If we let it slip, we’ll miss it.

First, France.

A personal story: in 1989, in Paris, there was a big parade in Champs-Élysées, to honor the anniversary of the French Revolution. I was a kid, and it so happened that exactly during that time, I was in France. It was my first trip abroad.

My strongest memory as a Soviet kid was not of the exotic liberté but of the fact that there was an unlimited supply of cookies, cake and cheese. The cookies and the cakes left an everlasting impression on me, and I to this day, I remember feeling like I was in cookie heaven.

Today, the memory of my 1989 trip to France feels like it happened in another life. Especially surreal is the realization that the liberté itself seems to be gone. Only yesterday, liberté was printed all over the Western political marketing brochure—but today, the rulers are back to their medieval ways, whip in hand. The idea of freedom is suddenly as exotic and “selfish” as it was in my Soviet childhood—and, as our leaders bark at us, they are not even pretending to care about our opinions. I wonder if it means that in due time, the cookies will disappear also?

The Telegraph @Telegraph🇫🇷 French police fired tear gas at demonstrators on the Champs-Elysees avenue and other places in Paris on Saturday after a “Freedom Convoy” protesting against Covid-19 restrictions made it into the capital Read more ➡️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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addis alexander @AddisAlexanderChamps Elysees, Paris. #French_police crack down on protesters against covid restrictions.. “Calm down ma’am, it’s going to be fine”

February 17th 2022

Manchester Chronicle 🐝 @WithyGroveVIDEO: Policeman seen breaking window of car on #ChampsElysees 🇫🇷 #ViolencesPolicières #Macron 🇨🇳

February 12th 202244 Retweets71 Likes

jonniegg @jonnieggThe Champs-Élysées tonight. More like Tiananmen Square than a major European capital. Your EU in 2022. What are European leaders thinking. Crazy.

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Now, Canada.

I have words for Trudeau, the traitor of all things good. I register my contempt.

Here is a picture of a protester trampled by a horse.

For those who are following closely, here is a livestream from the streets.

Another livesream:

Here are more reports from the trenches: one by the brave Dr. Birdle, who put his entire comfortable mainstream career on the line to protect the people, and whom I featured earlier in my “Honest People Series,” and then more from Dr. Paul Alexander. Both are heroes.

On a side note, in Canada, the speaker was asked to elaborate on Schwab’s comment about the infiltration of the Canadian cabinet. In response, the speaker complained about the quality of audio and moved on to the next question. (See also this surprising article about the money trail in Financial Times.)

Lucian Scott 🇨🇷 🇨🇦 @ScottLucianWow… just on CPAC now an MP asked why Klaus Schwab was bragging he owns half of Canada’s parliament and who are the MP’s he owns… the speaker cut him off and said the audio was bad and moved on… the whole system needs to come down Canada isn’t ours anymore…February 19th 20221,898 Retweets3,590 Likes

Lucian Scott 🇨🇷 🇨🇦 @ScottLucianHere it is…

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I want to end the story with a simple prayer for love and a Soviet wisdom. The Soviet wisdom is that no matter what the government does—or the size of the yoke they are trying to put on us—they cannot steal our love. During good times and during bad times, our love is ours. There might be challenges ahead but our love will see us through. That is true.

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