Canadian law enforcement are reportedly “closing in” on the Freedom Truckers situated on the Ambassador bridge. The Canadian government is grossly mishandling the situation: From Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tone-deaf insistence that the truckers represented a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views” to Ontario Premier Doug Ford announcing a state of emergency for the Ontario province.
On Friday, a judge ordered the truckers and their throngs of supporters to clear the Ambassador bridge by 7 p.m.
Yes, that does say that “vehicles may be seized.” Surreal.
The Freedom Truckers didn’t budge, so the deadline was then postponed until midnight.
The Freedom Truckers didn’t budge.
So on Saturday morning, police began “moving in” on them. With “military-style gear.”
The (actually) peaceful protestors began moving their vehicles and packing up their support efforts in compliance with police orders.
This is a developing story, but it looks like the protestors are peacefully clearing the bridge location. And all without the government blasting Barry Manilow and the “Macarena” at them.
In the meantime, I want to point out that the Canadian government media, backed by enthusiastic Democrat media propagandists in the American media have all decided, in unison, that the Freedom Truckers protest is an “illegal occupation” and “siege.” They, like their political overlords, are unbearably condescending, dismissive, and downright contemptuous of these Canadian freedom ralliers.
This tweet from Dingle is so haughty and clueless that I decided to screen grab it (archive link.).
Bill Maher, definitely no conservative, understands better than most on the left what’s fueling public anger at government and the media.
Panelist Vivek Ramaswamy, author of “Woke Inc.,” agreed with Maher’s assessment and said that the protests are about the “uprising of everyday citizens” against “the rise of this managerial class in democracies around the world.””These are the unelected class leaders that ultimately, I think, are using the bureaucratic power to supplant the will of everyday – not only Americans but Canadians and Western Europeans too – and that’s why we’re seeing a fusion of both the left and the right here saying that, ‘Actually we want our voices heard. We want to be able to speak without fear of putting food on the dinner table,'” Ramaswamy said.Maher noted that truckers are organizing protests because, during the pandemic, they were the ones still working to deliver products as usual while others were able to work from home.. . . . The HBO host also highlighted a report from The New York Times revealing that 72 percent of the $800 billion in COVID relief was spent on households with incomes in the top 20 percent.”I think this is what the truckers are mad at … all that money went up to the people who are in the top 20 percent?” Maher asked.
While he gets most of this right, I’m pretty sure the Canadian truckers don’t care how U.S. covid money was squandered on people who didn’t actually need it. But they do resent being the “essential workers” who kept their country afloat during the height of the pandemic who are now having their livelihoods threatened over vaccine mandates.
This is not only unreasonable and cruel but makes zero sense since the “vaccines” don’t stop the virus at all. The vaccinated still get covid, and they can still spread it to others. Besides, 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated; they aren’t anti-vax, they are anti-government mandates that are flippantly treating the heroes of the early pandemic like public enemy number one.
Government in Canada (and in America and across the Western world) overreached, and rather than grasp that they tipped the balance by going too far, they are doubling down in the face of clear public revolt. It’s a mistake.
It’s also rather ironic.
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