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Ex-Obama Official Backpedals Call for Canadian Truckers to Have Tires Slashed
breitbart ^ | 12 Feb 2022 | AMY FURR

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,”:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: kayyem; obama; truckers
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To: chopperk

Exactly the type that murdered millions in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Germany in the 30s and 40s. Think she would have any qualms about killing you if she had the Power.


61 posted on 02/13/2022 6:57:23 AM PST by sport
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To: MarvinStinson

Dear Juliette Kayyem

“Engage your brain before releasing your opinion”
Was (and is) good advice -— even for snowflake lib dingbats


62 posted on 02/13/2022 6:58:41 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: neverevergiveup

Correct. And we thank her for her help in making that point in a very public and humiliating fashion!


63 posted on 02/13/2022 7:00:45 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Tucker Carlson called her a “nasty little fascist”.


64 posted on 02/13/2022 7:02:03 AM PST by euram
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To: sport

Neither would Gretchen Whitmer. Or Geroldo Rivera.


65 posted on 02/13/2022 7:04:38 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I’m surprised she didn’t demand that sugar be put in their gas tanks.


66 posted on 02/13/2022 7:05:45 AM PST by euram
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To: MarvinStinson

Re your picture of Juliette: She looks like an angry white version of Susan Rice to me.


67 posted on 02/13/2022 7:07:52 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: skeeter

“She wasn’t promoting ‘vigilantism’. She was proposing the cops slash the tires.”

Finally. The correct interpretation. She still wants the tires slashed, she’s just wants “the authorities” to do it.


68 posted on 02/13/2022 7:20:30 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Flick Lives

Brilliant broad here. Put the truckers out of business and watch the economy crater.


69 posted on 02/13/2022 7:33:42 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: MarvinStinson

Going to Harvard doesn’t necessarily mean you are smart. But, you probably have very little common sense or reasoning. When the society collapses, over-educated liberals will be the first to go.


70 posted on 02/13/2022 7:43:05 AM PST by cp124 (Living under medical tyranny. )
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To: MarvinStinson

‘She’ looks like the dude that swims for the Penn Women. Equally confused, apparently.


71 posted on 02/13/2022 7:52:21 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: MarvinStinson

clean shaven or nair?


72 posted on 02/13/2022 8:13:07 AM PST by thinden
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To: DownInFlames

Brilliant broad here. Put the truckers out of business and watch the economy crater.

The “Atlas Shrugged” tactic is exactly what is being employed by the big rig tow truck operators. They’re simply refusing to tow the tractor trailers.


73 posted on 02/13/2022 8:22:38 AM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: Fai Mao
How do you say, “I did not actually mean slash those tires!”

"Well sure, I meant slash your tires- but in the nicest possible way!"

;'}

74 posted on 02/13/2022 8:26:08 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: MarvinStinson

Give her and every member of her family to the Taliban.


75 posted on 02/13/2022 8:46:03 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Robert DeLong

LOL another stupid people doing stupid things report thanks.


76 posted on 02/13/2022 8:49:23 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Tallguy

Look at the neck.

77 posted on 02/13/2022 12:36:15 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: euram

78 posted on 02/13/2022 12:39:32 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

“They bring tires, we bring a knife...”

Thanks Obama.


79 posted on 02/13/2022 12:40:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: skeeter

Which is even dumber


80 posted on 02/13/2022 12:45:40 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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