Posted on 02/12/2022 4:50:10 AM PST by Kaslin
OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the City of Ottawa are constantly looking at new and adventurous ways to remove the freedom convoy from the nation’s capitol but the truckers keep outsmarting and outmaneuvering them at every turn. The Ottawa Police Service is repeatedly warning the truckers that they are going to be raided.
The truckers have not responded to these threats with any incendiary language or violence and watching the action first hand, one is impressed at how much the convoy is actually doing to improve situations in the city, offering free food and clothing to homeless people.
Nothing has been more devastating to police than the release of a YouTube video showing a Ottawa police officer swearing, arresting and throwing a 78-year-old man against his car for honking his horn. The incident has essentially frozen any further aggressive police action toward the convoy and has embarrassed the police service.
The police service has also raised the issue of the number of children involved with the convoy as some social workers have mused about seizing them. That idea has been roundly condemned as another example of how COVID-19 restrictions have flagrantly violated basic democratic norms.
The Official Opposition Conservative Party Thursday demanded that the House of Commons vote on ending the COVID-19 mandates, while more provinces are announcing that they plan to withdraw vaccine passports and masking in all indoor public places.
Trudeau has continued to insist the protesters are displaying “Nazi symbols” although this claim is being increasingly dismissed and ridiculed by media outlets. The arrival of Fox News has turned the convoy into an international story and whenever the camera is on, the crowds of protesters and supporters cheer and offer their complete disdain for those Canadian media outlets that continue to parrot Trudeau’s version of the truth.
The prime minister’s Quebec caucus is furious at how Trudeau has ignored the protesters – because so many are from vote rich and usually Liberal-friendly Quebec. One of the truly amazing phenomena of this protest is how truckers from Quebec and Alberta – two provinces that have often sparred over4 language and energy issues – have literally embraced each other in their opposition to COVID-19 mandates and the Trudeau government.
With the protest poised to begin its third week, it shows no sign of collapsing and its participants continue to say they are not leaving town until they see change. More trucks are expected to arrive on Saturday as some truckers have gone to Toronto to expand the protest in Canada’s largest city.
A party-like atmosphere continues to pervade the protest. At a detachment organized at a ballpark about a five minute drive from Parliament Hill, the organizers have set up saunas and a food tent that also offers toiletries and winter clothing to participants. These saunas, combined with bouncy tents for the kids, apparently sent Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson over the edge as he complained that it was “disturbing” that the protest was turning into a “some kind of fun carnival.”
All Trudeau can say is that “these protests have to stop” and reiterate his apparent belief that white supremacists are behind the event. The Liberals are suggesting the convoy is being funding by American interests and want to expand an investigation into funding into whether it is “ideologically motivated.”
Longtime Ottawa resident Phiilip Lafleche discussed whether people in Ottawa were being inconvenienced by the protest.
“I’ve been here for six days and I have seen so much support,” he said, noting the piles of food, clothing and provisions that have been donated by locals. “They’re so behind us.”
He said in his analysis of history, he cannot recall a time when a government “locked up the healthy … we quarantine the sick and we make sure we take preventative measures for the vulnerable but we never have locked up the healthy. And I’ve been locked up for two years.”
He said one of the effects that the convoy has on local businesses is that people are increasingly refusing to wear masks when they go into stores. Lafleche said mandates have forced business owners to be “policemen for the government.”
“The truckers were the point. They broke through the barriers, They started the conversation. Even though [Trudeau] won’t talk to us.”
Lafleche said he is fed up with the “mainstream media,” much of which he says he “used to watch.” He criticized journalists for getting the news “from their Twitter feed” instead of engaging in investigating journalism and doing their jobs.
He says he plans to stay at the protest as long as he can. “But I’m willing to be arrested – yes.”
What would the left say if conservatives started a fund to bail out jailed truckers? The flip side of what Cammie Harris was doing for jailed ANTIFA arsonists and looters.
Well, why don’t you start such a fund and find out?
“some kind of fun carnival”
They should call it the winter of love.
And what are those American interests, AHs? How about universal freedom as guaranteed by our Constitution and yours - honk honk.
As long as the truckers stick together, it’s unlikely the police will act. Not a good look dragging dozens or even hundreds of people to jail. And then what do you do? After you arrest the drivers, removing these trucks borders on impossible. And, every one you remove will likely be replaced with another. Something’s gotta give.
Indeed.
I mentioned on a few previous threads that he should change his title from Mayor to Burgermeister. :P
Spel chuk got onerous wrong.
Nope.
There will be plenty of scabs willing to take up the driving on the then open roads.
A blockade will definitely AFFECT the thinking of the ruling class.
Let me save them time and money:
Send some of your boys down there with the command to create a few Ashli's, and your disturbance will then be JUSTINfied.
That’s the hilarious part.
Little TrueDope darkly threatens all the truckers licenses and jobs if they don’t get back to being his slaves right away, eh!
Uh right. So uh, who’s gonna deliver the goods? They already have the same problem we do: not enough trucks and truckers.
Hey Justine...ever chained up in the dead of night on a snow covered road with a temperature of -5C? Both axles, eight tires? By yourself?
His cops are just costumed dogs that nip at their heels and try to pick off a few out of the herd. THEY don’t know how to run the machines they regulate. Get them to do it?! Hah!
the so-called political class is about to find out just how useless they are.
I was watching a Rebel News video when it was suddenly scotched. It nothing more than a guy walking among the trucks and chatting with truckers. Then bing! gone!
Wussface trudeau has been in the news condemning Rebel News and refusing to talk with reporters from Rebel News. So obviously, YouTube is following the angry leftist’s directives.
In 2020 leftists occupied inner cities in the USA. They invaded buildings. They built barricades. They did not allow police to enter. They burned and robbed. The democrat mayors and governors did not do anything to stop them, in fact they gave them moral and material support. Because the democrats agreed with the goals of the blm/antifa crowd - the destruction of the USA as a constitutional republic.
Now, normal people in trucks have arrived, and have parked, blocking much of the traffic. Liberal mayors and governors have created new, illegal, laws to criminalize the behavior of the truckers. Now they are against the protests. The left consists of nothing but filthy hypocrites.
Exactly.
Exactly.
BLM and antifa don’t stay at home. They took to the streets blocking traffic, hauled down statues they didn’t like, looted businesses, burned them down, and hurt or killed whoever got in their way. The lasting response to their acts was to have police departments defunded and bails reduced or eliminated.
Truckers and other essential services need to stage sit-in strikes at home simultaneously for that strategy to be at its most effective.
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