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Protesters demand government accountability after 'abject failure' of convoy response
Ottawa Citizen ^ | March 05, 2022 | Aedan Helmer

Posted on 03/06/2022 4:33:15 AM PST by Kriggerel

“Those who organized the protests didn’t really care about anyone’s rights or freedoms but their own, and neither did the politicians who enabled them.”

...While truck horns have been silenced and the convoy has largely moved on, there is lingering resentment and anger among residents. “And rightfully so,” said Coun. Catherine McKenney, who attended Saturday’s rally as a supporter.

“Right from the start (of the convoy), we saw there was hatred, xenophobia, racism, and that was directed very much to a certain demographic … I think that feeling of abandonment is what terrified people during the illegal occupation, and I think now it’s what keeps people angry and demanding better,” McKenney said.

(Excerpt) Read more at ottawacitizen.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; convoy; dissent; freedomconvoy2022; freespeech; ottawa; protest; truckers; trudeau; tyranny
Geez, the MSM is *really* doubling-down in savouring their "victory" over the so-called "FluTruxKlan" now. The Ottawa Citizen has been second only to the Toronto (Red) Star in endlessly hammering the narrative about "racism", "xenophobia", "white supremacy", "domestic terrorism", "sedition" and "treason"... X.x
1 posted on 03/06/2022 4:33:15 AM PST by Kriggerel
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To: Kriggerel

Have to create the narrative - complete with PBS and HBO specials about how this was a racist, nazi truck convoy.

Just like how (Rush Limbaugh voice) Selllmmaaaa


2 posted on 03/06/2022 4:47:06 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Kriggerel

Bird cage liner.


3 posted on 03/06/2022 4:52:20 AM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: Kriggerel

What nonsense. We all here know that Trudeau’s personal photographer and such others were involved with the swastika and Confederate flag being shown there.


4 posted on 03/06/2022 5:03:51 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: sauropod
Bird cage liner.

I'm afraid a bird would see this in it's cage and refuse to defecate as that would be redundant.

5 posted on 03/06/2022 5:12:53 AM PST by DaBroasta
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To: Kriggerel

“and that was directed very much to a certain demographic “


And who would that be — Politicians who hated their voters?

Medical “Experts” who turned into totalitarians?

Jack-booted thugs brought in to punish and abuse demonstrators?

People who wanted to force everyone to wear mask and demanded everyone get experimental gene therapy?

I’m having trouble coming up with a group who didn’t deserve it.


6 posted on 03/06/2022 5:44:44 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: sauropod

“Right from the start (of the convoy), we saw there was hatred, xenophobia, racism, and that was directed very much to a certain demographic

Demonizing the rights these pukes enjoy and they cant even see it. sadly when it all goes south someday they will be the first in line to go at the hands of the idols they pray to, useful idiots


7 posted on 03/06/2022 6:09:48 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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HOW stupid do they think we are? ...
Right, I guess I know the answer to that.


8 posted on 03/06/2022 6:18:54 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Kriggerel

I read the whole column, what a pile of steaming BS. He even mentioned the demonstrations that occurred in Ottawa yesterday. Here’s how he described them:

“Around the same time Saturday, a similarly-sized group of about 200 demonstrators opposing vaccine mandates and other pandemic-related restrictions gathered on Wellington Street and marched — under the watchful eyes of police — from Parliament Hill to the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.”

I also watched the live stream of the anti-mandate march, it was about 2,000 or 10 times as many has this clown says, and the protesters against them numbered maybe 50, 4 times fewer than he claims attended.


9 posted on 03/06/2022 6:21:59 AM PST by euram
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““Right from the start (of the convoy), we saw there was hatred, xenophobia, racism, and that was directed very much to a certain demographic…”

huh?


10 posted on 03/06/2022 7:15:29 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Kriggerel

The Canadian truckers got the ball rolling. Governments everywhere quit imposing lockdowns, muzzles, and vaccines, or at least dialed down such oppression.


11 posted on 03/06/2022 7:22:26 AM PST by Big Brother Go to Hell
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The government shut down businesses so they wouldn’t support truckers , the government is the real terrorist in this


12 posted on 03/06/2022 7:24:46 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Skywise

When the truckers all ‘go on vacation’ at the same time-—THEN the idiots will get a hint about how critical truckers are.


13 posted on 03/06/2022 7:47:22 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Kriggerel

The truckers in Canada made a big mistake by blocking the bridge(s). The convoy was supposed to be about freedom, so they should have honored the freedom of those who wanted to cross the bridge(s).


14 posted on 03/06/2022 8:45:18 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Kriggerel

The Left is the same no matter where they are. They are intellectually incapable of arguing ideas and concepts but must always rely on emotion and claims of racism, homophobia etc etc. When that doesn’t work, then those with whom they disagree must be silenced. That is the Leftist way.


15 posted on 03/06/2022 12:01:43 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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