Terrorism is when you're inconvenient to a western government.

This is whataboutery. At the very least the truckers were an extremely unpleasant and potentially dangerous nuisance for everyone in the vicinity.

At worst were literally attempting regime change. They were also largely funded by the US far right, which has obvious links to Russia. In fact Russian propoganda was encouraging similar actions in the US and the EU.

So of course they were defunded.

It's always amusing to see libertarians complaining that a government shoots first - financially in this case, and only after a long delay - and asks questions later, when they're typically the people claiming loudly that far more extreme forms of violence are always legitimate in personal self-defence.

Just as with Jan 6, most of these people should have been jailed and those from the US should have been banned from entering Canada again.

Never mind the political angle, the nuisance and intimidation were more than enough to justify that.

I agree that the truckers were super disruptive. I’m glad some punitive action was taken.

But freezing the bank accounts of people who donated to them without due process is beyond the pail. Given that cash is mostly dead as a result of covid, banking needs to be considered a basic right. It shouldn’t be able to be revoked simply because the government doesn’t like what you do with your money.

Claim made not in evidence. Legally frozen were the recipient accounts. Yes, contributors could have had their accounts frozen, but no evidence that the government ordered such an action on any donor.

“It’s ok to punish people with unsavory political beliefs, because of the Russians”. Where have I heard that before?

> This is whataboutery.

It is not. The parent comment compared truckers to Al-Qaeda. I pointed out the ridiculouslness of it.

> At worst were literally attempting regime change.

Regime change? You seem to be using words that don't mean what you think they mean

> They were also largely funded by the US far right

And?

> which has obvious links to Russia.

Those links are not obvious to me at all.

> It's always amusing to see libertarians

Rule of law isn't something that only libertarians care about. It's the very basis of liberal democracy.

I'm not going bother responding to the rest of your comment which quite frankly is unworthy of HN.

You sound severely self-centric and antisocial. Protests are a movement, and the noise they make are the extended arm that you are to grab and hop onto.

>It's always amusing to see libertarians complaining that a government shoots first - financially in this case, and only after a long delay - and asks questions later, when they're typically the people claiming loudly that far more extreme forms of violence are always legitimate in personal self-defence.

do you regularly see libertarians advocating for shooting the friends & family of an attacker, in your own words, "after a long delay"? this is a very poor comparison.