Freedom Convoy organizer, member of separatist Maverick Party, has GoFundMe frozen until documention provided stating how funds will be spent

[Male4Strapon]

Righties sure can't stop with the insults and name -calling, huh? All the stores around me don't have any shortages. What you're describing is a production/labour issue. Not a transportation issue. 85% of truckers are vaccinated.

Same for me, I don't see any glaring indications of product shortages. Every now and then a particular product I want might be out of stock but I couldn't tell you if it's due to shortage or they were simply sold out. A couple of days later I check again and it's usually there.
I'm not saying there aren't shortages only that I don't see any empty shelves that raise alarms.

 

[versitile1]

Same for me, I don't see any glaring indications of product shortages. Every now and then a particular product I want might be out of stock but I couldn't tell you if it's due to shortage or they were simply sold out. A couple of days later I check again and it's usually there.
I'm not saying there aren't shortages only that I don't see any empty shelves that raise alarms.

No shortages of the things I typically buy. Some people think that just because they can't find their brand of wet wipes at Shoppers, it means all the trucks have stopped.

 

[jcpro]

I answered your question and offered advice to help you. You're welcome. No alteration required. You, on the other hand, can't stop with the insults.

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ Is Nothing But A Vehicle For The Far Right

They say it is about truckers, and have raised over $5.5 million dollars on GoFundMe. But if you look at its organizers and promoters, you’ll find Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, and incitements to violence.

www.antihate.ca

ROTFLMFAO!

 

[Frankfooter]

ROTFLMFAO!

I posted this already, but it lists the 'resumes' of those who are running this thing.

 

[Dutch Oven]

Righties sure can't stop with the insults and name -calling, huh? All the stores around me don't have any shortages. What you're describing is a production/labour issue. Not a transportation issue. 85% of truckers are vaccinated.

There can't be many stores around you, or if so, not many that you have frequented. Is that why you are unaware? Maybe shut-in might not be the right word if you live in extremely isolated circumstances. However, I find it extremely unlikely that if Canadian Tire (with it's ordinarily robust supply chain) can't get a particular weed killer on its shelves due to supply chain issues that your local hardware store is having better success in doing so. Maybe your own personal needs just happen to align with what's in stock in your favourite stores? I'm still not sure how you've failed to notice what is out of stock.

I agree that production slowdowns are part of the problem (particularly for goods manufactured in US States which locked down manufacturers for a period of time (Ontario didn't do that, Quebec did). However, as manufacturing came on line, the delivery of backlogged orders has undoubtedly been affected by: a) a shortage of independent truckers due to spiralling fuel costs (and other inflated costs), b) delays in border crossings due to Covid policies, and c) a reduction of truckers due to Covid policies in place at terminals or customer sites). You don't seem to appreciate what reducing a labour force by up to 15% when supply is already backlogged can result in. Fuel costs, border crossing policies, and Covid public health policy are within the policy purview of the federal government. Trudeau should be listening to any groups who want to talk about these issues.

 

[versitile1]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1487047135103262724

 

[mandrill]

Large number of donations to support convoy came from aliases, unnamed donors (msn.com)


At least a third of the donations to the GoFundMe campaign set up to support the convoy of trucks headed to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates came from anonymous sources or were attributed to fake names, according to an analysis by CBC News.
While thousands of Canadians and Canadian businesses have dipped into their pockets to fund the cause, thousands of other donors to the campaign are listed simply as "Anonymous."
As of 6:30 p.m. ET Thursday, six of the top 10 donations, all over $10,000, were listed as anonymous, including the single largest donation of $25,022.
While the campaign is fundraising for a Canadian political protest, some donations appear to have come from outside of Canada, based on comments left by donors on GoFundMe.
Donations to the convoy have been growing rapidly. By 6:30 p.m Thursday, the campaign had raised $6.4 million from 82,500 donors.
Questions have been raised about the destination of the money, particularly since some of the organizers have been involved in politics.
GoFundMe — which gets a percentage of all the money donated — delayed disbursement of the funds earlier this week, saying it wanted to know more about how the money was going to be used. It announced Thursday that it would begin releasing money after the organizers of the fundraising campaign provided a distribution plan for the funds.
GoFundMe only makes public a fraction of the donations on the web page at any given time, and the list changes constantly as new donations come in.
CBC analyzed 35,270 donations totalling $2.8 million, collected from GoFundMe's public website every half hour since Monday morning. The fundraising campaign was launched on Jan. 14.
The data collected by CBC show that thousands of donations appear to have been made by Canadians and Canadian businesses. Many of the businesses that appear on a list of the top donations are actual small businesses, often located in more rural communities — particularly in Ontario and Alberta.
Another 11,477, or 32.5 per cent of the entries viewed by CBC News, were listed simply as "Anonymous." The anonymous donations examined by CBC News totalled $912,801.

Money from abroad
A number of donors identified themselves in comments as living abroad, in countries such as the United States, Australia, England or Poland. It is not possible to know how many people from outside Canada donated to the fundraising page.
GoFundMe says donors misrepresenting themselves is a violation of its terms of service and it removes and refunds those donations. However, it has not yet responded to questions about what, if anything, it has done regarding the donations to the Freedom Convoy's page using invented names or the names of other people.
Alexander Reid Ross, a Portland, Oregon-based senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, said GoFundMe has often been used to raise money for political causes, although the protest convoy has raised more money than most.
"GoFundMe has been used by political actors all over the spectrum," he said. "It has been used by right-wingers to support people who are going to jail, to pay for bail, to pay for lawyer fees and things like that."
He said some donors may have reasons for not wanting their identities made public.

'Conspiracy theorists'
"You have a lot of conspiracy theorists ... who think that if they float their name out there on a GoFundMe campaign that they will be added to a government watch list. You also have a lot of people who just aren't comfortable putting their name out there on the internet," he said, adding that some donors further hide their identity by using burner ATM cards to donate.
"There are a variety of reasons why someone would want to donate anonymously."
That same anonymity could be used to mask interference in a political debate by extremists or foreign state actors, he said.
"It wouldn't be surprising at all because their number one objective is to destabilize a political climate that enables liberal democracy," he said. "So they will empower whatever political tendency that might militate against liberal democracy for whatever reason."

 

[bluecolt]

Yes, too bad they couldn't enlist the Ministry of Finance or the CRA to administer the funds properly. This is a hastily assembled protest on a mass scale in a country where such things are rare. Of course there are going to be fuck ups, confusion and attempts to exploit and tarnish, like here by the fake lefties. Nothing special nor unusual.

jcpro, you would never want CRA or the Ministry of Finance to administer anything. All kinds of money would be siphoned off to unknown individuals and the bureaucracy would have to be expanded according to Parkinson's Law. No, you do not want the government to run anything.

 

[whitehill_21]

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6327650

From the article.

CBC ? is that the one on the Liberal payroll ?

 

[versitile1]

Did US Truckers Join Canadian 'Freedom Convoy'?

Some 300 trucks did participate in a "Freedom Convoy" in Canada to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

www.snopes.com

 

[whitehill_21]

Because they are anti vaxxers.
Are you on the side of anti vaxxers now?

Dude, it is not about having a vaccine or not, it is about that they mandate medical procedure without a persons consent, they taking the rights from vaccinated and unvaccinated alike...it is not just about the truckers it is about our right as a people....but it's ok..I know you don't care about right and freedoms

 

[Frankfooter]

Dude, it is not about having a vaccine or not, it is about that they mandate medical procedure without a persons consent, they taking the rights from vaccinated and unvaccinated alike...it is not just about the truckers it is about our right as a people....but it's ok..I know you don't care about right and freedoms

Its most definitely not consent.
You can refuse the vaccine if you want.
These whiners just don't want to live with the consequences of their decisions.

 

[whitehill_21]

Its most definitely not consent.
You can refuse the vaccine if you want.
These whiners just don't want to live with the consequences of their decisions.

wrong. It's not just refuse the vaccine. current government openly violated fundamental rights documented in the Charter:
Freedom of association and Freedom of Mobility. There is no other country in the West world denies their own citizens to
leave the country if a medical procedure not performed on a non consenting individual.

 

[Frankfooter]

wrong. It's not just refuse the vaccine. current government openly violated fundamental rights documented in the Charter:
Freedom of association and Freedom of Mobility. There is no other country in the West world denies their own citizens to
leave the country if a medical procedure not performed on a non consenting individual.

How can a bunch of whiners who are freely driving across the country to whine about American rules claim they aren't free?

 

[whitehill_21]

this convoy it's not just about mandates imposed on truckers, but about all mandates imposed on all of us. And it's about
time to stop this madness.

 

[Frankfooter]

this convoy it's not just about mandates imposed on truckers, but about all mandates imposed on all of us. And it's about
time to stop this madness.

I agree.
Just get the jab.

 

[Leimonis]

I agree.
Just get the jab.

big strong freedom fighters are very brave. Just afraid of a little needle.

 

[toguy5252]

this convoy it's not just about mandates imposed on truckers, but about all mandates imposed on all of us. And it's about
time to stop this madness.

The only madness is among those who refuse to get vaxed and promote or encourage these idiotic symbolic gestures of freedom or liberty or whatever which have nothing at all to do with getting vaxed.

 

[whitehill_21]

yeah...Charter of Rights is idiotic ...great ....

 

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The only madness is among those who refuse to get vaxed and promote or encourage these idiotic symbolic gestures of freedom or liberty or whatever which have nothing at all to do with getting vaxed.

Explain this then...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1485340276709285892

What does he know right? He is just the inventor of the MRNA and DNA vaccine technology.


what does he know right he is just a nobody just the Ontario’s top doctor.

What does the province know opening things up at the end of the month despite the cases and hospitalization.

I guess the self appoint terbs thought police clan don’t approve and know everything there is to know and disseminate misinformation day in and day out. They think it’s perfectly fine to tell you what to think and how to feel.