• Throwaway@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        65
        ·
        1 year ago

        I mean, its just honking horns. Its less annoying than blocking the road like those eco guys do.

        • TheMcG@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          39
          ·
          1 year ago

          You miss the part where they were blocking roads while honking? Hell there were splinter groups blocking the border crossings. lol

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          23
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          just honking horns

          And blocked roads. And mailslot fires. And verbal and physical and sexual harassment of people trying to go to work. And murder threats against the PM.

          Add in the fact that it was because they were afraid of needles and it’s just embarrassing for them; and for us having to share a country with people so stupid and bigoted and clueless and self-important.

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          12
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          For the residents of that area, while trying to sleep, work from home or just live, the continuous honking was creating a ton of distress

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    what’s become known as the “Freedom Convoy”

    They wish. “Karen convoy” or Needle Weenie Express" is more like it.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      also the term ‘protesters’ … if it were any other ethnic group in the country that did this … no one would have a problem labelling them ‘terrorists’

      just think of it … if a few hundred all Indigenous protesters had taken control of the capital like these guys did … how many would have been beaten, jailed, bloodied and bruised on the first day? … after a month, it wouldn’t have been if they would have been shot, it would be a question of how many were shot.

  • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    79
    ·
    1 year ago

    Trials? What crimes exactly? Lots better protesters to go after. You know. Ones that burn stuff and loot stuff.

    • grte@lemmy.caOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      47
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Barber and Lich are charged with mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police.

      Barber is facing an additional charge of counselling others to disobey a Feb. 7, 2022 court order that banned loud honking in Ottawa’s downtown core.

      RTFA

    • Veraticus@lib.lgbt
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      30
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Nice whataboutism.

      We can prosecute these idiots for their crimes while prosecuting other people for their crimes too.

        • Veraticus@lib.lgbt
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          27
          ·
          1 year ago

          Barber and Lich are charged with mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police.

          The article makes it pretty clear what they’re accused of doing. They also posted about it in tons of places and recorded themselves doing it, so as humans with eyes, ears, and brains, we can conclude that they actually did this.

          So… yeah.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          1 year ago

          I’m saying they did nothing.

          You should learn about anything, but maybe start with the actual crimes these actual halfwits did.

        • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          14
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, it’s not like they did real horrible crap like providing vaccines or telling kids that trans people exist.

    • jcrm@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      1 year ago

      On top of what the other guy said, a whole lot of those “protestors” frequently assaulted and harassed residents of the city. Oh, and a direct demand of the organizers was to overthrow the democratically elected government. So those crimes.