Should a leader be allowed to freeze people's bank accounts without a court order?
Imagine the uproar if President Trump, during the riots of summer 2020: 1. Declared an emergency 2. Used the police to break up the protests 3. Unilaterally froze the bank accounts of people who donated to BLM
We have an election pending, and we're getting our democracy BACK. Murdererdoch's stooge is on a hiding to nothing. Corrupt, moribund and tries to cover up rapes. Labor's Anthony Albanese is a man I know personally, and will be a brilliant PM.
I don't know anything about your politicians just some of what has happened with lockdowns etc. And if that was done under a conservative in AU.....you all are already lost. Sorry.
This post was edited by my2cents at February 16, 2022 4:16 PM MST
A corrupt conservative government. One that has been promising to introduce a commission against corruption, and delivered nothing. One that has failed to investigate rape complaints against ministers, and failed to disclose the identity of major donors - including one who paid $1m towards the legal fees of the former AG.
Canada, from what I can tell, doesn't have the equivalent of the American Constitution's Fourth Amendment.
Since the protestors do not have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" of their activities, they are not protected by Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
From what I understand in the BCCLA article ... "reasonable expectation of privacy" would not apply to the protestors, because their activity is taking place in public.
According to that article: "There is no protection under the Charter in circumstances where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy."
Thus, there is no protection against the seizure of the bank accounts (or placing a hold on them).
I do not understand why property being seized without due process (court order) would have anything to do with expectation of privacy. I see that for illegal search but not for seizing of property.
I find it amusing that you equate a bunch of truckers protesting having to get vaccinated with a mob trying to overthrow the results of a lawful election and the peaceful transfer of power.
WITHOUT a court order. That is illegal in the US. And It should be in any country.
(You are the you who thought the question was somehow about the Jan 6. My question specifically talks about a leader freezing protesters accounts. I do not know how you came to that conclusion. But if my question was about the Jan 6 protesters having their accounts frozen that would have been by Biden.)
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