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White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.
Euro here: what is truth and reconcilliation day? (And why do these masked asshats even exist,...but I digress)
Just to add to Brilliants comment, these residential schools were not shut down completely, until 1996.
Somebody replied with what happened already, so I will add that this day (Sept 30th) is Canada acknowledging the crimes of the government and church with Truth and hopefully Reconciliation of those events with the Indigenous people..
But heres the Truth: Our government didn't make it a federal holiday, so only some provinces treat it as a holiday where you can go and watch an indigenous celebration. When it was instituted our Premier (Trudeau) was in British Columbia on the Holiday and rather than meet with the Indigenous leaders at a celebration, he went to his island home to chill out. To me this showed exactly how much Canada cared about Reconciliation.
Also, the church still refuses to admit they did anything wrong, and in Ontario, half our schools are run by the same cult of pedophilic sex offenders.
The town of Kamloops was where one of the most recent unveilings of atrocities of the residential school system. It was a program to "help" the indigenous people adjust to the colonial usurpation of their lands and way of life.
What it actually resulted in massive mistreatment, atrocities, genocide, and erasure of the students in their care.
A site in Kamloops recently(inside the last 15 years) was revealed to have found another 50 ish bodies that were hidden.
The holiday truth and reconciliation was created a few years ago to acknowledge the problem and it was a big deal because it also was the first time the government of Canada officially acknowledged it
@FreddiesLantern Truth and reconciliation is an ongoing process of uncovering painful historical wrongs committed by a government or dominant society, acknowledging the truth, and working to repair broken relationships. - Wikipedia
Hey Canadians,
You guys need to snuff this flame out now. Whether through serious jail time, or even feeding them to the bears
Donβt let the weed take root, otherwise youβll wind up like the U.S.
It's too late now, we already showed them they could march across the whole country and terrorize a city for weeks without repercussions. We need to take more action, absolutely, but I wouldn't call this one a small or easy flame to take out anymore.
My Helldivers playing ass sees these shitbags all lined up and all I can think of is: β¬οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈ
"there's dozens of them"
perhaps two dozen by my count!
Seriously though I hate that these cunts are everywhere. Not many presently but I suspect it's a drip / trickle / flow thing. They grab on to genuine social problems and distort them to match their own ends.
They need to be met by an opposing show of force less this cancer spread.
What a bunch of cowards
The Big Three news outlets in Canada pretty much ignored this story until the Kamloops local paper and social media picked it up. Now they're all over it, pretending they were there first.
And they're all missing the crucial point.
Second Sons are working very hard to stick to the rule of law, while instilling fear. They're showing up in groups like this in smaller communities. They're not in Calgary or Toronto or Vancouver, they're north of Edmonton, or Orillia or Millarville.
They show up, dress to intimidate, act to intimidate, but don't actually threaten. They post overt dogwhistle slogans, "Je me souviens d'un Quebec blanc" or "Indian trucks kill canucks") which they could plausibly explain away as something else, if forced to stand on trial.
They're getting bolder, which means they're going to try to goad their victims into acting. They'll obey the RCMP or local police (if the force is sufficient) without hesitation because as long as they keep showing up, as long as they keep scaring people, as long as they are able to avoid consequences for their actions, they'll be able to hurt some people and recruit others.
They need to be driven out by the people every time they show their...well not faces, but cowardly masks. They need to be not shot or injured, but maybe detained until the police can unmask and identify them by name.
We need to publish their names. We need (and I can't believe I would ever say this) to doxx them - to make them fear for their lives if they keep threatening society.
We need to break the back of their movement, and the media isn't helping one goddamn bit.
Rachel Gilmore does fantastic journalist coverage and a great job of calling out specific names and people associated with it. She has been threatened quite brazenly for it, but she's also a badass that continues to do it. We need more Rachels.
Legalizing violence against conservative terrorists would solve this kind of bullshit instantly.
They look a lot like bowling pins, if someone has a truck.
I know a guy with a raised F-250 with dual rear wheels and upgraded suspension. Unfortunately he's in the photo and you're going to have to ask to borrow it.
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I feel like I'm looking at a bunch of Watchmen thugs. They cover up because they know how despicable they are.
Unrelated thought process. You know those youtube videos that are like "how many dinner plates does it take to stop a .50 BMG" and they start with like a .22lr and work up. Yeah, but not related at all to the lined up nazis.
They should grab up all of those nazi's and force them into a federal re-education camp! Also, sterilize each and every one of them! Maybe they won't be so quick to protest once they've learned a bit of history.
The shitbag neo-Nazis are afraid of COVID, eh.
Trump's CIA agents
Nah these are homegrown little bitches
Trumpβs CIA agents would not be that smart!
All masked up.
Curious...
(Fuck nazis BTW)
You can tell how brave and proud they are by how they hide their faces
So when is the counter-protest? These turds need to be run out of town.
Theyβre beaten up by the cops
Lmfao them wearing all black but then going out of their ways to wear white skimasks is so fucking pathetic
Patriot Front. Why is it always these losers?
Must've been laundry day for that dipshit in the middle.
And not a one of them looks in the least bit imposing. Do you think they go home at night, look in the mirror, and feel inadequate? I bet they do.
Hopefully these fuckers get outted.
Gotta admire the amount of sociopathic genetic and socioeconomic factors that play into an enduring force behind slavery and colonialism on full display in USA and Canada. To fight a war to keep slavery that led to millions of deaths shows that their whole identity as a human is based on their ability to inflict harm and suffering on other humans to the point to die to preserve that institution of suffering.
Racism: when you try swindling others into giving you something only because of your skin colour, family name, or slang.
Those clowns really cloud the issue that is actually worthy of discussion. They think they're gonna get some dogs with that whistle but they just look like douches.