Yeah France is such a shining example of how to handle protest. Meanwhile the mandates that GWB-Trading loves are dropping left and right. His boy Biden lost in court, AGAIN.
Two years in prison for participating. Wow. Too bad you are not there to rat out people who participate or help them. You missed out on ratting out jews living in the attics in France so you could make up for it. Otherwise. Good. Laissez les bon temps rouler. The protesters have the Canadian flags flying in France and the Yellow Vests on their side and an election coming up in April.
Governor Whitmer is willing to help. I have a suggestion - what about borrowing an A-10 from the U.S. military. Canadian Mayor Says Gov. Whitmer Offered Heavy Equipment To Move Trucks Off Bridge Blocked By ‘Freedom Convoy’ https://dailycaller.com/2022/02/10/whitmer-heavy-equipment-trucks-bridge-freedom-convoy/ Mayor of Windsor, Ontario, Drew Dilkens, said in a press conference Thursday that Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offered to help remove protestors blocking the Ambassador Bridge for the past several days. The bridge is a key border between the U.S. and Canada currently occupied by convoy truckers in protest of Canada’s COVID-19 mandates. The protest, called the Freedom Convoy, began in Ottawa and has since gone international. “The State of Michigan and the governors’ office directly have offered to send over heavy equipment to help remove vehicles, to provide security, they’ve offered to do whatever is required to help end this blockade as well,” Dilkens said in the press conference. The mayor is seeking an injunction to begin removing protestors which will, if approved, give police the authority to begin removing protestors, according to Detroit’s WXYZ 7 Action News. “We can’t just let this lawlessness continue to happen,” Dilkens said. Whitmer released a statement Thursday morning urging Canada to “quickly resolve the ongoing Ambassador Bridge closure and its impacts on the Michigan’s economy, including key sectors like autos, agriculture, manufacturing, and more.” The bridge is the busiest crossing in North America, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars in goods every day, negatively impacting Michigan families, according to Whitmer. Whitmer has not responded to the mayor of Windsor’s comments about her alleged statements offering help, according to WXYZ 7 Action News. The White House has also expressed concern over the Ambassador Bridge closure. “The Ambassador Bridge is Canada’s busiest link to the United States and accounts for about 25 percent of trade between the two countries,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday, “and so the blockade poses a risk to supply chains for the auto industry because the bridge is a key conduit for motor vehicles components and parts.” Psaki said in Tuesday’s briefing that while the White House supports the right to protests, the protests have caused disruptions which have “broadened in scope beyond the vaccine requirement implementation.” (Article also has video)
It's amazing how much misinformation the supporters of these "freedum truckers" continuously push. But it should not be surprising -- we have already seen how much Covid misinformation these same clowns push. I guess this is what happens when you are all hyped up on horse paste. Fact check: A fake Trudeau letter and other false claims about Canadian protests swirl on social media https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/poli...-court-order-trudeau-police-exempt/index.html On Wednesday, we debunked a bunch of false claims about the ongoing Canadian protests against vaccine mandates, Covid-19 restrictions and the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But there are still a bunch more false claims swirling on this subject. Supporters of the protests -- which involve a minority of Canadian truckers, plus far-right activists and a variety of other citizens -- continue to promote inaccurate information, some of it complete fiction. Here's a breakdown of three of the falsehoods that were circulating on social media on Thursday. A phony letter purporting to be from Trudeau Some supporters of the protests have shared an image of a letter supposedly signed by Trudeau and his chief of staff, Katie Telford. The letter includes a supposed offer from Trudeau to meet with protest participants for a specific amount of time that varies depending on whether they are truckers and when they got vaccinated. One example: "2 Minutes per Trucker that can show proof of vaccination received prior to February 8th." The letter was posted on a Reddit page supporting former President Donald Trump and by various users of Twitter, TikTok and Telegram. Facts First: The letter is fake, Trudeau spokesperson Cameron Ahmad confirmed to CNN. In addition to its bizarre substance, the letter has other obvious signs of phoniness: grammatical errors, inconsistent formatting and a title ("Ottawa Convoy Protesters") oddly placed above the logo of the Prime Minister's office. Some social media users suspected the document was intended as parody, but others took it as real. Trudeau told reporters in late January that he had no intention of meeting with the protesters. A false story about a nonexistent court order Numerous social media users, and at least one right-wing website, have claimed that a judge or court ordered police in Ottawa to give back the fuel they had seized from protesters as part of an effort to end the demonstrations, which have involved large trucks and other vehicles noisily occupying downtown streets in the Canadian capital. The claim about a court order was echoed by prominent protester Pat King, who was listed as a regional organizer of the "Freedom Convoy" that started the demonstrations in January. King repeated the claim during a Facebook livestream on Tuesday that received more than 347,000 views. The claim about the supposed court order was followed by other related claims. When Ottawa officers continued seizing fuel, for example, some social media users claimed that the police were defying the court order. Facts First: No judge or court has ordered Ottawa police to return seized fuel or to stop seizing fuel. Patrick Champagne, press secretary to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, told CNN on Thursday that he had been informed by the Ottawa police legal team that the claim about a court order was "a fabrication." Brian Gray, spokesperson for Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General, told CNN on Thursday that court staff had "conducted a search" for the court order but had been "unable to locate any such order." A video that made the rounds on YouTube and Twitter, which had been captioned as if it showed police returning fuel to protesters, simply showed fuel containers that demonstrators had refilled and brought in themselves. Nothing in the video suggested that police were returning fuel to demonstrators. "The Ottawa Police are not returning seized items associated to the demonstration, such as fuel," a police spokesperson said in a Thursday email to CNN. King did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday. A false claim about Ottawa police officers Claims have circulated on social media that Ottawa police officers are not required to be vaccinated against Covid-19, unlike Canadian truckers who cross the US border. (In mid-January, Canada began requiring truckers who cross the border to be fully vaccinated or face two-week quarantines upon returning home; this requirement helped to spark the protests. More than 85% of Canadian truckers who regularly cross the border are fully vaccinated, the primary advocacy group for Canadian truckers said in January.) The Post Millennial, a Canada-based right-wing website, published a Tuesday article headlined, "Ottawa police not subject to vaccine mandate but truckers they're arresting are." A Twitter account that calls itself "Canadian Patriots" generated more than 5,400 retweets by tweeting on Sunday, "A friendly reminder that the @OttawaPolice is exempt from the vax!" Facebook posts making similar claims appeared in groups supporting the protests. Conservative former Canadian opposition leader Stockwell Day tweeted on Wednesday that Trudeau "allows the Ottawa police to not be vaxxed but not truckers?!" The Post Millennial, like others that promoted the claim about a police exemption, cited Canadian broadcaster CTV News as its source. Facts First: It's not true that Ottawa police officers are exempt from Covid-19 vaccine mandates; Ottawa officers are required to be fully vaccinated. While officers were initially exempted, Police Chief Peter Sloly eliminated this exemption more than three months ago, in late October, and set a January 31 deadline for officers to be fully vaccinated. There is indeed a CTV News clip that talks about Ottawa officers being exempt, but it is outdated; it aired in October, days before the exemption was abandoned. About 84% of Ottawa officers were fully vaccinated even before Sloly ditched the exemption on October 29, the Ottawa Citizen newspaper has reported. CTV and CBC reported last week that fewer than 10 Ottawa officers were on unpaid leave because they hadn't received even one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. There are about 1,480 officers on the force. It's possible that some of the people who spread this false claim were genuinely confused because the CTV News website did not put a date on the clip that was being widely shared on social media. In other words, it isn't immediately obvious that the video is old. Still, accurate information about Ottawa's current vaccination policy for officers is easy to find on Google. In fact, Reuters published a fact check on the subject on Wednesday morning.
Of course... Trump administration clowns are present at the protest and want to export insurrection to the U.S. A former Trump official has been spotted at Ottawa’s trucker convoy protest Alexander told CBC people have been in touch about organising ‘massive’ version of protest in US https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-trucker-protest-paul-alexander-b2012656.html A one-time science adviser to the Trump administration has been in Ottawa for several days participating in the trucker convoy Covid-19 vaccine mandate protests. Paul Alexander has described his presence there as a “personal mission”, CBC’s Alexander Panetta reports. During his time in the Canadian capital, he has appeared on stage, at news conferences, alongside People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, and has been tweeting about supplying fuel to protesting truckers. Mr Alexander, who spoke at the “Defeat the Mandates” rally in Washington DC earlier this year, also claims that he has been contacted by people hoping to organise a similar convoy in the US, which the Department of Homeland Security has already issued a warning about. “The truckers have common sense,” Mr Alexander told CBC, adding that the possible US version of the protest is going to be “massive” and “politicians had better pay attention”. While the Ottawa protest is anti-mandate and not anti-vaccine, Mr Alexander is very critical of Covid vaccines, saying they should not be administered to young, healthy people and that he wants to see those who promoted them imprisoned. “I don’t care who you are. You should sit in a jail,” he said. “One day, I wish, and I hope, that we re-examine this.” He stresses he is not against all vaccines, only those for Covid-19. Mr Alexander’s views are fringe, and evidence from around the world continues to show the vaccines have suppressed case numbers, hospitalisations, and deaths, while unvaccinated people are many times more likely to suffer severe Covid and in some cases death. The former science adviser to Michael Caputo, assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration, left the role in September 2020. Internal emails seen by Politico have since shown he lobbied for a herd immunity approach to the pandemic, writing in July 2020: “Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions etc. have zero to little risk…. so we use them to develop herd … we want them infected.” “t may be that it will be best if we open up and flood the zone and let the kids and young folk get infected” in order to get “natural immunity … natural exposure,” the Trump appointee added, also lamenting that colleges were not open to allow the spread.
Paranoia and alarmism: Canada truckers’ ‘intelligence reports’ hint at mindset Documents compiled by protest organisers give a glimpse into a conspiracy theory-drenched outlook https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/10/canada-truckers-protest-mindset-intelligence-reports Leaders of the Ottawa “Freedom Convoy” protest have warned fellow protesters that the risk of violence is growing, amid speculation the police may move to disperse the nearly two-week occupation of Canada’s capital. Daily “intelligence reports” compiled by protest leaders and seen by the Guardian – as well as public comments by the organisers – have grown increasingly alarmist in recent days. While the reports include misinformation, and should not be taken as credible intelligence, they nevertheless offer an insight on the occupiers’ conspiratorial mindset. Thursday’s report warns that “the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO) has directed that Freedom Convoy 2022 be dispersed by not [sic] later that [sic] Saturday, 12 February 2022.” In Canada, politicians cannot direct police operations, but the increasing paranoia of the protesters present a worrying change in tone. The reports are prepared by Tom Quiggin, a private security consultant who has previously been accused of spreading misinformation, particularly by overplaying the threat of terrorism posed by Canada’s Muslim community. Roughly 1,000 people have blockaded downtown Ottawa since late January, demanding an end to all Covid vaccine mandates. Some are calling for Justin Trudeau to step down as prime minister or be removed from office. They say their occupation will continue until their demands are met, and other protesters have since blocked the international Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, and two smaller border crossings. It is not clear how widely these reports are shared, but they accurately reflect the public talking points of the lead organizers. Police near the Ambassador Bridge have begun receiving additional manpower, Drew Dilkens, mayor of Windsor, told CNN on Thursday, and the city was seeking an injunction from Ontario superior court to have the protesters removed. “[If] the protesters don’t leave, there will have to be a path forward. If that means physically removing them, that means physically removing them, and we’re prepared to do that,” Dilkens said. However he later added he was striving to resolve the issue peacefully and ensure nobody was hurt. “It may be gratifying for someone to see the forced removal of the demonstrators, [but] such action may inflame the situation and certainly cause more folks to come here and add to the protest, and we don’t want to risk additional conflict,” Dilkens said. General Motors Co and Chrysler-parent Stellantis said on Thursday they had to cancel or reduce shifts because of parts shortages, adding to earlier cuts announced by Ford and Toyota. Toyota said it was suspending production until Saturday at plants in Ontario and Kentucky. The protesters’ reports portray the city’s police chief, Peter Sloly, as an antagonist, saying that he “has played a role in creating a political space where violence can occur”. Earlier this week Tom Marazzo, a protest leader who is described as a “police liaison”, said that “the statements and actions by the Chief of Police have deliberately set the conditions for potential violence against the peaceful protesters.” The protesters insist that they are entirely peaceful, but they have resisted attempts to clear them from downtown and stop them resupplying with diesel. Local residents complain that life in the city has been made intolerable by the occupiers’ blaring truck horns and nightly fireworks. “Our city is under siege,” said Councillor Diane Deans, who described the protests as a “nationwide insurrection”. (More at above url)
Has Biden spoken with Trudeau about the international bridge situation? If so, what did he say about it after speaking with Trudeau?