There’s been quite a bit of invective thrown towards the freedom truckers. It’s nothing unusual, as anyone who opposes the Left is branded. Racist, sexist, homophobes, etc, are the norm. The truckers are being branded as Nazis, Fascists, authoritarians, even terrorists. The Left, including the Canadian elites, want to deploy the military to stop the truckers. And
From the Washington Post screed
Canada’s capital on Saturday was bracing for a surge of demonstrators to join a week-long protest against public health measures and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that has blockaded much of the downtown core, unnerved residents and been described by officials as an “occupation” and a “siege.”
Local police said Friday that they expected as many as 400 additional trucks and up to 2,000 people to join the self-described “Freedom Convoy” over the weekend. They said that some 1,000 people could also be planning a counterprotest.
Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly, under fire for what critics have called a lenient response to the blockades, said police would be “hardening” the perimeter around the protests and deploying 150 more officers to “deliver a clear message” that “the lawlessness must end.” Roads, highway ramps and bridges could also be closed.
“The demonstrators . . . remain highly organized, well-funded, extremely committed to resisting all attempts to end the demonstrations safely,” Sloly, who said he had received death threats, told reporters on Friday. “This remains, as it was from the beginning, an increasingly volatile and increasingly dangerous demonstration.”
Most of the violence has been caused by the counterprotesters, not the truckers, who are just out there protesting.
Yes, GoFundMe pulled all the funding, and will automatically refund those who donated. And, yes, the Canadian Constitution does allow for protest, and that’s what these people are doing.
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network, a watchdog group, has documented links between several of the convoy’s organizers and the far-right.
Of course they trot this out. That’s what they do. They look to shut down all who oppose them. Back on January 29th, Glenn Greenwald wrote, in terms of trying to shut down Joe Rogan (I’ve never listened)
For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of “hate speech” to mean “views that make us uncomfortable,” and then demand that such “hateful” views be prohibited on that basis. For that reason, it is now common to hear Democrats assert, falsely, that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech does not protect “hate speech.” Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship.
Constitutional illiteracy to the side, the “hate speech” framework for justifying censorship is now insufficient because liberals are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful. That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.” These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning. Like the term “terrorism,” it is their elasticity that makes them so useful.
Leftists do not want a debate: they want silence from their enemies and conformity from everyone else. And, if you aren’t with them, you are an enemy. Remember the whole 9/11 Truther thing? This was primarily from Democrats, who loathed Bush and many loved the terrorists who attacked the USA. Those countering the Truthers didn’t want to shut them down, they simply rebutted and debunked. (very much worth reading this long piece)
And here’s Glenn Reynolds
Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it
So we’re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others are refusing to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there’s no justice, there’s no peace.
Naturally, the left hates it.
For more than a century, lefties have talked about such a revolt. But if you really paid attention, the actual role of the working class in their working-class revolution was not to call the shots — it was to do what it was told by the “intellectual vanguard” of the left.
A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The working class wants jobs, a stable economy, safe streets, low inflation, schools that teach things and a conservative, non-adventurous foreign policy that won’t get a lot of working-class people killed. It’s not excited about gender fluidity, critical race theory, “modern monetary theory,” foreign adventures and defunding police.
The truckers were called part of a Russian disinformation operation, Nazis, Fascists, and more, all because they oppose the mandates and other government authoritarian COVID stuff. I’ve seen huge numbers on Twitter calling them terrorists, because they are “terrorizing” people in Ottawa. How so? Because they are jamming up the streets. It’s so horrible!!!1!!!!!
But as Twitter user Greg Price noted: “If truckers quit their jobs, society would immediately collapse. If politicians quit their jobs, the world would become a better place. We need truckers more than anybody else.”
Who’s more important, the blue collar working class truckers, or the namby pamby politicians, activists, and others who do not really do much of anything?
And the freedom trucker protests are spreading across Canada. Good luck in demonizing the working class, elite leftists.
Read: Washington Post: Those Freedom Trucker Protests Are Increasingly Dangerous, You Know »
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent over $500,000 on private jets since 2020 despite repeatedly describing climate change as an “existential” threat the U.S. has a “moral” obligation to address.
Police in Canada’s national capital said on Monday they have seized thousands of liters of fuel and removed an oil tanker as part of a crackdown to end days long protest against the government’s COVID-19 measures, while a judge granted an interim injunction against deafening honking that has irked residents.
It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin crawl.
As the protest against the Canadian government’s health measures and vaccine mandates entered the eleventh day on Monday, police have threatened to clamp down after facing criticism for lack of action that has crippled the national capital.
In July of last year, volunteers in Raleigh and Durham used heat sensors mounted on cars and bicycles or carried in their pockets to collect data about how warm areas were.
Why is the world’s great superpower failing? Because it is not organized to face the danger. The Constitution does not prepare a complex globalized society to control pandemics. The founders were acutely aware of military threats and gave presidents sweeping authority to meet them. Alexis de Tocqueville was astonished by the commander in chief’s power. “The President of the United States,” 
