EXCLUSIVE: Freedom Convoy truckers say Trudeau and North America’s liberal media are falsely demonizing them as ultra-right-wing crazies. And after spending a week in their midst, the Mail’s reporter can only conclude these [Truncated]

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | February 8, 2022 | Alan Butterfield & Andrea Cavallier

[Cecily]

Angry truckers have lashed out at Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau after members of their convoy protest were arrested and charged with hate crimes during another weekend of unrest in the country's capital city.

They have also strongly denied that they have ties to ultra-right-wing groups, insisting they are just 'ordinary truckers.'

'It's intimidation, nothing else,' Freedom Convoy protestor Guy Meister told DailyMail.com on Monday. 'We are just a bunch of hard working truck drivers who are out here protesting the government's covid mandates.

We aren't political, we are the working class.'

James Doull, 24, a diesel mechanic who is organizing truckers parked along Wellington Street, where many of the parliamentary and government buildings are located, claimed 'all the stuff put out by Trudeau and the government' about the convoy 'are lies.'

'There is no racism, the truckers aren't vandalizing things,' he told DailyMail.com. 'Fringe groups coming in may be responsible but it's not the truckers themselves.

'We are not right-wing conspiracists, we are hard-working everyday Canadians who just want our freedom back,' said Doull, who lives in Grand Manan, New Brunswick.

Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the demonstrations have shown the opposite.

Apart from the incessant honking of their horns, all has been peaceful. The truckers seem to have united the people of Canada in a common goal, to get rid of government mandates.

[Cecily]

Thank you truckers for pushing back against vaccine mandates.

[kanawa]

👍🏽

[martin_fierro]

[AndyJackson]

It appears to be the bouncy castles for children that really set Trudeau off. He probably suffers from a fear of clowns from early childhood. If your mother was a Castro-loving [figuratively if not literally] leftist, you are bound to have psychology problems, as well as the delusions believing that you are a strong man when what you really want to do is go hide in your room with your comfort blanket while ordering out the police to deal with tall those mean folks out there calling you out.

[cb]

JUST. STAY. HOME.

[Paperpusher]

We are not right-wing conspiracists.

I have yet to figure out when and why having political views to the right of center is bad. You can spout Marxist-Communist views all day long, and it is OK. But say you are anti-abortion, or you are for controlled immigration, or pro second amendment and people think you sprouted horns and a forked tail.

[Wilhelm Tell]

“It appears to be the bouncy castles for children that really set Trudeau off. He probably suffers from a fear of clowns from early childhood.”

That must be terrifying for him when he looks in the mirror every morning.

[tomkat]

Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the demonstrations have shown the opposite.
Apart from the incessant honking of their horns, all has been peaceful. The truckers seem to have united the people of Canada in a common goal, to get rid of government mandates.

HONK !

[AndyJackson]

Clown dressing up as an authoritarian thug dressed up as a clown. It would drive me insane.

[Vigilanteman]

A balanced and well-written article. Worth clicking on just to see the world-class photography.

Also loved this little gem:

'The situation at this point is completely out of control,' Mayor Watson said on Sunday. 'The individuals with the protest are calling the shots. They have far more people than we have police officers.'

Funny how the same political class of mayors couldn't find an unkind word to say about the Antifa/BLM mobs who wrecked U.S. cities in the summer of 2020 and were anything but "peaceful protestors."

[Vigilanteman]

Another reason that Castro’s b@st@rd brat has fled the city. eh?

[cp124]

The elite have been forever exposed by their big tech friends. That can’t hide behind their Walter Cronkite only source media anymore. The left newsrooms are not being believed anymore, and are a joke. They tried to get the control back with the scamdemic, but it is falling apart. Wait for the climate change scam to try to get it back. I just had someone tell me that I had to admit the earth was warming. I looked at them and said, “The earth has never warmed and cooled before.” and rolled my eyes. The topic quickly ended.

[Political Junkie Too]

The government is ratcheting up the language in order to justify the heavy police actions that will soon follow.

-PJ

[Bratch]

EXCLUSIVE: Freedom Convoy truckers say Trudeau and North America’s liberal media are falsely demonizing them as ultra-right-wing crazies. And after spending a week in their midst, the Mail’s reporter can only conclude these peaceful, good-natured protestors are 100% correct about that – if nothing else

• Canadian truckers blasted the government and Ottawa police Monday after members of their 'Freedom Convoy' protest were arrested and charged with hate crimes

• The protesters also strongly deny they have ties to ultra-right-wing groups, insisting they are just 'ordinary truckers' trying to make a living without being bound by the government's covid vaccine mandates  

• 'Justin Trudeau and his government like to paint us protestors as right-wing conspiracist, associated with QAnon. But we aren't. We are far from it,' trucker Guy Meister, of Nova Scotia, told DailyMail.com

• Ottawa's Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency Sunday to help deal with an unprecedented 11-day occupation by protesting truckers

• The protest has shut down much of the core of the Canadian capital, Ottawa Police arrested seven people and opened 60 criminal investigations for hate crimes and mischief 

• They also seized fuel and supplies for 1,000 vehicles just hours after the mayor declared a state of emergency 

[cnsmom]

We support the truckers around the world, thank you. We know they are lying. The storefronts in Ottawa aren’t broken or boarded up. It can’t be too dangerous if no glass is broken.

[bray]

The media needs to destroy these truckers. They hate normal people.

[mewzilla]

Looks like the DM is not allowing comments for that story...

Interesting.

[who knows what evil?]

‘The media IS the virus.’

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

Trudeau Government Vows to Criminally Target American Donors Supporting Freedom Protest for “Undermining National Security”

When I looked this morning the total was at $5.9 mil at the GiveSendGo site.

[FreedomPoster]

My favorite on that last is “Chicago used to be under a mile of ice not all that long ago. Tell me all about the pre-historic SUVs that ended that.”