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This has become an absolute religious stand. Religion is the only other thing that does that. It tries to stop the other point of view in favour of the "divinely" inspired behavior.
An example of that is "Confession". The idea that only through a priest is forgiveness of sin acquired. You don't know how much of a heart and brain ache this causes. The more you look at people as these ideal heroes who can do no wrong, the more of a problem you'll get yourself into. Because these "heroes" want you to stop thinking and just follow what they have to say, because they think they know best. And if you go against them, they'll label you as anything to demean you. In the religious context, they'll label you a heretic. In the context of covid above, they'll call you a science-denier, anti-vaxx, and any other bullshit term they can come up with to dehumanize you and make sure other people attack you.
So yes, Authority has gone amok, and I don't see any evidence to the contrary.
You know what, I'd love to be proven wrong. I'd love to wake up tomorrow and see that everything has returned to normal. There are no more vaccine mandates or passports, no more mask mandates. No more crack down and marginalisation of people based on their decisions. But I just don't see things correcting themselves by themselves. There will need to be an offence mounted against this type of tyranny or it will never stop.
Things are returning back to "normal" despite the government's best efforts. Let's look at the events up until now:
- There are a whole bunch of demonstrations throughout the country objecting on the COVID-19 restrictions
- These culminate into the trucker's protest
- Before they even arrive at Ottawa, they are labelled racist, mysogenists, "A fringe minority with unacceptable views": https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-says-freedom-truckers-a-small-fringe-minority-with-unacceptable-views
- The freedom demonstration goes on for 3 weeks
- There are border blockades
- It's covered by citizen journalists
- There is hardly any violence
- Prime Minister enacts the Emergency Act
- he lies that the police requested it while they didn't
- They call in the police and they kick the truckers out
- Negative international publicity on the liberal government
- The conservative leader at the time (O'Tool) steps down
- Pierre Polievre is voted in the conservative leadership by a large margin
- Pierre takes on freedom as his calling card and makes "Make Canada the freest country" as his mantra
- He doesn't condemn the truckers at large
- There are lawsuites at the highest court against the government for the restrictions they applied during the "pandemic"
Widget Connector url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrmL5mBOlHw - Government stops renewing the restrictions
- They file motion to declare these lawsuites moot
- It's incredibly difficult to find any information on the lawsuite
- https://www.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/court-files-and-decisions/court-files → search by court number → T-1991-21
- Air canada declares travel restricitons unscientific
- https://www.commonsense.news/p/court-documents-reveal-canadas-travel