If the RCMP and the OPP cannot figure out to clear the border crossing, some heads need to roll.
I think the Freedom Convoy may have already accomplished something…
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It disadvantages individual whites, but is it unfair?... If you argue that selection criteria are not written in stone and society as a whole benefits from upward mobility for minorities, you can argue that affirmative action is not "unfair".
Too bad there wasn't some kind of mobile device that could move trucks and cars easily.
I think the rest of your analysis will either prove to be true, or not, but this part of your post could benefit from some insight as to what the problem is.
I suspect that you don't understand that the problem isn't just how protesters act, but also what police policy is, and how the courts address these problems.
Let's start with the problem facing police. Police know that they are charged with both upholding laws and upholding rights guaranteed by the constitution. However, dealing with circumstances where the two concepts collide requires a little more intellectual horsepower than can be found amongst the police. So what's their solution? Why, it's to pass the buck to the courts, of course!
Here's where it gets interesting. How does a litigant get an injunction against protesting/picketing? By proving that unlawful acts are being committed AND that the police are not capable of controlling the crowd and preventing their continued occurence. How does that get proved? By collecting affadavits from the police saying so. Remember, the police are only too happy to oblige with such affadavits, because they want the litigant to get the injunction. So off they go to court. Let's presume that the court issues an injunction. Guess who actually enforces it? Why, the very same police who said they COULDN'T control the protest before! If that's not a cesspool of circular reasoning, dereliction of duty, and a waste of taxpayer paid resources, I don't know what is!
Of course, that's why police inevitably lie about these circumstances - claiming a level of violence/danger that doesn't exist, claiming they are powerless to tag and remove vehicles, or powerless to issue noise bylaw violations. Claiming that things are in a state of bedlam just helps the court issue injunctions, which is what the police want them to do. However, the lying, and the sudden transformation from the Keystone Cops to the the mighty army of Asgard once a piece of paper is issued by the court (which provides the police with no more resources, or know-how, or lawful right to remove protesters than they had before) are what undermines public confidence in, and respect for, the police. It just goes to show that nothing garners respect more than good-old-fashioned doing your job, and nothing will lose you respect faster than refusing to do it.
Does that answer your question? The policing polices adopted by all police services in Canada, as well as the requirements established by the courts for injuctions, has turned large scale protests into the dog and pony shows that they are.
Hopefully, after the police finally clear out this rabble, you'll feel equally impassioned to demand that police start doing their jobs instead of asking courts to do it for them.
Course', that will apply to ALL protests - even the ones you like!
Yes I agree, police forces have been neutered to the point that even saying something out loud can result in them being disciplined.
But even so, the the bridge is blocked which is illegal, simple, shouldn't need special permission, no matter who they are black, yellow, red or white, any race religion or whatever, remove them with what ever force is necessary.
There should be no need for any discussion.
Either that or send in 20 NHL linesmen to show them how to break things up.
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well society as a whole also benefit from racial profiling (see my proof using simple correlations), yet people say it is not fair. We need some middle ground, and complete race neutrality (both in punishment and awards) may not be optimal, but it is the one most people agree with.
Sorry, what? You think viewing blacks as more likely to be violent is the justification for police behaviour??? And you think that is rational and not racist...
I don't even know where to begin with this. Maybe with how police statistics are bullshit. For example, area X is a black community. You decide to go in there are have zero tolerance when it comes to crime/laws. Someone jaywalks? Ticket. A kid hits another kid on the ball court? Arrest for assault. Someone is caught smoking a joint? Arrest for possession. You do this day in and day out for a month, and Area X will look like the lawless west, where politicians and police officials will say they need more resources to fight to save the community. Now, the question to ask is, would area Y, a white neighbourhood, have a similar arrest pattern if the police acted in the same way? Probably. But, instead, the white community would see warnings, or diversionary measures that would see the suspects get either a slap on the wrist or no criminal record. Now, I'm not saying this happens in every part of the United States, but it sure as fuck happens quite a bit.
You see media reports all the time about a two people arrested for similar crimes. The black one gets the book thrown at them, jail time and what not, while the white person is able to get a suspended sentence or the charges are dropped. Not, I will grant you, part of that could be economic power. The blacks defendant might only have a court appointed lawyer who is over worked, while the the white person is able to hire someone to get them off. But, frequently the court system is much more lenient on whites.
Now, there are many different reasons why black communities are messed up. One of the fallouts on the war on drugs is that black households have seen fathers and husbands sent to prison. Single-mothers raising kids and trying to keep them out of gangs or jail. The gangs thrives because the schools in the area likely suck and are massively underfunded, and there are little to no opportunities to do better. A lot of this is historical. But again, that's why BLM was born. To many people, like the police and legal system, black lives do not matter. They can be abused by police. Blacks get randomly stopped when driving or harassed in their own homes. Cops can execute them and somehow avoid prosecution.
And then you have people who think they deserve it. That they're just animals who are prone to violence and cannot help themselves but to be criminals.
I was just thinking....It is interesting to me how conservatives only care about minority rights when they are in the minority....
As was said before, we are all in this together. Like the small business that had to close during lock downs or people spending hundred of dollars for COVID tests for international travel (these test are free for everyone in the U.S.)
Of course its his faultTrudeau's fault...... somehow.
He was waned this would happen
He even flip flopped for a day before making the wrong decision
He also did not act when protestors blocked pipeline construction and blocked railways
He painted himself into a corner again
He can not pick and choose which citizens have a right to protest.
Does these tests look like their "Free" to You??
Good idea they need something big to put all those vehicles in when they haul them away.
Too bad you can't get it downtown Windsor or Ottawa though.
It should just be a police issue if its on the Canadian side.
But the police have been way to cozy with these anti vaxxers because they are right wing, it appears.
Band aid solution, won't fix the problem.
If you want to fix the problem you fix systematic racism.
More cops will never do that.
Exactly. I almost died laughing when I heard on one of Toronto's radio stations how our police and intelligence failed to predict this. For a whole week prior the social media was abuzz about the protesters mobilizing . Fuck, I saw it on TikTok and the Instagram, not to mention Twitter (I don't Facebook). And then (ROTFLMFAO !!!) it took them DAYS to arrive in Ottawa- apparently Canada is a pretty big country. Yet, CISIS failed to see it. They were probably looking for the elusive white supremacists and bunch of regular yahoos simply slipped pass them. Typical Canadian "public service". And as soon as they get here, Justin calls them a bunch of names and the media goes berserk. Well, here we are.
They had inside help.
Time to look at the police.
in fairness, they probably underestimated just how many people had nothing better to do with their lives than hang around Ottawa for two weeks. Who knew so many people completely lost in life could navigate their way to the nation’s capital. Thank goodness for Waze or there’s no telling where they would have ended up.
