Imagine an industry so imaginatively and morally bankrupt that it would take government money (read: taxpayer money) and characterise a popular movement fuelled by understandable discontent as anti-social and the handful of willfully blind counter-agents as "resistance".
Imagine no more:
The mayor of utopian Seattle, during an outbreak of pure lawlessness, put the capstone on the folly by describing it as the beginning of “a summer of love.” A statement—let me coin a word—of such “dim-wititude” that it should be inscribed on granite and put outside the municipal offices under a bust of the mayor. Elsewhere in so many other cities there were nightly rampages, attempts to burn down police buildings, “occupations,” vast destruction of property, and mass looting. The works. ...
Here in Canada, we have had (as I am writing) six days of protest, in one city, and the dynamic is almost perfectly opposite. The protest has been actually not “mainly” but overwhelmingly peaceful, and the political and major press response, wildly alarmist and ominous.
Ottawa shops remain with their windows intact, no assaults on police stations or police being bombarded with sticks and stones, no “armed patrols” by the truckers telling people where they could go or not go, and a splendid number of rather endearing incidents that have failed to make it to national or local press.
Indeed:
A little kid gave a Freedom Convoy trucker a picture he coloured and was then invited to honk the truck’s horn.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 3, 2022
Footage by @PuffinsPictures pic.twitter.com/u7XU606BcB
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The Freedom Convoy blockade at Parliament yesterday completed its sixth day amid MPs’ claims lawless truckers were attacking passersby on the streets of Ottawa. Preliminary data show police-reported street crime actually fell since the blockade began: “There have been no riots, injuries or deaths.”
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The CBC yesterday clarified its claim the Kremlin was behind a Freedom Convoy truckers’ protest at Parliament Hill. The assertion was not factual, the Crown broadcaster said: “There is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, or perhaps even instigating it.”
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Protests over Canada’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for truckers have spread from Ottawa to Toronto and Quebec city in what police officials have described as “a nationwide insurrection”.
Thousands turned out to support the Freedom Convoy on Saturday, with Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly reporting that around 7,000 protesters and 1,000 vehicles had descended on the streets of the nation’s capital alone.
Some demonstrators rode through the city on horseback, with one rider seen waving a “Trump 2024” flag in videos and photos posted on Twitter.
The huge crowd was met by around 300 counterprotesters, with police warning that - even with all officers on duty and hundreds of other officers drafted in to help - they do not have enough manpower to close the blockade down.
But I was told that this was a "fringe minority".
Could Justin have been lying this whole time?
Hhhmmm ....
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For the second consecutive weekend, protesters opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic-related restrictions took to the streets of Metro Vancouver.
Unlike last weekend, however, the convoy met organized resistance in the City of Vancouver.
Those who hold leashes are definitely no better:
RCMP is disputing claims made by Premier Jason Kenney that their officers have been assaulted by truckers blockading the Coutts border crossing in southern Alberta.
“I am not aware of any assault on any of our officers,” RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters told the Western Standard.
“I can confirm there was a number of vehicles that breached our barricade north of the blockade. The vehicles drove in fields and in the divide between the highways and ended up travelling southbound in the northbound lanes causing a head-on collision.”
Peters said the vehicles were travelling “fast and dangerously” causing RCMP officers to have to react quickly to avoid the vehicles.
Yes, about that:
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And they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.
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