Tamara Lich Rearrested

 

I am amazed by the stupidity of the Canadian authorities in rearresting Tamara Lich just before Canada Day.

Perhaps they are hoping to stir something up so that they can crack down harder. It is certainly not the move you would make if you were trying for a peaceful and unifying Canada Day.

But how are they not going to come across as the villains? How are they not going to be remembered less fondly than Orval Faubus, Bull Connor, Lester Maddox, or Francis Bond Head when the histories come to be written?

You could not come up with a more attractive figure as the face of the opposition to government overreach if you were a PR firm. Lich is a woman, attractive without being so attractive as to provoke envy, and Metis. Can’t plausibly tar her with the usual “white supremacy” and “misogyny” lie. Unlike Rosa Parks, who was chosen for PR value, she actually was a leader of the protest. She has just received a Jonas Freedom Prize, and is reputedly being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. And yet the government wants to give her more prominence, by arresting her, on no visible grounds, just before Canada Day?

And after their invocation of the Emergency Act against her has been shown to be fraudulent? Do they really want to remind everyone?

I suppose there are two possibilities here: either extreme stupidity and arrogance, or extreme fear. Of the two, I think it has to be stupidity and arrogance; for there is surely nothing worse for them to fear than losing power in a new election.