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Originally Posted by Sliver
If for no other reason than posterity, let's talk about the Coutts border blockade and the occupation of Ottawa in its own thread.
Other blockades, convoys and protests are springing up here, there and everywhere. Basically, it's like Facebook has turned from Pinocchio into a real boy.
Right-wing extremists have gone virtually unchallenged - and in many cases supported - by law enforcement for over two weeks and counting.
Other places to read about this would be late January and early February 2022 posts in the Canadian Politics thread, the Alberta Politics thread, and the Morons of the Pandemic thread in the COVID-19 subforum.
A couple of maddening things:
- idiots far and wide support this nonsense
- the terrorists and protesters have brought their children to the territories they are occupying to limit the offensive action law enforcement (should they decide to do their jobs) can take without endangering kids
- they have co-opted the Canadian flag as a symbol of their stupidity and selfishness
- our premier literally gave into the demands of the terrorists and removed numerous covid health measures to appease these bafoons who have created a checkstop and blockaded the Coutts border crossing. They didn't leave and then moved the goalposts to say they'll stay until Trudeau resigns.
- the terrorism of the people of Ottawa has been absolutely brutal.
I'll try to take some time on Monday to update this original post with links to lay the foundation for future readers about what is happening (unless I forget or lose interest).
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Let's not forget our gov'ts picked this fight by not being as decisive with the removal of restrictions as they were the implementation of them.
There is much to discuss about the methods that the protestors are using, but the stated goal of unwinding covid restrictions is the correct position and our Federal Gov'ts position is the incorrect position.
The federal gov't (and especially Trudeau), chose a path which eliminated dialogue around the merits (or lack thereof) of the policies. This opened the door for polarization rather than a mature discussion around the hows and the whens of unwinding covid restriction policies.