cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41085312
Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating 51st state threats.
And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the cause of annexation would likely not be the intelligence agencies directed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.#
20 years ago I wrote an email to my dad saying that this was coming. “If I were to start a fascist government, I would let everyone say anything they wanted online and nothing would be heard above the noise.” There was more to it, but he said I was overreacting.
After Trump was reelected, we were talking on the phone. He said, “well, you were right. What now?” I had no answers, but was surprised he remembered that.