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“Trust the science!” is starting to show its totalitarian face in Canada — but citizens, slowly starting to learn the facts about the COVID crisis, are standing their ground.

Canadian commentator Mark Steyn has the story:

In Ottawa, attempts by agents provocateurs to provoke violence at the Freedom Rally have gone nowhere…

Meanwhile, the Ottawa police have begun arresting citizens trying to deliver food to the truckers. There is no basis in Canadian law for the actions these goon coppers are taking, but the attitude of their dreadful police chief is: hey, the law is whatever I say it is. So he has ordered the arrest of citizens for “mischief”. By mischief, he means bringing sustenance or heat to protesters passing the night in temperatures of twenty below…

The truckers are rallying against “vaccine mandates”, which have no justification in science: The Prime Minister, who is as vaxxed, jabbed and boostered as any mammy singer on the planet, is supposedly hors de combat because he’s down with a second dose of the Covid.

Oh, but don’t worry! To be sure, the common understanding of the word “vaccine” is that you won’t catch what you’re being vaccinated against. But what we really mean is that, if you do get it, it won’t be serious, you won’t be in the ICU, and you certainly won’t die of it.

And by “certainly” we mean, well, probably. Israel, en route to be the world’s first entirely fourth-jabbed nation, currently has a daily death toll higher than before it started giving anyone the first jab. There is no public-health justification for making liberty conditional on compliance with the developed world’s failed strategy of coerced vaccines and constant testing.

Mark Steyn, “The Cavalry Rides in to Covidstan” at Steynonline (February 6, 2022)

Canadians are not braver than other people but we have a prime minister who spouts hate (from wherever he is hiding) against those of us who have figured out that the government’s “Trust the Science!” strategies are not working and may be endangering more people than they help. And an opposition party too spineless to say or do anything about it. And media he has bought and paid for are amplifying every slander.

This video could be one of the most powerful statements you will ever hear from peaceful, law-abiding citizens who have had enough of the slow morph into a “science”-driven totalitarian state (happening in many places around the world). And it is not a long jaw. Just watch a bit of it and study their faces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3sYDMNiD4

Freedom Convoy Leadership Update – Address to the Nation 7:00pm February 6, 2020. Ottawa Mayor declared a state of emergency. How Ottawa Police taking the convoy fuel and occupying the convoy tents does not impact the Freedom Convoy logistics.

From the comments: “Canadians: ‘Be polite when you are being arrested.’ u guys rock!” (Sure, commenter. Canada belongs to the people of Canada. And this is how free people fight back. Serfs, by contrast, destroy things and attack people because they have no stake in a free and prosperous society. – O’Leary for News)

Also: From Shawn Whateley, past president of the Ontario Medical Association, to the progressive elite: Quit slandering and start listening:

Many Canadian elites have shown an unexpected level of incompetence, in response to protest.

The prime minister chose to attack the truckers’ Freedom Convoy 2022. Listening was beneath him. He slandered instead of showing compassion. He refused to meet. Trudeau only listens to those he likes.

Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP, did the same. Many individual MPs hurled insults. The media made us dizzy with spin…

The elites may have lost the larger crowd already.

Thousands of regular people have gone to see the convoy for themselves. They find a happy celebration. They sing and dance and play soccer and hockey in the street. They wave flags and exchange high fives. People hand out free hot food on every corner.

Close family and friends return with pictures and videos of a moving, patriotic event. I now have dozens and dozens of first-hand reports from people I trust: this is not a violent protest.

Shawn Whateley, “The Only Rational Response to Truckers’ Freedom Convoy” at Epoch Times (Updated February 7, 2022)

He hopes a leader will rise up to guide us into a common sense response to COVID-19 Some of us, including O’Leary for News, sadly, don’t see Justin Trudeau growing into the role.

Update: The Jeep driver who ran down four demonstrators in Winnipeg is David Zegarac, a far left activist, active on the punk rock scene. Was he perhaps only doing what many such persons have fantasized about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIh1g6dsKaw

Here’s a safe crowdfunding site to hire lawyers for arrested truckers (there’ll likely be more, probably on flimsy pretexts). The elite have gone to war against the free citizen in lots of places in the world, using “science” as a bludgeon, not a tool.

Also: The good news is, you don’t have to be a Canadian to fight back: ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protests Are Spreading Throughout World as Truckers Lead the Fight Against Mandates.

Update: Candice Bergen, the interim leader of the Conservative Party, is calling for an end to the COVID crazy, something the leader who was just voted out, Erin O’Toole, could not bring himself to do:

This must happen. Wrecking kids schooling and social lives is not a way to fight COVID-19. We need to focus on protecting those at serious risk of untimely death.


You may also wish to read: Let us listen to Dr. Robert Malone, dissenting expert, on the COVID-19 crisis

and, for what’s happening in suddenly famous Canada:

What I saw at the Freedom Convoy in downtown Victoria It was all friendly; people were having a good time. There was no violence; I heard no racial epithets and saw no racial insignia. So if media tell you that it is really about white nationalism, etc., remember that the legacy Canadian media are in fact supported to stay in business by the federal government. Because few depend on them for news any more.

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Certainly under the Trump administration they were. So what are the alternatives, find out for yourself? Most ordinary people don't want to take the time and trouble to ferret out the actual research papers and probably wouldn't understand it if they did. Without the science you're left with conspiracy theories dreamt up by crackpots or those with more malevolent intent or half-baked medical speculations pushed as established therapies. Clinical trials? We don't need no clinical trials.Seversky
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When they say "trust the science," what they really mean is "trust what government spokespersons say the science is." These have been demonstrated to be two entirely different things.William J Murray
February 8, 2022
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It’s not as if they would be allowed in anyway, is it?
In the US and Canada near 100% of local materials are delivered by truck. If the truckers only represent a small % of truckers then the threat is meaningless. If however, there is wide spread sympathy amongst truckers, essential products could dry up. No one knows at the moment.jerry
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Freedom Convoy Preemptive SOS Press Conference Feb.7
Seversky So, in Canada, don’t trust the science, trust the truckers? Who needs all those elitist virologists, epidemiologists, molecular biologists etc,
:lol: What science? That science that produced this virus? That science that fabricated studies against HCQ ,IVM to convince people that vaccine is the only solution? That science that says that masks work and masks don't work? That science that use PCR with over 40 cycles when they need positive tests ? About what science are you talking about? The science is congruent with the morality and dreams of people who own big pharma . A study can be tortured until sing whatever "scientist" wants or has been ordered to want.Lieutenant Commander Data
February 8, 2022
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I believe the truckers said if they are forced to leave by the various methods of duress, they said they were not coming back to deliver anything.
It's not as if they would be allowed in anyway, is it?Bob O'H
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EDTA; BUT, count me with the truckers and against the police and their heavy-handed tactics; this is ludicrous.
The police heavy handed tactics:
The Ottawa police issued a news release stating that on Sunday seven people had been arrested and 100 tickets issued related to demonstration enforcement. Two were arrested for mischief on Coventry Road, three others were arrested for mischief at Metcalfe and Slater streets, and two were arrested in the morning — one for driving while prohibited and the other for mischief related to property damage at a downtown business. More than 100 Highway Traffic Act and provincial offence notices were issued, police said, for offences that included excessive honking, driving the wrong way, defective muffler, no seat belt, alcohol readily available and having the improper class of driving licence….
Not exactly splitting heads or teargas.
Since Jan. 28, By-law and Regulatory Services had issued 787 parking tickets for various violations in and around the demonstration area, including 568 over the weekend, director Roger Chapman said in an emailed reply to this newspaper Sunday. “The goal of parking enforcement within the perimeter of the demonstration is to ensure that emergency lanes are clear, and the flow of traffic is maintained. All service requests directly related to the demonstration are being redirected to OPS,” the email read. “We understand that this is a frustrating and difficult time for residents who live and work in the downtown core.”
Hmm. So, keeping lanes open for emergency vehicles is a strong arm police tactic?Scamp
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I don't recall anyone saying that the covid vaccine jab guaranteed you would never get covid. All any vaccine has ever done is reduce the probability of getting something to one degree or another. The only reason it's "effectively" a 100% guarantee with polio, e.g., is that you are also extremely unlikely to be around anyone with polio in the first place. (I don't think I've ever been in the same room with anyone with active polio.) If you put 10,000 polio-vaccinated people into close contact with someone with an active case, you might get one or two new polio cases out of it. The covid vaccine isn't as good as the polio vaccine either, but all any of them do is reduce probabilities. BUT, count me with the truckers and against the police and their heavy-handed tactics; this is ludicrous. (I'd invite y'all Canadians down to the US, but we have problems here too. 8-)EDTA
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Jerry: I believe the truckers said if they are forced to leave by the various methods of duress, they said they were not coming back to deliver anything. No food, no gasoline or other things the Ottawa government might need
Well, that would be very mature. Threaten over a million people because they didn’t get their way. But it’s a moot point. These truckers haven’t delivered anything in two weeks and the store shelves are still full, there is no shortage of gas or anything else we need.Scamp
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Your comment takes the sancta simplicitas prize, Seversky, and that’s the best that can be said of it. The truckers are complaining about the over-reaching mandates, they are not advocating different medical advice. But you know that, don’t you, you little goose-stepper for the elites.Belfast
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The vaccines have failed to live up to the hype. They don't prevent you from getting sick. They don't prevent you from being a host. They don't prevent you from transmitting the virus.ET
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So, in Canada, don't trust the science, trust the truckers? Who needs all those elitist virologists, epidemiologists, molecular biologists etc, when you can ask your friendly local delivery driver for the best medical advice?Seversky
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I believe the truckers said if they are forced to leave by the various methods of duress, they said they were not coming back to deliver anything. No food, no gasoline or other things the Ottawa government might need.jerry
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