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Ex Post Facto Laws Mean No One Is Safe
The Trudeau regime is applying its unlawful declaration of emergency retroactively. Thus, people who contributed to the truckers before the declaration are having their bank accounts frozen. This means that no one is safe from arbitrary law. The U.S. Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. However, we aren’t in much better shape since the FBI and the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation bankrupted Trump supporters. In the U.S.’s version of a banana republic, the losers get to persecute the supporters of the guy who won it. Biden urged Trudeau to take action since the authoritarians need to stand together. Once again, the Trump supporters have proven to be right about who threatened civil liberties.
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We’ll see what happens when the truckers reach D.C.
There is no right to legal aid in Canada. Legal aid lawyers are perfectly free to reject prospective clients.
If you depose Justin you get Freeland, silly rabbit!
I stand victorious!
After Freeland, the Empire of Blotting Out the Sun:
Oh, better not be Ghurkas.
That’s got to make for a good joke, but I can’t think of the punch line. Anyone?
“A Sikh convoy, Mohawk convoy, and a Ghurka convoy walk into (an) Ottawa…”
When it happens, we’ll have people on Ricochet siding with the Biden regime.
Yeah at the end the left hand was playing without touching the keys.
Join The Incarceration!
The tell was no sheet music.
That’s not how it works.
If there’s a no confidence vote then there’s an election. If that were to happen before the Conservatives elect a new leader then the choice would be between Justin and Candice (and Jagmeet, I suppose, technically).
If Justin resigns then the Liberal Party will hold an election for the new leader. I’m sure Freeland will run, but it’s not automatic she’ll win. How they choose their interim leader is up to the Liberal Party’s constitution. I haven’t read their constitution so I don’t know exactly how they do it, but when a Conservative leader resigns the interim leader is chosen by caucus.
There is no “line of succession” like there is in the United States. Deputy Prime Minister is not equivalent to Vice President. In fact, it’s even more of a meaningless title than Vice President.
Certainly in AZ
Don’t we already?
No, this is Putin not Biden. But I was really looking to see if the piano was a player piano.
A cursory review of the past decades will reveal Mark Steyn’s truism about the Liberal Party being like the PLO and that we’re coming up to the Ides of March. Liberal Leaders audition for the job by writing a book first (Ignatieff, Freeland, Carney) and thanks to the magic of life imprisonment for mischief and freezing bank accounts I don’t much on the horizon that’s going to change that.
Eat zee bugs.
And Carney’s job is to blot out the sun for Herr Fearless Leader, so the only mystery is how long Freeland lands as interegnum. In this Joker bank heist I think she’s the bus driver and Carney is the Joker. Personally, I also believe she has one of those push button machines from Star Trek’s Mirror Mirror to eliminate rivals.
#perogiethighs
HONNNNNNK!
Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason
For what it’s worth, I met a sex offender paroled (after 15 years in prison) who was not on the sex offender registry for precisely this reason—he’d been convicted before the sex offender registry was a thing. Ex post facto. Which didn’t stop him (and his supporters) (middle class, articulate guy; of course he had supporters) from citing his absence from that registry as a sign that the System no longer considered him a threat.
I’m pretty sure that some states, at least – maybe not federal – have gotten around that by I guess convincing judges that it’s not actually more punishment. Seems like there are some states that have been able to get past offenders on the list even if it happened before they passed the registry laws.
Thanks Trudy!
This reminds me of Randall Tex Cobb’s joke on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. He’d gone 15 rounds and lost to Larry Holmes, prompting Howard Cosell to quit covering boxing. When Carson asked Cobb what his record was he said:
“37 arrests, no convictions”.
And now they’re just randomly freezing bank accounts to prevent people from taking their money out of banks so their whole banking system doesn’t collapse.
See what happens when you descend into lawlessness, Justin?
Serious? Link?
Hmm. This was shared elsewhere on Ricochet, but now I can’t find the original at GP.
So, it is my money, but I can’t take it out so they can freeze it later.
Fascism is when the private sector exists and is under the control of the government. This is literal textbook defined fascism.
My guess is that this is a well-done agitprop piece from someplace that I like a lot — but you have to ignore anything without a link. I got burned a while back with a bogus MTG tweet.
Gateway Pundit tends to be a bit too hysterical for me, too quick to run stuff without verifying. So I guess I got burned, too. It’s not on their site as far as I can tell.