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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese fuckers are now disrupting traffic to Ottawa's airport.
It's repulsive.
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/protesters-target-ottawa-airport-as-freedom-convoy-occupation-reaches-14-day-mark-1.5775393
Protesters target Ottawa airport as 'Freedom Convoy' occupation reaches 14-day mark
A group of truck convoy protesters made their way to the Ottawa Airport on Thursday morning, the latest expansion of the demonstration as it reaches the end of its second week.
The truck drivers arrived at the airport shortly after 8 a.m. and began driving slowly around the loop at the airport and honking their horns, in both the arrivals and departures lanes.
One of the organizers said on a live feed of the demonstration that they planned to stay and slow-roll the airport for "hours."
An airport authority spokesperson said about 60 to 70 light trucks were circling the arrivals and departures roadways, and advised people with travel plans to give themselves extra time.
gab13by13
(21,264 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,497 posts)don't fuck with their money.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,497 posts)it'll have the opposite effect. Hoping for the latter.
Rebl2
(13,471 posts)news on radio (maybe WBBM) there might be a group of truckers trying to do same thing around super bowl in Los Angles. Dont know if this is true because havent heard it anywhere else.
XanaDUer2
(10,557 posts)uponit7771
(90,304 posts)appleannie1
(5,062 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)DHS is monitoring, Ive not seen/heard anything more.
Never saw so many ignorant assholes in all my 61 years on this planet. If people here try to copy their Canadian brethren, all bets should be off.
Speaking of Canada, if they spread this cancer to Detroit, that is going to be felt like a shockwave.
Damn these MFers.
2Legit
(90 posts)The first thing I thought was obstructing people who paid $10,000 to go to the Super Bowl is opening up a can of whoop ass for real. Messing around with Ottawans is one thing, Los Angelinos are a completely different animal altogether.
SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)You know that stadium will be filled with well healed right-wingers who can't wait to be seen.
They aren't going to take kindly to a bunch of truckers fucking up their conspicuous display of wealth.
Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I don't get it, they are blocking commerce for crying out loud!
thatdemguy
(453 posts)It said they slow rolled. Traffic laws have max speeds in areas like that but not minimum speeds.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Gore1FL
(21,104 posts)Especially post 9-11.
If nothing else, they should be able to do "random" vehicle searches to the trucks at each pass.
ruet
(10,037 posts)Hint: It doesn't.
mopinko
(70,023 posts)but, um, airports?
make em park those suckers in the short term lot and pay to get them back.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)making threats to these tow truck drivers and their families that is scaring them off working with authorities. They will need to, at some point, bring in the army big rigs. I am sure they are trying to figure out how to do this with minimum violence, with many having children in the trucks.
Blues Heron
(5,926 posts)what happened to buck up, take one for the team, lets all pull together to stop this deadly virus? So tired of these and the mask whiners and their little tantrums.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)conservatives chose to do the opposite to make the pandemic worse and last longer.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)This is not about mandates at all, many of these people are already vaccinated, this is their attempt at a coup.
Blues Heron
(5,926 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)i don't know anything about Canadian laws but this seems to be an appropriate time to nationalize whatever forces they have to end this insanity.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)Beachnutt
(7,290 posts)and throw em in a jail cell full of covid...
they'll get the vaccine then.
Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)they will keep taking things farther and farther, because they know that no one will stop them and there will be no consequences.
The same thing will happen in this country, only worse.
We'd better be bracing for massive disruptions, and don't expect anyone to do anything about them.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)it's like an invading force occupying a city, only with trucks instead of tanks.
Decades of kowtowing to RWNJ wackos and letting them get away with lawbreaking shit leads to this.
Me.
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kid gloves
Moronity....
Leith
(7,808 posts)But that's okay.
Me.
(35,454 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)The moronocracy. The dumbocracy.
Tired of these assclowns holding sanity hostage.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)When they are finally broken up, watch them cry Big Brother and all the other crap.
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Sneederbunk
(14,279 posts)Where are the eggs and assorted rotten fruits and vegetables?
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Trudeau is showing tremendous restraint compared to Trump's tear gassing, mass arrests, rubber bullets, etc. against protestors in 2020.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)msongs
(67,365 posts)sarisataka
(18,498 posts)Not denying that the treatment each group gets if different, but we don't talk about similarity of actions.
Torchlight
(3,293 posts)Telescope, microscope, or just eyes.
rockfordfile
(8,699 posts)Not to mention supporting basically a enemy of Canada, Russia, with trying to disrupt their economy. The same crap they did here in USA and Europe.
Kali
(55,004 posts)all the whining about blocking traffic and now here is the right all in on similar tactics.
Silent3
(15,151 posts)...they have to except to be arrested for it and hauled away. No one should be brutal about how that's done, but being cleared out should be expected.
I think most left wing protestors do expect to be arrested, or are at least prepared to pay that price for civil disobedience.
If you're blocking traffic with a vehicle and not your body, I think you should fully expect to get it taken from you and impounded.
maxrandb
(15,298 posts)or, were they cleared out in about an hour by law enforcement or the National Guard.
Torchlight
(3,293 posts)So, no... not as compared to marchers
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Willfully obstructing international routes and impending air travel with their trucks seems like reason enough to make someone a former long haul trucker.
Aussie105
(5,334 posts)to let it pass.
How are these different groups communicating, and who is funding them?
Evolve Dammit
(16,702 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)have been invited by Trump to America to do the same in Washington DC and other major cities......
If they come, maybe we can assemble a group of the DC police, Capitol Police, and National guard members that witnessed the Insurrection at the Capitol. Make them into a task force, fully armed this time with protective gear and tell them to resolve the situation.....
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Ban everyone of them.
budkin
(6,699 posts)CONVOOOOOOY!!!
lamp_shade
(14,816 posts)Just sayin'