Komodo Rodeo

Unfun fact: it was kidnapping, just the legal kind from which civil society and civilians have less and less protection over time.

If any of you have never seen one in person, and want to make yourself uncomfortable, dedicate some time conducting personal research into what detention centers look/are like for detainees/prisoners and how they operate. Often nothing more than indoor dog kennel fencing bolted to concrete floors with 24/7 fluorescent lighting, as little food/water as is legally permitted, denial of the right to legal counsel, and medical personnel specifically instructed to suspect that every single medical issue is nothing more than an excuse to weasel out of confinement. The setup and conditions aren’t accidental, don’t let their designers, builders, or overseers fool you into believing otherwise, the cruelty is implicit.

Well damn, that’s an odd one for the Winnipeg history file.

“Local resident detained and arrested on suspicion of smuggling Santa Claus’ bones stolen from Turkey.”

I wonder if they’ll be throwing people out of helicopters over Superior or James Bay?

Bingo. If anything, use of a burner phone will be purposely misconstrued as “suspicious”, and used as justification for more thorough screening.

“You just got it last week? That’s weird, we usually only hear drug smugglers using new phones. You’re not smuggling fentanyl, are you? OK, so you won’t mind if I take a look through your luggage to be sure, right? Maybe I should send you to secondary screening for an x-ray.”

I have to be honest, I’d be happy just to have one who didn’t remind me of Milhouse.

What he expects is for the Canadian public to fold up like lawn chairs and allow unfavourable trade deals, with the threat of U.S. military might hanging over the negotiations.