Canadian Truck Drivers

 Until today it looked as though the protesting Canadian truck drivers were winning. Several provinces ended or are ending restrictions. Millions of people in Canada, the United States, and other countries were  on the truckers’  side and showing it. Trudeau was blustering  like the Duce but seemed to lack the nerve or ability to do much else. I was glad for the truckers and proud of them. I am still proud of them, but the recent news is that Trudeau has declared something very close to martial law and plans  to imprison and/or financially ruin the protesters and people who support them. I hope he fails, and he may. Canada is not Cuba and Trudeau is not Castro, physiognomy aside.  

This protest is not the Boston Tea Party or the storming of the Bastille, but it is something important and not only for Canadians. It may be having an effect in this country too. Democrat politicians and officials who reveled in the chance to throw their weight around and demand obedience to even the most obviously useless or harmful  lockdowns, mandates, and restrictions for over  two years are suddenly deciding that, by golly, “science” is now telling them that it is time to ease up and reluctantly start treating people more nearly as free citizens. The main reason for this is probably the upcoming elections. (I will not be surprised if Fauci declares the epidemic over about forty eight hours before early voting starts in October.) But it may also be that the protesters in Canada and Americans’ support for them threw a scare into some of our civil masters. I hope so. They need it.

I believe getting vaccinated is a good idea and a very good idea for anyone who is old or sick. I expect many of the protesters would disagree, and some for foolish reasons. That does not matter. A free person does not have to do what I or anyone else down to and including the Trudeaus of the world would think wise.  It’s his right to choose. Besides this protest has grown into something more than a dispute over vaccines and masks. I would guess that Trudeau and his apologists know it and are panicking.  I hope that Trudeau’s cowardice will trump his power mania, and that  panic does not get some good people killed.