Title: Police Threaten Arrests For People Giving Fuel [or food] To Freedom Convoy Source:
zerohedge URL Source:https://www.zerohedge.com/political ... ple-giving-fuel-freedom-convoy Published:Feb 7, 2022 Author:Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News Post Date:2022-02-07 08:31:21 by Esso Keywords:None Views:545 Comments:9
Ottawa police have threatened to arrest anyone providing the Freedom Convoy with gas and diesel cans after they initially blocked trucks with fuel tanks coming to the aid of the protesters.
Authorities announced that anyone providing “material support” to the demonstrators would be subject to arrest from midnight last night.
Asked whether “material support” included necessities like food and water, a police spokesperson told Fox News that the announcement “relates to hazardous materials that represent a public safety or fire hazard.”
Videos soon emerged of people being arrested and police seizing fuel from protesters.
Police had previously barricaded key crossing points throughout the area and closed numerous roads in a bid to halt the delivery of trucks with tanks full of fuel reaching the convoy.
Earlier on Sunday, Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency and claimed that the protesters, whose primary activity is honking their horns, posed a “serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents.”
Authorities and the media have attempted to demonize the truckers as potentially violent extremists, with provocateurs even attempting to pull stupid stunts in an effort to smear their character.
As we highlighted last week, authorities have still refused to rule out using the military against the protesters.
The truckers say they won’t leave until vaccine mandates that dictate truckers returning to Canada from the U.S. quarantine once they arrive at home have been lifted.
Meanwhile, the same leftists who for months have vowed to make life unlivable for the unvaccinated are now crying over horns being honked.
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Ottawa police decree is illegal, Justice Centre warns
OTTAWA: The Justice Centre today warned that Ottawa police would be breaking the law if police attempt to intimidate or arrest people who bring food or other supplies to truckers who are peacefully exercising their Charter rights and freedoms in Ottawa.
A tweet from Ottawa Police from 11:52 a.m. on Sunday February 6 states “Anyone attempting to bring material supports (gas, etc.) to the demonstrators could be subject to arrest. Enforcement is underway.”
“People who bring food, water, gasoline or other supplies to peacefully protesting truckers are not breaking any law. There is no basis for this police threat, that was issued by Twitter this morning,” states lawyer Nicholas Wansbutter, retained by the Justice Centre, which is representing the Freedom Convoy.
“In a free and democratic society that is governed by the rule of law, citizens can freely associate with each other, including the giving and receiving of goods and gifts. There is no law that would allow the Ottawa Police to arrest people for giving fuel or food to another Canadian,” continues Mr. Wansbutter.
“The truckers themselves are exercising their Charter freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, as they are legally entitled to do,” concludes Mr. Wansbutter.