Ottawa Trucker Convoy: Anti-COVID-Mandate Mass Protest

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Another Great Humanitarian.

 

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The bounty for Swastika Flag Guy is up to $6500:

He is being hunted by several.. one of his scum companions will turn him in for the $$$.

Everything we know so far about the Nazi Flag guy
https://tnc.news/2022/01/30/everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-nazi-flag-guy2/
Candace Malcolm (30 January 2022)

The Freedom Convoy has arrived in Ottawa, and their positive and hopeful message has inspired freedom-loving people all over the world.

Unfortunately, much of the legacy media coverage has not focused on the optimistic story about the truckers, the groundswell of support they received and the many communities across Canada who have united and rallied behind their cause. Instead, the media has chosen to focus on two or three men flying egregious flags.

Two or three men flying racist flags should not taint an entire movement. But actual Nazis should be named, shamed and driven out of the Freedom Convoy movement. We need to know who these individuals are and why they are trying to harm the reputation of hard-working Canadians using their democratic right to hold a peaceful protest.

I decided to put it to the tens of thousands of independent journalists in Ottawa – the men and women who are present at the Freedom Convoy – to see if anyone could help me identify these individuals.

https://twitter.com/CandiceMalcolm/status/1487578306132201476

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I woke up this morning to nearly 100 DMs in my Twitter inbox, many from people simply thanking me for trying to get to the bottom of this, truckers telling me they want to see the Nazi flag destroyed as it has nothing to do with their movement, and several more donors pledging thousands more dollars to the pot (It now stands at $6,500) to whoever can successfully identify this Nazi flag guy.

Thanks to dozens of specific and helpful tips, suggestions, ideas, eye-witness accounts and a few new photos, this is what I’ve been able to piece together so far.

Users tell me the original photo was likely taken at Major’s Hill Park, with the backdrop showing the Locks and the Canal in the background. Note that the park is also next to the US Embassy and across the street from Byward Market. There is a large parking lot at the Market and a number of bus routes that lead to Rideau Street and Rideau Centre Mall. The Nazi flag guy could have easily parked or jumped off a bus and been in this location in under a minute.

https://twitter.com/JasonERF/status/1487832156160335877

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Some users claim the photo is photoshopped, pointing to the shadows and the different way the wind is blowing each of the flags. Another user pointed out how strange it is to see people sitting on park benches, given that the temperature was somewhere between -13C and -17C.

https://twitter.com/CandiceMalcolm/status/1487800482227703811

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Next, the Nazi flag guy can be seen walking along the terrace of the Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel, which is directly beside Major’s Hill Park. It would have taken less than a minute to walk from the park to this location.

Again, some users insist this is photoshopped. They point to the reflection in the window, the vivid colour of the flag in the reflection, and the way that the flagpole cannot be seen in the reflection. These photos look real to me, however, and I’ve now seen enough pictures and a video to be convinced that this was not photoshopped.

Finally, we have received new footage of Nazi flag guy outside the Château Laurier. This is the clearest, best image of the individual yet.

This was taken as an Apple live photo that has been turned into a video. I’ve also zoomed in so you can see his face. It was taken at 1:57pm local time on Saturday afternoon in Ottawa.

https://twitter.com/CandiceMalcolm/status/1487884262531551239

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Who is this man? Can you identify him?

If you can help identify him, the True North reward is now up to $6,500.

Final interesting tip – a Facebook user named “MIckey Anthony” who claims to live in “Wuhan China.” It looks suspicious, perhaps a fake account, but the user was trolling on Ben Shapiro’s Facebook page yesterday claiming to be the one carrying the flags at the rally.

My guess is this is some guy in his mum’s basement, but I’m adding it to the mix just in case anyone knows this guy or can verify if it’s really him.

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That’s it for now folks – please keep the tips coming and help us get to the bottom of this.

Send tips here: [email protected]

And if you want to chip into our reward fund, please follow this link and make a donation. We will keep it separate from our general donations and make sure it goes to whoever can help identify the Nazi flag guy.

 

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This person is the "Western Arts Correspondent" for The Globe and Mail.

"The corporate press is the enemy of the people." -- Michael Malice​

https://twitter.com/marshalederman/status/1487606174165786625

 

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They've completely lost sight of the excuse for their obnoxiousness. It's just obnoxiousness for the sake of obnoxiousness at this point.

So print more money. Don't you believe in MMT? Or ship these freeloaders home.

 

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I have observed an increase in visible Police presence.

and unwarranted in a friendly crowd.

watching

 

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The bounty for Swastika Flag Guy is up to $6500:

https://twitter.com/CandiceMalcolm/status/1487578306132201476

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He is being hunted by several.. one of his scum companions will turn him in for the $$$.

Everything we know so far about the Nazi Flag guy
https://tnc.news/2022/01/30/everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-nazi-flag-guy2/

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https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1487837807175290880

 

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Popular Sovereignty Convoy
Canadian Truckers are Exposing our Governments’ Vulnerabilities
https://im1776.com/2022/01/30/popular-sovereignty-convoy/
Auron MacIntyre (30 January 2022)

There are many western countries that have placed previously unthinkable restrictions on their citizens in the wake of the Covid pandemic, but Canada has been particularly cruel. In Quebec, unvaccinated people are not allowed to shop in common retail stores unless accompanied by a ‘health monitor’ to ensure they only purchase food and medicine before being escorted out. Canadians are charged a special tax due to their vaccination status and banned from places like restaurants and liquor stores. In the face of these tyrannical restrictions, the first sign of real resistance has come from an unlikely place: Canada’s truckers. These essential workers formed what has been dubbed a Freedom Convoy traveling towards the nation’s capital to protest the newest round of vaccine mandates targeting truck drivers. Millions of dollars have been raised in support of the convoy and over fifty-thousand truckers have descended on the city despite the subzero temperatures.

In response to the popular outcry, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who called the protestors a “fringe minority” holding “unacceptable views” — has reportedly fled his home in Ottawa along with his family to a secure and undisclosed location. Left-wing news outlets have already joined politicians in warning that the trucker convoy may be full of all the usual boogiemen: racists, extremists, white nationalists, etc. The narrative for a crackdown on the protest is clearly being laid and in one province the necessary legal action has already been taken. In Nova Scotia, the government has cited its powers under the Covid state of emergency that was declared back in March of 2020 in order to functionally ban the protest and criminalize supporting it. Those who finance, aid, or participate in the convoy, along with those who line the road to show support, will face a fine of up to $10,000.

It is stunning to watch the loudest advocates of liberal democracy rush forward to crush any protest against their new biomedical security state. The same people who deliver endless tirades about the danger our fragile system faces from the looming threat of authoritarianism never hesitate to wield the new powers seized by them during the pandemic to crush their foes. It seems that democracy is so sacred that governments must ban the working class from protesting lest they endanger the delicate system of popular sovereignty. The rush by the commentariat to link the convoy to the favorite villains of the American press also speaks volumes. The Australian media tried a similar tactic during an outbreak of protests against lockdowns last year, smearing the popular outcry against the government as a movement of far-right extremists. It seems that no matter what western country is facing populist opposition to the radical expansion of state power, the narrative remains the same.

Pandemic-related protest restrictions across the west are nakedly political, and this has laid bare the rot at the heart of so many governments that claim the will of the people as the source of their legitimacy. As lockdowns became the norm at the beginning of the pandemic in the United States, large businesses were allowed to stay open while churches, gyms, schools, and family-owned stores were forced to close down. Pastors were arrested for holding services and protesters were arrested for singing hymns outside in defiance of the regulations. Then the death of George Floyd was caught on camera and the burning and looting of American cities became the highest moral priority. The same Americans who had been forced to shutter their businesses for months as they went bankrupt now had to watch as violent mobs emptied those businesses and burned them to the ground. Health experts who had warned that the smallest family gathering could turn into a super-spreader event enthusiastically endorsed massive street protests. Biden supporters were allowed to drink champagne maskless in the streets while people with the wrong politics were required to hold funerals for their loved ones over Zoom. Some Trump supporters took this to mean that the rules for street protests had been suspended in the United States, but on January 6th they quickly learned that political allegiance is now the determining factor when it came to the application of the law.

As regimes across the west engage in an arms race to see how much power they can exercise over their citizenry in the name of Covid, it has become increasingly obvious that the freedom to assemble is a privilege handed to the loyal, not a right afforded to free citizens. The fact that a doctrine of individual rights, liberal democracy and constitutional government has in no way inhibited the dynamic expansion of government power in western countries should give pause to those who have assumed these as shared values. It is clear that these words have become shibboleths stripped of any real meaning. The phrases are used as hollowed-out relics of a civic religion that once animated our civilization but can now only be worn as a skinsuit by those hoping to use the last bit of shared cultural fabric to herd their populations into the new security state that has been fashioned for them.

Still, the caravan of Canadian truckers reveals a serious flaw in the plans our ruling elites have laid out for their brave new world. The professional-managerial class that rules over much of the west built their power on technology and propaganda. Their loyal followers make up the staff of the universities, newsrooms, corporate HR offices, and public schools. They are the party of the laptop class, ruling through the manipulation of procedure and information. Automating away the working class is their eventual goal, but for now, they are heavily reliant on exactly that class to keep the already fragile infrastructure of their regimes running. They have attempted to abandon the working class before they can make them obsolete, and that is a serious tactical error.

Transportation seems to be a particular vulnerability for these regimes. In October, Southwest Airlines was forced to withdraw a planned vaccine mandate for their employees after a wildcat strike forced the company to cancel hundreds of flights. Southwest simply could not figure out how to operate their company while enforcing the looming government mandate, and one coordinated action by their employees brought them to their knees. Despite their counter-revolutionary zeal, the attempts by governments to enforce the restrictions have been arrogant and sloppy. The weight of propaganda and some clumsy legal restrictions were expected to do the job, and the ruling class had no plan to handle collective action from essential workers.

The fact that both the trucker caravan and the Southwest strike took place with little to no support from either of their countries’ political parties is important to note. In the past, the left would have been desperate to portray their party as the champion of the working class, fighting for the rights of organized labor. Now they are the ones looking to crush any opposition to the Covid mandates. You would expect the Right to swiftly move to adopt a valuable voting block that is now politically homeless, but in both America and Canada the conservatives have remained largely on the sidelines when they are not actively complicit. In many ways this is a positive aspect of the movement; it remains organic and independent, instead of being co-opted by cynical party politics.

The organic nature of the movement is currently an asset but the idea of the purely popular revolution, political or otherwise, is a myth. Eventually leadership is required to coalesce that energy into a movement that can build and maintain power. Populist movements in both Canada and the United States have seen firsthand that their governments are willing to build a two-tier society, reserving political rights only for those that demonstrate sufficient loyalty. Protests often serve only as a pressure-release valve for dissent; but modern technocratic governments face a real vulnerability in their fragile and aging infrastructures. That is where workers today have a real fighting chance to stand up and be heard.

 

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I don't know why, but this made me laugh so hard I cried.

https://twitter.com/MeIGibsonFan73/status/1487899596437299201