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.”
Conservatives are not permitted to gather in DC.
There must be an uprising and a MAGA visit to the Mall
Scabs? Are you serious?
Ever driven a heavy? Tried to back a 45’ trailer into a depressed loading dock?
They might be able to pull in replacements for oh...5%. But as any company will tell ya right now, they got a bad shortage of skilled drivers.
And it’s gonna be quite a while till any self driving heavies go barreling down Her Majesties Royal Roads on their own.
It’s to laugh.
scabbing will be all fun and games until the hunters get involved.
“It is a difficult responsibilty. When you are Justin Trudeau’s Number One Flunky...”
Even got the first (Pharos) lighthouse alluded to in there.
The depiction in the graphic really is an interesting analogy with all of that light:
>>> The etymology of “Pharos” is uncertain, but may derive from "pharaoh", which originally meant "big house".[7] The word became generalized in modern Greek (φάρος ‘fáros’), and was loaned into Spanish (‘faro’). <<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria
Also the Pharos of Alexandria was the archetype for all future lighthouses.
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I'll have to investigate that etym. "Pharos" always made me think of the words "far" + "phos" (light) together, because that's the function of a lighthouse.
Tyrants always know for sure that their own superior wisdom is the light, and then force (phors?) everyone else to "see the light." The demand is oxymoronic on its face. A "tell" about the true nature of what they call light.
Cf. phosphorus (Latin: lucifer) --
Borrowed from Latin phōsphorus, from Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros, “the bearer of light”), from φῶς (phôs, “light”) + φέρω (phérō, “to bear, carry”).
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In Roman folklore, Lucifer ("light-bringer" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus, though it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch. The Greek name for this planet was variously Phosphoros (also meaning "light-bringer") or Heosphoros (meaning "dawn-bringer").[12] Lucifer was said to be "the fabled son of Aurora[13] and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx". He was often presented in poetry as heralding the dawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
"He was often presented in poetry as heralding the dawn."
Truly, but not in the way he intended. :)
That is the difference between being a man and you.
That is the difference between being a man and you.
This “person” has cut and pasted this drivel into every single thread....
He, she or it needs to be called out
Yes. I know people in the trucking industry and others who constantly complain about drivers with no CDLs and, no, they can't back up a trailer but they're still driving. And, yes, they work for well known companies. It isn't anything like it used to be, when rules mattered.
Every protester in Ottawa should start waving a Nazi flag. That’d really take the wind out of MSM’s sails for calling them all Nazis.
There is no shortage of trucks or truckers. The shortage is for parts, oil, and sometimes even diesel. One simple emissions sensor with a chip from you know where can shut down the whole truck.
“A party-like atmosphere continues to pervade the protest.”
it’s the biggest tailgate party i ever saw!!
Although I have never been a big fan of the Great Soul, I think the Mahatma would be very proud of these Canucks. And MLK, Jr. would be too!
Yep so it won't happen again. They'll allow token protests. But nothing major.
They are right, you are posting this each time. I am declaring IBBZ for Singermom.
OK. First of all, modern semi's pull 53' trailers.
Second, only the mega carriers are having a driver shortage, but that's because of the way they treat their drivers. Every mega out there has a turnover rate exceeding 100% annually, and it has been that way for decades. So don't listen to any nonsense about a driver shortage. That's just the megas, who represent only 6% of the industry, crying for 18 year olds to drive semi's because they can be more easily exploited.
Third, since the demise of the Teamsters as a trucker's union, American truck drivers have always found it impossible to organize for anything. You can stay home and go broke if you want, but the rates will just go up and a dozen drivers will jump at the chance to replace you. And if American truckers won't, Habib, Boris, and Ghandi will.
The important word is “allow”
Conservatives should (but cowardly won’t) say to hell with them and descend on the mall by the tens of thousands any way.
They can’t really be stopped
There is nothing negative about the word Burgermeister. It means simply “Mayor”. Oberfuehrer would be more appropriate. I am uncertain about the term - maybe Oberamtfuehrer?
And the more brutal and authoritarian they are toward truckers the more the truckers will support a strike. Over 70% of Canada’s goods are transported by truck. How long til the grocery shelves are empty? A week maybe?
Trudeau does not hold a winning hand here. He’s been extremely stupid so far. A smart political leader would have been conciliatory and left himself room to maneuver.
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