11 Responses

1. The problem. Most of the mandates in the United States are imposed by state or local governments, or by private businesses. The Federal government can regulate some types of interstate transit (such as AMTRAK and airlines) and civil service, but that’s about it.

2. Why don’t they put their energy into something worthwhile ??? Lower gas prices , national debt, taxes , food prices , car prices ,electric ,& heating costs …or get rid of the left !!!!

3. Much success to the truckers standing up for freedom!

4. “The convoy, modeled after Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” of some 50,000 truckers, is in protest of a number of issues, including Covid vaccine mandates, high fuel prices, and immigration…

   One would hope the YWN editorial staff wouldn’t cut and paste from some dumb news release on a right-wing website without minimal fact checking. The Canadian convoy NEVER had anything close to 50,000 truckers. The one demonstration that actually had some economic effect (at the Detroit-Windsor Brdige) was gone within 72 hours. The Ottawa demonstration lasted nearly 3 weeks and provide great Theatre but little substance. The few zealots left by this past weekend were arrested and their trucks dragged away and they are facing stiff fines and loss of their licenses.
   I fully expect there to be some demos on I-495 next weekend in advance of the SOU speech but they have already made contingency plans to use a fairly large police and national guard contingent and fleet of civilian and military tow trucks (designed to move tanks) to push these guys off the road if necessary. Sure, it will disrupt the beltway and bridges into D.C. for several hours but otherwise, just a lot of noise and fun watching some magamentchen dragged off to jail.

5. gadolhadorah: you may be right or you may be wrong but if you are correct then trudeau is a liar. he claimed that he was reduced to invoking the emergency act (also known as the war measures act) – in order to take action that would otherwise be illegal – dafka because of the size and massive effect of the convoy. So which is it?

6. “While shutting down the roads, convoy organizers plan to leave a single lane or shoulder open to allow passage for emergency vehicles, thus not endangering lives in the protest.”

   One and only one lane for emergency vehicle will endanger lives. YWN has obviously swallowed whole the public relations hopes of the organizers of this protest.

7. Bad choice for an article title concerning this issue –– these people are representing medical and other equitable freedoms that America and other democracies should hold dear for their citizenry. How dare such a inciteful ‘come-on’ to gain readership – to do what, encourage communism and further illicit profiteering by BigPharma’s patent gambits? For shame.

8. Besalel: It is both. Canadian local and provincial governments have comparatively limited police resources and legal authority compared to their U.S. local and state counterparts. The demonstrations were disruptive but nowhere on the scale suggested by” 50,000 truckers”. Ninety percent of Canadian truckers had already been vaccinated and mask/vaccine rules were already being eased albeit slower than some wanted. The Ambassador Bridge blockade was limited to several hundred trucks and in 3 days created supply chain disruptions for some U.S. auto plants. The much larger and longer-duration demonstration in Ottawa was an odd mix of a small percentage of conservative/libertarian truckers but a much larger rag-tag band of populist/libertarian Canadians (the kind of cheverah you would find at a MAGA rally) with a laundry list of broigas against state and provincial government policies ranging from the usual mask/vaccination mandates to limits on energy production, protection of indigenous tribes, inflationary pressures, etc. Trudeau arguably needed the emergency powers to mobilize resources and provide some of the legal authorities used last week to clear the Ottawa demonstrators.

9. How will they respond? Hmm. Really tough question. How about by removing the draconian mandates and restoring freedom.

   As far as the earlier commenter that wrote that some mandates are on the state level. It’s largely funded by the feds. And they can defund it just the same. By saying that any state with mandates will not get any federal funding.

10. Yiddish Mama: Agreed. Any state that adopts rules or mandates that are contrary to CDC guidelines or otherwise jeopardize public health should risk losing some portion of their federal funding

11. I am all for them protesting for their freedom UNTIL, it infringes on my or someone elses freedom.
    MY freedom to come and go as I need unobstructed is as important as theirs, maybe even more
    as they have a political agenda.
    Freedom is some world is:
    Free to take Section 8
    Free to get Medicaid
    Free to get monthly SNAP
    Free to get govt to pay for religious private education
    All the while , when I have to pay taxes every single week!