Posted on 02/12/2022 7:51:58 PM PST by RandFan
Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) expressed support for trucker convoys potentially protesting COVID-19 restrictions in the U.S. as they have in Canada.
“I’m all for it,” Paul said in an interview with The Daily Signal, a publication run by the conservative Heritage Foundation. “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
“And some of this, we started,” Paul said. “We put [COVID-19] mandates on truckers coming across the border from Canada so then they put mandates on, and the truckers are annoyed. They’re riding in a cab by themselves, most of them for eight, 10-hour long hauls, and they just want to do what they want to do. It’s their own business.”
"Freedom Convoy" demonstrations in Canada, which began as protests against COVID-19 mandates impacting truck drivers, have since spread to cities around the country and attracted support from some Americans.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned law enforcement partners earlier this week that U.S.-based truck drivers may stage similar demonstrations in support of the Canadian movement. The agency said it had received reports that a convoy is potentially planning to travel from California to Washington, D.C., and block roads in major U.S. cities to protest vaccine mandates and other pandemic-related restrictions.
“It’d be great, but the thing is, it wouldn’t shut the city down because the government workers haven’t come to work in two years anyway,” Paul told The Daily Signal of a potential convoy traveling to the U.S. capital. “I don’t know if it’ll affect D.C. It’d be a nice change. We’d actually have some traffic.”
The Canadian protests have in the past week blocked three border crossings between the U.S. and Canada and caused disruptions in the American auto industry.
President Biden on Friday spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has condemned the protests, and expressed concern “that U.S. companies and workers are experiencing serious effects, including slowdowns in production, shortened work hours, and plant closures.”
Canadian police on Saturday moved to break up a protest on the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Canada and the U.S.
“We urge all demonstrators to act lawfully & peacefully. Commuters are still being asked to avoid the areas affected by the demonstrations at this time,” Windsor, Ontario, police said.
Good for Rand.
When this Freedom Convoy 2022 began in late January, Trump supported them 100% talking about how great the truckers are during his Conroe Texas rally, Jan. 29.
The Tyrant Trudeau would sooner declare martial law and eliminate the truckers Tiananmen Square-style.
It has begun; https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1492587230535299074
US trucker on the US side of Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan
This is going to be interesting...
I wish someone would continue to point out that the democrats are enabling illegals to pour over the open southern border with no mandates, no testing, no vaxxes, and being dispersed by those same democrats to various cities across this country while, travel to safe Canada is restricted and American citizens are continued to be being denied their rights to freedom of assembly and speech.
We are being coerced, and threatened to receive an experimental drug while illegals are given a pass and IIRC, muslim”refugees” were given Ivermectin or HCQ upon arrival in this country, again something denied to tax paying American citizens.
We are being treated like trash while illegals are being treated like royalty.
If there were freedom protests in my state, I would be there.
We are nowhere near anywhere, literally, where we can get to a protest.
They haven’t moved this far east along the border yet, for one thing.
The best I can do is pray for them but I would do more if I could.
Darrell Issa is backing the truckers too...
I wouldn’t say it’s begun yet. There are
2,000,000 truckers on US roads. When it
does manifest, it will dwarf Canadas’
commendable efforts. They’re the spark,
the US will be the resulting forest fire.
Hope so. But the Teamsters Union came out against the convoy yesterday, and I think there’s going to be a more private business /entity pressure on the truckers here. Working hand in hand with government, of course.
You won’t see any unionized truckers. All
but roughly 13-16 percent are independents.
This is going to boil down to putting ones
money where their mouth is. Truckers are
a prideful bunch. And you’ll not get closer
to Mom, America, and Apple Pie than these
guys.
I think it is the Republicans that are trouble this coming election. Most of them aren’t doing a darn thing to help us or to even speak up about what’s going on in the country. Our Senators have been pretty mum this last year and a half. Of course I don’t go on Fox or CNN or MSNBC so maybe I am just not seeing them. But I probably won’t vote for our present Reps or Senators because they suck.
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