Posted on 02/13/2022 5:57:28 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Former Obama administration official Juliette Kayyem backpedaled a call Thursday for actions against Canadian truckers protesting their government’s strict coronavirus policies, Fox News reported.
The CNN analyst, who is also a senior lecturer in International Secutiry at Harvard, wrote in a social media post, “I tweeted something that has been used by others to suggest I was promoting vigilantism. I was not.” She apparently claimed her words had been misinterpreted.
“People have the freedom to protest. Governments have the responsibility to protect public safety. That was what I intended to say,” she added.
However, Twitter users fired back at her post, one person writing, “I don’t think you were promoting vigilantism. I think you were promoting violence.”
“So what exactly is ‘slashing the tires’ and ’emptying the gas tanks’? Good ol fashioned family fun?” another replied.
Kayyem shared video footage of truckers blocking the Ambassador Bridge.
“The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a ‘freedom protest,’ is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada,” she tweeted.
“Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks,” Kayyem’s tweet continued.
Followers blasted her comments.
“You’re advocating violence and property damage for peaceful protestors? Were you this outspoken when BLM and Antifa were torching businesses and killing people? That was an economic and security issue, too,” one user replied.
“Can you elaborate on your brilliant plan to “move” trucks with no tires and no gas off of a bridge?” another asked.
In a subsequent post on Thursday, Kayyem wrote, “Trust me, I will not run out of ways to make this hurt: cancel their insurance; suspend their drivers licenses; prohibit any future regulatory certification for truckers, etc,”:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I only saw her post made fun of for the idiocy of emptying gas tanks and slashing tires—then trying to “move the trucks”.
The intellect of “we need to get those trucks out of there by slashing the tires” is astounding.
SPJNK.
Big truck tires have over 100 pounds per square inch of tire pressure. When they puncture, it sounds like a cannon being shot and heavy pieces of the tire flying off like shrapnel could easily kill anyone standing beside the tire.
Caption was, don’t slash tires on commercial trucks.
Din do nuffin’.
Instant Karma 😁
“The explosion of one of those big tires bursting would probably kill the idiot.”
On a TV talk show recently someone described the sorry fate of a human who slashed a tire of a big rig. But ... shhhh ... don’t let the libs know; let them find out for themselves.
🙂
Someone tell Gwenn Moore.
If the goal of the left is to get the trucks out of Ottawa, cutting the tires may not be expedient. Do they think at all?
No one should care about the vigilantism charge.
The best part of the story is that a Harvard educated broad has no idea how things work.
The problem is that these violent people haven’t been held accountable for their actions or call to actions.
Juliette Kayyem, a daughter of Lebanese immigrants, has spent most of her career in public service. She says her Arab American roots are the motivation for her involvement in the public sphere. S
“What drives me is who I am, as the daughter of a Lebanese immigrant family,” she said in an interview with The Arab American News. “Being an immigrant is about contributing to this nation.”
She said the positions that she has held have helped her open the doors for others and raise issues that are important to the community, such as opposing racial profiling and promoting comprehensive immigration reform.
https://www.arabamericannews.com/2013/11/01/juliette-kayyem-i-am-driven-by-my-background/
BRAVO!
Until there are severe consequences for this type of totally irresponsible speech, it will continue and escalate.
It needs to be arranged for her to spend the rest of her days dealing with a severe affliction of some kind ... think Stephen Hawking.
Wouldn’t it be quicker to fire this braindead Communist?
“Can you elaborate on your brilliant plan to “move” trucks with no tires and no gas off of a bridge?” another asked.
Winner!
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