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Trudeau is getting dangerous but the truckers still have options
American Thinker.com ^ | February 12, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 02/12/2022 2:17:23 AM PST by Kaslin

Tucker Carlson (see below) had a somewhat ebullient segment about the fact that the Canadian truckers represent the rise of the ordinary people, while the response from Canada’s leadership class bespeaks fear and helplessness. I’m sorry to say that I believe Tucker is wrong and that things are getting very dangerous for the truckers. They still have options but, whenever you have to depend on the goodwill of a tyrant, his police state, and his military, things aren’t going well. That’s especially true of Canada because, on May 1, 2020, Canadians gave up their guns.

In some ways, the Canadian truckers have had a huge success. They’ve galvanized freedom-seekers across the Western world with their peaceful convoy and eventual descent on Ottawa, all with the single aim of ending Canada’s exceptionally onerous COVID restrictions. As we now know, because all the conventional wisdom about COVID and vaccines was wrong, every restriction is pointless. They currently serve no other purpose than to maintain the world governments’ unlimited power over the people.

Within Canada, people have supported the truckers in huge numbers and Justin Trudeau, who may well have a genetic legacy of despotism, ran away. For two weeks, the truckers controlled the news, even as the Canadian and American media squawked about the horrors of allegedly “racist” truckers peacefully protesting mandates that were destroying their livelihoods. Everything the media said was a lie, of course.

Through it all, Trudeau refused even to meet with the truckers or to discuss terms—say, a definite end date to all the mandates. Instead, he simply defamed them.

Now, though, aided by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Trudeau is escalating the war against the truckers, especially because they’ve blocked an essential bridge between Canada and America.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; convoy; justintrudeau; ottawa
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To: Rennes Templar

‘Do you really think the protestors will go home and forget about it all when the state turns on them?’

you’d rather they all get shot...? because all it would take for all hell to break loose is for one trucker to go rogue and take a swing at a cop, and that is exactly what will happen to them...


21 posted on 02/12/2022 6:22:50 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: BiglyCommentary

Women and kids are on that bridge. The optics will not be good if the govt gets violent. The people are not complying so that will leave the govt in a position of violent optics or dropping all mandates. I think they wanted to attack those folks under cover of darkness. Those people are blessed so far that this isn’t on the other side of that border. That evil witch Whitmer wouldn’t bat a fake eyelash opening fire on them. She killed lots of senior citizens and she would kill them.

Trudope has bought up 10 shots a piece to jab into Canadians. He has invested personally into the fake vaxes and makes money for himself personally by stabbing the poison into people.


22 posted on 02/12/2022 6:27:15 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: DeplorablePaul

‘I think the police will switch sides and join the truckers.’

you do, eh...? and who pays these cops, tax funded government or truckers...?


23 posted on 02/12/2022 6:29:22 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Singermom

Yes we heard you again and again and again and again and again.
Stop it.


24 posted on 02/12/2022 6:31:22 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: dforest

3 or 4 LEOs will just calmly walk up to a trucker and put cuffs on them. No shooting. No danger to any women or children. No dufferent than when that happens at a traffic stop and the perp has his wife/girlfriend and kids in the car.


25 posted on 02/12/2022 6:43:02 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Singermom

Yup, no need for martyrs when a winning effective strategy like that can be implemented.


26 posted on 02/12/2022 6:45:23 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Kaslin

If Justine does use violence against the truckers it’s over for him and the rest of the psychotic globalist depopulationists.

And they know it.


27 posted on 02/12/2022 6:49:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Kaslin
I don't know what a "non-combat vehicle" is in the military. If we're talking about state-side vehicles for transporting goods and such between bases, I guess that's okay. Of course, that's not going to be enough for the Defense Secretary Awful Austin. He'll probably want us to go to war with EV's.

I actually like the concept of a few solar panels even in war. Think of a base near the front lines and the generator won't run because supplies have been cut off. A solar panel or two on the base roof might supply the power needed at least for communications. But that's using solar as a true "alternative energy" in case the diesel supply is cutoff, not using it as the worshipful center of the religious cult like the left is doing.

28 posted on 02/12/2022 6:50:40 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

https://patriots.win/p/141YkhLkkD/the-commie-pigs-are-closing-in-o/c/


29 posted on 02/12/2022 6:59:40 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: mad_as_he$$

The military has already said they are not getting involved. Trudeau is in a box with no way out. The people of Canada have had enough.


30 posted on 02/12/2022 7:01:48 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kaslin

Agreed that Trudeau will not give up his ill gained power easily, but how would Canadians react to seeing truncheon wielding storm troopers beating unarmed truckers and hauling them off to jail en masse. Worse still imagine the scene of Canadian troops ordered to confront the truckers with weapons drawn or tanks. I suspicion that more than a few Canadian troops would mutiny. I also don’t think Fidelito Trudeau would survive in office long with a nationwide truckers strike.


31 posted on 02/12/2022 7:27:01 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Travis McGee

Did Castro leave him anything?.


32 posted on 02/12/2022 8:47:45 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Vaduz
Did Castro leave him anything?

Aside from history-making failure?

33 posted on 02/12/2022 9:11:39 AM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz )
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To: IncPen

Indeed


34 posted on 02/12/2022 9:27:23 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Manic_Episode
I wonder what the plan is if/when government thugs go hands on.

Based on what I can tell, the plan is to remain peaceful and polite, retreat when the RCMP approach and seem to mean business, and to set up another protest blockade in a different choke-point. Keep them guessing. Wear them down with numbers.
35 posted on 02/12/2022 10:01:55 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Antoninus
Seems viable. I hope it works and spreads.

It's sure been fun seeing nice people rising up with righteous indignity and winning against the evil powers that be.

36 posted on 02/13/2022 11:30:54 AM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: Antoninus
Well THAT didn't work.
37 posted on 02/23/2022 2:44:37 PM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: Kaslin
Bah!

Just having gone into remission, this cancer will return again with the same hate.

You have to get rid of it or will get rid of you.

38 posted on 02/23/2022 2:50:55 PM PST by aspasia
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