Long time reader “Chris” sent this essay to me privately, and I’m sharing it as a download instead of quoting as it’s somewhat lengthy.
I’m recently unemployed because of a workplace vaccine mandate, and pissed off, and I thought I’d write about something I wanted to write about for a change – Why is the Freedom Convoy Different from Other Protests
Good work, Chris. We just got Jordan Petersoned. Bumped. We got Brit Humed, too.
Both my wife and I are “suspended “ since the beginning of December.
Honk honk
Chris – Sorry to hear you are currently unemployed. You are intelligent and articulate. You will be back at it in no time. Best of luck.
Can never work again in an American hospital. But not to worry just bring in the nurses from poor countries.
That also acts as a back-door to allow in more “amenable” voters.
Great essay, thanks for posting. Extremely thoughtful and well reasoned.
This is beyond words outstanding. It doesn’t need any elaboration from me.
Received from the Ontario PC party this afternoon. BTW, I have said and written everything said in the letter above. It falls on deaf ears and people are blind to the writing… see below
Letter to me follows…
“We heard our tradespeople loud and clear—the Liberals Ontario College of Trades (OCOT) was not working.
Tradespeople are the backbone of our province.
They deserve a skilled trades system that works for them.
That’s why we cut journeyperson fees in half and eliminated apprenticeship fees.
We’re putting more money back in the pockets of hardworking people, David.
The demand for skilled labour has never been higher. Now, we are helping Ontario’s workers train to match that demand.
Tradespeople like plumbers, electricians, and construction workers keep our province growing.
We need to have their backs.
If you support the direction of our PC government, please consider contributing to the Ontario PC Party.”
Enough said
Pm Am Canadian Castro Trudeau,
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If you’re dissatisfied with covid and tired of it then you’re committing a crime ? ? ?
Still can’t get my Brain wrapped around that comment must be a drug induced paranoia.
SHAZZAM from the American Amazon.
Shorter. If you don’t approve of my leadership you’re a criminal. Justin, Pierre’s wife’s bastard child, Trudeau.
The ‘important people ‘ he references hate the new diffuse media as it does a better job at information dissemination than 20th century models. At least for some people. Too many boomers are tied to old media and leeching the state white.
Young fella, I’m a boomer. You know not what you talk about. For instance, the proprietor of this blog is a boomer. I get that you chose your words poorly, strive to do better in the future. Your elders ARE your betters.
My sentiments exactly.
Haven’t you watched the live streamers? Didn’t you notice how diverse the Trucker’s support is?
Thanks Kate. This is a must share.
When it comes to your freedoms here are some things you might want to think about.
Canadians may think they have won an important battle to recoup their freedoms from vaccine mandates but the truth about our battle for freedoms is far different. The US and Canadian Government are increasingly working hand and glove with Big Tech to control us.
Combating Big Tech Totalitarianism: A Road Map
https://www.heritage.org/technology/report/combating-big-techs-totalitarianism-road-map
Within the next decade we will see the end of paper money. The implications of how that plays out are enormous with respect to our fundamental freedoms.
Erik Bethel: China’s New Digital Currency Is Tool for Mass Control, in China and Beyond
https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/american-thought-leaders-29539/erik-bethel-chinas-new-digital-currency-is-tool-for-mass-control-in-china-and-beyond-1241428375
Truckers may have won over Canadians but their job security is coming to an inevitable end.
Autonomous Trucking Safety Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-WmVhqk1ZA
They can issue currency, but they can’t force the markets to use it.
Currency is whatever you and I agree it is. It’s that simple.
Autonomous trucks are going to be SOooo easy to sabotage. And there will be all manner of devices with hacks that will cause them to stall and not move.
Yeah, they said the same things about cars in the 1800s when horses were the primary mode of land transportation. “They can build cars but they can force us to buy them or ride in them”.
Yes, but by the mid 1900s cars were the norm. Do remember my aunt describing her “driving lessons” before going out on the road – driving around a field and being told not to hit the badger hole. Those were the days. And aunt and Mum grew up on a farm using horse power.
Thank you so much, Chris. So perfectly written and so true.
You have my deepest respect and my thanks for fighting the battle for us and all future generations of Canadians.
HONK HONK
Great job Chris
Great essay , and every damn politician should be forced to read it!
Thanks Chris!
Chris penned a brilliant essay, and thank you Kate for sharing it with us.
The Freedom Convoy terrifies politicians because it has made apparent that constitutionally entitled Freedoms have eroded more rapidly over the last two years than at any time in Canadian/Western history; and more importantly that the erosion of freedoms has not gone un-noticed by Canadian citizens. The Convoy is comprised of people who are not afraid to say that out loud.
Politicians want no accountability for the destruction of freedom and therefore tell us the oppression is medically justified, or in the worst case (Trudeau), engage in gross, illogical demonization of the protestors, and by association all other Canadians. Trudeau just told us what he believes about Canadian citizens, and it is a mean-spirited, ugly lie he told and which he uses to discount the concerns of citizens, and to justify his own tyrannical, and hypocritical behavior. We know it is a lie, because we’ve seen live video from the protest sites, and know what a gentle, respectful, loving and generous crowd are engaging in this protest. More even than that, we know the nature of our friends and neighbors in our communities, and “wokeness” is not, and will never be the definition of a kind and caring human being.
For a time, it was effective for politicians to oppress Canadians by entreating all to bow down to government’s superior scientific knowledge. Sadly for the oppressors, the falsehood of their scientific knowledge has been exposed, as evidence of the ineffectiveness of the vaccines has been revealed; and damaging side-effects of the vaccines have become more apparent. All of this has combined to undermine government’s claim of superior scientific knowledge, and made apparent that they have not been acting, nor dictating in the best interests of all citizens.
The liberal agenda has readily worked hand-in-hand with the lockdowns and other political oppressions. It is clearly implied that past injustices suffered by a few were caused by average, working class citizens. Possibly more than anything, we are all at fault for failing to question that attribution.
When (as NOW) it becomes clear the government has engaged in a massive and un-scientific overreach, both with its failed promises of the virtues of the vaccines, and with its implication that all injustice can be blamed on average, working class citizens, its time to park the trucks.
Love this Essay.
I’m hopeful that out of this bonfire of political ambitions and vanities, because that is what it is, there will arise a phoenix of clear-eyed, honest, future thinking and empathic crop of new leaders. Never say never.
Thanks, Kate, for sharing this. Writing this made me feel better. I wrote it at four in the morning and it’s full of typos. I’m emailing you an updated .pdf in the hope that you can replace it when you get a chance.
I’ve been back to talk to people at the protest several times. It makes me feel better about my own circumstance when I see just how much these folks are sacrificing to make this stand. I spoke to several small business owners who had expected to commit to a single weekend of protest, and who have now been living in hotel rooms or their vehicles for over two weeks, with no income. It’s pretty damn cold out, but no one is complaining.
Chris,
don’t often read long essays but yours was so well written and beautifully articulated it was impossible NOT to read it. Thank-you. A
And thank-you Kate for sharing it.
Well said. No one should have to go through what you are going through. Thank you.
Thanks Chris for taking the time to write up your thoughts.
Was an enlightening read.
You are a smart man and I have no doubt you will be employed again in the near future.
Remember, don’t let the basturds get you down.
Chris – very honest, smart essay full of truth. I received two jabs, against my better judgement, but won’t be getting any more. We’ve all been the subject of a terrible experiment in social reprogramming, and have been gaslighted to an extent I never thought possible by the media and political class. As someone else here noted, this is all the thin edge of an enormous wedge designed to separate us from our traditions, our values and our humanity. With EV’s attached to a control grid, more genetic experiments, identity codes and centralized digital currency, this will lead us to a very dark totalitarian future. We can’t lose this one.
Top shelf Chris. Thank you.
Just to give everyone a sense of the reach and resonance of the protests, the priest in my mother’s Catholic church in North Carolina told the congregation this morning that it is essential for all members of that body to support the Canadian Freedom Fighters.
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File a police report about criminal damage.
Ask for daily updates.
Make clear that you will be publicising action or lack of action.
Readers will understand the implications from what the police do.
It would be very sad if 2x RCMP vehicles wouldn’t start in the morning.
The basturds , RCMP, did it to 3 excavators out in Coutts.
Sabotaged by cutting many wires, removed fuel lines and filters , sprayed expanding foam up those lines and filter heads.
Lots of parts to replace and stuff to repair .
What’s galling is they even admitted it.
I guess they didn’t want them being used to blockade or maybe they thought, tear up the roads.
No excuse to damage private property.
When the Cops become Criminals.
How can the owner possibly seek recompense and prosecution of the saboteurs, when they are part of the federal police? The RCMP has fallen as far as has the FBI.
They brag about it because it was intended to provoke a violent response.
All this non-violence between the police and the protesters is the leaders worst nightmare.
The SWAT team storming a bouncy castle will be hard to spin, even with $2 billion in media welfare.
Great article Chris you don’t need to correct, the meaning ran deep. Trudeau thinks the people in the Truck Convoy are evil when it is he that is EVIL taking away our Canadian Constitutional Rights. Trudeau will NOT win he has crossed the line, as Brian Peckford said the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is on our side.
A splendid essay Chris. I have saved in a Dropbox folder.
Nothing to add except to agree with an earlier commenter.
Treat this as a little unplanned holiday. You have too much on the ball to be involuntarily idled!
Dittos here!
Chris,
“FULL CLAP”
thank you!
Yes, but by the mid 1900s cars were the norm. Do remember my aunt describing her “driving lessons” before going out on the road – driving around a field and being told not to hit the badger hole. Those were the days. And aunt and Mum grew up on a farm using horse power.
I support this excellent summary from whoever this other “Chris” guy is.
That was a wonderful read, thank you !
Yes Chris, I agree with your analysis. Governments have continued to double down on enforcement on their failures. Now, they cannot afford to give in because that would be “mob rule”. Never in my 69 years have I ever wished more for the success of a protest.
Forgot to mention, I hope Coyne reads it, so happy he was mentioned.
And I doubt he’s ever had to literally deal with his own excrement.
If plumbers, electricians, anyone who serve people like Coyne by slowly sacrificing the bodies and their time should double or triple their rate, or refuse to do work for the like minded.
Let the elite like Coyne,dirty their hands or worse , to fix their own stuff , and beautify their oasis.
That being said, I had lots people offer unsolicited tips last year. Maybe seeing a forlorn skill of how to use a shovel has become inspiring ?
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit·Feb 8 20/ During past month, the purpose of vaccination has been re-framed as a national effort to reduce hospitalization rates (rather than transmission, which it was no longer accomplishing.) But this US (and other) data indicates that Omicron reduces hospitalization rates even more.
21/ not just that, but Omicron has wiped out Delta. In a few weeks, Omicron accomplished something that months of vaccination failed to do.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1491052093062643715
The vaccines are obsolete. Whatever the truth was about them, they are obsolete, and there is no need for an omicron vaccine. It’s a long thread, and detailed, but it is well supported, as always when you are reading McIntyre.
Masks were never a panacea, but they are obsoleted by omicron as well. Japan, where mask wearing was nearly universal, had cases under enviable control until omicron hit, and blasted through their country. Trudeau, and Biden, who seems to be pulling his strings, need to accept this. They need to stop letting their political advisors run policy.
Ottawa demonstrators should be carrying signs saying “Follow the science!”
One correction, the statement “There has never been slavery in Canada” is false – something we didn’t quite hear about in school.
I know, i know, i didn’t believe it either when my buddy first told me this. Canada had up to 5,000 slaves within its territory, 2/3 of them Indigenous, enslaved by both European and Indigenous alike, and the rest were black slaves that came with the Loyalists. Mostly they were domestic slaves, but still was horrible for them to be subject to all the violence and abuse of being treated as property. It is true that Canada never really had a slave trade (no slave ship ever landed in Canada) and to Canada’s credit, slavery was rendered “illegal” 30 years prior to the Americans due to some technicalities in the laws of Lower Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada
vdigler,
I think that a lot of stuff on Wikipedia is a tiny bit slanted.
It’s true that some Loyalists took domestic slaves with them when they settled in Nova Scotia.
It’s also true that some French colonists purchased slaves from the natives. However the “up to 5000 slaves” number is highly risible, and only works if you include all of the French territories in North America, including, (and primarily), Louisiana. You could as easily and truthfully say that at one time, Canada had a lot of Aligators.
Canada has never been a slave nation. The United States is another matter.
One line in the essay by Chris smacked me in the face and absolutely proved the convoy racism.
The line: “60 percent of truck drivers in Canada are Punjabi”.
The racists: Trudeau and his Liberals, all of whom hate “Pakis”. Liberals are the most racist pricks ever, condescending to Blacks, Aboriginals and most Asians, hammering them repeatedly with an expectation that they will fail, and need Liberal help to do anything, and doubly hating them when they ignore Liberals and succeed on their own merits.
F. J. T.
Brit Hume is one of the few actual journalists working in the MSM.