Freedom Convoy protests [Split from All things 2019-nCoV]

[Fishbone Jones]

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Better people and publications than them have been banned off of leftist social media platforms. Being banned off of those has become fodder for daily water cooler jokes. It's so common to be banned for speaking truth or expressing an opinion that the left doesn't like that it has almost become a badge of honour. The reasons they were banned are the same reasons lots of people with an open mind, curiosity and an opinion gets banned. Thousands of people are banned because people like Zuckerburg or Twitter have agendas and those comments are damaging to their agendas.

How about trying to read the content some time instead of seeing how many links you can find to throw shade on it.

And Epstein didn't kill himself.

 

[Remius]

Nothing a couple wreckers can't take care of, if civi tow trucks won't do it, time to grab the wreckers from Suffield, Edmonton and Wainwright, head down and clear a path.

The beauty of all this is that it becomes Kenney vs the truckers now. A really Good look. And Kenney will have to ask the feds for back up. I’m sure that will bother him somewhat lol.

 

[Scott]

Trudeau gov’t hits back at trucker protests by announcing plans for even harsher COVID mandates​

Trudeau gov't hits back at trucker protests by announcing plans for even harsher COVID mandates - LifeSite

'[W]e actually campaigned on vaccines and vaccine mandates ... there is ongoing work' to integrate an interprovincial COVID inoculation requirement, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said.

www.lifesitenews.com

Tue Feb 1, 2022 - 1:51 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has pushed back against huge protests fighting expanding COVID jab mandates across the country, indicating that it will not only not back down on the restrictive measures, but will implement an additional inoculation requirement for truckers moving between provinces.
Canadian Transport Minister Omar Alghabra told CBC’s Rosemary Barton that an interprovincial COVID shot mandate is being considered by the government, citing the party’s election campaign promise of “vaccines and vaccine mandates” during the fall.

“In the last election we actually campaigned on vaccines and vaccine mandates. Minister [Seamus] O’Regan just last December announced that we are working on regulating all federally regulated sectors requiring [a] vaccine. So there is ongoing work,” Alghabra said in the interview.
“As of right now, that policy is not in place,” the minister continued, “but no one should be surprised that there is work happening to get us there.”
The announcement comes on the heels of Trudeau smearing the Freedom Convoy and its many thousands of supporters as “Nazis” and “racists” who are full of “intolerance and hate,” a message he delivered while in hiding outside of Ottawa during the weekend’s protest in the nation’s capital.
Trudeau also maligned the demonstrators as “violent.” However, numerous video testimonies from police on the ground in Ottawa, as well as extensive drone footage of the area, attest to the peaceable nature of the gathering. As things stand, no arrests or injuries have been reported at the protest convoy.
Indeed, protestors challenged a sole man who was carrying a Confederate flag amid the protest in an image used in the media to stoke allegations of racism — and suspected him of being an agent provocateur.

The man, whose face was completely covered, later left the scene after attention was drawn to him.

While truckers have been protesting the punishing quarantine requirement for remaining un-jabbed, the country is suffering a shortage of drivers as a result of the mandate, according to haulers.

Viva Frei
@thevivafrei
He doesn’t always act as an “agent provocateur”, but when he does, he brings a Confederate flag to a Canadian protest, and his own personal photographer. He is… The most obvious agent provocateur in the world!
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So, from what I can see and read, there was one confederate flag and one nazi flag. Of which the protest had no idea who they were. According to the Viva Frei lawyer and b
vlogger, the guy shows up at all kinds of protests and there is a reward out, by the truckers, to identify the other flag carrier.

There were more swastikas reported. Some captured as being made a part of the Canadian flag.

There have been additional hate crimes reported, and also OPS is investigating incidents of harassment and intimidation.

The protests interrupted a woman's final moments with her mother. Para Transpo has reported issues assisting the handicapped move around Ottawa. A homeless person was assaulted and a soup kitchen stolen from.

I guess it's all those agent provocateurs.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/downtown-ottawa-street-residents-take-stance-block-truck-1.6335139

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

So like I said, crime was way down....

 

[Quirky]

Nothing a couple wreckers can't take care of, if civi tow trucks won't do it, time to grab the wreckers from Suffield, Edmonton and Wainwright, head down and clear a path.

It’s PER season, most of the CAF is unavailable.

 

[Drallib]

More disgusting protesters in Ottawa (sarcasm)

I think everyone will agree that certain actions are unacceptable and it's a shame that these things take place.

When you have a group who is more on the right, you're going to have those on the left find anything at all to pin against them. Ottawa, from what I understand, is a Liberal city (as most cities or dense populated areas are), so of course people are annoyed or upset about the protest.

Personally it's been moving to see so many people across the country support these truckers as they drove across the nation, standing outside waving the Canada flag in support (I personally don't agree with the F--- Trudeau flags. I think we should be praying for our leaders, not slandering them). At first I didn't like seeing the upside down Canada flag, as I thought it was disrespectful, but someone mentioned that it represents a country in distress, which I can understand. I still wouldn't do it myself... but I understand.

 

[The Bread Guy]

More disgusting protesters in Ottawa

Then individual reports of Nazi & Confederate flags are to be believed, too?

To be fair, the rule that tends to apply to the actions of an idiotic few in a large crowd of folks is "one holy f**k cancels out a thousand atta-boy's", so organizers of any group should keep that in mind.

... A homeless person was assaulted and a soup kitchen stolen from ...

A donation from the protest organizers to the soup kitchen in question could go a long way towards improving good will & optics, no?

 

[Haggis]

A donation from the protest organizers to the soup kitchen in question could go a long way towards improving good will & optics, no?
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No. Too little too late.

 

[Good2Golf]

No. Too little too late.

What if they added tears and an apology?

 

[mariomike]

A donation from the protest organizers to the soup kitchen in question could go a long way towards improving good will & optics, no?

That's what Al Capone did.

Mobster Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression | HISTORY

America’s most notorious gangster sponsored the charity that served up three hot meals a day to thousands of people in need—no questions asked.

www.history.com

 

[Jarnhamar]

Nothing a couple wreckers can't take care of, if civi tow trucks won't do it, time to grab the wreckers from Suffield, Edmonton and Wainwright, head down and clear a path.

Railway blockades in 2020 lasted for 3 months. How is this one different?
I'm not really up to speed on what's going on in Albertas protest.

 

[mariomike]

There were more swastikas reported. Some captured as being made a part of the Canadian flag.

Offered for sale at the Freedom Convoy protest today: Mask exemption badges and yellow Stars of David.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488594662130696202

 

[Good2Golf]

If that’s in a public space, then also show the face(s) of those selling these, and McGregor can post them on the CTV site or do a media investigation on them selling these.

 

[Haggis]

What if they added tears and an apology?

If they were properly coached by, say, a former drama teacher, it may work.

 

[mariomike]

If that’s in a public space, then also show the face(s) of those selling these, and McGregor can post them on the CTV site or do a media investigation on them selling these.

If paramedics are getting bricks thrown at them,

Doors locked. Windows UP. FIDO

and "subjected to anti-Asian racial slurs"

adding that one of their paramedics had also been subjected to anti-Asian racial slurs during the same incident as he checked on the status of the vehicle.

how much "Freedom of the Press" is there to "do a media investigation" ?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488777140170596357

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

If that is the height of oppression for 'freedom of the press" then we have the freakin' luckiest press corps in the world.

A sad post really...

 

[mariomike]

If that is the height of oppression for 'freedom of the press" then we have the freakin' luckiest press corps in the world.

A sad post really...

Good luck "do(ing) a media investigation on them selling these."

 

[Good2Golf]

Is not a single reporter going to investigate in detail any of the Nazi flag /confederate flag carriers / button sellers???

 

[mariomike]

Is not a single reporter going to investigate in detail any of the Nazi flag /confederate flag carriers / button sellers???

Paramedics don't even go in there without a police escort.

What security do reporters have?

 

[The Bread Guy]

No. Too little too late.

Sooner WOULD have been better ....