{"id":20039,"date":"2022-02-20T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=20039"},"modified":"2022-02-20T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:36:57","slug":"episode-539-loopy-democracy-the-truck-convoy-and-chaos-in-canada-saturday-feb-19-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=20039","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 539 LOOPY DEMOCRACY — THE TRUCK CONVOY AND CHAOS IN CANADA Saturday Feb 19 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From: <\/b><\/span>marjorie skeoch <marjorieskeoch@gmail.com<\/a><\/a>>
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Subject: <\/b><\/span>Fwd: Saturday Feb 19 2022<\/b>
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Date: <\/b><\/span>February 20, 2022 at 10:11:43 AM EST
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To: <\/b><\/span>ALAN SKEOCH <alan.skeoch@rogers.com<\/a><\/a>>
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Dateline:  Feb. 20, 2022<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 539   LOOPY  DEMOCRACY — THE TRUCK CONVOY AND CHAOS IN CANADA,  Saturday Feb 19 2022 <\/div>\n

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To   John and any others who have time to read today.<\/div>\n

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My story will be hard to understand today\u2026I cannot understand it myself..<\/p>\n


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I am trying to get a mental handle on the events.  Marjorie and I took photos<\/div>\n
as things  unfolded on Saturday. February 19, 2022.  These pictures are astounding to us.  Like a<\/div>\n
movie \u2026 a piece of fiction.  In midst of it alll my mouse failed.  It just would not<\/div>\n
move just like the protesters.  Eventually my nephew Robert got us a new mouse\u2026a <\/div>\n
super mouse.<\/div>\n

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But I am still  processing events.  Frankly the whole mess in Ottawa makes no<\/div>\n
sense at all.  Irrational actions in the extreme category that confirms some of<\/div>\n
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\u201cDemocracy is a troubled spirit whose dream, if it dream, presents only visions of hell.\u201d<\/div>\n

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With that quote we would discuss the perils of Direct democracy where Everyman and<\/div>\n
everywoman believe that their ideas matter most and must be expressed.   Today we<\/div>\n
have a great example of \u2018loopy democracy\u2019 where the least well informed ten percent<\/div>\n
of our nation attempted to seize control of the state in a confused bubble of loopy dangerous ideas.<\/div>\n

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So what about our real system of representative democracy?   I believed in that.  <\/div>\n
Until recently.   Our politicians let us down big time.  Some of them even embracing<\/div>\n
the loopy democrats in the protest who wanted the Governor General to seize<\/div>\n
the reins of government snd then turn the reins over to them.  insanity on the march.<\/div>\n

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All of us stunned and might profit from a time on the bouncy castle.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n

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Begin forwarded message: From: marjorie skeoch <marjorieskeoch@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Saturday Feb 19 2022 Date: February 20, 2022 at 10:11:43 AM EST To: ALAN SKEOCH <alan.skeoch@rogers.com> Dateline:  Feb. 20, 2022 EPISODE 539   LOOPY  DEMOCRACY — THE TRUCK CONVOY AND CHAOS IN CANADA,  Saturday Feb 19 2022  To   John and any others who have time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}