Posted on 02/10/2022 7:18:55 PM PST by Nextrush
Highway 75 is blocked in both directions by farm equipment, semi-trailer trucks and more
Protesters in semi-trailer trucks, farm equipment and other vehicles who have blocked all highway lanes at Manitoba's main Canada-US border crossing since Thursday morning have begun letting livestock and medical vehicles through.
All 50 vehicles, which also include snowplows and construction machinery, have blocked off both northbound and southbound lanes on Highway 75, RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Paul Manaigre told CBC News...
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They not only have our attention they also have our respect and admiration
If you notice each time the Canadian government pushes against Ottawa truckers another blockage is formed.
Perhaps the lateness for us both.
What I mean is that the blockage is stopping trucking across the border - even already vaxxed truckers who aren’t actively protesting. So, even if they are under a contract or not self-employed and are expected to be delivering - they can’t. This seems, to me, to help the protesting truckers without risk of getting fired for outright refusal to work.
At least, that was what I was thinking.
OTOH, perhaps they have been driven too far, and this is the best civil disobedience they can do that is confrontational, and yet short of gunfire.
I can think of fewer ways to turn the public against you than blocking their roads
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When there are shortages,
some will blame the government for not being aggressive against the truckers
some will blame the government for being aggressive
“OTOH, perhaps they have been driven too far, and this is the best civil disobedience they can do that is confrontational, and yet short of gunfire.”
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I’m thinking that the targets they will hit with this will be unintended.
Like how it was mentioned that apparently there are some dummies who think showing up to wreck the Superbowl for people is what they should really do. They don’t understand that’s about the fastest way to turn the American public against them.
They’ve nothing to go back to. You hit it.
Forget potential shortages, what people will hear about is things like ambulances not getting through, fire trucks held back and children dying because they were blocked from urgent care - things of that nature. Non stop sad stories.
Also, I think the idea that people will cheer on the people who are starving them is expecting a bit too much nobility from people, to wit;
If you’re at home waiting for Dominoes to deliver your order, but find out a Pizza Hut delivery boy is stopping your food from being delivered, you’re not gonna be happy with the Pizza Hut kid. You’re more likely to wanna kick his a$$ around the block a few times.
Unintended consequences often come of not thinking anything through.
Forget potential shortages, what people will hear about is things like ambulances not getting through, fire trucks held back and children dying because they were blocked from urgent care - things of that nature.
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If that happens, shouldn’t people blame the government for not ending the blockade?
You bet they have my respect.
Fully appreciate your view. You could be right.
But again, BLM bastards did it maliciously. And they really did try to block everything, even knowing ambulances were trying to get thru. And frankly, their whole “cause” (premise) was bad, something libs love to say about conservatives (Jan 6). For them the riots were fine.
The truckers are a whole different matter. Who can seriously argue their point? And they are surely not trying to block everyone, regardless Of reason. Certainly not attacking those who go thru like BLM thugs.
Defending freedom from medical tyranny. Showing that non-violent protests by working class people can protect everyone's rights. Getting the Canadian government to drop harmful and mostly useless rules and regulations.
Hopefully ending the idea that governments can require everyone to take an experimental vaccine, or some other procedure based on the decree of un-elected officials. Do you really think it is a good idea to require vaccine passports to go into stores?
Are you OK with having to show some government approved pass on your phone just to go into stores, or sit in a restaurant, or travel or work in your own country?
Are you OK with that kind of thing where the government doesn't even have to pass a law, just make a decree?
If not then you should thank the protesting truckers in Canada.
Good one. 😄
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I got livestock
I got livestock
I got cows
I got pigs
I got sheep
I got mules
I got all live stock...
Do you have seats for the Super Bowl?
Most Americans couldn't care less if there is a traffic jam around the Super Bowl.
BLM got what they wanted out of blocking roads. What price did they pay?
“BLM got what they wanted out of blocking roads. What price did they pay?”
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They can also walk into a store, toss valuable merch into bags and just walk out unmolested, with little or no consequence. When truckers can do that, ask again.
“Do you have seats for the Super Bowl?”
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New invention called TV. I’ve even heard some people have big parties just to watch a once a year football event on it. They usually pretty much just want to spend some enjoyable time with friends after a long work week. And this year it looks like it might even actually be a good game, finally.
If some think it’s a brilliant idea to have it interrupted by news anchors and woke NFL announcers giving play by play on “an assault on the Superbowl” or an “insurrection” - if not “Black Sunday” incarnate - well, good luck hoping people will be thrilled about that.
“BLM got what they wanted out of blocking roads. What price did they pay?”
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They can also walk into a store, toss valuable merch into bags and just walk out unmolested, with little or no consequence. When truckers can do that, ask again.
Yes, _after_ BLM (and Antifa) took action: running riot through cities and DC in the summer of 2020, burining and looting as they went, and had police departments defunded across the nation. They got what they wanted, ruined businesses and took lives, and have yet to pay a real price.
Meanwhile, Canadian truckers are standing up for themselves over vaccine mandates and you’re going to cluck at them over blocking traffic? GTFOOH
Not sure that you should be equating truckers with a violent criminal element, not the best place to start an argument from. In making the “same thing” case, a moral person has to denounce all wrongdoing impacting others adversly as being wrong.
If you lose the hearts and minds of the public, you’ve lost everything. I just disagree with the notion that causing innocents to suffer is a good PR policy. Block gov buildings, officials residences, corps, and so on instead of hurting people who have done you no harm.
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