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Pat King, a key figure in Canada’s 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protests, was found guilty on five charges, including mischief and counseling others to obstruct police, and faces up to 10 years in prison.

The protests, which blocked downtown Ottawa and key US-Canada border crossings for weeks, opposed COVID-19 mandates imposed by Prime Minister Trudeau’s government.

King was accused of inciting the blockade, coordinating disruptive actions like constant honking, and defying court orders.

He is the first protest leader convicted, while trials for other organizers are ongoing.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This article has zero mention of this guy being a white supremacist. Like he is on video saying white people are the superior race.

Omitting this is enabling right wing extremism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Journalistic malpractice

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 month ago

Good.

Fuck the Kanada Klown Konvoy.

Thanks for helping to re-introduce diseases into your "stollen" Freedoms.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I really do hate people who conflate freedom with some notion that they get to be an asshole without any repercussions.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People in the US like to cry first amendment (freedom of speech, etc) any time something they say has consequences.

  • Sexually harass a coworker? Freedom of speech!
  • Business owner says something bigoted and people stop patronizing their business? Freedom of speech!

Funny how the same people with wE tHe PeOpLe bumper stickers are the ones who haven’t actually bothered to read the bill of rights.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Convites in Canada like to cry first amendment too. Just not Canada's first amendment in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Citing the US constitution. In Canadian courts.

Dwayne Lich, husband of arrested convoy leader Tamara Lich, told the judge at his wife's bail hearing that he was relying on his "First Amendment rights." CBC Feb 22

imo worse than Yanks confused and offended they can't bring their guns when they go shopping in Toronto. Just dumb over-entitled main characters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy crap that’s wild. I can’t believe the right-wing disinformation campaign in the US is so extreme that it’s leaking beyond our borders.

Kinda reminds me of when the “sovereign citizens” claim that they are a “vessel” and therefore fall under maritime law.

“Whoa, you sure do know some words that are tangentially related to the matter at hand.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's been bonkers. We had one qanon grifter declare herself Queen of Canada and she has irl cultists follow her from town to town. During the worst of the pandemic, she had them sending death threats to healthcare workers (because Freedom). But even the main followers of the border shutdown and capitol occupation were frothy screwballs.

Like, they really shouldn't have turned her facebook off!

From my point of view, the right-wing disinfo campaign is global. Copy-paste. Conservatives up north are even using a lot of the exact same media relations people as yours down south.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Man that just sucks. I’ve seen a lot of reporting about the more “conservative” ideologies growing in several EU countries as well. It’s so disheartening. The whole movement is just convincing average people to vote/protest/etc against their own best interests, and oh by the way, education is bad too so don’t get educated or you might see through the charade!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What they want is 4chan but in real life.

That’s the thing tho, 4chan only works because no one gets to punch you in the face regardless of what you say.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“... and I’m just gonna say this out loud. The only way that this is gonna be stopped is with bullets. And yah, I said it.” - Rat King, filthy fucking nazi, Dec 2021.

King has been found guilty of five charges: two counts of disobeying a court order and one each of mischief, counselling to commit mischief and counselling to obstruct a public or peace officer.

He's been found not guilty of four charges: three of intimidation and counselling to commit intimidation, and one of obstructing a public or peace officer. cbc yesterday

Piece of crap was smiling through all the "not guilties." So brazen - I remember he even wore a Sons of Odin hoodie at his bail hearing back in '22.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you have a good source on that?

The article from the post said

The judge did not convict King on three intimidation-related charges, finding that King "did not make threats of violence or threats of property damage to anyone."

So I’m curious if there is an obvious call to violence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Enough wiggle room where it would not be considered a credible threat. There's a compilation video of statements he made on livestreams but I don't want to link to Twitter, and can't find it elsewhere quickly. It's discussed in the following article re: the Emergencies Act inquiry, among others - https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/emergencies-act-inquiry-hears-from-protester-pat-king-freedom-convoy-lawyer-1.6135959

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is Sons of Odin a band or is it something else? I remember a Norse metal band having a name like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It is. Or was. I don't know if the hoodie in question was for them.

EDIT: not Norse though. They're from the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder why they were relevant to what they were saying then. They used to come up on my Pandora every once in a while when I was listening to Korpiklaani or Alestorm. Just wasn't 100% sure of the name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sons of Odin is also an anti-immigration organization, though in trying to get more details I'm having some difficulty differentiating between Soldiers of Odin in the reporting (and there's a claim they aren't related). Anyone have some better sources? I didn't follow this side of things too closely. Lowest hanging fruit was this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/sons-of-odin-hamilton-1.4152874

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He allegedly coordinated the repeated periods of honking, telling the protesters to lay on the horn every 30 minutes for 10 minutes at a time [...]. "Hold the line," he said in video posts, appearing also to delight in the gridlock and misery of locals: "Pretty hilarious that people haven't been able to sleep for 10 days."

Yeah, hilarious alright.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

I'm glad he's going to prison

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm surprised I didn't see more stories of people trying to beat the fuck out of those truck drivers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Slashed air lines would have been on my todo list if it was in my area.

Bags of dog shit would be landing in the rigs left and right too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bags of dog shit would be landing in the rigs left and right too.

Oh man it'd be so fun giving the local kids hands-on learning in constructing and operating trebuchets and catapults. :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sling shots using medical hose too!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nice to know there's one part of North America that still has good news on occasion.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lets see how it goes next October

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh, we're electing some greasy conservative who's never worked a day in his life, somehow convincing absolute fuckwits that he represents "the people". But we're gonna get there through a massive campaign about theatre make-up and some charity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My heart says oh fucking no... my head says, yeah, we're fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is what I don’t get about the convoy and I’ve had many heated arguments with supporters that ignored this one point:

Aren’t the restrictions over now? Doesn’t that mean the lockdowns and all that were in fact a temporary measure due to an illness and not the government taking your rights and never giving it back?

Seriously!!!?? Where is the crowd that claimed we were never be allowed outside again or that we permanently lost rights?

Honestly, I think the whole conservative ideology just comes down to poor long term thinking.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's because the protests worked!!1! they won!! Without their hard work, we would have still been stuck inside. /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The liberal media want you to be afraid of fabricated threats of perfectly natural, harmless things with no real world consequences when we should be talking about boys kissing each other!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But he just wanted to save the children from the evil drag queens ! /S

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

True! I hate how drag queens are always making kids sleep in freezing cold trucks in the middle of winter and carry gas cans on their backs; using them as human shields and road blocks; making "the littles" (puke) sing and make freedom speeches "for the truckers" over their radio while their minders get shitfaced at noon on a Tuesday...

And when Canadians started asking out loud, "where tf is child services??? these kids should be in school!" the convites got a bunch of orange tshirts and Every Child Matters flags. Sneered about it on social media. Absolute filth.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Die in prison, asshole.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Feels like it took far too long, but glad it happened

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

At last, some good news!

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