{"id":213546,"date":"2020-09-14T12:05:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213546"},"modified":"2020-09-16T04:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:24:22","slug":"anti-mask-protest-in-montreal-draws-large-crowd-propelled-by-u-s-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213546","title":{"rendered":"Anti-mask protest in Montreal draws large crowd, propelled by U.S. conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Sept 14, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
CBC puts the number of protesters at \u201cseveral thousand\u201d. While others have estimated there were as many as \u201c40,000\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n
We reserve judgement on the actual number of protesters. However, the Montreal protest follows similar demonstrations in London and Berlin and the corporate media sought to play down the scale of those protests. So it may be doing the same with this event too. Ed.<\/h5>\n

Anti-mask protest in Montreal draws large crowd, propelled by U.S. conspiracy theories<\/h2>\n

Jonathan Montpetit and John MacFarlane — CBC News Sept 12, 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Some demonstrators in Montreal on Saturday carried signs and wore T-shirts and hats denouncing what they called fear campaigns by the Quebec government, suggesting that the danger of COVID-19 has been overstated. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Several thousand people gathered Saturday in downtown Montreal to hear speeches from conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine activists, in one of the largest demonstrations to date against the Quebec government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

The march began outside Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault’s Montreal office, and at one point stretched more than six\u00a0city blocks. It attracted people of all ages, and from a wide-variety of mindsets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hare Krishnas marched alongside Christian fundamentalists and supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. Others held signs\u00a0about the 5G internet network, or perceived corruption at\u00a0the United Nations.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“I decided to come today to say ‘enough,'” said Montrealer Andr\u00e9e David, 75. “We’ve been manipulated enough.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The most popular\u00a0symbols\u00a0at the protest \u2014\u00a0be it on t-shirts,\u00a0placards or\u00a0flags \u2014\u00a0belonged to QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory started in the United States\u00a0that claims a satanic, pedophile cabal secretly controls the U.S. government, if not the entire world.<\/span><\/p>\n

QAnon was labelled\u00a0as a\u00a0national security risk by the FBI in 2019 after individuals began committing acts of violence based on the mistaken belief the theory is true.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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