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I live in Ottawa. This is not simply unpleasant noise that the residents downtown are being forced to live through. This is a large number of transport trucks and various general trucks blowing their horns throughout the day and night. There are multiple trucks driving around with train horns which are extremely loud. A lawsuit has been filed against this tactic being used by the protesters (https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/class-action-suit-...)

Nor is it limited to auditory harassment. Some examples: - Convoy protesters harass local shelter for free food. It's not that big a stretch to characterize this as stealing from the homeless since that's specifically who the food is meant for. https://twitter.com/sghottawa/status/1487854425368633344

- Rocks thrown at ambulance as well as anti-asian slurs towards the paramedic https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/rocks-hurled-at-ottawa...

- Protester dances atop national monument "Tomb of the Fallen Soldier" https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/police-look-to-identify-suspect-in... Explanation for the monument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tomb_of_the_Unknown_S...

Protesters refusing to wear masks within hotels and subjecting employees of said hotels who have given no consent to this behaviour - https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/truck-convoy-polic...

Protesters flying Nazi flags - https://twitter.com/yonifreedhoff/status/1487517973422223374...

Downtown mall forced to close as protesters enter and refuse to wear masks - https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/rideau-centre-clos...

I personally know people who have been verbally intimidated for wearing a mask, one who was screamed at and pushed to the ground for wearing a mask, and another who was threatened with rape as she walked into her place of work.

A number of businesses have closed for the weekend due to safety concerns and have subsequently been brigaded with negative comment and reviews on their google listings.

Of course, you can make the claim that the participants are not actually protesters but could be false flag, paid actors, antifa or whatever. I personally think that's reaching. I've lived here for many years, seeing many large protests come and go, and I've never seen such an influx of hateful incidents.

I fully agree with their right to protest and sympathize with some of their complaints but these tactics are in no way acceptable or peaceful. People need rest and these protesters are denying this to a huge amount of people. People should feel safe walking through the streets of their city and people absolutely do not feel safe walking close to the protests because of the many examples of harassment.

Apologies for the length of the reply but, as you can imagine, it's very disappointing to see these events minimized.

Edit: Fireworks now being launched from a downtown street with many residential buildings close by https://twitter.com/berkley33/status/1490136109061484545

If you made a list off the lunatic safetyism that kids have to put up with these days, I don’t think wearing masks would even make the short list. There’s a lot.

> By definition, this is forced. Force means to make someone do something against their will.

Yes, but they aren't required to get the vaccine against their will. They have the choice to quit. That's what makes it a choice. If they had no choice to quit, then you would be correct.

> In this case the choice is be fired or take the vaccine.

Exactly.

> They obviously don't want to be fired, so they are being forced to take the vaccine.

Some choices are hard. That's life. As you wrote in the previous sentence, it is a choice.

> Yes, it isn't physical force, but it is forced none the less

No more forced than any other condition of employment.

Isn't it exactly that then? You were shoved into a snowbank once and put this forward as an example of people not being peaceful.

Unsuspecting and uninvolved people are being shoved by protesters. Therefore, this is not a peaceful protest.

Well, the media can’t spend two years telling people that riot and protest are legitimate forms of expression when feeling disenfranchised and then act shocked when all political demographics follow suit (J6, truckers). Want things to calm down? There’s a way to deescalate, but I don’t think the media is a friend in this story - they have a profit incentive to stir up chaos and disorder. People are increasingly losing confidence in elections - the right response isn’t to tell people to shut up, loosen controls and gerrymander, it’s to double up transparency and audits. People are losing confidence in institutional authority - the right response isn’t a public/private alliance on overt censorship, it’s less censorship and encouraging open debate. People feel mandates cause more harm than benefit now and are pissed about the prospect of eternal emergency powers. What’s the right response, Justin, calling in the military?? People increasingly feel the institutional “leaders” are incompetent, full of shit, and focused on the wrong priorities. Very dangerous to have loss of faith in elections concurrently with unsatisfactory office holders.