While I don't agree with their motivations, I believe in their right to protest. On the flip side of the table, the concept of civil disobedience has been a major part of history forever and a day.
My issue is that law enforcement still has not just a right, but an obligation, to uphold the law. This means that if a truck stops and blocks a road, the driver can, and should be arrested, in the same manner someone chaining themselves to a tree can be hauled away in handcuffs. Arrest the truckers. Have their vehicles towed and impounded. Charge for bail. Charge for impoundment. Collect on the fines. Clear the streets.
This is something that I've heard for years from those who disagree with the issues brought up by protesters. "ARREST THEM!" - "THROW AWAY THE KEY!" - I have always agreed that those that cause civil disobedience certainly are doing so at their own peril. If they get arrested, so be it. They broke the law. Just like these truckers are.
It is time enforce the law. Not that much of a concept, but it seems like a foreign concept to all the news articles I am reading. Go figure. Arrest them, move the trucks.
I agree but it's the same issue we had with the protests here in America over the last 2 years. And I used to say with those protests there breaking the law blocking the streets! Arrest them!
But a great point was brought up to me that has me really kindoff changing my tune. Or at least thinking about it. It's not really a protest if it's not disrupting local government is it?
I mean I cant stand BLM the organization just a bunch of money hoarding grifters but I do support BLM the movement. There are issues with law enforcement in our country
What I'm getting at is BLM the movement had been doing all that protesting on spaces set aside for years and guess what kindoff attention they got? Zero. It's not until they became more disruptive that they got attention
Mind you I'm not advocating for burning down cities and businesses I'm more saying when they took it to the streets put it more in people's faces the government had to pay attention
Which brings up the question if you just meekly go into a safe space the government assigns you is it really a protest? Martin Luther King marched through streets he was disruptive. He just wasn't violent.
Seems like that's the line the truckers are trying to straddle disrupt the government but stay nonviolent. Its a smart approach. And very difficult for any democratic government to counter
Personally I agree with you arrest them impound them fine them prosecute them this stuff would be done in a day. But you would have to do that to all protests when they cross certain lines and you'd have to have the fortitude to do it.
Not sure these governments lately are willing to go there
