Trucker Preferential Treatment...

[Rick C]

On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 6:31:07 PM UTC-5, amdx wrote:

On 2/10/2022 7:30 PM, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

Maybe just take over cities, burn buildings and exclude the police,
instead something non-violent like block a highway.


Seattle protesters take over city blocks to create police-free
\'autonomous zone.

Links in case you forgot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/activists-take-over-a-seattle-neighborhood-banishing-the-police/2020/06/11/7172e1e6-ac24-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876293196/protesters-in-seattle-take-over-6-block-area-announce-an-autonomous-zone

So two wrongs make a right??? WTF are you talking about???

\"Non-violent\" truckers blocking a major artery between two countries or bringing a major city center to a halt may fit the definition of \"non-violent\", but there\'s nothing harmless about such acts.

How exactly are the Seattle protesters connected to the trucker protests? Do you really think that the actions in Seattle justify others illegal and harmful actions?

Well, it\'s mostly settled now. Truckers were given tons of time to vent, then told to leave. Those remaining were hauled off to jail and their vehicles impounded. Not entirely unlike when a child sits in the floor and refuses to move. We all have to learn personal responsibility.

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[John Larkin]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:18:39 -0800, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:45:17 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 2/11/2022 8:15 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:03:25 +0000, Tom Gardner
spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 11/02/22 04:55, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:07:14 -0800 (PST), Dean Hoffman
deanh6929@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30:49 PM UTC-6, gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

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Rick C.

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For a practical matter, there\'s a shortage of truckers but not of protesters.

Another minor practical matter is that truckers keep us alive.

When blocking roads, truckers (and others) kill people.

The truckers should just stay home and let the urban elites freeze and
starve in the dark.

And pay their bills how - via America\'s excellent social welfare
programs for people who don\'t wanna work?

Let them eat masks.

Om nom nom

The truckers can ignore their bills for a few months. Can the
urbanites ignore their hunger for a few months?

Excellent rant:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/11/nolte-truck-drivers-are-the-atlas-that-finally-shrugged/

(but plasma TVs?)

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but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

 

[server]

Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:0162d2e8-870b-4503-a20a-16ff7bc71a6dn@googlegroups.com:

On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 3:55:36 PM UTC+11,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:07:14 -0800 (PST), Dean Hoffman
dean...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30:49 PM UTC-6,
gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over
protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary,
it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to
block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

For a practical matter, there\'s a shortage of truckers but not
of protesters.

Another minor practical matter is that truckers keep us alive.

Not when they are blocking highways. John Larkin\'s grasp of
practical reality isn\'t all that firm.

500 point DJ drop today. I will give you three guesses as to why and
the first two don\'t count.

Fear of Putin\'s effect, and the friggin\' truckers blocking access to
Canada from and to the US.

 

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Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in
news:j6mvu0FeuiqU1@mid.individual.net:

On 11-Feb-22 12:30 pm, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over
protesters if they are blocking major highways.

I very much doubt that is the case.

Sylvia.

Makes for a good use of a neutron tactical \"device\".
Eh... look at that bright light. eh?

Just kidding of course.

We should actually fill up GITMO with seditionist lawmakers, and test
one there after pulling out all the guards.
No kidding there at all.

 

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jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote in
news:a6oc0hddhnno8gighk5nk8741lifm9srg8@4ax.com:

The truckers should just stay home and let the urban elites freeze
and starve in the dark.

Let them eat masks.

Force feed you freshly discarded masks.

John Larkin, providing proof of his abject utter stupidity once
again.

 

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bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in
news:ddyNJ.20506$z688.8403@fx35.iad:

On 2/11/2022 10:25 AM, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 12:15:33 AM UTC+11,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:03:25 +0000, Tom Gardner
spam...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 11/02/22 04:55, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:07:14 -0800 (PST), Dean Hoffman
dean...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30:49 PM UTC-6,
gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run
over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By
corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they
are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

For a practical matter, there\'s a shortage of truckers but
not of protesters.

Another minor practical matter is that truckers keep us alive.

When blocking roads, truckers (and others) kill people.

The truckers should just stay home and let the urban elites
freeze and starve in the dark.

Some of the trucker might stay home, but there will be enough
scab truckers to keep the food flowing.

Let them eat masks.

Marie Antoinette was a little more realistic.

https://www.britannica.com/story/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-l
et-them-eat-cake

John Larkin hasn\'t noticed that modern society is remarkably
complicated, and all sorts of people could withdraw their labour
and let the urban elites freeze and starve in the dark. The trade
union movement depends on it. The people who pay all these
essential people don\'t like trade unions, for fairly obvious
reasons, and they are rather more influential in American than in
more egalitarian countries (which is most of the rest of the
advanced industrial world).

The negotiations in the US are a trifle less well organised in
consequence.


Only people who seem to been freezing in the dark lately was in
Texas and Virginia, probably not the \"urban elites\" Mr. Larkin is
talking about.

When I lived in a 7500 sq ft mansion in Great Falls, we were the
ONLY house on a streeet full of doctors and Boeing VP execs, etc. who
had lights during a power outage, because my boss had his generac put
in when he upgraded the house from a 2600 sq ft same as the rest
shack.

The damned thing must have put out a weird power signature though,
because despite being exactly 120 VAC and exactly 60 Hz, it still set
off ALL of the UPS\' in the house (about 7 of them) every time it ran
and for the entire time it ran, which sucked in a major way for
abvious reasons.

We had to buy 17kVA worth of line conditioning transformers (3 of
them)to place between the gen set and the house lines to stop it.
They are very nice. Also nice and fucking heavy. It was not easy
getting them off the delivery truck or into the garage where we set
them up at. OMG not fun, but a very fruitful outcome as the UPS\'
were (are) all happy now.

Received almost three feet of snow around here a couple weeks ago,
the lights didn\'t even flicker. It wasn\'t always that way but I
think they\'ve been doing a better job maintaining the trees near
the lines lately

Great Falls is all underground fed so most of the outages were due
to car accidents that ended up involving ground mounted transformer
\'pads\'. The line quai=lity was exceptional though. After all, I was
in the heart of several three letter agencies, and they need
exceptionally clean power at all times possible.

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 11/02/22 20:18, John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:45:17 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 2/11/2022 8:15 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:03:25 +0000, Tom Gardner
spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 11/02/22 04:55, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:07:14 -0800 (PST), Dean Hoffman
deanh6929@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30:49 PM UTC-6, gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

--

Rick C.

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- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

For a practical matter, there\'s a shortage of truckers but not of protesters.

Another minor practical matter is that truckers keep us alive.

When blocking roads, truckers (and others) kill people.

The truckers should just stay home and let the urban elites freeze and
starve in the dark.

And pay their bills how - via America\'s excellent social welfare
programs for people who don\'t wanna work?

Let them eat masks.

Om nom nom

The truckers can ignore their bills for a few months. Can the
urbanites ignore their hunger for a few months?

Can the people being transported to hospitals in
ambulances ignore being delayed by minutes?

 

[Sylvia Else]

On 12-Feb-22 4:56 am, Rick C wrote:

On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 6:34:36 AM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 11-Feb-22 12:30 pm, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways.
I very much doubt that is the case.

You have not kept up with your news. DeSantis made a bit of a splash some months ago when this bill was signed into law. It prevents civil liability in such a case. Criminal prosecution is always contingent on the willingness of prosecutors to pursue a given event. Consider the Arbery case where prosecution was deferred until the video leaked out.

The law preventing civil liability in Florida has opened the door to extremely violent actions without consequence.

There is a limitation on civil liability in respect of damages suffered
by a person during a riot if they have been convicted of riot. That is
hardly carte blanc for mowing down protesters on a highway.

Sylvia.

 

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Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in
news:j6o95lFmkogU1@mid.individual.net:

On 12-Feb-22 4:56 am, Rick C wrote:
On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 6:34:36 AM UTC-5, Sylvia Else
wrote:
On 11-Feb-22 12:30 pm, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over
protesters if they are blocking major highways.
I very much doubt that is the case.

You have not kept up with your news. DeSantis made a bit of a
splash some months ago when this bill was signed into law. It
prevents civil liability in such a case. Criminal prosecution is
always contingent on the willingness of prosecutors to pursue a
given event. Consider the Arbery case where prosecution was
deferred until the video leaked out.

The law preventing civil liability in Florida has opened the door
to extremely violent actions without consequence.


There is a limitation on civil liability in respect of damages
suffered by a person during a riot if they have been convicted of
riot. That is hardly carte blanc for mowing down protesters on a
highway.

Sylvia.

Maybe Canada could contract the US to come up there with a Jolly
Green Giant Puff The Magic Dragon lead spray to rain down upon them.

 

[bitrex]

On 2/13/2022 3:59 PM, Rick C wrote:

On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 8:30:49 PM UTC-5, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

Seems like the truckers blocking the bridge between the US and Canada has been cleared. I guess those truckers won\'t be carrying any goods for a while. Who knows what it will take to get their rigs back once they are out of jail.

More \"peaceful protesters\":

<https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/americas/canada-truckers-protest-monday/index.html>

Whatever legitimate driver\'s legitimate grievances may have been it all
gets co-opted by militia nutters and generalized anti-government
whackjobs, the type who\'s mission in life is to protest their inability
to put a gun up the ass of anyone who isn\'t themem...

 

[bitrex]

On 2/11/22 15:18, John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:45:17 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 2/11/2022 8:15 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:03:25 +0000, Tom Gardner
spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 11/02/22 04:55, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:07:14 -0800 (PST), Dean Hoffman
deanh6929@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30:49 PM UTC-6, gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

--

Rick C.

- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

For a practical matter, there\'s a shortage of truckers but not of protesters.

Another minor practical matter is that truckers keep us alive.

When blocking roads, truckers (and others) kill people.

The truckers should just stay home and let the urban elites freeze and
starve in the dark.

And pay their bills how - via America\'s excellent social welfare
programs for people who don\'t wanna work?

Let them eat masks.

Om nom nom

The truckers can ignore their bills for a few months. Can the
urbanites ignore their hunger for a few months?

Truckers don\'t have nearly the power in the US that they may have in
Canada, or that they used to here in the 70s during the gas crisis, say.
Four decades of de-regulation and anti-union activity on the part of
government and employers respectively have seen to that.

They could all ignore their bills, but why? If 20% stop trucking for a
while it\'s just more money on the table for the rest and there\'s little
downside to not taking it.

It\'s hard enough getting organized labor on the same page about
anything, much less the disorganized kind.

 

[Dean Hoffman]

On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-6, bitrex wrote:

On 2/13/2022 3:59 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 8:30:49 PM UTC-5, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

Seems like the truckers blocking the bridge between the US and Canada has been cleared. I guess those truckers won\'t be carrying any goods for a while. Who knows what it will take to get their rigs back once they are out of jail.

More \"peaceful protesters\":

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/americas/canada-truckers-protest-monday/index.html

Whatever legitimate driver\'s legitimate grievances may have been it all
gets co-opted by militia nutters and generalized anti-government
whackjobs, the type who\'s mission in life is to protest their inability
to put a gun up the ass of anyone who isn\'t themem...

Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.
<https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2022/02/14/the-nuclear-option-trudeau-invokes-never-before-used-emergencies-act-to-crush-freedom-convoy-n1559158>

 

[bitrex]

On 2/11/22 17:45, Tom Gardner wrote:

On 11/02/22 20:18, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:45:17 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 2/11/2022 8:15 AM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:03:25 +0000, Tom Gardner
spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 11/02/22 04:55, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:07:14 -0800 (PST), Dean Hoffman
deanh6929@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30:49 PM UTC-6,
gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over
protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it
should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block
roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

--

Rick C.

- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

         For a practical matter,  there\'s a shortage of truckers
but not of protesters.

Another minor practical matter is that truckers keep us alive.

When blocking roads, truckers (and others) kill people.

The truckers should just stay home and let the urban elites freeze and
starve in the dark.

And pay their bills how - via America\'s excellent social welfare
programs for people who don\'t wanna work?

Let them eat masks.

Om nom nom

The truckers can ignore their bills for a few months. Can the
urbanites ignore their hunger for a few months?

Can the people being transported to hospitals in
ambulances ignore being delayed by minutes?

If truckers had the power to starve anyone en masse in the US you\'d
think they would\'ve used it to get themselves higher wages by now but
that\'s not what happened, average adjusted-for-inflation wages have only
gone down over the past 30 years.

 

[Rick C]

On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 6:18:25 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:

On 12-Feb-22 4:56 am, Rick C wrote:
On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 6:34:36 AM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 11-Feb-22 12:30 pm, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways.
I very much doubt that is the case.

You have not kept up with your news. DeSantis made a bit of a splash some months ago when this bill was signed into law. It prevents civil liability in such a case. Criminal prosecution is always contingent on the willingness of prosecutors to pursue a given event. Consider the Arbery case where prosecution was deferred until the video leaked out.

The law preventing civil liability in Florida has opened the door to extremely violent actions without consequence.

There is a limitation on civil liability in respect of damages suffered
by a person during a riot if they have been convicted of riot. That is
hardly carte blanc for mowing down protesters on a highway.

I think you miss the point. It is a means of encouraging such behavior. Those who would even consider such and act *will* see this as indicating carte blanc.

--

Rick C.

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[Sylvia Else]

On 15-Feb-22 1:03 pm, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-6, bitrex wrote:
On 2/13/2022 3:59 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 8:30:49 PM UTC-5, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

Seems like the truckers blocking the bridge between the US and Canada has been cleared. I guess those truckers won\'t be carrying any goods for a while. Who knows what it will take to get their rigs back once they are out of jail.

More \"peaceful protesters\":

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/americas/canada-truckers-protest-monday/index.html

Whatever legitimate driver\'s legitimate grievances may have been it all
gets co-opted by militia nutters and generalized anti-government
whackjobs, the type who\'s mission in life is to protest their inability
to put a gun up the ass of anyone who isn\'t themem...

Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2022/02/14/the-nuclear-option-trudeau-invokes-never-before-used-emergencies-act-to-crush-freedom-convoy-n1559158

I don\'t really see why that was necessary. If I park my car in a public
road, blocking traffic, and refuse to move it, I would expect to be
arrested, and see my car towed. It would not be a defence that I was
protesting about something.

Admittedly, I\'m not in Canada, but I would think the law to be roughly
the same there.

Sylvia.

 

[Rick C]

On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 8:15:33 AM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:03:25 +0000, Tom Gardner
spam...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 11/02/22 04:55, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:07:14 -0800 (PST), Dean Hoffman
dean...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30:49 PM UTC-6, gnuarm.del...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

--

Rick C.

- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

For a practical matter, there\'s a shortage of truckers but not of protesters.

Another minor practical matter is that truckers keep us alive.

When blocking roads, truckers (and others) kill people.
The truckers should just stay home and let the urban elites freeze and
starve in the dark.

Let them eat masks.

\"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute\", as said by a true patriot, Robert Goodloe Harper from Maryland!

The US will never cave in to terrorists or extortionists.

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Rick C.

-+- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
-+- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209

 

[bitrex]

On 2/14/2022 9:03 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-6, bitrex wrote:
On 2/13/2022 3:59 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 8:30:49 PM UTC-5, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

Seems like the truckers blocking the bridge between the US and Canada has been cleared. I guess those truckers won\'t be carrying any goods for a while. Who knows what it will take to get their rigs back once they are out of jail.

More \"peaceful protesters\":

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/americas/canada-truckers-protest-monday/index.html

Whatever legitimate driver\'s legitimate grievances may have been it all
gets co-opted by militia nutters and generalized anti-government
whackjobs, the type who\'s mission in life is to protest their inability
to put a gun up the ass of anyone who isn\'t themem...

Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2022/02/14/the-nuclear-option-trudeau-invokes-never-before-used-emergencies-act-to-crush-freedom-convoy-n1559158

Should be an educational experience as to whom law enforcement really
respects more, civilian police-lovers, or the people who write their checks.

 

[Dean Hoffman]

On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 8:49:16 PM UTC-6, Sylvia Else wrote:

On 15-Feb-22 1:03 pm, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-6, bitrex wrote:
On 2/13/2022 3:59 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 8:30:49 PM UTC-5, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

Seems like the truckers blocking the bridge between the US and Canada has been cleared. I guess those truckers won\'t be carrying any goods for a while. Who knows what it will take to get their rigs back once they are out of jail.

More \"peaceful protesters\":

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/americas/canada-truckers-protest-monday/index.html

Whatever legitimate driver\'s legitimate grievances may have been it all
gets co-opted by militia nutters and generalized anti-government
whackjobs, the type who\'s mission in life is to protest their inability
to put a gun up the ass of anyone who isn\'t themem...

Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2022/02/14/the-nuclear-option-trudeau-invokes-never-before-used-emergencies-act-to-crush-freedom-convoy-n1559158
I don\'t really see why that was necessary. If I park my car in a public
road, blocking traffic, and refuse to move it, I would expect to be
arrested, and see my car towed. It would not be a defence that I was
protesting about something.

Admittedly, I\'m not in Canada, but I would think the law to be roughly
the same there.

Sylvia.

I got the impression that Trudeau could unilaterally impose it without
a vote of Canada\'s Parliament. That doesn\'t seem right for a free country.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 2:00:36 PM UTC+11, dean...@gmail.com wrote:

On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 8:49:16 PM UTC-6, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 15-Feb-22 1:03 pm, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-6, bitrex wrote:
On 2/13/2022 3:59 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 8:30:49 PM UTC-5, Rick C wrote:

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I don\'t really see why that was necessary. If I park my car in a public
road, blocking traffic, and refuse to move it, I would expect to be
arrested, and see my car towed. It would not be a defence that I was
protesting about something.

Admittedly, I\'m not in Canada, but I would think the law to be roughly
the same there.

I got the impression that Trudeau could unilaterally impose it without
a vote of Canada\'s Parliament. That doesn\'t seem right for a free country..

An emergency is something that comes up fast. An emergencies act is one that lets the government act fast, without wasting time on consulting people who can\'t actually help solve the problem. The actions will be assessed after the event. A free country wouldn\'t last long if it wasted time on unhelpful consultation before acting.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[bitrex]

On 2/14/2022 10:00 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 8:49:16 PM UTC-6, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 15-Feb-22 1:03 pm, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 3:57:28 PM UTC-6, bitrex wrote:
On 2/13/2022 3:59 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 8:30:49 PM UTC-5, Rick C wrote:
I believe there are places that have said it is ok to run over protesters if they are blocking major highways. By corollary, it should be ok to blow up trucker\'s rigs if they are used to block roads and shut down cities. No?

I never was very good at understanding legal stuff.

Seems like the truckers blocking the bridge between the US and Canada has been cleared. I guess those truckers won\'t be carrying any goods for a while. Who knows what it will take to get their rigs back once they are out of jail.

More \"peaceful protesters\":

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/americas/canada-truckers-protest-monday/index.html

Whatever legitimate driver\'s legitimate grievances may have been it all
gets co-opted by militia nutters and generalized anti-government
whackjobs, the type who\'s mission in life is to protest their inability
to put a gun up the ass of anyone who isn\'t themem...

Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2022/02/14/the-nuclear-option-trudeau-invokes-never-before-used-emergencies-act-to-crush-freedom-convoy-n1559158
I don\'t really see why that was necessary. If I park my car in a public
road, blocking traffic, and refuse to move it, I would expect to be
arrested, and see my car towed. It would not be a defence that I was
protesting about something.

Admittedly, I\'m not in Canada, but I would think the law to be roughly
the same there.

Sylvia.

I got the impression that Trudeau could unilaterally impose it without
a vote of Canada\'s Parliament. That doesn\'t seem right for a free country.

If it was a bunch of blacks in the US doing this they\'d have called in
the strike fighters by now...