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Today Canadian Federal Ministers Gathered From The Safety of Zoom To Denounce #TruckersForFreedom2022

Listen As They Call Them Racist, Violent Criminals...

Are They Watching The Same Videos I Am? Because I Haven't Seen Anything Even Close To That... pic.twitter.com/Vzlg6438PG

— Covid-1984 (@Orwells_Ghost_) February 7, 2022

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Don't forget us "fucking Yankees"

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Sounds like they want Rock-Concert quality guitar amps and speakers to have the fun now.
The noise will go from occasional to continuous.

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Dear wealthy city people that don't object when their choice politicians punch down at the serf class that they genuinely believe is beneath them,
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/144599/demjimmies_jpg-2270598.JPG

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JUST IN - Judge bans honking in downtown #Ottawa for at least 10 days.

Disclose.tv  (@disclosetv) February 7, 2022

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We are literally watching history in the making, folks. Unless something major happens, I don't see this ending civilly

Unstoppable force collides with immovable object.

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Chief of RCMP WAS ASKED IF THEY CAN SEIZE VEHICLES, now or a month from now after this is over.  

He said they are exploring all aspects of law and if they can pass legislation to make it possible.  

Insane. It is basically "Let's rob our citizens as they make us look like fools!"

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More like they need several of these guys driving around.

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/70832/_-_Copy_jpg-2270631.JPG

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Sadly I agree. The rhetoric we're hearing today will be used as justification for what the gov does tomorrow.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMA5aHfBUvc

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Chief of RCMP WAS ASKED IF THEY CAN SEIZE VEHICLES, now or a month from now after this is over.  

He said they are exploring all aspects of law and if they can pass legislation to make it possible.  

Insane. It is basically "Let's rob our citizens as they make us look like fools!"

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Watching the city council meeting.  So far it's basically been the council asking the police what they're going to do to end the protest and the LE guy is looking at them like a deer in headlights.

Its clear that they are completely overwhelmed by the scale of this protest and have no idea how to proceed.

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The part that really concerns me (that no one is openly discussing) is what happens after this is all over? How will these governments and law enforcement ever earn the trust and respect of its people again? What will it take?

1 year from now, just imagine being a Canadian LEO and using the bathroom at a truck stop. Imagine the daggers in those trucker's eyes. Their "leaders" and Law Enforcement have lost control, so they've doubled-down like children. Unwilling to listen or mediate a resolution.

This kind of behavior is breeding generations of distrustful citizens. The fact that no one in government is considering the long term effects of this is concerning.

Either A) They don't know, or B) They don't care. Which one is worse?

Scary times for sure

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The part that really concerns me (that no one is openly discussing) is what happens after this is all over? How will these governments and law enforcement ever earn the trust and respect of its people again? What does society look like in 5, 10, 15 years from now?

1 year from now, just imagine being a Canadian LEO and using the bathroom at a truck stop. Imagine the daggers in those trucker's eyes. Their "leaders" and Law Enforcement have lost control, so they've doubled-down like children. Unwilling to listen or mediate to a resolution.

This kind of behavior is breeding generations of distrustful citizens. The fact that no one in government is considering the long term effects of this is concerning.

Either A) They don't know, or B) They don't care. Which one is worse?

Scary times for sure

A night with the untouchables

I live in downtown Ottawa, right in the middle of the trucker convoy protest. They are literally camped out below my bedroom window. My new neighbours moved in on Friday and they seem determined to stay. I have read a lot about what my new neighbours are supposedly like, mostly from reporters and columnists who write from distant vantage points somewhere in the media heartland of Canada. Apparently the people who inhabit the patch of asphalt next to my bedroom are white supremacists, racists, hatemongers, pseudo-Trumpian grifters, and even QAnon-style nutters. I have a perfect view down Kent Street – the absolute ground zero of the convoy. In the morning, I see some protesters emerge from their trucks to stretch their legs, but mostly throughout the day they remain in their cabs honking their horns. At night I see small groups huddled in quiet conversations in their new found companionship. There is no honking at night. What I haven’t noticed, not even once, are reporters from any of Canada’s news agencies walking among the trucks to find out who these people are. So last night, I decided to do just that – I introduced myself to my new neighbours.
The Convoy on Kent Street. February 2, 2022.

At 10pm I started my walk along – and in – Kent Street. I felt nervous. Would these people shout at me? My clothes, my demeanour, even the way I walk screamed that I’m an outsider. All the trucks were aglow in the late evening mist, idling to maintain warmth, but all with ominously dark interiors. Standing in the middle of the convoy, I felt completely alone as though these giant monsters weren’t piloted by people but were instead autonomous transformer robots from some science fiction universe that had gone into recharging mode for the night. As I moved along I started to notice smatterings of people grouped together between the cabs sharing cigarettes or enjoying light laughs. I kept quiet and moved on. Nearby, I spotted a heavy duty pickup truck, and seeing the silhouette of a person in the driver’s seat, I waved. A young man, probably in his mid 20s, rolled down the window, said hello and I introduced myself. His girlfriend was reclined against the passenger side door with a pillow to proper her up as she watched a movie on her phone. I could easily tell it’s been an uncomfortable few nights. I asked how they felt and I told them I lived across the street. Immediate surprise washed over the young man’s face. He said, “You must hate us. But no one honks past 6pm!” That’s true. As someone who lives right on top of the convoy, there is no noise at night. I said, “No, I don’t hate anyone, but I wanted to find out about you.” The two were from Sudbury Ontario, having arrived on Friday with the bulk of the truckers. I ask what they hoped to achieve, and what they wanted. The young woman in the passenger seat moved forward, excited to share. They said that they didn’t want a country that forced people to get medical treatments such as vaccines. There was no hint of conspiracy theories in their conversation with me, not a hint of racist overtones or hateful demagoguery. I didn’t ask them if they had taken the vaccine, but they were adamant that they were not anti-vaxers.

The next man I ran into was standing in front of the big trucks at the head of the intersection. Past middle age and slightly rotund, he had a face that suggests a lifetime of working outdoors. I introduced myself and he told me we was from Cochrane, Ontario. He also proudly pointed out that he was the block captain who helped maintain order. I thought, oh no, he might be the one person keeping a lid on things; is it all that precarious? I delicately asked how hard his job was to keep the peace but I quickly learned that’s not really what he did. He organized the garbage collection among the cabs, put together snow removal crews to shovel the sidewalks and clear the snow that accumulates on the road. He even has a salting crew for the sidewalks. He proudly bellowed in an irrepressible laugh “We’re taking care of the roads and sidewalks better than the city.” I waved goodbye and continued to the next block.

My next encounter was with a man dressed in dark blue shop-floor coveralls. A wiry man of upper middle age, he seemed taciturn and stood a bit separated from the small crowd that formed behind his cab for a late night smoke. He hailed from the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. He owned his own rig, but he only drove truck occasionally, his main job being a self-employed heavy duty mechanic. He closed his shop to drive to Ottawa, because he said, “I don’t want my new granddaughter to live in a country that would strip the livelihood from someone for not getting vaccinated.” He introduced me to the group beside us. A younger crowd, I can remember their bearded faces, from Athabasca, Alberta, and Swift Current Saskatchewan. The weather had warmed, and it began to rain slightly, but they too were excited to tell me why they came to Ottawa. They felt that they needed to stand up to a government that doesn’t understand what their lives are like. To be honest, I don’t know what their lives are like either – a group of young men who work outside all day with tools that they don’t even own. Vaccine mandates are a bridge too far for them. But again, not a hint of anti-vax conspiracy theories or deranged ideology.

I made my way back through the trucks, my next stop leading me to a man of East Indian descent in conversation with a young man from Sylvan Lake, Alberta. They told me how they were following the news of O’Toole’s departure from the Conservative leadership and that they didn’t like how in government so much power has pooled into so few hands.

The rain began to get harder; I moved quickly through the intersection to the next block. This time I waved at a driver in one of the big rigs. Through the rain it was hard to see him, but he introduced himself, an older man, he had driven up from New Brunswick to lend his support. Just behind him some young men from Gaspésie, Quebec introduced themselves to me in their best English. At that time people started to notice me – this man from Ottawa who lives across the street – just having honest conversations with the convoy. Many felt a deep sense of abuse by a powerful government and that no one thinks they matter.

Behind the crowd from Gaspésie sat a stretch van, the kind you often see associated with industrial cleaners. I could see the shadow of a man leaning out from the back as he placed a small charcoal BBQ on the sidewalk next to his vehicle. He introduced himself and told me he was from one of the reservations on Manitoulin Island. Here I was in conversation with an Indigenous man who was fiercely proud to be part of the convoy. He showed me his medicine wheel and he pointed to its colours, red, black, white, and yellow. He said there is a message of healing in there for all the human races, that we can come together because we are all human. He said, “If you ever find yourself on Manitoulin Island, come to my reserve, I would love to show you my community.” I realized that I was witnessing something profound; I don’t know how to fully express it.

As the night wore on and the rain turned to snow, those conversations repeated themselves. The man from Newfoundland with his bullmastiff, a young couple from British Columbia, the group from Winnipeg that together form what they call “Manitoba Corner ” all of them with similar stories. At Manitoba Corner a boisterous heavily tattooed man spoke to me from the cab of his dually pickup truck – a man who had a look that would have fit right in on the set of some motorcycle movie – pointed out that there are no symbols of hate in the convoy. He said, “Yes there was some clown with a Nazi flag on the weekend, and we don’t know where he’s from, but I’ll tell you what, if we see anyone with a Nazi flag or a Confederate flag, we’ll kick his fucking teeth in. No one’s a Nazi here.” Manitoba Corner all gave a shout out to that.

As I finally made my way back home, after talking to dozens of truckers into the night, I realized I met someone from every province except PEI. They all have a deep love for this country. They believe in it. They believe in Canadians. These are the people that Canada relies on to build its infrastructure, deliver its goods, and fill the ranks of its military in times of war. The overwhelming concern they have is that the vaccine mandates are creating an untouchable class of Canadians. They didn’t make high-falutin arguments from Plato’s Republic, Locke’s treatises, or Bagehot’s interpretation of Westminster parliamentary systems. Instead, they see their government willing to push a class of people outside the boundaries of society, deny them a livelihood, and deny them full membership in the most welcoming country in the world; and they said enough. Last night I learned my new neighbours are not a monstrous faceless occupying mob. They are our moral conscience reminding us – with every blow of their horns – what we should have never forgotten: We are not a country that makes an untouchable class out of our citizens.

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Option C: they didn't think about that, and they're going to pay for it.

Loss of trust in society carries with it it's own punishments.

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Chief of RCMP WAS ASKED IF THEY CAN SEIZE VEHICLES, now or a month from now after this is over.  

He said they are exploring all aspects of law and if they can pass legislation to make it possible.  

Insane. It is basically "Let's rob our citizens as they make us look like fools!"

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Thread needs more hope.

Here:
https://maybury.ca/the-reformed-physicist/2022/02/03/a-night-with-the-untouchables/


Don't punk out and TL DR. Juice is worth the squeeze.

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They witnessed the inherent violence of the bounce house system.

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Thread needs more hope.

Here:
https://maybury.ca/the-reformed-physicist/2022/02/03/a-night-with-the-untouchables/


Don't punk out and TL DR. Juice is worth the squeeze.

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They are talking about towing, arresting people for delivering fuel and disrupting the crowd funding.

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I don't care if it's North Korea.  What the Canadian gov is proposing to do is wrong.  It's wrong here.  It's wrong in Canada.  It's wrong in North Korea.  It's wrong on the moon.

What they are proposing to do is wrong.  They are the villains in this story regardless of what they say or think.

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Now a bill to charge the occupying force organizers to pay the $800,000 per day police costs!

Unreal!  Let's get all their donations that they get, and more!  Make em pay!

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Now a bill to charge the occupying force organizers to pay the $800,000 per day police costs!

Unreal!  Let's get all their donations that they get, and more!  Make em pay!

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Now a bill to charge the occupying force organizers to pay the $800,000 per day police costs!

Unreal!  Let's get all their donations that they get, and more!  Make em pay!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMA5aHfBUvc

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The Ottawa Police, who became aware of the "attempted mass murder by arson attack" from Twitter, has released photos of the persons of interest. The alleged #FreedomConvoy truckers include a person with purple hair & another with a covid mask. Help ID them

Arson investigation: We are asking for help to identify two individuals as persons of interest in an arson investigation.

The incident occurred in the early morning hours of Feb. 6 at a building in the 200 block of Lisgar St. @CrimeStoppersOT https://t.co/Cd84K1g2sq pic.twitter.com/OW6H1LeW5K

Ottawa Police  (@OttawaPolice) February 7, 2022