Canadian 'Freedom Convoy' protest leader found guilty
Canadian 'Freedom Convoy' protest leader found guilty
Canadian right-wing activist Pat King was convicted of five charges and could face up to 10 years in jail. The judge said he incited protesters to rail against COVID-19 protocols in early 2022.
Summary
Pat King, a key figure in Canada’s 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protests, was found guilty on five charges, including mischief and counseling others to obstruct police, and faces up to 10 years in prison.
The protests, which blocked downtown Ottawa and key US-Canada border crossings for weeks, opposed COVID-19 mandates imposed by Prime Minister Trudeau’s government.
King was accused of inciting the blockade, coordinating disruptive actions like constant honking, and defying court orders.
He is the first protest leader convicted, while trials for other organizers are ongoing.
This is what I don’t get about the convoy and I’ve had many heated arguments with supporters that ignored this one point:
Aren’t the restrictions over now? Doesn’t that mean the lockdowns and all that were in fact a temporary measure due to an illness and not the government taking your rights and never giving it back?
Seriously!!!?? Where is the crowd that claimed we were never be allowed outside again or that we permanently lost rights?
Honestly, I think the whole conservative ideology just comes down to poor long term thinking.
It's because the protests worked!!1! they won!! Without their hard work, we would have still been stuck inside. /s
The liberal media want you to be afraid of fabricated threats of perfectly natural, harmless things with no real world consequences when we should be talking about boys kissing each other!
Bold of you to assume that conservatives are capable of thought.
This article has zero mention of this guy being a white supremacist. Like he is on video saying white people are the superior race.
Omitting this is enabling right wing extremism.
Journalistic malpractice
I really do hate people who conflate freedom with some notion that they get to be an asshole without any repercussions.
What they want is 4chan but in real life.
That’s the thing tho, 4chan only works because no one gets to punch you in the face regardless of what you say.
Absolutely
People in the US like to cry first amendment (freedom of speech, etc) any time something they say has consequences.
- Sexually harass a coworker? Freedom of speech!
- Business owner says something bigoted and people stop patronizing their business? Freedom of speech!
Funny how the same people with wE tHe PeOpLe bumper stickers are the ones who haven’t actually bothered to read the bill of rights.
Convites in Canada like to cry first amendment too. Just not Canada's first amendment in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Citing the US constitution. In Canadian courts.
Dwayne Lich, husband of arrested convoy leader Tamara Lich, told the judge at his wife's bail hearing that he was relying on his "First Amendment rights." CBC Feb 22
imo worse than Yanks confused and offended they can't bring their guns when they go shopping in Toronto. Just dumb over-entitled main characters.
Good.
Fuck the Kanada Klown Konvoy.
Thanks for helping to re-introduce diseases into your "stollen" Freedoms.
Feels like it took far too long, but glad it happened
“... and I’m just gonna say this out loud. The only way that this is gonna be stopped is with bullets. And yah, I said it.” - Rat King, filthy fucking nazi, Dec 2021.
King has been found guilty of five charges: two counts of disobeying a court order and one each of mischief, counselling to commit mischief and counselling to obstruct a public or peace officer.
He's been found not guilty of four charges: three of intimidation and counselling to commit intimidation, and one of obstructing a public or peace officer. cbc yesterday
Piece of crap was smiling through all the "not guilties." So brazen - I remember he even wore a Sons of Odin hoodie at his bail hearing back in '22.
Do you have a good source on that?
The article from the post said
The judge did not convict King on three intimidation-related charges, finding that King "did not make threats of violence or threats of property damage to anyone."
So I’m curious if there is an obvious call to violence.
Enough wiggle room where it would not be considered a credible threat. There's a compilation video of statements he made on livestreams but I don't want to link to Twitter, and can't find it elsewhere quickly. It's discussed in the following article re: the Emergencies Act inquiry, among others - https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/emergencies-act-inquiry-hears-from-protester-pat-king-freedom-convoy-lawyer-1.6135959
Is Sons of Odin a band or is it something else? I remember a Norse metal band having a name like that.
It is. Or was. I don't know if the hoodie in question was for them.
EDIT: not Norse though. They're from the US.
He allegedly coordinated the repeated periods of honking, telling the protesters to lay on the horn every 30 minutes for 10 minutes at a time [...]. "Hold the line," he said in video posts, appearing also to delight in the gridlock and misery of locals: "Pretty hilarious that people haven't been able to sleep for 10 days."
Yeah, hilarious alright.
Honestly I'm surprised I didn't see more stories of people trying to beat the fuck out of those truck drivers.
Slashed air lines would have been on my todo list if it was in my area.
Bags of dog shit would be landing in the rigs left and right too.
I'm glad he's going to prison
Nice to know there's one part of North America that still has good news on occasion.
Lets see how it goes next October
But he just wanted to save the children from the evil drag queens ! /S
True! I hate how drag queens are always making kids sleep in freezing cold trucks in the middle of winter and carry gas cans on their backs; using them as human shields and road blocks; making "the littles" (puke) sing and make freedom speeches "for the truckers" over their radio while their minders get shitfaced at noon on a Tuesday...
And when Canadians started asking out loud, "where tf is child services??? these kids should be in school!" the convites got a bunch of orange tshirts and Every Child Matters flags. Sneered about it on social media. Absolute filth.