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.”
You’ll pardon my age but my time in the trucking industry was the ‘70s, and the trailer world was in flux even then. Recall that was when they first started allowing triples on I-80 through Nevada. I see even more interesting stuff on that road now.
And I also went through the strikes in ‘74 and ‘79. Damn near ended up in a fight with some Teamsters blocking a fuel pump in the latter case.
And I doubt that anyone is still running behind a 400 BigCam with an RTO12513. More like ISV with an Allison in the big companies, right?
But the basics are the same: you may be able to get newbie drivers doing simple work but the minute there’s a kink - like having to go over Donner Summit in a snowstorm, or deal with ANY kind of breakdown, or complying with the Bridge laws, logs, any of the regulations...the wheels come off.
Takes real time in the seat to get a competent over the road trucker, not some dickhead drayage guy driving around in town. Been there, seen that. As far as the big companies, they’re in the same position...still need to be able to perform.
I have seen the Habib’s and the Gandhi’s lately. Also the Jagmeets. But they plug themselves into a system they don’t know how to run. And if they want to go against the native truckers...well, if they thought the hostility in the truck stops was bad now, wait till they try to scab it.
https://timeline.com/gas-crisis-levittown-riot-9a7705c4deb4
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/02/us/violence-spreads-in-trucker-strike.html
Remember?
“I would not go to jail over this. “
Then you have no personal beliefs that matter and can safely be ignored.
Not sure about truckers driving with out CDL. Truckers are required to pull into weigh stations. Log books are no longer hand written but truck computer generated. In a lot of American trucking load hauls are negotiated. A close friend managed the transport of goods in a section of the aUS and part of South America. He got sick of dealing with some of the a-hole truckers. It would work like this. Some one would call the company he worked for, I got 2,000 cans of motor oil to be delivered from Savanah Georgia to Jackson Florida. He would then put the run out to be bid on. So some trucker dead heading to Florida might take the contract if his company didn’t have a truck available. I don’t think companies are going to trust Loads to people with out CDL because of nsurance and the like.
“they’re in the same position...still need to be able to perform.”
No.
Not true.
Many companies are tossing know nothings behind the wheel and sending then out in 90k pound death machines to drive the highways with us.
These know nothings further ignore one way signs, no entry, exit only, and the company berates the businesses for telling the driver to pay attention.
“Why are you mean to our driver?!” Well if the driver would pull his head out of his backside and not run over a fire hydrant...and then park on the water fountain coming out of it.
Because that’s what good moms do, “break up that fighting, boys, take it out back, don’t be wrasslin in front of the store, people might see you or get hurt,, mind you, you just go on home.”
This one’s even more fun:
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/28/archives/truck-strike-in-3d-week-violence-and-peace-sporadic.html
Don’t know how old y’are, but uh...I remember the good ol’ days. Rubber Duckie was still on everyone’s minds, and there was a shotgun or a .45 in every cab.
And back then, there was a grungy, filthy, receding hairline jerk from Delaware egging them on...wonder what he’s gonna say this time?
Don’t worry. He’ll have his new found Israelite tuff guys Garland and Mayorkas take care of them mean trucksters.
Same problems back in the good ol’ days.
Those guys are on the fringes. They depend on the real operators to keep things going.
Think you summarized all the reasons it’ll end up being a clusterf**k.
If they go home now they will be targeted as individuals.
There is power in numbers. They are right where they need to be.
Not so fringe anymore.
I see way too many of them at work.
435 and counting know nothings looking for the site across the street doing damage at my job and then whining about being told just why they are stupid.
So y’all think that a trucker convoy/strike ain’t gonna work cuzza all the furrin scabs they been importing the last 30 years.
Well, ask yourself this: how does the Rat party look itself in the mirror when they try to engage in mass strikebreaking?
Ain’t that a Republican management gig?
Anyone who tries to break the lines will be writing their own epitaph. I laughed when I heard the dimbulb Ottawa mayor say he was gonna tow the trucks away. Has he ever seen a heavy truck tow body? What are there in Ottawa city, like three of them? The guy who runs one of those rigs said he has the equipment, but he didn’t know anyone who would do the job. They damn well know better: it would be the end of their business. Soon as the fun is over, they would be blacklisted in an ugly way.
These effete little idiots who prance around in their tutus at taxpayer funded parties are about to find out what makes countries run, and it ain’t cops and army pukes, and it sure as hell ain’t Poli Sci majors sipping Starbucks Chai Lattes.
“So y’all think that a trucker convoy/strike ain’t gonna work cuzza”
I haven’t said anything about the protest.
I have made mention of the idiots infesting the industry.
And you should read my post 42 response to idiocy.
Unfortunately, they do. Honesty doesn't seem to be a virtue anymore.
I try.
Many of the decent drivers my site sees are retiring.
I’m distressed to see them go.
“.... new found Israelite tuff guys Garland and Mayorka ..”
What does “Israelite tuff guys” mean?
Some people are clearly more determined to fight against tyranny.
Outsmarting CNN addicts, NPC’s, and commie trash is kinda a low bar.
The issue is that they have power — power doesn’t need brains.
That was a fun read. Bravo to these truckers!
Bttt.
5.56mm
You tell us, Tuff Guy
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