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by willcipriano 888 days ago
Being a trucker in Canada is a edge case. Also being a human interacting with police in the US.

Did you mean intellectual property? You draw Mickey a year ago and a FBI helicopter would soon be overhead to kill your dog and take any cash they find in your wallet.

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They were violating the law, and using the funds in the accounts to further the law breaking.

They call it civil disobedience. People seem to forget part of civil disobedience is going to jail and paying a fine. That’s always been the deal.

Civil disobedience carrying a negative of some kind for the protester is a significant part of my respect for people doing it.

If it was entirely painless, it would have a lot less effect I think.

> People seem to forget part of civil disobedience is going to jail and paying a fine.

That's not even vaguely what happened here and it's well beyond arguing in bad faith to attempt to trivialize it to such.

The goal of freezing the accounts was to make the truckers unable to buy food or pay rent to force a near immediate end. If the civil disobedience starts being evictions and starving protests are going to become a thing of the past.

There is a massive difference between freezing someone's funds, and having them simply pay a fine
Unbanking someone isn't the same as charging them a fine.
I drew Mickey quite a few times without any helicopter appearing. Do you have a source for that claim?