In political circles the narrative is that the Freedom Convoy protesters hold unacceptable views.  This is a great sound bite for the news but doesn’t really explain what is and is not acceptable.  As a public service I have accumulated statements from politicians and media to compile a list of acceptable and unacceptable beliefs.

Acceptable Belief	Unacceptable Belief
Cotton has magical powers; when held over your face it forms an impenetrable barrier to viruses.	The engineering is clear.  You can’t stop a 0.1 micron particle with an 80 micron filter.
Children need to be vaccinated or they will all surely die and it will be the parents fault.	Children should not be part of an experiment to test a treatment that only benefits adults.
The Government is the final arbiter of what you do with your body.	Handing the most fundamental right of bodily autonomy to a group of homicidal sociopaths is the worst decision in human history.
Lockdowns are the only way to protect us from a virus.  If only everyone had obeyed this would have been over in 2 weeks.	Forcing unemployment on bar and restaurant staff is not an antiviral.  It is just plain stupid.
Lockdowns saved millions of lives and should be used every cold and flu season.	The science is clear.  Lockdowns have almost no effect on the spread of an airborne virus.  The overall deaths were increased by lockdowns.
The legacy media in Canada is the only reliable source of information.	600 million dollars in tax money was used to buy media silence and cooperation.  Trudeau even brags about it on camera.
Multiple boosters every year for a disease less deadly that influenza is the smart thing to do.	Multiple boosters every year for any disease is insane.  It is just proof that the vaccine does not work.
If everyone had just listened to government the virus would have disappeared already.	No virus with an animal reservoir has ever disappeared.  COVID will never go away.
My safety is someone else’s responsibility.  There is no hardship that I can impose on them that is not justified by feelings of wellbeing.	People who ask others to suffer so that they can feel safe are selfish.  If you don’t feel safe in a store don’t go to in to the store.  The store owner should not be forced to close to make you feel safe.
People need to be forced to take COVID vaccinations because vaccinated people can only be infected by unvaccinated people.	No one should be forced to use a technology that has failed 100% of the time in animal tests.
Justin Trudeau is a demi god that you must sacrifice your children to in return for safety.	Justin Trudeau is an ignorant, petulant, man-child who lashes out at anyone who points out that he is an ignorant, petulant, man-child.

 

After going through this exercise I have discovered, to my dismay, that all of my beliefs are unacceptable.  I would apologize to Justin Trudeau but I can’t find him.  No one seems to know where the Prime minister of Canada is.  I believe that a Prime Minister hiding from protesters and ignoring the will of the people is not how democracy should work.  That too is likely an unacceptable belief.  Hey I gotta be me.

Donald Trump was an outsider.  He did not accumulate his fortune by peddling political favors.  Unlike his predecessors and the rest of the Washington elite, Trump was not there to make money from the system.  This made Trump an existential threat to a cozy system that had made millionaires out of vile and talentless people.  All stops were pulled out to get rid of Donald Trump.  Every weapon at the establishment’s disposal was brought to bear.  The establishment was ultimately successful in removing Trump but in the process they exposed the enormous political and media corruption that exists.

The Freedom Convoy is having the same effect now in Canada.  Truckers and their supports are not part of the corrupt government/media alliance.  They are outsiders who have no desire to be a leech on the Canadian taxpayers.  The Freedom convoy is an existential threat to the system.  If Canadian taxpayers ever learn that the power lies with people and not government, 155 years of accumulated corruption will come crashing down.

The government/media alliance is reacting to the threat the same way they reacted to the threat Donald Trump posed.  They are attacking on all fronts.  The shock troops are always the media.  They get sent in first.  Canadian Media has jumped to the task of painting the protesters as violent terrorists.  This is no small task since there has been no violence and the Truckers are out in force shoveling sidewalks and feeding homeless in Ottawa.

That is not really a problem for Canadian media; they have never been averse to fabricating a story.  First they make Canadians believe there is a large and growing counter protest.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/counter-protesters-meet-vancouver-convoy-on-second-weekend-of-anti-mandate-protests-1.5769541

Millions of people across Canada were out protesting the mandates yesterday and the only story worth reporting was a dozen counter protesters?

Next they make you believe that violence between the protesters and counter protesters is inevitable.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8597478/ottawa-trucker-convoy-risk-of-violence/

The only violence to date has been people harassed for wearing masks?  For 2 years people have been harassed and physically assaulted for not wearing a mask yet somehow that was never reported as violence.  There has been no real violence from any of the freedom convoy protesters but the media is certain that when counter protesters show up there will be violence.  Doesn’t that imply that it will be the counter protesters who initiate the violence?  I sincerely doubt the truckers can be goaded in to violence by the soy boys in the counter protest but again the media does not require truth to construct a narrative.

The media is constructing a false narrative about the protesters being violent terrorists to provide justification for the government to use violence against the freedom convoy.  Several politicians have called for bringing in the military and the Ottawa police Chief has promised to ramp up his own illegal activities.  To make sure his officers fall in line he has threatened them publicly.

 

Ottawa's police chief says he will investigate any police officer that provides any support to the Freedom Convoy truckers. pic.twitter.com/x89W5VRhAS

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 4, 2022

Any officer supporting the protest, in any way, will be prosecuted.  Prosecuted for what?  Did the Ottawa police chief just invent the charge of aiding and abetting free speech?

This rhetorical ramp up has not been lost on the protesters.  Here is their lawyer appealing to Canadians for support.

 

Urgent from Ottawa pic.twitter.com/O7sa2tlteI

— Keith Wilson, Q.C. (@ikwilson) February 4, 2022

Our Government is playing a dangerous game.  They are getting desperate as they watch their hold on power slip.  They are lashing out now before their snout gets pushed out of the public trough permanently.  They are moving boldly, and illegally, at a time when they should exercise caution.  Support for the truckers is already far more wide spread than they think.  Just ask these 2 Ladies.

 

Looks like the truckers are going to be here for a long time! It’s amazing. Men and women trucking food across the country to feed Canada‘s heroes. pic.twitter.com/6O3j6lJTcc

— Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson (@LauraLynnTT) February 2, 2022

I woke up early this morning and did something I don’t normally do: I turned on a legacy media news program.  The program was CTV’s morning show out of Edmonton.  I don’t know why I bothered.  It took only minutes before I was nauseated.  CTV took the time to do a story about how hard the Freedom Convoy has been on the residents of Ottawa.  CTV explained that some Ottawa Seniors are afraid to leave the house and the isolation has been difficult for them.  Of course CTV did not speak to any of these frightened seniors.  They did not speak to any seniors at all for this blockbuster story about the concerns of seniors.

There is a good reason that CTV did not risk interviewing an actual senior.  They were unlikely to get the answer that they wanted.  I would hazard a guess that most seniors would be a lot more upset about 2 years of enforced isolation due to government tyranny than a 3 days of inconvenience from the Freedom protest.  An inconvenience that was increased by the police preventing so many truckers from approaching parliament and stranding them in other parts of the city.

The media is frantically searching for anyway to support the government agenda.  When they aren’t making up fake stories about frightened seniors they are trying to convince the protesters that they have made their point and they should quit while they are ahead.

André Pratte: The longer convoy protesters paralyze Ottawa, the more they damage their cause | National Post

The Media is desperate because the protests are working.  Quebec has backed off on their plan to fine unvaccinated and Jason Kenney in Alberta has a full blown crisis on his hands.  Truckers in Alberta joined the efforts by blocking the Coutts Border crossing.  When the RCMP finally moved the protesters truckers and farmers started blocking highways in southern Alberta.  United Conservative party (UCP) MLAs from southern Alberta negotiated a settlement with the truckers to drop vaccine passports in rural areas.  The UCP executive quickly stepped in to squash that but did it by promising to remove vaccine passports (restriction exemption program) everywhere within days.  Here is their press release.

It is quite telling that this came from the caucus chair and not the Premier.  This could indicate that Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has also gone in to hiding or that the party is pushing him aside.

If governments are forced to drop restrictions both the media and government will find themselves in hot water because nothing will happen.  There will be no surge in infections, hospitalizations, or deaths.  Even the most deeply committed COVIDiots will come to realize what academics have been saying for more than a year now.  The restrictions made no measurable difference.  They only made things worse.  There is a new study from John’s Hopkins that concluded just that.

While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.

A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf (jhu.edu)

People are angry now.  How angry do you think they will be when they will be when they finally realize that none of this was necessary and that the media and government have lied to them for 2 years?