I am sitting in my snug little apartment in snowy Toronto, safe from the covid bug. For the past few months I have been watching the world unfold through my Internet and cable connections, interacting mostly through these blog posts and some twitterings. I have watched the winter olympics fervently, blogging a little about it.
Less happy realities have been passing through my consciousness during this time. One was the intensifying efforts of the globalist elite to get world war three going in Ukraine. Another was closer to home, as that other faction of the oligarchy mobilized their goon force to shut down the Canadian capitol and challenge government to take them on.
This latter is fairly serious, so I will deal with it the way it really should be dealt with by any intelligent commentator; by looking for the real motives of the people behind the “honkies”, “convoyers” or the “flutruxklan” phenomenon. It is probably better to look at something like this from a little time distance.
Alas, intelligent commentators such as myself are scarce on the net. This problem is clearly getting worse. People who cannot critique ideology except out of the frame of another ideology, who cannot get out of ideological thinking, need to shut up.
Instead, they are all over every form of media. They often seem to be vigorously promoted by organized propaganda campaigns. As I have been complaining of lately, people like myself with plain old common sense, cannot get the reception we deserve.
I have asked the right questions about what this phenomenon was and was not really about. I was not interested in phoney debates with people trying to justify them, as in; oh, only a few were waving the Swastika flag around. Only one or two pissed in the snow at the Unknown Soldier or the Terry Fox memorials.
I was no less interested in hearing people defending them from a warped understanding of civil rights and ‘freedom of speech’. It is very clear what the basic mentality of the leaders was. They did indeed disrupt normal life on central Ottawa and demonstrate contempt for the residents. However, they obviously did not do it all by themselves.
None of the public face of the convoy seemed bright enough to have pulled this off. This attack was clearly organized well in advance and well funded, mostly from the United States. The people behind it have covered their tracks pretty well. It was clearly an attempt by some interests, mostly American, to intimidate the Canadian government.
The exact motivations were unclear, but had to do with something well beyond just removing mask and vaccine mandates. As was widely noted at the time, these were already being gradually lifted all over the country. The federal government had little power to make the provinces comply with such a demand.
The cowardly incompetence of Canadian authorities in dealing with the Honkies seems actually to have worked against them. We have seen this in some of these ‘colour revolutions’. The authorities respond with a ‘hands off’ stance and the revolt is soon seen as just revolting to the great majority of the population.
This does not seem to have been a deliberate strategy of the Canadian government. They were clearly paralyzed, with no idea of what to do. This is a consistent pattern in ‘western’ governments, at national or subnational level, in dealing with ‘force it open’ campaigns driven by the industrialist capitalists.
The conventional press was initially fairly neutral about the Honkies. There was support for them in some areas of social media, especially the ‘civl liberties’ type of twits. A campaign of contempt was gradually laid on them, clearly led by the financial/globalist affiliated influencers.
What was not evident to many observers of these events is that another contest between industrial and financial ruling oligarchies was in progress. I am more attuned to this underlying conflict in western nations. As I point out constantly, industrial capitalists want a herd immunity approach to the pandemic, while the financial vectoralists want to sell vaccines and build the surveillance state, and so would like the pandemic to go on.
It is clear what was behind the ‘Honkies’ phenomenon. Many of these people were up from the USA and had connections with the January 6th movement there. They were endorsed by various right wing American politicians, from Trump on down.
They clearly wanted something more than just ending health measures. Some of them talked about overthrowing the Canadian government, but that was never serious. They were a tool to put pressure on our government, and to test its reactions.
The government of Canada failed this test wretchedly. The Trudeau administration was a disgrace. The institutions of Canadian government proved once again to be incapable of responding to a crisis.
Every level of government was afraid of offending the right wing lobby in order to deal with the blockades and occupations. The local governments did best at it but they were hamstrung by police who refused to obey orders. A very large part of the Ottawa police were shown to be affiliated with these quasifascist groups which are on the rise in North America.
It is very difficult for civil authorities to maintain discipline over police forces in Canada. The Ottawa police association used the crisis to get rid of a police chief they did not like. Ottawa cops are defying attempts by the council to investigate them actively assisting the honkies.
It is interesting that the Honkies got a much rougher reception when some of them flew to Toronto. They were not even allowed to land anywhere. The Toronto cops closed off key streets in Toronto until the honkies had clearly been dispersed.
Things really began to turn for the Honkies when they blockaded the Ambassador bridge into the Unites States. They could keep mere civilians awake all night with their horns, but when they interfered with the supply of auto parts over the border, effecting the operations of powerful concerns, commands went out to Canadian politicians. Most key Honkies have now found themselves in legal and financial difficulties which are intended to insure they do not do anything like this in the near future.
The actions against the honkies fit with the pattern of response against right wing agitations in North America since the January 6 of 2021 event and the defeat of President Trump. The old money, financial capitalist oligarchs are beginning to feel threatened by the new money industrial and vectoral capitalists. The only people they want mobilizing fascist style thug forces are themselves.
Of course, these are the people responsible for Nazifiying Ukraine and provoking the Ukrainian war. This is a proxy war against Russia because Russia is a danger to their continuing domination of the globe.
Industrialist capitalists are generally more national in outlook and increasingly see global domination and government as a threat to their interests. Thus their influencers on the net are mounting the main opposition to the intense war propaganda we are seeing now.
This clamor for ridiculous things that would lead to nuclear war is mostly lead by people with a ‘left’ ideology. They are mostly unaware that they are in league with people with Nazi symbols tattooed all over themselves and who claim to be the shock troops of the white race against the Asiatic hordes poised to invade Europe.
Out of this, the internet has now gone battier than I have ever seen it. It is distressing that people who had excellent sense when talking about how the pandemic had to be dealt with, are howling for sanctions against Russia which would hurt western countries including Canada more than they would Russia.
But what is my point here?
In an ‘interesting time’ like this, little is what it seems to be on the surface. However, it is not really hard to get a clear idea of what is going on. It does take some time and mental energy, and a willingness to know. It requires the basic reasoning skills.
The present economic and political systems are doomed. The elites are fighting each other and lashing out at whatever they think is replacing them. They have lost their minds and this is making everyone else lose theirs.
Eventually, sane and sensible people are going to have to take control of our civilization and reestablish it on a better basis.
Other than that, I have no point to make. The terrible twenties roll on. Meanwhile, winter is almost over in snowy Toronto. The days are getting longer.