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Ottawa Police’s New Measures Against Protesting Truckers Are Those Used by ‘Oppressive Regimes,’ Says Organizers’ Lawyer
The Epoch Times ^ | February 5, 2022 | Omid Ghoreishi

Posted on 02/06/2022 10:23:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The new measures announced by the chief of Ottawa police against truck convoy protesters are those used by oppressive regimes around the world, says a lawyer representing organizers of the Freedom Convoy protesting COVID-19 mandates in Ottawa.

“He effectively announced that he is going to be taking away Canadians’ charter right of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression,” Keith Wilson, a lawyer with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), said in a video on Feb. 4.

Peter Sloly, chief of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS), said in a Feb. 4 press conference that police will be implementing a “surge and contain strategy” to deal with the protesters camped in Ottawa.

The strategy includes sending 150 more police officers to the protest area in the downtown core of Ottawa, barricading the protest area with concrete and heavy-equipment barriers, as well as “increased efforts” by national, provincial, and local intelligence agencies to target those “who are funding/supporting/enabling unlawful and harmful activity” by protesters.

“Our residents are frustrated and they are angry. They have every right to be. Their lives continue to be severely impacted by unlawful and unsafe events,” Sloly said.

“Officers and our partners will be focused on illegal activity associated with the demonstrators. Surge will deliver a clear message to the demonstrators: Lawlessness must end.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Canada
KEYWORDS: canada; justintrudeau; ottawa
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1 posted on 02/06/2022 10:23:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like the city WANTS to escalate.


2 posted on 02/06/2022 10:25:47 AM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good. Trudeau has taken th ebait. He will unleash a whirlwind that no one can contain. Canadians will no longer accept rule by the Canadian Cabbage Patch Communists and Socialists, and in the next election the Utopian wet dreams of a Great Socialist Reset ti]uyted by Trudeau, in whichi the Nanny stae will prohibit firearms ownership and delete free speech rights and assembly rights baased on a continual redefinition of what hate speech is and what political sp[eech is. Conservative political speech is ALL hate speech , you see?

The jig is up. Canadians will be free or they will fight .


3 posted on 02/06/2022 10:29:43 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_qhttps://uintessentia_1.html))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The lawlessness is with those who govern.

GOD bless the freedom loving truckers


4 posted on 02/06/2022 10:30:19 AM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The police should quit and join the protest.


5 posted on 02/06/2022 10:31:25 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As long as the government continues on this path, it is t going to end well. The Truckers simply want 2 things:
1- No mandatory jabs
2- No vaccine passports

That is literally it. Nothing else. From the mouth of their spokesman.
For this, the commies in charge of Canada will attempt to start a war.


6 posted on 02/06/2022 10:31:53 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Canadian truckers launch a nationwide strike there is nothing the government can do. The cities will run out of supplies very quickly.


7 posted on 02/06/2022 10:32:08 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
So many here talk about Revolution or Civil II against our tyrannical Swamp. It's looking like the first liberty-loving country to initiate the above may be Canada. Australia is also looking at civil disobedience.

I find it saddening that 3 of the most freedom loving countries in Western civilization are now 3 of the most oppressive. Some of the most socialist nations in Europe are dropping, reducing, or looking at cancelling their restrictions.

8 posted on 02/06/2022 10:33:07 AM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The oppressive measures are or have been in white/european countries like Canada, the U.S., Australia, Austria, the UK, France, the Netherlands, etc, pitting white people against white people where CRT is also peddled, pitting white people against black people and vice versa, and where they are flooding them with illegals and “migrants.”


9 posted on 02/06/2022 10:33:07 AM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let the PM keep doing what he is doing. It will only make the protests grow stronger.


10 posted on 02/06/2022 10:33:18 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (ui)
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To: FLT-bird

I would bet that supplies are short now in certain areas.

A nationwide strike would speed the rest up as you indicated.


11 posted on 02/06/2022 10:34:13 AM PST by crz
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To: vpintheak

You can’t have people self govern and making their own health decisions. After all, that experiment has clearly failed in America. Just ask the political elite, they’ll tell you.


12 posted on 02/06/2022 10:34:17 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They put a Jamaican athlete socialist in charge of their police department.

Hosers.


13 posted on 02/06/2022 10:36:23 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: vpintheak

Another way to put it is “You stop your lockdown and we’ll stop ours.”


15 posted on 02/06/2022 10:39:15 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: \/\/ayne
The police should quit and join the protest.

That sounds like a really good telephone call to make. Call the RCMP in Ottawa and suggest they do just that.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police
1200 Vanier Pkwy, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2, Canada
+1 613-993-7267

16 posted on 02/06/2022 10:41:50 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (ui)
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If only that were true.
Maybe it is in Canada?


17 posted on 02/06/2022 10:42:52 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Candor7

Friends and relatives of mine in Canada seem to think that the Government will resort to violence to end the protests.

None of the liberals, and especially the low IQ, faggot ideologue Trudeau, want to recognize that the truckers even exist. They will push some in their bloated bureaucracy, like the RCMP, to be the fall guys. One Liberal made a comment about using the military - which the Canadian Defense Minister immediately rejected.

Meanwhile store shelves become more empty, and with gas at CAN$1.50/liter, inflation is raging.


18 posted on 02/06/2022 10:47:44 AM PST by PGR88
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To: vpintheak

The global government is calling the shots for the Canadian government. Do what the global overlords command you to do.


19 posted on 02/06/2022 10:49:48 AM PST by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Lawlessness must end."

Guess this means that the government is resigning...

20 posted on 02/06/2022 10:52:42 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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