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So-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters don’t understand what ‘freedom’ means
Kitchener-Waterloo Record ^ | February 17, 2022 | Mulugeta Dilnesahu

Posted on 02/17/2022 4:15:02 AM PST by Kriggerel

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To: DeplorablePaul

Actually the Swastika on day 1 and day 1 only was aimed at Trudeau and what Canada can become under his tyrannical dictatorship.

I’ve watched probably 50-60 hours of livestream. There are zero confederate flags.

No one mentions the counter protest of Ottawa government workers, at least one of whom carried the Soviet flag with hammer and sickle.


21 posted on 02/17/2022 5:16:12 AM PST by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: coloradan

Is that a banksy?


22 posted on 02/17/2022 5:19:13 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Kriggerel

Another article by the same author...

https://www.therecord.com/opinion/community-editorial-board/2021/10/14/vaccine-resistance-is-a-movie-weve-seen-many-times-before.html


23 posted on 02/17/2022 5:19:13 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: Kriggerel

Ack-shu-allllllly freedom is exactly the opposite.

An environment where politically unpopular voices get a chance to be heard is freedom. Banning and outlawing protest over real or perceived grievances is only freedom to this poutine-soaked manbaby because it keeps his freedom of going about the day ignorant of those grievances intact. Labor strikes were heralded as an absolute right of the workers to make their voices heard by the powerful... right up until the leftists got in control and were themselves the powerful ones. Freedom isn’t a city bus, you don’t get off once you reach your stop.

Probably the most maddening thing for the writer is the realization, however small, that he lacks that same sort of real power. A week without truckers in the city drastically changes life, a month would be impossible for most of the city to live through. A month without an Ottawa newspaper would probably only be an improvement to the world, unless you have a parakeet or needed to buy a fish.


24 posted on 02/17/2022 5:23:04 AM PST by jz638
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To: Kriggerel
If you can protest peacefully, you have freedom.
If the government labels you a nazi or terrorist, you do not have freedom.

25 posted on 02/17/2022 5:26:49 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Jewbacca

Probably, but I don’t know for sure.


26 posted on 02/17/2022 5:30:55 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Kriggerel

That so called journalist is a propagandist, period. His words make me wretch.


27 posted on 02/17/2022 5:31:02 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: bankwalker

Yep, ‘nuff said!


28 posted on 02/17/2022 5:33:41 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: DeplorablePaul

I’m starting to become aware of baby Castro agitprop.


29 posted on 02/17/2022 5:38:02 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Kriggerel

So-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters don’t understand what ‘freedom’ means


Sure they do. Freedom for the PM to assume dictatorial powers. Freedom to declare the word ‘Freedom’ offensive. and so on.


30 posted on 02/17/2022 5:53:29 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Kriggerel

“freedom is conformity”


31 posted on 02/17/2022 5:57:07 AM PST by Skywise
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To: .30Carbine

When it does go down there will be no “live” streaming. Cell towers will be temporary shut down. Videos will have to be uploaded later.

Either way they don’t have the resources to remove these trucks. They’ll have to bring in the military with big Oshkosh 6x6 wreckers to move those rigs.


32 posted on 02/17/2022 6:08:17 AM PST by CodeJockey (Think for yourself. (While it's still legal))
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To: Kriggerel

The only flag I see them waving has a big red oak leaf on it. Is that the Confederate one or the swastika one?


33 posted on 02/17/2022 6:10:53 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Kriggerel
You would think an article claiming that swastikas and confederate flags are being bandied about would provide at least one picture that documents the claim, but here is the picture they offer up:

A protester, right, yells ‘freedom’ this past Monday in Ottawa toward a person who attempted to stick a paper sign on a truck criticizing the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy.’

I guess they know that their target audience does not need pictures. All they need is the accusations in order to get them riled up to react.

34 posted on 02/17/2022 6:18:48 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: ncalburt

Ethiopian.


35 posted on 02/17/2022 6:21:00 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Kriggerel

Mulugeta Dilnesahu has no idea what freedom means. in a free society, you may see things that you do not agree with, like a nazi flag.

as a journalist, he needs to investigate why a nazi flag was there at the freedom convoy, it was there to demonstrate what mandates lead to. i will try to help this journalist improve his game. it needs a lot of improving.


36 posted on 02/17/2022 6:21:00 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: cyclotic

Exactly.

Isn’t that about “context”? Which is something only commies can invoke.

BTW, so, are ALL (yeah, because it happens ALOT, along with the Fist of Peace) those commie sickle flags in context, calling the current regime commie? Or are they using it as THEIR representation? Hhhmmmm?


37 posted on 02/17/2022 6:23:50 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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To: CodeJockey

You are right in what you say. But first they will have to pull the truckers out of them. They have suffered so much already for all of us, for our freedom as well as their own.


38 posted on 02/17/2022 6:24:01 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Thanks - wrong guess this time.

Sentiment still applies - Africans would know all about freedom.


39 posted on 02/17/2022 6:25:13 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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To: Robert DeLong

Once again, another photo showing how raucous and bitter and violent the “right” is.

Standing around, smiling, sharing an observation or 2.

Yup, real dangerous threat.


40 posted on 02/17/2022 6:26:48 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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