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Tamara Lich's lawyer urged the judge to consider the "positive things" that came from the convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa in early 2022 as sentencing hearings wrapped up on Thursday.
While Justice Heather Perkins-McVey acknowledged the protest "galvanized" many, she noted others had a very different experience during the protest.
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Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon admitted he got emotional as he defended Lich. He seemed to choke up as he quoted from what he said were hundreds of pages of letters of support for his client, and said the protest changed lives.
"They stood up for thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of people, who believed that their human dignity and freedoms had been compromised by government-mandated vaccinations," he said.
Oh, PLEASE.
NOTHING positive came from that. The same can be said for the Coutts blockade of the international border between Alberta and Montana.
My premier is a rabid anti-vaxxer who openly goes along with the BS!C notion that the protesters at Coutts who were found with guns for the purpose of shooting cops, plus the pastor Whatsisname whose church services got shut down over his refusal to adhere to covid rules are "political prisoners." She actually thought she could "pardon" the lot of them when she became premier, and it had to be explained to her that "Now, now, Danielle, you're not the U.S. President. You're just the premier and yes, you have to obey the courts like everyone else."
So like Trump, if she doesn't like a law, she'll change it. Or ignore it. She's ignoring the Charter rights of the disabled in Alberta, and Take Back Alberta is frothing at the mouth in anticipation that they're going to be able to get mandatory prayer rammed back into public schools.
The anti-vaxxers won't be happy until the first child dies from measles (we're having an epidemic here). And even then, they'll blame it on Trudeau, like they blame everything on him. FFS, they're still blaming stuff on Notley, and she hasn't been premier since 2019.
There's one of the world's dumbest people in Medicine Hat, with whom I used to get into arguments on the former Minister of Gutting Public Education's page. All this convoy crap - she freely admits her husband took part in the Coutts blockade, though swears he didn't have any guns (she insists that none of them did, which is obviously not true, since they were found in the trucks) - apparently brought them sooooo much "hope."
Hope for what?
Sounds about on par for someone born and raised in the U.S., married a far-right-wing Canadian preacher whose ambition is to "plant and grow churches", and thinks it's knee-slapping hilarious whenever anyone mentioned a loved one either being sick from covid or dying of covid. She was also vile to some of the women with disabled children, and kept changing her stories every short interval (sometimes in the same comment) about whether she was or wasn't a teacher, and is or isn't a Canadian citizen.
Well, some actual teachers outed her as a phony there, and since there are things that anyone would know if they'd had to study for the citizenship exam and she didn't have a clue, I daresay she's outed in that respect as well.
And these are people who support insurrection like the convoys. They think Alberta should be separate, or the 51st state.
Living here is like being the sane person in the asylum. If I could afford to leave, I'd be gone.
And if that Tamara Lich gets jail time, let it be years. And years. And YEARS.
How about some GD empathy for those Canadians whose lives are being upended? Oh, that’s right, Republicans don’t do empathy.
