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Canadian truckers say warnings won't scare away Freedom Convoy
Fox News ^ | 2/17/22 | Lisa Bennatan

Posted on 02/17/2022 10:39:20 AM PST by conservative98

OTTAWA, Ontario – Canadian truckers who received notices by police to leave or potentially be arrested, said law enforcement was "over-stepping" with another "scare tactic" and vowed to stay.

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"The Charter of Rights and Freedoms says we can peacefully protest" and that document is "basically saying that it's wrong," he continued.

"This is another way of them over-stepping what they are actually allowed to do," the trucker told Fox News Digital.

Trucker Clarence Penner felt similarly. "Everything we're doing is 100% peaceful and within our Charter rights," he said. "If anyone is going to be breaking the law, it's them."

All truckers who spoke to Fox News Digital said they would not leave and expected most others feel the same way.

Penner, for instance, said while the warning may "ruffle some feathers for some," most will not to be scared since they anticipate police "would try every last card in their backpack."

Vizi agreed that some might be intimidated, but said he was committed to staying.

"Somebody can go take my house, I don't care at this point" Vizi said. "Probably, my bank account is froze."

"I'm broke financially anyway so take it, who cares?" Vizi continued.

Canadian trucker Steve Ness told Fox News Digital: "I have a son, I don't want him seeing dad in handcuffs. But I'm not too scared, I'm not doing anything wrong, it's still peaceful."

Also saying he'd be staying indefinitely was trucker, Mike Fabinski. "I'm not moving, I'm staying all the way," he said. "This is the price you pay for freedom, you got to do what you believe."

Like Fabinski, Canadian trucker Matt Mackenzie remained committed to the protest: "As long as it takes, if we were afraid of pieces of paper, we had no business coming in the first place."

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KEYWORDS: freedomconvoy; ottawa; truckers
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1 posted on 02/17/2022 10:39:20 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

They’re dug in. The jack-booted thugs have shown up in droves this morning. City employees erected a fence around parliment this morning. Must be conferring with D.C. /s


2 posted on 02/17/2022 10:44:38 AM PST by LibertyWoman (The road to tyranny is paved with good intentions)
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To: conservative98

“”If anyone is going to be breaking the law, it’s them.” “

Also it sounds like TruDope Castreau never met the requirement to invoke the Emergency legislation.


3 posted on 02/17/2022 10:46:52 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: conservative98

I’d be a little more aggressive at this point. Take my truck and go home, and stay there.
No food, or fuel shipments to Ottawa.


4 posted on 02/17/2022 10:53:40 AM PST by rellic
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To: conservative98

I just saw a new video, where some of the protesters are now blowing the shofar outside of parliament, along with the ongoing truck horns.


5 posted on 02/17/2022 10:56:09 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: conservative98

Leftists get south North America. Civilized humans get north North America.


6 posted on 02/17/2022 10:56:31 AM PST by coaster123
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To: conservative98

At the Pacific Highway crossing in Blaine this morning the RCMP has basically militarized the border. K9 teams in the surrounding fields, CCTV crews on site, all southbound vehicles being screened for paperwork and intentions. Both north and south restricted to one lane. All side entrances are closed and manned.

Very few brave protesters at the edge of this, who I air-horned in support. That small gesture resulted in a close tailing of my rig by a RCMP supervisor’s patrol car in order to get my license information.

F_cking JBTs!!!


7 posted on 02/17/2022 10:57:48 AM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: datura
Amazing to see how quickly Australia and Canada slip into fascist tyranny, and how much of their population cheers it on.

Remember when we used to say "it can't happen here"? They did too.

8 posted on 02/17/2022 11:01:18 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Up here in BC I find that most of the workers support the Ottawa truckers. This is NOT true for the East Indians who seem very eager to comply and also enforce the mandates.

Lots of anti- Trudeau stickers, flags, graffiti up here now too.

They have a larger left wing than we do even compared to Washington State - says a lot.


9 posted on 02/17/2022 11:07:20 AM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: datura

You were southbound?


10 posted on 02/17/2022 11:30:35 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Kriggerel
I just saw a new video, where some of the protesters are now blowing the shofar ....

I heard Trudeau was doing the same thing, so they have something in common!

11 posted on 02/17/2022 11:43:12 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: conservative98
"Somebody can go take my house, I don't care at this point" Vizi said. "Probably, my bank account is froze."

"I'm broke financially anyway so take it, who cares?"

A man who feels he has nothing to lose is not the enemy you want.

12 posted on 02/17/2022 11:45:35 AM PST by Principled (Biden is illegitimate and whatever he says can be ignored. )
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

What’s a “shofar”?


13 posted on 02/17/2022 11:48:35 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Principled

I’d rather be dead than jobless and broke anyway, so let’s get it on - I don’t have all day


14 posted on 02/17/2022 11:50:17 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: datura

“At the Pacific Highway crossing in Blaine this morning the RCMP has basically militarized the border.”

Heck, I grew up in Vancouver BC. It ALWAYS has been “militarized” esp. AFTER 9/11. I’ve said it multiple times: it’s ALWAYS the idiot gestapo RCMP/ immigration guards on the Canadian side which gives me problems..not the US side. They hate Canadians who get a green card thinking we’re all traitors (SPIT)


15 posted on 02/17/2022 11:53:27 AM PST by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: rellic

I’d be a little more aggressive at this point. Take my truck and go home, and stay there.


Why don’t you change your screen name to “Sir Robin”


16 posted on 02/17/2022 11:57:31 AM PST by Hieronymus
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To: Kriggerel

I just saw a new video, where some of the protesters are now blowing the shofar outside of parliament, along with the ongoing truck horns.


Clearly Nazis


17 posted on 02/17/2022 11:58:06 AM PST by Hieronymus
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To: atc23

What’s a “shofar”?


A ceremonial Jewish horn, most notably employed on Jericho and by Gabriel to bring this mess to a close.

It is also a pun on “book” or “scroll” once one knocks out the vowels and applies some imagination.

I think that they are also blown to begin the Sabbath year, but I don’t guarantee I have that detail quite right, and I need to get back to class prep.


18 posted on 02/17/2022 12:01:14 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: Hieronymus

Live to fight another day.
Monty Python I presume.


19 posted on 02/17/2022 12:10:37 PM PST by rellic
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To: rellic

Correct on Monty Python. I’m impressed. (I would expect 20-40% of the board to get the reference, but a random individual to, on average, miss it).

There is a time to live and fight another day, and then there is St. Crispin’s day. It seems to me that this is a time for the Bard rather than for John Cleese.


20 posted on 02/17/2022 12:17:30 PM PST by Hieronymus
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