Freedom Convoy
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- pango0
- here's the "swarming of officers" he describes. https://www.youtube.…monNom
- ^ hahaGnash
- seems about right for canadapango
- Hasn’t Pfizer had a few criminal charges brought against them?Chimp
- At the freedom convoy?pango
- In 2009 Pfizer paid a $2.3B fine for "bribing doctors and suppressing adverse trial results".monNom
- It was the largest fine in US history until Glaxo came along and topped it in 2012 with a $3B finemonNom
- So really, not great companies. It's understandable people might be suspicious of mandating a drug from a company with that sort of history.monNom
- inteliboy0
https://www.trucknews.com/blogs/…
astro-turfing works so god damn easily on humans... seems to be the new form of warfare to sow division while rich assholes claim more power.
- Raybandana-3
The honking is working, provinces are lifted their mandates!
- zarkonite0
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontar…
"Ontario Premier Doug Ford declares state of emergency in effort to end truck convoy blockade"
This whole convoy thing is a provincial and municipal problem, the federal gov has no authority to clear city streets so finally the one person that can do something about this is finally doing something.
If this were a popular movement you can bet your ass that the conservatives would still be supporting this shit, even here in Alberta they're clearing the fake truckers out...
- neverscared1
Maple leaf flags, conspiracy theories and The Matrix: inside the Ottawa truckers’ protest
“Wake up Canada! You are being lied to. Take the red pill and roll on!” reads a sign attached to the front grille of a parked semi. The concept of the “red pill” – which originated in The Matrix films – has become a token for incels and the far-righters who hold that they are “awake” to the way the world really works.
- monNom-2
not creepy
- Police trying to prevent illegal gatherings by monitoring the publicly shared information from organizers of previous illegal gatherings. That's creepy to you?zarkonite
- I hope police come knocking at your door every morning to remind you of your rights then. Nothing creepy about that.Milan
- Let's let a former OPP officer weigh in:
https://www.youtube.…monNom - "This event is completely peaceful and lawful" - oh yeah that guy has his facts straight. Hey, if you think it's ok to plan crimes out in public and the policezarkonite
- should just sit on their hands and wait then that's great for you. Personally, I'd rather they acted proactively.zarkonite
- here you go:
https://laws-lois.ju…monNom - here you go:
https://laws-lois.ju…zarkonite - Is there a sub-section regarding likes on facebook?monNom
- I missed the part in the charter that said you can block border crossings because your panties are in a bunch, do you have a link??zarkonite
- get back to bootlicking, you missed a spot.Milan
- civil disobedience is a form of protest.Milan
- Big brother is watching.Chimp
- Hypocrisy?
BLM protest = fine
Truckers = badChimp - Aww, someone needs a safe space so his feelings don't get hurt by the gubernment! So scary!!zarkonite
- Was that woman blocking a bridge? from her facebook account?monNom
- Just trying to keep things focused. We give police a monopoly on violence in our country. They shouldn't be intimidating people for expressing their thoughts.monNom
- And that goes for people supporting BLM, or first nations, or unions or climate change. Armed agents of the state should not come visit you for a facebook like.monNom
- We don't know what she did or didn't do. And what it seems like she did was that she's planning on participating in a protest that has been deemed illegal byzarkonite
- all levels of government. It has been harmful to the economy and should be controlled in some way before the people start losing their jobs over this shit.zarkonite
- There have been many injunctions given by judges in different jurisdictions, if she wants to protest there are peaceful and legal ways to do this.zarkonite
- you realize these truckers lost their jobs because they didn't bend over for a forced vaccine?Milan
- The ceo of the biggest trucking company in this country says he hasn't fired anyone, he reassigned them to local routes. There are far more truckers againstzarkonite
- the protest than there are truckers participating. You can't have a society if you bend over backwards for all the complainers all the time, that's why we havezarkonite
- laws, courts and a charter. Behave within those limits and you will be heard. You're wrong when you say these people lost their jobs because of vaccines.zarkonite
- Forcing people to take a new medication with unknown long term effects should be against human rights.Chimp
- Any one-size-fits-all solution is bound to find situations where it is ill-suited. The majority's wants don't over-ride a minorities rights.monNom
- We have a history or the majority doing fucking awful things to minorities in the name of the greater good (residential schools?).monNom
- This same government just apologized for that... I guess the lesson didn't stick.monNom
- And in case you think I'm being hyperbolic, I hear on CBC people giving legitimacy to the idea of taking people's children from them over personal vax status.monNom
- So you ought not to think we are necessarily more civilized now. This veneer of civility can be easily punctured when people are told to fear 'the other'.monNom
- "There are far more truckers against
zarkonite the protest than there are truckers participating." Bullshit. Do you have any proof of this?Milan - Just because a trucker was forced to vaccinate to keep working and feed their family, doesn't mean they support vaccine mandates.Milan
- Milan1
Canadian radio show host on his last broadcast, "you've been tricked".
https://twitter.com/kiansimone44…
- nb0
Oh.
My.
God.Do you think the police don’t look at Facebook!?! Why wouldn’t they. It’s a goddamn web forum!
The fear and anxiety in this woman’s voice is over the top. I feel bad for her but yeeeeesh people are idiots.
- One of my friends got 4 years for painting trains and the police used his myspace photos/messages as evidence. This was about 100 years ago.PhanLo
- Must be even easier now.PhanLo
- I had a part time student who worked in parole enforcement. She said “we never leave the office anymore. We just look at the...nb
- ...social media of the people on our files. It’s far more efficient and these idiots post everything.”nb
- This was over ten years ago.nb
- The guys I knew had posted things at 16 yrs old, but the police waited til they turned 18 to charge them. The murderers and armed robbers thought it was funnyPhanLo
- that two young kids wound up in their jail so they had a fairly ok time in there.PhanLo
- These geniuses are complaining about being tracked on facebook of all places.zarkonite
- Salarrue5
- lolfadein11
- Metal sounds a bit hardcore for Canadian truckers, don't they only like hair rock?PhanLo
- charge your phone assholecannonball1978
- Nickelback on poppers!fadein11
- hotroddy-1
An update of someone living in ground zero instead of a newsroom miles away in another city.
- Gnash-5
- clearly they're gathered around a bonfire singing kumbaya_niko
- using kids and women as shields. Classic ISIS stuffSalarrue
- The propaganda machine that is CNN lolMondoMorphic
- Legacy news at its best.Chimp
- the news described freedom convoy as "mostly peaceful" as well.pango
- upvoted for complete disregard of cropping etiquette.fadein11
- ^ +1pango
- They're the same picture.palimpsest
- "daddy's not working because he didn't cope well mentally with the pandemic, come on, get in the group shot"fadein11
- “Honk honk”Gnash
- misspelled MOISTY -1hydro74
- ^lol +1sted
- Imagine thinking cops killing black people and making people get vaccinated should have the same reaction.FNP14
- What's funny about this meme is that this is probably how the right imagines themselves, a bunch of normal family types who just happen to be huge supporters ofyuekit
- Trump, think the pandemic was planned and that pedophiles run the world. Just totally normal stuff lol.yuekit
- indeed yuekitfadein11
- America vs Canada - the BLM protests here didn't devolve into a fiery mess.zarkonite
- iNdEeD!Gnash
- Where do you get the ‘huge supporters of trump’ from? Lol, sounds good thoughGnash
- Milan0
Canada's Ontario to abandon Covid vaccine passport: premier
- monNom-2
Weep for Canada.
Government institutes "Emergency Act"
- Will compel tow-truck owner/operators to use their equipment and labour in order to enforce government directives on pain of fines or imprisonment.
- Has directed all financial institutions to seize or suspend accounts SUSPECTED of involvement with these protests, and has shielded them from any civil liability for such acts.
- That is combined with new regs on crowd-funding platforms that require them to provide information on donors (so those financial institutions know who's accounts to seize).
- Will seize business accounts and cancel insurance of any trucks involved in the protest.
- Regulation and prohibition of public assemblies, including the ability to select locations (such as Ottawa), where protests are prohibited.
So essentially: forced labour, punishment for free-association and freedom of thought, government decides where you have a right to protest.
Love or hate the truckers, this is a sad day for democracy, and the people's ability to speak truth to power.
- Nope, none of that is true.zarkonite
- the illusion of democracyMilan
- Watch the governments own statements - this is the official press conference.monNom
- I did, and I read what constitutional scholars had to comment. He literally said this does not change the right to assemble.zarkonite
- Specifically, watch Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's and Attourney General Dave Lametti's remarks.monNom
- Most truckers are pissed at the protesters because they're tarnishing their name, there won't be any "compelling" of tow trucks, they'll be happy to chargezarkonite
- government rates to tow people out. The account thing is just straight erroneous, the banks are allowed to temporarily stop servicing accounts they suspectzarkonite
- might be doing illegal activities... that's far from a seizure. ETC.zarkonite
- @57:35 - "Geographically Limited", "Where they are needed" - read that as "wherever we say".monNom
- iTs a NufFiNk BuRgafadein11
- They = the emergency measures = not related to the right to assembly. You're making links that don't exist.zarkonite
- Listen, Trudeau is WAY too incompetent to seize power like you're implying. This mofo would rather just go to dinner parties than run this place. He's not aboutzarkonite
- to give himself the task of being a dictator, too much work, not enough cool factor.zarkonite
- @1:01:20 "an ability to compel" tow truck operators.monNom
- @monNom at what exact time in the video are they saying these things?sted
- The limitation on right to assemble is within Dave Lametti's statement. He defines 'borders, border approaches and Ottawa' as areas they (might? will?) limit.monNom
- well I can't wait for you to give us an update with proof of all those tow truck companies being compelled into forced labour.zarkonite
- Okay, I think i posted timestamps for the tow truck thing above. Crowdfunding/Bank seizure and liability shield: @16:20, @18:11 and @18:41monNom
- Corporate accounts and Insurance: @19:45monNom
- @zarkonite in Windsor they brought in American tow-trucks because Canadians refused to do it. watch @1:01:20monNom
- As for the reporting thing with crowdfunding. Fintrac has something called 'Know your client' which requires financial institutions to collect personal info...monNom
- ...that in turn is forwarded to the government. It's why you have to sit with someone to open an account at a bank.monNom
- zarkonite0
- 27+63sted
- +not including details on the sample isn't goodiested
- or you could look it up instead of trolling.zarkonite
- /\ lol, what a fucking jokeMilan
- ok let's "look it up"sted
- so abacus data (i would lie if i haven't heard about this name), let's see who owns thatsted
- David Colettosted
- BWWHWHA fuck he already posted a fixed version: https://twitter.com/…sted
- case closed, the reputation of abacus saved
zarkonite: still a cunt.sted - From a survey @abacusdataca completed yesterday. Expect a full report out later this week.
n=1,500 adult Canadians, Feb 9 to 13, 2022sted - Geez, I guess I'm still right just slightly less so. Good catch!zarkonite
- Maru Public Opinion says the opposite. Here's the data
https://static1.squa…monNom - Look on p2, second to last question. 37%, same thing no?zarkonite
- P1, Qs #1, #2... Maybe it is polling that is broken.monNom
- pheew those Maru questions aren't directed at allsted
- Is Canada even mandating vaccinations for everyone? This poll is asking about something that isn't even a real policy, and people still support it.yuekit
- monNom-1
Lawyer breaks down the "Emergency Act"
A couple of choice tidbits:
Never before used. It is the successor of the Canadian War Measures Act which itself was only ever enacted 3 times. WWI, WWII, and The October Crisis (and it was controversial even then).Allows for 'Dragooning'. That is the forced labour (paid), of someone against their wishes. On pain of up to 5 years in prison.
Nothing to see here?
- Sounds like fear mongering to me, isn't the government just using it to deal with truckers shutting down the capitol city? I don't think Justin Trudeauyuekit
- intends to sell you into slavery.yuekit
- The city isn’t ‘shut down’ lolGnash
- This article talks about armed truckers blockading the border. Yup just totally normal wholesome family types.yuekit
- https://www.theglobe…yuekit
- Ottawa isn’t on the border. The Capitol city you referred to isn’t shut downGnash
- And police cleared another border blockade without incident yesterday. Although there may have been some ‘honking’Gnash
- Well what's your take on this, you think the government should just give in to a bunch of antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists?yuekit
- Lol, that’s not my “take”, it’s the truthGnash
- Of course they should clear the fucking blockadesGnash
- But you are wrong with your facts hereGnash
- I don't think I'm wrong that there are quite a few right-wing conspiracy theorists involved, and that they have disrupted life in Ottawa.yuekit
- But I'll be careful not to offend the truckers moving forward Gnash :)yuekit
- Disrupted life, is very different from ‘shutting down the capitol city”Gnash
- And yes, there are a few right-wing nut bars involved, but it’s not the majorityGnash
- For someone to feel strongly enough about not getting vaccinated that they would camp out and blockade streets, it doesn't seem terribly rational.yuekit
- Well it’s not about the truckers now. It’s about all Canadians.monNom
- I post this here not because I know that it will end badly. Just that it is unprecedented and dangerous. Canadians ought to know.monNom
- Just listen to the video that was posted at the beginning of this thread...I made it about three minutes in and they are babbling about how society is beingyuekit
- transformed, the science is against the vaccines, "China is watching us" lol whatever that means.
https://www.youtube.…yuekit - If anything I feel bad for them, it's pretty obvious they have been fed a steady stream of disinformation.yuekit
