If you block freeways you deserve to get run over.
I don't necessarily agree.
It's an incredibly dramatic form of civil disobedience that is pretty severe, can really hurt your public perception, but if the cause is just: it might be worth it.
The Canadian Truckers actually started shutting down highways, but that was because of Canada's incredible oppression over lockdowns. What sparked the whole thing was the PM's push to have not only mandated injections for all truckers, regardless of religious/moral/medical exemption, the right to have immediate termination for anyone who opposed it, fines and penalties on top of that, and the construction of **intra-**state checkpoints and closures in Canada so that freedom of movement between provinces would be ended and met with mandated inspections of driver's internal covid passports.
I mean, Jesus Christ, that's a reason. And the truckers and their trucks are the ones being directly effected. The truckers didn't just convoy over to Ottawa, they also shut down one of the major bridges that lead to the US. That was a national security threat. You're endangering the the entire economy of Canada by slowing and restricting global trade with the US.
Now, do I agree with them in doing it? Yeah, absolutely, 100%. Trudeau violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and should have been forced to abdicate (because resign isn't the right word when he basically acts as the God-King of Canada). Should they have been run over if they were outside their trucks (as a few instances did happen), no absolutely not. Now... being that it's civil disobedience, is there any real legal recourse for them? No, and the police wouldn't have wanted to help them with recourse anyways.
I don't necessarily agree.
It's an incredibly dramatic form of civil disobedience that is pretty severe, can really hurt your public perception, but if the cause is just: it might be worth it.
The Canadian Truckers actually started shutting down highways, but that was because of Canada's incredible oppression over lockdowns. What sparked the whole thing was the PM's push to have not only mandated injections for all truckers, regardless of religious/moral/medical exemption, the right to have immediate termination for anyone who opposed it, fines and penalties on top of that, and the construction of **intra-**state checkpoints and closures in Canada so that freedom of movement between provinces would be ended and met with mandated inspections of driver's internal covid passports.
I mean, Jesus Christ, that's a reason. And the truckers and their trucks are the ones being directly effected. The truckers didn't just convoy over to Ottawa, they also shut down one of the major bridges that lead to the US. That was a national security threat. You're endangering the the entire economy of Canada by slowing and restricting global trade with the US.
Now, do I agree with them in doing it? Yeah, absolutely, 100%. Trudeau violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and should have been forced to abdicate (because resign isn't the right word when he basically acts as the God-King of Canada). Should they have been run over if they were outside their trucks (as a few instances did happen), no absolutely not. Now... being that it's civil disobedience, is there any real legal recourse for them? No, and the police wouldn't have wanted to help them with recourse anyways.
There is a difference. They were blocking roads to block trade, not to inconvenience random people.
True.