The United People of Canada: An exciting new development.

Huh.

It's fascinating how, in the space of a few short weeks, we went from "We want to provide a local safe space where members of the community can come and discuss their differences in a spirit of healing and reconciliation" to "We're setting up our own private army where we'll have security fencing, razor wire, motion sensors and snipers with high-powered rifles on the rooftop who will blow your goddamned fucking head off if you so much as walk down the wrong side of the street when going by."

If local law enforcement haven't figured out that this is designed as a staging area for future Convoy-related protests and occupation, they're too stupid for words.

P.S. I just drove by St. Brigid's (slightly after 2 a.m.) to see, parked in the driveway facing the street, the lead vehicle in this convoy of asshats:

There was, sitting in the dark behind the wheel, an unidentifiable loonbat, so what we can conclude is that TUPOC's "private security force" is starting out with some gormless idiot hanging out in his shitbox of an SUV keeping an eye on the street, but I'm guessing the up-armoured Humvees are just around the corner.

The Ottawa police are so fucked.

UPPITY DATE: I just drove by the TUPOC "embassy", and the shitbox SUV pictured above was no longer parked in the entrance, but had relocated to the back of the parking lot, but it was still there, suggesting that that vehicle might now be a permanent fixture of TUPOC's vaunted "private security force." I'll keep you posted on whether it stays there over the next few days.