1\ "It is unfortunate that the Emergency Economic Measures Order is indiscriminately targeting the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem" Anyone else starting to think this is the whole play? financialpost.com/fp-finance/cry…
2\ The state didn't "get new powers", the banks did. The crypto industry has been called to heel, political crowdfunding (a grassroots essential) is set to be strangled. "Foreign funding" is under scrutiny. This has grubby fingerprints on it, to be sure. globalnews.ca/news/8625018/e…
3\ I wasn't even "pro-crypto", but I wonder, how many of the people lobbying the government/bending their ear about the convoy have ties to the banking sector, or legacy money? The people responsible for the "terrorist threat" narrative have names, after all.
4\ There's established ties with Russia and the crypto industry. If Russia goes to war with Ukraine, 'emergency measures' requests to freeze bank accounts/crypto wallets with Russian ties will be forthcoming. Surprise, Freeland made the announcement! reuters.com/world/us-sanct…
5\ I'm an antifascist, I monitor far right groups, the nazi 'threat' was overstated, the "terror group" are overhyped racist clowns whose organizing was already riddled with feds, stage-managed into a circus. The hacker that busted GiveSendGo is a fed. Be. More. Critical. 
6\ No defence for Diagolon, but they're not "state of emergency" dangerous. The group could have been dismantled/arrested lawfully at any time, without using their adjacency to civil unrest as justification for an emergency. The state is having us on. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
7\ At the bottom of this article (buried lede) the arrestees are cited with a history of DUIs, assaults, fish and game/weapons offences. They made bail. RCMP are INVESTIGATING links to insurrectionist sentiment. No actual violence. #FLQanon, this is not. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
8\ What's VERY weird to me: the group was charged with "conspiring to kill law enforcement", but a month ago, when they expelled a member, "Bryan Trottier" on suspicion of being a federal asset, they contacted police BECAUSE he allegedly made threats to law enforcement. 🤔🧐🕵️
9\ First thing that expelled member did was join a disgruntled Diagolon groupie to defame the leader of the group, Jeremy McKenzie, behavior which matches CSIS "threat reduction" (defaming charismatic individuals who risk radicalizing others to violence.) rumble.com/vultns-kicking…
10\ Not only did Bryan infiltrate dozens of far right groups, he impersonated me online, doxxed activists, made racist posts and directed menacing/threatening calls/emails to 100s. He urged several of us to kill ourselves, repeatedly. He sent someone to my house last year.
11\ Something is very rotten in the fictional meme "state" of Diagolon and when I tell you, the public, that, as someone with deep knowledge of key players whose work helped create and empower the same groups now shouting about a "national security threat", you SHOULD LISTEN.
12\ The only true reason I can actually see to invoke any emergency act is the fact that Ottawa Police weren't doing their jobs. A municipal issue doesn't justify a grab for financial power. But now it's about the borders or the children or something. thehill.com/policy/interna…
13\ This isn't a shock, but as an anarchist AND journalist, I have a healthy mistrust of the state. I've had contact with most of the key players in this situation. One thing for sure: Diagolon might be Nazis, but the Liberals outed themselves quickly as "#CryptoFascists."
14\ And none of this should be a surprise. The existence of groups that oppose the state or threaten its interests are always the primary means by which the state justifies empowering itself. State's gonna state. That's no reason to accept it, or worse, help them. Be. Critical.
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Might as well tag @cancivlib on this thread. Even if I'm wrong about the crypto theory, the government had undercovers in the group in question, definitely knew what they were up to and facilitated this whole situation with these clowns for a maximum soccer-dive.
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