Freedom Convoy protests [Split from All things 2019-nCoV]

[FJAG]

So can someone answer me this: what do you do with your firearms when you go away somewhere? I mean, would it be a legit fear to have the cops come after you if you were robbed while sunning in Cabo?

Not to derail this thread but has anyone noticed this article from Sunday.

Crime News | The Peterborough Examiner

Read the latest crime news stories from Peterborough and the surrounding area.

www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com

Peterborough is just down the road from Savage Arms in Lakefield. When their production is humming 2,000 firearms can be about three or four days of production so quite a few trucks full of firearms go out of there.

 

[Remius]

I will agree that they should have scaled back on the honking in residential areas early on. The majority of people in that area work for the beast or feed it. So I get the reason why the truckers had limited sympathy for them. The faux feeling for the homeless is a lovely touch of propaganda and I am sure the residents feeling of frustrations with the homeless will return as soon as their "suffering" is no longer useful.

The faux feeling for the small percentage of truckers is a lovely touch of propaganda and I am sure the feeling of apathy about them will return as soon as their "suffering" is no longer useful.

That statement you made is very true on all sides. Just insert whatever cause and victims and run with it.

 

[Remius]

Several protest trucks moving out of downtown Ottawa as PM invokes Emergencies Act

The mayor of Ottawa said some progress is being made in efforts to reduce the size of the trucker convoy protests, with 'several trucks' leaving the city’s downtown core as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with the demonstrations and blockades across Canada.

www.ctvnews.ca

This little side deal has been one big confusing mess.

 

[Spencer100]

What's the over/under on suspending Habeas Corpus? at 4:30?

 

[PMedMoe]

I'm not against lifting mandates gradually. For instance, QR codes and capacity limits should be lifted immediately. Masking should still be in place to a degree (think crowded transit, LTRs, etc).

I would have also supported the truckers' protest (somewhat) if it had only been just that.

But this hasn't been about truckers or mandates since the original crowdfunding started (or even before that).

 

[mariomike]

But this hasn't been about truckers or mandates since the original crowdfunding started (or even before that).

What is it about? Freedom?

 

[PMedMoe]

What is it about? Freedom?

Yeah, no.

 

[Furniture]

What is it about? Freedom?

I'm sure you could google search it...

 

[mariomike]

But this hasn't been about truckers or mandates since the original crowdfunding started (or even before that).

What is it about? Freedom?

Yeah, no.

If it is not "about truckers or mandates" or freedom.

At least that tells us what it is NOT about.

 

[Jarnhamar]

What is it about? Freedom?

Opposition of pressured vaccinations
Opposition of vaccine mandates
Anger towards the government because:
-they were voted in contrary to the popular vote
-their handling of Covid
-their vilifying Canadians and attacking anyone with opposing views
-back and forth contradictory rules
-<insert cause here>
Opportunists like right-wing extremists using it to push their views and agenda
An ambiguous feeling of lack of freedom by citizens and a way for them to express it
People who are bored

 

[Remius]

Opposition of pressured vaccinations
Opposition of vaccine mandates
Anger towards the government because:
-they were voted in contrary to the popular vote
-their handling of Covid
-their vilifying Canadians and attacking anyone with opposing views
-back and forth contradictory rules
-<insert cause here>
Opportunists like right-wing extremists using it to push their views and agenda
An ambiguous feeling of lack of freedom by citizens and a way for them to express it
People who are bored

That’s good list.

 

[PMedMoe]

Opposition of pressured vaccinations
Opposition of vaccine mandates
Anger towards the government because:
-they were voted in contrary to the popular vote
-their handling of Covid
-their vilifying Canadians and attacking anyone with opposing views
-back and forth contradictory rules
-<insert cause here>
Opportunists like right-wing extremists using it to push their views and agenda <---- this one could be what it is mostly about
An ambiguous feeling of lack of freedom by citizens and a way for them to express it
People who are bored

That. And then some.

 

[mariomike]

Whatever it is about, I was told to Google it. So I did.

Not much support, according to the Angus Reid Institute today,

One-quarter say the strategy of the protesters is something they support (27%), while seven-in-ten (70%) disagree:

 

[Kilted]

I suppose the emergencies act could be used to force tow trucks to remove trucks.

 

[Remius]

Removed

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The faux feeling for the small percentage of truckers is a lovely touch of propaganda and I am sure the feeling of apathy about them will return as soon as their "suffering" is no longer useful.

That statement you made is very true on all sides. Just insert whatever cause and victims and run with it.

All those people on the roads cheering them where just holograms?

 

[Remius]

I suppose the emergencies act could be used to force tow trucks to remove trucks.

What would happen if they refused? I saw something to that effect but don’t know how something like that would even work.

 

[mariomike]

Apparently a lot of US support.

Best not go there.

 

[Remius]

Best not go there.

Removed

 

[Kilted]

What would happen if they refused? I saw something to that effect but don’t know how something like that would even work.

They get severe fines and/or go to jail. It's the same mechanism that would be used to introduce conscription. If it had been used at the start of covid, it could have forced PSW's back on the job and forced other health care workers out of retirement.