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The truck drivers retaliation to the mandate has been financial terrorism. Putting people out of work is more than 'dramatic'. Their goal was/is to hurt business & industry in both Canada and the US. Why shouldn't the Canadian gov't respond in kind.
Civil disobedience is financial terrorism?
Do you agree the same should have been done during the BLM demonstrations?
Do BLM next. Hack.
Donating to the truckers means the government will find out who you are and freeze your bank accounts, as a private citizen. You give to a GoFundMe to a group we are at odds with, we can freeze your accounts. Thats totalitarian, period. "Financial terrorism" give me a break. Nobody is inspiring terror. Its a protest/defiance plain and simple. Its a pseduo-blockade, which countries do all the time. When the truckers start detonating their trucks or ramming them into border stations, then we can talk. While I agree with the BLM movement's goals and mission more than the truckers, there was no "hurting of business and industry" in their goals to get heard?Both were trying to disrupt and inconvenience to get their missions heard/accomplished. Again, this is excusing similar broad situations because one cause is deemed worthy and the other deemed spurious.
Groups that contributed to a coup attempt in the US are also giving to the truckers. It is not simply a protest.
coup attempt?? you can't be talking about cankles trying to over throw a duly elected and sitting grand pooba...you know, the smashed up blackberries, wiped out hard drives, 10's of thousands of emails flushed, tapping into potus hard drive, making schiff up to form a fake dossier to use in fisa courts, ruining innocent people's lives, taking million$ from foreign sources...you mean that coup? or the ignoring of coke head and the "big guy" selling out for money from foreign countries, selling paintings made from his used up crack pipe... ok, now you're talkin some sense
That’s fine, it’s still not “financial terrorism” that justifies confiscating crypto wallets and freezing accounts/cards they way you’d do with a discovered Al Qaeda cell.
Most of the BLM demonstrations were peaceful, didn’t clog streets for weeks and shut down international borders.
“Most.” LOL. That makes it all ok.$2 billion in damages. Lives lost, businesses that have never recovered. That was terrorism. Any fires, deaths, intentional damage or destruction by those hosers in Ottawa?https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/insurance-costs-for-george-floyd-riots-will-be-most-expensive-in-history-233905.aspx
Oh, and how is the 95 yo doin', hey?
God saved the queen with vaccines.
I have yet to see a single Scooper say that those who committed violent acts during the summer of 2020 protests shouldn't be punished to the full extent of the law. I, for one, hope each perpetrator is identified, tried, convicted and sentenced to the max the law allows.Meanwhile, many Scoopers have minimized the financial damage these truckers have caused, have minimized the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville and, of course, have minimized the 1/6/21 coup attempt.Oh ... and BTW ... Queen Elizabeth II has Covid.
People on this board minimize BLM and the financial damage they caused, almost on a daily basis. Furthermore, I haven’t seen any scoopers saying that the violent acts committed in the other events (1/6, Charlottesville) shouldn’t be condemned and punished to the fullest extent of the law either. So, from what I see, it really goes both ways and is more balanced than you make it out to be. I’m still curious as to why 1/6 comes up in almost every thread. Almost never has any relevance to the topic at hand.
If Trump and his cronies had did something like this to people who were contributing to the bail fund for people arrested in various BLM riots, or BLM the organization in general (not the movement), people would have lost their damn minds.