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Just started to listen to his speech it seems extremely telling. A Must Hear
I donāt see any other sources for this. What is his name?
Corporal Bulford, I saw.
Nothing on mainstream (no surprise there), but a few small possibly right wing sites are reporting it.
Do you have any names of foreign or libertarian donors to the truckers?
I donāt see this story being widely reported either:
Second Liberal MP breaks with Justin Trudeau over pandemic restrictions
Iām only doing a simple search thoughā¦
Is it the case the mainstream only start covering stories of opposition once itās out and all over the internet
The fact that two Liberal MPās have questioned the policies is all over the news here.
No I donāt have names. Iām not a journalist. Besides, isnāt the point of dark money that itās dark?
Hereās something on the former RCMP officer, who was not Trudeauās head of security. (Itās so annoying that people donāt even try to be accurate.) He was interviewed on the CBC. Thatās pretty mainstream.
āUntil recently, Danny Bulford was a corporal with the RCMP. He said he resigned because of the forceās requirement for members to be vaccinated. [Officers who have not been vaccād were put on administrative leave and had one year to comply. I presume that the aim of that policy is to bring them back if the pandemic abates and vaccines are no longer required.] On Thursday, Freedom Convoy 2022 organizers introduced Bulford as their security consultant.ā
And thereās this.
Hi Jackie, you say
āNo I donāt have names. Iām not a journalist. Besides, isnāt the point of dark money that itās dark?ā
I only asked as you were saying it was coming from outside libertarian sources, it sounded like you had more than just a suspicion of dark money. In your TLN post you cite thatās certainly the way it was taken.
āThe fact that two Liberal MPās have questioned the policies is all over the news here.ā
Yeah, donāt know about Canada itself. I used NewsNow and put in Canada, to get a summary, then Canada MP, nothing - but āTrudeau MPā came up Trumps (see what I did there 
). But only Canadian sources.
In Newsnow you can get stories like āAnti-vaxxer dies of covidā without searching for them, usually from the US or UK - so I presume there is mainstream filtering outside Canada.
Maybe not head of security - thanks for highlighting, not clear though your image shows his job was Trudeauās personal security. Not just a fed up old Mountie.
If you listen to his powerful speech you get a much better idea of why he resigned than if you go by the second hand quote (not sure where itās from), that may be the reason he gave to the hierarchy.
Cheers
I was being snippy and lazy with the ānot a journalistā comment. Iām sorry for posting it.
Re āhead ofā vs personal security. Surely it would be a huge deal of the prime ministerās head of security quit over this. So spreading the lie that that is what happened is just wrong and shows a lack of good will and honesty.
How can we ever mend divisions if people just say whatever they want, the more inflammatory the better? Thereās no way of talking to someone who isnāt really trying to communicate, or who is purposely sabotaging communication.
Thanks, no worries Jackie.
Not sure why such a fuss about a single word. Head of security is being widely reported (not in mainstream though). We donāt know the origin of the headline - and we donāt know his exact position, at least I donāt. But he was involved in Trudeauās personal security. A lot of mutual trust invested, blown by the PM. His speech suggests he is articulate and thoughtful - he sure didnāt use Trudeauās speechwriter. So I think itās still quite noteworthy. Cheers
Iām not railing against him or what heās saying (I havenāt listened to it). Iām railing against the people who spread false claims all over the internet.
Iām saying that integrity in communication matters. Otherwise thereās no point in trying to communicate. Itās easy enough to check a lot of this stuff. A few seconds and a few keystrokes. Iāll shut up about it now.
Jackie, with all due respect, I want to suggest that it isnāt at all easy to check what the truth is. The internet, together with the statements of āofficialsā and āauthoritiesā, should always be treated as a global sewage ocean, though with nuggets of gold floating in it, which can be sifted out, but only with great care and restraint.
Mainly, though, the real fact is that we operate in a perpetual fog of uncertainty, with literally no reliable way to clear the fog for sure. The belief that we can find the truth easily, with just a bit of surfing about, is a dangerous error. We canāt. Caveat emptor, always!
Cheers and respect, J! Please donāt be turned away by the modicum of contradiction youāre encountering here at the moment. I for one would count it a serious loss if you gave up on this forum; especially as youāre in Canada, and in a position to offer some first-hand, personally-observed citizen journalism on whatās happening. But beware of what the manipulators tell youā¦ Cheers!
Seconded.
A problem with the āawash with sewageā metaphor (undoubtedly true though it is) is how it is easily articulated with the online harms discourse that argues for censorship and a reliance on Trusted Sources. The latter as adjudicated by the CCDH and similar cutouts.
Thanks R. Lively discussion with many points of view is what itās all about, right! Which behooves a thick skin and a willingness to try to understand othersā points of view.
And you are of course correct that it is really difficult to get at the truth. But for the more extreme and categorical things, it is possible to at least whittle it down some.
Oh yes, Jackie! When the covid scam was launched I was arguing - annoyingly - that we just didnāt know what was really happening; that we couldnāt trust ANYTHING AT ALL that was being fed to us as facts, especially statistics, not from any source at all; that constant wrangling chop-logic about it all was just going to make us all very pissed off and impatient with each other; and that the only thing that we could do was wait and see, sifting through all the stuff that we were getting fed, to see whether we could winnow bits of reasonably-reliable truth out of it. And meanwhile, of course, keep our ammo dry, and readyā¦
Above all, I argued that, as well as sharp reason, we should keep our intuitive channels wide open, since itās been my long time experience that that faculty is AT LEAST as useful to us as our capacity to handle facts with logical rationality.
This assertion is particularly irritating to technocrat types, who have learnt from childhood on that only reason, plus lots of abstruse technical education, with extensive rote learning of masses of dropofahat-regurgitatable āfactsā, can reveal āthe truthā; and that those who lack this long indoctrination schooling are simply less able to grasp āthe truthā than properly āqualifiedā technocrats; compared to them they imagine that the rest of us are the untermenschen of understanding.
Clearly a daft idea, of course! Some of the sharpest, savviest people I count as friends are unschooled, working-class plebs, and not a whit less aware of realities, for all that. They know there arses from their elbows, unlike so many wilfully self-deluded techie-techiesā¦
Now, two years on, a whole lot seems to have become clear enough for us to be able to assert some interpretations with sufficient confidence. Waitandsee pays off eventually, despite its irksomeness to our passionate desire to get a clear picture right now this minute!
You may have noticed, for example, that Iāve become sufficiently confident of having a fairly clear picture of whatās going on to be able to speak openly of the conspiracy around covid (which is indeed largely a scam), and the fact that it is in indeed being run by a gang of conspirators. Embracing what was meant as a dismissive insult as a sober reality, you see: throwing it right back in the faces of the crooks who have been trying to pervert language and reasonā¦
Weāre in a sorely trying situation; even those of us who havenāt suffered any heartbreaking personal tragedy. It makes us impatient. But steadiness, restraint, patience are indeed paying off. Cheers J!