Friday, February 18, 2022

Canada's "Enabling Act"? Not...ummm....Exactly

Robert Spencer is quoted at AOSHQ on the situation in Canada.

. . . In his address, Trudeau made an important promise: "the scope of these measures will be time-limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address."

Adolf Hitler said many similar things in arguing that he needed dictatorial powers. On Feb. 27, 1933, just four weeks after Hitler became Chancellor, the Reichstag, the German parliament building in Berlin, caught fire. ....Hitler, however, insisted that the Communist Party, which was a considerable force within the Reichstag, had set the fire, and pressed German President Paul von Hindenburg to approve of an emergency law suspending civil liberties. Communist leaders, including the Communist members of the Reichstag, were hunted down and arrested. . .

. . . The Enabling Act allowed Hitler to enact laws without Reichstag approval and with the same dispatch that Trudeau once admired about Communist China: "Laws enacted by the Reich government shall be issued by the Chancellor and announced in the Reich Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date."...

. . . It would be facile and unfair to say that Hitler's Enabling Act and Trudeau's Emergencies Act are one and the same. Despite the soundness of Bill Maher’s observation, Trudeau is not Hitler and is not likely to become a bloodthirsty despot. However, the Enabling Act shows the pitfalls of what Trudeau has now done in Canada, and how easily an Act that allows a government to bypass ordinary procedures designed to protect the rights of citizens can be abused.

...Both Freeland [the Canadian Minister-ette of Confiscations] and Hitler promised ruthless action against those whom they cast as enemies of the people. No one expects Canada to act as ruthlessly as National Socialist Germany did, but there is no doubt that Trudeau and Freeland have embarked upon an extremely dangerous road, and one that lends itself, as the history of Nazi Germany proves conclusively, to all manner of human rights abuses. Once one's political opponents have been blamed for all the ills the nation is suffering, and one is freed from the need to obtain court orders or respect due process, what remains to restrain the unscrupulous?

You could ask Peter Navarro about Ms. Freeland's ambitions and her ......ahhh........nature as a 'human being.'  Maybe TruDope is too soy to become a despot.  Freeland?  That's a different matter.

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