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Doxing Day in Canada

Posted on Friday, February 18, 2022
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In Canada, first the doxing, then the struggle session.

This week, one of the most popular small-donor fundraising sites for the Canadian truckers protesting the COVID vaccine mandates, GiveSendGo, was hacked. The names of donors were shared with the public. We know about this mostly because erstwhile news organizations, such as Reuters, have showered attention on the breach as if they were providing a public service.

Indeed, many of the same outlets that refused to report specifics about the Hunter Biden email scoop in 2020 (though the story was obtained in a completely ethical journalistic manner) or share specifics from the Democratic National Committee email hacks in 2016 (illegally obtained but with high news value) have no compunction highlighting a site that takes aim at ordinary people who have done nothing but engage in political dissent.

In Canada, the doxing has already begun. Tammy Giuliani, a small-business owner who employs 40 people, was forced to shut down her gelato shop because of threats made against her employees after her $250 donation to the truckers’ cause was disclosed, according to the Ottawa Citizen.

The Citizen’s Blair Crawford doesn’t marvel at the fact that a person who lives in a (nominally) liberal democracy can be intimidated for engaging in political protest, but instead strongly insinuates that Giuliani had it coming: “Giuliani made her Feb. 5 donation on the second weekend of the demonstration, when Ottawa police were describing it as ‘volatile and dangerous’ and lawyers were seeking a court injunction to silence the constant blaring of air horns in the downtown core.”

So what? The police were wrong. The protests have not been “dangerous” to this point. A deep dive into the scaremongering tactics of Canadian authorities might be worthwhile for someone who isn’t merely a stenographer at the struggle session: “Never in our wildest dreams did we anticipate what has transpired over the past couple of weeks,” she said. “None of us anticipated what it turned into, and we certainly don’t condone it.”

No one can blame Giuliani for engaging in a bit of self-flagellation to save her business. Giuliani, who claims she gives money to animal shelters, a soccer team, and a choir (“We rarely say no”), was compelled to take out loans to stay open during the pandemic. It’s “a debt that will probably take seven years to pay off,” she told the Citizen. It’s not difficult to imagine why a business owner battered by counterproductive state-compelled economic shutdowns would oppose vaccine mandates. Nor is it difficult to imagine how disclosing her donations — and the subsequent media attention — is intended to chill speech.

At least one reporter for the Washington Post, already on the case, is allegedly contacting Americans who have contributed as little as $40 to the anti-mandate cause in Canada. How could the Post possibly know the names of donors if it wasn’t working off the list obtained through the hack? And how could it possibly care? That is unless the goal is to Brendan Eich dissent.

Now, of course, this isn’t Canada. The government doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally seize the assets of political protesters as if it were a third-world autocracy. Yet this is what the hysterics surrounding the specter of “dark money” is all about. The fact that we aren’t obliged to publicly attach our names to all political donations is endlessly frustrating to those intent on smearing and intimidating their political opponents. Anonymous speech is as much a part of “democracy” as marching in the streets or writing a newspaper column. And in a healthy liberal media environment, reporters would be demanding answers from those abusing power, not working with them to inhibit political speech.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review.

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Terrie
Terrie
2 years ago

If I had Soros cash I d gladly cover her losses…Thats where these billionaires should be sending the money

Brenda
Brenda
2 years ago

Sounds very similar to the so called insurrection on the Capitol building in Washington D.C. Of course it was all President Trump’s fault. Even though it’s their people who backed away and let the people in. Help offered by our President was refused by none other than Prune face Pelosi. It makes one think many of the protesters were paid by the Democratic Party to reek havoc and destroy so they could blame President Trump. Seems the democrats have lied and stolen with no repercussions. When is this madness going to stop? When are they going to be punished for their Treason?

Bill T
Bill T
2 years ago

BLM , ANTIFA, destructive and deliberate burning of police and other types of state funded operations purposely and with hatred for our free and constitutionally founded society burned and damaged these buildings beyond repair. And this revolt against our system was accepted and actually funded with the assistance of leftist socialist democrats. There’s absolutely no way these protesters ( dangerous and destructive ones by the way) did all of this without a strategy and millions of dollars in funding to accomplish this . There total hypocrites and have no respect for our citizens or our constitution, this is definitely OBAMA’S third term and it’s obvious that the puppets are following his damaging and criminal activities, yes criminal. Peaceful protests against a tyrannical government is exactly what all of our freedom loving citizens throughout the world must do everywhere and everyday from now until these elites are crushed. It’s a chess game right now and we had better make the strategically correct decisions or it’s bread lines and we’ll all be nothing more then minions for these globalist elitist leaders.

RICK
RICK
2 years ago

Truckers should totally stop all (100%) deliveries. Let the liberals deal with that.

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