Jails will be brimming over with “perps” whose “crime” is bring a jerry can of petrol or a sandwich to a trucker. Good luck with that. Will there be singalongs in lockup? I’d like to see the judge’s face at arraignment next morning.
That is an astute observation.
The government is obviously trying to intimidate the people who are supplying the truckers by threatening them with arrest. They are banking on the fact that the supporters will become frightened at the prospect (of arrest) and go home.
However, if thousands of people continue to show up with fuel and sandwiches and not fear a night in jail, there will simply not be enough jail space to house them all. Outside of a Tiananmen Square type massacre, the people have the power here and will prevail if they have the fortitude to go to jail for their beliefs.
This kind of civil disobedience is what drove the civil rights movement. If people were afraid to go to jail and so stayed in the back of the bus (so to speak), nothing would have changed back then.
Well, look what they did when people tried to bring Terry Shiavo some water.
Ned Kelly