those who have been self-enriching from the protests. Individual protesters have been complaining of seeing little of the $ supposedly raised for them.
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