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0 pointsjvol834y ago0 comments

Irrelevent.

They are acting as a group. If anyone within the group had stopped the others, I would agree with you in principal, even if not fact. But they didn't, they stood by and watched or cheered. They enabled.

Literally throwing shit is not peaceful protest.

Urinating on a war memorial is not peaceful protest.

Blocking access for ambulances - potentially causing significant harm or death - is not peaceful protest.

Ottawa has peaceful protests all the time - this is not that.

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nradov4y ago

I have no stake in this protest one way or the other but I'm curious how you expect the peaceful protesters to stop the bad actors? Ask them politely? Shoot them? Call the police?

jvol83OP4y ago

Exactly as most protests in Ottawa go. Megaphones, signs, vehicles driving through, convoys etc honking or blocking one side of a road etc etc.

Its definitely annoying, and ocassionally lasted multiple days, but it gets support and doesn't potentially cost lives.

I lived in Ottawa for a lot of years and there were countless protests - but they respected the need for society as a whole to keep functioning (read: emergency services) and worked with the local police to make sure they were in the right.

Covzire4y ago

Their livelihoods are being threatened by fascists who are lying about them constantly, Trudeau is calling them every name in the book, yet where is the evidence? Where exactly are you seeing all these things taking place? If you watch any of the man-on-the-street video streams you'll see an overwhelmingly peaceful protest taking place with the media constantly lying about them because they won't bow their knee to Pfizer and Moderna.

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