We’re not your lab rats any more: Convoy update III

So much news. I’ll just keep adding to it, putting new items at the top so you can keep checking back. I will try to group them loosely by topic where possible.

In Ottawa, people are often just politely ignoring the police — as long as they can

Despite being forbidden to do so, they are bringing cans of gas to the truckers:

Gas can subterfuge:

With no end in sight for the entrenched protest, Ottawa police announced on Sunday they would be cracking down by arresting anyone giving “material aid” — such as fuel — to the protesters.

But on Tuesday, police revealed that demonstrators were trying to subvert officers by filling jerry cans with water, or just leaving them empty.

“It does provide a layer of logistical complexity to us,” said Steve Bell, Ottawa deputy police chief.

The police continue to take the cans but they don’t seem to be fazing the crowd.

The demonstrators now have constitutional lawyers on the case, though they really just want the politicians to ratchet down the COVID crazy:

Here, an elderly man is arrested for honking his horn:

The Ottawa police can’t immediately help the fact that they serve an elite that would be comfortable with an authoritarian/totalitarian state. But they had better address what that elite is turning them into soon.

Canada news

The Ambassador Bridge between Windsor (Canada) and Detroit (US) continues to be blockaded — “the truckers are peaceful but determined.”

“From Toronto and Quebec City to Alberta, truckers have assembled, demanding an end to the myriad useless COVID-19 lockdown mandates that are making all our lives miserable”

The Emerson border crossing in Manitoba is also blocked.

And the border at Coutts, Alberta:

At Coutts, the government can’t find a towing company that is willing to tow the trucks away.

In Toronto (Canada’s biggest city):

Tensions grew between thousands of protesters and police at the intersection of Avenue Road and Bloor Street.

Big rig trucks approached police vehicles and subsequently blocked Bloor Street — a major artery in the city — for hours. Some expected to stay indefinitely. As more vehicles and big rigs joined, the streets and intersection became filled with supports chanting, “let them through,” and “we love you” to the few naysayers.

*(The threatened counter protest did not amount to much.)

Message: Stop. You don’t own us. We are not some of your many lab rats. By the way, while we are here, Canada belongs to the people of Canada, not to a privileged globalist elite who think they can make our lives hell for years on end and then shout insults and slanders, all the while evidence is mounting that their COVID strategies don’t really work any more.

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US news

Governments are starting to backdown from mandates, lockdowns, and the useless mask crazy:

As recently as last month, when newly elected Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ended mandatory mask rules in Virginia public schools, Democrats were calling him, essentially, a mass murderer.

But that was then. All of a sudden, we are told, “The science has changed.”

No, really, those were the words of CNN medical “expert” Dr. Leana Wen, leading Reason’s Robby Soave to ask, “Has anything fundamentally changed in the last six months, except for Democrats finally, belatedly realizing that militant masking is a political loser? The science didn’t change, the politics changed.”

Nevada ends the mask mandate, effective immediately

Masks on schoolkids are not a winning political cause:

Just recently, Democratic governors in New Jersey, Delaware, Oregon and Connecticut announced they would end their states’ school mask mandates. Even Randi Weingarten, head of American Federation of Teachers, signaled her willingness for masks to come off in schools. She admitted on MSNBC “no one wants masks in schools.” After years of threatening, suspending and holding back children from the classroom, Democrats and teachers’ unions are admitting that it is not science, but the politics that has changed.

Punditry in the U.S.

You Count Indiana:

This really has nothing to do with vaccines or vaccine safety, or vaccine mis/disinformation. It certainly has nothing to do with a commitment to truth. This is about money and power. Or money as an aspect of power. And it certainly has everything to do with totalitarianism and mass formation psychosis.

Karys Rhea at Newsweek:

Over the last two years, Canada has descended into the kind of mass-surveillance state you read about in dystopian novels. In December, the country’s public health agency admitted it has tracked data from 33 million devices monitoring people’s movement and activity during the lockdowns—and plans to continue doing so for the next five years. In a country of only 38 million people, that’s an extraordinary number. Other disturbing anecdotes of government overreach have emerged, from Canadian citizens being detained for weeks when entering the country with no ability to contact anyone, to Alberta police issuing tickets at unpermitted Christmas gatherings.

Now, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his state-sponsored media would have you believe that a fringe group of miscreants have hijacked the Canadian trucking industry. They’ve formed a violent convoy and stormed across the country to wreak havoc on the capital city of Ottawa. These odious, white supremacist truckers have been hurling abuse at small business workers, stealing food from the homeless and vandalizing sacred monuments. With the aim of spreading their anti-vaccine ideology and giving everyone COVID, these truckers simply have unacceptable views and share none of the higher ideals of the average Canadian citizen.

But none of this is true.

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International news

French Convoyers are waving Canadian flags. “About 200 protesters assembled in a parking lot in Nice, on France’s Mediterranean coast, with many displaying Canadian flags in a nod to the truckers in Canada” (If interested in freedom from medical totalitarianism, be sure to secure a Canadian flag while you still can.)

Hockey Star Mike Fisher: Truckers Are Fighting for the Freedom of Every Single Person in Canada
Yes, and for everyone who waves a Canadian flag. Or would like to.

Sweden is lifting restrictions: Swedish health minister says coronavirus is no longer classified as a danger to society

France, Greece, and Portugal have become the latest European countries to relax their COVID-19-related regulations, with the three nations easing travel restrictions.

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The $8 million raised for the Canadian truckers in the Freedom Convoy by GiveSendGo has been frozen by an Ontario court: “The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ordered that all donations made through the “Freedom Convoy 2022” and “Adopt a trucker” campaigns on the Christian fundraising platform be frozen until further notice, according to a statement from Premier Doug Ford’s office.” “‘In a statement on Twitter, GiveSendGo wrote in an apparent response to the court order, “Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo.’”

When the elite is rebelling against the people, laws don’t matter. It was bound to happen and some truckers are looking into crypto or just cash. But money isn’t the big need. Determined, free people are.

You may also wish to read:

Let us listen to Dr. Robert Malone, dissenting expert, on the COVID-19 crisis

and, for what’s happening in suddenly famous Canada:

Convoy II : The police swoop in Ottawa: The Constitution? Old news now “Trust the science!” is starting to show its totalitarian face in Canada — but, as they slowly learn the facts, citizens are standing their ground, From the comments: “Canadians: ‘Be polite when you are being arrested.’ u guys rock!” (Sure, commenter. Canada belongs to the people of Canada. And this is how free people fight back. Serfs, by contrast, destroy things and attack people because they have no stake in a free and prosperous society.)

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What I saw at the Freedom Convoy in downtown Victoria It was all friendly; people were having a good time. There was no violence; I heard no racial epithets and saw no racial insignia. So if media tell you that it is really about white nationalism, etc., remember that the legacy Canadian media are in fact supported to stay in business by the federal government. Because few depend on them for news any more.

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