Canadian Truck Convoy/Rebellion

This forum is still having some major issues, I tried posting like 4 times a response to @DigiCat so I’ll just write a very short summary:

I think the ”law and order” and ”obey the law” that every right winger were yelling in 2020 should apply for them too. Otherwise it would be a case of rules for thee, not for me. Basically, if the protestors are willing to pay the price for breaking the law to protest, go ahead, but suffer the consequences like you’re supposed to. Here in Finland, people who were protesting about ”the corrupt government” in one of the least corrupt countries in the world, they had to pay the 600$ fine and payment for when the authority towed away their vehicles. Some of them were crying about how ”unfair” it is but if you break the law by blocking traffix you should get penalized.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by SuperSoynic_Speed.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by SuperSoynic_Speed.

If everyone “obeyed the law” in history, there would be NO voting rights for females, NO abortions, NO LGBT####, NO US civil war, NO French Revolution, NO US independence from the British Empire, the world would be run by KINGS and EMPERORS, NO democracies, etc.

You would all still be serfs and slaves.

Unjust laws/mandates/policies/etc. should be peacefully protested.

And just wait till they try to raise a defense funds.

They will do the same.

Freeze, confiscation, etc. so that they will NOT be able to defend themselves in court.

@Vknid While I too consider abortion as a form of infanticide, the point I was making is that by protesting an existing law, people can cause change (be it for better or for worse).  In the case of baby killing, I say it was for the worse.  And that precedence can be overturned.  If you did not want to get pregnant, DONT HAVE SEX!  Problem solved.

Back to the topic:

TD has frozen two bank accounts to which $1.1 million dollars from raised funds for the Freedom Convey.

I could not tell if those funds were already in the accounts BEFORE the injunction against allows fund raising for the protects, or if the funds came in AFTERWARDS into those two accounts.

@DigiCat I wasn’t comparing the unfairness between the mandates and towing trucks, I just mentioned as I found it hilarious how these people went full surprised pikachu face Bout having to pay the consequences for breaking the law when the police warned in advance about it.

And I guess we disagree then, since I think anyone who breaks the law should get punished for it. Otherwise it will be a slippery slope with no clear boundary about when it is okay to break the law for the sake of protests. Some might find a protest really important while others find it stupid. Who is to judge when it is okay to break the law during a protest? It would just lead to more unfairness and conflicts when some get away with it and others don’t, and that could have some seriously damaging consequences for an equal and democratic country. As I said, rules for thee, not for me. And that’s my problem. If the truckers wanna break the law and see it as a worthy price for getting heard then fine, but prepare to be held accountable.

I wasn’t comparing the unfairness between the mandates and towing trucks, I just mentioned as I found it hilarious how these people went full surprised pikachu face Bout having to pay the consequences for breaking the law when the police warned in advance about it.

I know that, what i meant to say is there’s a difference between complaining about paying a fine you knew was the consequence as being unfair and complaining about the unfairness of these mandates, i’m sure there were both types of people at the protests

And like @Vknid said, the “rules for thee, not for me” thing is already happening, with governments closing an eye with protest that benefit their narrative while enforcing law and order with those that go against them, we both agree that rules for thee, not for me is unfair