1. It has been a while since I've written about Marcus Ray. Here are some of the previous threads I've done for some background if you aren't aware of him.
5. On June 30 when addressing whether or not he would be in Ottawa for the James Topp event, Ray claimed he was never going back to the "most evil city in the country".
Couldn't be because people know he's a scammer and V4F (who loathe him) might have kicked his ass.
6. Later in the TikTok vid, he spoke about how he had been questioned which resulted in him making the planned take-over of a court house more peaceful... because what?!?!
7. On July 14 (uploaded the following day) Ray was again on sovcit Christopher James' stream talking about "the plan" to get law enforcement on their side.
There is also dumb banter about carrying people (excuse me for making fun of them in the next few clips).
8. More on James here in this relatively lengthy thread.
9.Apparently 1000s of doctors are coming to Ray's and James' side which I TOTALLY believe.
Also, I'm sure Ray has also married @morgfair, won the NY marathon, and been awarded the Pulitzer, a day time Emmy, and the Nobel Peace Prize all last week.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
10. Some of the boilerplate "the vaccines and those who are administering them are all evil, we are fighting forces of evil, and something something crimes against humanity" shtick common to a lot of these dweebs.
11. Sometimes one can't help but wonder at how much irrational woo can be thrown into a clip of less than 2:30.
Also, Ray continues to paint the action they plan as "peaceful" though already James makes some implicit threats that those not on their side, well...
12. Back to the "it will all be easy" as Ray and James plan on having a 15/20 minute talk with authorities who will then welcome them into the court house where they would engage in their sham hearing, followed by arresting those Ray and James tell LA and military to arrest.
13. I find it fascinating that both Ray and James refers to Ray's "tour" as putting on shows.
That seems to me to be a bit of a tell.
14. In any case, the whole "this will be non-violent" shtick is undercut when one looks at the very first image from the video from which I got these clips.
15. And later in the video after Ray has left, James plays a "how to" video on noose making in which he says that they will be making these for their enemies because a bullet to the head is too good for them.
16. And the comments that have been left don't leave much to the imagination either.
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18. So yeah.
That's neat.
19. So in all of this Marcus Ray (aka Mark Chilcott) has been cagey regarding when all this will take place suggesting they need a "critical mass."
On a June 24 TikTok upload, he provides a more definitive time; the second week of September.
20. Later that night he appeared on Brad Carrigan's stream.
For more on Carrigan, here is a handy article I wrote for @antihateca.
21. In this clip he reiterates the second week in September claim and says that a group from out west and one from out east will meet in the centre.
And how will people get to the centre?
In two convoys.
Yeah, more fucking convoys.
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23. He goes on to claim that there will be hundreds of thousands in this convoy.
By comparison the #OttawaOccupation claimed at one point 2.5 million when there might have been a max of 15,000 so take Ray's numbers with a massive grain of salt.
24. While he is still not specific about the location (suggesting somewhere in Manitoba) they do talk about the possibility of agent provocateurs (Carrigan provides Jan 6 as one example). Ray claims that it won't happen due to their massive security detail.
25. Incidentally, I recently did a thread (working on the next part) on Canadian reactions to January 6 which is relevant to Carrigan's claim that the violence perpetrated by Trump supporters was a hoax and nonsense.
26. But preemptively claiming any violence will have been committed by "antifa" or the feds or whatever is a tactic we've seem with some frequency.
27. Claiming that of the four pillars holding up "the lie" (that Covid exists, there is a pandemic, etc), law enforcement can be reasoned with and they will, to echo QAnon rhetoric, help take down the pedophiles and the elite.
28. Brad hates socialists but is angry at market forces and issues surrounding supply and demand which is something I always find interesting.
29. Claiming there are no political solutions Carrigan goes after politicians including Bernier and Danielle Smith, though his big beef with Smith was that she didn't have him as a guest on her radio programme so I guess Brad seems slighted?
30. We finish with a lot of new agey woo and Marcus Ray asking, "are you ready?"
31. So the take away thus far?
If Marcus Ray and Christopher James try to take over a court house to hold sham hearings and issue arrest warrants it will go poorly for them in all likelihood.
32. The danger isn't necessarily that they would be successful -- they wouldn't be -- but in the violence that would (despite their claims) be precipitated by their action.
33. We already know that some of their followers are growing impatient and are spoiling for a fight, preferably and armed one.
34. The additional concern is that this action, should it even occur, might inspire other extremist actions.
If you are convinced the courts and government are corrupt, the science, there is no political solution, and all that goes with it, what might you be capable of?
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1. By now I'm guessing that most of my Twitter followers are aware of the most recent threats against Trudeau and the subsequent of a suspect. I think there is an even more important story though related to the poisonous influence of social media
2. Dawid Zalewski was arrested for making death threats against the Prime Minister. The following video was posted to his second Facebook profile. Be warned that it may be triggering as it promotes graphic violence against the PM and others.
3. Zalewski is clearly not well, but I think would be wrong to dismissively call him "crazy" move on without further examination. There is a reason why he got to this point and I believe we can learn a great deal from his social media footprint.
1. I’ve been enjoying my summer break and have not been paying a lick of attention to the Olympics. Until today however since Twitter has collectively lost the plot.
2. Earlier boxer Imane Khelif defeated her Italian opponent in the first round when Angela Carini quit after 45 seconds stating that she had never been hit so hard.
To be fair, I don’t enjoy being punched in the face either so I can at least sympathize with Carini.
3. Now a preliminary fight would never be important enough to make international news under normal circumstances however we are, as the saying goes, living in interesting times.
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.