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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.

Updates everywhere.

First it was the truckers.
Then along came the farmers.
And then along came the cowboys.

And they are now blocking the US – Canada border.#FreedomConvoy #Freedomblockade#TruckersForFreedom2022 pic.twitter.com/w2XhQNxO3A

— James Melville 🗽 (@JamesMelville) February 6, 2022

Are liberal MPs really turning on “Big Hair?”  We’ll see.

What Ambassador Bridge looks like today.

Ottawa police threaten immediate arrest.  Good globalists, they are.

Governor Gremlin [uh … I mean Gretchen] Whitmer is worried, and demands that the blockade be stopped.

The Canadian Trucker protest has spread outside of Ottawa and has now traveled to the largest border crossing in North America, which carries a tad bit more than a quarter of all trade between the two countries. For the past three or four days, the Ambassador Bridge which connects Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, has experienced bottlenecks and even closed due to the trucker protests. The protests have also slowed traffic at Port Huron. Michigan, and Sarnia, Windsor, crossing at the Blue Water Bridge, a bit up the road (about 70 miles) on I-94 East.

She’s worried about shutdowns of auto manufacturing.  She should be.  That problem won’t go away, no matter how much she screeches.

Finally, it seems that the U.S. trucker revolt will be a rally?  A rally?

The following day, March 6, the truckers will launch their enormous convoy to Washington, DC, bringing our movement from DC to CA and back again—with a stop in Indianapolis along the convoy’s journey east. It’s gonna be epic. I hope you can join us in SoCal that weekend.

Um … what?  A rally?  You may as well invite laughter without the imposition of embargoes.  I guess this will be up to the Canadians then.

Via NC Renegades.

It’s also my understanding that arrests have been made, and that Alberta provincial head Jason Kenney only feigned a positive response to the truckers.

Holding a press conference to make his announcement [Full Video Here], premier Kenney said, “We cannot remain at a heightened state of emergency forever. We have to begin to heal, and so Alberta will move on. But we’ll do so carefully, we’ll do so prudently, we will do so only if it does not threaten the capacity of our healthcare system.” Kenney then outlined some softening to the covid restrictions.

Provincial rules that require students to wear masks in Alberta schools will end on Monday, and children under 12 won’t have to wear masks anywhere starting then.

Kenney stated a provincial work-from-home order will expire on March 1, along with the provincial mask mandate.  At the same time, the limits on social gatherings and students being permitted to be in non-socially distanced proximity with other students in schools will be removed.

However, while Premier Kenny said the vaccine passports called ‘Restriction Exemption Program’ (REP) would be eliminated at midnight tonight, the QR codes check-in gates would continue; vaccine requirements will remain; vaccine discrimination can continue by private businesses with government support; govt healthcare workers must still be vaccinated or get fired; entertainment venues would be allowed to sell food & drinks again (but customers must be seated); and rules on closing times, alcohol service times, table capacity in restaurants, and social distancing would remain in place.

So the Coutts truckers pulled back into place and resumed the blockade.  Good.  Kenney has been told that the truckers are stupid.  This is good too.  There’s no more serious weakness that underestimating the resolve and smarts of your opponents.

In this following video, one trucker says that his “son has disowned him.”  Well, I believe we all have a volition and that we’re responsible for our own actions, and that no one can really control another man’s thoughts.

But this kid has been trained in the public schools his whole life (I would imagine) and then perhaps in state-run colleges.  His thinking is wrongheaded.  Unless his father did something truly sinful like abuse his mother, and that hasn’t been charged, he is in no position to disown anyone.  He’s got it exactly backwards.  Maybe he will grow up one day.

In the mean time, this is video from Milk River.  The movement grows.

Left in the comments to this post by a reader.

So this is good.  It’s good because it once again demonstrates that the police are on the side of the globalists and will always and forever serve their globalist masters, and it will serve to convince the people that the police are not on their side.

This is actually extremely bad for the police.  Assuming, that is, the judge doesn’t hold them in contempt, in which case it goes from bad to worse.

If you don’t read or watch anything else today, watch this. He’ll go home victorious or in a body bag. So says he.

News (or not).

Police in Ottawa see signs that guns have been brought into a truckers’ protest against vaccine mandates that has paralysed the Canadian capital, the police chief said on Wednesday, adding that calling in the military would pose major risks.

“We have had an indication around firearms coming into this jurisdiction as part of this demonstration as much as a week and a half ago,” Chief Peter Sloly told a briefing.

He said there was evidence of “a significant element from the United States in the funding and organising” of the protest.

I see this as one of two things.  Either this is outright state propaganda (“guns,” “major risks”) to paralyze the people themselves over unfounded fears, or they in fact have indication of something about to happen, in which case it would definitely be funded and perpetrated by black hats.

I would bet my next paycheck there isn’t a single American in the bunch, not a single American dollar funding any of it.

My vote is going to bad, poorly crafted, obvious state propaganda designed for the purpose of turning people against the truckers.

I predict it won’t work.

Via Ken, the towing companies don’t seem to be too willing to help the RCMP out very much.

Authorities searching for tow truck companies to assist in the removal of trucks from Coutts border blockade are coming up empty-handed.

According to local towing companies, requests have come in since Sunday for trucks to assist RCMP should they look to haul away trucks and other vehicles participating in the border blockade.

[ … ]

“We have created relationships in our community and contracts that would be in jeopardy if we participate in any way,” said a worker at the towing company who asked to remain anonymous to avoid any negative response to his company.

“A lot of these smaller companies don’t want to ruin their reputation in the communities they serve so they don’t want to get involved,” he said.

“We have received calls here to supply our trucks, but we’ve also had calls from locals who won’t identify themselves asking if we plan to send trucks. When I told them ‘no’ they said ‘good then we will keep supporting you.’”

Yes.  Remember boys and girls, you need to be in business when this is all over.

Tow truck company in Alberta uses Covid and says they won’t help the government/police in removing trucks and vehicles at the Alberta/Montana border. The owner essentially encourages other towing companies to back down that are willing to help the government in removing vehicles. pic.twitter.com/J1aqFuCBqB

— Jon Nisbett (@nisbett_jon) February 2, 2022