A vaccine mandate for people who travel regularly through the entire continent and are therefore ideal spreaders of new covid variants is a necessary measure to fight the pandemic. It's no "tyranny" or "unconstitutional abuse". A weeklong blockade of supply lines and entire cities on the other hand is tyranny against the many by the few.…
A vaccine mandate for people who travel regularly through the entire continent and are therefore ideal spreaders of new covid variants is a necessary measure to fight the pandemic. It's no "tyranny" or "unconstitutional abuse". A weeklong blockade of supply lines and entire cities on the other hand is tyranny against the many by the few. It's a far bigger intervention into other peoples lives the a vaccine mandate. People cannot work, people cannot leave the house to work or shop, emergency services can't get through.....This is no peaceful protest. The opposite is true. There are numerous cases where peaceful protesters against the convoy and journalists are harassed by extremists amongst the truckers. The other day there was footage on TV where a trucker tried to push a bicyclists with his truck out of his way. I'm not saying all the truckers are violent extremists (most truckers in the country are against this blockades anyway and only suffer the consequences like losing income, which makes them victims of the illegal protests), but the time has arrived when originally well intended truckers should see what's truly going on here and leave to let the police deal with the hard core extremists in their midst who have phantasies of overthrowing a democratically elected government. What if everybody who is unhappy with a government decision resorts to the same tactics? Holding the entire economy and country hostage, blocking vital supply lines until the government gives in and the group gets its way? Say for example the truckers get their will and the vaccine mandate gets scrapped and the majority who supports this mandates uses the same tactics to get them back? Or environmentalists asking for tougher measures against climate change? Can't You see what this kind of street tyranny and mob rule can do to any country and its people let alone democracy itself? It would be the end of majority decisions and the start of the tyranny of those who have the most bullying power.
A vaccine mandate for people who travel regularly through the entire continent and are therefore ideal spreaders of new covid variants is a necessary measure to fight the pandemic. It's no "tyranny" or "unconstitutional abuse". A weeklong blockade of supply lines and entire cities on the other hand is tyranny against the many by the few. It's a far bigger intervention into other peoples lives the a vaccine mandate. People cannot work, people cannot leave the house to work or shop, emergency services can't get through.....This is no peaceful protest. The opposite is true. There are numerous cases where peaceful protesters against the convoy and journalists are harassed by extremists amongst the truckers. The other day there was footage on TV where a trucker tried to push a bicyclists with his truck out of his way. I'm not saying all the truckers are violent extremists (most truckers in the country are against this blockades anyway and only suffer the consequences like losing income, which makes them victims of the illegal protests), but the time has arrived when originally well intended truckers should see what's truly going on here and leave to let the police deal with the hard core extremists in their midst who have phantasies of overthrowing a democratically elected government. What if everybody who is unhappy with a government decision resorts to the same tactics? Holding the entire economy and country hostage, blocking vital supply lines until the government gives in and the group gets its way? Say for example the truckers get their will and the vaccine mandate gets scrapped and the majority who supports this mandates uses the same tactics to get them back? Or environmentalists asking for tougher measures against climate change? Can't You see what this kind of street tyranny and mob rule can do to any country and its people let alone democracy itself? It would be the end of majority decisions and the start of the tyranny of those who have the most bullying power.