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FEBRUARY 1, 2022
The Great Canadian Freedom Convoy
As Canadian truckers descend on Ottawa to protest for freedom, Justin Trudeau flees the city.

Freedom Convoy Holds 1st Press Conference, Bans Mainstream Media
“Was that a fake story to sabotage the donations that were coming in? Probably. You see a lot of that propaganda in the media.”

On Sunday, the Freedom Convoy 2022 held its first press conference with organizers Tamara Lich, Benjamin Dichter, and Chris Barber and bashed the legacy media, only taking questions from independent journalists.

“We have all the time in the world,” Dichter stated. He continued:

This is also why we omitted certain news agencies from this press conference, including the Toronto Star and the CBC who are banned from this press conference. And the reason they were banned is twofold. First, this entire week the CBC, Toronto Star – Yahoo News were retweeting and reposting with a few others – kept putting stories out that our GoFundMe was frozen or suspended because of nefarious reasons. You know “right-wing truckers,” “dangerous people,” and it was hysterical, me and Tamara were talking.

Dichter turned to Lich, “Remember one day the Toronto Star story came out that ‘GoFundMe has frozen the account’?” He asked, “And I called her, and I said, ‘Is everything okay?’ And she’s like, ‘I just got off the phone with them 45 minutes ago. They’re great. They’re helping out. Everything’s gonna be sorted out.’”

The CBC reported on January 25:

GoFundMe has frozen access to the more than $4.7 million in funds raised by the trucker convoy now winding its way across the country toward Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates. “We require that fundraisers be transparent about the flow of funds and have a clear plan for how those funds will be spent. In this case, we are in touch with the organizer to verify that information,” Rachel Hollis, a spokeswoman for the crowdfunding platform, said in an email. “Funds will be safely held until the organizer is able to provide the documentation to our team about how funds will be properly distributed.”

Yahoo News reported on January 26:

Hundreds of truck drivers protesting against the federal vaccine mandate at the Canada–U.S. border have raised more than $5 million in donations from supporters worldwide via GoFundMe, but the fundraising platform has momentarily hit pause on organizers using the money.

“That was purely, purely just a fake story,” Dichter continued. “Was that a fake story to sabotage the donations that were coming in? Probably. You see a lot of that propaganda in the media. And then when the Toronto Star put that cartoon that Jordan Peterson put up, that sort of extremism we’re not gonna tolerate.”

Canadian. Fascists. Think about that. From the poison pen of the Toronto Star. Friend to the working class. Except when they have opinions. pic.twitter.com/KdloSSWMqV

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) January 28, 2022

Dichter declared, “So we know if we had invited the Toronto Star, CBC, all of these mainstream news organizations they will do what they always do. … They’ll come in with five people and they will have these giant cameras and they’ll take up half the floor space and bully everybody else. That is not what this is about; this is about us coming together, talking to one another, answering any questions that you have. If we have the answer we will tell you, if we don’t have the answer we will tell you ‘we don’t know’ and just have a nice conversation with each other and go from there.”

— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) January 30, 2022

When you’ve repeatedly claimed you fully understand the guy on the left heaving the Molotov cocktail and that you sympathize with his anger and so you ordered the police to stand down and give him space to destroy, while you’re also claiming it’s only racism and hatred of the homeless or something that motivates the guy on the right to protest your policies, so you’re gonna have the police crack down on him HARD, you’ve lost the game.

There’s no recovering from having enabled destructive riots by small revolutionary groups of radical anarchists and then turning around and cracking down on a genuinely popular citizen protest you caused yourself.

Baby Castro is finished. He has no good options.

Wait it out? For how long? Weeks? Months?

Crack down hard? That will only cause the protest to grow and call more attention to it.

His vapid attempt to set the narrative for the convoy after the fact is not only going to utterly fail, it’s going to massively backfire on him.

If he is indeed the first world leader to go, the first Great Reset casualty of the Great Awakening, he certainly won’t be the last.

Buckle up. Payback time for what these authoritarian goons put us all through for the past two years has arrived.

Meanwhile in Truckistan

Mask mandates are useless in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. Hotels and malls are allowing people to be maskless. In my hotel alone, there are hundreds of maskless people like myself. And the staff are respectful and don’t even bother asking anyone to wear one.

PEOPLE ARE DONE!

It looked like the trap door had slammed shut, but the Canadian truckers refused to bow. They refused to submit to their arrogant prime minister, Mr. Justin Trudeau, who mocked them on the eve of the convoy’s arrival at the Capital in Ottawa. He said they represented a “small fringe minority” with “views that are unacceptable,” as if he gets to define what is acceptable to think and not think.

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They may still conquer us, but they’re going to have to do it the hard way now. We aren’t taking the bait and willingly getting on the boxcars that take us to their hell-bound metaverse. We have made new friends with like-minded critical thinkers who value freedom above the illusion of temporary safety. We are working together now.

Let’s not stop with what the heroic truckers have accomplished this weekend in Canada.

Let’s take this international and ride it all the way home, back to the free world, the one we knew pre-Covid and the one we knew even more intimately pre-9/11.

Let’s not stop fighting until every last one of the perpetrators of the false narrative has resigned in shame, starting with the heads of state in every nation that took part in this fraud — the lockdowns, the mask mandates, the vax mandates and the most vicious scheme of all, the vaccine passports.

That includes everyone in the healthcare bureaucracy starting with Dr. Fauci who pushed this killer injection. Resign.

That includes every hospital CEO who fired nurses for not getting the jab. Resign.

That includes everyone in the media, from the largest corporate-owned cable TV outlet to the smallest small-town newspaper that pushed the narrative well into 2021 after they should have known better. Get out of the way. Resign. We are never going to believe anything you ever report, again.

They need to leave their jobs and never go back into the news business because they gave up on journalism a long time ago and embraced propaganda. They lied to us for two years. That was more than enough time to figure out that they were being lied to by Fauci and the other “experts,” but they continued telling the lies fed to them from the top down, starting with the U.N. World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum. These are corrupt, power-hungry institutions led by international criminals, but our news media and our doctors listened to them and obeyed.

https://www.thecountersignal.com/news/former-sniper-for-trudeau-is-now-head-of-freedom-convoy-security?source=patrick.net

Canada’s peaceful anti-mandate protesters keep on truckin’
Trudeau’s government has tried everything — except, you know, actually talking to the truckers...

As thousands of trucks from all over Canada began converging on Ottawa last week, the thrice-vaccinated Trudeau announced that he had been exposed to Covid and had to isolate, even though he was testing negative. Subsequently, on January 31, he said he had tested positive and would continue isolating. The world collectively rolled its eyes.

From an undisclosed location, far from the madding crowds, he issued a rebuke to the approaching citizenry: the “fringe minority” heading to Ottawa held “unacceptable views,” he said, and did not represent true Canadian feeling.

What were these supposedly unacceptable views? The Freedom Convoy began rolling across the country to protest the vaccine mandate for cross-border trucking. Its members say they are not against vaccines, but against mandates — all mandates. They believe government overreach is ruining the country they love.

“Small businesses are being destroyed,” convoy representatives wrote on their GoFundMe page, “homes are being destroyed, and people are being mistreated and denied fundamental necessities in order to survive. It’s our duty as Canadians to put an end to [these] mandates.” They said they would protest peacefully in Ottawa until their demands were met.

This “fringe minority” has raised over $10 million in mostly small donations on GoFundMe in around nine days — nearly three times the amount fundraised by the Liberal Party of Canada in the first quarter of 2021. From coast to coast, the “fringe minority” rolled along roads lined with thousands of Canadians of every description out in the bitter cold, cheering wildly, letting off fireworks, waving flags and homemade signs, handing out carefully packed lunches and boxes of supplies, thanking truckers for demanding a return to normal life.

It was a welcome no contemporary Canadian politician could dream of — certainly not the unpopular Justin Trudeau, who won the last election with just over 5.5 million votes out of a population of 38 million. Supporting the truckers brought people together, instilling new hope and patriotic pride into Canadians, demoralized after two years of some of the harshest health measures in the world and subjected to extremist and divisive rhetoric from both media and leadership. Elon Musk, who supports the freedom truckers, said it best: “It would appear that the so-called fringe minority is actually the government.”

Musk’s comment is all too accurate. Trudeau is terrified of talking to peaceful Canadian citizens, because he’s afraid engaging with them will legitimize a public conversation about ending the government’s dictatorial emergency powers. He would find himself on the losing side in that conversation: as a new Angus Reid poll shows, a majority of Canadians want Covid restrictions to end.

What Trudeau would like to talk about is the supposed violence, hatred, racism, antisemitism, vandalism and disorderly conduct of the truckers, all of which he bravely condemned from his undisclosed hideout.

But he’s having a tough time of it, since the truckers are in fact orderly, racially diverse and remarkably peaceful. (Interestingly, the head of convoy volunteer security is a former police sniper from Justin Trudeau’s security detail, who resigned after refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate.)

Of the two main spokespersons for the convoy, Tamara Lich and Benjamin Dichter, one is part Indigenous and one is Jewish. Many participants are not white, including numerous truckers of Indigenous and South Asian origin. A Confederate flag and a swastika flag were made much of in the mainstream press, but they were disavowed by participants, who asked the balaclava-wearing individual with the Confederate flag to leave. Organizers offered a $6,500 reward for anyone able to identify the man who carried the swastika flag.

Ottawa police reported zero arrests, zero rioting and zero injuries at the end of the weekend, though two locals were arrested later on. A disgusted CBC journalist posted a photo of trash on a downtown sidewalk — but it was bagged and neatly piled for collection. Mainstream media raised an outcry about supposedly defaced statues (somebody dressed the statue of cancer runner Terry Fox in a rather debonair flag, hat and sign) and desecrated monuments (some juvenile stood on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier shouting “Freedom!” which was disgraceful, but hardly “desecration” as the word is generally understood). Truckers spent time later cleaning the Terry Fox statue and brought flowers to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The truckers say they won’t leave Ottawa until their demands are met. Ottawa’s mayor wants to have the rigs towed, but local tow-truck drivers have taken a leaf from the prime minister’s handbook. Reportedly, they’ve told officials to a man that they’ve come down with COVID and can’t help.

A supporting group of trucks has been blocking a major border crossing between Alberta and Montana since Saturday, demanding the removal of all mandates. Again, tow-trucks are reportedly declining to assist in their removal. The premier of Québec has scrapped his plan to impose a punishment tax on the unvaccinated. Conservative Opposition leader Erin O’Toole may well be toppled in the coming days for his failure to challenge Trudeau.

Events are flying thick and fast. There’s a whiff of freedom in the air. By the time Trudeau makes it out of quarantine, Canada may be a different — and a happier — place.

My first and most striking observation was the mood of festivity that permeated the crowd. The noise was deafening at times. Many thousands were there, and everyone I saw was happy and smiling. A few times, people spontaneously broke into singing our national anthem, and it moved in a wave across the crowd.

I called it the Joyous Protest. I spent hours on the Hill, moving around the crowd in various locations, and I did not observe or hear about ANY violence or even unruly behavior. Ottawa Police reported no incidents. On three occasions I encountered groups of 5 or 6 Ottawa cops moving through the crowd. They were calm, smiling, courteous, non-confrontational, and in one case I saw a high five to a demonstrator.

February 3, 2022
GoFundMe blocks fundraising for Freedom Convoy, is “collaborating with local law enforcement”
At the time of writing, no further donations can be made.