Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Tamara Lich, and the myth of remorse.

If Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich throws herself on the mercy of the court and tries to plead remorse, can the court be reminded that she was so proud of what she did, she wrote a book about it?


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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It sounds like quite a book:

"A court document shows Moiz Karimjee, the assistant Crown attorney who was the senior prosecutor for many of the bail hearings related to the convoy, was reading the book while preparing for the trial. The document says he recused himself from the case after discovering the book mentioned him by name about 60 times, “some of them defamatory.”"

I have to wonder what the judge will make of that; I don't think it will work in her favour. And the prosecutors are emphasizing that "hold the line" motto.

Oops, it's also the title of a very different book which was published some six months earlier, by a cop who defended the US Capitol on Jan 6. How ironic:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-fanone/hold-the-line-insurrection/

Quote at top from:
https://halifax.citynews.ca/2023/09/03/how-tamara-lich-transformed-from-spokeswoman-to-symbol-of-freedom-convoy-movement/

ValJ

9:04 AM
MgS said...

"Foreward by Rupa Subramanya". That tells you everything you need to know about that book.

The rest of it should be entered into evidence as part of a confession.

12:04 PM
Anonymous said...

I doubt she'll play the remorse card, other than statements to the effect that "I'm really sorry the Ottawa commie elite felt themselves trivially inconvenienced by our Bold Freedom Lovers."

I'm pretty sure Lich is now making a much better living as poster girl for the COVID/Trucker bandwagom than in her previous life (let's not forget there's still a huge cache of convoy fundraising money still mysteriously unaccounted for). She can't really back down from her Heroic Martyrdom performance: her income, reputation, book sales and future on the rubber chicken circuit all depend on her, umm, holding the line, as it were.

Greenspon IS a good lawyer, and has long and very successful record of defending activist clients on social justice issues. Part of his strategy will be to emphasize the fundamental MORAL correctness of her actions, while looking to duck the charge on procedural minutiae. Conviction or acquittal doesn't much matter; I'm sure Pawloski's speaker fees go up with ever week he spends in jail.

12:05 PM
Coolxenu said...

Also Elon Musk: The jews are defaming me!

1:46 PM
MgS said...

Anonymous @ 12:05: Ah yes, the moral “rightness” of rolling into town at the head of a group that wrote a “demand manifesto” that ordered the GG to depose the current government … that will be an amusing gambit.

2:29 PM
Anonymous said...

MgS: Trump summarized the position very succinctly. In his statements on the various charges and indictments, he does not respond: "I didn't do it." Rather, his response is, "I did nothing wrong." In other words: "yeah, I may have broken the law, but it was for the higher purpose of..."
Bullshit, of course, and as a defence strategy, completely hopeless (which I suspect is why he keeps shedding lawyers like a snake sheds skin.)

2:46 PM

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