@Funky here’s my last word on this, since you wanted evidence of what’s going on. read the post from u/PoppinKREAM if you’re really interested in the purpose of these protests.
edit: if someone knows a better way to post reddit links, i’d love to know how
Where? Well there was a small fringe group that were arrested during the protests who wanted to instigate a civil war in Canada.
The far right militia, Diagonol, is a neo-fascist group that wants to secede from Canada and create a white enthostate. The Diagolon extremists are an accelerationist militant group that was formed online. They are similar to American extremist militias such as The Base, Boogaloo Boys, and Attomwaffen.[1] Accelerationists is a term used to describe a group that is trying to use violence to trigger a violent response from the state as a reason for civil war.
The leader Diagolon was recently arrested in Nova Scotia for firearms charges, he is also a military veteran. Experts warn that this extremist group has the capability to be well-organized as many members purport to be veterans.[2]
A few more accelerationists were arrested in Coutts, Alberta. Officers in Alberta found a cache of weapons, ammunition, and protective equipment and charged 13 people. 4 men have been charged for conspiring to kill RCMP officers.[3]
Two of the four charged with conspiracy to commit murder have ties to a Canadian white supremacist militia movement leader. Officers discovered the militia’s symbols when searching the 2 suspects. Their movement wishes to create a white ethnostate from Alaska, through the western provinces of Canada, diagonally down to Florida.[4]
According to the search warrant application filed in support of that raid, RCMP reported MacKenzie twice referred to Diagolon in the video.
The goal of the group, says Hofmann who studies far right movements, is to establish a “diagonal” white nationalist state.
Those who believe in the Diagolon movement feel a civil war is needed to create a new state that would run diagonally from Alaska, through western Canada’s provinces, all the way south to Florida.
“And they want to accomplish this through violence,” says Hofmann. “Their motto quite simply states gun or rope.”
Two Diagolon patches were found on body armour seized by police during the execution of the Coutts search warrants.
Moreover, an Ontario provincial politician that has been telling his followers to jam the 911 emergency lines in Ottawa[5] also has ties to this militia. MPP Hillier was photographed with the secessionist militia Diagonol flag on a camping trip with far right supporters.[6]
CTV News - What is the Diagolon extremist group and what does it want?
Global News - Anti-hate experts concerned about possible neo-fascist involvement at Alberta trucker convoy
CBC - 4 Alberta border protesters charged with conspiring to murder RCMP officers
CBC - Coutts arrests: new details on the men and women charged in border blockade
CBC - Calls emerge for arrest of ‘rogue’ Ottawa-area MPP
Press Progress - Photo Shows Ontario MPP Randy Hillier With Flag of Group Linked to Armed Freedom Convoy Plot
