These two details are important because:
1) no laws were passed and no courts were involved.
2) activities that were perfectly legal at the time, were deemed retroactively illegal and persecuted (not prosecuted - no courts, remember?).
The only regimes in which you see this are tinpot dictatorships and Trudeau's Canada.
Just imagine how powerful those two precedents are for any future radical who seeks to follow on the footsteps of the petite tyrant Trudeau.
These two details are important because:
1) no laws were passed and no courts were involved.
2) activities that were perfectly legal at the time, were deemed retroactively illegal and persecuted (not prosecuted - no courts, remember?).
The only regimes in which you see this are tinpot dictatorships and Trudeau's Canada.
Just imagine how powerful those two precedents are for any future radical who seeks to follow on the footsteps of the petite tyrant Trudeau.