I saw a mob; it wasn’t truckers

The Catholic World Report ^ | February 3, 2022 | Anna Farrow

[Sons of Union Vets]

Whatever you read about the Freedom Convoy, whatever your stance on vaccine mandates and passports, know this: the narrative being spun that the convoy is a fascist, white supremacist movement is a bald-faced political lie.

[hoe_cake]

They can’t handle the truth that their mandates are unreasonable and go against all promise of freedom. Let them burn in their mandates.

[Lurker]

Surround Ottawa until Trudeau has to be helicoptered out in disgrace. Not one bit of food into that cesspool.

Let them eat their mandates.

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[Robert DeLong]

A true mob is terrible to witness, much less get stuck in. Something happens when humans are pressed together in fear and anger: a feral scent is emitted, an emboldening and anxious spirit. Once unleashed, it crashes over and draws down all in its wake.

If I told you two things about my weekend — that I was on Parliament Hill, and that I experienced such a mob — what would you conclude? Well, I did witness a mob, but it wasn’t on Parliament Hill.

On Parliament Hill, I saw hundreds of Canadian flags and an incredibly diverse cross-section of Canadians. Imagine guys wearing hunting camo and an odd group of white Boomers trying to drum. Throw in some Sikhs, a lot of little kids all wrapped up in snowsuits and an enormous crowd of Quebecers. Imagine them standing around in delight and bemusement, looking at each other and saying, “Hello? Do I know you? Is that you, Canada?”

For the record, I did not see one Confederate flag or swastika. Middle-aged ladies were draped in Trump 2024 regalia, but they were one fewer than the three counter-protestors holding #FLUTRUCKKLAN signs. Both groups seemed to be looking for friends but hadn’t found them.

There were lots of trucks. And honking that went late into Saturday night, which, if you know Ottawa, you will understand meant it tapered off about 9:30 p.m.

We overheard conversations. One Quebecer, behind us in a vast stream waiting to join the Wellington Street crowds, said, “I never imagined I would ever feel so united to ‘les Anglos’; it is a symbiosis.”

We saw lots of signs. One teenage girl’s said: “I lost my graduation; I lost my prom; Trudeau, you lost nothing.” The police, while we wandered around, did not seem concerned or on guard. I read this morning not one arrest was made.

More at link.🙂

[ifinnegan]

“Surround Ottawa until Trudeau has to be helicoptered out in disgrace. Not one bit of food into that cesspool.”

As far as I understand he is already out of Ottawa.

The question is will he go back.

[cdcdawg]

“Surround Ottawa until Trudeau has to be helicoptered out...”

I’m thinking Pinochet style. In Minecraft, of course.

[xp38]

Thank you for the report. I was out for a drive last sunday and saw a few trucks going home I assume because they had work to do. The most prominent thing on their rigs were Canadian flags.

[TLI]

Whatever you read about the Freedom Convoy, whatever your stance on vaccine mandates and passports, know this: the narrative being spun that the convoy is a fascist, white supremacist movement is a bald-faced political lie.

Seeing those crowds, hearing those voices equally frustrated and hopeful, the words from the Prophet Hosea came to mind, “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” Our political leaders are currently “sowing the wind.” I worry about the whirlwind.



YEP.

Because the prog NEVER accept responsibility for screwing up everything they touch.

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[ballplayer]

Call it what you want, they are right

[sitetest]

I heard pm blackface fled to the US.

[cyclotic]

These communists are finding out what happens when workers of the world unite. They don’t like it.

Too bad.

Oh, and 100% boycott gofundme.

[Does so]

Seeing those crowds, hearing those voices equally frustrated and hopeful, the words from the Prophet Hosea came to mind, “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” Our political leaders are currently “sowing the wind.” I worry about the whirlwind.

I think Senator Schumer (D-NY) had quoted the same words regarding Gorsuch.

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/5/21165479/chuck-schumer-neil-gorsuch-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-whirlwind-threat

[Sons of Union Vets]

I pray for these truckers EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!

The CEO of GOFundMe may want to join Trudeau when all is said and done. Maybe they can hide out in the new digs of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter in Canada which once served as headquarters for the communist party.

[dljordan]

“Surround Ottawa until Trudeau has to be helicoptered out in disgrace. “

He’s hiding out in an undisclosed location last I heard. Brave Sir Justin ran away.

[cyclotic]

Me too.

[The Great RJ]

The attempts by Trudeau and his toadies to smear the convoy and label them racist and worse shows the utter contemp the liberal elites have for the ordinary people who make Canada run. These elites remind me of the attitude actual racists had toward Blacks and other minorities.

[Lean-Right]

Instead of GoFundMe withholding and
redistributing, they should transfer
the entire amount to another monetary
distributor. They’ve opened themselves
up to multiple lawsuits. Though they
do have refund capabilities, they’ve
placed that burden on the donator to
request it. How many that donated $10.00
are just going to blow it off as not
worth the hassel?

[ViLaLuz]

Turdeau and the globalists are trying to paint this as a Jan. 6 style insurrection.

[Sons of Union Vets]

I totally agree with what you say.

If possible, everyone who contributed might want to think about joining together in a class action lawsuit. Possibly with a lawyer who is willing to work on a contingency basis.

GoFunMe knew what the Freedom Convoy was. If the CEO Tim Cadogen did not approve, then he shouldn't have accepted the money. Sounds like bait and switch to me. This is the third time he has frozen the funds! To me this is the "tell" indicating that Cadogan has been politically flip-flopping and hedging his political bets in hopes of winding up on the side of the "winner." Given the fact that he himself slammed the Federal response to the pandemic, he is revealing his own hypocrisy by freezing the funds of those who are not against the vaccines, but the mandates imposed by the Federal government.

I agree that the best thing GoFundMe could do would be to transfer the entire amount to another monetary distributer. It is not up to Tim Cadogan to impose his politically correct definition of what "misinformation" is.