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In Canada you get arrested for peacefully protesting: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-freedom-convoy-protest-arrests-trucks-towed-ottawa-police/ https://www

by _yoqn 5y ago

In Canada you get arrested for peacefully protesting: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-freedom-convoy-protest-arrests-trucks-towed-ottawa-police/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-freedom-convoy-protest-a... Note all the attempts in the article to paint them as "armed" and "extremists". There was no violence, no destruction of property. It was a legal demonstration until it was made illegal by invoking the Emergencies act. And this use of the law in my opinion was an abuse as it clearly is for terrorist threats. Not Canadian working class people peacefully demonstrating.

dgellow 5y ago
Using the emergency act was abusive, I would agree. But I don’t believe it was a peaceful protest the way you describe. They were clearly blocking critical infrastructure and hurting the neighborhood. But I don’t see how that’s related to the discussion about YouTube suspending a channel.
KennyBlanken 5y ago
Blaring horns and blasting music continuously through the night and day, keeping thousands of people from sleeping is not "peaceful" nor legal. Blocking a nation's highways and borders for weeks is not legal. People screamed blue-bloody-murder when BLM and Occupy protesters chained themselves to barrels across interstates, disrupting traffic for an hour or two...but the Canadian government tolerates a complete shutdown of a border, along with near continuous public disturbance for weeks - before finally clearing the protesters, and that's somehow an example of oppression?
- _yoqn 5y ago
  ANTIFA and BLM riots caused billions of dollars of damage, destroyed buildings, including federal ones, burned down multiple businesses and involved extensive looting. There were also multiple cold blooded murders and rapes during the riots as well as occupations. The US and Canadian governments did not enact anti-terrorism measures as they did with the truckers. The Canadian truckers picked up the trash. I never saw a cleaner protest.

by _yoqn 5y ago

dgellow 5y ago

Using the emergency act was abusive, I would agree. But I don’t believe it was a peaceful protest the way you describe. They were clearly blocking critical infrastructure and hurting the neighborhood. But I don’t see how that’s related to the discussion about YouTube suspending a channel.

KennyBlanken 5y ago

Blaring horns and blasting music continuously through the night and day, keeping thousands of people from sleeping is not "peaceful" nor legal. Blocking a nation's highways and borders for weeks is not legal. People screamed blue-bloody-murder when BLM and Occupy protesters chained themselves to barrels across interstates, disrupting traffic for an hour or two...but the Canadian government tolerates a complete shutdown of a border, along with near continuous public disturbance for weeks - before finally clearing the protesters, and that's somehow an example of oppression?

_yoqn 5y ago
ANTIFA and BLM riots caused billions of dollars of damage, destroyed buildings, including federal ones, burned down multiple businesses and involved extensive looting. There were also multiple cold blooded murders and rapes during the riots as well as occupations. The US and Canadian governments did not enact anti-terrorism measures as they did with the truckers. The Canadian truckers picked up the trash. I never saw a cleaner protest.