Feucht has framed the backlash as a violation of religious freedom, saying: “If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn’t have said a word.”

He’s not wrong. And if someone had shown up at a gay club and thrown a smoke bomb on the stage during a drag show, they would be hauled out on their ass and prosecuted with anything that could be thrown at them.

Good thing we live in a country that believes in equal rights for all. But some people are more equal than others it appears.

The only act of “hate” at his worship service was the person throwing a smoke bomb.

I dont support thuggery. I do support freedom of expression, even if I dont agree with it.

Thank you for a civilized and reasonable answer. There are some other small brained, rabid respondents here who could learn from you.

Iran hasn’t said that Jews should be wiped off the face of the earth? One quick google says otherwise: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/27/israel.iran

Im asking legitimate questions trying to understand an international crisis. Youre making massive assumptions based on your own prejudice.

Whoa. Whose denying anything? I’m asking questions.

So where were they supposed to go after the Nazis tried to eliminate them? They dont have ancestral or religious ties to other European lands or America or Canada or Australia or Asia or Africa so where?

Do they not have historical and religious connections to the land of Israel with roots dating back thousands of years?

They were occupants of that land before and during the same time as the Arabs.

I dunno but they did. Probably so the Nazis wouldn’t hunt them down and exterminate them all like they tried to do in the 40s?

Why shouldnt they have their own country?

Someone explain this to me: https://iris.org.il/images/israel-and-arab-world.gif

All the countries in yellow are Arab.

The little tiny slice in the middle in blue is Jewish and in that blue even the West Bank and Gaza are part of that blue island and are mostly occupied by the Arabs.

And these Arab nations believe that the Israel should not belong to the Jews and some (strongly) believe they should be wiped off the earth.

Why? Why is not the 99% of that land that belongs to the Arabs not enough for them?

Where are the Jews supposed to go?

Its crazy what people can do in a moment of rage. I grew up in a small prairie town that had nearly zero violence and then one day a guy decided to cut down some very old oak trees that were a windbreak for a rural property. The tree owner argued with him but he insisted he had permission to remove them. The owner, a normally very gentle guy, went in the house got his gun and shot the tree cutter to death. He did years in the penitentiary for it. Good church going man who destroyed his own life and caused his family a great deal of grief over 5 minutes of uncontrolled rage.

We definitely are. We dont need the press or the BofC to tell us when we are, we can see the signs - car prices are starting to drop. ‘Toys’ like motorcycles and boats arent selling or are selling for far less than they were last year and there is a flood of them on the market. Fast food places have started to advertise ‘value priced’ meals again in the $5 and $6 range instead of the $15 they’ve been gouging us for since covid. The thrift stores are busier than ever. People are actually buying groceries at the Dollar Store. Food banks are overwhelmed. The recession is here, they just dont want to say the ‘r’ word.

I saw some of the clips (cause I havent sailed the high seas in awhile) but what I saw was in the category of “holy shit, I cant believe they did that” in their mockery of Trump. I mean its one thing to insinuate President Small Hands is, uh, tiny where it matters, but a very realistic looking Dirty Don with his miniature manhood was hilariously over the edge. Incredibly brave considering Mr. Micro loves to sue anyone or everyone who offends his overblown ego, but I think the boys know that in the court of public opinion a suit against a very popular comedy team isn’t going to go well for Donnie.

Between this episode and Powell cutting him off at the knees in a live interview, the Orange Turd hasn’t had a very good week. I dont think even the lovely Ms Leavitt can save his ass this time.

Ill take the opinion of THESE two much more civilized Ottawa citizens any day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HehBfAnOTtA&list=PLXE2iI4B5qHwoWHzsBGZif7StPkYgW7pi&index=3&ab_channel=DennisHendrickson

Setting fire to people’s homes through their mail slot is all harmless fun.

BS. Never happened. The two idiots who tried to burn down an apartment building were not associated with the convoy as confirmed by Ottawa Police, so what are you talking about?

You saw a VERY small minority of people who were jerks. You DIDNT see the vast majority who were indeed partying because that’s not what the press emphasized. Case in point: The press made a big deal out of a few people who walked into a local food bank/charity and made asses of themselves demanding meals. Fair enough, that was an asshole thing to do. But NO national media showed what happened afterward - the protesters gathered up two pickup loads of food and brought it over to the food kitchen and unloaded it for them. Biggest donation they’d had in ages.

You saw someone put a protest sign on the Terry Fox statue to much foaming at the mouth by the press. You DIDNT see the protesters who came back afterwards and not only removed all that but gave the statue a thorough wash and cleaning.

You saw someone standing on the soldiers memorial and making a fool of herself. You DIDNT see that first of all, there was an apology from that person, and secondly, there were veterans within the ranks that rented some temporary fencing and actually put it up around the memorial and stood guard to make sure no one desecrated the site.

You saw 10,000 protesters and what, 1 Nazi flag from someone who wasnt even part of the convoy and who was run off by them and how many Confederate flags? 1 or 2? You think in ANY group of 10,000 people there aren’t going to be one or two wingnuts?

You saw two guys who tried to light a fire in an apartment building. Despite being tagged as connected to the protest, the police confirmed they were not.

You saw people ‘abusing’ store staff? I didnt actually see that. I saw several stores, including the Timmy’s near Parliament who opened their doors and said that they were doing the best business they had done in two years. The hotels near the protest praised the protesters as saving their businesses and had no complaints about them. Yes there was honking, yes it was disruptive, it was a protest, its supposed to be disruptive. And as much as you want them to move on, they stopped the honking but they didnt move because they wanted something to change and the gov was ignoring them.

You saw media coverage that tried to portray the protesters as scary and violent. They were NOT at all. Best shown when MP Michelle Ferrari walked, alone, after dark, through the crowd from Parliament to her apartment several blocks away and met and visited with random people on the way. She was not only safe but had very friendly conversations with everyone she met. But the press was talking about ‘extra security’ for MPs. Baloney.

The press didnt show the protesters cleaning the streets during the day. Not only NO vandalism but the place was cleaner after they left. It didnt show them handing out free food to the homeless downtown and serving up free hot food to anyone who wanted it. It didnt show one dedicated group that walked around Parliament and prayed and sang every day for 7 days. It didnt show the indigenous tribal leaders who set up in a nearby park and were fully supportive of the protest. The media said that the convoy had set up a “wrecking ball” on a boom right outside Parliament - some bozo reporter obviously doesnt know anything about cranes because that was a weighted overhaul ball used to keep the cable taut, not a wrecking ball at all.

The media (and the PM) said the protesters were racists. Then how come there were Pride flags at the protest (https://youtu.be/R4whzZhPdhA?t=687) How come there were south Asian truckers who were at some of the food locations giving out food?

The media tried to portray the protesters as dangerous but the ONLY people who got hurt were the protesters - one senior woman with a walker was run over by a mounted cop, a reporter was shot point blank in the leg with a tear gas canister, another protester was violently tackled and punched by several cops as they arrested him. There was ZERO protester violence. The media also never mentioned that the protesters were pelted with rocks from some apartment buildings. Or that a group of masked men crept into the blockade and punctured at least 6 tires on semis, causing thousands of dollars damage.

Your evaluation is more than likely taken from the mainstream medias portrayal where every little incident was blown up to epic proportions as if it was being done by the majority. It wasnt. The majority WERE PARTYING and singing and dancing and have a great time visiting with other Canadians from across the country. I know that because I watched hours of footage on the livestreams every day, and I had several friends who were there. I also talked to Tamara Lich personally when it was all over.

What the media showed was **HIGHLY **biased coverage meant to turn public opinion against the protesters. The people who where there have a very different opinion. And MANY Ottawans supported the protest - bringing them food, donating money and then when the cops tried to ban fuel, carrying in dozens and dozens of fuel cans, some of which had fuel and some were decoys. https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1.6343231,1717216986787/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D(0%2C0%2C1920%2C1080)%3BResize%3D620

Honestly part of the reason there is a significant number of Canadians who want the CBC defunded is because of their incredibly biased coverage of the protest. Their reporters didnt talk to the protesters, they made their comments from the periphery AFTER the Public Emergencies department gave them their talking points. That came out during the inquiry afterwards - that Bill Blair and his dept. had issued ‘talking points’ to the media BEFORE the trucks even reached Ottawa. And CBC tried desperately to portray the truckers like the people who rioted at Capitol Hill on Jan 6 in the US. They most definitely were NOT.

You sure jump to conclusions. I didnt move neighborhoods. I lost a property in another country with two houses on it with ZERO insurance payout because the loss was due to a lava eruption. Total loss of property and my vehicles.

I dont need empathy for a “disaster” thats going to take 100 years to take place. Thats ridiculous. I had no warning, they have 100 years to make a move.

3 more months to wait. As Tamara once said, ‘the process IS the punishment’ because this case has dragged on for years, she’s spent how many days in court waiting for an outcome? She’s already been in jail for almost 50 days, and if she gets jail time after all this, then the judge is going to have to apologize for all the actual VIOLENT criminals who walk free from our pathetically weak judicial system every year.

The Crown asking for 8 years imprisonment is an absolutely laughable joke. You can KILL someone with your car in Canada and get less time than that. (drunk Richard Suter smashed into an Edmonton restaurant patio and killed a 2 yr old boy and got 10 months)

But hey, they DID honk some horns between BBQing and hot tubbing and the big dance parties so, you know, thats worse than manslaughter, right Justin? Or maybe they just pissed you off and you wanted to make an example out of them? Which is it Justin? Justice or vengeance? Its MISCHIEF not murder.

One is enough IF he was actually part of the protest. He wasnt. There were even people in the convoy protest who offered a cash reward for his identity and no one ever found out who he was. Maybe coincidence, maybe not, but he disappeared up the steps into the hotel that the RCMP were staying at. The protesters werent staying there. So who was he?

And no, ONE person in a protest does not mean you can paint the thousands of others there with the same brush. If that were true you would have noticed that there was a counter protest just a few blocks away where ONE person in the crowd was carrying a hammer and sickle flag. Does that mean that crowd support Communists? Hardly. Chrystia Freeland held up a symbol of the Nazi party and then quickly deleted it (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-nationalist-scarf-1.6372995) Does that mean the Liberals support Nazis? Hardly.

There was ONE guy with a Nazi flag wearing a face covering (why? The protesters were anti mask) who was jeered out of the crowd and disappeared into a hotel. He was NOT with the convoy and definitely NOT supported by the protesters.