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The differences between authorities' approaches to Canada truck protests and BLM reveal political hypocrisy and discrimination

The many differences between Canada's trucker protest and the 2020 BLM motion are symptomatic of weak and venal leaders who judge the merit of civil actions not on the problems per se, but rather on the dictates of woke politics.

A strange thing happened on the style to Ottawa, where thousands of long-haul truckers take converged to protestation mandatory vaccination measures. The mainstream media, squeaky clean arbiters of news and information that they are, wasted no time portraying the protesters every bit a motley coiffure of knuckle-dragging fascists hell-bent on making life for law-abiding citizens as miserable as possible.

"In a scene at odds with Canadians' reputation for niceness and rule-post-obit, thousands of protesters … descended on the upper-case letter over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic effectually Parliament Hill," reported AP, which was just priming its audience for the stock Hitler analogies. "Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number of them carried signs and flags with swastikas."

Next matter you know these media hacks will be suggesting that the Canadian truckers are colluding with the Russians. Oh, wait… they did that too.

Meanwhile, Althia Raj, an Ottawa-based columnist with the National, complained that the truckers take turned Canada's capital letter into a "lawless zone." Y'all mean like Seattle's constabulary-free Capitol Colina Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), which was created at the peak of the George Floyd protests and forced to close due to a murder spree, correct? Well no, not quite.

"There is incessant honking, midnight dance parties, fireworks in dumbo urban areas … and trucks and cars parked everywhere," a sleepless Raj raged from Ottawa. "The occupiers brought horses, pizza ovens, boisterous castles, firewood and porta-potties. They erected a wooden structure on public property, handing out hot soup and toiletries."

"Bouncy castles and porta-potties?" To be honest, that sounds like a typical Sabbatum afternoon at an amusement park, minus the deafening horn blasts from the 18-wheelers. Incidentally, despite the enormous sums of money raised by Black Lives Matter, I don't call back e'er seeing a single bouncy castle or porta-potty for all those restless demonstrators. But I digress.

Prime Government minister Justin Trudeau, who together with his family fled their home in Ottawa just as the upper-case letter was turning into a massive truck stop, attempted to demonize the 'Liberty Convoy' as a "pocket-sized fringe minority" of Canadian citizens who hold "unacceptable views." The Liberal Party leader, betraying a painful lack of situational awareness, has been forced to chew those words like a hot dog eating champ every bit the motion has fanned out beyond the land with piddling sign of any counter-protest, aside from a mounting police force.

Trudeau, it should be remembered, was whistling a completely different tune back in the mild summer of 2020. As BLM and Antifa activists were running vicious across the United states of america, torching and damaging 1,000 buildings in Minneapolis alone, the Canadian leader didn't abscond the upper-case letter during a Black Lives Thing sit-in in Ottawa. No, Justin Trudeau took a human knee and bowed his caput on Parliament Hill earlier condemning the racist "discrimination" he avowed was happening in Canada.

"Over the past weeks, we've seen a big number of Canadians suddenly awaken to the fact that the bigotry that is a lived reality for far besides many of our fellow citizens is something that needs to terminate," he said.

But today, Justin Trudeau is personally overseeing an act of discrimination against a big segment of the Canadian population, with all of the anticipated consequences. By denying individuals the right to self-autonomy over their private lives, the prime minister has unleashed a campaign of hate and intolerance that has spread like a virus throughout Canadian society.

That much was axiomatic when some $ix million in donations collected for the 'Liberty Convoy' were blocked by the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, which, afterward declaring the trucker protestation "an occupation," said information technology would distribute the funds to charities of its choosing. Aside from the mind-blowing airs of such a move, which the platform was finally forced to carelessness, opting to simply return the funds, is the question as to why GoFundMe didn't interfere with the millions of dollars nerveless on behalf of Black Lives Thing. Later all, we're talking about a protestation movement that was not shy nigh attacking the constabulary and federal buildings.

Patriotic Texans donated to Canadian truckers' worthy cause using GoFundMe. This BLM-bankroll company went woke, froze the funds, & failed to deliver Texans' money. Today I assembled a team to investigate their potential fraud & deception. Texas donors will get Justice! #GoFundMe

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) February 5, 2022

So where did the bulk of the BLM funds go? Many of the donations (some of which, by the way, derived from Canadian citizens) were reportedly used every bit 'become out of jail complimentary' cards by the hoodlums wreaking havoc in the United States and effectually the earth.

"Bail funds to assist arrested protesters go out of jail faster were at the forefront of the giving," the New York Times wrote.

Yet who is being labeled as the terrorists? Yes, the members of the Liberty Convoy, who have but been charged with small traffic infractions and a couple pocket-size violations, like the use of fireworks and excessive racket.

Phil Gurski, a former Canadian intelligence officer, told local media that what has been happening thus far in the Canadian capital "is not terrorism."

Since the start of this motion in January, "no ane has died, no one has been threatened with decease, no major infrastructure has been damaged," Gurski wrote. "Labeling protesters 'terrorists' is inaccurate, unhelpful and sets a bad precedent for future demonstrations (for case, if the truckers are 'terrorists,' what well-nigh Start Nations' protesters or Black Lives Matter?)."

Once again, liberals are engaged in a shocking display of hypocrisy, which underscores their commitment to political brinkmanship over democracy. When the BLM protests were at their tiptop destructiveness, Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Political party did not miss a cheap opportunity to virtue signal and advance the agenda of this organization, which is purportedly committed to helping black folks (a number of people have criticized the organization, including black mothers who were promised that the funeral expenses of their slain children would be covered, yet, they claim, they never saw a dime).

Now that the shoe is on the other pes, and Canada has become ground zero for a nationwide protest movement, Trudeau and the human rights defenders of the Liberal Political party are not to be establish – not even to take a knee for the thousands of lives that their draconian policies accept had on endless Canadians. Clearly, the virtually dangerous virus affecting the Canadian people at nowadays is not Covid-19, but rather political hypocrisy and bigotry, for which the only known cure is democracy and all of the bellboy boosters.

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Source: https://www.rt.com/news/548772-freedom-convoy-canada-protests/

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