Truck Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back
While the Empire’s police were busy confiscating fuel from Freedom Convoy truckers in Ottawa (photo above), last Saturday’s mini-convoy from Port Angeles to Port Townsend indeed came to pass. About 50 folks in 25 vehicles (plus more on overpasses and streets), joined the tens of millions across Canada and worldwide protesting vax mandates and lockdowns.
The Feb. 5th anti-mandate Port-to-Port Freedom Convoy drove between Port Angeles and Port Townsend, with supporters at overpasses along the way. Photos: Sue Coffman
The Port-to-Port event gave a taste of the recently announced nationwide Convoy to DC 2022, expected to start in California on March 4, driving cross-country to Washington, D.C.
Responding Monday to public comments about the trucker protests, Jefferson County Commissioner Kate Dean said:
“I think bringing up issues that are from another country and are largely politically and ideologically motivated is not especially helpful at this time, and I am frustrated by the ongoing chorus of voices saying their personal freedoms are being violated when what we see in fact is that everything is open, people are out, people are traveling, people are recreating, people are doing what they want to do. There is not a massive violation of personal liberties, people are living their lives, and the economy is strong. I don’t see the victims in this as those who are being asked to wear a mask.”
What planet is Dean living on? On our planet, Canada, Australia, New York, California, and much of the world has been locked down hard for most of the past two years, with the main victims being schoolchildren forced to mask and vax for no good reason.
As one Jefferson Healthcare social worker told the Free Press last year, local mask dictates and other lockdown measures had caused a skyrocketing of depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation among children in Jefferson County:
“We are in a mental health crisis. It’s incredibly stressful, a lot of suicidal youth. It’s a nightmare.”
A nightmare that our elected officials refuse to acknowledge or address, denying the harms that their directives have caused.
The trucker convoy is “largely politically and ideologically motivated”? The economy may feel strong to commissioners awarding themselves salary raises above $100,000/year along with $1,000 “premium pay” bonuses to all county employees using federal CARES relief funds. But for the majority of the county, the impact of jab-mandated firings, 40-year record inflation and general impoverishment of the middle class is crippling.
While Commissioner Dean is obviously familiar with political and ideological motivation, she clearly hasn’t seen any reporting from the ground in Ottawa. Far from an exercise in political ideology, these peaceful, courageous truckers are fighting for their livelihoods and the health and well-being of their families.
Amid Johns Hopkins findings that mask mandates and “lockdowns have had little or no effect on COVID-19 mortality” but “imposed enormous social and economic costs” (primarily on children and the most vulnerable), many places are beginning to shake off their mass delusional psychosis. Yet Washington State remains an outlier, one of the last three states not ending indoor mask mandates. And the final state requiring outdoor masks.
Likewise off-planet was Commissioner Greg Brotherton:
“I will say again about the protests, we locally have not created any vaccine mandates, so the things these protests are about really do not touch the policy we are engaging in at the local level, at all.”
Really, no local vax mandates? The restaurant/bar mandates spearheaded by his employee Health Officer Allison Berry were so onerous, a group of restaurateurs sued Berry over them, a challenge just settled out of court with an agreement to lift the mandates. Brotherton and his fellow commissioners were among only three counties in Washington state to enact these divisive restrictions. They remain in effect until Berry’s arbitrary date when it will suddenly be safe to allow unvaxxed diners to mix with those who obediently took experimental injections which do not prevent them from catching or transmitting the virus.
Though not Brotherton’s direct responsibility, locally Jefferson PUD risked outages by heedlessly terminating linemen and half their contractors over vax mandates, while The Leader reported “hundreds leave WSF, State Patrol and other agencies as vaccination mandate takes effect.”
Deeply-felt concerns over such matters drove truckers from their own localities across Canada toward Ottawa for massive non-violent protests. Our northern neighbors are now inspiring parallel freedom convoys around the world, notably in Australia, Finland, France, and New Zealand‘s capital Wellington (as vividly depicted in the last minute of this video):
Up to this point, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has flailed helplessly against the popular alliance, but now his empire is striking back ruthlessly, stealing fuel from truckers needed to heat their rigs and keep them and their families from freezing to death in sub-zero temperatures. They are illegally threatening to arrest good samaritans bringing fuel or supplies. But canny Canadians have found creative ways to confound the criminals:
In a recent press conference, Trudeau characterized the millions of Canadians opposing the mandates as white supremacists and terrorists — “anti-vaxxer mobs” launching “racist, misogynistic attacks.” His smears are echoed in Canada’s state-funded media, broadcasting the message that the Freedom Convoy is “a nationwide insurrection driven by madness.” American mainstream press repeats the spin, verbatim, and reinforces it by calling the millions of protesters “a cult.”
The cult includes 50,000 or more truckers, the vast majority vaccinated (estimated 80-90%), and many of their families, pledged to living in their rigs for as long as it takes to get the mandates lifted.
They’ve been joined by hundreds of farmers who have blockaded an Alberta-Montana border crossing with their tractors…
… and thousands of cowboys who rode into Ottawa on horseback…
… with schoolchildren writing notes of love and appreciation to the truckers, thanking them for making a stand for freedom and their futures.
“This is absolutely amazing and why we’re doing it.”
A tearful trucker describes how he “got punched in the heart” when he opened a bag with a cookie that had this handmade card attached. Inside was a handwritten note peppered with hearts: “Dear Mr or Mrs Trucker, It’s really awesome that you’re standing up for human rights. I’m only 11 so I don’t know much about it all but I believe what is happening is wrong and I know you can do it! Sincerely, Kate”
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So who are the real terrorists? Canada’s ruling class is responding to peaceful demonstrators from all walks of life by not only stealing truckers’ food, firewood, and fuel, but it is reported that when a court order ruled the seizures illegal and required police to return the confiscated petrol, the fuel they returned had been contaminated.
The Ottawa police chief has been talking tough and encouraging harassment, leading to two armed officers manhandling, bruising and arresting a 78-year-old great-grandfather for honking his horn in support of the truckers, disregarding the cameraman calling out their misconduct:
Trudeau’s forces pressured GoFundMe to misappropriate $10 million donated to the truckers, then grabbed $1.4 million already deposited in complicit TD Bank. After donors promptly raised another $8.6 million via GiveSendGo, tyrant Trudeau acted to freeze or seize these newly donated funds:
Now Trudeau is pretending that he’ll get the U.S. government to prosecute all Americans contributing to the fund. The Empire on our side of the border cannot stop the support, but it can continue the smears, lashing out with typical disinformation and censorship.
The planned American Convoy to DC 2022 set up a Facebook page for truckers, and when more than 140,000 joined within days, the page was deleted. When pressed for the reason, Facebook responded: “We have removed this group for repeatedly violating our policies around QAnon.” The organizers and multiple third parties counter that no such material appeared on these now memory-holed pages.
The Empire’s desperation is palpable. The U.S. mainstream press invoked QAnon as also being behind the Canadian movement. Who are that Freedom Convoy’s organizers? The video below is a press conference with Canada’s core team—truckers, scientists, doctors, ex-military, indigenous peoples, a global humanitarian, all joining in one unified voice, asking to meet with Trudeau.
The Great Awakening is occurring right now, here and all around the world. Interviews with average working-class people on the frigid streets of Ottawa reveal a populace that is evermore aware of the true source of this tyranny. The global elites have been working on their plans for us for decades. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is no longer hiding in the shadows. In this 2017 video, WEF founder and executive director Klaus Schwab shamelessly brags about “penetrating the cabinets,” crowing, “So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more, are Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.”
These forces are now showing their true colors … as literal bank robbers stealing the funds of peaceful protestors on the false pretext that they are a violent insurrection… as authoritarian violators of free speech and assembly and all the rights guaranteed in the American and Canadian constitutions on the pretext of endless fake emergencies… as shameless liars using their deathgrip on monopoly media to falsify a popular liberation movement whose lively, loving reality is plain to see from the living history on display from Viva Frei and other livestreamers on the scene.
Clallam resident Sue Coffman, a regional Team Leader for Informed Choice Washington, describes why she participated in the recent Port-to-Port convoy:
“My husband and I are advocates for medical freedom, informed choice, and basic human rights. We joined Informed Choice Washington years before the pandemic hit, and continue to support this wonderful & informative organization. When we heard about the local convoy in support of Canada’s efforts to remove all medical mandates, we were very excited to join the movement. It was encouraging to see this fairly small rural community raise their voices strongly in opposition to our current medical tyranny.”
The tens of thousands of truckers in Canada are using their rigs to drive home reality. We’re being had by corporate interests that don’t care about humanity or any other living beings. The Empire takes no pains to conceal their plan to commodify every inch of this once-beautiful blue planet. We’ve got news for them. The jig is up. We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for, and we have finally arrived.
Photo: Sue Coffman
