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From the article above: "Protest organizer Marco Van Huigenbos said the protest was "infiltrated by an extreme element" and a decision was made for the remaining group to roll out from Coutts on Tuesday morning."
Now demonstration is a fundamental right, and privacy is a fundamental right too. And no circumstance allows the police violating these rights, no matter how right wing they are, and how fuked up your brain is.
For the record, there's a reason the 5th Amendment exists and is replicated in other countries' legal systems.
As a person firmly on the left (like, the actual left, not Joe-Bernie-whatever), I detest what happened to the trucker protests, and the anti-covid lockdown protests, which were all, in the media, portrayed as radical and violent right-wingers - when that was, when you saw any in person, NEVER the core of them and not even a large minority.
The media has you believe otherwise. It pars-pro-totos the most radical element as the core, or the whole, of them, which then bludgeons the milquetoast left (party-political left type) into acquiesce with the police/banking powers used against them. "after all, we do have to contain the right wing!"
And then these police powers set a precedent, and then they're established, and then they get converted into code with little opposition from what deems itself "progressive" civil society. And then we all sit in it.
Are you serious? Were you not alive in 2020 during the George Floyd protests? I could literally list hundreds of other examples just since then. The Cop City protests near Atlanta where an activist was just murdered by the police under very suspicious circumstances, for example.