The Naked Face of New Normal Fascism
I told you this part wasnāt going to be pretty. The collapse of fascist ideological movements and fanatical death cults never is. The New Normal is proving to be no exception.
After three weeks of non-violent civil disobedience outside the Canadian parliament in Ottawa by truckers and other Canadian citizens struggling to uphold their right to not be subjected to forced āvaccination,ā Justin Trudeau unleashed the goon squads. Thousands of militarized riot police (and other unidentified heavily-armed operatives) swarmed the area, surrounded the protesters, started breaking into trucks and arresting people, and beating them with batons and the butts of their rifles.
In one particularly ugly episode, the New Normal stormtroopers rode their horses directly into a crowd of non-violent protesters, trampling an elderly lady with a walker. She had just finished saying something to the police along the lines of āyou break my heart ⦠this is about peace, and love, and happiness.ā Then they knocked her down and rode their horses over her.
Despite an abundance of video evidence clearly depicting exactly what happened, the Ottawa Police tried to spin it this way ā¦
Hereās an overhead photo of the incident ā¦
The big red arrow (courtesy of The Marie Oakes) points to the ladyās walker, or the alleged āhorse-assaulting bicycle.ā Presumably, the face of the gentlemen above her also caused the horse āto trip,ā or was in the process of causing the horse āto trip,ā at the moment that this photo was taken.
And that wasnāt all. Oh no, far from it. The āshow of forceā was just getting started. After all, this was not a āmostly peacefulā outbreak of rioting, looting, and arson. This was non-violent civil disobedience, with childrenās bouncy castles, makeshift saunas, honking, dancing, illegal barbecuing, and other forms of āterroristā activity, which had to be crushed with an iron fist.
On Saturday, the goon squads broke out the stun grenades, the pepper spray, and the big wooden sticks. By Sunday morning, they were shooting people with ānon-lethal, mid-range impact weapons.ā Tow truck operators in horror-movie ski masks were brought in to haul away the big rigs.
Before he turned the goon squads loose on Friday, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, suspending the Canadian constitution, which he had already suspended back in 2020 due to the āapocalyptic pandemic,ā which is why the protesters were protesting in the first place. Parliament was scheduled to debate his authority to declare another āstate of emergency,ā but, of course, the debate was abruptly suspended due to the massive āpolice operationā that his invocation of the Act had enabled.
Acting under the Emergencies Act, he immediately cancelled the right of assembly, outlawed the protests, and started threatening to kill peopleās dogs and take away their kids. Then he and his fascist New Normal lieutenants started freezing the bank accounts of anyone and everyone even vaguely connected to the trucker protest. According to a Bloomberg report:
āThe emergency orders require virtually every participant in the Canadian financial system ā banks, investment firms, credit unions, loan companies, securities dealers, fundraising platforms and payment and clearing services ā to determine whether they possess or control property of a person whoās attending an illegal protest or providing supplies to demonstrators.ā
And, as if all that wasnāt fascist enough, Ottawaās police chief has made it clear that, once the ācrackdownā is finally over, they will hunt down anyone involved in the protests, arrest them and charge them with ācriminal offenses,ā subject them to āfinancial sanctions,ā and otherwise destroy their lives and families.
The crackdown in Ottawa is hardly an aberration. As my readers might recall, New Normal Germany outlawed protesting against the New Normal (i.e., the new official ideology) back in September of 2020, and the German police have been absolutely brutal. Anyone deemed a āCovid denierā is subject to surveillance by Germanyās Intelligence services. The US Department of Homeland Security designates us ādomestic violent extremists.ā Same story in Australia, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and assorted other countries.
I have been describing the New Normal as a new form of totalitarianism (or fascism, if you prefer) for the past two years, and I have been documenting it from the very beginning (see, e.g., these Twitter threads from March 2020 and April 2020, which the OffGuardian editors have preserved for posterity). It has been there all along, right out in the open, but rendered invisible by the official Covid narrative.
The official narrative is rapidly dissolving, rendering the fascism of the New Normal visible. This is happening now because those of us who have seen it from the beginning ā and have been resisting it all along ā have held out long enough to run out the clock. GloboCap canāt keep the narrative going, so all they have left is brute fascist force.
We need to make GloboCap deploy that force, and to shine a big, bright spotlight on it, as the truckers and protesters in Ottawa have just done. In case anyone is confused about the tactic, itās called classic non-violent civil disobedience. I described it in a recent column:
āIn other words, we need to make GloboCap (and its minions) go openly totalitarian ⦠because it canāt. If it could, it would have done so already. Global capitalism cannot function that way. Going openly totalitarian will cause it to implode ⦠no, not global capitalism itself, but this totalitarian version of it. In fact, this is starting to happen already. It needs the simulation of āreality,ā and ādemocracy,ā and ānormality,ā to keep the masses docile. So we need to attack that simulation. We need to hammer on it until it cracks, and the monster hiding within in appears. That is the weakness of the system ⦠New Normal totalitarianism will not work if the masses perceive it as totalitarianism, as a political/ideological program, rather than as a response to a deadly pandemic.ā
The official narrative is dead, or dying. The Covidian Cult is coming apart. No one but the most fanatical New Normals believes there is any real justification for imposing mandatory āvaccination,ā āquarantine camps,ā segregation of āthe Unvaccinated,ā or any of the other āCovid restrictions.ā āThe virusā is no longer an excuse for mindlessly following ridiculous orders and persecuting those of us who refuse.
Apocalyptic Pandemic Theater is over. It is a purely political fight from now on.
Ottawa is not the end. It is just the beginning. Protests and other forms of civil disobedience are growing all around the world ⦠yes, even here in New Normal Germany. That does not mean it is time to relax. On the contrary, it is time to step up the pressure. It is time to make the monster show itself, in all its naked fascist ugliness, and to force everyone to pick a side.
There are only two sides ⦠fascism or freedom.