If they are blocking traffic, they are breaking the law. I assume, I don’t know anything about Canadian laws. Peaceful protest does not mean you get to rob someone else of their rights, just like when Antifa/BLM did it. I think what these guys are doing is outstanding, but we have to be consistent. I think these drivers should disperse and refuse to drive or deliver goods until the mandate is lifted. As groceries and necessities get tight, all of the people will turn on the government.
If the trucks run out of gas they won’t leave and the tow trucks won’t come.
The truckers will bear the blame when things get tight because they refuse to deliver goods, not the government.
“Peaceful protest does not mean you get to rob someone else of their rights...”
Like personal medical decisions?
Ability to earn a living?
Sic semper tyrannis
I think these drivers should disperse and refuse to drive or deliver goods until the mandate is lifted. As groceries and necessities get tight, all of the people will turn on the government.
Protests always inconvenience other people and may well "rob" or more accurately limit someone else's rights temporarily. Every parade temporarily limits someone's right to drive on a particular street.
But robbing the entire society of much more fundamental rights is what the Canadian government, and our government has been doing under the pretext of COVID-19 being an emergency that expands the power of the government dramatically.
There is simply no comparison in terms of the loss of rights between forced vaccination, the inability to enter restaurants without proof of vaccination, the inability to work without complying with dictates and executive orders not approved by legislatures, and simply being inconvenienced when drivine around downtown Ottawa.
Nope, backing down is losing.
They are blocking certain streets but not main routes. People and em vehicles are able to move around without blockades.
Nope, backing down is losing.
I think what these guys are doing is outstanding, but we have to be consistent.
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They are doing rolling slowdowns near a border crossing in Alberta.
Legal but a major headache for (compromised) authorities.
But there is this thing called civil disobedience. Most don’t fault MLK for engaging in it. He wrote others from jail. As did Paul the Apostle.
Peter passed unmolested straight out of jail.
Saint Nicholas was miraculously re-presented with his Bishop’s stole and bible while cooling his heels in jail after decking Arius.
To every thing (and place) there is a season.
What rights are the truckers depriving anyone of, as opposed to the rights of ALL citizens in Canada by the government?
And the truckers don't have rights?
The problem with that kind of thinking that you can't deprive people of their rights, is that you are then depriving the people whose actions you are forbidding of THEIR rights.
The truckers have the right to protest, and by demanding they stop in the name of not depriving people of their rights, does by default deprive the truckers of their rights.
Now what?
The problem with libertarinanism is that in the name of *I can do what I want because I have rights* is that at some point, those *rights* conflict with others *rights*, and then what? Not all parties in a situation can always all have their rights all at the same time.
If you're not a citizen of Canada, or don't live there. What you think doesn't matter.
The same grounds the mayor of L.A. could use to have everyone on the 405, I5, I10 or 101 on any Friday at 5:30 PM arrested.
As for those who think its OK to block streets when "our" side does it, but opposes it when "their" side does it, well what can you say, this place gets more pathetic each year.
Civil disobedience involves breaking the law by definition. When “peaceful protest” fails, civil disobedience is the only step left before people resort to violence.
So maybe consider that before you condemn people who break some traffic and noise ordinances and make life inconvenient for the Ottawans.