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As per my post yesterday about not celebrating political repression against far-right activists, a Palestinian Youth Movement organizer in Ottawa just got charged with a bunch of stuff including counseling mischief, one of the same charges that Pat King got convicted of.
Counseling mischief is common for political repression because it doesn't require the crown to establish intent, just recklessness. And recklessness is situational.
This means that if the crown can create a narrative in which there was a heightened risk of people doing illegal things, then otherwise non-illegal speech becomes illegal. Because you were reckless, given the situation.
We should never cheerlead the state when it builds precedent for tools like these.
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Here's my post about Pat King's conviction:
https://kolektiva.social/@cedar/113533674737354743
Here's an Instagram post about the arrest in Ottawa:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCwot21u8RR/
Counseling mischief is common for political repression because it doesn't require the crown to establish intent, just recklessness. And recklessness is situational.
This means that if the crown can create a narrative in which there was a heightened risk of people doing illegal things, then otherwise non-illegal speech becomes illegal. Because you were reckless, given the situation.
We should never cheerlead the state when it builds precedent for tools like these.
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Here's my post about Pat King's conviction:
https://kolektiva.social/@cedar/113533674737354743
Here's an Instagram post about the arrest in Ottawa:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCwot21u8RR/