Well, never could have imagined it before, but here I am living it. I don't even know how many head-shaking moments I've had recently, thinking "Am I really living this? Is this real? Are we in Canada?"
I've noticed more and more that many of the people criticizing the protests are the kind of people that considered themselves brave for being against things we all universally agreed were bad a long time ago, yet when similar events happen in their own time, they don't even cower in a corner. They actively promote and collaborate to enable the same actions that they had previously said were terrible. I will never in my life listen to someone arguing against historical injustices, of any kind, that did not stand up in support of the freedom convoy. This is the litmus test for morality and way too many people are failing including, and especially, the people in charge of running our institutions.
I was thinking this very thing this week. Growing up I was told of how bad it was in the USSR where people could not leave their country and couldn't freely move within it.
And at least one of the people who told me thinks what has happened in the past 2 years is acceptable.
Also, if you notice all the hate comes from their side. If you read comments on Twitter threads or articles about the protests you will see vitriolic hatred against the protestors while claiming we are the hateful ones. But all the protests I've been to have been peaceful and loving. While we get the middle finger, thumbs down, and stuff thrown at us.
I cannot agree with you more. It's utterly bizarre that they not only cannot see this for what it is, they hate those of us who do. We all think we would have been part of the resistance when in reality as it's proving most of us would have been Nazis.
I am repeating myself, but it truly is like something has been disconnected in the critical thinking areas of their brains. Given that the technology was far more advanced than we knew, I'm not ruling out anything. And Oh Susanna, I could not agree more. The most hateful comments do seem to be coming from the Covid zero (leftist) accounts. God help us.
I saw boriguato posted a headline from Bloomberg that said no one knows how to end the protest... And I am wondering who consumes that media... Or even writes it. Do they really believe that? It's hard to tell.
There is one clear, reasonable, actionable demand, that can be completely with a press conference and is backed by science... Yet the people that said "we heard you, you can go home now" are pretending there is no solution? Like... Wow.
Well, I wasn't a Bush fan but he had one truly amazing moment as POTUS... It was off the cuff after 9/11... "They're gonna hear all of us, soon". The whole world is slowly opening up, most of Canada is too... Even the consumers of that garbage can't deny reality for much longer
They innundated us w fear n placed us in survival mode- look at the Stanford experiment. Normal, everyday people pitted vs one another. N they have the batons currently🥺
Yup, it's called 'mass formation', a phenomenon that has been studied for over a hundred years. Just look at Germany in the 1930's, where one of the most civilized and best educated populations in Europe went barking mad, and that was without today's pervasive mass media.
Yes, it is exactly the same here in New Zealand: many former punks and anti-establishment types are at the forefront of hatred and condemnation towards our convoy protest currently occupying parliament grounds. They seem to be uncritically lapping up the legacy medias' preposterous lies about the protestors. I'm shocked by many former friends' views and the general lack of push back from people about the introduction of a discriminatory two tier system.. Craziness
The establishment is on the same spiritual level as segregationists in the Southern U.S. in the past, in terms of their desire for a two-tiered society. I ran into a woman at a freedom rally yesterday in Nova Scotia who told me that she was asked to move to the back of the bus because she did not have a mask on. She refused and was kicked off the bus. Like Rosa Parks.
I wrote this article and can't get it published anywhere. Here's some of it:
Martin Luther King Jr, in the Letter from Birmingham Jail, wrote to his critics who objected to his form of direct activism: “You deplore the demonstrations [but fail] to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.” Similarly, those who object to the convoy but fail to speak out against the mandates that led to it are living in a privileged bubble, oblivious to the suffering of millions.
These mandates are incredibly oppressive. The people were left with no alternative . . . These are some of the worst restrictions on the planet. They were ill-advised and need never have taken place, to begin with.
Like the racial segregationist of old, the new medical segregationists want to smash a peaceful protest. The Ottawa police don't use the brutal tactics that Bull Connor did in Birmingham Alabama in 1963, but their goal is the same: get rid of the protestors. And one could certainly argue that freezing the truckers is a form of violence; it's just not as visible as water cannons and attack dogs. Now Doug Ford wants to impose "severe consequences" and sounds more like a third-world dictator than a leader in a liberal democracy.
The critics of the convoy hate the disruption in Ottawa -- although it's overwhelmingly peaceful and celebratory in the mood. MLK defended the disruption to Birmingham, saying that nonviolent direct action “seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored … that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
How little changes in human nature, it seems. The issues may differ but the underlying dynamics are the same. The progressive Leftists like to think they are morally superior to those in the past, but they've turned out to be as repressive as any other despot in history. They just use different methods. People are still forced to fight for their freedom in this new world. We never thought it could happen in Canada or that those who like to think of themselves as 'progressive' would be our oppressors.
Ottawa City Council, much like Birmingham City Council of 1963 seems oblivious to the pain and suffering of those at their doorstep and resentful of the disruption. Now Birmingham celebrates the freedom march; in time, Ottawa will do the same.
While the historical contexts greatly differ, this freedom movement is a true civil rights movement, one that stands against medical segregation and government overreach. It stands for egalitarianism and freedom of choice. It is just and righteous, no matter what the entitled political class may say on Twitter.
As to the argument that the convoy is an "occupy" movement. It isn't. MLK said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial ‘outside agitator’ idea.” Canadians have a constitutional right to be in their own capital city to protest the government. Ottaway's Mayor, Jim Watson, has deemed the situation an "emergency" in order to bypass the Charter -- which is wrong of him.
This is the same Mayor who marched with BLM in June of 2020, to virtue-signal his woke pedigree, but now when faced with hundreds of thousands of people peacefully crying for justice, he orders police to drive them out. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Someone online, an Ottawa resident, complained about illegal parking, but the tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience is driven by a moral concern for the good of all. A municipal infraction is the lesser concern. MLK referred to a Moral Law given by God to defend justice. On this basis, he and Gandhi broke trespassing laws.
Birmingham police used water cannons and dogs. The media thus far have been the attack dogs for Trudeau, wrongly smearing the truckers. Trudeau himself has done that in public addresses that are ugly and painful to watch. He tries to smear a peaceful protest against his own authoritarian measures, and as a result, will go down in history as the most oppressive Canadian PM in history.
Now that police are using force, this compounds the injustice. Why can’t the Mayor make peace with the truckers and join them in calling for an end to the mandates? Like Birmingham's Mayor in 1963, Ottawa's Mayor of 2022 is missing out on something beautiful and historic. He's blind by his own privilege to what's happening in his own backyard.
Now the City of Birmingham celebrates the protest that occurred on its streets long ago. In time the same will happen in Ottawa. When that time comes, those who were against the freedom movement of 2022 will mutter under their breath and some will acknowledge they were wrong and were misled at the time.
Already in the UK, public pressure has turned the tide and now the BBC, once a cheerleader for Covid mass hysteria, did a story on the pain caused by the coercion to take the mRNA injections. The desire for freedom in the human heart cannot be repressed forever. It is stronger than government and corporate rule and can outlast them.
Trudeau, the Liberal Party of Canada, the NDP, Ottawa City Council, and the legacy media in Canada are all on the wrong side of history on this one. These politicians and journalists should stop being oppressors. They should instead celebrate the truckers and the freedom movement. Like the civil rights movement in the U.S., this nonviolent freedom movement has been vilified by those in power, but in time -- when the media lies fade away -- the truckers will gain respect among all Canadians, just as it has already gained respect around the world.
Well, never could have imagined it before, but here I am living it. I don't even know how many head-shaking moments I've had recently, thinking "Am I really living this? Is this real? Are we in Canada?"
I've noticed more and more that many of the people criticizing the protests are the kind of people that considered themselves brave for being against things we all universally agreed were bad a long time ago, yet when similar events happen in their own time, they don't even cower in a corner. They actively promote and collaborate to enable the same actions that they had previously said were terrible. I will never in my life listen to someone arguing against historical injustices, of any kind, that did not stand up in support of the freedom convoy. This is the litmus test for morality and way too many people are failing including, and especially, the people in charge of running our institutions.
I was thinking this very thing this week. Growing up I was told of how bad it was in the USSR where people could not leave their country and couldn't freely move within it.
And at least one of the people who told me thinks what has happened in the past 2 years is acceptable.
Also, if you notice all the hate comes from their side. If you read comments on Twitter threads or articles about the protests you will see vitriolic hatred against the protestors while claiming we are the hateful ones. But all the protests I've been to have been peaceful and loving. While we get the middle finger, thumbs down, and stuff thrown at us.
But that's how the left (USA) has always been. Always! They are right, they are perfect, you are trash. The party of narcissists. Grrrr!
I cannot agree with you more. It's utterly bizarre that they not only cannot see this for what it is, they hate those of us who do. We all think we would have been part of the resistance when in reality as it's proving most of us would have been Nazis.
I wasn't pro segregation in the early 60's, before I was even in school. I'm definitely not into that crap now!
I am repeating myself, but it truly is like something has been disconnected in the critical thinking areas of their brains. Given that the technology was far more advanced than we knew, I'm not ruling out anything. And Oh Susanna, I could not agree more. The most hateful comments do seem to be coming from the Covid zero (leftist) accounts. God help us.
I saw boriguato posted a headline from Bloomberg that said no one knows how to end the protest... And I am wondering who consumes that media... Or even writes it. Do they really believe that? It's hard to tell.
There is one clear, reasonable, actionable demand, that can be completely with a press conference and is backed by science... Yet the people that said "we heard you, you can go home now" are pretending there is no solution? Like... Wow.
Well, I wasn't a Bush fan but he had one truly amazing moment as POTUS... It was off the cuff after 9/11... "They're gonna hear all of us, soon". The whole world is slowly opening up, most of Canada is too... Even the consumers of that garbage can't deny reality for much longer
They innundated us w fear n placed us in survival mode- look at the Stanford experiment. Normal, everyday people pitted vs one another. N they have the batons currently🥺
Yup, it's called 'mass formation', a phenomenon that has been studied for over a hundred years. Just look at Germany in the 1930's, where one of the most civilized and best educated populations in Europe went barking mad, and that was without today's pervasive mass media.
This is what can be expected during a period of mass formation psychosis.
Yes, it is exactly the same here in New Zealand: many former punks and anti-establishment types are at the forefront of hatred and condemnation towards our convoy protest currently occupying parliament grounds. They seem to be uncritically lapping up the legacy medias' preposterous lies about the protestors. I'm shocked by many former friends' views and the general lack of push back from people about the introduction of a discriminatory two tier system.. Craziness
The establishment is on the same spiritual level as segregationists in the Southern U.S. in the past, in terms of their desire for a two-tiered society. I ran into a woman at a freedom rally yesterday in Nova Scotia who told me that she was asked to move to the back of the bus because she did not have a mask on. She refused and was kicked off the bus. Like Rosa Parks.
I wrote this article and can't get it published anywhere. Here's some of it:
Martin Luther King Jr, in the Letter from Birmingham Jail, wrote to his critics who objected to his form of direct activism: “You deplore the demonstrations [but fail] to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.” Similarly, those who object to the convoy but fail to speak out against the mandates that led to it are living in a privileged bubble, oblivious to the suffering of millions.
These mandates are incredibly oppressive. The people were left with no alternative . . . These are some of the worst restrictions on the planet. They were ill-advised and need never have taken place, to begin with.
Like the racial segregationist of old, the new medical segregationists want to smash a peaceful protest. The Ottawa police don't use the brutal tactics that Bull Connor did in Birmingham Alabama in 1963, but their goal is the same: get rid of the protestors. And one could certainly argue that freezing the truckers is a form of violence; it's just not as visible as water cannons and attack dogs. Now Doug Ford wants to impose "severe consequences" and sounds more like a third-world dictator than a leader in a liberal democracy.
The critics of the convoy hate the disruption in Ottawa -- although it's overwhelmingly peaceful and celebratory in the mood. MLK defended the disruption to Birmingham, saying that nonviolent direct action “seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored … that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
How little changes in human nature, it seems. The issues may differ but the underlying dynamics are the same. The progressive Leftists like to think they are morally superior to those in the past, but they've turned out to be as repressive as any other despot in history. They just use different methods. People are still forced to fight for their freedom in this new world. We never thought it could happen in Canada or that those who like to think of themselves as 'progressive' would be our oppressors.
Ottawa City Council, much like Birmingham City Council of 1963 seems oblivious to the pain and suffering of those at their doorstep and resentful of the disruption. Now Birmingham celebrates the freedom march; in time, Ottawa will do the same.
While the historical contexts greatly differ, this freedom movement is a true civil rights movement, one that stands against medical segregation and government overreach. It stands for egalitarianism and freedom of choice. It is just and righteous, no matter what the entitled political class may say on Twitter.
As to the argument that the convoy is an "occupy" movement. It isn't. MLK said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial ‘outside agitator’ idea.” Canadians have a constitutional right to be in their own capital city to protest the government. Ottaway's Mayor, Jim Watson, has deemed the situation an "emergency" in order to bypass the Charter -- which is wrong of him.
This is the same Mayor who marched with BLM in June of 2020, to virtue-signal his woke pedigree, but now when faced with hundreds of thousands of people peacefully crying for justice, he orders police to drive them out. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Someone online, an Ottawa resident, complained about illegal parking, but the tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience is driven by a moral concern for the good of all. A municipal infraction is the lesser concern. MLK referred to a Moral Law given by God to defend justice. On this basis, he and Gandhi broke trespassing laws.
Birmingham police used water cannons and dogs. The media thus far have been the attack dogs for Trudeau, wrongly smearing the truckers. Trudeau himself has done that in public addresses that are ugly and painful to watch. He tries to smear a peaceful protest against his own authoritarian measures, and as a result, will go down in history as the most oppressive Canadian PM in history.
Now that police are using force, this compounds the injustice. Why can’t the Mayor make peace with the truckers and join them in calling for an end to the mandates? Like Birmingham's Mayor in 1963, Ottawa's Mayor of 2022 is missing out on something beautiful and historic. He's blind by his own privilege to what's happening in his own backyard.
Now the City of Birmingham celebrates the protest that occurred on its streets long ago. In time the same will happen in Ottawa. When that time comes, those who were against the freedom movement of 2022 will mutter under their breath and some will acknowledge they were wrong and were misled at the time.
Already in the UK, public pressure has turned the tide and now the BBC, once a cheerleader for Covid mass hysteria, did a story on the pain caused by the coercion to take the mRNA injections. The desire for freedom in the human heart cannot be repressed forever. It is stronger than government and corporate rule and can outlast them.
Trudeau, the Liberal Party of Canada, the NDP, Ottawa City Council, and the legacy media in Canada are all on the wrong side of history on this one. These politicians and journalists should stop being oppressors. They should instead celebrate the truckers and the freedom movement. Like the civil rights movement in the U.S., this nonviolent freedom movement has been vilified by those in power, but in time -- when the media lies fade away -- the truckers will gain respect among all Canadians, just as it has already gained respect around the world.