After four years of resisting tyranny without respite, we could use a rejuvenating shot of good news. Here is a double espresso to recharge you for the battles ahead.
Canadian Government Found Guilty of Illegal Invocation of Emergencies Act
On January 23, 2024, we received the best imaginable two-year anniversary present for the Canadian truckers protest short of criminal prosecution of Tyrant Trudeau and his colluders.
As Michael Nevradakis writes in The Defender’s Canadian Truckers Score Big Victory Over Trudeau in Federal Court:
“In his 190-page ruling, Justice Richard G. Mosley said the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act ‘does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness—justification, transparency and intelligibility—and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.’”
Michael asked me to provide remarks on the ruling, several of which appear in the article. Below is the mini-essay I wrote in response to his query.
Remarks on Canada’s Federal Court Ruling
When I learned about Justice Mosley’s refreshingly just decision, the first words that poured out were, “It is a good day for freedom!”
It is a good day for freedom! CJ Hopkins was acquitted in his thoughtcrime trial yesterday (substack.com/@cjhopkins/note/c-47936483), and now this phenomenal news.
May justice be served to Tyrant Trudeau and delivered on behalf of the brave Canadians who resisted tyranny.
The moment the truckers began rolling toward Ottawa in January 2022, I felt a surge of joy that was like throwing open a window after having suffocated in a dank cell for two years. That euphoric feeling continued to swell during the ensuing weeks as I immersed myself in firsthand footage and witnessed what I called the Winter of Love in my Profile in Courage on the Canadian truckers.
Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers
This was the concretization of the secret to toppling tyranny I had revealed in a May 2021 essay as articulated by Étienne de La Boétie in The Politics of Obedience:
“You can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
COVID IS OVER! … If You Want It
The Canadian truckers were the allegorical green grocer of Václav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless who one day decided not to hang the government’s propaganda sign in his window, and, in so doing, “disrupted the game … [and] enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain.”
This single act of peaceful noncompliance triggers a cascade effect that dissolves the mental enslavement keeping the populace under the thrall of tyranny, and that is precisely what occurred as freedom convoys began erupting all over the world.
Bouncy castles; pancake parties; marshmallow-roasting; fireworks; Sikhs dancing; spontaneous outbursts of songs like “Lean on Me” and “O Canada”; hot tubs in the middle of a snowy landscape—these were the markers of humanity shattering its shackles. Most impressively, it was accomplished through love rather than violence.
As Émile Zola1 writes in “J’Accuse …!”:
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
And yet, as this peaceful movement rose, so did the government’s tyranny. On February 7, 2022, I published a Letter to Justin Trudeau in which I outlined a path toward redemptive reconciliation. I suspect he read it because so many people tweeted it at him, and as a narcissist, he is unlikely to resist a letter with his name in the title. I also waged daily tweets sharing it and advising him to pursue diplomacy.
Letter to Justin Trudeau
But Trudeau and his cabinet did not make even a single attempt to engage with the truckers. In blatant violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, they leapt to invoking the Emergencies Act without meeting the necessary threshold.
This preposterously disproportionate response ripped back the curtains on what Frank Zappa describes as “the brick wall at the back of the theater”:
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
This is when soft totalitarianism hardened and could no longer be disguised by misdirecting language. While some may claim the protests failed because they did not achieve their immediate objective, they had broken the spell. One by one, Canadian provinces began dropping the mandates, and people all over the world could now see the brick wall—and began busting through it.
They achieved the injury to the principle of authority Gustave Le Bon describes in The Psychology of Revolution:
“The importance of the event [the storming of the Bastille] lay simply in the psychological fact that for the first time the people received an obvious proof of the weakness of an authority which had lately been formidable. When the principle of authority is injured in the public mind it dissolves very rapidly.”
It is because of the Canadians’ historic act of mass peaceful noncompliance and their continued pursuit of justice that totalitarianism is beginning to crumble. And yes, I know the government will be appealing the federal court decision, but we must press on, relentlessly seeking accountability for crimes against humanity as the truth bursts forth like unruly weeds through a crack in the pavement.
Songs for Freedom
Here are a few songs to remind you of what the Canadian protesters achieved, the tyranny the government inflicted on them, and why Canadians and people the world over must continue standing up for freedom, truth, and humanity.
Bonnie Burke wrote the following song, which she sent me with this message:
“Hi from Grand Rapids Mi. I just heard of you. In Jan of 2022 after seeing what Trudeau did to the truckers, I asked God to give me a song. He did. I hope it helps others to stand up for liberty.”
Stand Up, Oh Canada
by Bonnie Lynn Burke, March 2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Verse 1
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
Let’s fly the flag and wave it high
As we join the people’s battle cry
For the time to stand is now, oh Canada!
Verse 2
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
We the people must unite
If there’s any hope to win this fight
And the time to stand is NOW, oh Canada!
Interlude
Stand up and sing this song for Liberty!
Unite and sing for all the world to see
Arise and sing this song for Liberty
The time is now, for freedom … isn’t … free!
Verse 3
Stand up! Stand up! Stand up, oh Canada!
The time to stand is now, oh Canada!
We must defeat all tyranny,
And annihilate this enemy!
For the time to stand is NOW, oh Canada!
Interlude
Stand Up, Stand Up! – We the people strong
Stand Up and sing this March .. for .. Freedom .. Song!
Verse 4 (all voices)
Rise up! Rise up! Rise up, oh Canada!
This call to rise is NOW, oh Canada!
Our God is with us! We won’t fear
As we see His victory drawing near!
If we rise and stand up now!
If we rise and stand up now!
If we rise and stand up now, oh Canada!
If we rise and stand up now!
If we rise and stand up now!
CJ Hopkins Acquitted of Thoughtcrimes
I learned the news of the Canadian protesters’ victory on the heels of discovering CJ Hopkins had been acquitted of thoughtcrimes in his Kafkaesque trial in Berlin—also on January 23.
So, I was acquitted in criminal court in Berlin. The judge felt it necessary to insult me a little, but she recognized the spurious nature of the charges. The prosecutor now has one week to appeal the judge’s verdict. I’ll report on the trial in English soon. In the meantime, if…
At his court hearing, CJ delivered what may well be the most significant speech on totalitarianism in history, certainly of this century. As I wrote CJ in a comment:
👏👏👏 STANDING OVATION!!!
I know how much you’ve suffered these past eight months, CJ, but you’ve alchemized that suffering into one of the finest and most important speeches decrying totalitarianism I’ve ever read, and to do so in the context of a judicial court in this farce of a case adds an exquisitely triumphant finale to this drama. This may be your best play yet. This was the theater of life, and you delivered a speech worthy of going down in history alongside Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience.”
I exhorted Coffee & COVID readers and others to read it posthaste, concluding:
That he was acquitted afterward makes this a triumphant finale that will make you want to leap to your feet in a standing ovation after reading it 👏👏👏
This is what we’re fighting against—and fighting for.
I fervently hope CJ will turn his experience into a full-length play and that The Verdict will become The Crucible of this century, with his play and the one-act of his courtroom coup de grace against New Normal fascism being performed all over the world and in multiple languages for centuries to come. May his historic speech serve as a continual reminder of how close civilization came to falling into the abyss of totalitarianism and how it was courageous dissenters like CJ and the Canadian truckers who pulled us back from the brink of self-annihilation.
Truth over Tribe
Trish Wood, who shares my elation over the January 23 victories, conducted a must-watch podcast covering both, including an exclusive interview with CJ:
I especially love Trish’s newly adopted motto of Truth over Tribe. This is a philosophy I share. Fortunately, the people in our karass get to enjoy both because it is partly our prizing of truth over partisan allegiances that has brought us together.
Letter to My Karass
My Two-Year Stackiversary: Lattice of Coincidence + The Courage to Face the Truth
I urge everyone to visit, upvote, and comment on CJ’s original post of his speech:
I will also replicate it in full here to help propagate these tyranny-detonating words as widely as possible and incorporate it into my ever-expanding dossier of evidence.
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While this is good news we need to create by any means necessary a lot more good news,the list of grievances is unfortunately epically long,feel blood will need to be spilled to accomplish this(be very happy to be wrong).
So,keep prepping while enjoying the day and perhaps while having a nice morning coffee think of ways to tie up/wrangle/bring down evil,and as always,the smalls add up!
The Canadian truckers were magnificent actively displaying the power of Satyagraha. Wonderful.
FJT will get his just desserts one day – he is young and made legions of enemies whose families, businesses and churches were ruined along with Canadian freedoms.
Auntie is thrilled Mr Hopkins got off. He needs to leave the Fourth Reich as soon as possible.
Problem with the Resistance is that we play defense. The better solution is going on offense and to be as offensive as legally possible. FJB.
“…as legally possible.”
Hahaha, yeah, that’ll do it.
J.D.G.C.
The problem is that we are playing…full Fing stop. Just how I see it currently.
Won’t it, though?
MAA, thank you.
These are two shining examples demonstrating all is not lost.
Every single act of resistance by the aggrieved matters….
Thanks for giving a shit, and making the effort to bring light to these topics, and inspiring more of us all to do the same.
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
14th Dalai Lama
So what, they were still able to do what they did. If there are both consequences, it will happen again.
If there are NOT consequences…
Why not wait 10 years before making this decision? These are the kinds of things that need IMMEDIATE action, not way after the fact.
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