The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are the federal police for Canada. As many local law enforcement communities have refused to move against their own citizens, the Canadian government is now deploying the RCMP against the Alberta trucker blockade.
The border crossing between Coutts, Alberta (CA) and Sweet Grass, Montana (USA) continues to be blocked as truckers allied against COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine passports are united. The Alberta protests are in support of the larger trucker protest taking place in Ottawa.
Tensions are increasing as the truckers are refusing to move, but the RCMP has vowed to get rid of the blockade. Supporters for the truckers are working through freezing temperatures to keep them supplied with food and fuel to keep the blockade in place. Even farm tractors have joined the effort.
The standoff continues as the RCMP have been reluctant to forcibly arrest the rather hardened and burly truckers. There is also a legal defense fund established to assist the truckers against any criminal charges. [SEE HERE]
Canadian state media, aka the CBC, are trying to frame the protesting truckers as villains and violent fringe extremists. However, after calling the essential working truckers heroes previously, the majority of the Canadian people, specifically the people in/around the Alberta province, are not buying the nonsense from the CBC as supported by the leftist government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
(Via CBC) – RCMP have approached a blockade of vehicles that has jammed traffic for days at a Canada-U.S. border crossing in Alberta after warning that those participating in the protest may be subject to arrest Tuesday afternoon.
[…] RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters confirmed to CBC News that enforcement has begun, although it is unclear what that will entail. (more)
Rebel News has journalists embedded with the trucker blockade in Alberta and has been tweeting about the standoff.
Truckers sing national anthem as they stand their ground. pic.twitter.com/xFCrZsljNe
— Kian Simone (@kiansimone44) February 1, 2022
The other end of the standoff. pic.twitter.com/6qPljHpp2S
— Kian Simone (@kiansimone44) February 1, 2022
RCMP RETREATS AS TRUCKERS MOVE FORWARD. pic.twitter.com/2pp4UEwlLY
— Kian Simone (@kiansimone44) February 1, 2022
https://twitter.com/beingrealmac/status/1488620973985353732
"FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!" these truckers are chanting in a massive crowd as they bravely await their fate. Trudeau's RCMP are on location and preparing to break up this peaceful protest. pic.twitter.com/AXFNRd0D1X
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) February 1, 2022
Will Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or provincial Alberta officials authorize the RCMP to violently remove the protesting truckers?
Perhaps. However, that could backfire as there is an endless supply of sand in the hands of blue collar Canadians to throw into the economic machinery.
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Her name is Candice Bergen
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Candice Bergen is correct hope they will listen to her as well as the voices of these courageous Canadians who are peacefully protesting. There is no reason to treat them with violence, only tyrants would respond to their citizens like that
Saul Alinsky would have told them to do that. But he never actually was anything but talk. 🤠
And your point is……? RCMP is threatening violence. Canadian Leaders are Tyrants! So, Yes, “East Canadian Stasi”.
Weak sauce. Later, they all had a good laugh at the cafeteria.
They should pay highly for this! Shameful!
Actually, that is a slippery slope we probably don’t want to travel.
I agree.
Post pics of Trudeau blackface EVERYWHERE in Canada
At ATMS, gas stations walls bumper stickers etc
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
It would appear that the so-called “fringe minority” is actually the government
10:54 AM · Jan 30, 2022
Much like the Biden “I did that” stickers at gas pumps and grocers empty shelves, all across the USA.
This is silly. This sh-ugar is why people have no faith and trust that their leaders will do anything meaningful while in office, other than pad their bank accounts.
The most important thing they can do now, is to keep doing what they are doing, but at home. Divvy up the GO FUND ME and go home. Park the truck and don’t get into it again until they halt all the COVID BS! Don’t let them January 6 you. Beat them at their game.
Nope.
agreed
It has crossed my mind they could all throw their keys in the snow not to be found until spring thaw. It would take until spring to find a way to remove all the trucks. Not a good idea, just a fun thought.
fun to think what we wished we could do but strictly business is the way to proceed
Chest out, eyes clear, firm resolve – Cold Anger and this is THE HILL
Truck Drivers – Freedoms best heroes since The Minutemen – May God Bless and Keep you
Fragemall,
Well-considered and well-written opinion. From your keyboard to God’s eyes!
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Perhaps you could research how many Jan. 6ers were arrested at home long after Jan. 6. Also consider that vehicles have ID. And most importantly, consider the pathetic optics of this cowardly move.
The only way to get these truckers back to work and moving supplies is t0 respect them and there freedoms.
Any effort to target them now or in the future will just blow this up even more.
That’s how I look at all the J6 arrests at their homes, in front of their families and neighbors. FIB cowards and bullies trying to humiliate them.
They wouldn’t dare arrest them at the protest, too many witnesses. They disgust me.
No, force the gubermint’s hand, so all can see what scumbags they are. The TurD’Oh is not smart enough to understand that this is not the hill for him to die on. And he is apt to do just that, politically any ways.
yeah that worked here…how many still sitting in jail for J6? How many J6ers lives totally demolished. Anyone care? Anyone know?
We know and care and great effort is being expended to get them out.
What the Left is doing to them will be part of their downfall.
Everyone knows they are victims of political persecution, but no one said there would be no casualties in this war.
Yes, I totally agree. Sitting at home and not driving the truck is the best peaceful way to force the government to give in. Obstructing traffic, while a heroic gesture, could result in arrest. If every truck driver in Canada went home and parked their truck, the bare grocery shelves will give their protest undeniable leverage.
Truckers protect their trucks, not abandon them.
Do you care to share any examples where that approach worked? The only one I can think of is the Uyghurs. That worked “real” well…
Bullshit, your idea is pure bullshit. The politicans need pressured, going home and doing nothing will et you nothing.
Yeah, YEAH! Oh … wait … you and I aren’t taking the risks. It’s their call.
Ugh.
That is two different posters with the same canned message,who is sending you here?
This IS an open forum, is it not? CM opined and in a civil way. Agree to disagree, civilly.
Justin is that you ? Honk honk!!!!
If the hazmat drivers alone stopped, that could cripple the country, presuming they hold the same special licensing as here in the U.S. That’s chemicals of all sorts, radioactive materials and, most importantly, fuel. Gasoline, diesel, heating oil, liquefied petroleum gas.
The truckers are there, they’re Canadians and know their country and government best. I leave it in their experienced hands. God will look over them.
One more reason for tow trucks to not fool with alien trucks involuntarily.
Nothing like a loose 120 Curie source to brighten up everybody’s exposure meter.
Heavy recovery is very specialized and if the reports of non-cooperation are accurate, that alone could limit government response for quite some time.
There are ways to defeat the brake caging features on air brakes to make wheeled tow in general very difficult to accomplish, particularly in the depths of Canadian winter.
The PTB’s picked the wrong group to make an example of if that’s their intention. Thinking they’ll get help from tow truck companies in these circumstances underscores how poorly they understand the industry and people in it.
What remains is where the Canadian military has heavy wreckers stashed. They’ve got to have some. Those would be under PTB control.
NOPE!
And what do you think is going to happen when the first trucker is arrested? Did you happen to follow the Colorado version of this story?
? tell us
What they’re doing now is the best peaceful way. It’s pure civil disobedience. Support them.
Respectfully disagree on that thought. Trudeau and his gaztapo media would LOVE to be able to spin that we all gave up and went home whimpering in order to put together a more lame plan as they arrest the truckers one by one. They have been checkmate but they are still trying to come to terms with that and worm away.
This is not Jan 6.
No, but it’s whatever J-Trudy wants it to be.
J-Trudy’s ChowChessfiasco.
It doesn’t appear that Canada has the FBI or as corrupt a government and the police..I include the police because so far they have not done anything…they certainly have not shot or killed any protesters like the Capital Police did in the USA…but then there don’t appear to be any women truckers…
RCMP is as corrupt as any US .gov thug agency.
Canada’s government is very corrupt. This is a world wide problem.
Yes indeed. It’s actually a UK thing – they control: Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand.
Evidently you haven’t seen the same videos I have. There are some women truckers and they are just as patriotic as their male counterparts. But to see them you would have to watch some live streamers out among the truckers.
Nope.
They have the upper hand right and the spotlight right now. There is no reason to give it up.
They should stand their ground! There is nothing the RCMP can do if the Truckers don’t cooperate!!
Wrong approach. Learn from what happened in Colorado, quite recently, when a convicted trucker received an outrageous sentence. If they arrest even one trucker, there will be a nationwide strike that will collapse the government in a matter of days.
apples to oranges, John. I’m not researching this but my memory is that the Colorado trucker did not use runaway truck emergency lanes and his driver error took lives. Not malicious but was negligent. They tried to put the trucker away for life but the pushback was such that the sentence was reduced to 10 years.
And without the pushback, the original sentence (110 years) would have stood. The point is that truckers are beautifully positioned in terms of logistics to take on a government, and win.
Truckers should stay and MAKE SOME NOISE.
Tyrants will be fought and taken down with energetic determined brave people. Not just a barricade
Let them do that
There will be hell to pay
This is just the beginning
If the “authorities” want a fight with truckers, it’s a fight they’ll get
With apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson:
To be Sung at the Completion of the proposed Trucker Monument, July 1, 2023
On frozen roads, driving rigs day and night,
Their flags to Winter’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled truckers stood
And honked the horns heard round the world.
Like that!
The people Trudeau demonizes:
He is still at it today –
He’s lost it.
He’s fictionalizing it for public record. When the mainstream press repeats his words, that will also go in the public record. No other accounting will be allowed when this is blown up into a J6-style investigation. It’s all bunk. They know. We know. They know we know. They don’t care.
True….it is now on ‘record’ in the House. However, that too cuts both ways.
Forever memorialized as the tyrant he is. May he burn in h@ll.
He writes that as he is hiding under a table, somewhere. This man sounds like he has gone crazy.
He forgot the Seven Dwarves.
F🤡 jt!
~sick 💩
The local police. Have refused truffles orders it’s federal enforcement now I bet. The feds get the ass handed back to them
Rural policing in Alberta is contracted to the RCMP. Kenney, the Premier of Alberta is calling the shots. If he said anything publicly, this would end.
Forming a provincial police force to replace the contracted RCMP has been a municipal political issue for many years.
Humm.. Does the RCMP understand that any action taken against these truckers could totally strip them of community support when they need/want life improvement gains..? Seriously, you tell me my cause is not justified or important and expect me to think yours is.?
In the 1980s I used to see protests like this in Soviet Bloc countries. I never thought I’d see it over here in North America. Whoever did this to the West must be brought to justice. Every last one of them.
People continue to protest the hard way.
JUST PARK THE TRUCKS refusing to pick up or deliver.
Canada will bring in military trucks to feed elites…then that’s the moral high ground for all Canada to see. Meanwhile just mock the heck outta of THEY.
Let the truckers be truckers.
You do not have the moral authority to criticize the truckers choices, because you didn’t have the balls to join me in a protest here in the US.
Yeah, and if they had taken the path of just sitting jome, parking the truck, they would not have known the majority is with them.
Freedom Canadians would not know their numbers, would not know they are the majority.
If take the just park and protest approach Canadian Unity would not be see by the world.
And the Canadian people would not know they still have a voice.
And Trudeau and his party wouldn’t know it is him against the people.
It’s been a good demonstration of strength in numbers. Alone, they can easily be picked off and disappeared and no one would know it.
We’ve seen how that goes here in the U.S. I’m mindful that it’s a mere 12-13 hour drive, perhaps a bit more if the storms make a mess, from Ottawa to D.C. and Canadian truckers there are overwhelmingly vaccinated and eligible to cross the border into the U.S.
Would we support a similar peaceful trucker convoy to D.C.? IDK. I certainly would. After watching the Canadians play a pick-up game of street hockey in the shadow of Parliament and convoy feeders offering fresh baked free pizza to all comers I was thinking take that on the road. That’s the majority in our respective countries. That’s who we are as cultures.
So true ♡♡♡♡♡
Mike,
They are locals on their home ground. They know it better than we do. I am willing to trust their judgment. However, I called the Canadian Embassy in D.C. today and told them that, as an American citizen who loves and admires Canada, they need to understand that the way they are handling this strike looks extremely bad here in the U.S. They need to remove the vax mandates and leave the truckers alone. The Government’s position appears untenable and the longer they hold out for enforcing an unjustifiable policy, the greater the political damage Trudeau’s party will suffer.
@disclosetv
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NOW – Alberta Premier Kenney: The “unlawful blockade” by truck drivers at the US-Canada border crossing impedes the people’s “freedom of movement,” announces further action.
But, locking people in their houses exemplified freedom of movement 🤷♂️
Exactly. Irony meter busted on that one.
Kenney says he has received word that allies of the blockade protesters have attacked RCMP
–front page of both http://www.calgarysun.com and http://www.calgaryherald.com
Allies?
According to an unnamed source?
More likely Antifa, undercover federal agents or a total fabrication
keep those cameras running everywhere possible.
We all know what they are going to try.
Yep…video or it didn’t happen. Just like Justine and his statement about the racist, homophobic, etc. behavior going on in Ottawa; it just isn’t happening like that and saying it doesn’t make it true.
Video please.
Allies lol, riiiiight.
Good bye, Kenney…..you’re FIRED.
He’s Seriously talking about the people’s freedom of movement, without irony???
These people are so un-self aware.
Totally oblivious. “Freedom of movement” is also impeded when people are forced to get shots.
Wow, now that’s obtuse!
Pastor Pawlowski, video.
https://gab.com/BeachMilk/posts/107725533720845656
A righteous man
That’s my man…
I love that guy! ‘Sent him some $ when he was arrested. Best money I ever spent.
#HereComesTheFringe
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZdDtE4h1hK/?utm_medium=share_sheet
For all of its bluff and bluster, and for all of the firepower that the provincial and federal government can bring to bear, there are no viable options here for either Alberta or Ottawa. It’s axiomatic if a government assaults its own citizenry when they are peacefully protesting, in that moment the government’s claims to legitimacy are destroyed. And as a matter of logistics, there is no group so well positioned to bring a country to its knees as a nation’s truckers. Let one trucker be martyred, and the country collapses in a matter of days under the weight of a nationwide trucker’s strike.
Politically, the only way out of this impasse is to bring a vote of no confidence on the floor of Parliament, and given the fact that Trudeau’s is a coalition government, any one of his partners can pull the plug at any time. Let’s hope that someone has the common sense to do so.
Agree.
You aree so right. Make one Trucker a martyred and it is all over. The majority of Canada would join i n a nationwide strike.
Would their replacements be any better?
This is dreadfully sad. Predictable, but none-the-less sad. Praying…
It is sad it came to this, but this is battle. A battle the truckers staged, using their weapons on their turf. Praying also, for their ultimate victory.
I like the guarded optimism, OS
Me too.
Prayers and best wishes to the truckers. To the RCMP, remember that “just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg, and hopefully someday those who stand for freedom will be able to hold you accountable for your immoral actions.
The road to hell is filled with those “just following orders”…
Dont get me wrong, I think this is a good thing. The further away from left you can get the better but what hypocrites these narrative engineers in Canada are.
Fighting imaginary Nazis at home, training real ones abroad
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/far-right-extremists-in-ukrainian-military-bragged-about-canadian-training-report-says-1.5631304
Nobody listens to them. CTV is a national tv service that refuses to release viewership numbers.
The police motto “To protect and serve” focuses an issue we are seeing.. Does it mean to protect and serve the citizens or the tyrant?
Every tyrant has a “national” police force used to suppress the people to his will. There are examples in every dictatorial regime. Here we see the Royal Canadian Mounted Police one of the worlds most respected law enforcement organizations becoming a tool of the tyrant, Trudeau. I dare say rank and file officers probably support the truckers in their gut but they are paid mercenaries to Trudeau the head of the central government. Law enforcement for the sake of liberty must be far removed from any central government. It removes the power from the tyrant and restores it to the citizens. There is a need for minimal national investigative services for national crimes and international threats but this should be a very limited service without police power to suppress the people
The lockdowns and mandates have revealed much about two professions to whom we trust our lives and the lives of our loved ones. Doctors and law officers. The times are changing.
Yes, it exposed them big time.
They love their socialism. They have chosen the national variety.
That’s where some or all of their pay comes from. No surprise there.
Let’s hope the RCMP consider a Covid sick-out about now…
What RCMP decided to do here will determine what the rest of the common citizens decide to do. If they arrest or attack the truckers… the citizenry is with the truckers.
They all are truckers now.
Next phase is to drop a smallpox virus on us and continue the MRNA injection schedule. I think Bill Gates has already tipped us off that this is coming. These people aren’t going to stop….they are just temporarily lifting boots off of people’s necks while gaslighting them that vaxes are good for smallpox.
And then the response will be lots of bloodshed. People are sick and tired of the tyranny. The payback will be severe.
Bill Gates is running the project plan to have everyone injected by this year. There is nanotech circuitry in the serums identified by NZ, Argentinian, Spanish and German researchers and they need to get that in our bloodstreams post haste. 5g is nearly up and running and can’t have the humans running around the planet without their computer chips.
What most people wouldn’t realize, is that the smallpox virus is a full DNA virus. The genetic mRNA treatment wouldn’t do a thing for slowing a smallpox outbreak.
Did Sparkle Socks write that ? It sounds like something he would say!
Without a doubt. Right from his lips. He is a terrified little boy.
🤣🚚🚛🚜
But….we’ve known this for many, many months now.
These so-called “officials” can hint all they like – they can call it all off NOW, but they do not wish to, nor will they.
This is for all the marbles.
Rebel News deserves a lot of credit here. They are giving this the attention it deserves and backing up their support in all kinds of critical ways. Hat is off to Ezra Levant and every single patriot at Rebel News.
I would assume the truckers are armed?
No. I doubt you will find firearms in the trucks.
They could be, presuming the Firearms Act of 1995 considers their occupation to be one of transporting goods of considerable value that make them vulnerable to attack.
Would they carry to a peaceful event while running bobtail? IDK. My suspicion is no.
Back in my day plying the highways even when guns were easily acquired and commonly carried, most of the truckers I knew had a tire iron or baseball bat and knew how to use it. That was during the 60’s and 70’s. Even cops were circumspect about using their guns, rather used their nightsticks. These days, different world I guess.
Would Treepers go to a peaceful demonstration armed if it were legal and allowed? I seriously doubt it. That doesn’t match up with the commonly demonstrated mindset. Watching the truckers in action on the road and in Ottawa I’d opine similar.
Nope. No open or conceal carry here…….yet. Are you kidding. Did you hear our PM? There are millions more fembots just like him up here. Guns are way too scary for many Canadians. It’s so aggravating.
what IS the vaccination rate for the RCMP, and how were any who refused treated
BY THEIR OWN?
there you will find the answers to many of your questions.
The Head of Security for the Truckers is a former RCMP Sniper on Trudeau’s Detail that is getting fired for refusing the jab.
Yes Corporal Dufour is a hero. He has spoken at several freedom rallies…go to brave or duck duck go♡
Undisclosed Justine is sob-curling in his CastroBunker Spider-Hole, somewhere on the Blackface-side of town…
*Canada ‘Freedom Convoy’: Ottawa police set up hate crime hotline despite admitting protests remain peaceful (yahoo.com)
Because FutureCrime is the best crime!
*400 vaccine injury claims in Canada, fewer than 5 approved | CTV News
*CANADA’S VACCINE INJURY REPORTING SYSTEM IS FLAWED (bitchute.com)
Dr. Hoffe: “Canada doesn’t have a vaccine injury reporting system; they pretend to…I’ve tried reporting vaccine injuries on my patients FOURTEEN TIMES, and in every case the reports get sent back with the response that these aren’t vaccine injuries; these are all coincidences.”
Justine Did This:
“Every single night I am awakened by lesions somewhere on my body.”–Steven Zeswick, Canadian Federal Corrections Officer —Canada | Real Not Rare
A look at what Trudeau called the ‘desecration of war memorials’
during the Freedom Convoy protest – Rebel News:
It was a parking infraction–with no parking ticket written.
And the “Swastika” was displayed at the ritziest hotel in town, $800 per night–where Justine’s cabinet ministers stay, not truck drivers.
Literally a false flag False Flag. Justine waved his own Nazi colors!
Which is fitting somehow, since this is his goal:
Rest in the Vine: “No Justine, No Peace!”
@Truckers4Fredom
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BREAKING: Truckers release a statement in response to Jason Kenney.
They want communication, they want dialogue and they want all mandates lifted.
About 50 RCMP officers tried to move in on the truck blockade. About 300 truckers went out to meet them. The RCMP retreated.
Yesterday, fresh avocados from Mexican grocery store. Don’t know if we can buy avocados next week.
I see even greater breakdown of the global supply chains. That will bring pain to the elites.
You can’t endure life without avocados?
A line from the movie Argo on the elite stuck in my brain, about, true or not, the Shah of Iran having lunch flown in on the Concorde. That example epitomized the difference between the common citizen, whether in Iran at the time or anywhere now, and the elite.
We know how to cause them pain. It’s not easy nor socially palatable, but we know. I give them credit, masterful, destroying the economy for the common citizen and releasing multiple toxins to weaken our health. That’s OK, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger and more resolute.
We all go to God.
Live raw footage, still going strong.
If the RCMP want those trucks moved, they better get ready to physically push them, because they ain’t getting tow trucks.
https://www.rebelnews.com/alberta_tow_truck_companies_refusing_to_assist_rcmp_in_removing_border_blockade
That’s significant, as heavy recovery is a very specialized industry.
However, the military, at least in the U.S., has heavy recovery vehicles. I often see surplus equipment from the military operating for private heavy recovery entities.
I would presume the Canadian military entities have similar equipment. If so, they might make a dent in the trucks involved but I doubt it would be significant.
The task would be more difficult if the trucks have loads. For example, most of the trucks in Ottawa are bobtail so more easily towed by lighter recovery vehicles.
Left wing ignorance. They hand cuff drivers. OK.
Haul them off.
But the Mounties don’t have tow trucks. All the tow truck drivers are CDL licensed TRUCKERS. What if they refuse to tow a single rig?
So the miles of trucks remain blocking the roads and their drivers are in jail. Sparkle sox sux.
Apparently going around the blockade is swarming it?
Here’s hoping that Trudeau crawls out of his basement tomorrow, sees his shadow, and goes back into hiding for another 6 weeks.
God bless these truckers!
Then they’ll freeze that GoFundMe money until they wrap up the Deplorables Trucker investigation sometime 2045.
Convoy to DC 2022 gains momentum as American truckers organize.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/02/convoy-to-dc-2022-gains-momentum-as-american-truckers-get-organized/
Fk Dudley Doowrong. Ain’t going to happen. There aren’t enough of them to drive the trucks and holding the drivers at gunpoint won’t make them comply, so, the only option is for the Gestapo to open fire? It will be a “Canadian Standoff”(pardon the Mexican pun). The “East Canadian Stasi” (the stasi motto was schild und schwert der partei ) is about to grab the tail of the tiger.
Truckers put a 3/8″ (~10 mm) plate on a cab then “Convoy!” past/thru the “county Mountie” line…
Not too many people there. Hope they come out in mass to stand ground with truckers.
They declare themselves to be endlessly powerful and unstoppable.
Then, you win.
Trudeau and Company are not going to come out on top.
100,000 truckers armed, will not be an easy task. We need to face reality that at some point, a violent confrontation on a large scale, will be necessary to defeat this worldwide criminal cabal. But for it to be effective, those controlling the puppets, will have to experience direct consequences
Or, they could just simply be peaceful and stand their ground – not burning down cities, not chanting silly stuff like “no justice, no peace”. Being peaceful and letting the authorities make a@$ess of themselves goes a lot further than acting like the “peaceful” hands up don’t shoot protest/riots.
You gain more ground when the people in the area of the peaceful protest feel comfortable going out about and, heck, they feel like bringing you a coffee. Contrast that with the “peaceful” riots of 2020.
The context of my comments were that if force is brought against us, there must be a PLAN to bring force directly toward the perpetrators. Change the cost/benefit ratio. To my knowledge, no tyranny has willfully yielded power. They had to be completely destroyed…see Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. There is no coexisting with tyranny. Not to mention King George didn’t acquiesce, until enough British soldiers fell on the battlefield. This was also the fabric of “The Greatest Generation”
Live your life. Stop begging for permission. They don’t rate.
For scale, CO recently had a truck driver sentenced to 110 years for an accident. Truckers across the country just pledged to drive around CO, not thru it and caused the good Guv Poleless to reduces his sentence.
If one Canadian trucker is arrested all Canadian truckers should strike immediately, with their US brothers joining in solidarity. Hold the line.
We the people are with the truckers, if you need support we will freely be glad to give it. In any way possible.
Since our cucked Republicans won’t do anything it’s time we showed them how. They can either cut off all funding for the Biden crime family or we the people will do it for them thru GDP.
Please recheck your facts on what happened in the pure and simple negligence of that driver and company that hired him. He KILLED 4 people, and now their lives were diminished in value. The original news reports had more facts than the sob stories after Kardashian talked with govP.
Please speak with some truckers for their side of this. People have accidents which result in death of others often and most are due to negligence. 110 years was not appropriate.
Tyshab,
I DID speak to some professional truck drivers about that incident. In fact, the discussion took place right here at CTH in an Open Thread. All the pros that got in on that discussion wanted that driver thrown in jail and the key not just thrown away, but MELTED! The professional truck drivers said he a) got in the truck to drive despite not having a valid CDL and KNOWING HIS BRAKES WERE MALFUNCTIONING; b) refused to take any one of several runaway truck ramps he passed on his way down the hill, and c) decided that it was better for him to hit and then kill several innocent people than to risk his own life. Then, after he caused the incident that KILLED 4 AND INJURED 23, he tried to run away from the scene.
Polis was a cowardly bastard for reducing that sentence. The driver got 10 years for each death and 3 years for each injured person. Neither one of those sentences is exorbitant. The driver is solely responsible for those deaths and injuries. He should never see the light of day as a free man again. If he had not had his sentence cut to less than 10% by a fellow criminal, he WOULD never see the light of day as a free man again. Incarceration for the rest of his natural life was what he deserved.
“Every society is three meals away from chaos” … or, worse, just one steak:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10464641/Massive-brawl-erupts-Golden-Corral-Philadelphia-diners-cut-line-buffet.html
The usual suspects.
Cool… black history month
American truckers are about to make their own anti-mandate convoy to DC and DeSantis has thrown his support behind it.
https://therightscoop.com/tons-of-american-truckers-are-about-to-make-their-own-anti-mandate-convoy-to-dc/
Today Johns Hopkins comes out with a study saying lockdowns had little to no effect on the spread of covid.
Has nothing to do with people revolting. They are just now figuring out all the societal breakdowns that have occurred.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/01/johns-hopkins-study-shows-government-cure-for-covid-was-worse-than-disease-lockdown-benefit-provided-no-mitigation-of-death-from-virus/
“No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.
I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!
In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
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One of the greatest speeches of all time.
(Btw, it takes two hits on the return key to space paragraphs. I hope that you didn’t does not dissuade people from reading this speech that ends with the phrase we all remember but perhaps without the rest.)
who do you think will read that wall of text?
I did.
I did.
Me. Copy and paste into a document. Insert paragraph spacing. And, voila. You can almost hear Regan’s voice imploring Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!”
Me
End of day 4 with truckers from all over the country having descended on the capital with the Premier hiding behind the couch in a secret location refusing to publicly acknowledge or address issues that embattle his countrymen.
Absolutely pathetic.
This is what worms do and the fact that we have allowed such to destroy our country and make a mockery of our values, is disgusting. Drag them out!
Every single item in your house or driveway is delivered by a truck. From food to medicine to hardware to toothpaste. The power the truckers hold is absolute and supreme. They just need to be smart and hold the line.
What you say is absolutely right on and is the key to the power of mass scale strikes. In order to gauge just how much power these guys can wield, I’d love to know what percentage of all the truckers in Canada these guys represent because if there are still large numbers who are working, then it’s possible Canadians won’t feel much in the way of a slow down or complete halt in goods.
If numbers of drivers (not trucks) being reported as accurate, it appears the convoys and blockades represent about 16-17% of total truck drivers. Pretty significant. It’s unknown to me how many not actively participating are supporting with their own methods, parking, sick-out, working to rule, etc.
However, due to supply chain issues and Covid impacts on labor, domestic heavy truck production has fallen dramatically, putting fewer new heavy trucks on the road compared to past years. To move loads, even with adequate drivers, they need trucks and trailers.
If the numbers are what is reported, I’d say that’s pretty significant.
Thanks for sharing that info, and yes indeed, for all the reasons you stated it is significant.
You are right about the need for trucks. The other part of the equation is that you can’t just hire more drivers. They need to pay to go to school. There is testing and certification as well as background checks. Also who would want to chose being a truck driver at this point given the new rules and the capricious nature in which the government in Ottowa can impact thier ability to earn a living.
I’m not sure of the percentage but based on the volume of the screeching and panic coming out of Ottowa I would guess it is pretty high. Some of the new rules are going to directly impact the truckers income.
More snow on the way for Canada starting tomorrow, and then on Thursday.
This is so hard to watch the Mounties cower to their superiors and turn their backs on these freedom loving people! The truckers are wise and spike truth to the police peacefully. So sad the police r bought and paid for or too fearful to stand up😂. Don’t give in truckers!
the truckers don’t have to do anything but be there – nothing else.
their point is made by their presence alone.
force the rcmp and their bosses to make the next move.
the blockadeers appear to be very sober, very cool-headed men,
exceptionally well qualified to handle whatever comes their way.
men in the right place at the right time.
prayers for their success.
Tragic thing to me is in about 2-3 years most of these vaccinated heroes will be dead. Who will replace them? I haven’t seen much courage and wisdom in the younger generation and they are likely vaxxed as well.
Scary version? Replacement will be automation.