They Always Get Their Man [Updated]

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Tonight.

Earlier…

Tonight.

Earlier…

Ontario provincial police and federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police have joined forces to dismantle the ‘Freedom Convoy’

This afternoon.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Via Al Jazeera:

Ottawa police have asked protesters to “remain peaceful and lawful” as they moved in to clear an occupation that has blockaded the centre of the Canadian capital for three weeks.

Dozens of police vehicles, including a large black armoured car, and about 100 police officers arrived near the Ottawa Art Gallery at about 8am (13:00 GMT) on Friday, where about 20 vehicles have been parked since late January, blocking the roadway.

“If you do not leave now, you will be arrested,” police said, banging on windows of vehicles, Al Jazeera’s Roger Lemoyne reported. At least four people were arrested.

Ottawa police have increased their presence in the downtown core of Ottawa over the past several days, as they coordinated with Ontario provincial police and federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to clear out participants in the so-called “Freedom Convoy”.

Ottawa police arrest protesters to end Canadian trucker blockade (Al Jazeera)

Canada protests: Police begin to make arrests at Ottawa protest (BBC)

Roger Lemoyne/Al Jazeera

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81 thoughts on “They Always Get Their Man [Updated]

  1. hmmm

    Parliamentary debate on Emergency Powers cancelled because of police raid.

    Trudeau has financial interest in mRNA vaxx.

    Democracy is dead.

  2. Gavin

    I always thought the idea of unlawful protests was quite catch 22, we want to protest against the government but need to get permission from the government

      1. Doxxy Chainsaw

        I love the way the you believe the opposite of the KKKonvoy is BLM. Bigots v antiracism.

        Very telling.

          1. K.Cavan

            It would be hilarious, all these goons doing the bidding of billionaires, while believing they’re some sort of revolutionaries, if it wasn’t so tragic for the societies they’re destroying.
            Dolly is basically an ally of FF & FG, a delusional puppet of the wealthiest capitalists on the planet, who labels working class resistance to neo-liberal globalism as “fash”, while supporting US imperialism & the most reactionary group of rich scumbags on the planet.
            Alternatively, she may just be an enthusiastic but shy fascist, who knows?

        1. Termagant

          In what way am I placing them in opposition? The purpose is to point out your hypocrisy, which relies on them being similar. Which they are, albeit the truckers are less violent, less destructive, less looty.

          1. E'Matty

            Have you any videos of the truckers torching cars or business premises Daisy Eleanor Abernathy? Here’s your BLM pals torching a hundred cars apparently. So so very peaceful your crew, eh?

          2. Doxxy Chainsaw

            You should have no problem then when the Ottawa police treat them the same as a BLM protest, seeing as you consider them the same!

          3. Termagant

            Daiso I explicitly said similar and then outlined the ways in which they were different. They’re not the same, in that no buildings are on fire at this protest, businesses haven’t had to board up their windows like it’s the days of the Blitz.
            But certainly, if anyone at the trucker protest commits any violent crimes or burglaries I’d expect them to take action. I don’t think anyone at a BLM rally was arrested just for being there.

          4. Doxxy Chainsaw

            Of course you don’t know because you weren’t bothered to read about what happened. Keep on Truckkking!!

          5. Termagant

            Incidentally, how did you feel when, after several weeks of violence and shootings, some of which were fatal, they finally cleared the CHOP?

        2. Johnny 'Diego' Keenan

          Chainsaw,
          I’d say you never worked a day in your life. Least of all socialised with working class people.

          1. K.Cavan

            Now, Johnny, Dolly knows very well that the working class are all “fash” & that only billionaire capitalists can be truly Left-wing.

          2. GiggidyGoo

            The only comedy fodder is yourself Daisy. After what you said about her, and naming her, shouldn’t you consider slinking back into that sewer you emerge from, and stay there? You, know, control the virus and all that. You’re a shameful piece of dirt.

    1. Doxxy Chainsaw

      Same type of ranting nutters as seen at Irish protests. Will they set of fireworks in cops faces too?

          1. Fearganainm

            100%

            It still doesn’t seem to have fully dawned on the protestors, as they whine and wheedle with the cops, imploring them to desert and join them, that they aren’t going to overthrow the government or have it capitulate to their demands.

          2. SOQ

            And what demands are that Fearganainm? That they ease restrictions in the same manner as the rest of the world?

            How dare they.

  3. Fearganainm

    The line’s not holding.

    If only we could find the person who fed false information to the protestors, telling them that 50% of the cops had resigned. That’s what emboldened them but now the psychological shock at seeing that the protestors don’t outnumber the cops has really damaged morale – just at the moment that the protestors felt that they were about to take power and form a new government, run on bitcoin.

    It can’t be too long before the dreadful news comes that the bouncy castle has fallen.

    1. SOQ

      Apart from the obvious gloating and sneering at people exercising their democratic right to protest- what does that even mean?

      You are in support of a tyrant who storms out of the houses of Parliament because he won’t even engage with fellow elected representatives, let alone the protestors it seems.

      The state-every state- ALWAYS has the apparatus and power to quash dissent but a democratic society, never in this manner. Freezing bank accounts because of political views- really?

      Make no mistake- one way or another, Trudeau is gone- the only question is when, and how.

      1. Fearganainm

        Why do I have to be a supporter of Trudeau to approve of a shower of trash being cleared off the streets? They have no mandate, they are not a ‘popular uprising’, they include racist and fascist filth among their leading lights. The world is more nuanced than you seem to understand.

        You have long surrendered your brain to Alt-Right seafóid emanating from the U.S.A. and the kind of mobs such thinking produces is never going to meet with my support or approval.

      2. SOQ

        I can post interview after interview of POC stating the exact opposite, in fact I already have but that doesn’t matter to people like you now does it? There is zero evidence of racism in that protest and if there were laws being broken, you can be certain they would been arrested a long time before now.

        From the huge numbers who turned out to cheer them on and the thousands upon thousands who arrived into the city to support them, it is quite obvious that they have plenty of support.

        And what does having a mandate mean anyways? Does every single group who protest need some sort of official cert or something? In which case there won’t be many tolerated. That is not how democracy works.

        As for not supporting Trudeau- that is EXCATLY what you are doing. These protests are because of him and his tyrannical actions, you cannot separate the two. That is like saying you disapproved of the civil rights marches in Derry, but had no view on the RUC or the B Specials.

        https://rumble.com/vv9a49-daily-police-crackdown-in-ottawa-begins.html

        1. Fearganainm

          The collection of misfits in Ottawa don’t bear any comparison with the civil rights marchers in Derry. The sectarian paramilitaries that were the R.U.C. and B Specials weren’t any kind of ‘normal’ policing service either.

          You constantly hop about making connections that don’t fit. And it isn’t only with regard to Canada, you’re the same when it comes to Ireland. Listen to yourself, Trudeau, Varadkar, Martin etc. are transformed into some of the most brutal, nefarious tyrants that the world has ever seen when in truth they all exude about as much menace as a packet of wet wipes.

          I don’t know what manner of ‘resistance’ you imagine that you’re supporting but it’s going nowhere.

        2. SOQ

          You are attempting separate the actions of Trudeau from these people because you love the idea of the jackboot authoritarianism- no other reason. I use the Derry example because the separation of sides is exactly what the British state propagandists done back then too.

          Just because it makes you uncomfortable doesn’t mean these people are not civil rights activists- they are, and most people acknowledge them as such.

          Oh and I don’t know of many “misfits” who sit around in $100,000 trucks with operating costs of between $150,000 and $200,000 a year- do you?

          1. Fearganainm

            You don’t make me uncomfortable, you simply throw up non sequitur after non sequitur but don’t seem to realise that anyone can see exactly what you’re doing.

            You don’t know of many misfits with money who get up to all kinds of misdeeds? I’m not responsible for your enormous (or wilfully concealed), knowledge gaps.

            The misfits currently occupying Ottawa are not supported by a majority of the residents of Ottawa or by a majority of the population of Canada.

            Your support for regime change in other countries by mob blackmail isn’t the principled position that you might imagine it to be. What makes you different to a CIA/MI6 asset like the Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi is that you’re not a Canadian and your attempts to boost support for regime change are considerably more limited and considerably less effective.

          2. SOQ

            There is no regime, there is a democratically elected government, which can and will be kicked to the kerb. They work for the people, not the other way about. You clearly have a problem grasping such a concept.

          3. Fearganainm

            Elections. That’s how it’s done, isn’t it?

            Not surrendering to a mob of half-wits.

            I don’t think that I’m the one who has a problem with the concept, it’s been you cheering on the misfits, remember?

      3. K.Cavan

        I’d imagine Ferg, having a political viewpoint that combines a Reactionary worldview with elements of Fascism, is unlikely to have much of a problem with the demise of democracy & the rights it guarantees, SOQ.
        Your understandable disappointment is entirely lost on him & his ilk.

        1. Fearganainm

          If you had a brain you’d be a fly.

          I’m sure that your ideological home is closer to Justin Barrett’s micro groupuscule.

      1. Doxxy Chainsaw

        Just reconfirmed my reservation for tonight. Restaurant open and serving thankfully, so enjoy watching the Truckkkers run away whenever whatever is going to happen.

        1. K.Cavan

          Anyone who cooks knows why restaurant food tastes so nice & it’s not the fact that a member of the lower classes did the cooking. See that guy in the park…

        1. johnny

          Just what is it that you want to do?
          Well, we wanna be free, we wanna be free to do what we wanna do
          And we wanna get loaded and we wanna have a good time
          And that’s what we’re gonna do (away baby, let’s go)
          We’re gonna have a good time, we’re gonna have a party

          now get loaded and go have a good time.

          https://youtu.be/XI_XAFqvkpw

  4. SOQ

    Canada condemns #Cuba’s harsh sentencing following the July 2021 protests. [Canada] strongly advocates for freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly free from intimidation. We stand with the people of [Cuba} in their aspiration for #democracy.

    2:52 PM · Feb 17, 2022

    https://twitter.com/CanadaFP/status/1494323983101018119

    Yes really, they actually sent that tweet out yesterday- some of the responses are very funny, and littered with videos of unprovoked police violence from today.

  5. U N M U T U A L

    Trudeau Troops Trample First Nation Elder…

    Yeah… That’s never a good look for a liberal leader.

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