Far-Right Influencers Are Pushing For a Truck Convoy on DC

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2-9-2022

The same far-right influencers behind the effort
to overturn the election are pushing for a convoy
on DC

Many of the same players who were involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election in the United States are
celebrating the Canadian truckers convoy that has crippled Ottawa, while calling for a duplicate effort targeting Washington, DC.

At the top of the list is Donald Trump himself, who issued a statement on Feb. 4 deriding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “far-left lunatic… who has destroyed Canada with insane Covid mandates.” Trump added:
“Now, thankfully, the Freedom Convoy could be coming to DC with American Truckers who want
to protest Biden’s ridiculous Covid policies.”

The People’s Convoy, with a Facebook group boasting 48,100 members and Telegram channel with 38,000 members, had previously publicized March 1 as a start date, but by the past weekend organizers were signaling that the date was up in the air again.

In a video shared on the group’s telegram channel, organizer Jeremy Johnson reported that leaders would hold a Zoom meeting on Feb. 5
“with a very large group of people,” while predicting, “After that Zoom meeting on we’re going to be able
to come out with a hell of a lot more information than what we’ve been able to do so far.”

In the same video, Johnson said his group had joined forces with Leigh Dundas, a social media influencer anti-vax advocate from southern California who helped mobilize Trump supporters to come to Washington, DC on Jan. 5, 2021.

In a Facebook Live video on Feb. 4, Dundas briefly touched on the DC convoy, saying, “US convoy coming soon. Sit tight, guys.
I don’t want to rush to judgement on this one.
I’m working with a lot of different trucking factions over the next 48 hours here.
I think we’re going to have big announcements starting at the end of the week or next week.”

Dundas could not be reached for comment by Facebook or email for this story.

Dundas has previously said she participated in a conference call with Trump’s campaign lawyers on
the day after media organizations declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election.

Since the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, Dundas has held a slot in the Reawaken America Tour, a far-right extravaganza headlined by retired Lt. General Mike Flynn that showcases various proponents of the Big Lie, anti-vaxxers and Christian nationalists.

Dundas has been pushing for truckers to use their vehicles as force for economic disruption since at least last November.
That month, Dundas organized a four-day event billed as a “Nationwide Walkout,” which she also described as a “strike.”

In a Nov. 9 interview with Scott McKay, also a speaker in the Reawaken America Tour, Dundas asked truck drivers to email her directly “to get more involved.”
A graphic posted on her Facebook page two days later solicited drivers to “help us stand against the vaccine mandates by driving your rig to the Golden Gate Bridge” in San Francisco.
It's unclear whether any truckers obliged Dundas’ request.

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2-11-2022

Ontario officials to fine, jail blockade protesters
as automakers cut production.

To end a blockade now in its fifth day, authorities
in Canada plan to enact temporary orders that will fine protestors blocking the Ambassador Bridge up
to $100,000 and sentence them to up to a year in jail.

Officials also will take away the personal or commercial drivers licenses of anyone who defies
the orders, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday.

"To those trying to force a political agenda through disruption, intimidation and chaos, my message to you is this:
Your right to make a political statement does not outweigh the right of hundreds of thousands of workers to earn their living. It does not outweigh
our right to get food across our borders," he said.

"So let me be as clear as I can:
There will be consequences for these actions
and they will be severe."

The orders will make it clear that blocking the movement of "goods, people and services across critical infrastructure" is illegal, Ford said, including border crossings, airports, bridges, highways and railways.

Canadian authorities were preparing to go to court Friday over the bridge blockade caused by groups protesting the country's COVID-19 restrictions.

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Translation:

"You have the right to protest unless we don't like how you do it; then we'll make the way you're doing it 'illegal' and arrest you plus also destroy your life in any other ways we think we can get away with. We don't just want to stop this particular protest, we want people to be afraid to express themselves in any meaningful way at all going forward. The plebs need to go back to being obedient and silent cogs in the machinery that enriches our oligarchs, the way god intended."

When their narratives collapse and mild threats no longer have any effect the ruling class will always revert to authoritarianism rather than cede any power back to the people. Representing/serving the citizenry has nothing to do with it... they just refuse to relinquish their grip around the throat of society. They would rather choke the life out us than lose their power over us and that alone if nothing else demands that they be opposed and defeated.

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Vitriol wrote:: Translation:

"You have the right to protest unless we don't like how you do it; then we'll make the way you're doing it 'illegal' and arrest you plus also destroy your life in any other ways we think we can get away with.

Blocking the movement of "goods, people and services across critical infrastructure has always been illegal.

"To those trying to force a political agenda through disruption, intimidation, and chaos, my message to you is this:
Your right to make a political statement does not outweigh the right of hundreds of thousands of workers to earn their living.
It does not outweighour right to get food across our borders,"

The orders will make it clear that blocking the movement of "goods, people and services across critical infrastructure" is illegal including border crossings, airports, bridges, highways and railways.

(((One can protest but can not break laws while doing so--)))

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Conclusion:

Temple loves the taste of boot polish.

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Vitriol wrote:: Conclusion:

Temple loves the taste of boot polish.

You dreamer you--
It hurt didn't it, I'm sorry but-
facts are facts... flower

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Court gives 'Freedom Convoy' truckers until 7 to vacate Ambassador Bridge -- or risk possible arrest.

A Canadian court on Friday told the anti-vax truckers occupying the Ambassador Bridge in Ontario are being given until this evening to vacate --
or risk potentially getting arrested.

CBC Windsor News 6 reporter Katerina Georgieva brings word that an injunction against the protesters occupying the bridge has been granted and will take effect starting at 7 p.m.

Additionally, the Windsor Police Department has put out a new warning to the demonstrators that they could soon be arrested if they don't leave the bridge.

"We are providing notice that anyone blocking streets or assisting others in the blocking of streets may be committing a criminal offence and must immediately cease further unlawful activity or you may face charges," the department said.
"You could be arrested if you are a party to the offence or assisting others in the direct or indirect commission of this offence."

The police also warned the demonstrators that their vehicles could be seized, and said that any Americans who get arrested may be denied reentry to their native country.

Earlier on Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in his province and issued a new order aimed at ending the truckers' siege of Ambassador Bridge.

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Temple wrote:: Blocking the movement of "goods, people and services across critical infrastructure has always been illegal.

Yet that's exactly what the government did when they mandated goods can't cross the border unless the driver got an injection (or two or three or four...).

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oliver clotheshoffe wrote:

Temple wrote:: Blocking the movement of "goods, people and services across critical infrastructure has always been illegal.

Yet that's exactly what the government did when they mandated goods can't cross the border unless the driver got an injection (or two or three or four...).

Not getting vaccinated to enter Canada is Not--
''blocking the movement of "goods, people and services across critical infrastructure" is illegal including border crossings, airports, bridges, highways and railways.
is breaking the law--
No vaccination no entry- no entry no blocking the movement of goods-- unvaccinated can not enter to block anything..
90% of truckers are vaccinated--so the 10% off irrational crazies are not a big threat to delivering goods-
Get vaccinated or no entry-

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They must be putting crack in the boot polish these days because Temple will do mental triple somersaults into quadruple backflips with a barrel roll to keep that leather on the tip of his tongue.

I doubt even an intervention would do any good at this point; he's been sucked into that black hole of disinformation and propaganda and is still accelerating as he approaches the event horizon.

He literally believes he's on the right side and his "team" just wants what's best for everyone.

lulz

If only we'd gotten to him sooner...

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2-12-2022

Police stop 500 vehicles heading to Paris in COVID protest convoy.

PARIS (Reuters) - A convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions breached police defences and drove into central Paris on Saturday, snarling traffic around the Arc de Triomphe and on the Champs Elysees, as police fired tear gas at demonstrators.

Protesters in cars, campervans, tractors and other vehicles had converged on Paris from Lille, Perpignan, Nice and other cities late on Friday, despite warnings from Paris authorities that they would be barred from entering the capital.

Inspired by horn-blaring "Freedom Convoy" demonstrations in Canada, dozens of vehicles slipped through the police cordon, impeding traffic around the 19th century arch and the top of the boutique-lined Champs Elysees, a magnet for tourists.

Inside the city's limits, motorists in the "Freedom Convoy" waved tricolour flags and honked in defiance of the police ban.

On the Champs Elysees, clouds of tear gas swirled through the terraces of bars and restaurants.

Riot police also threw tear gas grenades to keep order at an authorised street protest where demonstrators, including some "Yellow Vests" railed against President Emmanuel Macron's coronavirus vaccine pass rules and the cost of living.

On the Champs Elysees, police used tear gas into the evening as sporadic scuffles continued and one person who collapsed on the sidewalk was brought to hospital for checks, police said.

France requires people to show proof of vaccination to enter public places such as cafes, restaurants and museums, with a negative test no longer being sufficient for unvaccinated people.

"We can't take the vaccine pass any more," said Nathalie Galdeano, who had come from southwest France by bus to participate in the protests.

Police said that they had arrested 54 people, handed out 337 fines by and stopped 500 vehicles trying to get into Paris in the morning. The Interior Ministry said about 32,000 people participated in protests nationwide, including 7,600 in Paris.

Less than two months from a presidential election, Macron's government is eager to keep protests from spiralling into large-scale demonstrations like the anti-government Yellow Vest revolt of 2018.

That movement began as a protest against fuel taxes and grew into a broader revolt that saw some of the worst street violence in decades and tested Macron's authority.

Grievances expressed by protesters in the "Freedom Convoy" extend beyond COVID restrictions, with anger simmering over a perceived fall in standards of living amid surging inflation.

Police had mobilised more than 7,000 officers, set up checkpoints and deployed armoured personnel carriers and water cannon trucks in preparation for the protests.

Separately police also said they had arrested five protesters in southern Paris in possession of sling shots, hammers, knives and gas masks.

Canadian truckers protesting a vaccine mandate for trans-border traffic have paralysed parts of the capital Ottawa since late January and blocked U.S.-Canada crossing points.
Canadian police began clearing protesters blocking a key bridge linking Canada and the United States on Saturday.

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Vitriol wrote:: They must be putting crack in the boot polish these days because Temple will do mental triple somersaults into quadruple backflips with a barrel roll to keep that leather on the tip of his tongue.

I doubt even an intervention would do any good at this point; he's been sucked into that black hole of disinformation and propaganda and is still accelerating as he approaches the event horizon.

He literally believes he's on the right side and his "team" just wants what's best for everyone.

lulz

If only we'd gotten to him sooner...

Lol .... That's the best description of Temple/posting I've ever heard.. *that* is a good post (Imo)

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Hackers leaked the names and personal details of more than 92,000 donors to the anti-vaccine "freedom convoy" that's occupying the Canadian capital.

Supporters raised $8.7 million for the truckers and other protesters through the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, and hackers found that many of the donors left violent or otherwise troubling messages alongside their contributions, reported Vice.

“We have 2A here in America send your mounties and see what happens,” “CABAL PIGLETS ARE CORRUPT CRIMINALS WHO NEED SEVERE PUNISHMENT UNDER LAW,” and “Death to all liberal traitors,” read some of the messages.

The database is no longer available online, but Vice News reviewed the data and saw the largest donation, $215,000, was made anonymously, but American software billionaire Thomas Siebel gave $90,000, and one person claiming to be a Department of Justice employee gave $25 twice.

READ: Trump trashes GOP senator as ‘absolutely atrocious’ — then asks, ‘aren’t I nice?’

“Thank you Truckers! It is working," that person wrote. "Others have taken your lead like Australia, New Zealand, UK. I think the reason all these blue states in the USA have stopped the mask mandates is there were rumors that truckers here in the USA were going to start a protest starting in CA to DC and the local and federal governments did not want that. And it is an election year.”

Other donors used email addresses from people who claimed to work for the U.S. military, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, NASA, Transportation Security Administration and other government agencies.

“God Bless you all, need your spirit here in the US!” wrote one person who claimed to be a senior employee at the Delaware Transit Corporation.

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2-14-2022

Canadian truckers suffer 'morale blow' after infiltrators spam communications channel with
'gay cowboy anthem'.

On Monday, following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's activation of the Emergencies Act to clear the far-right demonstrators blockading a critical international road to oppose vaccine mandates, BuzzFeed News D.C. bureau chief Paul McLeod reported that communications between the protesters are in currently chaos.

According to McLeod, the protesters were forced to abandon their first method of communication, the app Zello, after counterprotesters flooded their channels "with the gay cowboy anthem Ram Ranch,"
a song with incredibly explicit homoerotic lyrics.

But the problem was that the person moderating
the channel they jumped ship turned out to be a double agent who disrupted their communications
to help police catch them.

One anti-vax trucker cited by McLeod described this experience as a "morale blow."

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ok the truckers are not "anti vaxers". 90% of them are fully vaccinated .. That narrative should be taken off the table

Another narrative the media has starting to create (as is typical/routine) is that they're racist and/or white supremacists
...Nip it in the bud ... Same shit different day with these fukkin "news" networks

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Canada-- it's ''illegal'' to do what they did= breaking the law..
You break the law you pay--
They were given a break for near 3 weeks and were informed that they were breaking the law--and to dismantle-
So- they were given time to stop- They chose to break the law.

India has no such law-

Trudeau had to invoke a war powers act to take care of a 'small fringe minority'. What a pussy Laughing

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2-19-2022

Canadian police swooped in on Saturday with stun grenades, smashing truck windows to clear
“Freedom Convoy” demonstrations in the capital —
just one day after more than a hundred protesters were arrested in a bid to quash
the three-week blockade
over COVID-19 restrictions.

Police on Saturday morning descended to disperse
the demonstrators clogging the streets in front of parliament and the prime minister’s
office in Ottawa,
making more arrests.

“We told you to leave.
“We gave you time to leave. We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and
aggressive with officers and the horses.”
Ottawa police said in a tweet Saturday.

Police warned on loudspeakers that demonstrators need to disperse or face arrest_
but some protesters shoveled snow to form barricades to make it harder for officers to advance.

On Friday, scuffles broke out as the protesters mostly remained defiant even as lines of heavily armed officers —
including some on horseback — slowly pressed them back, pushing some out of the way and arresting others.

Most protesters arrested were slapped with mischief charges, and dozens of vehicles
had been towed, including all those blocking one of Ottawa’s major streets, authorities said.

One officer suffered a minor injury, but no protesters were hurt,
interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell told the Associated Press.

Those arrested included four protest leaders.
One received bail, but the others remained jailed.

Officers were seen leading demonstrators away in handcuffs through the
snowy streets as holdout truckers blared their horns.

As authorities advanced on Friday, a recording played in French and English:
“You must leave. Anyone found in the zone will be arrested.”

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It's not gonna end there as long as Trudie keeps enforcing the mandates .
. he'll get that bridge cleared but there'll be more protests and disruption

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2-24-2022

Trucker convoy in disarray:
Ousting of 'Nazi' leads to mutual accusations
of snitching to the Feds.

Ryan Sanchez, a Groyper-aligned white supremacist, has pulled out of the People’s Convoy on the second day of the group’s trek from southern California to Washington, DC after getting called out by Three Percenter leader Erik Rohde.

Sanchez has made no secret of his desire to infiltrate the anti-COVID restriction convoy effort for the purpose of mainstreaming white nationalism into
the broader conservative movement.

In a post on Telegram earlier this month, Sanchez cited his involvement in the Stop the Steal rallies at Huntington Beach Pier in late 2020 as an example
of white nationalists joining forces with MAGA activists to push the movement to take more radical positions.

One of the participants in those rallies was America First Bruins founder Christian Secor, who goes on trial in June for assaulting law enforcement, obstruction
of an official proceeding and breaching the Capitol in connection with his role in the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

“I have always been up front about what I believe in,” Sanchez wrote. “I am Catholic, a nationalist, and
I am pro-white. People will always respect courage and honesty, and although a few people would disagree on some issues, the vast majority of people have been nothing but friendly.

This video was taken shortly after the election of 2020 in the middle of the Stop the Steal movement. After Jan 6th, even the people who I argued and bantered within this video have since closed ranks with the rest of the right.
We asserted ourselves, moved the Overton window, and have a leading role in the conservative coalition.”

Sanchez has made no attempt to downplay his white nationalist beliefs even while announcing his plans to tag along with the convoy.

On Feb. 18, Sanchez posted a photo of himself posing with members of the now-defunct white supremacist group Rise Above Movement, expressing pride in his association with three men who are currently serving federal prison sentences for their role in perpetrating violence at the August 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.

“I am proud to have known such men as Rob Rundo, Ben Daly, Tom and Michael,” Sanchez wrote.
“We must never forget our political prisoners of
RAM, jailed for daring to stand against Antifa.
I will never apologize for being in this picture,
or knowing these men.”

RAM members Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis and Thomas Gillen received sentences ranging from
27 to 37 months for conspiracy to riot in 2019.

Characterizing RAM as a “combat-ready, militant group that represented itself as part of the new nationalist and white supremacy movement,”
the Justice Department said in a press release announcing sentencing that the three defendants “collectively pushed, punched, kicked, choked, head-butted, and otherwise assaulted several individuals, resulting in a riot” a the Unite the Right rally.

In another recent post, Sanchez expressed sympathy for Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber. Kaczynski, the eco-terrorist who is serving a life sentence for a murderous bombing campaign that spanned more than two decades__
has become a hero to accelerationist white supremacists who want to hasten the collapse of society to achieve their political goals. In his recent post, Sanchez reported that Kaczynski had been diagnosed with cancer, adding, “#PrayForTed.”

Since the convoy’s departure from Adelanto, Calif.
on Wednesday, Sanchez has been making frequent Telegram posts with video updates, photos of supportive crowds, and upbeat reports about restaurants and gas stations providing free food, drink and fuel to the travelers.

The convoy organizers’ disapproval of Sanchez’s presence came to light on Wednesday night when
the official Telegram channel for the campaign posted a message stating___
“It has come to our attention that there [are] some people using our posts and our images as their own for their personal gain.
While some people may be independent journalists riding in the convoy, The People’s Convoy does not endorse nor support the views on their page. ”

The post then tagged Sanchez’s Telegram account, adding, “any and all views expressed on that page
are strictly denounced by the People’s Convoy.”

Criticism of Sanchez was even more pointed in the comments under the post.

“We actually can show he’s been lying to ppl claiming to be raising money n gathering items for the convoy when in fact it was only for him n 5 friends to go
to dc…
He’s a nazi little prick promotes harming others…
oh yes we know who n what he is,” an admin with the handle DIESELPATRIOT1 wrote.
“We’ve made it clear…. This isn’t n Airport no need
to announce your departure… make sure you take
the rest of the garbage with you.”

But it was a video posted on Thursday afternoon by Washington Three Percenters leader Erik Rohde, who described himself as a consultant with the People’s Convoy, that ultimately prompted Sanchez’s departure.

Rohde was featured in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the 2020 mockumentary by Sacha Baron Cohen.
As depicted in the film, Rohde and his fellow Three Percenters were enjoying an anti-lockdown event when a bluegrass band stepped on stage and its singer started singing songs with lyrics like,
“Obama, what we gotta do, inject him with the Wuhan flu.”

“Some of you might have seen me before,” Rohde said in his video on Thursday. “I was unfortunately featured in the latest Borat movie where I chased his ass off my stage.”

Moving on to the business at hand, Rohde suggested that anyone who saw Sanchez along the convoy route should “make him unwelcome.”

“Why I’m talking to you today is it has come to the attention of the organizers of the People’s Convoy that there is a semi-known fringe weirdo, a little Nazi piece of trash,” Rohde said.

Rohde’s denunciation appears to have prompted a change of heart from Sanchez, who had previously posted on Telegram:
“I’m tired of self-proclaimed ‘revolutionaries’ on the internet telling people that protesting and networking with the conservative base is a waste of time, it couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Sharing Rohde’s video, Sanchez suggested it was evidence of “how much of a disaster this is shaping up to be.”

Then, an hour later, he announced:
“My crew and I are breaking off from the People’s Convoy. We have been threatened and slandered,
and I cannot justify putting my team at unnecessary risk.”

Rohde ended his video by questioning whether Sanchez is a federal informant.

“Figure out what you’re doing man,” Rohde said.
“Are you a fed? Are you a Nazi?
I mean, a lot of us real patriots in the country, we’ve been talking about you the last couple days, and you’re 50-50 on the board. Half of ’em think you’re a fed trying to set up other Nazis and stuff.
And half of ’em think you’re just a little man crush
on those Aryan dudes.”

Singed by rejection, Sanchez suggested he has reached a similar conclusion about his accusers.

“This movement, which is filled with thousands of brave and dedicated Americans, is being led into the gaping maw of the Federal government by an incompetent team of grifters and bad actors.”

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