Mind-numbing to see your commentary aligning with FOX. Fox News legal analyst and alleged law professor Jonathan Turley decrying the Canadian crackdown on protestors "By this rationale, they could have cracked down on the Civil Rights movement. They could have arrested Martin Luther King.". Ummm...
Canadian truck drivers distance themselves from ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/16/canada-trucker-distancing-protests/
So the "freedom truckers" are nothing more than violent extremists who plan to kill cops and are linked to known terrorist groups. No surprise here. ‘Freedom Convoy’ Suspects Charged With Plan to Kill Cops Linked to Anti-Government Group Two of the four men arrested at an Alberta blockade and accused of conspiring to kill cops were part of an anti-government group. https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wpgy/freedom-convoy-murder-conspiracy-diagolon Two of four men charged for allegedly plotting to kill cops if they disrupted a trucker border blockade have connections to a shitposting far-right group. The men were part of a smaller, more extreme group that allegedly formed within the larger anti-vaccine mandate “freedom convoy” protest that shut down the U.S.-Canada border in the small town of Coutts, Alberta. Police said intelligence sources indicated there was a “small organized group” that “had access to a cache of firearms with a large quantity of ammunition.” “The group was said to have a willingness to use force against the police if any attempts were made to disrupt the blockade," the RCMP said in a press release. As first reported by the Globe and Mail, a tactical police squad descended upon two campers and a mobile home in Coutts early Monday morning. They arrested 11 people and seized 13 long guns, handguns, multiple sets of body armour, a machete, a large quantity of ammunition, and high-capacity magazines. “The dangerous criminal activity occurring away from the TV camera and social media posts was real and it was organized,” said RCMP Deputy Commissioner Curtis Zablocki. “It could have been deadly for citizens, protestors, and officers.” Three of the 11 charged—Chris Carbert, 44, Christopher Lysak, 48, Jerry Morin, 40, and Anthony Olienick, 39—face conspiracy to commit murder charges. The others—Ursula Allred, 22, Luke Berk, 62, Evan Colenutt, 23, Johnson Law, 39, Justin Martin, 22, Eastin Oler, 22, Joanne Person, 62, and Janx Zaremba, 18—all face charges of possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose and mischief over $5,000. (More at above url)
Yep... the enraged population of Ottawa are already shutting down the businesses of "Freedum Convoy" donors and running them out of town. And despite this being Canada saying "I'm sorry" is not going to help -- the residents of Ottawa knew from the very start that this was nothing more than an extremist protest. Your protests that you didn't "anticipate this" are ludicrous. 'We made a mistake': Ottawa gelato café shuts down after owner appears on leaked list of trucker protest supporters https://www.rawstory.com/freedom-convoy-trucker-protest/ Stella Luna Gelato Café in Ottawa was forced to close its doors this Tuesday after receiving a barrage of threats after the owner appeared on a leaked list of people who've donated to the anti-mandate trucker protest that's been gripping Canada, the Ottawa Citizen reports. The shop's owner, Tammy Giuliani, donated $250 to the truckers on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. After her donation was posted to Twitter, staff at her shop started receiving threats. “We got a call from the team saying, ‘We’re getting phone calls here,'” Giuliani said. “I said, ‘What’s going on?’ and they said, ‘They’re threatening to throw bricks through our window. They’re threatening to come and get us.’ We said, ‘Lock the door and we’ll find out what’s going on.'” That's when she ordered her shop closed. She says she had a different impression of the trucker protest when she made the donation, but now regrets it. “When a group of people first decided they were going to travel across the country to spread this message of solidarity, it seemed like a beacon of hope for small businesses like us,” she said. “It’s no surprise that small businesses have been on the edge. Families are at risk of losing their livelihood. I’m a sucker for a grassroots cause." “Never in our wildest dreams did we anticipate what has transpired over the past couple of weeks,” she said. “None of us anticipated what it turned into and we certainly don’t condone it." “In retrospect it was bad judgment, but does that mean that people have a right to threaten our staff? Does it mean people have the right to threaten to throw bricks through our window and to threaten my family? We made a mistake. Who could have anticipated it?”
Lefty media in the US trying to put some points up on the board for Canada since they are in the toilet bowl these days. Wayyyy to go, Canada . You are still good at something. Canadian women's hockey team wins Olympic gold for queer representation Seven players on the Canadian women’s ice hockey team are openly LGBTQ, making it the gayest Winter Olympic team of all time. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out...s-olympic-gold-queer-representation-rcna16530