Posted on 02/12/2022 3:35:54 AM PST by canuck_conservative
Freedom Convoy 2022, for all its warts, brought discussion of these issues into the Public, so we owe them that
and we need more rationality in the discussion, less fear and panic
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
Well they’re going to bring this round of covid restrictions down as Biden can claim the great fixer of covid in the upcoming mid-terms.
12 Feb: Yahoo: AFP: Paris police clamp down on Canada-style ‘freedom convoy’
A French “freedom convoy” of cars and vans began arriving in Paris on Saturday for a protest over coronavirus restrictions, but the police moved quickly to prevent a Canadian-style blockade of the capital by issuing hundreds of fines...
Several hundred vehicles, mostly vans, mobile-homes and cars, converged on the main ring road around the city after spending the night camped on the outskirts of the capital.
But the police acted quickly, issuing 283 fines for “participation in an unauthorised protest” by mid-morning...
Nearly 7,200 officers have been deployed to prevent a blockade, with the Champs-Elysees avenue, which was the epicentre of the “Yellow Vest” protests, under particularly heavy guard...
Gendarmerie armoured vehicles have also been deployed in the streets of the capital for the first time since the “Yellow Vest” protests.
Prime Minister Jean Castex vowed to remain steadfast.
“If they block traffic or if they try to block the capital, we must be very firm about this,” he told France 2 television...
The order prohibiting the assembly of convoys was upheld on Friday by the courts, which rejected two appeals...
https://news.yahoo.com/paris-deploys-police-protest-convoy-050949395.html
12 Feb: Reuters: Police stop 500 vehicles heading to Paris in COVID protest convoy
The vehicles were intercepted at various entry points into the French capital and nearly 300 tickets handed out to their occupants by mid morning, police said on Twitter...
A police motorcycle patrol stopped two camper vans and a truck from the convoy that had made it as far as the prestigious Champs Elysees avenue in central Paris.
Separately police also said they had arrested two protesters in southern Paris in possession of petrol cans, hammers and knives...
Police have allowed two street marches by anti-vaccine and yellow vest demonstrators to go ahead in Paris on Saturday afternoon.
https://bdnews24.com/world/2022/02/12/police-stop-500-vehicles-heading-to-paris-in-covid-protest-convoy
“We have destroyed enough - and proved to ourselves that we can do it. Thank you for your participation.”
Clearly, the polling changed so the leftist information warfare machine goes on the offensive to get those same useful idiot voters to vote for leftist, criminal politicians....again.
Welcome to the totaltarian country of france.
Freedom Convoy has changed Canada and the world.
It was govt practicing control over mass populations. In a few years lots of people are going to be automated and out sourced from their livelihoods. There’s going to be a lot of unhappy, poor people with nothing better to do than to complain.
This - this in the National Post?
This is Yuge.
What a pivot!
“Working remotely” has certainly accelerated the means to move many jobs to low-cost, low-standard-of-living countries; over the past couple of years I’ve watched a lot of financial sector work for big banks go from the US to India.
For those of us perhaps unfamiliar, what level of influence does the NP generally have in Canada?
Just wait when the war on climate change begins
NP is a “national paper” (like USA Today), meaning it’s printed in every major Canadian city.
They’re one of the Media voices, not the only one, but at least someone is putting forth well-reasoned arguments for rolling back the restrictions
Up till now, no media outlet has dared to even question any orders issued by “the health experts” ... that’s starting to change, and that’s an important step
but the broadcast media (radio, TV) continue to be unthinking slaves to whatever FedGov says, asking no questions ... the opposite of “journalism”
NP is a “national paper” (like USA Today), meaning it’s printed in every major Canadian city.
They’re one of the Media voices, not the only one, but at least someone is putting forth well-reasoned arguments for rolling back the restrictions
Up till now, no media outlet has dared to even question any orders issued by “the health experts” ... that’s starting to change, and that’s an important step
but the broadcast media (radio, TV) continue to be unthinking slaves to whatever FedGov says, asking no questions ... the opposite of “journalism”
TheNP should grow a pair and call for Trudeau to resign.
Thanks for that .. it does seem like the totalitarian dam is beginning to weaken.
Did you ever imagine that Solidarność II would happen in Canada?!
What’s happening is truly historic, and the world owes a debt of gratitude to all the folks up there making it happen.
I think corporations and the govt are working together against our interest. They are “partners”. They both push commie propaganda and measures to shape public opinion and censor the citizens if it isn’t the right opinion. Their grip is getting tighter and more militaristic all the time. They have to control all of those pissed off people with nothing to do somehow.
Absolutely; they’ve also conspired to cap our standard of living. ObamaCare was an egregious example (the government forcing us to buy a private-sector product whether we wanted it or not); the “vaccine mandates” are another (even mask mandates; we have to buy face coverings somewhere). We’ve made members of the government very wealthy as they deal in insider trading.
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