Updated February 10, 2022 at 10:15 a.m.
This is no longer just the Truckers Convoy
As you will hear in the following three videos by current and former Canadian police officers it is not only the Truckers who have an issue with the actions of our governments. They all are issuing pleas to fellow police officers to stand down when orders given them contravene their oath to serve and founded on faulty if not illegal grounds.
Let me point out that when Doug Ford passed legislation giving the police unfettered authority to arrest anyone on the street the police said “no thanks”.
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There is nothing wrong with using ones own judgement and understanding of the law to say “no” when an action is ordered that goes against said judgement. Saying, ‘I was just following orders’ makes one complicit not immune.
First let me present Ed Grenier a retired OPP officer
Second, let me present Brian Denison a Calgary police officer
Third, let me present Nick Motyka Calgary police officer
As I said in a previous blog post the Trudeau government has miscalculated and misrepresented the magnitude of the backlash they are facing for their tyrannical and authoritarian approach to management of the pandemic. There are vastly more Canadians fed up with the draconian measures imposed on them including but not limited to the effectively forced vaccination strategy.
Governments need to learn from history that oppression will only bring on pushback from the grassroots population. After all look at the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the American Revolution, etc. After excessive reach by those in power eventually the populace says ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and removes those in power.
We don’t ever want to get to that situation here in Canada but it is certainly time for the government to wake up and smell the roses. The push back is beginning to bloom and only a response that will satisfy the disgruntled masses will return us to some level of normal. Doubling down will prove to be a massive miscalculation.
And to the mainstream media…you have lost your way! It is time that you and your online counterparts either start reporting the facts on the ground or shut down your operations. Your acting as propaganda mouthpieces for governments and your big business owners mantra is wearing thin in not just this country but the world. Your organizations were formed originally from the need to let people know what was happening around them. You have lost the desire to report. Shame on each and every one of you.
Conclusion
To each and every Police Officer out there…do your sworn duty to uphold the law and stand down when orders given to you are wrong stand down. Don’t let your desire for a paycheque deprive others of their rightful freedom.
To each and every reporter out there…you became a reporter to report the facts so please start doing so.
My website is https://lisaparentcovid-19.ca