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Truckers are not trucks, they are drivers of trucks... entyti Send a noteboard - 22/04/2022 08:25:24 PM

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Humans have a right to assembly. I don't believe vehicles do. Unless there's something in the Canadian constitution that contradicts this...

That said, I have no problem with the protest as such. They just seemed to not understand that it made no one sympathetic to their so-called cause. Civil disobedience is just fine with me. I come from a country that wouldn't be free without mass civil disobedience. There was a much larger protest involving many more trucks blocking the road in Delhi, over much more concrete stakes that actually succeeded. I was cheering them on, because using trucks to stop traffic is a totally fine way to disrupt regular functioning of society and make it pay attention.

But if you choose a stupid cause to promote with such a protest, far from gaining wider sympathy, you'll just have the rest of society even more firmly entrenched against your position. That was the issue with the Candian truckers. I have less issue with the means than I do with their goals.


Your response was as predictably inane as I have come to expect. There was actually a large body of support, both nationally and internationally, though if you only saw the narrative as it was presented, I can forgive you for your blanket statement that they had no support.

And I can't say that it surprises me that you find something like personal body autonomy a "stupid cause."

By your statements, can I assume you were fine with the outcome of said protest, then? The outcome being, of course, no outreach from the government to the protesters, no attempt at negotiation or settlement of their grievances, and threats to target them financially and through police action after a week and a half of ignoring them and calling them racist white supremacists?

And if you are fine with the outcome, I am curious: what is the point of assembly, if you will just get inappropriately name-called and threatened by the government?

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