Except it’s really not that anymore. Constant noise disruptions, gridlocking the city…it’s causing harm and the protests have damaged property, businesses and even gone as far to dance on the war memorials. These are not our best people.
BLM protestors danced on and destroyed statues as well.
The whole point of protest is to be disruptive. Being anti-vax is super stupid but protesting government mandates (or systemic racism, or anything) should be allowed.
The people chaining themselves to trees expect to get arrested and spend time in jail. They also expect that their time in jail will help their cause.
Being part of a protest is not a "get out of jail free" card. Rather the opposite, spending some time in jail is part of the point.
You may or may not have a higher power to defend you against bad laws, depending on your constitution and/or your government being e.g. treaty bound to an institution equivalent to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.I genuinely, sincerely, can’t see how your new version is supposed to strengthen your comment — there just isn’t enough in it for my mind to see a different hill to climb: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/arguments-h...
> because they had an “emergency” debate
Was it about (seldom used) emergency powers, and what was it in response to? A terror attack?
An "emergency" debate about bad laws isn't the same as "emergency" powers.
> a different hill to climb
The missing context is the context of the thread - that we are talking about the actions of Trudeau actions against the protestors.
Why do you think protesters get defense attorneys? Why do you think all but the most extreme cry “first offense”? Why do you think college students are the most prolific protesters? To avoid punishment.
They don't actually want to get arrested, but they do want to signal that they won't stop protesting just because they risk getting arrested.
Frankly I’m not one of them, but I’m sure there are people in Ottawa that might have supported them that now won’t.
There’s also the issue that they were protesting provincial issues to the federal government. For weeks. After being told this constantly, some packed up and moved to the provincial legislator in toronto. They’re just not very well organized and it’s suggesting they might not be the issue anyone wants to hitch onto.
Tactics used during the protests that Trudeau supported and described as peaceful[2]: Gherao (encirclement), dharna (sit-in), raasta roko (traffic obstruction), demonstration, suicide, counter legislation.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0h48p7JspA
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farme...
If you lose the ability to protest, what barrier remains for crooked politicians to draw up whatever legislation they like? What the Nazi's did was legal you know - they wrote the laws!