Class Action

[foragefarmer]

Not hearing anything from the Keyboard Warriors of Agriville regarding the last two days of witness testimonies at the hearing regarding the upstanding organizers of the Ottawa Protest.

First came poor Tamara, I don't recall, I can't remember, I didn't hear that, I was crying, I had no control over anybody, I wasn't there, I was over my head, etc etc. Lich definitely suffers from serious memory loss and uncontrollable weeping, but only on certain issues it seems.

Then there's Diagolon leader Jermey MacKenzie testifying from the Crowbar Hotel in Sask. In fact, good guy Jeremy talked about sexually assaulting PP's wife. Hell of a nice guy this Jermey! Not much being said on Agriville on this one even though there's major support for PP on Agriville, but it's one of those catch22 issues for most of you.

Mr. Mackenzie also testified he knowns one of the upstanding Canadian protestors arrested at the Coutts Broder Blockade. Ab5 you were at Coutts, we'd like to hear your expert account of all the happening at Coutts.

Just a few more sheepie followers of the major organizers of the Ottawa protesters that we can paint with that big brush. I'm thinking there isn't going to be much paint left in a while.

Bouncy castles, snow shoveling, and handing out hot dogs my ASS!

[blackpowder]

Of course it was a slightly screwball event led by bigger screwballs.
But freezing accounts indefinitely and the WMA? Jail?
How could such an intelligent, in touch government let it get that far?

[WiltonRanch]

Of course it was a slightly screwball event led by bigger screwballs.
But freezing accounts indefinitely and the WMA? Jail?
How could such an intelligent, in touch government let it get that far?

This is what I’m thinking as well. The rigid thinking lefties clouded by their political bias do not have the ability to see this. They sure bitch when conservatives come down hard on radical antics of unions and leftist protesters. So their outrage and infallible attitude is disingenuous.

[furrowtickler]

Always interesting to witness how people see things differently……..

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Of course it was a slightly screwball event led by bigger screwballs.

Yet we were all supposed to believe that this group of people had a realistic sinister plot to overthrow the government.
Edit to add, I admit, I had the faint hope that it would morph into something much bigger.

[agstar77]

Always interesting to witness how people see things differently……..

Still living the big lie are we.

[rumrocks]

Not hearing anything from the Keyboard Warriors of Agriville regarding the last two days of witness testimonies at the hearing regarding the upstanding organizers of the Ottawa Protest.

I think you're being too hard on the protesters, this was a random sample of citizens from all across Canada who had simply had enough of the liberal government. Organizing mistakes were made, lots of moving parts and remember all but a few had never been involved in a protest before, so it was learn as you go for them.
Non-professionals.
However the police forces have been training since the 60's on how to handle protests and crowd control. Advantage police. Professionals.

The government had numerous ministers (professional) who could have met with the truckers convoy, but if the PM (professional) had met with 4 or 5 selected protesters this commission and all the millions spent on policing would have been unnecessary. More costly mistakes.

So if you think the truckers didn't sound, act or look as shiny as the uniformed police or the MP's it's because they weren't, but they have everybody's attention then and still do. Good on them.

[agstar77]

I think you're being too hard on the protesters, this was a random sample of citizens from all across Canada who had simply had enough of the liberal government. Organizing mistakes were made, lots of moving parts and remember all but a few had never been involved in a protest before, so it was learn as you go for them.
Non-professionals.
However the police forces have been training since the 60's on how to handle protests and crowd control. Advantage police. Professionals.

The government had numerous ministers (professional) who could have met with the truckers convoy, but if the PM (professional) had met with 4 or 5 selected protesters this commission and all the millions spent on policing would have been unnecessary. More costly mistakes.

So if you think the truckers didn't sound, act or look as shiny as the uniformed police or the MP's it's because they weren't, but they have everybody's attention then and still do. Good on them.

The first problem you have is the fact this was an occupation not a peaceful protest. I sincerely doubt they would have responded to a meeting without getting some of their demands met. When one of your demands is the resignation of the government, negotiations are pointless. There were just too many loose cannons

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I think you're being too hard on the protesters, this was a random sample of citizens from all across Canada who had simply had enough of the liberal government. Organizing mistakes were made, lots of moving parts and remember all but a few had never been involved in a protest before, so it was learn as you go for them.
Non-professionals.
However the police forces have been training since the 60's on how to handle protests and crowd control. Advantage police. Professionals.

The government had numerous ministers (professional) who could have met with the truckers convoy, but if the PM (professional) had met with 4 or 5 selected protesters this commission and all the millions spent on policing would have been unnecessary. More costly mistakes.

So if you think the truckers didn't sound, act or look as shiny as the uniformed police or the MP's it's because they weren't, but they have everybody's attention then and still do. Good on them.

The fact that we even need to discuss the existence of professional protesters explains a lot. No one should be surprised that hard-working blue collar taxpaying citizens don't have any experience with organizing a protest.
While another segment of the population are quite literally paid professional protesters.

[rumrocks]

The first problem you have is the fact this was an occupation not a peaceful protest. I sincerely doubt they would have responded to a meeting without getting some of their demands met. When one of your demands is the resignation of the government, negotiations are pointless. There were just too many loose cannons

i don't think we could call it an occupation if they had met within days of arrival, nobody knows on what day it turned from a visit to occupation.
Yes a demand to drop the border vaccine restriction was a huge part of the reason they were protesting which eventually came to pass anyway. Canada was one of the few countries that still had that restriction in place. Most people thought a character flaw may have been responsible for the delayed opening and not the ghost science that the government swore by.
Some protestors did want the unpopular government to step aside but I think cooler heads would have prevailed when choosing your negotiating team and left the crowd dragging the lariat behind them at the camp fire.
I still think the government missed their opportunity.