Xenon, the White Supremacist
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Well, one province down...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/8/alberta-caves-canada-trucker-protests-ends-vaccine/
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@jolly said in Xenon, the White Supremacist:
Lad, you couldn't find frost in Canada.
Y'all keep going, and you won't find freedom, either.
Well Beauregard, I wouldn’t want to live under your version of freedom in the first place. And as to not finding frost up here….I never thought you to be so thick headed.
No surprise BTW, that Kenny and Moe eased their restrictions. We knew Kenny was going to do it before the protests even started. He is disliked across the spectrum and is faced with being thrown out by his Party in April when his leadership will be put to review. Right now he doing everything he can to ward off being dismissed. In any case what he introduced yesterday doesn’t affect Alberta Health Care workers, private and public, who remain under a provincial vaccine mandate order. But no question the protesters in Coutts blocking the US border cowed him but good to move up his easing restrictions timetable to yesterday.
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You can believe what you want but there is much more to to it than just hot tubs and bouncy castles in downtown Ottawa. Time to end it.
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I notice your PM never had the balls to even meet with any of the protesters.
But he can steal their donations, freeze their bank accounts, mount snipers on the roofs overlooking the trucks and enact emergency powers that negate any civil rights Canadians may have.
Proud, are ye?
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@jolly said in Xenon, the White Supremacist:
I notice your PM never had the balls to even meet with any of the protesters.
But he can steal their donations, freeze their bank accounts, mount snipers on the roofs overlooking the trucks and enact emergency powers that negate any civil rights Canadians may have.
Proud, are ye?
Not proud but supportive of all the measures being taken to bring this occupation to an end and restore order. Not my problem if you find it appalling. As far as I’m concerned bleeding hearts here and the US can go ahead and bleed. Get your facts straight or STFU.
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I’m surprised how small the intersection is between people who think authorities should intervene to stop BLM protesters from blocking streets and people who think authorities should intervene when these pilgrims do it too. Anyway, I stand there proudly.
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@jon-nyc said in Xenon, the White Supremacist:
I’m surprised how small the intersection is between people who think authorities should intervene to stop BLM protesters from blocking streets and people who think authorities should intervene when these pilgrims do it too. Anyway, I stand there proudly.
What about other protests that block streets? We saw them during the run-up to the Iraq war (I remember trying to drive down State Street at that time)?
Want to protest? Get a permit.
But to draw equivalence between the two is, to a great extent, misguided.
When you can show a picture of Ottowa that looks like this, in OUR national capital, then there's an equivalence:
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There is no equivalence, at least not yet despite the seized weapons and ammunition cache and arrests Monday at the border protest south of where I live. I also do not believe Jon was trying draw an equivalence with the BLM riots either.
This is about law enforcement and the restoration of order. Over the course of the next few days it will be Parliament, not the mob, that will decide upon and vote on the pending enforcement legislation. In the meantime the mob has been put on legal notice to disperse immediately or risk arrest and financial consequences.
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@renauda said in Xenon, the White Supremacist:
There is no equivalence, at least not yet
And your Prime Minister supported the BLM demonstrations, while remaining silent on the billions of dollars of damage that were caused.
In my book, he holds no moral authority in that regard. He may well feel (as you do) that these should be put down. My point is simply that when it's occurring on your doorstep, the morality changes, eh?
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I don't understand your point George. I was comparing one set of demonstrators blocking the highways to another. That they were blocking the highway is I need to know. I don't need to have some threshold level of vandalism to also occur in order for me to come to a conclusion.
I'd have been all for removing the BLM guys from the highways even if the summer riots of 2020 had not occurred at all.
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No, the morality doesn’t change. My support is for Parliamentary rule of law not the misguided actions of one of its members. So what if Trudeau took a knee at a BLM protest/demonstration in Ottawa? We did not experience the same level of violence here as in the US and BLM in this country is not nearly as radicalized as in the US. I would agree though Trudeau ought not to have been there at that event any more than Conservative Party Members of Parliament cheering on the so-called Freedom Convoy protesters ten days ago.
Nevertheless, just as some of protesters in the convoy have legitimate and reasonable claims so too do some BLM supporters as well as the many aboriginal groups in this country. It is only when these reasonable people’s cause is hijacked by militant and radical elements on either side of the political spectrum that problems arise and mob rule rears its ugly head. That’s what happened in the US and that is where this Freedom Convoy movement has been heading here in this country.
Disagree with me if you wish, but what Trudeau said or did regarding BLM is of no consequence to what is occurring under his watch right now. As one pundit described it, so long as Trudeau is being blamed for the damage caused to Canada by the protest, by invoking the Emergency Act he is at least willing to absolve the municipalities and provinces from any ownership of the failure to deal with the protests and place it squarely on his own shoulders and the federal government.
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@jon-nyc said in Xenon, the White Supremacist:
I’m surprised how small the intersection is between people who think authorities should intervene to stop BLM protesters from blocking streets and people who think authorities should intervene when these pilgrims do it too. Anyway, I stand there proudly.
I think there exists a lot difference between a peaceful protest and one that is not.