The Canada Convoy

I don't know how invoking Peter Casey is evidence to the contrary.

But if you have anything more tangible I'll gladly take a look?

Re the military, I have already gave an opinion on that.

Too much risk. Reports are some of them are armed, it would just take one simpleton to open fire and lets just say it wouldn't end well

As we saw from developments yesterday that the security reports were spot on.

Also did truckers or anyone block ports of entry and bridges because of Iraq?

I must have missed that.

By that logic, are you saying the rock band at the concert at the Bataclan are responsible for the terrorists bringing weapons and explosives. If there wasn't a concert, there wouldn't have been an attack on the concert.

I wouldn't feel comfortable with my police force shaking hands with such a threat. But maybe they felt comfortable that it wasn't the same people involved.

No, I am saying that anti-vaxxers often come from the extremities of society, and the potential to attract armed individuals is much higher than more inclusive and peaceful protests. It should have been anticipated by organisers, but as they want to stick it to the man, it probably was and they didn’t care.

However, the fact that they came armed and handed them up without using them shows them for the eejits that they are.

Pretty sure there is vaccine or testing mandates still in place if you want to travel to a vast number of countries from Ireland including to North America.

What is a wee bit mental though is that the mandate for truckers could end now but they still won't be allowed travel across the border.

Seems like they haven't really thought it through, have they?

What I find strange is that people who are pro choice on abortion will shout about body independence but think it’s ok to force this on others. At least be consistent.

I imagine the sorts in North America who would be anti vaccine would also be staunchly anti abortion.

You are not going to get consistency in incoherence.

We won't even go near the false equivalence of abortion versus a deadly pathogen that can overwhelm hospital systems.

there is a whiff of centre-right politics off this anti-mandate protest

Really, I thought a tenet of the centre-right was the upholding of law and order?

When did that change, did I miss a memo?

Were the gun owners going to close the bridge if there wasn’t a protest? No hint that it was a possibility. However, as specified. Anti-vaxxers held the protest and they are often, and attract the extremes of society. Who goes to a peaceful protest with a weapon? It should have been predicted by the organisers….but they probably didn’t care.

How do you know they were illegal guns? It wasn’t mentioned in the RCMP statement.

Maybe you should read the article. It has quotes from the RCMP statement.

I’m not saying that they weren’t illegal, just that the RCMP never specified it. Every one could potentially be held legally, but we’re taken to the protest with the aim of being used illegally. However, when push came to shove the gun toting tough guys didn’t put up a fight.

I’m not sure why you picked up on the illegal guns point unless you had no other counter to the original post you replied to and just felt you had to say something.

The guns were taken to the street by protesters. No protest, no guns on the street in this case. Fair play to the cops for taking them off the streets.