For the official record, to no one in particular
For the first weekend of the occupation I had no problem at all with the so-called Freedom Convoy. There were tens of thousands of generally good Canadians who really thought they were standing up to an authoritarian government.
And I support that wholeheartedly. Yes, it was noisy and smelly and destructive and stupid, but that first weekend was undeniably a legitimate protest and it was unbelievably successful.
If they had gone home after the protest like civilized people, it would have been an unqualified success and no one in Centretown would have been angry with them. We get demonstrations and protests all the time.
And the vast majority of folks did go home.
But as soon as Monday started they were no longer protesting l, they were occupying a residential neighbourhood. And the ones who stayed were absolute garbage people. And the next ten days were a nightmare for thousands of innocent people.
By the time a court order forced them to SHUT THE FUCK UP, it was far too late for civil discussion. These people had proven conclusively that they didn't actually give a shit about their fellow Canadians, and they got exactly what was coming to them.
Now, since this is not a thread about the occupation of Centretown in 2022, I will leave it at that.