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What the actual F

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This is the new trend. My cable-news-drunk mother in law announced this week that she thinks Tucker Carlson should be arrested for treason. She says nothing she wasn't told to think by NPR or cable news.

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Mar 16, 2022Liked by Jestre

23,000 people "answered a call" to press charges. Mob rule?

https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/16/dutch-covid-denier-willem-engel-arrested-sedition

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The Neo-Fascist Eugenicist Oligarchy will brook no dissent...just like Russia!

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Mar 16, 2022·edited Mar 16, 2022Liked by Jestre

You can check these two articles for your background research, they're in english:

[https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/16/activist-files-terrorism-allegations-covid-denier]

[https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/16/dutch-covid-denier-willem-engel-arrested-sedition]

At a casual glance it appears as a spat between Engel and Dikkeboom, where the latter tries to use the courts as his bully-boy to shut Engel up.

It appears Engel's statements about the dutch governement tut-tutting about freedom of speech and press violations in Russia, while doing basically the same at home has riled the feathers of some prominent people.

Unfortunately, I cannot find anyone posting what actual claims or statements by Engel is the ones deemed possibly criminal. Hope the articles help.

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I wonder if what really pushed the "authorities" over the edge was Engel's public questioning of the official "Putin/Russia bad, Ukraine perfectly innocent" narrative?

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It looks like the deep state is preparing for the next wave :

1. intimidate critics

2. prepare technical and legislative infrastructure to silence different opinions - Trudeau reviving G7 Rapid Response Mechanism

Next autumn at the latest it will get very hairy again.

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