“Terrorism” is a very specific charge, which according to the criminal code has a specific set of rather serious criteria.
Have [m]any posters been advocating for legal charges of terrorism? Aside from perhaps the most extreme cases like in Coutts (and even then I'm not sure anyone has).
I'm quite comfortable calling OJ Simpson a murderer regardless of the outcome of his criminal trial.
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my god, their are only two things they should have been doing, and should have started doing like 15 days ago. Blocking more people from bringing semis into this mess, and temporarily detaining these guys one at a time while they drove their trucks to an impound.
The only reason for the emergency measure, is the fact that this wasn't done, and what do we do, just let more of these fools in.
It just gets dumber and dumber.
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Also I find it funny I’m told not to compare different protests against government policies because they’re not the same. And then we have someone using the Taliban to make their point?
The Taliban. The group that acid baths girls faces on their way to school. Responsible for literal war crimes and thousands of civilian deaths. Yeah, talk about some cockamamie comparisons.
That's what we in the business call an "analogy." They can useful for various thought exercises; for instance to determine if your argument is principled or self-serving hypocrisy.
my god, their are only two things they should have been doing, and should have started doing like 15 days ago. Blocking more people from bringing semis into this mess, and temporarily detaining these guys one at a time while they drove their trucks to an impound.
The only reason for the emergency measure, is the fact that this wasn't done, and what do we do, just let more of these fools in.
It just gets dumber and dumber.
It's all obviously part of the plan. The more you let in, the of those sweet trucker bank accounts you can freeze.
(I guarantee you that the conspiracy theorists are already working on that one)
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It's exactly that type of selective apathy that allows 'fringe' to become more mainstream. Hate Trudeau all you want, be annoyed with mandates, heck, even go protest peacefully (and lawfully) with a different organization to your little heart's content - just don't channel those frustrations into supporting something in which you don't fully understand. Make no mistake - the true intent of this convoy (beyond the already visible consequences of taking our cities and economy hostage) is to gain notoriety, additional followers, delegitimize the very principles of our democratic process and governing bodies, with an endgame to restore white nationalism. Ultimately, the degree of success in which they will be able to accomplish that, is not the point. The point is, can you stomach supporting people that hold those values, and what that says about you.
Oh man, this is literally one of the best posts ever made on CP. It actually restores my faith in society a bit after some of the junk posted on here going back and forth with a lot of "well, what about.." "Well, they're just trying to".
I really, really hope the post was read in it's entirety by everyone viewing this thread (I suspect not), but the last paragraph quoted here especially hit an important note, for those that don't read longer posts.
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Most of the protesters are just dumb sheep that read too much Facebook and think their freedoms are being taken away. When in reality it's just the government putting restrictions in place for the greater good of all of us in order to reduce the burden on the health care system and the amount of extra deaths that would occur as a result of that burden.
Every village used to have an idiot, but now with the internet, every idiot has a village. So a bunch of idiots took their villages to Ottawa and Coutts, etc and in the end did more damage than good, especially to the economy and their fellow Canadians.
Tell me there are municipal police forces expressing embarrassment for the handling of this situation.
Tell me if this was YYC, this kind of circus would be shut down immediately and the clowns detained and punished.
Really sucks to think that stupidity and or incompetence has infiltrated such institutions to the point that they are no longer effective in carrying out duties that are critical to the orderly function of society.
That's what we in the business call an "analogy." They can useful for various thought exercises; for instance to determine if your argument is principled or self-serving hypocrisy.
Lol fair enough, I’m definitely doing some #### posting that probably isn’t as thoughtful or considered as it should be. Definitely probably letting some of my more anti establishment, liberal rebellion support affect my perceptions.
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No, no…I’m not sloppy, or lazy. This is a sign of the boredom.
The actions of a small number do not represent the actions of the entire group.
If that's true, why are residents of ethnic minorities reporting being abused in some way every time they leave their homes and as a result are afraid to do something as harmless as go buy their living essentials? How is that facilitating the type of Canada that this country is all about?
It's not every person present, but it's not a small amount. It's not a handful. Take your fat fingers out of your ears and see the evidence to the contrary that is plentiful. This is pure ignorance. The people that made the trip and are still occupying the area are those who are invested in this enough to potentially permanently disrupt their own lives in the name of a futile pie in the sky fantasy. This isn't a collection of normal, every day, sensible people. These are the most far-gone individuals of the crop.
It's a sizeable portion that are being disruptive to people's lives. Whether purposefully or inadvertently. Doesn't matter, because at the end of the day they're imposing exactly what they claim to be protesting against by denying the rights of locals to run their businesses and live their lives freely and unimpeded.
Nothing will be achieved by these demonstrations except radicalize a small population further when none of their demands are met and law enforcement eventually does its job, and people on the fence who witness their reckless behaviour firsthand will split away and alienate these people further, seeing that they actually have no respect or decency toward the people whose lives were affected for a month and emanate hypocrisy on the deepest level because they weren't good, wholesome folks to begin with. Just selfish.
Oh man, this is literally one of the best posts ever made on CP. It actually restores my faith in society a bit after some of the junk posted on here going back and forth with a lot of "well, what about.." "Well, they're just trying to".
I really, really hope the post was read in it's entirety by everyone viewing this thread (I suspect not), but the last paragraph quoted here especially hit an important note, for those that don't read longer posts.
No kidding. I just woke up and the first thing I thought of was this outstanding post. I hope this makes it into the Herald or somewhere with a broader reach.
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We are all Calgary Flames fans. I would hope if the Flames go on a run this year, we all can enjoy it.
But if there's a pro Flames rally organized by white nationalists or by people openly calling for the elected prime minister to be removed - I'd hope we could all agree that this is bad and not try to come up with ways to defend it even if we all support the Flames and this is a Flames rally.
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If that doesn't tell any right minded protestor to gtfo of there then they deserve everything they get.
We've got a plan and you're really going to like it because it's a good plan but we can't tell you what it is right now because it's a secret but it's a good plan. And you'll like it. I'll let you know when it's done because we got a plan.
Seriously. They're following that!
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