The Suicide Trucker Convoy: 'Freedom Convoy' In Canada Wants To Spread Anigov, Antisocial Msgs.

[appalachiablue]

- Hundreds of truck drivers and their supporters block the streets of downtown Ottawa as part of a convoy of protesters against COVID-19 mandates in Canada on Feb. 9, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario.
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- John Feffer, Common Dreams, Feb. 18, 2022. Ed. - The "Freedom Convoy" in Canada wants to spread its anti-government, antisocial, and ultimately self-defeating messages far and wide. -

Once upon a time there were three people in a boat, out in the middle of the sea. It was a beautiful day, and the sea was calm. Two of the people were fishing contentedly. "What are you doing?!" the other two exclaimed in horror. "It's none of your business," the third person replied, continuing to drill. "I'm making the hole underneath my own seat." It is a fundamental American principle that all citizens have the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's an easy enough principle to uphold if all of us are sitting in our own boats far enough away from everyone else so that our fishing lines don't get tangled together.

If we're stupid enough or sufficiently self-destructive to sink our own boats, so be it. The only person to suffer is the wielder of the drill. Hermits, a few lonely survivalists, & those unfortunate enough to be locked in solitary confinement might be able to make the case that their actions affect only themselves. The rest of us, however, are all in the same boat, and that boat is called "society." To live together in this boat, we have to obey certain rules. And one of those is to leave our drills at home in the interests of public health. The latest incarnation of the suicidal driller is the Canadian trucker who not only refuses to get vaccinated for his or her own good as well as the good of everyone else but has also decided to hold the entire city of Ottawa hostage & block traffic & trade at border crossings between the U.S. & Canada.

The "Freedom Convoy" began at the end of last month with a small number of Canadian truckers protesting a requirement to be vaccinated to transport goods across the border into the U.S. The Canadian government has mandated that federal employees & workers in key sectors (law enforcement, health care) be vaccinated against COVID. Truckers in general are not required to be vaccinated. But if they want to cross the border with the U.S., they need to get jabbed. That's not only the Canadian law, it's the law in the U.S., too. Both laws seem eminently reasonable. Judging by the bad behavior of some of the protesters in Ottawa- breaking traffic laws, blaring their horns & spewing diesel at all hours, demanding food from homeless shelters, harassing the masked-

- these are exactly the type of folks you'd expect to drive across the border with a cough and a stuffy nose and infect everyone at a truck stop all the while proclaiming that "it's none of your business what I do."

.. Let's be clear: these protesters are a minority. Most Canadian truckers- upwards of 90%- are vaccinated. Further, the protests are not popular among Canadians: 65% of those polled view the truckers as representing a small minority of the selfish. Further, the protests are truly quixotic, for they have persisted even as Ottawa has begun to loosen vaccine restrictions with the receding of the omicron wave. As for the "evil" vaccine mandates that the truckers oppose, they worked. They contributed to "lifting Canada's vaccination rate to one of the highest in the world, protecting vulnerable sectors of society such as hospitals and long-term care & helping us achieve one of the lowest rates of death in the developed world," reports Adam Miller at CBC.

Who can argue with success? Apparently, some can… - Canadian Responses...

More, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/18/suicide-trucker-convoy

[ymetca]

1. I found this article on the subject interesting

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/02/16/news/meet-some-wealthy-canadians-who-donated-trucker-convoy

The gist? To avoid taxes, the rich give us death.

Apparently we're all "crisis actors" now, whether we enlisted or not.

[appalachiablue]

4. Impt. article, tx. Oligarchs at work:

- 'Meet some of the wealthy Canadians who donated to the trucker convoy.' Canada, National Observer, 2.16.22,

The anti-mandate protesters who have shut down international borders and occupied Ottawa since Jan. 29 style themselves as a working-class, blue-collar movement rallying against elites and moneyed global interests. But recent data leaked from a fundraising campaign in support of the protests tells a different story.

On Sunday evening, unidentified hackers took over the Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo, which hosted a fundraising campaign for the so-called “freedom convoy” protests after GoFundMe cancelled a similar campaign in response to reports of violence.

The hackers, whose identity Canada’s National Observer has not confirmed, released what appears to be a list of more than 92,000 donors to the GiveSendGo campaign, which had by Sunday reached roughly US$8.4 million. In many cases, the data includes names, postal codes, amounts given and email addresses...

[Enter stage left]

2. I'll gladly supply all the boats and drills they want...

If the demonstrators will only go out together and never take the rational, sane people on the boat with them.

[appalachiablue]

5. Great idea and so manly.. they'll go for it! Lol

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Good editorial. . . .nt

[appalachiablue]

6. He captures it well, a very good writer

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. For the bajillionth time, it's not about vaccines, and it's not about "freedom"

Even though many of the useful idiots participating still think so.

The organizers’ purpose in promoting this insurrection was to see how difficult/easy it would be to destabilize Canada’s democracy.

And now they know…

[appalachiablue]

8. With you. ANTIDEM needs highlighting, asap