{"id":1333153,"date":"2022-02-23T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333153"},"modified":"2022-02-23T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:08:09","slug":"irish-senator-slams-russia-like-trudeau-for-having-violently-suppressed-peaceful-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irish-senator-slams-russia-like-trudeau-for-having-violently-suppressed-peaceful-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Senator Slams Russia-Like Trudeau for having &#039;Violently Suppressed&#039; Peaceful Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firish-senator-slams-russia-like-trudeau-for-having-violently-suppressed-peaceful-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1371366311-e1645615827482-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An Irish Senator has slammed Canadian PM Justin Trudeau for having \u2018violently suppressed\u2019 the country\u2019s Freedom Convoy protests, comparing his actions to the Russian state.<\/p>\n<p>Irish independent Senator Sharon Keogan has denounced the Russia-like actions of Justin Trudeau, who she claims has \u2018violently suppressed\u2019 the Freedom Convoy protests taking place in Canada.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Senator Keogan also called on the Irish upper-house to write to Canada\u2019s ambassador to Ireland in order to condemn the \u201cexcessive force used by the [Canadian] government\u201d, as well as the state\u2019s \u201coverreach\u201d in punishing its citizens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/20\/pics-more-arrests-canadian-cops-sweep-through-ottowa-clubs-tear-gas-rifles\/\">Multitudes<\/a> have been arrested in the country over the protests while police sweep the streets with clubs, rifles, and stun grenades as a result of the Trudeau regime passing emergency powers to crack down on the anti-vaccine mandate Freedom Convoy demonstrations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Authoritarianism is a threat to democracy no matter whose foot the boot is on\u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c8r04kxFDr\">https:\/\/t.co\/c8r04kxFDr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Sharon Keogan (@SenatorKeogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorKeogan\/status\/1496202884039520259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had calls in this house to address serious human rights abuses occurring in all places over the world \u2014 from China in the east, to here in the west,\u201d the Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorKeogan\/status\/1496202884039520259\">began<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I find it odd that we\u2019ve heard nothing of what has been a well-publicised, high profile, peaceful protest being violently suppressed and dispersed by armed government forces,\u201d Keogan continued.<\/p>\n<p>The elected official also drew comparisons between what was happening in Canada to the stereotypical actions of other governments seen as authoritarian in eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRanks of uniformed and armoured military figures \u2014 stripped of their badges and ID tags \u2014 converged on protesters,\u201d Keogan claimed. \u201cAn officer on horseback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/02\/21\/watchdog-says-woman-seriously-injured-horse-despite-ottawa-police-denial\/\">trampled over<\/a> a disabled woman. Around 200 arrests were made, and over 60 vehicles seized by the state,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like something you\u2019d see from Russia, or actions which we\u2019d condemn in Hungary or Poland,\u201d the Senator noted. \u201cBut instead, it is happening in the supposedly liberal democracy of Canada, and so no condemnation has been forthcoming.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Keogan also called out the Trudeau government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/17\/canada-police-to-distribute-names-of-trucker-protesters-to-financial-institutions\/\">alleged freezing<\/a> of bank accounts via the use of the Canadian Emergencies Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot being satisfied with merely dispersing protesters, the state froze the finances associated with certain individuals and companies believed to be involved in the protests,\u201d Keogan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are people who committed no crime, who have not been convicted lawfully in court, and who the government decided to punish anyway because they might have been connected with a protest which was inconvenient to the government,\u201d the independent Senator continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an unprecedented act by the state against its citizens, which should be roundly condemned,\u201d Keogan emphasised.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Justin Trudeau\u2026 must be isolated by the democratic international community to show revulsion at his tyrannical actions in Canada against peaceful protesters, who have been trampled under horse hoof&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MxXOE13AsF\">https:\/\/t.co\/MxXOE13AsF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1495431802760187909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keogan is not the first foreign elected official to condemn the actions of Justin Trudeau and his government.<\/p>\n<p>Cristian Terhes, a member of Europe\u2019s parliament for Romania, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/20\/reminiscent-of-china-euro-mp-slams-trudeau-for-tyrannical-actions-against-truckers\/\">roundly lambasted<\/a> the Canadian Prime Minister, comparing the Liberal Party leader to a communist dictator<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin Trudeau and his federal government must be isolated by the democratic international community to show revulsion at his tyrannical actions in Canada against peaceful protesters, who have been trampled under horse hoof as children have been batoned by federal security agents,\u201d Terhes previously told Breitbart London, before saying that the PM was behaving \u201cexactly like a tyrant \u2014 like a dictator \u2014 like [infamous communist dictator] Ceau\u0219escu in Romania\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch scenes are reminiscent of China, whose government he wants to imitate, not to Western democracies,\u201d Terhes also claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Irish Senator has slammed Canadian PM Justin Trudeau for having \u2018violently suppressed\u2019 the country\u2019s Freedom Convoy protests, comparing his actions to the Russian state. 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