Canada Truck Convoy, what to think about it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WTF is wrong with America? Why are we discussing a group of goons who protested a policy in their country?

Maybe BCS Canadians are so snotty about the U.S? And the Trumpers and the 6th of January? Do you know that some of my Canadian friends asked me if I voted for Trump and told me that they could not see me if I did? That they are so civilized while some Americans were clearly nasty, racists?
And explained to me how horrified they were about what was happening in the U.S? And how terribly the U.S. was handling the pandemic when they were doing so awesome? Yep, they need to get off their high and mighty judgy horse.

AND?

The Trump lunatics storming the capitols has 59 pages and this one 69? What country do you care about? Yes, Jan 6th was way way more horrible and you should care more for that one in case you want to live in a functioning democracy than what Canada and Mexico is doing...

There’s a much bigger thread started on January 6 that’s 200+ pages. Plus many others. The one you’re talking about is just about the Congressional committee that’s investigating.

The fencing has returned around the Capitol. (The Truckers are coming to DC.)

You know these violent protesters in Ottawa? That had huge trailer truck and semis parked right in front of their Parliament? Yeah, so violent they are. I bet you American truckers will have some idea of what they can demolish with their trucks!

I can demolish a lot with my own SUV. I don’t. So no violence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccine mandates are a clear government power grab: the shut down and other mitigation policies are arbitrary and declaring the need for emergency powers makes no sense given the mortality rate of covid.

What a stupid statement. We needed to protect the overwhelmed hospitals from dummies like you.

There have been vaccine mandates for decades to go to school.

And, there have always been exemptions.
The requirements for school vaccines are not set at the federal level.

Doesn't sound like a "power grab", then, does it? You just want it to be so you can feel righteous in opposing it.

It is a power grab when implemented by the federal government.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

Seriously think about the bolded. What right do you have to force labor?

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Anonymous wrote:Vaccine mandates are a clear government power grab: the shut down and other mitigation policies are arbitrary and declaring the need for emergency powers makes no sense given the mortality rate of covid.

Please answer how you can justify the war on drugs and the creation of the DEA? How is that not much more of a “power grab” by the government? Why is THAT not your rallying cry but vaccines are?

NP. Current government isn’t enforcing any DEA law at the border.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

I just have to ask.....

Did you take the same stance during the protests and riots of the summer of 2020? Or, were those "righteous" and "good" and therefore, the closing of a highway or businesses are just the cost of supporting the cause?

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Anonymous wrote:Trudeau will have two choices as the protests grow. Crack down further, which means murdering people, or walk.

It's only murder if you kill someone in a manner that's contrary to law. So, a third option might be killing criminals in a manner consistent with the law.

Without due process, unless you are under physical attack, there is no ‘contrary to law’

No idea what process is due in Canada, but in the U.S. an officer can be justified in using deadly force on a fleeing individual who refuses orders to stop if the person is a danger to others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

Seriously think about the bolded. What right do you have to force labor?

The rights of one person *always* imposes a burden on others. It's the nature of rights. As Jeremy Bentham put it:

Rights and obligations, though distinct and opposite in their nature, are simultaneous in their origin, and inseparable in their existence. According to the nature of things, the law cannot grant a benefit to any, without, at the same time, imposing a burden on some one else; or, in other words, a right cannot be created in favor of any one, without imposing a corresponding obligation on another. In what manner is a right of property in land conferred on me? By imposing upon every body, except myself the obligation not to touch its produce.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

Seriously think about the bolded. What right do you have to force labor?

They are free to quit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccine mandates are a clear government power grab: the shut down and other mitigation policies are arbitrary and declaring the need for emergency powers makes no sense given the mortality rate of covid.

What a stupid statement. We needed to protect the overwhelmed hospitals from dummies like you.

There have been vaccine mandates for decades to go to school.

And, there have always been exemptions.
The requirements for school vaccines are not set at the federal level.

Doesn't sound like a "power grab", then, does it? You just want it to be so you can feel righteous in opposing it.

It is a power grab when implemented by the federal government.

And the federal government is not implementing it in schools. So, no power grab.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

I just have to ask.....

Did you take the same stance during the protests and riots of the summer of 2020? Or, were those "righteous" and "good" and therefore, the closing of a highway or businesses are just the cost of supporting the cause?

People were arrested for prolonged obstruction or confrontation. Protesters were arrested if they committed crimes. Don’t be daft. Peaceful protesters were gassed and beaten by the Park Police to clear Lafayette Square so Trump could pose with an upside down Bible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

Seriously think about the bolded. What right do you have to force labor?

If you don't want to work, then don't. But that doesn't give you the right to block a public street for weeks on end because you don't want to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

I just have to ask.....

Did you take the same stance during the protests and riots of the summer of 2020? Or, were those "righteous" and "good" and therefore, the closing of a highway or businesses are just the cost of supporting the cause?

DP there were no riots over the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem with all these cries for freedom is that the people calling for it don’t even understand it. In a society, freedom is not absolute - when does your freedom impinge on mine? Further, various freedoms oftentimes conflict. So, while it’s fine to protest, these truckers don’t have the right to indefinitely shutdown a city or a primary bridge because doing so deprives others of their rights, economic and otherwise.

I just have to ask.....

Did you take the same stance during the protests and riots of the summer of 2020? Or, were those "righteous" and "good" and therefore, the closing of a highway or businesses are just the cost of supporting the cause?

DP.

1) they were protesting a murder by police
2) they were protesting. The rioting and fires etc were generally set by right wingers
3) they lasted a day here and a day there. It wasn't a sustained seige, except in portland and seattle where it turns out, yep, right wingers again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WTF is wrong with America? Why are we discussing a group of goons who protested a policy in their country?

Maybe BCS Canadians are so snotty about the U.S? And the Trumpers and the 6th of January? Do you know that some of my Canadian friends asked me if I voted for Trump and told me that they could not see me if I did? That they are so civilized while some Americans were clearly nasty, racists?
And explained to me how horrified they were about what was happening in the U.S? And how terribly the U.S. was handling the pandemic when they were doing so awesome? Yep, they need to get off their high and mighty judgy horse.

AND?

The Trump lunatics storming the capitols has 59 pages and this one 69? What country do you care about? Yes, Jan 6th was way way more horrible and you should care more for that one in case you want to live in a functioning democracy than what Canada and Mexico is doing...

There’s a much bigger thread started on January 6 that’s 200+ pages. Plus many others. The one you’re talking about is just about the Congressional committee that’s investigating.

The fencing has returned around the Capitol. (The Truckers are coming to DC.)

You know these violent protesters in Ottawa? That had huge trailer truck and semis parked right in front of their Parliament? Yeah, so violent they are. I bet you American truckers will have some idea of what they can demolish with their trucks!

I can demolish a lot with my own SUV. I don’t. So no violence.

Hence my point. You choose not to as did they. I doubt those that think January 6th was just a joke share your pacifist behaviors.

[Anonymous]

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If these trucker protests are nonviolent then why have Canadian police been finding huge arsenals of weapons when they arrest the protesters? https://globalnews.ca/news/8621125/canadian-anti-hate-network-concerned-diagolon-coutts-border-protest-diagolon/
Well, I don't know. I do not trust the mainstream Canadian media, TBH. Not in reporting this. They are paid by the Canadian gov. And why did they not use them for 3 weeks, all those arsenals of weapons? It doesn't add up. They had them, and they sat in their cars and did nothing with them?
I am not saying these are planted, but why were they not used? Heck, we had protesters on the 6th swarm the Capitol in leather Haloween outfits!


Wow, there is a whole lot of ignorance packed into your comment!

Kudos on hitting all the R talking points!


Explain, rather than rolling your eyes. I am not an R, not a Trumper, not antivaccine, in fact, I am in favor of some utopian form of an equal society. Never existed, but I hope it will exist one day.