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Originally Posted by YOWetal
You don't need to protest and block residents from travelling to work for months on land that is definitively yours.
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Why do keep bringing up examples of things that are most definitely not
monthlong community hostage taking? Wake me if Indigenous groups ever try the convite playbook in downtown Ottawa.
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Originally Posted by YOWetal
Protest even illegal to get your way is not terrorism.
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By your definition, the ecoterrorism you brought up was mere protest. Or does the well-being of pipelines matter more to you than safeguarding the peace of a community?
It appears you share the sentiment of the convites that something cannot be
terrorism, or
hostage taking, or
really that bad at all, so long as it is grievance-driven and wears the cloak of protest. I disagree. In Ottawa we are used to protests. After the first weekend, the convoy ceased to be a protest.
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Originally Posted by YOWetal
It is what brought down the government in Ukraine and what the brave people of Iran are doing now. Many in Iran probably think enforcing hijab wearing is as important as we think enforcing vaccine mandates was. Actually we now know the vaccine mandate was all political because those of us who got vaccinated were happy to see them punished for extending the pandemic though the only thing that ended the pandemic was 60-70% of us finally getting Covid as many said in the beginning.
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It's pretty gross to equate the antivax/anti-Trudeau occupation—and all the illegal activity that accompanied it—with protest against illegitimate and authoritarian regimes abroad. The illegal occupation of Ottawa was not precipitated by actions of an illegitimate or authoritarian regime. God help me if you think it was.
I shouldn't have to write this, but being forced to live with
minor temporary inconveniences as a person unvaccinated by choice in the midst of a pandemic cannot in any way be compared to living in like Iran in a permanent state of subjugation under an unelected theocratic regime.
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