[February 4, 2022] I’m a little late getting around to this article, much to my embarrassment. I like to recognize courage immediately when I see it. Well, 30 lashes and to the dog house for me. It takes a lot of abuse before Canadians, a very laid-back population, get up enough drive to take on their government, but that is precisely what is happening with Canadian truckers.
I just love it when people stand up against their government when that government is restricting their freedoms. The truckers traveled several routes in all provinces to Canada’s capital Ottawa on January 29. The “Freedom Convoy” rallied at Parliament Hill, continuing the protest.
There is plenty of hate being directed against them; I believe based on the fact their actions run counter to Canadian PM’s Trudeau’s mask and vaccination mandates. Trudeau went into hiding (he had contracted COVID but is feeling fine) and issued several comments condemning the truckers. He said that almost 90% of Canadians were vaccinated, as were many truckers in Canada, and that a “small fringe minority of people” in the convoy do not “represent the views of Canadians.”
A good leader would recognize PM Trudeau’s comments for what they were, stupid. You just don’t insult people advocating for more freedom, even if you think their messaging is not too bright. The best leader tactic is to work directly with them. He also called the trucker protest an “insult to memory and truth.” Trudeau is a genuine religious believer in government for all.
To make matters worse, several politicians in Canada and the U.S., along with their typical media following, have suggested the truckers have a history of white nationalism, racism, Islamophobia, Q-Anon, and other far-right groups. And the truckers support violence. That’s a real head-snapper.
Such defamation of a large portion of the Canadian population is just bad leadership. We can learn from Trudeau, other anti-trucker politicians and the media; what not to do. Learn from these mistakes and don’t make them. When large numbers of those you are responsible for start to resist your policies, first stop and think. Trudeau wasn’t thinking.
“I feel that the Canadian truckers just threw the whole world a life line.” – Tim S. Uppal at https://twitter.com/TimUppal/status/1488678944442404865
Grab it, or let it pass you by.
I stand with the Canadian truckers.
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HOLD THE LINE ….
A protester yells “hold the line” while being taken away under arrest in Ottawa on Friday, February 18, 2022. PHOTO BY JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/justin-trudeau-emergencies-act
Gen. Satterfield recently wrote an article titled “Hold the Line.” Very appropriate. Famous leader commands. Now the rallying cry for freedom.
https://www.theleadermaker.com/hold-the-line-famous-leader-commands/
This “freedom protest” is not going away even if the peaceful protesters are beaten and arrested by the police and then jailed. Freedom is an idea. It can be suppressed but it cannot be destroyed. There is always a way to bring freedom back from the jackboot of the devil.
Canadians! Welcome to Hong Kong.
Canada PM Justin Trudeau slammed for invoking emergency powers to stop protests
https://nypost.com/2022/02/15/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-slammed-for-invoking-emergency-powers/
Tyrant Trudeau!
The effete pseudo-intellectual Justin Trudeau is becoming the ultimate example of Roman Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, raging from a balcony at mocking crowds. He denounced protesting truckers as a “small fringe minority.” And, then he fled the city of Ottawa. How cowardly and clueless at the same time.
Cowards are everywhere. Good thing we limit them in the Army.
The Cavalry rides into Canada. This story is not going away anytime soon, despite PM Justin “I’m a coward” Trudeau running and hiding after being vaxxed and boosted and getting covid any way. How ironic for the little sissy man to hide from real men who drive trucks.
The UNWOKE are finally realizing that the “woke” communists are coming for our freedoms. SUPPORT the CANADIAN TRUCKERS! This is how you stop evil. And, let me be clear, PM Trudeau and Pres Biden are EVIL. Period. If you are against the truckers, you have thrown your lot in with the Devil.
Go Canada! 🇨🇦
Yo, you got dat pat. Spt the me truckers.
GO CANADA. Who would have expected Canadians to rise up? Yeah! GO GO GO!!!
Many new developments. Read about them.
Support freedom, support the truckers!
The attacks on the peaceful trucker protest is getting out of hand. Calling them Nazis, cutting off funds they raise (GoFundMe), saying they are violent (PM Trudeau), etc. This is what happens in totalitarian societies like Russia and China. Now it happens in Canada and the US.
….. and how will we explain our tyrannical govt to our children?
…. And the world stands with our Canadian truckers!!!
PM Trudeau and his media lapdogs work for the Devil. 👺
It looks like the Canadian government is concerned not so much about illegal activity as about the populist threat to its own prerogatives. GO CANADIAN TRUCKERS! GO FREEDOM from GOVT MANDATES!
Yeah! Don’t you just love it when a tyrant falls.
Ouch, hypocrite GoFundMe steals funds from Canadian truckers. Just checking to make sure GoFundMe removed terrorists, murderers, and slavery state of China from GoFundMe. Nope!
Saw a sign the other day. It read, “Tests positive for a new variant.” Shows picture of Canadian Trudeau. “Coward-19.” SYMPTOMS: Fear of truckers and patriotic Canadians. My suffer from withdrawal from public view and prolonged loss of respect.
GREAT! Loving it. Let’s make fun of the coward! Nah, too easy.
Crazy leftist Trudeau.
Support the Canadian truckers for freedom. Tyrants beware!
Let’s be clear, I support these truckers because they are only asking for freedom from a govt that is massively interested only in your obedience. Like Gen. Satterfield, I stand with them – symbolically – and am willing to put my name on the support letter and sign like John Hancock did. My risk is minimal. Support the truckers from Canada.
Update: While numbers have reportedly dropped somewhat since last weekend, Ottawa is still thronged with pro-freedom truckers and their supporters. The protest has primarily been directed against covid mandates, but it has morphed into a broader rebellion against the oppressive bureaucratic state.
Government and media cowards or tyrants, or both? The Washington Post called the Canadian freedom convoy “toxic.” Trudeau has accused the protestors of representing “anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-black racism, homophobia, and transphobia”—none of which is true.
Truckers vs. Tyrants, you got to love it. Developing ——-
Trudeau and the media know the protestors aren’t a “fringe minority.” On the contrary, these tyrants know it is they who are the fringe minority. But they also understand that what power they have is derived exclusively from a fearful and obedient patriotic majority; a majority, which accepts the tyrants’ big lie that they are a powerless and outnumbered minority.
Wannabe tyrants making their way to the top and exercising their temporary power over the “deployables.”
Gen. Satterfield, I must congratulate you on this article. The main statement that sticks with me is, “Such defamation of a large portion of the Canadian population is just bad leadership.” That’s exactly why I read your blog on leadership. I learn more each day. It might just be a small amount of leadership but today’s blog post make a big splash for me.
I too stand with the Canadian truckers.
Go CANADA truckers! We are with you, keep up what you are doing to draw attention to the tyrannical, completely unnecessary and unscientific dictates of your government (and ours).
You got that right ………
Hard men bring good times …. it is beginning to happen right before our eyes.
And, weak men (PM Trudeau & Pres Biden) bring bad times.
Great twitter comment:
“I feel that the Canadian truckers just threw the whole world a life line.” – Tim S. Uppal at https://twitter.com/TimUppal/status/1488678944442404865
Excellent article, Gen. Satterfield and, yes, very timely.
Got that right Nick. I’m especially interested in seeing how this filters down to our brothers in the United States.
These are the heroes of our time. First it was the grocery store and medical staff workers, and now it’s the truckers. All have been vilified by marxist leftists. The latter believe in nihilism and that only they have the answers. Their preening is disgusting.
“To make matters worse, several politicians in Canada and the U.S., along with their typical media following, have suggested the truckers have a history of white nationalism, racism, Islamophobia, Q-Anon, and other far-right groups. And the truckers support violence. That’s a real head-snapper.” — Gen. Satterfield
Yep, crazy talk when your side has nothing of value.
A huge part of the lefty self-image revolves around feeling superior to the working class.
— and then saying it openly. 👍
Lefties vilify every working-class protest movement, going back before the Tea Party.
Goes to show how out of touch they really are. Their interest is hedonistic and they want power over you. Reject their stupid, antiquated, proven-wrong, Marxist ways and accept freedom instead.
Good NY Post article ….. a must read (as Gen. Satterfield would say)
“Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/truckers-are-starting-a-working-class-revolution-and-the-left-hates-it/
So we’re finally seeing a genuine, bottom-up, working-class revolution. In Canada, and increasingly in the United States, truckers and others are refusing to follow government orders, telling the powerful that, in a popular lefty formulation, if there’s no justice, there’s no peace. Naturally, the left hates it.
Thank you Scotty for referencing this article that hammers home the point that the ideological left is out of touch with the people they claim to protect.
Yes, good point. They only ‘claim’ they protect the downtrodden while at the same time pickpocketing their value.
Bam, nailed it.
Yeah, and what else can we say but STAND BY THE CANADIAN TRUCKERS. Go Go Go Canada. Boy, it sure takes a lot for Canadians to do something, esp. this important. I hope this movement sweeps the United States. Gen. Satterfield stands with the Canadian truckers and so do I.
I too stand with the truckers. Their plight and actions are true. They believe in what they do and show it. I congratulate them as our newest heroes against government overreach and excesses. Time to reign in too much expert government action.