The Activist Left and the Security State

MSM Commentary on the Lich/Barber travesty illustrates a dangerous alliance

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Commenting on the Tamara Lich/Chris Barber trial, David Moscrop, writing in the Globe and Mail, asserts that the Freedom Convoy "terrorized" residents of Ottawa, and "did try to overthrow the government.”

I am one of those residents (living downtown, on a street mentioned as unlivable in the POEC inquiry). The contrast between the hysterics of the MSM and the joyful reality in the streets was striking, and also a scandal.

Aside from the much-discussed MOU of James Bauder, with which Tamara and Chris had nothing to do, Moscrop's evidence for the "overthrow" assertion is a set of now discredited statements about coups and violence made by Trudeau's National Security and Intelligence Advisor Jody Thomas.

This is the woman who could not get reports of Chinese interference in front of Trudeau, but who makes confidently unsupported allegations against peaceful protesters. Thomas comes from the WMD school of intelligence: intelligence is what the boss wants to hear.

The only difference between Thomas and the 2003 WMD crowd is that while the latter were mistaken about the secrets of a totalitarian state 5,000 miles away, Thomas knew nothing about her fellow citizens a hundred yards from her office door.

Thomas claimed at the POEC inquiry that the government didn't know who to talk to.

But they knew perfectly well who to arrest. And her falsehoods are swallowed whole and without question by the mainstream media, and by this ostentatiously radical writer. Wasn't there a time when the press was supposed to be oppositional, skeptical, raking the muck, speaking truth to power?

Moscrop and Thomas, radical journalist and security state official, are now on the same page: there has been a curious if not entirely unremarked (Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi come to mind) confluence between the activist left and the upper reaches of the security state.

The long march through the institutions has attained state and police power. This is a standing and urgent threat to our civil liberties, and right now it threatens Tamara and Chris with prison for urging peaceful protest in a manner embarrassing to power.

Who is next, and what is to be done?