“Mostly peaceful” versus “non-violent dangers.”
Orwell would take note of the Canadian left’s reaction to the trucker convoy:
You’ve heard of mostly peaceful violence and fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
Well, that’s how the leftwing propaganda fiction corporations describe violent thuggish gang-warfare assemblages they approve of.
But how do they describe completely, 100% orderly, violence-free protests they disapprove of?
In other words, some people have been stirred to fearfulness by left-wing propaganda about the trucker convoy, even though that demonstration hasn’t just been mostly peaceful – it’s been totally peaceful so far.
[NOTE: See also this for a discussion of the US DOJ’s differential treatment of the BLM/Antifa protestors of 2020 versus the January 6th protestors.]
This is Canada’s January 6 Reichstag Fire.
The usual suspects (WaPo and MSNBC) have been going after the “racist” Canadian insurrectionist truckers, Pravda-on-the-Potomac, according to a post at TheBlaze. actually publishing a “political cartoon” by Michael de Adder accusing the convoy of “fascism.” How very prescient was Orwell, 75 years ago, in his disgust at the abuse of the English language at the hands of his fellow leftists!
It was great to see Viva Frei’s livestreams from Ottawa yesterday, very lengthy but fascinating, and the joy on the faces of people he encountered, hugs and fistbumps, and it was clear that for everyone it was about more than just vaccines and quarantines and mask mandates, it was about the authoritarian grip on the country. They kept saying it was about freedom.
Apparently there’s now a “Convoy to Canberra” underway in Australia, and we’ll see where that goes. I read there are similar plans in the U.S., but I haven’t seen any confirmation.
Apparently the Mayor of Ottowa has been calling the local wrecker companies to hire them on, in order to begin towing off the offending parked semi’s to clear the streets. And to a one, they have all replied that they’re sick – with COVID.
Meanwhile Jordan Peterson has published a short video pointing out to the conservative opposition leadership – which has remained shamefully silent in unified toadying obedience – that the Premier has abandoned the ramparts, and to ask them what the hell are they waiting for?
…and I’ll tell you, with all that gridlock around the capital, it’s not going to take very long for the grocery shelves to empty, when they’re not being replenished. Watch for the military to be mobilized next – ‘for safety’.
In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”
Here’s hoping wisdom will prevail and shine.
JanMN:
I watched the Viva Frei livestream as well and I agree it was fascinating, encouraging and heartwarming. It was great to see ordinary people who work for a living and keep everything running finally stand up for themselves and everybody else who has been mindlessly punished by Trudeau’s nonsensical rules.
I know there is some stiff competition for incompetent leadership among the Western democracies but Trudeau has taken the lead with his disgraceful performance. At least Biden has his cognitive decline as an excuse.
pointing out to the conservative opposition leadership – which has remained shamefully silent in unified toadying obedience – that the Premier has abandoned the ramparts, and to ask them what the hell are they waiting for?
This is the reason for class warfare. There is a disconnect between the people and their representatives. There can’t be that many people rallying and nobody in government willing to voice support.
JanMN said, “Apparently there’s now a ‘Convoy to Canberra’ underway in Australia, and we’ll see where that goes.”
Here’s a short video of the Canberra convoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaDGLaOf8sg&ab_channel=10NewsFirst
The Aussie truckers have one advantage over their Canadian counterparts: it’s summer Down Under.
It would be GREAT for more normal folk to refuse, absolutely non-violently, to follow authoritarian orders to punish those protesting in favor of freedom.
Whether using COVID or any other “sick” excuse.
Freddie says COVID is, for liberals, like 9/11.
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/covid-as-liberal-911
(If I read his hundreds of comments, I have little time to read & comment anywhere else!)
Seen over at Small Dead Animals: Ron DeSantis’ two-word endorsement of the Canadian truckers: TRUCK YEAH!
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/02/01/now-is-the-time-at-sda-when-we-juxtapose-28/#comments
Have you checked the temperatures in Ottawa? Highs in the 20s and 30s. Lows heading into single digits. And snow flurries. Plus wind to make it seem even colder. That’s a hardy group of Canadians.
Eva Marie:
You call that cold?
I call temps in the 60s cold.
As an ex-leftist I don’t often feel an obligation to apologize for the insanity, hypocrisy and plain dumbness of today’s left, but this is one of those times.
I apologize.
I was watching Viva Frei’s feed yesterday sometimes, too; had to look away for a while when Doughnut Man started to become too… ehmm… attached.
As for “non-violent dangers,” I think that’s an absolutely valid concept, but it’s not in play in this case.
Google Maps has been indicating that the traffic tie-ups are mostly within, say, six blocks of Parliament, so I’m not sure that the city is really that besieged as far as grocery deliveries or access goes. It feels kind of like the February Revolution leaving one side door of the palace completely unwatched for an extended period (thinking here of Figes’ description of the events in A People’s Tragedy). The MPs could probably order pizza even at this point.
Several have mentioned watching Viva Frei’s livestream – and a favorite phrase he and Robert Barnes use frequently applies to the left’s reactions and “fears” about the events in Ottawa – namely
“Confession through projection”
Because, as was proved last year, a lot of the left commentary is based upon knowing what their ‘heroes’ are capable of, and what likely they themselves would (and have) cheered on.
They are afraid of their own Id.
“They are afraid of their own Id.”
This is part of it. They certainly project. Also they inhabit a different reality — fed in large part by their online interactions with only like-minded people. The Z Man goes a bit further and suggests that part of it is active ‘World Building’ — the Woke need to be constantly telling themselves a story in which they are on the side of the angels in a cosmic battle of good against evil… because otherwise they’re just a Barista at Starbucks or some Wine Aunt Karen or some boring professor or some talking head who slept her way into the job… and that would suck majorly.
@ JanMN > “Apparently there’s now a “Convoy to Canberra” underway in Australia, and we’ll see where that goes. I read there are similar plans in the U.S., but I haven’t seen any confirmation”
One of Neo’s links in the Class Warfare post has information.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2022/01/canadian-trucker-protests-continue-aussies-launch-convoy-to-canberra/
They also address this comment by Aggie: “with all that gridlock around the capital, it’s not going to take very long for the grocery shelves to empty”
Freakin’ “snow-washing” truckers are out of control…
https://twitter.com/BC_Prad/status/1488287527244947458
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Through a circuitous route on Small Dead Animals – here is the news report from J. P. Sears.
https://rumble.com/vttvyp-the-canadian-truckers-cant-be-stopped.html
FWIW, the Orwellian Language considered here is of the same ilk as the Wokesters’ assertions that “silence is violence” and also that “hate speech is violence” – you can’t win the verbal wars when one side just makes things up.
So, Canada has not only generated its own Reichstag Fire, but a gen-u-ine Tiananmen Square moment.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/downtown-ottawa-street-residents-take-stance-block-truck-1.6335139
Maybe J6ing has worked so well it’s now in the play book, but then J6ing is another variation of Kulaks so nothing new either.
Damn, I love thee, NEO!
According to Legal Insurrection, American truckers are organizing a convoy to The Swamp: “The start date has not been set. However, it appears [the U.S. truckers] are targeting California as their starting point.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/02/convoy-to-dc-2022-gains-momentum-as-american-truckers-get-organized/
Zaphod @ 2:10am,
Yes. We all spin a narrative where we are the protagonist every minute of our waking hours. Some folks give little concern to matching that story with reality. It is difficult to interact with such people.
Trudeau is simply showing that he is just like his dad — Fidel Castro.
[Check the photos. He looks just like him and not at all like Trudeau. His mom was extremely promiscuous, she adored Fidel, and she was in the Caribbean nine months before son was born.]
Saw a pic of a truck in the Canada convoy with sign on front “Say No to Castreau”
A sign that some small thing they might do in support of the producing clsss will not cause them the least discomfort, disfavor or potential loss of income.
The utter moral corruption of the political classes in the US and around the Western world, and the money casually showered on them and their equally corrupt offspring – Chelsea was a recent example cited here in the ” grifter” reference – is staggering.
Also staggering, if you ever took them to be sincere, is the silence of the “progressive” left with regard to these shenanigans. The feminists turned out to be fakers, the socialsts to be grifters, the liberal grandmas closet totalitarians in favor of concentration camps for dissenters, the progressive young white women 56% mentally ill, the anti racists a bunch of racists hysterically spouting a racial essentialism their predecessors denied in the name of God, suffering humanity, and Apple pie. And the progressive minded soccer moms? Shrill, brittle, controlling, wine bibers.
Did I forget anyone? Oh the professional Catholics transforming their faith into a Chinese funded NGO, the warbling Republicucks quoting “Dr. King” as if incanting a magic formula , the academic fraudsters screaming “Science™!!!!’ over the corpses of their irreplicable research papers, and those valley girl lilt talking fat male voters in sweaters still supporting that idiot chick sent to Congress from Brooklyn, or the Bronx or wherever.
Put them all in a couple of aircraft carriers and send them off the Chinese coast. Maybe we will find out just how good the hypersonic missles the Chinese boast of, really are.
Might get some good out of this exercise in associative insanity.
Surely TRUMP and BANNON are behind this!! Time for a UN investigation!
My favorite lines: “critics warn that conflating the absence of bloodshed with ‘peaceful’ protest downplays the dangers.” But arson? Totally OK with mostly peaceful arson. And then from the comments, someone interviewed by a breathless journalist reported that she knew at least one child who was afraid to come outside. Well, can martial law be far behind? If it saves just one child from fear.
Justin “Castreau” is good, too.
The whole thing is comedy gold. Thanks so much for the link.
@DNW:
Magnificent! I beseech you, in the Bowels of Christ, think it possible you may have left anyone off the list by oversight? Aircraft carrier is a nice touch. Kind of a Reverse Vendée.
It is okay, I don’t need huxley’s apology.
I am just going to wipe the Leftists from the face of this world. We can start there by the time I am down, you all will see something new.
Welcome to the Final War.
I have been charged by the authority of the Godhead to command this theater. Yorushku