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‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters stay on bridge all night; police crackdown never happens
Fox News ^ | 2/12/22 | Emily Zanotti

Posted on 02/12/2022 6:31:54 AM PST by conservative98

Truckers protesting vaccine mandates in Canada remained defiant overnight Friday in the face of a court order and an emergency declaration telling them to leave the Ambassador Bride connecting Ontario to Michigan.

Around 100 protesters remained early Saturday after law enforcement failed to take action, according to CBC News.

"Do you think I care? Do you think I care about a fine?" one protester said. "I'm going to pay a fine? No. You think I care about their mandates? No. This needs to end."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: ambassadorbridge; canada; convoy; freedomconvoy; justintrudeau; ontario; ottawa; protest; windsor
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To: tomkat

Maybe we are not about to repeat history and the police did their duty by disobeying an immoral order.


61 posted on 02/12/2022 7:08:38 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: dforest

THANK YOU! :)


62 posted on 02/12/2022 7:08:55 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: The Louiswu; bankwalker

Some people want open borders just as BA.2 starts to take over the planet. Get rid of the last of the patriots.

Take a look at how covid 19 is spreading:

First cases: late 2019
100 million cases: a little over a year later
200 million: 7 months after that
300 million: 6 months after that
400 million: 1 month after that (Feb. 8, 2022)

Why are we hearing nothing about BA.2 anymore except in obscure articles about Norway? Yet it is taking over countries where it gets a foothold.


63 posted on 02/12/2022 7:12:44 AM PST by firebrand
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To: conservative98

My dream scenario:

After a lengthy standoff, threats of arrest and confiscation finally result in the Canadian truckers retreating to regroup and fight again elsewhere.

The left cheers as a long pent up line of American trucks begins to rumble northward across the bridge. The first trucks reach the crest of the bridge...and stop.


64 posted on 02/12/2022 7:13:52 AM PST by keat
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To: firebrand

What are you saying? Are you saying BA.2 is even worser and meant to get rid of “the last of the patriots”?


65 posted on 02/12/2022 7:15:43 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: joma89

“Maybe we are not about to repeat history and the police did their duty by disobeying an immoral order.”

Nope, They are absolute cowards and have turned into the KGB. Looks like they would now arrest their own Mother without cause if they were told to.


66 posted on 02/12/2022 7:17:06 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: firebrand

cases? LOL!


67 posted on 02/12/2022 7:21:53 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: RoseofTexas

The Canadian military has already said that they will NOT get involved in what is essentially a domestic police matter.


68 posted on 02/12/2022 7:22:41 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Tolk2112

Perfect.


69 posted on 02/12/2022 7:28:45 AM PST by null and void (TV shows and ads, you think they call it ‘programming’ by accident?)
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To: firebrand
"The truckers are falling right into the trap."

No. They need to see it through, they cannot give up now. If the government arrests them with police-state theatrics then the government loses god will and gives the truckers the justification to start a general strike and then the government will be forced to capitulate or start a revolution. Pissing off the very class of people who are logistically critical for a revolution is madness. Even the railroad workers might get in on it.

Trudeau, being the elite snake that he is, has pissed off too many of the wrong people.

70 posted on 02/12/2022 7:29:21 AM PST by WMarshal ("No war for communism"I doubt they're smart enough to make the connection)
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To: conservative98
best news I could've woken up to this morning!

Liberte' Go Canadian Truckers!

71 posted on 02/12/2022 7:30:42 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: conservative98

if the truckers are dragged off in cuffs their support will grow

trudeau is trucked


72 posted on 02/12/2022 7:31:00 AM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: petitfour; RoseofTexas; null and void; Leaning Right

Strangely also, there are no reports about severity. Everyone saying, “Gee, we don’t know if it’s more severe. All we know is that it’s more contagious.”

Even if it isn’t more severe, plenty of people were hospitalized and plenty died from Omicron B.1, even though it was less severe than Delta.

And great numbers automatically mean more sickness and death, even if lesser cases mathematically.

But I’m suspicious more of the vanishing media coverage than I am about the fact that it’s growing so fast in places where it has started. It’s half of all cases in some countries.


73 posted on 02/12/2022 7:31:40 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Tolk2112

I think he misunderstood your wording and grammar.

It could go both ways in that context. Hopefully the truckers fail, or hopefully the police fail.


74 posted on 02/12/2022 7:31:55 AM PST by Celerity
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To: bankwalker
Yes, LOL. These are known cases. Lots of cases these days not reported.
75 posted on 02/12/2022 7:35:52 AM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

well, I guess it depends on the definition of ‘case’ ... LOL


76 posted on 02/12/2022 7:38:05 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

It could turn vicious!

Someone could throw a snowball and start WW3.

That would P.O. team Biden who thinks the Russians are going to invade Ukraine on Wednesday.


77 posted on 02/12/2022 7:39:43 AM PST by TomGuy (!)
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To: canuck_conservative; Tolk2112

I think he meant that the cops will “fail spectacularly” ?


78 posted on 02/12/2022 7:42:35 AM PST by tomkat
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To: WMarshal

The government will probably be forced to capitulate, and that will be the end of it for the time being.

But the incident itself, with all its massive publicity, will probably be a precedent for having no more controls at the borders in terms of covid. Or any other disease.

The philosophical disease spreaders will have won, not the truckers, regardless of how much disease they do or don’t spread in actuality.


79 posted on 02/12/2022 7:44:11 AM PST by firebrand
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To: bankwalker

It depends on reporting of cases. That’s the only data they have.


80 posted on 02/12/2022 7:45:53 AM PST by firebrand
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