Elections Alberta has obtained a court injunction that will force an Alberta separatist group to pull down an electoral list detailing the personal information of millions of Alberta voters.
The agency appeared in Edmonton court Thursday morning to ask Court of King’s Bench Justice John Little for a temporary injunction against a pro-independence group. CBC News is not naming the group until the registry is removed from public access to protect the privacy of the people whose information was shared.
The temporary injunction was granted after a brief court hearing attended by Elections Alberta senior officials.
They’re not stupid, and it’s dangerous to think that they are. They’re testing the boundaries, seeing what they can get away with, desensitizing for the worse things they have planned.
I think it’s a mix.
Specifically, a mix of “I know this is wrong but I think I can get away with it to get a ‘win’”, and people who do nearly literally think: “I can’t think of a way that posting the voter rolls online could harm me, and I’m not going to think any harder about how it could harm someone else who isn’t in my situation.”
The people at the top are smart. The people they are manipulating are stupid.