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My wife just asked me: haven't the truckers now basically been proven right? I mean: in the end what they were really protesting against were measures they did
by TacticalCoder 5y ago
My wife just asked me: haven't the truckers now basically been proven right?
I mean: in the end what they were really protesting against were measures they did find totalitarian (btw I'm double vaccinated and so is my wife, out of our free will, so we're not anti-vaxx).
The measures taken do not look like something normal to do in a democracy: invoking an emergency act and using laws meant for war times... Aren't some people who were not sympathetic to their cause now going to think they were right all along?
I'm asking because I just explained the situation to my wife and her first reaction was precisely what I mentioned: "so they were right all along?"
I didn't look at it from that angle but there are obviously people who will.
- vaidhy 5y agoIs it a slightly different twist on the question of whether a tolerant society tolerate the intolerant? It seems to me like the protestors were already treated very liberally and their continued escalation and radicalization led to stronger response. On a smaller scale, you cannot sit on your neighbour's doorstep screaming they hate you and when you get evicted, claim you were right all along.
- _dain_ 5y agoThe way you deal with that is by arresting them and charging them with specific crimes. You do not just get to seize all of their assets without due process. The protest was already cleared away using conventional policing methods yet this law still remains on the books and they are going after protestors retroactively. It is vindictive and despotic.