Pathetic: BLM-Loving NY Times Sics Cops on ‘Noisy…Unlawful’ Truckers’ Vax Protests

The workers of the world are uniting against vaccine mandates…and the New York Times can’t stand it. A truckers’ protest over mandates in the Canadian capital of Ottawa has endured for over a week, and the Times’ patience with the “unlawful…occupation” of the city’s downtown has already evaporated.

The Saturday edition of the “Canada Letter” newsletter, penned by Ian Austen, opened with one long smear of the protestors.

Just over a week has passed since a convoy of heavy trucks, pickup trucks and cars began their noisy, intimidating and unlawful, according to the police, occupation of Ottawa’s downtown core.

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….the Centretown neighborhood [is]There are many options for high-rise condo towers, condominium towers, public housing, cooperative and beautiful heritage homes that can be found along narrow streets. Since the arrival the trucks, Centretown is now a chaotic and noisy place for residents.

“I’m receiving hundreds — and I’m not exaggerating — hundreds of emails telling me: ‘I went out to get groceries, I got yelled at, I got harassed. I got followed down the street, I’m so afraid that I can’t go out,’” Catherine McKenney, the city councilor for the area, told me on Thursday afternoon….

Noise has been one of the greatest issues in Centretown….

Every day, trucks roar through streets blasting out air horns. Some of these horns are similar to the ones found on train locomotives. You can also hear the cacophony from midnight to midnight with spontaneous fireworks.

Yes, Catherine McKenney is non-binary. She goes by the name “Mx.””; the paper dutifully complied, and didn’t challenge her charges of terrorism by the truckers.

“This is why the horns are blaring. — and it’s working,” said Mx. McKenney will run for the office of mayor in late 2012.

If these second-hand anecdotes are indeed part of the picture of the protest, one is vividly reminded of similar, though much worse, incidents from the George Floyd racial protests of the summer of 2020 in multiple major U.S. cities.

But there weren’t just air horns in Minneapolis, New York City, and Portland (among dozens of other cities) but actual killings. The riots that grew out of some of the U.S. protests featured massive looting, vandalism, arsons, adding up to $2 billion in insurance claims and multiple arrests. Meanwhile, the Ottawa police, for all their insults, have yet to make a single arrest at the truckers’ protest.

A major difference in the protests is The Times didn’t lead its coverage with insulting comments from U.S. law enforcement, who the Times actually suggested were fascist, in a lead story.

The following are some of the highlights. TimesIt used second-hand data to condemn anti-vaccine mandate protestors. However, it conveniently ignored similar violence in the midst of rioting throughout an entire U.S summer.

Many reports were made this week about people being harangued by protesters for wearing masks, demonstrators trying to rip down pro-vaccination signs on houses and others defecating and urinating on lawns.Diesel exhaust fumes are the main cause of pollution in many areas.

Many local shops have temporarily been closed, while those that have remained opened have struggled to enforce provincial mask rules….

One can only guess. Canada’s overzealous COVID-19 rules have meant the country has been “temporarily closed” for nigh on two years now, despite new evidence from Johns Hopkins University that lockdowns ar essentially useless.