[jsjsbdkj]

This is not a peaceful protest. There have been multiple documented assaults on the street and of people in the service industry. There were several attempts to burn down residential buildings full of people. The protestors have violated injunctions against making noises at volumes that are harmful to people's hearing, and depriving people of sleep.

[partiallypro]

I'd like to see sources on this. The only thing I've seen is some truckers/protestors walking into a restaraunt unmasked and demanding to be served.

[canadian-on-hn]

Someone in a sibling comment linked the article about attempted arson. Here's one about protestors attempting to handcuff the doors on a condominium building: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/mcleod-street-condo-residents...

Here's one about "unruly protesters" (quote from the article) shutting down two grocery stores: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/unruly-protesters-prompt-earl...

Here's one about a restaurant deciding to close, and stay closed, due to an assault of and racial epithets directed at employees: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/moo-shu-ice-cream-empl...

[moistly]

Weapons, ammunition seized as 12 people arrested at Coutts border blockade

https://globalnews.ca/news/8618494/alberta-coutts-border-pro...

Convoy protesters break through Surrey RCMP barricade with military-style vehicle

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/convoy-protesters-break-through-surrey...

[zthrowaway]

That’s it? That many people are there and this is the rampant violence? Lol. This is tame as hell. We’re you clutching your pearls this much during the violent BLM protests where people actually died and buildings burned to the ground with bodies later found inside?

[throw9495126]

The arson seems to be a hoax: https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1490741074066825225

There's also another supposed hate hoax: https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1490439304224686082

The fact that such a "violent" protest requires so many hoaxes to justify the characterization should help you triangulate the truth.

[_whiteCaps_]

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/police-arson-unit-probes-otta...

[rafale]

I have seen you here for a while. I don't ever remember seeing you call out antifa or blm rioters when they set fire to buildings.

[data-ottawa]

I’ve been a lurker for many years, but felt I needed to make an account to counter you here.

What about X or Y is not a valid response to this argument. You can have no public opinion on antifa or BLM in another country to have the opinion that activity in your own community is not okay. We can compare this to BLM or antifa, but we can also compare BLM or antifa to the Arab spring or French revolution to say that they’re relatively peaceful too.

The fact is this entire thing has been horribly covered by the media.

There are a lot of groups and factions involved in the protest. The main leadership group is organized (and fundraised) by Canada Unity, and their original demands were to overthrow the democratically elected government to install themselves as government and rule through the senate and governer general. You can look that up in their original MOU on the way back machine.

The means of the protest was to park heavy equipment and harass the citizens of downtown Ottawa (via keeping them awake 24/7 with train horns, arguably a form of warfare) until the federal government capitulated to demands. This is essentially the “I’m not touching you, but my hand is directly in front of your face” form of harassment. Later that evolved into blocking border crossings, which is explicitly illegal and explicitly under the criminal code listed as not an acceptable form of protest.

The complications of this issue are confounded by the fact that more than half the donated funds are foreign funds to a protest that was deemed an illegal action.

[rafale]

I agree with you.

I personally support the spirit of the protest (i.e. the vaccines should be optional for most jobs and the vaccine mandate should be relaxed) but not the tools they are using, in particular blocking a vital bridge and the honking shenanigans.

I personally have no problem in expressing a nuanced point of view or accepting that I got something wrong. Truth is a very elusive concept. And I rather learn than argue.

The person I was replying to however is aggressively partisan in his opinions. And while it's true that my comment wasn't a proper rebuttal, it does address his lack of credibility for arguing a one sided view of the world.

[zthrowaway]

I wish there was this much concern for the antifa / blm protests that terrorized cities including Portland for over 3 months in summer of 2020.

[aksss]

> “several attempts to burn down residential buildings full of people”

Sauce?

[_whiteCaps_]

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/police-arson-unit-probes-otta...