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December 23, 2023

the process is the punishment

one need not be right to punish one's enemies, only powerful
[Remind you of the Coutts Four? It should,]

"many folks forwarded me james howard kunstler’s recent piece entitled “Whatever it Takes Won’t be Enough” that got picked up by ZH and in which certain notorious internet felines got a shout out. i found it provocative and insightful, so i’d like to see if i can add to/extend some of his ideas somewhat.

"i think james is very much onto something with this "lawfare" idea of weaponizing courts and judicial process against we the people. this practice seems to have been a soros centerpiece for some time in his push to dominate DA races and judgeships as a cheap way to have big effects, grant license to the favored, and criminalize dissent.

"in a legalistic technocracy such as ours, the power to determine what is and is not investigated and what is and is not charged is the true prerogative of princes.

"it determines who may act abhorrently and who must be always looking over their shoulder for fear of a tap from leviathan.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-process-is-the-punishment

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October 07, 2025

Abolish the teachers' unions

Alberta strike cancelling classes across the province shows unions have far too much power
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/carson-jerema-abolish-the-teachers-unions

Tamara & Chris sentenced. The Message is Clear: Dissent is Now a Crime.
Writer: Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
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Tamara Lich and Chris Barber got 12 months of house arrest today for “mischief.”
Not violence.
Not property damage.
Mischief.

Peaceful Canadians—criminalised for daring to speak out. The same justice system that drops charges for real crimes and lets violent offenders walk free spent three years trying to break two people who stood for freedom.
The Crown had outrageously demanded seven years in jail to make an example out of them.

Why?
To warn you.
To scare anyone who might ever peacefully defy the state again.

Even the judge admitted Chris Barber “came with the noblest of intent” and never called for violence.

But it didn’t matter. They needed bogeymen.

We remember all the others:
Maxime Bernier was handcuffed in Manitoba for speaking at a peaceful rally.
Mark Friesen was fined thousands for organizing gatherings.
Randy Hillier saw convoy charges stayed after years of harassment.
Todd Dube was ...

October 07, 2025
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