The Elite Gathers Its Forces for a Counterattack on the Truckers
The Elite Gathers Its Forces for a Counterattack on the Truckers
Paul Craig Roberts
There are reports that the Ottawa police, faithful servants, not of the people, but of the ruling elite, are attempting to prevent food and water and all “material support” from reaching the Truckers. In other words, the ruling elite is making an effort to starve out the truckers.
There are also reports that Washington has appeared on the Canadian scene with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. These two American agencies of the ruling elite are there to do “enhanced investigation.” The FBI and DHS are focused on identifying every protester and everyone involved in organizing and supporting the convoy and everyone who can be charged with “enabling the harmful and unlawful” protest. Vehicle registration, driver ID, and insurance status are among the data that “will be used in criminal prosecutions.” Listen to the Gestapo police chief describe a protest as a crime in the 2 minute video: https://reclaimthenet.org/ottawa-police-announces-digital-surveillance-of-freedom-convoy/
The question is whether this is real or whether it is public announcements to scare people away from the
protest and to break the strong morale of the truckers. It might be that like the “Trump Insurrection” prosecutions, a few hundred people will be selected for ruin in order to teach the public a lesson.But this time, the net could be cast wider. They might even arrest people who sent money.
The ruling elite are completely against the people and have secret agendas that are detrimental for the people. The elite know that they cannot tolerate any kind of protest or refusal to obey illegal mandates.
Whereas I was encouraged by the truckers’ protest, I was concerned that, like those at the Trump rally, the truckers and their supporters did not understand that their protest rights are limited to protesting for the elite, not against them. The Constitution, First Amendment, Freedom of Assembly are impotent because they are not respected by the authorities in power. For some time it has been clear that peaceful protests are impotent, because the authorities don’t respect the people or care what they think or want. The authorities only serve a tiny handful of elites who hold the people in contempt.
If the truckers and their supporters were well armed and prepared to resort to violence, the situation would be too large for the police and even for the Canadian Army. Trudeau would have to come out of hiding and ask for Washington’s intervention to save the elite from the people. In other words, the US would have to invade Canada.
At the present time, the elite are strong but not strong enough to justify to the world a US invasion to overthrow and suppress the Canadian people. Not even the whore American and Canadian media could dress this up as “saving democracy from domestic terrorists.” The Canadian government would have to give in to the protest and retract its illegal, counterfactual , and counterproductive mandate.
If the Canadian government prevails, tyranny will have taken a giant step forward. The elites will know that they can break the back of any protest.
There is no peaceful way to deal with Evil. Evil prevails when those facing it do not realize what they are up against and fail to take decisive action when it would have won the day. I fear this will be the fate of the truckers’ protest.
How the Elite Gets Rid of Populists
How the Elite Gets Rid of Populists
Paul Craig Roberts
Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were maverick outsiders unacceptable to the ruling elite. In his new book, States of Emergency, Kees Van Der Pijl explains how the establishment got rid of both. The ruling elite’s effort to remove Trump with Russiagate and impeachment failed. Had the plan to steal the election also failed, everything was ready for Trump to be removed by the military. Sanders was twice undermined by the elite, with the Democrat nomination going first to Hillary Clinton and then to Joe Biden, two reliable puppets of the establishment.
In chapter 3, “Restructuring the Ruling Class in the IT Revolution,” Van Der Pijl explains in the section, “The Coup Against Trump,” that Federal Continuity Directive 1 was issued a few days prior to Trump’s inauguration and served as a basis for a military coup to remove Trump from office. The directive provided the military the authority to take over the government “in the event that a US administration would fail to ‘demonstrate leadership that is visible to the nation and the world and preserve the confidence of the American people.'” The elite’s propaganda organs then started on Trump. First there was Russiagate. Then Impeachgate. As the second term election approached, letters from retired generals were printed saying that if Trump contested the election he had to be removed by the military. Trump’s Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, ignored Trump’s order to use the Insurrection Act to put down the widespread destruction and looting that comprised the George Floyd protests. General James Mattis, Esper’s predecessor, “called Black Lives Matter a healthy and unifying force and pointed to the lack of mature leadership in the White House.” Generals denounced Trump for wanting to use the military against the people although the Continuity in Government procedure designed to be implemented by the military in the event of widespread disturbances in support of Trump does precisely that. DefeatDisinfo.org run by retired General Stanley McChrystal went to work discrediting all of Trump’s statements about Covid. Critics accused Trump of spreading disinformation about Covid and questioned Trump’s authority as president. Social, print, and TV media denied President Trump and his supporters forums. The discredited president was an easy target for a coup, which was a certainty had the theft of the election not succeeded. The ruling elite used the orchestrated “Trump insurrection” to stop the January 6 examination by Congress of the evidence of election theft, and has prosecuted hundreds of Trump supporters as insurrectionists and domestic terrorists. You can bet your life that all future presidential candidates got the message.
Van Der Pijl sees the orchestrated “Trump insurrection” as essentially a color revolution that is “a further step toward the conversion of the US into an authoritarian state, which in the aftermath of 9/11 had already taken a huge step forward with the Patriot Act.”
Another big step was taken with the “Covid pandemic.” In chapter 4 Van Der Pijl describes “the virus scenario as the basis for a seizure of power.”
People without understanding are sitting ducks for tyranny. Van Der Pijl gives you information. If enough Americans can pass from insouciance to understanding, our freedom can survive.
Readers will be surprised to find a leftwinger giving Trump a fair shake. Van Der Pijl is one of the well educated and thoughtful old European left. He understands that this is not a left-right issue. It is no longer the capitalists against the workers. It is the elite against the people, and he stands with the people.
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