It's clearing up, they say it could happen in US?
Going on in France, NZ, the Netherlands..
https://apnews.com/article/coronavir...d255a2ce23eb84
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It's clearing up, they say it could happen in US?
Going on in France, NZ, the Netherlands..
https://apnews.com/article/coronavir...d255a2ce23eb84
If it does, I hope we'll see a strong response from law enforcement.
There is people protesting in Detroit side too. It's been going on for days now.
It is happening in Canada too. The word is just so crazy right now.
I come from a family of truck drivers & so I have to side with them. At the beginning the truckers were treated like shit, they were not allowed into truck stops to use the restrooms, wash their hands after fueling or to take a shower. They completely dehumanized and denied the basics, YET expected to continue to make deliveries so we all could eat & have toilet paper to wipe our asses while being denied food & bathrooms.
If these are the people you want to call the police on knowing how the police treat people & beat them up... so you advocate violence against the very people who keep America and other countries running? You advocate violence against my Mother, my nephews & cousins.
For a year they were denied fresh hot food, bathrooms and showers and if your belief that the cops should be called on them for standing up for their rights..... how disappointing. My Mom who has worked hard her entire life felt less than human while risking her life to bring us all the essentials. A woman who has helped many sex trafficked & abused women with money out of her own pocket, help train them in a job to support themselves. This is who you want the police to beat up?
Sam, if you need to block someone, click on their profile and if you highlight their name, I believe there should be an option to add to an ignore list.
Not getting in the middle, just explaining the feature. I didn't even know we had such a feature until one of the other girls on here mentioned it in passing.
I, personally, have mad respect for truckers, I have actually went thru some of the process to apply, (yrs ago, I wouldn't be able to do that job, even more respect).
It's a very dangerous job, more than ever in this time of pandemic!
I read where a rest stop was all blocked up, many truckers waiting for just restrooms, after driving many hours!
I am not for removing the mask mandates, at least in stores, restaurants (takeout only for me).. That's my opinion anyway.
As far as blocking, click on the username, you'll see where it says to block.
HTH :)
This isn’t about truckers…there is a lot of labor organizing from truckers that is being ignored. Instead this is a mass funded anti vax protest with a lot of far right issues tucked in.
Thank you xx! Here’s an article too.
https://www.wired.com/story/ottawa-t...ook-alt-right/
‘But the alt-right has seized on the opportunity to turn a local protest into another chapter in the unending culture war. Offline, 90 percent of Canadian truckers are vaccinated and the Canadian Trucking Alliance, which represents the industry in the country and does not support the convoy, has said most of the people in and around the protests “do not have a connection to the trucking industry.” Online, the incident has become a global sensation with supporters gathering on Facebook and Telegram in the hundreds of thousands—with many of them living outside Canada’s borders.’
Just because some right wing groups jumped on the band wagon after this all started doesn't mean that this didn't have organic roots. By all accounts it did.
I sympathize with truckers who feel that they should not have to put a new biologic in their bodies to keep their jobs. And Sam is right - they weathered some crazy ass restrictions and conditions to keep us supplied with basic needs during the height of the COVID hysteria.
But IMHO blocking access roads is going too far. To me that has really detracted from their cause. Protest all you want, but nobody, whether right wing or left wing, has a right to take over public roadways. IMO anyone who does should have the fire hoses turned on them.
Well I guess I stepped in it, by starting this thread, :(
Feel free to delete my comments or whatever, again sorry :(
I have nothing but respect for the more than 99% of truck drivers who follow the law and who are not disrupting or endangering the lives of others. Most truck drivers are as opposed to these protests as I am. The Teamsters, who represent tens of thousand of people in the freight industry, have denounced these protests.
https://teamster.org/2022/02/teamste...nadian-border/
They are blocking roads and are honking their horns 24 hours a day in residential areas, so that people who live there can't sleep. They are disrupting supply chains in American factories and are causing some factories to shut down because they're not able to get parts from Canada. They're flooding 911 phone lines, so if anyone has an emergency, they won't be able to get through.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8609284/o...t-disruptions/
Many of these people aren't even truckers but right-wing and anti-vaxx activists. Most of these calls flooding 911 phone lines are coming from America.
I have nothing against peaceful protests, but disrupting and endangering the lives of others goes way above and beyond what is acceptable.
This has been a peaceful protest, (not one building has been set on fire unlike the so called peaceful protests here in the States) and its against the mask mandates after the fact that everyone was made to get the vaccine. It all boils down to one thing, if Masks work then you dont need a vaccine, if vaccines work then you dont need a mask.
This is why people are getting pissed off. You cannot have it both ways. People are figuring out this entire thing is about control and keeping the people in the dark while using them as guinea pigs. The last time this happened the people responsible were tried in Nuremburg. The time it pissed off the American people we shot everything wearing British uniforms.
This is nothing to do with unions but overreaching government. Want to know how 99% of it is overreach and fear mongering? Everyone is rolling back their restrictions in the die hard mask blue states because every poll is telling them they will lose their power if they dont wake up. That is what this is about losing control and being put in prison for overstepping their office.
on the other things mentioned Canada's 911 service isnt the same as the US. hence when you dial in the US you dont get the Canada emergency service dispatch.
^^^ Please stop with the nazi comparisons. As someone who is Jewish, I find it very offensive. There is no comparison between mandating a vaccine that has been proven safe and effective, to prevent people from getting very sick or dying from a deadly virus, and murdering millions of people.
The British never mandated vaccines in America. You know who did? General George Washington. He ordered American troops to get vaccinated against smallpox during the Revolutionary War.
Comparing Covid vaccine requirements to Nazi policies is truly uncalled for . That said the Canadian truckers have some legitimate beefs that Trudeau refuses to address. Worse yet, he called the protesters all sorts of derogatory names with unfair comparisons.
The Canadian govt has given banks and other financial institutions the power to freeze or suspend the bank accounts of those who are funding or taking part in the blockade, without a court order.
https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/...48719432978437
We’re just getting started with protests. We’re collectively healing all our densities. Anything that hasn’t healed will come up like it or not. It’s why all our shadows are coming up.
Ordinary people have been oppressed for centuries, and now we’re shifting into a new paradigm. Where our inner authority is more important than outer authority.
I agree the nazi comparisons are inappropriate Eagle and I’m sorry that you carry that have to carry that trauma in your system.
It is a dangerous path when banks shut off funds & bank accounts of protestors, especially peaceful protestors. Then the rich can take advantage of us & steal our money at the same time. Then all our rights can be removed & we will never have a voice in order to improve pay, working conditions & such.
Calling the police in to beat down those who are having a peaceful demonstration is dangerous for all of us.
Natural herd immunity is possible, as the virus goes on & mutates it will become weaker & weaker. And demanding vaccines for those who already have had it and the antibodies which is stronger than any vax is lunacy.
Are they freezing the funds and cancelling the insurance of protesters or those that break the law and in so doing hurt others ?
Protests are one thing. Blockades are quite another.
Nonetheless we are seeing the results of what happens when Freedom butts up against Government.
Just focusing on the U.S. we are supposed to have Freedom. It was THE founding principle of our country.
Freedom to work; own a business ; shop or dine INDOORS ; to watch entertainment ; to worship with others ; to go to school and learn and eat lunch INDOORS; to engage in sports; to associate ; to assemble ; to travel ; to speak and to choose medical treatment.
All those and more are under threat in Canada in the name of a "public health emergency". Biden would probably love to do a lot of Trudeau is doing but we have a Constitution and Courts that restrain him. It's bad enough that the Federal , State and local governments in the U.S. have normalized cancelling people , shutdowns ( that didn't work ) , mask and vaccine mandates, firing people and now vaccine passports.
Sooner or later some other pathogen will come along . Another Covid variant or other virus. Before it does we need to take a good hard look at what policies worked and what did not. Otherwise the Government will just do an "all of the above" or a Covid Redux.
Circling back to Trudeau and his invocation of The Emergencies Act it could , repeat COULD result in the fall of his government. Even very liberal news outlets and newspapers are saying that he has gone too far. The tow truck drivers have refused to haul away trucks. Truck drivers are popular in Canada and so far , they have been TOTALLY peaceful.
In contrast to the U.S. and Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness , Canada's bedrock principles are Peace, Order and Good Government. If force is used on peaceful protesters that would be an assault on Peace. If Government creates Disorder most Canadians will see that as a betrayal. So far, Trudeau has eroded trust in Good Government. Canadians are seeing the shutdowns and regulations as excessive and unnecessary. Trudeau has effectively set himself as a virtual dictator and that is not going down well up north.
It's not peaceful. Residents are being harassed. Truckers are blasting their horns in residential areas all day and night. Protesters have urinated and defecated on the lawns of residents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/w...-protests.html
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“I’m receiving hundreds — and I’m not exaggerating — hundreds of emails telling me: ‘I went out to get groceries, I got yelled at, I got harassed. I got followed down the street, I’m so afraid that I can’t go out,’” Catherine McKenney, the city councilor for the area, told me on Thursday afternoon.
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Day and night, trucks have been rumbling through their streets, blaring air horns — some of them of the variety usually found on railway locomotives. Impromptu fireworks shows, some as late as midnight add to the cacophony.
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The week has brought numerous reports of people being harangued by protesters for wearing masks, demonstrators trying to rip down pro-vaccination signs on houses and others defecating and urinating on lawns. The air on many streets is filled with diesel exhaust fumes from idling trucks.
^^^With all due respect that’s mainstream media. You’re not gonna get the entire truth from mainstream media.
I use to listen to NPR, CNN, MSNBC. I come from a liberal educated family as well as myself studied liberal arts. It was less than a year ago I started waking up, and I think we all will eventually start waking up to how we’ve all been screwed over by the rich and powerful. I now consider myself an independent. I use to read all the liberal news and believe all of it! It’s not our fault. There’s supposed to help educate the public, but they are so biased and have an agenda. It’s really hard to know what to believe anymore. It’s on the right too! I’m not picking sides, I’m just saying mainstream media has an agenda no matter what side your on. It’s really hard unless your professional journalist to get to the bottom of this stuff. We’re all just trying to out food on the table. I don’t have time to research this shit! I honestly quit watching the news. I know that’s says a lot about my privilege because not everyone can. If do watch the news, I’m mindful about their agenda and biases.
All truths are half truths. I’m partially right and you’re partially right too. We need to synthesize our perspectives to get a complete understanding of the world. No one single person has all the answers.