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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I think if it had happened anywhere except Ottawa, where the local authorities recognized this had political implications, it would have been smacked down in normal disturbance of the peace actions. But the local twits weren't about to get involved in what probably had national impact, so they just left it to the feds to clean up. I'm not sure what other avenues the feds had than the one they used, but they should probably come up with something.

You'd have figured they could order the Ottawa police to deal with it and took responsibility before they starting using things like bank account seizures and other pretty heavy handed bullshit that you'd never see in a regular action for a problem like this. That's where I was a little taken aback during the process. By all means, deal with assholes blowing their horns and shitting on people's lawns like you would normally. But using devices reserved for terrorism gave these jackasses way too much credibility.