The Theft and Betrayal of Alberta's Democracy

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This is becoming truly scary.

Alberta’s democracy was stolen. It was sold for profit. And loaded up onto a far right mobilization app by a pro-sovereignty group called the Centurion Project. Founded by David Parker—who also founded Take Back Alberta, the hardline conservative activist network that played a major role in Premier Danielle Smith’s rise to power— the Centurion Project has close ties to the MAGA movement in the United States. Parker and his partners didn’t believe the separatist petition process to a referendum was going to work using traditional methods: townhalls, door knocking, phone banking, spending regulated amounts on advertising, communicating effectively—the grunt work of running a democratic campaign.

To start to unpack the most pressing of these implications we must understand that at their hardened core, separatists are white nationalists. They would be Proud Boys, if the Proud Boys weren’t a listed terrorist entity. These are the people that blockaded Hwy 2 at Coutts, amassed a cache of high-powered weapons, and plotted to kill RCMP over COVID restrictions. These are the people who parked their rigs and blared their horns for weeks and shut down Canada’s Capital City while aspiring to overthrow the federal government. These are anti-authority, anti-science, anti-woke, anti-elite, anti-trans, conspiracy theorists drunk on disinformation fed to them by predatory ‘leaders’ like David Parker and Jeff Rath and Donald Trump and Danielle Smith. They are, in other words, a dangerous crowd.

To paint them as guys doing grievance politics things misses the mark. This is something far more sinister and we better get live to it fast. For the rest of Canada and for the federal government to think that now that the breach has been discovered, the injunction order issued, and the data base taken down, that this is all in hand would be mistaken.

https://plennox.substack.com/p/the-theft-and-betrayal-of-albertas