Freedom Convoy: Blockade at Alberta border crossing 'unlawful'

BBC ^ | 2/1/2022 | staff

[redguyinabluestate]

The demonstration is tied to the ongoing nationwide "Freedom Convoy" protests over Canada's new restrictions on unvaccinated cross-border truckers.

Some motorists and local residents have reportedly been stuck in standstill since the protest began on Saturday.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta said the event was "unlawful".

They said "extensive efforts" to negotiate with protest organisers had failed and the force has tapped "additional resources" to make arrests or tow trucks if needed.

"While we thought we had a path to resolve this, the protesters chose not to comply," a statement said.

The line-up of trucks in Alberta extends for several miles along the main Highway 4 into the border village of Coutts.

[redguyinabluestate]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We’ll stop our lockdown if you stop yours.

[MercyFlush]

You won FR today!! Great post!!

[DoughtyOne]

Dang... that’s a shame. Yawn...

[Alberta's Child]

Awesome. I’ve driven that stretch of road quite a few times in the northbound direction after crossing the border at Sweetgrass, MT.

The last time I drove south that way was in the dead of the night about five years ago. There isn’t a more beautiful stretch of bare grassland anywhere in North America. There’s something about that northbound trip on I-15 out of Great Falls, with the Sweet Grass Hills rising in the distance off to the east as you approach the border crossing.

[RickyW]

Well, I think mandating an experimental jab is unlawful too. I forecast a significant number of repetitive cases of the Trudeau Rona if they decide to poke the beast the convoy has become.

[Bulwyf]

What they’ve done to us for the last two years is unlawful.

[jetvol1]

Awesome to see. Wonder if we’ll see that here in the states.

[Lisbon1940]

Motorists and local residents can just deal with it. This is more important than their personal concerns.

[caww]

[Eagles6]

But antifa & Burn Loot Murder blocking roads, attacking and shooting people is A OKAY.

[joshua c]

civil disobedience

a time honored tradition of citizens pissed off at a tyrannical government

[quikstrike98]

Hold the line. Canadian farmers just blew the RCMP blockade. Stand strong against tyranny and crimes against humanity.

[Wallace T.]

Never been to Alberta, but I really like this song, Alberta Bound. Sung by Paul Brandt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4EkjJw5xk

[mass55th]

But Antifa and BLM can block roads and highways with impunity.

[Alberta's Child]

Your link may not work, but I know that song. It’s a classic. He even mentions the border crossing at Sweetgrass-Coutts in the first stanza.

[deks]

yeah, a nice song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4EkjJw5xk

[DoughtyOne]

LOL

Nailed it.

[Organic Panic]

Did the RCMP care when BLM and Antifa blocked the streets i the cities?

[ronnie raygun]

Laws matter when they want them to