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I don't watch the news so I had a lot of catching up to do. I found this source: https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-organizers-hate/ https

by kodah 5y ago

I don't watch the news so I had a lot of catching up to do. I found this source: https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-organizers-hate/ https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-orga... More or less, some of the organizers have been tied to xenophobic statements and political movements. Others have been tied to militias. Others are just normal people.

frabbit 5y ago
You also forget that the government of Canada invoked an act intended to be used in the most extreme circumstances when normal political, democratic processes were obviously impossible to follow. In addition they have induced GoFundMe and the banks to interfere with the privately held accounts of individuals and publically raised funds. All this after weeks of doing little to nothing and apparently not negotiating with the protestors. This would all be understandable, but questionable, in a war situation. It is very disturbing, to say the least, to see the sledgehammer of this act being used to crack the relatively small nut of a noisy, inconvenient petition for redress of wrongs by people who seem to still accept that they are citizens of a democratic state. (Also, this is all the fault of the USA. Or the Russians. )
- kodah 5y ago
  This is fault of the US or Russia how?
  - frabbit 5y ago
    Most media here has suggested variously that they are "concerned about Russian influence", that the majority of the funding has come from the United States etc. They're whipping up a new War on Terror (currently funded by US extremists) in order to justify increased police militarization and the use of extra-ordinary and unnecessary measures. They are saying they cannot deal with the situation normally while simultaneously refusing to meet with the truckers and eschewing ordinary policing for weeks beforehand. Yanis Varoufakis is onto something with the death of of social democracy and capitalism and their mutation into something new and nasty. Can't wait to see what happens when the irreversible climate change starts to affect people's standard of living.

by kodah 5y ago

frabbit 5y ago

You also forget that the government of Canada invoked an act intended to be used in the most extreme circumstances when normal political, democratic processes were obviously impossible to follow. In addition they have induced GoFundMe and the banks to interfere with the privately held accounts of individuals and publically raised funds. All this after weeks of doing little to nothing and apparently not negotiating with the protestors. This would all be understandable, but questionable, in a war situation. It is very disturbing, to say the least, to see the sledgehammer of this act being used to crack the relatively small nut of a noisy, inconvenient petition for redress of wrongs by people who seem to still accept that they are citizens of a democratic state. (Also, this is all the fault of the USA. Or the Russians. )

kodah 5y ago
This is fault of the US or Russia how?
- frabbit 5y ago
  Most media here has suggested variously that they are "concerned about Russian influence", that the majority of the funding has come from the United States etc. They're whipping up a new War on Terror (currently funded by US extremists) in order to justify increased police militarization and the use of extra-ordinary and unnecessary measures. They are saying they cannot deal with the situation normally while simultaneously refusing to meet with the truckers and eschewing ordinary policing for weeks beforehand. Yanis Varoufakis is onto something with the death of of social democracy and capitalism and their mutation into something new and nasty. Can't wait to see what happens when the irreversible climate change starts to affect people's standard of living.