Bill Robinson

CONVOY!

[Bill Robinson @BillRob78448797]

@MaggieKeresteci @DrsDefundPolice Agreed. Credentialing is awful - it is way to uplift your own voice to the detriment of those who truly lack power. It's all the same people trying to make the voice of those WITH power rise above those WITHOUT hidden There is zero equity in that :( Just more shaming

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@Hornyboy42 @DouglasKMurray @JustinTrudeau Yeah, that might be true. :)

[Bill Robinson @BillRob78448797]

@KamalFahmis @DouglasKMurray @JustinTrudeau They did talk though. They were never going to meet their demands - unless you think Trudeau was actually going to be removed.
Do you think Conservatives could occupy the area around the White House lawn for 4 years while Biden is in office with no action? You'd support that?

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 Same appreciate it - immensely :) It's not that often any more online, sadly

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 Okay, that did happen. The mall (Rideau Ctr) shut down due to that.

That was sort of amusing though. Mall security shut that thing down quick too - they were much more capable than the Ottawa police once they decided to take action

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 Yeah, I don't know how it gets there - it was a huge failing by everyone in charge of enforcement

People can/should protest....I also think at some point you go live in a park or get forced to leave the streets.

My view wouldn't change on that no matter who was protesting.

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 Inconvenienced

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 Most of the people I saw seemed willing to put a mask on just to pop in someplace - I heard plenty of stories where it wasn't the case. I never witnessed it though, so I can't speak to how prevalent it was in reality (people refusing).

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 The only thing I struggle with there is that if any of these business have a scared employee turn them in, someone takes a picture, they get a 10K fine.

Ottawa will most certainly enforce that. Who is going to pay that for those small businesses?

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 Yeah, it was a lot of ridiculous people trying to force their version of events down people throats. Some coverage was fair, but often it was just picking the worst or best scene of the day and acting like that was what was going on 24/7
Pretty typical of the news :(

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 If it was the same, they would have towed immediately. The tow trucks supposedly wouldn't do so though.
The police started ticketing maybe 10 days in, because they were getting so much heat for doing nothing but saying they were afraid (read their tweets, it's comedy gold)

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 I guess, but in any other protest here I've seen it gets shut down immediately when the permit expires. BLM, Palestine/Israel, etc...
I had a few fire alarms pulls in my bldg, and the fire trucks had to circle the whole city to get here because the roads they take r blocked

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 The first few days they left lanes open for buses. After that, not at all. There were other impasses (Kent being an example) - you couldn't go down a few of the sidestreets as they were completely blocked off as well. The police blocked off parts of Elgin themselves, etc..

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 It's tough, the police were often issuing statements saying they couldn't act due to all of the "illegal behaviour" or that they wouldn't act due to the threat of violence.
For anyone semi-scared already, that puts you in a weird place.
Again, the police botched this terribly

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 Also, just to be fair, the idea that there was violence is overdone. You were more likely to get a free hot dog or a hug than assaulted. You'd have the occasional person yell "freedom" at you - but the noise, and businesses shuttering was a tough deal for the local community

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 B4, but I'm not sure they took it all that serious prior to the EA.
That's a huge failing by the Ottawa Police though. So, that's on them for being so worthless throughout. Had they done a tiny bit of policing who knows how this goes. It was odd to watch play out - very odd

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 The cops did zero enforcement. I think they were the biggest failure in this whole thing tbh

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 I wouldn't personally feel any need to go after any individual there for a "crime," as I see this more as the Ottawa police's failure, but I guess it's a possible result if you continue to break a law after being notified you should cease from doing so.

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@DaveWil47096542 @monkeylaw69 @wil_da_beast630 They were given notice they were violating the law many, many, many, many times. Tons of video of them taking them, crumpling them up and tossing them away.
If you break a law, you accept consequences. The way it should be.
The frozen accounts, etc...tremendously awful (agreed)