Cases in point:
“Our records show 88% of donated funds originated in Canada and 86% of donors were from Canada,” said GoFundMe president Juan Benitez to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security in the House of Commons on Thursday.
Donors contributed $10.1 million to the Freedom Convoy by the time GoFundMe suspended the crowdfunding page on Feb. 4.
Benitez said that foreign funding was insignificant and that he could make that determination through credit card information. He said there was no evidence that any neo-Nazi or criminal organizations contributed to the Freedom Convoy.
He added that GoFundMe conducted a review of donors and could not find anyone involved with organized crime. The crowdfunding page, he said, would have been shut down if they had found people involved with organized crime donating to it.
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Truth from @rustyrockets, and it’s phenomenal. The Canadian government is officially saying the quiet part out loud. pic.twitter.com/IiA244CEJK
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) March 3, 2022
That must be embarrassing for the government.
GiveSendGo is a business. The Trudeau government is a collection of morons and robber barons:
The founders of Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo that helped collect over $12 million for so-called Freedom Convoy demonstrators blamed the federal government for not telling them it had issues with the blockades.
“We were doing our business, allowing people to raise funds on GiveSendGo. Your government found issue with it, but yet they would not come to us and tell us they found issues,” platform co-founder Heather Wilson told members of the federal public safety and national security committee Thursday.
Keep in mind that Justin was glad to hand Omar Khadr $10.5 million:
It was not justified. But it went into effect, the “occupation” was cleared, the leaders arrested or threatened to be, bank accounts of protesters frozen as if they were “terrorists,” and some sent straight to jail.
Among them, perhaps the first to see the iron bars from the inside, was Tamara Lich, one of the convoy organizers. I do not know Miss Lich but during the “insurrection” did follow her on Twitter. I was impressed by the stability and calmness of her postings, and never once heard a “call to arms,” a cursing of the police (so essential to every other kind of protest), nowhere an incitement to violence, and nowhere a call for “direct action” (the black bloc euphemism for vandalism, street mayhem, and physical assault).
However, upon being taken to court she was denied bail. Tell me differently if I am wrong, but Miss Lich had neither committed nor incited any violent behaviour whatsoever. She was not arrested carrying a gun, or after some shooting offence, which is a common reason for arrest in many Canadian cities, and frequently a repeat offence, for which bail is granted.
But not Miss Lich. She was deemed by a judge who was once a federal Liberal candidate too dangerous for bail. She was immured for the time being.
On March 2, she appeared again for a second bail hearing. And here is the hard part.
She was brought into court shackled with leg chains. What was that about, and who ordered such a wickedness?
Was this woman a danger to the court? Was she expected to leap upon the guards and rush the bench? Was she such a danger to the Canadian state that even at a bail hearing she had to be shackled?
O sweet, sweet Canada that witnessed such pathetic overreaction.
The judge, may he be praised, ordered the shackles removed.
It is, as I said at the beginning, a small thing in this time of global ignominy, but it should not be let pass. Miss Lich deserved much better, and our justice system—to give it a term that in this case it does not deserve—needs to answer for the humiliation, the mistreatment, of a citizen before her case has even been heard.
Because she is a political prisoner.
Never under-estimate the power of spite.
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