The guardians of the state.

On the twitter, I’ve recently heard many people declare that “Toronto has become a police state.”  If you’ve said something along those lines, you need to take a deep breath.  You are only experiencing clarity.  It will pass.

Canada has been a police state for years.  Over the weekend, we just saw how a police state handles protest.  In other words, the police state on a bad day.  The only reason the police did not use live ammunition is because they didn’t need to.   Had there been half a million people in the street, if there had of been a real threat, the police would have used real bullets.  They did not because they were never threatened enough to risk the optics.  As their overreaction and their indiscriminate application of power proved, they are not interested in any sort of fair fight.  and when you looked up, you saw snipers.  Just what do you think those people are for?  They’re for you and me.  To shoot us with bullets we paid for.

Did you ever think our government would act any differently than the Iranian regime if too many people took to the street?  When power is threatened, life is cheap.

The only difference between Canada and any other police state is that Canadians are remarkably compliant.  Why shouldn’t they be?  They are the benefactors of this sort of behavior and much worse all over the world.  For the most part, they enjoy the police state.  Love it even.  Some, like Albert Speer, simply prefer to avoid looking too hard at it.  Most Canadians will never face up to what this country truly is: they will not acknowledge its wars, it genocides and its oppressions.  It easier to believe in the lie.

From cradle to grave, we’ve all been lied to.  We’ve been told things like Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian, that we are a nation of peacekeepers and that we are, always and without doubt, the good guys.  It’s not true.  We’re not.  Here is where we see the delusion conflicting with the reality.  And the reality wins.

The police state is not what happened on the weekend.  It is what allowed that weekend to happen in the first place.  It is what you’re returning to this Monday.  Maybe you enjoy living in a totalitarian regime – many people have– and perhaps you even actively endorse it – many have done that too.  Everyone who doesn’t, however, needs to take a deep breath.  You are only experiencing clarity.  It will pass.  A meaningless report will be made, perhaps a futile inquiry will be drag into boredom and increase our tolerance for the images that now shock us, a few reporters will be upset that their rights were violated and you will get your crumb from the table.

You will be returned to your regular programming.  A celebrity will do something and your pleasant fog will be back in no time.