59 Replies to “Auld Lang Honk”

  1. Oh my God!
    Trudeau’s gonna crap his drawers!!!

    Where’s the media?

    Even though they’re drastically short handed on law enforcement, I hope they’re not fired!

    1. … and there are some really strong voices in there carrying the tune! I’m guessing that’s down to the Church Choir. I wonder if anyone in Canada’s big cities can carry that tune?

  3. This is not a policing problem.

    This is a political problem.

    To wit: Trudeau has lost the confidence of the Canadian people. Either they are sovereign or they are not. If they are sovereign, he must step aside.

    Of course, if democracy is a sham, Bay Street is sovereign and Bay Street retains confidence in Trudeau to put the debt-slaves in their place, we’ll soon see whether that is a realistic goal.

    Because it appears that local police forces are on the side of the neighbours they serve.

  4. It’s hard to find any fault with their decision to end the protest today. They made big news, they stuck it out a long time, and they all walk away with nobody hurt, few arrests, and good feelings between themselves and law enforcement (except for the scumbag RCMP who sabotaged those excavators and I don’t rule out that the weapons they found were planted). If they continued to stay and subjected themselves to Trudeau’s new powers, it could well have been life ruining for many of them.

    They are passing the torch. Who will pick it up?

    2. I do not respect anyone criticizing such protesters ending things for now, doing so from the comfort and safety of their home.

          1. Will the cops pay for those excavators to be repaired on their dime ?
            That’s what I wanna know.
            If I owed them , I wouldn’t be shaking hands.

          2. I read off a twat that a repairman was looking for the owner of the excavators. He was willing to repair them at no cost. I don’t know if they ever connected, but it was another shining example of one willing to help out another.

    4. They stuck it out a hell of a lot longer than I thought they would. Now what are we going to do about the very serious problem of dictatorial tyranny, right, fuck all.

      1. Several of those cops openly admitted to vandalizing private property sitting on private property to the tune of 10’s of thousands of $$$.

        Lessee what else comes out in the wash.

        1. Ah yes….only last week we were discussing ‘Let’s not paint all the truckers with one brush’ .
          It was the RCMP higher up admitting to property destruction. These cops look like the convoys neighbours.
          The bottom line message in this vid: These cops did not have any problems with the truckers, and vice versa.
          I think we will see how many of these cops break ranks in the next few days.

          1. Go ahead, paint the truckers with one brush: Fine, upstanding, tax-paying citizens who are exercising their right to gather & peacefully protest. What do you see?

            How many of these upstanding, feet-on-the-ground cops openly criticized their bosses after admitting to property destruction? I haven’t heard a word. Have you? That would make national news. But, nothing.

            I can also assure you, all these cops are not the convoy’s neighbours. That’s what they want you to see. Daniel Ream, just above, noted what diplomacy was. He’s correct. Last time I was down at the protest, there were maybe 2 dozen cops visible. Probably a lot more on the side roads. Milk River RCMP detachment may have 3 or 4 officers. Next closest detachment is Raymond, 40 minutes away, same numbers. After that, the RCMP HQ in Coaldale, just east of Lethbridge, 45 minutes away. Not neighbours, & certainly no skin in the game.

            I already know how many of them will break ranks: a big, fat, goose egg.

            The RCMP lost trust years ago, to anyone paying attention. It’s not just the few big ones that I have noted here before, either. It’s each & every one of us who has a negative personal experience or 6 to relate regarding them. Now, is it all of them? No. However, at first blush, how do you tell the difference?

          2. Bravo DB, well said. I have enjoyed several of your post lately. You’re right on the money when talking about JBTs.

  6. The world is in a peaceful revolt against Klaus and his demonic hoard spawned from the evil tentacles of the WEF…this is no different than Christianity who grew and eventually eroded and defeated the Roman Empire with peace and love a few centuries after Jesus started his movement. The difference today with modern communication is that it does not take long to form a large movement.
    Here’s a very prophetic tune from 50 years ago…includes lyrics

    https://youtu.be/Vr9vMOIttrM

    1. Christianity who grew and eventually eroded and defeated the Roman Empire with peace and love

      You may want to to choose a different analogy. The Roman empire became Christian only because Emperor Constantine converted and imposed the religion on the Empire by fiat – after having a vision from God telling him he would win a major military engagement.

      1. I look at it this way:
        would of Constantine converted had it not been for Christianity growing much bigger than just “ A small fringe group with unacceptable views” ?

      2. I believe it was his mother who had the vision … and had converted the Roman Emperor to Christianity. Constantine simply flipped the State switch from murdering Christians to embracing them. Shocking revision of policy. It is also thought that it was the Peaceful and Loving Christian community that also motivated Constantine to follow the will of the people.

        My fact check is that you’re BOTH somewhat correct. But the fact is … we will never entirely KNOW the internal motivation behind Constantine’s move. As for myself? I believe in God’s supreme influence. I believe God changes hearts … and inspires. Not supreme “control”, but supreme influence.

        BTW guru … I am liking Black Sabbath much more in my old age than I did as a youngster.

        1. Kenji ,
          Black Sabbath as the name for the band can be misleading. They, unlike many heavy metal outfits have never promoted satanism or used profanity in their messages. They came following the end of the hippy flower children era (1969’s infamous Altamount free concert of the Rolling Stones was the stake in the heart where the band even stopped playing Sympathy for the devil for decades afterwards).
          Especially early in their career Sabbath where messengers of the evils of men with them saying that truth, peace and love was the only way. Tunes like War Pigs, Into The Void and even their very first called Black Sabbath was a warning about Satan.
          Here is one you will really dig, the very Christian “After Forever”
          https://youtu.be/24ZUbHFx0cA

          1. Cool. Never heard that before. Shocking lyrics for what most people would consider coming from Black Sabbath. I like it. There was quite a “Jesus Freak” movement going strong in the 1970’s … perhaps Sabbath got tucked into it?

            While I like that tune … it’s not suitable for my wife’s sensibilities. Instead, I offer another tune which is more to my wife’s liking … My God by Jethro Tull. At first glance you might think it is an anti Christian song … but it’s really about how man has perverted God and to stop with the pretense and extraneous ritual. From the SUPERB Isle of Wight Festival … 1970. Martin Barre gets some licks in 🙂

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WSulenOUb0

  7. So where are the courts? How is it the gov’t can get court orders/injunctions at the drop of a hat?
    I guess those heady days when the Ontario Supreme Court struck down Harper’s ban on conditional sentences for criminals to avoid jail time because it violated certain conditions guaranteed by the much venerated Charter of Rights are long gone.

    1. Kenji,
      Always loved Tull and guess what, in 69, Jethro Tull hired a new guitar player named Tony Iommi the chief architect of heavy metal and creator of Black Sabbath!
      Iommi stay very briefly with the Tull having discovered down tuned, heavily distorted guitar sound and created a new music gendre that changed the music world forever…Ian Anderson did not particularly like it so Tony moved on. Later, when Sabbath’s first LP became a smash hit overnight, the Tull may have been influenced as they came out with the very heavy Aqualung tune which became their most memorable tune.
      To finish off, you can briefly see Iommi playing with J.T in the Rolling Stones movie “Rock and Roll Circus”…small world!

      Kate…I’m done being off topic…Thanks!

  9. I was there for that event. One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. Four guys got up on stage and started saying out of the blue what a success this was, how good that it was peaceful all the way through, and what a thorough victory it is to have gotten Trudeau to invoke the Emergency Measures act (if your enemies fight you, you win eh?)

    Then while half of us were wondering what the heck these guys were talking about, they said to go and hug the police and sing. I think half of us did so on the assumption that everyone else knew something they didn’t. About a minute after the singing was done, a guy hopped on stage and yelled “I’m not f—ing leaving!” and got a far more vocal approval than the other guys had. A few speeches were made, and ultimately people decided to have a vote on what to do, which is scheduled to happen in an hour and a half.

    1. Thanks for that info Petey.
      We never really get all the info.
      Re: success in getting Trudeau to invoke EMO: we are hoping it blows up in his face. His true colours are showing!

  10. Sure looks like a national emergency to me. I mean, look at all the bodies scattered about, the burning buildings and vehicles, the machinegun and artillery fire…

    1. The mayhem is displayed in the polls. That’s all that matters to your PM. His approval rating is cratering like a bomb explosion. Anti COVID mandate polls are going up with rockets red glare.

      Yeah … the political battlefield is littered with Trudeau LOSSES … he had no choice but to go nuclear. Only … he best drop the bomb further from his own doorstep … which I doubt he can manage. Ya wanna know why Freeland was all twitchy? She knows the mushroom cloud is coming … for her. That her PM just doomed them all to hell the MOMENT he actually drops the bomb.

  12. Were the ones that STAINED the uniform again by committing a crime of property destruction on the heavy equipment the best singers!!!
    Disloyal Uncanadian mounted Gestapo

  13. Living a small town means you live beside the school principal, across the street from the RCMP officer, three houses down from the minister and a street over from the mayor. During teacher strikes, nursing strikes and other similar events town-people from both sides stop off at the same post office, bump into each other in the local grocery store, share a coffee and a chat at the local rink while their kids skate together and kneel beside each other in places of worship. The people on both sides of this dispute know each other or know of each other. They aren’t mortal enemies and won’t be when it’s over. This is a hard concept to understand if you haven’t experienced it but one worth taking into consideration.

    1. fed up
      You’re Absolutely right! Perspective is quite varied in our country. Easy to divide if we don’t remember to keep the bigger picture in focus.Most small town people understand that there’s something bigger worth protecting, if they don’t, it eats their lunch

    2. “across the street from the RCMP officer” – when I lived on Salt Spring Island, BC, the RCMP detachment was rotated fairly regularly – presumably to discourage ‘fraternization’.

    1. “The data — hacked illegally and released publicly late Sunday ”

      Because it’s not legally obtained data from Hunter Biden’s laptop, it’s ok for the CBC to run with it.

  16. You can’t blame the rank and file for the vile actions of some of their leaders, the last place I lived I had three RCMP officers as neighbors and can’t imagine they’d get any joy out of abusing people for expressing their opinions lawfully.

    1. When I was working road construction in my late teens back around the summer of1978, a friend and co-worker of my age went to the RCMP Academy. We lost track of each other almost immediately after he graduated. After a few false starts in my career plans, I eventually joined the Army and retired as a senior Officer. Some 30 years after we last communicated, during the previous Liberal administration, I saw him on TV, as a [very] senior Mountie, supporting the need for proposed draconian gun laws. A few years ago, I tracked him down and reconnected through social media, after he’d retired. When I was travelling in the area of the country he’d retired to, we got together for lunch, and I asked him about that. He didn’t agree with what he’d said on TV, but he was instructed on what to say by HIS seniors, and was then shuffled off into non-police related re-training for 6 months in an area of his choice. He used that retraining to create his self-employed new post-policing career. (And earning more than he ever did as a Mountie!)

  17. This is for ivbinconned

    A link from that page. Attempts to paint this as nefarious. Lets look at donations to the CBC. You mean the liberal government is the biggest contributor? By a long shot? You mean all of it?

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-sussex-corner-business-convoy-donation-1.6351642

    Records from the federal government show that Easy Kleen has received funding from the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program, set up to help employers who have “seen a drop in revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

    It’s not clear how much the company received, but when asked about the subsidy, Howland said it was spent on wages at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

    Howland has also donated thousands of dollars to the provincial Progressive Conservatives and the federal Conservative Party since 2018, according to public records.

  18. I don’t agree with those of you who are lumping all the police into the same basket. Even the ones who may have misbehaved or were too aggressive may be the very ones that rush in and take a bullet for you. They are simply humans, which means good, bad, and everything in between. The same cop who stands back and does watch-over with the AR in hand is the same one who will kill the thug holding someone hostage. The same one hugging you at Coutts may be the same one comforting the child at a fatal car accident. And then, there are the ass holes. It takes all kinds and most simply try to thread the needle each day. It becomes especially focussed in rural communities where you get to know them, or if they are family. I have seen all sides of the cop over these past weeks. Overall I think most have done pretty good, and most have remained professional. If they were all thugs like some on here suggest, the protests would have been crushed by day 5.

    1. I don’t believe anyone here is lumping all cops into the same basket. I’m certainly not. If anyone has taken that from my, admitted, many posts on the topic then it’s been misread.

      What I am saying, simply, is that trust broken is broken trust. I don’t know who can be trusted and who can’t. As a matter of self-preservation, I trust none of them from the start. They need to earn my trust.

    3. Why does it seem that the assholes are always the ones promoted to the upper management, including the director?

      The rank and file may be fine but the head is rotten.

      1. “Why does it seem that the assholes are always the ones promoted to the upper management, including the director?”

        In a lot of instances, with unions, they can’t fire the asshole. So they promote him out of the way.

        We ran into the same problem with a high school basketball coach for one of the kids a few years back. The guy was a complete & utter asshole & deserved to be taken out behind the woodshed. Against my gut, we went the diplomatic route, first through the principal & later through the superintendent, & it just got worse. We swallowed the bile, waited for the end of the season & hoped he’d get fired. He didn’t. September rolls around, he’s transferred to another school & promoted to principal. Still an asshole, but now it’s someone else’s problem.

  19. I refuse to cry. God damn it, wheres the smoke coming from. I could write books about how Canada has betrayed itself , it’s people, its mission. Bitter expat molar grinding books.
    And they do this. I guess I still care.
    Let Justice be Your Sacrifice and
    Trust in the Lord

  20. Coutts protest organizer Marco Van Huigenbos, Feb 15, 2022: “The infiltration of extreme elements, the RCMP finding firearms in the village of Coutts and the members that were associated with that who were involved in our movement, really changed things for us…The development with weapons and the personal armour was not associated with us, and to keep that distance we decided to leave peacefully.”

    The hugging and handshakes, initiated by the protesters upon instruction from their organizers shortly before they all hightailed it out of there, aren’t proof that the police were sympathetic all along, they’re a sheepish apology for having been so naive all this time.

    1. Well, clearly, that’s how they organized the most impressive political demonstration in Canadian history. By being naive! A shame all the worldly people were off getting their nails done when action was necessary.

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