Posted on 02/08/2022 8:10:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The "Freedom Convoy" is a "nationwide insurrection," the chair of Ottawa's police board said.
Protestors have let off fireworks, blocked roads, and desecrated a war memorial.
Protests have erupted in other Canadian cities, too, including Toronto and Hamilton.
The disruption that erupted in Ottawa after people gathered to protest Canada's vaccine mandate for truckers has become a "nationwide insurrection," the chair of the city's police board said.
The protestors are "terrorizing" and "threatening" the city's residents, Councillor Diane Deans said Saturday at an emergency meeting of the board.
"Our city is under siege," she said.
Canadian truckers first gathered January 28 in Ottawa for a so-called "Freedom Convoy" protest against the country's vaccine mandate. Since January 15, Canada has required US truckers to present proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 to cross the border. Unvaccinated Canadian truckers who drive to the US have to quarantine and get tested on their return. The US imposed a similar mandate on January 22.
But the Ottawa protest has snowballed into a much broader demonstration, attracting people who want to vent their opposition to Canadian government measures to tackle the pandemic, which they see as government overreach.
Protestors have let off fireworks and blocked roads, while police said they have opened a criminal investigation after a war memorial was desecrated during the protests. Some drivers have driven on the wrong side of the road, on the sidewalk, and through no-truck routes, leading to the city's police issuing hundreds of tickets.
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It’s a resistance not an insurrection. What they did to Trump for 4 years was an insurrection.
Labels precede the crackdown.
Untermensch comes to mind.
And waving flags and shooting off fireworks.
easy peasy they thought.
It’s not been going very smoothly so far.
Of course not. That is because the residents had been marched outside of town by the truckers and shot in pits. And now the truckers are getting ready to roast the children of the city alive in huge bonfires. And cut out the hearts of the pets in the city. This trucker rebellion must be stopped! For the sake of the children, of course.
Yes, for the children. Freedom to protest is child abuse!
Ms Dean called out Donald Trump as she said Donald Trump donated money to the truckers. I wonder is she gets her talking points from Nancy... 🤓
Of course not! That's ridiculous. Its only insurrection if the Left doesn't approve of the protests. If the Left approves then the protests are "mostly peaceful" even if they result in dozens of deaths and over $2 billion in damages.
That is just it. They thought we’d go quietly.
Are they “spooked” you bet they are. Was DC spooked after Jan. 6th?
The language reversal is amazing to watch as compared to the atrocities that happened in 2020.
The working class society of the free world are loath to go along with the Great Reset. It is a psychology they do not yet know how to manipulate/control. And yet this segment are not anarchists, they are Rights, Freedom, and reasonable Rule of Law.
Is what Canada seeing an ‘insurrection?’ Not by a long stretch, it is a protest and rebellion against the overreach of government around a single facet of unjust mandates. This does not cause an ‘insurrection.’
This is a demand for the government to stop acting ignorantly, to stop abusing the science to control people who are more than capable of understanding the science for themselves.
“..The “Freedom Convoy” is a “nationwide insurrection,”
Hungary 1956!
Czechoslovakia in 1968!
Chile 1973!
Romania 1989! https://gwangjunewsgic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Romanian-Revolution-in-pictures-1989-18.jpg
Now THOSE were insurrections! Some failed some worked.
Jan 6, and the protests today in Canada nothing compared to those above! NO blood in the streets, no politicians hanging head down like Mussolini.
insurrection is their new favourite charge,second only to racist.🤔
Note to chair of Ottawa’s police board: Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Thomas Jefferson stated it well: Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed
It’s true. If people won’t listen to the government, then they have no power.
People only have power over us inasmuch as we let them to a great degree.
Now granted I realize that when someone comes along and physically forces themselves on you, they do have power over you, but many times, compliance is what gives them power over us.
Prudent government leaders would carry out their duties so as to support The People, finding compromise solutions when necessary. The supposed "free" governments around the world have forgotten all about compromise and maintaining the happiness of the citizens.
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