AnimalNoodles
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hearing rumours one of the cops stood down and was instantly arrested by his peers
Now what could possibly go wrong ?Honkers are building a fortress out of trucks. They are surrounding it with a barrier and a sort of moat made from snow and vehicle tires.
What a terrifying, pathetic time to be Canadian.
You're from Ottawa, Canada ?What a terrifying, pathetic time to be Canadian.
All three said protesters will stay in the city until COVID-19 mandates are lifted
Sara Frizzell, Shaamini Yogaretnam · CBC News · Posted: Feb 17, 2022 8:58 PM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
Three key organizers of the so-called Freedom Convoy, Tamara Lich, Chris Barber and Pat King, have been arrested in Ottawa.
Ottawa police took Lich and Barber into custody in separate arrests Thursday and both remained in police custody on Friday, which is when King was arrested as part of a larger police presence in downtown Ottawa.
Lich and Barber are each charged with counselling to commit mischief. Barber is also charged with counselling to disobey a court order and counselling to obstruct police.
The two have been described as key leaders of the occupation in Ottawa, which has now hit the three-week mark. Their arrests were among several made Thursday and Friday. Barber was seen a few blocks from Parliament Hill in handcuffs between two police officers.
Lich and Barber are scheduled to make their first court appearances in Ottawa on Friday.
King, who is from Alberta, is also expected to face criminal charges.
Police in Ottawa have set up nearly 100 checkpoints to turn a large part of downtown into a secured zone as part of a long-anticipated plan to remove protesters, and several arrests have already been made.
Lich confirmed to The Canadian Press earlier Thursday that she was there when Barber, a trucker from Saskatchewan, was arrested and led away.
Lich said she was resigned to the fact that she was going to jail, adding her personal bank account had been frozen.
WATCH | Protest organizer Tamara Lich speaks with reporters before her arrest:
They are two of the three protest organizers named in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by lawyer Paul Champ on behalf of his client, 21-year-old public servant Zexi Li.
The suit also names fellow convoy organizer Benjamin Dichter.
Earlier this month, Barber responded to criticism that the protest was negatively affecting Ottawa residents by saying organizers had "empathy" for local residents.
"We understand your frustration and genuinely wish there was another way for us to get our message across, but the responsibility for your inconvenience lies squarely on the shoulders of politicians who have [preferred] to vilify and call us names rather than engage in respectful, serious dialogue," he said at the time.
A lawsuit which resulted in truckers in the Canada Freedom Convoy in Ottawa being prohibited from honking their horns during the ongoing protest over the nation’s vaccine mandate was brought by a Chinese national and government employee.
On Monday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean granted a temporary 10-day injunction which banned the horn honking and air horn blowing that has been sounding through downtown Ottawa since the convoy arrived in the Canadian capital on Jan. 28.
The judge said the horns had interfered with “citizens’ right to quiet.”
The plaintiff in the case is 21-year-old Ottawa resident Zexi Li. Identified as a “public servant,” the youthful heroine of left-leaning Canadian media reports also has views on politics and strategy.
Li is on board with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision not to meet with Convoy leaders, she told a “digital multi-skilled journalist” for Ottawa’s CTV.
“I fully agree that these people cannot be negotiated with,” she said.
Lauren Witzke, executive producer for the Stew Peters show and former Delaware Senate candidate noted of Li on Telegram: “Chinese foreign nationals aren’t just affecting policy in the White House.”
Legal representation told the court that Li has measured the noise in her apartment at more than 80 decibels, which was likened to “having a lawn mower running in her living room, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
Li filed a lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court seeking damages for emotional and mental distress, headaches, sleeping difficulties, difficulty concentrating and interference with quiet enjoyment of her home.
While Li, a Chinese national, is the only person named in the case, the $9.8-million class action is open to as many as 6,000 downtown residents who live in or close to the Freedom Convoy’s “red zone.”
“I live by the words, ‘I can make it through anything,’ ” Li said before Monday’s hearing. “But I know a lot of people aren’t able to and my heart just hurts the most for them. I’m not seeking confrontation, but I am seeking justice for the people they’re harming every single day they’re here. It’s confrontation out of necessity.”
Li added: “There is a peaceful way to protest. This is not it. The way they’re going about it delegitimizes their cause and, in fact, causes more irreparable harm to the people they say they’re trying to fight for. They really do need to recognize the damage they’re doing by being here and participating in it.”
The named defendants in the horn-honking case are the convoy’s organizers: Chris Barber of Swift Current, Sask., Benjamin Dichter of Toronto, Tamara Lich of Medicine Hat, Alta., and Patrick King of Red Deer, Alta. Another 60 “John Does” — drivers of semi-trucks in the protest who may later be identified as having taken part in the noise-making.
Lawyer Keith Wilson of the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom, who represented three of the four named defendants, said the protest was a matter of free expression.
“This is a spontaneous grassroots phenomena that started in Canada and is now spreading around the world in response to what we’ve all had to endure for the last two years. It’s an effort to end that harm and that hardship,” Wilson said.
hearing rumours one of the cops stood down and was instantly arrested by his peers
I would never have thought that Canada would get like this before the US.
Trudeau broke the country. Him and that evil witch who is his deputy PM. All they had to do was meet the truckers, and produce a timeline for dropping the mandates. But he chose to break the country because he is surrounded by totalitarian girlbosses and gets his opinions from oligarchs and twitter psychopaths.
We'd simply be trading one dictator for another at this point.
At least Putin won't force alphabet mafia and CRT shit down the throats of children or force "diversity" on everything.
Tell me I'm a liar.
She's one of Soros's.
Still want to "wait this out" @Spartan303? Because if I die, I die fighting with my boots on, swords swinging, guns blazing.
No, I'm not. Not every Authoritarian shithole becomes Nazi Germany. That's a special brand of evil only matched by Communism. Canada isnt that and hopefully never will be.
There are plenty of people with spines. They will step up. They always do. But this isn't going to be a pleasant process. What allowed men like Treadeau to take power was that he kept his true face hidden. Well, now it's revealed. Canada was asleep for a very long time, same as most of the Western world. Now the people are waking up and taking action.
People are not waking up. Did you see how many sheeple counter-protestors there were?Where did you get 'wait it out' from anything I said?
People are not waking up. Did you see how many sheeple counter-protestors there were?
Conservative party cares more about apologies than a vote of no-confidence.
Chinese intelligence officers have already infiltrated the Canadian government.
The majority of police have obeyed their paychecks, just like the German police before WW2.
If we do not fight together, we shall die alone and in silence.
The western world needs a unified revolution against the ruling class and their cabalist masters.
They already crossed the line.If you must, then leave Canada. Withdraw your money from the economy. Peacefully protest and do not comply. Vote to elect leaders that will actually do something. But if and when things get violent. That's crossing a line you don't want to cross.
Ottawa Citizen said:Henry Assad, owner of the Happy Goat,
Looks like more people joined the lawsuit initially started by Chinese national Zexi Li including some downtown Restaurant owners who were apparently so overwhelmed with potential customers it impacted their business.
Including this guy...
There's a joke to make here but I'm mature enough not to make it.
Convoy class action claim increased to $306M as downtown restaurateurs join lawsuit
The lawsuit also names donors who gave money through GiveSendGo, the fundraising platform organizers turned to when GoFundMe shut them down.ottawacitizen.com
They already crossed the line.
The smart one has already left. The police are no different than the Nazi SS troopers of history.
They have come for us.