Still believe Calgary protests are peaceful?

Not so much!

Not since Calgary police began enforcing the public health edict for masks and for gatherings.

Pair this violent Calgary protest with this opinion piece.

Is it any wonder that “liberty” ideologues are rebelling against Public Health Measures after the premier gave them every indication their freedom was superior to everyone else’s right to life?

https://t.co/T2IohiF3UQ
We have evidence that Kenney is instigating STOCHASTIC TERRORISM.

This is what Trump is currently using to effect a coup in the US.

Maybe a journalist can ask Kenney why he stoked the ire of far right immediately prior to ordering a lockdown?

https://t.co/Ypw27JKeE1
As Albertans, we are unfamiliar with the tactics used by fascists. Albertans are naive to subterfuge and sedition.

Stochastic terrorism is common in eastern European nations. Russia & Al Qaida use these tactics all the time, but with much more regularity, brutality & deaths.
Here’s an article from 2011. Spelling out the process of creating a “missile” or “lone wolf” by appealing to those individuals who are mentally unstable. Experts have known how stochastic terrorism works for well over a decade.

https://t.co/zo1vkIoSXC
What has changed more recently is the ability to single out those with mental instability through digital surveillance.

In the documentary “People You May Know,” it reveals extremist evangelicals are using aggregated data to pinpoint & locate individuals with vulnerabilities.
Those individuals are then bombarded with propaganda, recruited by evangelical proselytizers and shaped into far right voters.

So what stops politicians from using this technology to produce “lone wolves?”

Nothing.

https://t.co/oR9m0GnLSs
In fact there is evidence that this is precisely what is happening.

Human futures and the predictability of human behaviour is bought and sold as a commodity. An individual suffering from mental instability can be identified using aggregate data.

https://t.co/xREFS3rBPl
The only thing missing is health data. Current databases of personal data can predict mental instability with great accuracy.

So what would bad actors need health data, if already available data can predict mental instability? Save that for later.
UCP very recently passed bill 46 in the middle of the night. Within hours it had received Royal Assent. What was the urgency to pass this legislation, with minimal feedback from opposition?

Concerns were flagged by the Privacy Commissioner and Opposition MLAs.
Personal health data of Albertans can now legally be shared outside of Alberta. Little can be done to address breaches of privacy. By allowing entities that reside outside of Alberta to access Netcare information, the security of personal health data is compromised.
It’s no secret that UCP is moving towards virtual healthcare to augment and possibly replace the current primary care model in Alberta.

That includes providing access to Netcare to digitally based physician services.

Telus Health Babylon now has access to Netcare data.
So there is no need to replace physicians who are moving out of Alberta. Telus Health Babylon now has access to patients’ personal health information.

A primary care physician is not required to be a resident of Alberta to practice in Alberta. They can live anywhere in Canada.
Of course they would be subject to their own jurisdiction’s health data privacy legislation. Breaches are impossible to regulate with this legislation.

What stops physicians outside AB from breaching data privacy? Ethics.

That’s it.

AB privacy legislation wouldn’t apply.
So let’s go back to the question about why this was so urgently needed to be passed by UCP in the middle of the night, and why bad actors would need health data, if the capacity already exists to ferret them out using AI analysis.
COVid has created mentally unstable individuals. Many more. Those with identified mental health issues may be receiving supports (meds, counselling), but many more remain unidentified and are struggling independent of the healthcare system.
Who’s more vulnerable? Those receiving healthcare treatment and support? Or those living with mental instability & have no treatment or support?

Why would it be urgent to pass a bill in the dead of night, while COVid is raging & new mandates are being enforced?
When you answer those questions, it reveals Kenney’s intent and strategy. Kenney is implementing Trump’s strategy to effect a shift in power (a coup). He’s already in control of Alberta. So what jurisdiction could he be hoping to impact?
In the lead up to the second COVid wave, Kenney and UCP MLAs routinely criticized everyone who advocated for a lockdown, or even a mask mandate. Opposition MLAs, physicians, Dr. Tam, community members. Kenney advocated for liberty over lives.
Several times Kenney has equated livelihoods with actual human lives. Giving priority to individual freedom over collective security. Refusing to temporarily lockdown high risk businesses and preferring to preserve their right to profit.
Still inadequate, he finally changed his tune about a mask mandate, and imposed stricter measures to aid in stemming the spread of COVid. Banning all gatherings and making masks mandatory.

His liberty loving base is apoplectic. JCCF has filed a law suit.
And now we are seeing people connected to Rebel News, Keean Bexte, and the valuation of liberty over public safety, revolt against the public health orders. Threaten further challenges to put liberty above health safety.
And, since we DO NOT live in an information vacuum, this is entirely consistent with the actions occurring in the US. It’s also consistent with UK actions. Funny that huh?

https://t.co/iNmm6hudRO

You see, Q’Anon is a global death cult. Consistency in narrative is key.
There are no coincidences in this scenario. Like Trump, Kenney delayed public health action for as long as possible. At the same time, feeding red meat to his radicalized extremist support base made up of Dominionists and hard core libertarians who many also happen to be Q’Anon.
In the US, it’s resulted in plots to kidnap and murder governors who impose public health mandates. In the UK a new health data contract with Palantir.

Kenney is following a strategic plan to permanently undermine democracy.

Why do you think CPC covets power so desperately?
@threadreaderapp please compile

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This was exactly what I was about to write a thread warning about.

A change in leadership in the US at the executive level does not alter the Republican Senators and Congress representatives. A few of whom are implicated in January 6, 2020 insurrection.


There will be a strong urge to forget the danger and the corruption.

After a long period of extended fear, terror and daily assaults on political and social norms, many will want to forget and move forward.

But we cannot take our eyes off those out to dismantle democracy.

Those breathing a sigh of relief, tomorrow this all resumes again in the US. It’s only temporarily paused in the US and correspondingly in Canada.

The urge to move on is strong. Resist it. Celebrate victories and achievements, but DO NOT walk away and forget.

Canadian conservative politicians are tightly connected to many of the Republican traitors who attacked the Capitol Jan 6.

None of them are going to give up. They’ll regroup. They’ll reorganize.

In the mean time, we are all required to stay alert. There is much to do.

The far right has let their agenda be known. They want to end democracy in US and in Canada. That goal is not off the table.

They will continue to pursue this agenda.

Yesterday 12 National Guard members were removed from service.
As we wait for the transition of power from despot to democrat, Facebook (Zuckerberg) has taken it upon itself to aid in the obstruction of that power transfer, facilitation of an insurrection narrative and disregard for the will of the American electorate.


In other words, the Social Media monopoly Facebook commands globally has gone full fascist in an attempt to preserve the corrupt and criminal hold on power by Republicans and Trump Administration.

Aiding and abetting a coup d’état.

As if there weren’t enough other reasons to dismantle Facebook’s monopoly, Zuckerberg is playing his cards and revealing clearly that Cambridge Analytica election interference was not just a onetime anomaly, but is now a feature of Facebook’s business model.

Megalomaniac Marc has now revealed the true colours of Fascist Facebook.

Facebook is a weapon to manipulate the masses. A tool to carry out disinformation campaigns with impunity.

And the response of the left... is to delete their Facebook account.

As if the deletion of a Facebook account will do anything. It might send a message that your virtues are principled, your morality superior. But it enables the weapon to be continued to gaslight and manipulate the electorate.

An inherent flaw in the left’s critical thinking.
ENTITLEMENT. https://t.co/PmdZEUd3us


Seems conservatives have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

How does it feel to the average Albertan to be considered second class? Apparently UCP, CPC and other conservatives across Canada are exempt from COVID public health orders.

I wonder if that means anti maskers are first class citizens? What about church pastors and parishioners? Are they first class status too?

But teachers, physicians, police, first responders, grocery workers, and every other Albertan is considered second class.

We don’t get exemptions to avoid public health orders.

What kind of government flouts law and order?


This is not explained by the confused and poorly informed “freedom” focussed Q’Anon and the fanatical Evangelical Christian’s who evidently can’t manage to worship at home.

These are fully informed political aids and politicians. Refusing to be limited by public health orders.

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Two things can be true at once:
1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues
2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action to bully colleagues into silence is not a good faith champion of the free speech cause


I have kept quiet about Matthew's recent outpourings on here but as my estwhile co-author has now seen fit to portray me as an enabler of oppression I think I have a right to reply. So I will.

I consider Matthew to be a colleague and a friend, and we had a longstanding agreement not to engage in disputes on twitter. I disagree with much in the article @UOzkirimli wrote on his research in @openDemocracy but I strongly support his right to express such critical views

I therefore find it outrageous that Matthew saw fit to bully @openDemocracy with legal threats, seeking it seems to stifle criticism of his own work. Such behaviour is simply wrong, and completely inconsistent with an academic commitment to free speech.

I am not embroiling myself in the various other cases Matt lists because, unlike him, I think attention to the detail matters and I don't have time to research each of these cases in detail.

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