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Sierra Grey's avatar

Thank you. Your background and experience amplify your concerns. The fact that the Biden admin or anybody in Congress has not condemned this action is very troubling.

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Every time I read your essays, Naomi, I can’t help feeling we are fighting parallel battles against tyranny, and I am grateful to be allied with you against the formidable forces we are facing 🙌

I have written letters related to several of the items you addressed, including:

• “Letter to Justin Trudeau” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-justin-trudeau)

• “Letter to the New York State Department of Health” (https://unitedpushback.com/letter-to-the-new-york-state-department-of-health/)

• “Letter to the Washington State Board of Health” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-washington-state-board)

And of course “Letter to a Tyrant” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant) and “Letter to a Colluder” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling) are particularly apt at the moment.

I have also been conducting a pestering campaign against Justin over the past couple of weeks (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/with_replies) if those of you still on Twitter would like to join in/retweet/like. Here are a few examples pertinent to this essay:

• Enjoy playing Tyrant while it lasts, Justin. Soon, you will be playing Defendant for crimes against humanity and violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms. (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1495128980587831297)

• When “the illusion [of freedom] becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, pull back the curtains, move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

—Frank Zappa (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1495126965803642881)

• The Winter of Love has become the Winter of #PoliceBrutality, soon to become the Winter of Discontent:

https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1494811714222657537?t=w8YF0oYnPCqmw2wkMYYt1g&s=09

(https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1495125955496448001)

• “‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded—and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has assumed such emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist.”

—F. A. Hayek (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1495125870029193219)

• “This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised … as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes.”

—They Thought They Were Free (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1494855563494125568)

• “Everything went strictly by the book, using means that were permitted by the constitution. At first there were ‘emergency decrees’ by the president… & later a bill was passed by a 2/3 majority of the Reichstag giving the government unlimited legislative powers.”

—Defying Hitler (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1494854434848862213)

• And just like that, it went from Christmas to Kristallnacht in Canada:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQbkCd80zU

(https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1494814726190088193)

• Where do your loyalties lie, Justin, with Klaus Schwab/WEF/Davos or the Canadian people? If the former, as is evident from your actions and words, doesn't that make you a traitor to Canada? If you're not a traitor, prove it by talking to your people. Millions await. (https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1493593067793747968)

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