2. Probably the biggest #OttawaOccupy event today is Pat King's bail hearing. I'll get to that shortly, but my most important news of the day is that I'm starting to kick as at Wordle.
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3. The fine folks at @antihateca are live tweeting the hearing. Big news there is the Crown brought forth new evidence that may affect the decision to grant bail and are asking t reopen the hearing.
10. Who is one of the people streaming the hearing illegally?
Well, that would be Owen Swiderski.
11. You might remember Swiderski in some of Pat King's videos in the background. You might also remember him as one of the partners in the crypto scam (along with Pat's would-be surety Kerry Komix)
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13. @antihateca back live tweeting the Pat King bail hearing.
17. I thought Pat King said that all he needed to do was to recite some Latin legal woo and he would be out immediately?
18. Perhaps he didn't say them precisely right?
19. Pro tip. If tens of thousands... or hundreds of thousands... or, hell, millions of people you don't personally know are celebrating that you didn't get bail, it might be time to do some deep introspection into your life and where things started to go wrong.
21. Pro tip 2: If you find your name is trending and people responding aren't posting this gif, consider the reason why.
22. Now it perhaps shouldn't be surprising that Pat King gave someone control of his Facebook page. These were posted with the past hour.
23. These are not all the comments praising Pat King's courage and honesty, as well as the ubiquitous "fake news" or its equivalent attack on media they don't like.
They are however representative.
24. We are also seeing some reaction to Pat King remaining in jail from some of his supporters like the Yellow Vest hold-outs in Calgary.
25. Still, not everyone is a fan.
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27. So with Pat King on cooling his jets in jail, what about some of the other people I've been looking at.
Let's start with Diagolon de facto leader Jeremy MacKenzie.
28. Suffice it to say he was not especially happy with how he was portrayed on @cbcfifth.
And because he has the maturity of a 2 year old when he is being petulant, he of course also comments on superficial looks as an attack.
29. And among the targets of his ire is @antihateca as he promotes a website aimed at getting us "defunded."
30. I mean, we have only had one grant from the government and most of our funding comes from private sources, but hey, you do you.
31. But mostly he has been commenting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine because, you know, he opposes authoritarianism so long as it isn't actually authoritarianism.
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33. Remember, he considers the relatively gentle removal of #OttawaOccupiers (when compared to other police actions) as brutality that will leave a stain on the country for generations.
Actual authoritarianism, he's pretty okay with though.
36. Tyler is being a bit less subtle in that his his throwing his full support behind the autocratic Putin.
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38. Yeah, I like her chances better than yours boy.
39. Mostly though he has been boasting about how he has made it to Florida to attend the more racist version of CPAC so he and his buddy Nick Fuentes could hang out and be cool and totally not cringey dweebs.
1. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) was arrested in Calgary on an immigration warrant apparently. He may have since been released, though he has to turn in his passport and remain in southern Alberta.
I'd prefer that he be kicked out immediately.
2. Despite claiming to have been a "political prisoner" many of Yaxley-Lennon's criminal convictions his Islamophobic "activism" and a number of convictions since have had nothing to do with his political views.
3. In 2005, he was convicted assaulting a police officer who intervened during an argument Yaxley-Lennon was having with his then girlfriend.
1/ It's been a while since I've done a thread here, but the recent focus on Pat King got me to wondering what was up with his own Salacious Crumb, Tyson "Freedom George" Billings.
2/ Last time I looked at Billings he was a part of the efforts to set up a permenant camp outside Ottawa so there could be daily protests, though the original plan involved surrounding the police and arresting politicians.
Suffice to say it didn't go anywhere.
3/ Billings and Ron Clark soon headed home, but they both soon got involved in other protests including the anti-carbon tax protests occurring in the province. The numbers at these events have been small but that hasn't stopped from politicians from courting the fringes it seems.
1/ Though I'm not especially active these days, I'm still sometimes gobsmacked by some of the ridiculous (though sadly effective) rage farming by some on the right. Harrison Faulkner of "True North" is just a recent example of that.
2/ So a bit of background. Musical artist Karan Aujla won the 2024 TikTok Juno Fan Choice Award at the award ceremony this past weekend.
I think it was this weekend. Truth be told I don't pay a lot of attention to awards shows.
3/ It should be noted that Aujla has been in Canada for years emigrating as an orphan. He graduated from high school in Canada. The album was produced by a Canadian on a Canadian label.
1/ A couple of days ago self-proclaimed leaders of the "freedom movement" held a press conference in Ottawa which was about as unhinged as you might have expected.
2/ Apparently the person who set this up was Derek Noonan who was also one of the speakers.
That would be this guy and I shall get back to him shortly.
3/ Because these "freedom patriot" types are SUPER jealous of anyone getting even a tiny bit of the noteriety they seem to believe they deserve and are entitled to, Gordon Berry was not happy with the press conference.
1. Misinformation has always been a feature on Twitter but prior to Musk's ownership there appeared to be a minimal effort (very minimal) to counter it. Those days are clearly over.
Case in point, Theo Fleury shared this with his 285.8K followers today:
2. Before I go any further, no. This is not in fact true at all and a fact check would indicate that it isn't true.
Pictured here with Chrystia Freeland is her mother and sister.
3. When asked about the photo, the original poster said it was taken in 1967: