Posted on 02/20/2022 5:19:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
OTTAWA—As police in Ottawa escalated operations for the second day in a row against the trucker protest opposed to the government’s COVID-19 mandates, a spokesperson for the movement, dubbed the “Freedom Convoy,” called for a peaceful withdrawal, saying they are not going to be a “punching bag for law enforcement.”
Speaking at a press conference at the Lord Elgin Hotel in downtown Ottawa on Feb. 19, retired Canadian military officer Tom Marazzo said many truckers feel that the best course of action for them and their families is to withdraw in order to avoid further harm.
“As a movement, we have chosen to peacefully withdraw from the streets of Ottawa. There is nothing to be gained by being brutalized by police,” Marazzo said.
Police began escalating their operation against the protesters in Ottawa on Feb. 18, announcing mid-morning Feb. 20 that they have thus far made 191 arrests and had 57 vehicles towed away. Mounted police and officers on foot advanced on demonstrators, with horses knocking down protesters in some instances.
Some police officers were heavily armed, including with assault rifles and what appeared to be rubber bullet launchers. Some wielded batons and pepper spray, while some smashed truck windows to remove truckers from their vehicles.
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They won. Trudeau went full fascist on them. Brown shirts are giving this man a thumbs up everywhere.
The government has infinite resources and can declare any act illegal. It can and does lie to justify its actions.
How does one resist that?
Lexington.
You shrug.
That is what they need to do.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4039954/posts?page=21#21
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I’ve always admired Ghandi and ML King’s non-violent tactics. They work very well within moral, Christian and democratic societies
The success of such tactics is less obvious when you don’t have the above conditions.
OTTAWA—As police in Ottawa escalated operations for the second day in a row against the trucker protest opposed to the government’s COVID-19 mandates, a spokesperson for the movement, dubbed the “Freedom Convoy,” called for a peaceful withdrawal, saying they are not going to be a “punching bag for law enforcement.”
2 weeks to flatten the curve to this... Nazi acts of terrorism!
Mounted police trample peaceful protesters in Ottawa.
https://twitter.com/RealCamHigby/status/1494818251490185219
https://www.americanthinker.com/images/bucket/2022-02/236047_5_.jpg
Will the FReeper who was beaten up for suggesting this course of action now get an apology?
Sergeant Preston is dead.
Yep, go Galt. With perhaps a dose of Edward Abbey thrown in.
They are still going after the truckers and participants’ accounts, licenses and everything else.
See: Jan 6
Someone should photoshop the Nazis to wearing mountir uniforms.
“”They are still going after the truckers and participants’ accounts, licenses and everything else.””
This is what they need to do.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4039954/posts?page=21#21
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Mountie
Compelling.
Concord
Sadly, it is one of those things I will not be seeing as I decline the the tyranny tour of Canada, Australia and New Zeeland. So sad to see how a great civilization has fallen. 
The Canadian authorities (the canuckleheads) needs a spell of this to get them in the right frame of mind.
“And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver” (2 Kings 6:24-25).
Only change “Benhadad king of Syria” with “truck drivers.”
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