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Originally posted by a1abdj:
The military owns and operates wreckers that are capable of towing large trucks with air brakes.

Perhaps, but the "optics" of military action on domestic soil will put leftists into fits. I really like the irony of leftists that have been anti-military, anti-police, and pro-BLM-protests suddenly flipping 180 when the protest is against THEM.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
I hope that MI. tow company goes broke in the second qtr of this year from lack of business.

Looks like more than one. I am embarrassed for my state

Don't think this will get a Cascadia out of the way, but at least the trucks pictured can remove an errant Civic.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
Don't think this will get a Cascadia out of the way, but at least the trucks pictured can remove an errant Civic.

This is akin to someone sending people door to door to take your guns. I wouldn't want to be the cop and I sure as hell wouldn't want to be the Tow truck Driver.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
I hope that MI. tow company goes broke in the second qtr of this year from lack of business.

My bet would be that this contract is lucrative enough to cover their income for the year, or more. But I also hope the company sees significant backlash for the bad PR decision.

I wonder how the ownership of the Ambassador Bridge feels about what is going on?

You would think that an International Bridge would be owned by a government agency of some sort.

I used to work for a company that was owned by a man who also owns the Ambassador Bridge. I just googled his name and saw he passed away a few years ago. I wonder if his Heirs still have ownership. And I wonder if they have any say in what is going on now.

Matty Moroun Link I don't care what kind of billionare someone is, how many can state they own a major international bridge? That's wild.
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Originally posted by Dakor:
Hey Andrea Witburt, Canadians didn't give up their guns in 2020. They merely passed a law restricting sales of (as it granted amnesty to existing owners) of the following weapons:

M16, AR-10, AR-15 rifles and M4 carbine
Ruger Mini-14 rifle
M14 rifle
Vz58 rifle
Robinson Armament XCR rifle
CZ Scorpion EVO 3 carbine and pistol
Beretta CX4 Storm carbine
SIG Sauer SIG MCX and SIG Sauer SIG MPX carbine and pistol
Swiss Arms Classic Green and Four Seasons series (as specified in former Bill C-71)

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/...irearms-and-devices/

Before writing, that idiot should get her facts straight. And yes, the libtard government personnel ARE VERY SCARED of THE PEOPLE. Typical journalist who exhibits little IQ.

That is correct. Many mag fed semi automatic rifles were banned, but there are plenty left, such as the SKS-D, Norinco Type 81, BAR, Benelli MR, Ruger PC, FX9 etc.

Moreover, most of the banned models were NR (non-registered), which means that there are no records of how many are out there, and to whom they belong.

Almost two years into the ban (and just 75 days for the amnesty period to expire, on April 30th), only 160 of these rifles have been surrendered to the govt - to keep that in perspective, there are over 2,000,000 gun owners licensed in here.

So the population is very far from “disarmed” - not that I expect any of us to use them guns, anyway.

I would like the names of towing companies from Michigan doing this. I think most people here would avoid using them.

Jim

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Nice picture of some tow trucks, but they aren’t the kind used to tow the big rigs.

Doesn't matter. We should do the same thing the Left does and broadcast online the names of these tow companies with a warning not to use them for 'any' work. They put the almighty buck ahead of everything and showed up to do the dirty work the Canadian towing companies would not. They need to suffer severely for this behavior.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Nice picture of some tow trucks, but they aren’t the kind used to tow the big rigs.

Doesn't matter. We should do the same thing the Left does and broadcast online the names of these tow companies with a warning not to use them for 'any' work. They put the almighty buck ahead of everything and showed up to do the dirty work the Canadian towing companies would not. They need to suffer severely for this behavior.

Seems reasonable to me.

Does anyone know of a published list of the tow companies that participated?

Does anybody have photos or video of any of these companies actually towing away protestors?

The only photo I have seen is that above which shows some empty trucks. No idea when or where it was taken.

For all we know those photos were planted by a leftist, showing photos of trucks owned by a Trump supporter, to get the exact reaction posted above.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Does anybody have photos or video of any of these companies actually towing away protestors?

The only photo I have seen is that above which shows some empty trucks. No idea when or where it was taken.

For all we know those photos were planted by a leftist, showing photos of trucks owned by a Trump supporter, to get the exact reaction posted above.

Shame we've now reached that point, but you are exactly right when it comes to deception.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Does anybody have photos or video of any of these companies actually towing away protestors?

The only photo I have seen is that above which shows some empty trucks. No idea when or where it was taken.

For all we know those photos were planted by a leftist, showing photos of trucks owned by a Trump supporter, to get the exact reaction posted above.

I found a news article that I will not share because it was giving the same misinformation with pictures that were of a tow companies trucks that were actually parked in support of the protest.

Police clear bridge at U.S.-Canadian border, arrest remaining protesters blocking key trade route

https://justthenews.com/world/..._campaign=newsletter

Police in Ontario on Sunday arrested protesters still blocking the Ambassador Bridge, seeking to clear the major trade route between Canada and the United States after days of COVID-19 restriction protests that captured the world's attention.

Windsor police told the Associated Press that arrests began and vehicles were towed starting just after dawn at the bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario — the busiest northern border crossing to the U.S.

"Television images showed officers detaining protesters. Only two pickup trucks and less than a dozen protesters blocked the road to the bridge before police moved in. Afterward, police barricades remained and it was not immediately clear when the bridge might be opened," AP reported.

Scores of law enforcement had descended on the bridge Saturday after Ontario set a deadline for ending the protests, and officers negotiated for many to leave the bridge and remove their trucks before Sunday morning.

Still, some protesters remain steadfast. “We’re here for whatever it takes,” Denise Carlson told Fox News. “We’re staying right here.”

Canadian police faced criticisms for not moving more quickly after the deadline expired.

"At what point does the failure or unwillingness of a police service to enforce a court ordered injunction cross over to contempt of court?" Canadian Senator Paula Simons tweeted.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, however, may have been one of the largest recipients of Canadian's growing angst. A Maru poll released Saturday found only 16% of Canadians would vote again for Trudeau, while 48% thought he wasn't up to the prime minister's job.

Looks to me like the police are now blocking the bridge. What’s going to happen when they let the trucks roll?

All it takes is a few trucks to pull on the brakes. Then we start all over again.

Fingers crossed that's exactly what happens!

Remember Ottowa is still "OCCUPIED" Interesting article.

Oh, Canada

https://americanmind.org/salvo/oh-canada/


The truckers’ occupation of Ottawa has revealed the fecklessness of the Regime.

I joined the Canadian Freedom Convoy once the trucks were already firmly set in Ottawa. My time in the Canadian capital was spent gathering information, specifically to document the successful, as well as the failed, tactics and strategies of the demonstration. My reticence over details is necessary because, whether through fate or my own persistence, I am now helping the central organization with some of their strategy, and anything that I disclose publicly could be used against them. But I can give a brief overview of what is happening here.

It’s important to note that the meaning of all this is still unclear. There is indeed a very palpable sense that “this is history,” as many here are prone to say, but no one has yet presented a historical vision, and no shape has yet organically formed.

Concerning such “grand narratives,” there are many false directions. Walking through the blockade, it can seem as though multiple demonstrations are going on at the same time, some of which feel distinct. The protest can often seem like a textbook workers revolution, since much of the language used by the protestors stake the “working class” against the bourgeoisie and the other traditional enemies of the proletariat.

At other times there are intimations of 1960s counter-culture, where blunts are circulated, heart-shaped signs are passed out, and placards read, “Live. Love. Freedom.” The most obvious theme of the protests is state imposed restrictions under the pretense of bio-medical safety. According to this logic, once the mandates end, everyone will go home. In this last case, this would mean that the protests are counter-revolutionary in nature, since all the people want is to turn things back to normal.

But any grievance has merely helped precipitate anger into material action, and anyone who claims they know what the demonstrators want, in discrete terms, is wrong for the same reason: they have identified positive outcomes that are expected to satisfy the demonstrators indefinitely. The opposite is probably much closer to the truth. What do the demonstrators really want? Whatever it is, it is not this: governments that put their citizens in house arrest, annihilate jobs, impose vaccines from a disreputable pharmaceutical company, sacrifice the youth to protect the old, and suppress its scientists, all while the inept lever-pullers go on vacation, attend parties, and continue to deposit checks from the tax-payer.

What we’re are seeing in Ottawa, and also in hiccups around the world, is the unraveling of the postwar oligarchy, which dressed up as a liberal-democracy. Indeed, we are observing how the accumulated costs incurred by the professional class, from fleecing and lying to its citizens, results in those same citizens arriving at the government’s doorstep, blowing their horns, and demanding justice.

The Regime is failing against the Freedom Convoy

As the elites panic, they escalate their efforts and resort to desperate tricks, including calling the demonstrators nazis, booking every hotel room in Ottawa, interfering with donations, disrupting internet service, having officers posture for five minutes in front of the press media, threatening arrests, and even threatening military involvement because of the specter of “foreign interference.” It seems like Canada is going to war.

But the injunctions, and the municipal and provincial states of emergency have only been powerful in name, not in practice. So far, their illusions have been all hat and no rabbit. Every obstacle in the truckers’ path is circumvented, and every day that the convoy remains, the government’s incompetence is revealed, and it is humiliated on the world stage.

From the very beginning, some truckers were surprised they were able to drive right in front of the parliament. Internal documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), our equivalent to the CIA, released through an access to information request, show that the state and its security apparatus underestimated the size of the convoy, though any half-wit could have seen the tremendous chain of trucks that were headed their way. But the government instead wore its most stern poker face, called it a “small fringe minority” without anticipating what would happen when their bluff was called, and thousands of trucks, many of which are 50 000 tons, engaged their parking brakes.

The City of Ottawa then called tow-trucks companies across the province to help them remove the blockade. Even companies commissioned by the city refused. Not only would they destroy their professional reputations by towing these vehicles, they in fact stood in solidarity with the convoy, telling city administrators that they all had Covid.

Then the city called on the police to forcibly remove truckers and make arrests. The police released a list of “crimes” committed and punished: innocuous fines for public urination and noise disturbances made up the bulk of the charges.

One friend of mine, who is an active officer for the Ottawa Police, has told me that the police feel scapegoated by the regime. Some of this resentment has been brewing for a while. The police, who are now complaining about lack of resources, acutely remember the moment, two years ago, when Justin Trudeau expressly supported BLM, taking a knee on Parliament Hill, while “Defund the Police” and “ACAB [All Cops Are Bastards]” were chanted.

But even more recently, on February 1st, only two days after the convoy arrived in Ottawa, several local police were put on unpaid leave because of their vaccination status. At the same time, as officers all over Parliament Hill fist-bumped, gave thumps-up, took pictures, and openly fraternized with the protestors, the state intimated that the demonstration was an “illegal occupation,” and one Ottawa councilor called the demonstrators “terrorists.”

The finger pointing and blame setting started off in harmony blaming truckers and their supposed influencers, including Joe Rogan and Trump. Now politicians are defecting, throwing each other under the bus, and even castigating their own police force and foot soldiers. The military refused to get involved, arguing that they are not a police force. Then Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario, was caught snowmobiling at his cottage, and Trudeau was seen skiing instead of managing the crisis.

Although the governing Liberal party is in the crosshairs, the Conservative Party of Canada, a crypto-liberal institution without hope, is also a target. The leader of the Official Opposition resigned. They are a party without convictions, and they have encouraged the convoy, and then asked them to leave.

The bureaucratic nomenklatura is also contradicting itself constantly. The official administrators say that restrictions must remain because of the insuperable authority of science, and the following day the restrictions are lessening because of, once again—“the science.”

For fake news to be effective the truth must remain hidden. But every smear attempt has flopped, because so many people are on the ground or watching footage that isn’t obviously curated. When corporate media contrives a “white-supremacy” angle, hundreds of nonwhites within the crowd laugh while live-streaming.

Humble predictions

Ottawa was chosen for symbolic reasons, not least because it is the cradle of Canadian incompetence. Had these truckers decided to block genuine essential infrastructure, as others have now, they might not have won so much public support. This support is very important, because it makes the use of violence by the state costly. The Trudeau government, at the time of this writing, seems to only have three remaining options towards the blockade on Parliament Hill. In the first scenario, maybe the regime survives, but it will be dealt a humiliating blow, one that it may not recover from.

(1) All levels of government end all mandates. Such a concession or even a negotiation with the Freedom Convoy’s demands, after calling the blockade “insurrectionist,” and the will of “occupiers,” “extremists,” and “white supremacists,” is politically suicidal.

(2) The regime resorts to might. If forcibly removing truckers at gunpoint becomes reality, many of whom have wives and children in their vehicle, the poorly applied veneer of democracy will finally be scrubbed off entirely. In this situation, the truckers may retreat, but the rift will grow even larger between Canadians, and some other conflict will spring up in the future.

(3) Their last option is to continue on their current trajectory, which is to ramp up rhetoric, in an attempt to increase fear among the truckers while not being able to do anything material. It will effectively be a stalemate in which only the regime loses.

To be continued

I will (hopefully) continue this piece, once the blockade ends, and I can make some retrospective comments. Until then, we hope the Freedom Convoy continues to centralize the grass-roots movement, to hold the line defiantly, to maintain morale, to have some faith, and to watch the main political parties succumb to irremediable sepsis from self-inflicted wounds.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Nice picture of some tow trucks, but they aren’t the kind used to tow the big rigs.

Doesn't matter. We should do the same thing the Left does and broadcast online the names of these tow companies with a warning not to use them for 'any' work. They put the almighty buck ahead of everything and showed up to do the dirty work the Canadian towing companies would not. They need to suffer severely for this behavior.

It matters because it’s just a picture of tow trucks that some twatter provided a caption to. There’s no evidence that the picture is what the twatterer says it is. Even the article points out they aren’t the right kind of tow truck to clear the bridge.

My critical thinking cap may be a little tight, but I’m skeptical of many articles being posted whether or not they support what I believe.