Canada

It's an utter failure of the Canadian MSM that people still think the freedumm caravan had anything to do with truckers or mandates. This group of organizers set out to perform a CPC endorsed Jan 6th styled event intended to take over our Parliament building and end our democracy. They failed, but It's still treasonous.

Lawyers for Lich and Barber accused the Crown of "cherry-picking" evidence, while prosecutors accused the defence of the same.

They aren't going to bring their own evidence. Doesn't sound much like cherry-picking to me. Sounds like the evidence (probably mostly from social media and captured by the chuds in the convoy) is pretty complete. But what do I know.

Reminds of the one nutjob in my city who stands on a bridge all day with huge sign saying "Tamara Lich is innocent" while he swings his Canadian flag and salutes traffic. He makes me so fucking mad 🙂

My prediction: They're going to get off with a fine or a stern warning. The courts seem to be swinging more in their favour these days for some stupid reason.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are charged with mischief, intimidation and offences related to counselling others to break the law during the protest that took over downtown Ottawa for more than three weeks in early 2022.

Crown prosecutors Tim Radcliffe and Siobhain Wetscher argued the case is not about Lich and Barber's political views, but instead how they "crossed the line" in committing the crimes they're accused of.

They used police and resident testimony, hours of video evidence, and mountains of social media content and text messages to argue the two accused had control and influence over the protest.

Defence lawyers have argued throughout the trial that Lich and Barber worked with police and city officials, and remained peaceful during their time in Ottawa.

Arrested Feb. 17, 2022 — one day before police started clearing downtown streets of people protesting COVID-19 rules and airing anti-government grievances — Lich and Barber have travelled to Ottawa from western Canada to attend their trial in person.

Meant to decide whether — and if so, how — the two should be punished for their role in the weeks-long protest that clogged the city's core and shook many residents, the trial has been slowed by legal wrangling, technical delays, unprepared witnesses and issues over how police evidence was disclosed.

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