From Cacerolazo to Casserole

Pop quiz: name a country dependent on raw materials exports which is being ravaged by social polarization and a sclerotic plutocracy, whose leaders have cracked down on uppity student protestors by criminalizing dissent. And the answer is...?

Nope, not Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Bahrain or Saudi Arabia. 

The answer is... Canada!

No, that is not a misprint. 

Slorgzilla could not make this insanity up even if its prehistoric lizard-monkey brain tried.

Quebec students have been protesting against the province's neoliberal policies (drastically raise student fees, slash spending, make sure only the 1% can go to college) for months. In response, Quebec's parliament passed laws criminalizing any demonstration of larger than 50 people, or groups which don't inform police about their presence.

And don't think this is just for show. The first mega-fines have already been handed out.

Since many of the protestors are penniless students, Quebec will need to start jailing tens of thousands of citizens. With a little creativity, Canada should soon have its very own gulag archipelago, enabling Canada to keep pace in the all-important race to duplicate the US' 6 million-strong prison-industrial complex. Forwards to debt slavery!

After all, citizenship, democracy and the due process of law is for the 1% who own everything already, and we 99% are lazy, worthless subhumans, valuable only as cannon fodder in our masters' colonial wars on Eurasia -- because, as the lying 1%-controlled mass media owned by phone-tapping liars tirelessly repeats, we've always been at war with Eurasia.

In response to the Pinochetization of Canada, the brave citizens of Canada are going heavy metal (sample footage here).