The Motor Cycle Thingy this weekend

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As a convoy of bikers heads to the nation's capital this weekend, all eyes are on the Ottawa Police Service as it works to avoid a repeat of the 'Freedom Convoy' occupation that paralyzed downtown streets for weeks earlier this year.



Around 500 motorcycles participating in the "Rolling Thunder" convoy are expected to roll into Ottawa on Friday for a series of rallies and other events throughout the week.



Ottawa police were widely criticized for its lack of enforcement action during the "Freedom Convoy" trucker occupation. But Steve Bell, the city's interim police chief, has vowed to make sure the police force "will not allow for unsafe or unlawful conditions that could lead to another unlawful protest."



Ottawa City Councillor Theresa Kavanagh says "there's no doubt" that police will be better prepared this time.



Police are setting up an exclusion zone for vehicles around Ottawa's downtown core and Byward Market. Roads will only be open for residential and business traffic, pedestrians, cyclists and public transit.



"We're ready now. The rust is off. The police agencies are prepared to deal with any unlawful forms of protest that may come up.



Ottawa residents are pre-emptively parking their own cars on the street to prevent a protester from possibly parking in front of their homes.



With proper planning and good intelligence, Kempa says the trucker convoy would have never "spired out of control."



"We don't need to get back to that situation of emergency ever again. And the inquiry is designed to uncover what went wrong, so that we never do the same thing for the same reasons twice," he said.



[As to what they are protesting, I can't find a clear reason even on the organizer's website.. the "what" is even less clear than back last winter]

I saw a headline about this. I wondered what the protest was about.

[Anonymous]

I'm on my way!

[Anonymous]

Even if it was placed there permanently, this a stange thing to fight about. People can't afford food or gas and this is the frickin issue that has the guy wound up??

Exactly - Compared to Canadians REAL problems today, this is a fart in a windstorm that doesn't appear to know where it is going .. or why

I would join a ride to Ottawa if there is a real issue to protest. I got the time and the money and I like like long rides with lots of other riders. I would not ride into town to join a protest over a frickin fence.

More protests in Ottawa are necessary until Trudeau and Singh start listening to the problems of the people they created.

[cc]

More protests in Ottawa are necessary until Trudeau and Singh start listening to the problems of the people they created.

1. This is not about any specific  .. in fact, what it's about is not even clearly defined, let alone specifically defined

Only clear thing is not the overall group, rather some vets within it saying they will "rescue the Cenotaph" when it was opened back up the very day after the last truck was towed .. Much as I like vets overall, these are misguided, a duh!!



2. Have we ever seen an instance where Govt then acts against it's own intentions as a result of protest? No.



(Sure it has acted using protest as an excuse to do what it wanted to do anyhow .. i.e. give natives more money, succumb to gay / trans demands  etc)

[Frood]

More protests in Ottawa are necessary until Trudeau and Singh start listening to the problems of the people they created.

1. This is not about the governing  .. in fact, what it's about is not even clearly defined, let alone specifically defined



2. Have we ever seen an instance where Govt then acts against it's own intentions as a result of protest? No.



(Sure it has acted using protest as an excuse to do what it wanted to do anyhow .. i.e. give natives more money, gay demands  etc)

You were the one here who cried loudest about protesters protesting.



I won't forget....

[cc]

More protests in Ottawa are necessary until Trudeau and Singh start listening to the problems of the people they created.

1. This is not about the governing  .. in fact, what it's about is not even clearly defined, let alone specifically defined



2. Have we ever seen an instance where Govt then acts against it's own intentions as a result of protest? No.



(Sure it has acted using protest as an excuse to do what it wanted to do anyhow .. i.e. give natives more money, gay demands  etc)

You were the one here who cried loudest about protesters protesting.



I won't forget....

Don't EVER forget!!!!!! ... That's important to me... albeit not about protesting, rather about illegally blocking public roads and making life hell for residents and businesses .

[Frood]

More protests in Ottawa are necessary until Trudeau and Singh start listening to the problems of the people they created.

1. This is not about the governing  .. in fact, what it's about is not even clearly defined, let alone specifically defined



2. Have we ever seen an instance where Govt then acts against it's own intentions as a result of protest? No.



(Sure it has acted using protest as an excuse to do what it wanted to do anyhow .. i.e. give natives more money, gay demands  etc)

You were the one here who cried loudest about protesters protesting.



I won't forget....

Don't EVER forget!!!!!!

Your cowardice would make an otherwise forgetful person still remember....

[Anonymous]

More protests in Ottawa are necessary until Trudeau and Singh start listening to the problems of the people they created.

1. This is not about any specific  .. in fact, what it's about is not even clearly defined, let alone specifically defined

Only clear thing is not the overall group, rather some vets within it saying they will "rescue the Cenotaph" when it was opened back up the very day after the last truck was towed .. Much as I like vets overall, these are misguided, a duh!!



2. Have we ever seen an instance where Govt then acts against it's own intentions as a result of protest? No.



(Sure it has acted using protest as an excuse to do what it wanted to do anyhow .. i.e. give natives more money, succumb to gay / trans demands  etc)

1. I'm not talking about a fence. As Herman said, this is not important. He gave carbon tax increases as an example. I agree, forced inflation is worth protesting.



2. The yellow vests in France protesting fuel tax increases. In Alberta, protesting coal mine approvals. There are others I am sure I would find if I searched.

[cc]

Ok. Rare moments. Ottawa zip on anything worthwhile



Still, point was  this one has nothing clearly defined. I went to a lot of trouble searching his site, as I could find nothing definite



Seems like it's all about nothing

[Frood]

Socialist cowards need to slit their own throats. This thread is proof of it.....led by cc at its core.

[Anonymous]

Ok. Rare moments. Ottawa zip on anything worthwhile



Still, point was  this one has nothing clearly defined. I went to a lot of trouble searching his site, as I could find nothing definite



Seems like it's all about nothing

It is not a real issue to protest and it will barely get noticed.

[Anonymous]

Socialist cowards need to slit their own throats. This thread is proof of it.....led by cc at its core.

What is the protest about? A fence around a monument that isn't there? Something else?

[Anonymous]

Justine is an idiot. The more protests against the turd, the better.



European parliamentarian praises bikers, heaps scorn on Trudeau

"I would say he's an idiot who doesn't really get what's going on. A puppet. I wonder who is actually tying his shoes every morning. I don't think he can handle that himself."

https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/04/slobodian-european-parliamentarian-praises-bikers-heaps-scorn-on-trudeaMember">https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/ ... udeaMember">https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/04/slobodian-european-parliamentarian-praises-bikers-heaps-scorn-on-trudeaMember of the European Parliament (MEP) Christine Anderson will be watching intently from afar when the anticipated 1,000-strong Rolling Thunder motorcycle convoy rolls into Ottawa this weekend.



"I support citizens standing up to governments [that] basically want to undermine democracy to abolish it because that is what's happening," said Anderson, during a telephone interview from Brussels, Belgium.



"I've always been very clear about advocating individual freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. I see that threatened in all the Western democracies."



"People need to understand our democracies are under attack."  



That includes Canada at the hands of its current government.



Although the bikers — many of them veterans hoping to lay wreaths at the National War Memorial — announced peaceful intentions, Ottawa police are calling in 830 RCMP reinforcements.



Trudeau then stood in the EP on March 24 to lament a "growing distrust of government" and a need to "fight against authoritarianism."



During a melodramatic speech, Trudeau denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine in February.



He took shots at Canadian truckers.



Trudeau called a state of emergency over trucker's bouncy castles on Parliament Hill at nearly the same time Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called a state of emergency over an armed Russian invasion.



Anderson, who asserted Trudeau had no right to pontificate before the EP, wrote a point of order to bar him from speaking.



"I didn't expect to get a majority, but it was an opportunity for me to tell him 'Hey look, you are not wanted here, at least not by everyone. There are people that see through you and people who know exactly what you're doing. It has nothing to do with respecting your citizens and their fundamental rights. It's the exact opposite.'"



For Anderson, listening to Trudeau was painful.



"I really have to say gosh, I've never seen a worse performance. That's what it was, a performance."



"That entire speech, it was monotony. I couldn't get myself to listen to his words, so utterly boring. In the end, I made an effort to listen to what he was saying because I wanted to address it later."



"I would say he's an idiot who doesn't really get what's going on. A puppet. I wonder who is actually tying his shoes every morning. I don't think he can handle that himself."



Trudeau, attending a NATO summit, received an invite to address the EP. When a world leader speaks there, the chamber's usually packed.



"There were maybe 10% of the MEPs that bothered to show up to hear what Mr. Trudeau had to say," said Anderson.



Many got up and left as he spoke.



Others, like Romanian MEP Christian Terhes refused to attend. Terhes chastised Trudeau for trying to teach Puntin democracy lessons when "when you trample with horse hooves your own citizens who are demanding their fundamental rights be respected."



Some MEPs of the 705-member assembly from 27 countries were invited to respond to Trudeau's comments.



Anderson welcomed the opportunity.



"A prime minister who openly admires the Chinese basic dictatorship, who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy should not be allowed to speak in this house at all," Anderson told the EP.



Brazenly invoking the Emergencies Act is something other countries "would not have been able to get away," she told the Western Standard.



But moves to undermine democracy are hardly confined to Canada.



"As you know, we Germans have a very dire history as far as that's concerned. The German people vowed to never let anything like this happen again," she said.



"Yet here we are, it is happening again. Now, people even knowing fully well what mechanisms were in place back then to make such a horrific regime possible, they fail to see how it's the very same mechanisms being applied once again."

[cc]

As police planned well this time, things have been cool today (albeit some problems & arrests last night)



Not so in Progland .. . err ... I mean Portland



Convoy drivers and counter-protesters clashed in Portland, Oregon, Saturday after individuals started throwing objects at passing vehicles.



Police reported an incident on the Northeast Glisan Street overpass on Interstate 205. According to police reports, a shot was fired between protesters and counter-protesters on the highway.

[Anonymous]

As police planned well this time, things have been cool today (albeit some problems & arrests last night)



Not so in Progland .. . err ... I mean Portland



Convoy drivers and counter-protesters clashed in Portland, Oregon, Saturday after individuals started throwing objects at passing vehicles.



Police reported an incident on the Northeast Glisan Street overpass on Interstate 205. According to police reports, a shot was fired between protesters and counter-protesters on the highway.

What were the Portland white crybabies protesting? Elon Musk buying Twitter.