Earlier, we told you about Ottawa Police threatening to arrest “anyone found within areas undergoing enforcement.” That includes media trying to cover the police’s actions.
All media who are attending the area, please keep a distance and stay out of police operations for your safety. Anyone found within areas undergoing enforcement may be subject to arrest. There will be a media availability later today at 474 Elgin Street. #ottnews
— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 18, 2022
Sounds more than a little ominous.
If Trump had done this… https://t.co/q0H703Jznz
— Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) February 18, 2022
If Trump had done that, there’d be a national uproar.
And that national uproar would pale in comparison to the national uproar that would ensue if Trump had done this:
Protestors have put children between police operations and the unlawful protest site.
The children will be brought to a place of safety.
— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 18, 2022
Yesterday, the Interim Ottawa Police Chief said law enforcement was working on something like that.
Interim Ottawa Police Chief says he is working with social services and Freedom Convoy protestors to "have children removed from the area prior to any sort of police action." pic.twitter.com/5ZmtEwHeLq
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 17, 2022
It appears they’ve come up with a plan and are now putting it into practice.
They came for protesters’ (and donors’) money. They came for protesters’ pets.
Now they’re coming for protesters’ kids.
There are two types of people in the comments to this
People who suddenly trust the police no matter what and horrified people https://t.co/Vq0Eo43WoY
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) February 18, 2022
Count us among the latter type.
Hello, @Interpol — I’d like to report some kidnappings https://t.co/rLb4ZHqQ1u
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 18, 2022
https://twitter.com/PartymanRandy/status/1494721194234458114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494721194234458114%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Faction%3Deditpost%3D2136024
The most violent action on the protesters’ part appears to be playing in the snow and jumping in a bouncy castle.
We’re certainly not suggesting that it’s a great idea to bring kids to a protest. Generally speaking, it’s best to leave the kids out of that stuff. But the fact remains that there are differences between peaceful protests and riots. And if we didn’t know any better, we’d say that the Ottawa Police are trying to provoke outrage among protesters in the hopes of making the Freedom Convoy a lot more riot-like and using that as justification for taking the kids “to a place of safety” — and as justification for responding to the protesters with violence.
It takes so little imagination to see that if the Minneapolis police had said this about the BLM protestors and their children, the outrage would have been like nothing we've ever seen
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) February 18, 2022
Anyone with insight knows this conflict — a class conflict, to a degree —will come here. That’s why the media battlefield has been prepared to define dissent as fascist, racist, etc. This helps the populace rationalize its own passivity as crackdowns spread. Don’t fall for it. https://t.co/GXSUrkqpcA
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) February 18, 2022
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