Truckers fight Facism.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against coronavirus transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter, meaning most Americans will no longer be advised to wear masks in indoor public settings.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday will announce a change to the metrics it uses to determine whether to recommend face coverings, shifting from looking at case counts to a more holistic view of risk to a community. Under current guidelines, masks are recommended for people residing in communities of substantial or high transmission — roughly 95% of U.S. counties, according to the latest data.

Mandates are gone. Biden lost the mandate war with the Truckers.

feign empathy for victims of Fascist Tyranny?

Raging on behalf of the machine is the only acceptable action.

US should join in but whiners and moaners like yourself will vote against it.

Canada debunks the myth that Truckers were terrorists.

https://reclaimthenet.org/canadas-finance-intelligence-expert-admits-freedom-convoy-donors-posed-no-threat/

More clarity is emerging around a series of scandalous decisions Canada has recently made in an attempt to suppress a civil protest, organized by truckers.

Among those decisions was the one trying to directly deprive the protesters participating in what is known as Freedom Convoy of their livelihoods by freezing their bank accounts. Another was to block their access to donations on crowd-funding platforms.

To justify these moves that were radical enough to might have just reshaped the face of democracy as it had been previously known – Canada’s authorities invoked the Emergencies Act.

And, anti-terrorism financing laws.

But now it’s official – it was never about any sort of “terrorism.” It was just a regime looking, rather chaotically and unnecessarily, for a way to sustain itself. Those who put their money where their mouth was during the trucker protest were simply citizens who identified with a cause – something that should be perfectly admissible in a true democracy. And that cause happened to be seeking to end the highly disruptive to everyday life, and ongoing for too long Covid mandates.

In the words of Barry MacKillop, deputy director of Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center, who spoke before Canada’s House of Commons finance committee on Thursday – the money the organizers managed to raise was not only NOT “cash that funded terrorism or was in any way money laundering” – it was simply a way for people living in what they thought was a democratic country believing was a safe way of expressing their position on an issue.

These citizens – subsequently, evidently treated by their government as potential “terrorists” and “money launderers” – were in fact “fed up with COVID and were upset (…) and just wanted to support the cause” – as MacKillop phrased it.

Whether making things worse, or better, this official also said that these acts of support happened before Canada outlawed them.

Why did Canada even “outlaw” this, though? There’s another question for another committee. Or not.

Eventually, the thing seems to come down to people entrusted with power coming back to play mind-games with their constituents, to force them to behave in a certain way.

Canada’s Minister of Finance and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland pretty much spelled it out: it was all about “convincing” those donating to the cause to “listen to reason.”

• I wondered why GP needed go  to a reporter based in Serbia for a report on the proceedings of the Canadian House of Commons.
  
• That's because no Canadian reporter would risk their career deliberately misquoting a government official this blatantly.
  
• McKillip never said "cash that funded terrorism or was in any way money laundering"  
  
• here's the transcript:
  
• https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/FINA/meeting-22/evidence#Int-11541293
  
• McKillip reports that he never received any reports of terrorism or money laundering 
  
• because the emergency act that empowered his dept to collect those voluntary reports from crowdfunding  and payment service sites only lasted five days and no sites had yet  completed the application process
  
• besides which, the relevant accounts had been frozen even before the emergency act, so there was no relevant activity to report
  
• Obviously the absence of any report whatsoever is not exonerating evidence of any kind, whatever Greyparrot's far-flung reporter might think.
  
• McKillip reports that the freezing of accounts was necessary and the blockade illegal:
  

 GoFundMe did, on their own, stop the page and decided to reimburse the donors and to not allow the funding to continue through their platform.

     However, my understanding was that donors then moved to a different platform—GiveSendGo, which was less perhaps co-operative in terms of saying whether or not they were going to stop the funding happening on their page. Moreover, Mr. Chair, there are a number, I would say thousands, of crowdfunding platforms around the world that are accessible. I think that in terms of the Emergencies Act and ensuring that any money that was raised through a crowdfunding platform that went through a financial institution to be disbursed to support the illegal blockades was, in fact, appropriately stopped—

 What I would say is that, as all of you have seen, I think the efforts came together at the same time and we saw the money being stopped and we saw the law enforcement activities, which were extremely well done in Ottawa, taking place almost simultaneously. I think it really was a combination of all of the actions that brought this to a peaceful end.

• It is a lie to say that McKillip testified that truckers weren't terrorists.  The truth is that McKillip testified that he never rec'd any report of any kind
  
• It is a lie to say "Canada debunks the myth that Truckers were terrorists."  In fact 4 protestors are now charged with conspiracy to murder a Mountie-  a very traditional form of domestic terrorism.
  

3ru..." protestor = terroist "...

OGParrot.." The vaccine is neither safe nor effective. "...

“So I think that there were people around the world who were fed up with COVID, who were upset and saw the demonstrations against COVID (mandates) and I believe that they just wanted to support the cause.”

“It was … their own money, so it wasn’t money that funded terrorism, or that was in any way money-laundering.”

-Barry MacKillop

-->@oromagi

PROTESTER = TERRORIST

I would certainly call the fascists who had a planned to murder a policeman terrorists.

Any protester that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action,

your use of the term "fascist" doesn't match your stated definition

Personally, I believe in the light of King's powerful demagogic speech yesterday he stands heads and shoulders over all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes. We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro, and national security. [LINK]