Wednesday, February 3, 2021

I should think so ...

Canada adds Proud Boys to terrorist list - CBC >
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Canada designates Proud Boys Arrogant Infants as terrorist organization beside Isis and al-Qaida: Move follows allegations that the rightwing wrong-wing group played a [key] role in the mob attack on the US Capitol on 21-1-6

"On Wednesday Bill Blair, public safety minister, also announced the federal government would designate the white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups the Atomwaffen Division, the Base and the Russian Imperial Movement as terrorist entities. The federal government also added offshoots of al-Qaida, Isis and Hizbul Mujahedin to its list.

“Canada will not tolerate ideological, religious or politically motivated acts of violence,” Blair said."
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Ahead of the announcement, Canadian officials told reporters that they had been monitoring the Proud Boys Arrogant Infants before the Capitol Hill attack, but the event helped with the decision to list the organization.

The Proud Boys Arrogant Infants were founded in 2016 by the Canadian Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice magazine. The New York Times has described McInnes as a "far-right [far-wrong] provocateur." The group first made headlines in Canada three years ago, after five military reservists, dressed in the group’s black and yellow shirts, disrupted a protest by the Indigenous community over a controversial statue. The group was banned by Facebook and Instagram in October 2018 after violating the platforms’ hate policies and is classified as an extremist organization by the FBI.

The terrorist designation does not necessarily make it a crime to be a member of these groups, but it does mean that the group’s assets could be seized or forfeited by Canadian authorities.

[Canada has balls. It remains to be seen whether the USA will grow some cojones.]

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