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In Toronto too.

And back in Ottawa.

Ottawa police try to make excuses for trampling an elderly woman.  Excuses suck.  And this one does too.  They wouldn’t have to make excuses if they didn’t do it.

Finally, I’ll observe that there is no insignia or badges or names on the goons on the line. They have de-personed them just as they’ve tried to de-person the protestors. This is what the Bolsheviks did.

The boy king got his way.  The police followed orders – of course – and so the Trudeau regime has demanded that this go to the next phase.  They’ve picked a fight. This was an unwise decision.

At Instapundit, this was seen in the comments.

Some people are just slow to learn, but learn they eventually will. Mike Vanderboegh used to call it “losing the mandate of heaven.” The constitutional sheriff and constable is replaced in favor of a standing army to suppress the citizens, whose only goal is to maintain the power of the regime. The main point to be made here is that tyranny is ungodly and an afront to the Almighty and therefore cosmic treason. It is a violation of God’s holy laws. Tyrants attempt to usurp the authority God Himself has over family, church and state (see here work done by Rousas J. Rushdoony) in favor of the great savior of all mankind, whom they want people to believe is the regime. Many people do believe such a thing, but enough people still don’t that it will cause massive problems for the boy king.

BANK Outages at all big 5 banks!
It’s happening.
Trudeau has crushed consumer confidence in the banks in less than 48 hours. Some ATMs are still allowing cash to be pulled out but going empty.
The bank has now locked up EVERYONES funds!
🇨🇦 🔔 pic.twitter.com/9CslynYJjD

— bu/ac (@buperac) February 16, 2022

Via WiscoDave.

Score one for the towing companies and Freedom Convoy.

No one wants to help New Zealand’s police commissioner tow cars from the Freedom Convoy away. Not even the military. pic.twitter.com/jpac0p6EnP

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 15, 2022

I agree with this decision.  Live to fight another day, don’t have RMCP visit your home.  You don’t want that.  As I said earlier, evolve your tactics.

Ottawa protesters don’t intend to leave.

Also this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN1l_2r4xqM

He’s determined.  And this is fun to watch.

We Told You, We're Not Leaving Until The Mandates Get Dropped @JustinTrudeau @OttawaPolice @rcmpgrcpolice #freedomconvoy #EndTheMandates pic.twitter.com/4uVnis1mca

— Political Pooper Scooper (@SenojYerac) February 14, 2022

The Canadian government is fighting back the only way they can, i.e., sending in the cops to arrest, tow and imprison people).  It has been all over the news this weekend.  Some locations are standing firm.

Others are in a bit more trouble.  When the cops arrest the main actors and tow their trucks, there isn’t much that can be done about it.  Or is there?

At Coutts, they have changed tactics up a bit.  I’m not sure what this was about, but I’m guessing that a way around the roadway was being planned by the government, and the farmers figured out a way to circumvent those plans.  The farmers and tractors have supplemented (or in some cases fully supplanted) the truckers.  Everyone needs sleep and has to go home at some point.

And this brings me to the analysis.  At the Ambassador Bridge, after the arrests and truckers finally leaving, the line of protestors formed in a different location, while still blocking access.

The tactics are going to have to be malleable and evolving.  When one trucker drives away, he should be replaced by another.  When one protester leaves, another should come along to take his or her place.  When arrests begin happening, reform the line elsewhere.  When more arrests occur, truckers can jam up traffic by moving slowly or “strategically” running out of fuel right beside another trucker to which that also happens.  When the truckers tire, the farmers can take their place.

It looks like much of this is already happening.

This can be done, but it will require determination and evolution of tactics, techniques and procedures.

Views.

The protests are a “despicable display of hate that does not reflect the values of them Teamsters.”  It “prevents hardworking Teamsters from doing their job.  The Teamsters Union denounces the ongoing freedom convoy protest at the Canadian border that continues to hurt workers and negatively impact our economy.  The livelihood of working Americans and Canadians in the automotive, agricultural and manufacturing sectors is threatened by this blockade.  Our economy is growing under the Biden administration, and this disruption in international trade threatens to derail the gains we have made.”

Hmm … nothing about inflation growing out of control, nothing about wages of workers being diminished from that, nothing about flooding the economy with unnecessary trillions of dollars in cash, nothing about shutting down the economy for two years, nothing about violating the religious rights of people who don’t want forced shots for a low-risk disease.

I wonder how much money he was paid to say those things?

Do we have any Teamsters reading these pages?  Are you proud of your leader?

News.

US Forest Service sharp shooters killed 47 head of stray cattle on Thursday, Feb. 10 and were in the air again on Friday as part of the USFS aerial gunning in the Gila National Forest and Wilderness in New Mexico. Numbers were provided to New Mexico Cattle Growers Association from APHIS Wildlife Services Thursday evening and reported no cattle were observed with ear tags or brands prior to engagement.

According to Caren Cowan, publisher of New Mexico Stockman and a consultant for New Mexico Federal Lands Council, the cattle located in the rough, mountain terrain are strays left behind by forest service permittees that grazed prior to the removal of corrals, fences, and other infrastructure. This action is a direct result of a lawsuit against the US Forest Service by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) which the Forest Service settled, according to Loren Patterson, president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association. In 2021, The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon Society sued the U.S. Forest Service claiming that stray cattle have destroyed critical habitat for the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse.

Well, I sure am glad that my federal taxes go to training US Forest Service “sharp shooters.”  I can’t think of anything America needs more than that.

And I sure am glad that the New Mexico jumping mouse can live in peace now.

It’s good to hear that the U.S. government is focused on the right things.  I can sleep comfortably tonight.

Warning up front.  I have absolutely no way to independently verify he is who he says he is.

If he is, he has just sacrificed his career to say these things.  He’ll be gone from the military very soon.

Watch it before YT takes it down, which I suspect would be very soon.

UPDATE: Via WiscoDave.

Yep, as I suspected and said.

A Canadian Army officer in New Brunswick is under investigation after calling for other military members and police to rise up over vaccination and pandemic restrictions.

Maj. Stephen Chledowski spoke in uniform in a seven-minute video Thursday, describing government actions during the pandemic as tyranny. He goes on to describe vaccination for COVID-19 as “genocide.”

Daniel Le Bouthillier, the head of media relations for the Canadian Forces, confirmed in an email that Chledowski is an active member of the military based at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown.

“We are investigating the incident and will be taking appropriate action,” Le Bouthillier said in the statement without specifying what that action may be.

He’ll lose his career.  He’s a brave guy.  My respect to him for truth-telling.