Buongiorno Alberto,

e ora viene la parte davvero divertente (grazie Wayback Machine!): gli
estremisti neonazisti sono stati rimpiazzati (nel titolo) dai teorici
cospirazionisti

...devono aver letto meglio il manualetto di Sunstein e Vermeule [1]

Alberto Cammozzo via nexa <[email protected]> writes:

> <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi>

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi

Il titolo dell'articolo /alle ore 8:06/ [2] di ieri è quello che hai
riportato in oggetto, che qui riporto:

«Neo-Nazis and QAnon: how Canadian truckers’ anti-vaccine protest was
steered by extremists»

Alle ore 14:35 [3] di ieri il titolo diventa:

«5G and QAnon: how conspiracy theorists steered Canada’s anti-vaccine
trucker protest»

non devo spiegarvi io come sui social (ma non solo) il titolo è
/l'unica/ cosa che conta ("Russia invades Ukraina", senza articolo,
docet)

non devo spiegarvi io come l'uso del termine /steered/ è determinante
per la percezione di chi legge [4] (significativo che steer sia il
giovane bue?)

ho copiato il testo delle due versioni degli articoli in due file di
testo (allegati per chi volesse riprodurre) e le differenze sono solo
redazionali, non sostanziali.

Thousands of demonstrators have successfully occupied Canada’s frigid capital 
for days, and say they plan on staying as long as it takes to thwart the 
country’s vaccine requirements.

The brazen occupation of Ottawa came as a result of unprecedented coordination 
between various anti-vaccine and anti-government organizations and activists, 
and has been seized on by similar groups around the world.

It may herald the revenge of the anti-vaxxers.

The so-called “freedom convoy” – which departed for Ottawa on 23 January – was 
the brainchild of James Bauder, an admitted conspiracy theorist who has 
endorsed the QAnon movement and called Covid-19 “the biggest political scam in 
history”. Bauder’s group, Canada Unity, contends that vaccine mandates and 
passports are illegal under Canada’s constitution, the Nuremberg Code and a 
host of other international conventions.

Bauder has long been a fringe figure, but his movement caught a gulf stream of 
support after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last year that truckers 
crossing the US-Canada border would need to be fully vaccinated against 
Covid-19. The supposed plight of the truckers proved to be a compelling public 
relations angle and attracted an array of fellow travelers.

Until now, a litany of organizations had protested Canada’s strict public 
health measures, but largely in isolation. One such group, Hold Fast Canada, 
had organized pickets of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s headquarters, 
where they claimed that concentration camps had already been introduced in the 
country.

Another group, Action4Canada, launched legal challenges to mask and vaccine 
mandates. In one 400-page court filing, they allege that the “false 
pronouncement of a Covid-19 ‘pandemic’” was carried out, at least in part, by 
Bill Gates and a “New World (Economic) Order” to facilitate the injection of 
5G-enabled microchips into the population.

Both groups are listed as “participating groups” on the Canada Unity website, 
and sent vehicles and personnel to join the convoy.

Other organizers joined Bauder, including Chris Barber, a Saskatchewan trucker 
who was fined $14,000 in October for violating provincial public health 
measures; Tamara Lich, an activist for a fringe political party advocating that 
Western Canada should become an independent state; Benjamin Dichter, who has 
warned of the “growing Islamization of Canada”; and Pat King, an 
anti-government agitator who has repeatedly called for Trudeau to be arrested.

Since they have arrived in Ottawa, the extreme elements of the protest have 
been visible: neo-Nazi and Confederate flags were seen flying, QAnon logos were 
emblazoned on trucks and signs and stickers were pasted to telephone poles 
around the occupied area bear Trudeau’s face, reading: “Wanted for crimes 
against humanity.”

The official line from Bauder and his co-organizers, however, has remained 
focused; in a Facebook live broadcast, Bauder instructed his supporters to 
“stop talking about the vaccine” and instead stick to message of “freedom”.

Such strict message control has attracted mainstream support. Numerous members 
of the Conservative party, Canada’s official opposition, have come out to meet 
the protesters. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have both endorsed the convoy. Fox 
broadcasters Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have provided glowing updates on 
the continuing occupation.

Bauder vowed the convoy would camp out in Ottawa until their demands are met, 
insisting to his followers that a “memorandum of understanding” would force the 
government’s hand, possibly even triggering fresh elections, if enough people 
sign.

A Canada Unity organizer went further, saying it would require the Senate to 
“go after the prime minister” for “corruption” and “fascism”. There is no legal 
basis for those claims.

King has laid out a more direct plan of action to the occupiers: “What we want 
to focus on is our politicians, their houses, their locations,” he said in a 
January Facebook stream. If political pressure doesn’t work, King said, 
blocking major supply chains “will be later on”.

Soon after, the head of security for Parliament issued an extraordinary warning 
to Members of Parliament to avoid the protest entirely, for their own safety.

The occupiers have deliberately made life difficult for anyone in Ottawa’s 
downtown core. Trucks have been laying on their air horns throughout the day, 
often well into the early morning hours. An Ottawa court granted an injunction 
Monday afternoon, ordering that the honking must cease.

In the shadow of Parliament, a flatbed truck was converted into a stage – 
functioning as a speaker’s corner during the day, where far-right politicians 
and occupiers took the microphone to decry Trudeau and Covid vaccines. At 
night, the stage functions as a DJ booth for raucous dance parties.

Technology has made the occupation even easier: drivers share information on 
routes and the best ways to evade police barricades via the walkie talkie app 
Zello. Organizers in other cities use the secure messaging app Telegram to 
share information, coordinate messaging and plan solidarity protests.

The occupiers now have the resources to stay for an extended period of time: 
they have raised more than C$6mthrough various crowdfunding platforms, in cash 
and Bitcoin, despite having been booted from GoFundMe’s platform after raising 
over C$10m.

The Ottawa occupation is proof that a few thousand determined protesters can 
overwhelm police and shut down major cities with enough vehicles and 
coordination. Solidarity convoys have already shut down the busy Coutts border 
crossing between Alberta and Montana, strained police resources in Toronto and 
Quebec City, and activists as far away as Helsinki, Canberra, London, and 
Brussels have taken not. On the convoy channels, protestors warn this is just 
the beginning.
Thousands of demonstrators have successfully occupied Canada’s frigid capital 
for days, and say they plan on staying as long as it takes to thwart the 
country’s vaccine requirements.

The brazen occupation of Ottawa came as a result of unprecedented coordination 
between various anti-vaccine and anti-government organizations and activists, 
and has been seized on by similar groups around the world.

It may herald the revenge of the anti-vaxxers.

The so-called “freedom convoy” – which departed for Ottawa on 23 January – was 
the brainchild of James Bauder, an admitted conspiracy theorist who has 
endorsed the QAnon movement and called Covid-19 “the biggest political scam in 
history”. Bauder’s group, Canada Unity, contends that vaccine mandates and 
passports are illegal under Canada’s constitution, the Nuremberg Code and a 
host of other international conventions.

Bauder has long been a fringe figure, but his movement caught a gulf stream of 
support after the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced last year that 
truckers crossing the US-Canada border would need to be fully vaccinated 
against Covid-19. The supposed plight of the truckers proved to be a compelling 
public relations angle and attracted an array of fellow travelers.

Until now, a litany of organizations had protested Canada’s strict public 
health measures, but largely in isolation. One such group, Hold Fast Canada, 
had organized pickets of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s headquarters, 
where they claimed that concentration camps had already been introduced in the 
country.

Another group, Action4Canada, launched legal challenges to mask and vaccine 
mandates. In one 400-page court filing, they allege that the “false 
pronouncement of a Covid-19 ‘pandemic’” was carried out, at least in part, by 
Bill Gates and a “New World (Economic) Order” to facilitate the injection of 
5G-enabled microchips into the population.

Both groups are listed as “participating groups” on the Canada Unity website, 
and sent vehicles and personnel to join the convoy.

Other organizers joined Bauder, including Chris Barber, a Saskatchewan trucker 
who was fined $14,000 in October for violating provincial public health 
measures; Tamara Lich, an activist for a fringe political party advocating that 
western Canada should become an independent state; Benjamin Dichter, who has 
warned of the “growing Islamization of Canada”; and Pat King, an 
anti-government agitator who has repeatedly called for Trudeau to be arrested.

Since they have arrived in Ottawa, the extreme elements of the protest have 
been visible: neo-Nazi and Confederate flags were seen flying, QAnon logos were 
emblazoned on trucks and signs and stickers were pasted to telephone poles 
around the occupied area bear Trudeau’s face, reading: “Wanted for crimes 
against humanity.”

The official line from Bauder and his co-organizers, however, has remained 
focused; in a Facebook live broadcast, Bauder instructed his supporters to 
“stop talking about the vaccine” and instead stick to message of “freedom”.

Such strict message control has attracted mainstream support. Numerous members 
of the Conservative party, Canada’s official opposition, have come out to meet 
the protesters. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have both endorsed the convoy. Fox 
broadcasters Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have provided glowing updates on 
the continuing occupation.

Bauder vowed the convoy would camp out in Ottawa until their demands are met, 
insisting to his followers that a “memorandum of understanding” would force the 
government’s hand, possibly even triggering fresh elections, if enough people 
sign.

A Canada Unity organizer went further, saying it would require the Senate to 
“go after the prime minister” for “corruption” and “fascism”. There is no legal 
basis for those claims.

King has laid out a more direct plan of action to the occupiers: “What we want 
to focus on is our politicians, their houses, their locations,” he said in a 
January Facebook stream. If political pressure doesn’t work, King said, 
blocking major supply chains “will be later on”.

Soon after, the head of security for parliament issued an extraordinary warning 
to members of parliament to avoid the protest entirely, for their own safety.

The occupiers have deliberately made life difficult for anyone in Ottawa’s 
downtown core. Trucks have been laying on their air horns throughout the day, 
often well into the early morning hours. An Ottawa court granted an injunction 
on Monday afternoon, ordering that the honking must cease.

In the shadow of parliament, a flatbed truck was converted into a stage – 
functioning as a speaker’s corner during the day, where far-right politicians 
and occupiers took the microphone to decry Trudeau and Covid vaccines. At 
night, the stage functions as a DJ booth for raucous dance parties.

Technology has made the occupation even easier: drivers share information on 
routes and the best ways to evade police barricades via the walkie-talkie app 
Zello. Organizers in other cities use the secure messaging app Telegram to 
share information, coordinate messaging and plan solidarity protests.

The occupiers now have the resources to stay for an extended period of time: 
they have raised more than C$6m (US$4.7m) through various crowdfunding 
platforms, in cash and bitcoin, despite having been booted from GoFundMe’s 
platform after raising over C$10m.

The Ottawa occupation is proof that a few thousand determined protesters can 
overwhelm police and shut down major cities with enough vehicles and 
coordination. Solidarity convoys have shut down the busy Coutts border crossing 
between Alberta and Montana, strained police resources in Toronto and Quebec 
City, and activists as far away as Helsinki, Canberra, London and Brussels have 
taken note. On the convoy channels, protesters warn this is just the beginning.
[...]

saluti, 380°


[1] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein#%22Conspiracy_Theories%22_and_government_infiltration

[2] 
https://web.archive.org/web/20220208080607/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi

[3] 
https://web.archive.org/web/20220208143549/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi

[4] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steered

-- 
380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego)

«Noi, incompetenti come siamo,
 non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché»

Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts.  Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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