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'Authorities' panic over COVID protests, dissent – here's why
FOX News.com ^ | February 7, 2022 | Liz Peek

Posted on 02/07/2022 8:35:35 AM PST by Kaslin

What are the "authorities" so afraid of?

Why are Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates considered a threat? The Freedom Convoy has garnered enormous popular support but is condemned by the liberal media and dismissed by Canada’s unpopular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a "small fringe minority."

Prodded by Canadian authorities, GoFundMe moved to confiscate and redistribute $10 million raised to support the drivers, prompting such outrage that they pivoted to returning the money to the original donors. A like-minded U.S. group, "Convoy to DC 2022," attracted 130,000 members to its Facebook page before it was taken down by the social media giant.

Meanwhile, Joe Rogan has come under blistering attack for hosting on his podcast a cardiologist and infectious disease expert who questions the efficacy and safety of the COVID vaccines. Rogan is viewed as such a threat that the White House – in effect, the president of the United States – is trying to shut him down.

You have to wonder, why is the establishment in full panic mode every time someone challenges their COVID orthodoxy?

When historians review how our nation dealt with this pandemic, our political leaders will be excused for mistakes made. In responding to a fast-moving once-in-a-lifetime virus that threatened wholesale death, our mayors and governors – and two presidents – made quick decisions based on inadequate information but recommended by health experts who did the best they could. Those will be forgiven.

What is not forgivable and should never be excused is that those same political leaders and medical authorities brooked no dissent, allowed no debate, and by pretending they had unassailable "truths" on their side, undoubtedly caused the deaths of many Americans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: canada; convoy; covid19; protest; truckers
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1 posted on 02/07/2022 8:35:35 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
When historians review how our nation dealt with this pandemic, our political leaders will be excused for mistakes made.

I think the problem is that they didn't make "mistakes" -- they engaged in a naked power grab.

2 posted on 02/07/2022 8:38:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something"? I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: Kaslin

Its just the nature of power.

When the oligarchs create a rule, you are to follow it or else.

It’s why the British sent the troops to Boston in 1768.

That didn’t end well.

This is why THE PEOPLE placed limits on the government (you shall not do this) not the government placing limits on the people.


3 posted on 02/07/2022 8:39:09 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: Kaslin
What are the "authorities" so afraid of?

Doing the right thing and making that policy decision. i.e. #endthemandates

4 posted on 02/07/2022 8:40:08 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ClearCase_guy

They did Both!!! Problem is, they will NEVER admit to making a mistake. As for power grab, silence there too.


5 posted on 02/07/2022 8:40:09 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Kaslin

The American people cannot fire Fauci and other CDC folks but, if they can keep their short-term memory alive, they can hold elected officials—city, county, school boards, state, and federal—clearly accountable in the primaries and in the mid-terms. Throw them all out, regardless of party. Anyone that supported a mask or experimental vaccine mandate should be out of office, fired. Further, the next congress needs to remove immunity for experimental vaccines and end the sham approval without ending the experimental vaccines. I’d still like to know how they are getting away with that, giving approval to drugs not available in the US, leaving the experimental ones in circulation, and telling people to just get the shot, the experimental vaccine.


6 posted on 02/07/2022 8:42:14 AM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Kaslin

Bumping for reality and sanity!

Thanks for posting it.


7 posted on 02/07/2022 8:44:09 AM PST by Grampa Dave (How do you prove fraud, when those that determine fraud, use fraud to cover the fraud?)
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To: cotton1706
We have a “Supreme Court” that is unwilling to enforce the limits of government and allows the ursptatation of our Liberties by the corrupt Jihad Junta. We are in really deep merd.
8 posted on 02/07/2022 8:47:41 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta is now a Dictatorship, there are no more “laws..”)
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To: Kaslin

In fact, the attempt by Biden’s White House to silence a critic is for real an impeachable offense. They are doing it in front of God and everybody.


9 posted on 02/07/2022 8:50:00 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Kaslin

It’s a house of cards.


10 posted on 02/07/2022 8:50:12 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kaslin
We've been forced into a locked room and forced to sit thru a sales presentation at the threat of our lives and liberties. The vice president of sales has given his expert mandates on what they are selling. The regional sales manager has cited the expert mandate opinions of the vice president in his pitch. The local sales manager has gotten the FHA on board to regulate your purchase at the conclusion of the pitch. The EPA and the FCC have also gotten regulatory mandates to prevent you from complaining about your forced timeshare purchase or to seek any alternative property.

If you don't buy the timeshare your employer will fire you. You will be required to stay in the locked room sales pitch for two years or until you buy the timeshare. Once you buy the timeshare it may not be what was promised. Maybe more like a tent that needs a new booster of waterproofing every six months to keep out the rain.

11 posted on 02/07/2022 8:50:32 AM PST by blackdog (# We Are Corn-Pop, turn off the news.)
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In responding to a fast-moving once-in-a-lifetime virus that threatened ^^^wholesale death,^^^
***They’re still buying into the bullshiite narrative. Even at the beginning of this supposed crisis, we could tell that this disease had a survivability rate above 95% and that sequestering EVERYone made no sense compared to focusing on those who had comorbidities. Shutting down travel from China made a ton of sense but it was the libtards who cried the loudest about that approach.


12 posted on 02/07/2022 8:53:32 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: blackdog
--- "Maybe more like a tent that needs a new booster of waterproofing every six months to keep out the rain."

Brilliant. Kudos to you.

Imagine that you need to get four shots for measles each year, four for polio boosters every year, or, from my involuntary time in olive drab, four shots of bubonic plague vaccine each year -- or be fined, fired, and more.

13 posted on 02/07/2022 8:55:49 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: Grampa Dave

Reality And Sanity
.
I’m in!


14 posted on 02/07/2022 8:57:20 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Kaslin

“In responding to a fast-moving once-in-a-lifetime virus that threatened wholesale death, our mayors and governors – and two presidents – made quick decisions based on inadequate information but recommended by health experts who did the best they could. Those will be forgiven.”

I don’t think they should be. These decisions, made over the course of months or years were not “quick”, and they involved much more than just “health”.

And “experts” making unequivocal proclamations based on “inadequate information” are, by definition, not experts. They’re charlatans. Do any of these people have a lick of common sense?


15 posted on 02/07/2022 8:58:46 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: blackdog

Damn, that time share analogy it too close to home. I went through one of those with the wife and I felt almost guilty at the end of the session for not buying one. Whew... Bastards are still calling me up on a regular basis for another “paid for” visit to see them in Vegas.


16 posted on 02/07/2022 9:00:08 AM PST by Man from Oz
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“A like-minded U.S. group, “Convoy to DC 2022,” attracted 130,000 members to its Facebook page before it was taken down by the social media giant.”

Are these people just stupid or what? Why in the world would a group use the enemy’s website to promote their group?

DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK ACOOUNTS! Thick.


17 posted on 02/07/2022 9:00:14 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: blackdog

Two weeks
To Flatten the Curve,
Two Years
Like Slaves We Served.


18 posted on 02/07/2022 9:00:40 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Kaslin
Liz misses the real point.

"Authorities" are panicked because they lose their control when the people refuse to comply with TYRANNY!

Tyrants can't force Truckers to deliver goods to the Tyrants!!!!

19 posted on 02/07/2022 9:05:48 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: Man from Oz
Damn, that time share analogy it too close to home. I went through one of those with the wife and I felt almost guilty at the end of the session for not buying one. Whew... Bastards are still calling me up on a regular basis for another “paid for” visit to see them in Vegas.

You too!

About 20 years ago we made the mistake of signing up for one of those presentations. "Just give us two hours and we'll give you free tickets to a show" was the pitch.

I wasn't interested but my wife wanted those free tickets and it was "only two hours of our time"!

So when we signed up and got back to our hotel room later that night, there was a bottle of wine and flowers delivered there along with a note thanking us for agreeing to the presentation and telling us a "bus" would be along to pick us up the next morning outside the lobby.

A bus! I insisted on us driving there as I knew the bus was a way to trap us and keep us from leaving early. Good thing I did too.

The place was a good number of miles south of what was then where the strip ended. Some major construction going up - this was to be the time shares they wanted us to buy. So we got the grand tour of some model apartments and then it was down to the hard sell. Right off the bat they asked us how we liked the wine and how expensive and rare a bottle it was - but we deserved it as we were VIPs...

They simply would not take no for an answer. It was relentless as we got handed off to one agent after another, each one with a harder sell.

Finally I had enough and I told them I was leaving and besides, I had already given them 2 1/2 hours. So on the way out, we went to collect our free tickets and of course, you get the run around. The woman with the tickets handed us a form to fill out and ushered us into a cubicle to get that done. No sooner do we start filling out the form then some well-dressed woman comes marching in there to say how disappointed she was that we failed to take advantage of the "deal of a lifetime". How we were screwing our children out of great vacation memories and all that. Reminded us of the very rare and expensive bottle of wine lavished on us the night before. How could we say no?

At that point, it was getting to be three hours so I just told her she could keep her show tickets and my wife and I proceeded to march out of there. Now the hard-sell woman figured we rode in on the bus so she let us walk out there while following slowly behind thinking she'd get another crack at us outside. But no, we just marched straight to our car and drove away, giving her a little wave on the way out.

I found out later they didn't bring the bus back around until 12:30 pm! I saved nearly an hour and a half.

20 posted on 02/07/2022 9:26:11 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 24 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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