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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Are rolling protests the model for the future?

CAN ROLLING PROTESTS BE EFFECTIVE WITHOUT MUCH RISK 

AS GOVERNMENTS GET MORE AUTHORITARIAN, PROTESTERS MUST BE CREATIVE


We see the the Canadian dictator Trudeau has upped the anti with the trucker protest in Canada. He is overreacting in his effort to stop the trucker protest without considering their demands. It is all about showing the unwashed masses that he is the boss in Canada. This may be a signal to other authority hungry administrations that they too should never appease protesters, especially if they are predominantly not a favored race or other orientation.

One creative way to avoid this targering is to move to a rolling protest, one that doesn't go to the Washington Monument in buses, spending the day standing in the rain or cold in an attempt to have a grievance heard. Washington and most other state capitals have been dealing with these protests on a daily basis for years. They are mostly ignored.

So, a rolling protest could be used on any targeted government and could be made into a fun day. You could even take the kids or the neighbors, a cooler with refreshments, and have a trip around a capital or object of protest with minimal inconvenience and discomfort.  You could participate for hours or days or weeks depending on your enthusiasm, but it would be essential that it is conducted during business days and hours. 

Such tactics could also be used to get the attention of certain corporations who seem to enjoy a fascist relationship with the government. so far these arrangements are without risk. These protests could be conducted without ever setting foot on private property.

It could all be conducted with the outward label as a sightseeing trip to the capital and definitely would be a peaceful and nonviolent affair. It would just be a overcrowding and possibly slowing of traffic on all the highways and roads leading to any chosen capital. It could become a very inconvenient situation for those who work there, the actual people whose attention you need to obtain. It could be timed with votes on contoveral legislation, or other days when access is important. You could go home at night or have some fellowship with your new fiends.

This type of protest would work well for Truckers, as they could just take turns driving slow on all lanes, they could take turns, so as not to be targeted for fines etc. Once things are tied up it could take hours for things to straighten out.  This would work well from early morning to noon on most commuting routes. It would not be easy to identify who started the slowdown, or once tied up, even get to where the slow down started.

Of course, all this is just a new hypothetical idea of how to get the attention of those elitist authoritarians who still believe that they can suppress and cancel out whoever they choose. It would be best if these officials would take into consideration the objections to there rulings before all this is necessary. Like unruly children, they too need to know that there can be consequences for unthinking edicts.






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