If by some accident of foolish politics we established a government in which we had such a right, that right would immediately conflict with and require reconciliation with the right to life, and require adjudication in whatever body we establish to handle contradictory rights.
I have no idea how something that is intrinsically legally, ethically, and morally grey has been translated into black and white "muh rights" talk so consistently and without any apparent attempt at reflection.
Read for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests#United_S...
> At least 200 cities in the U.S. had imposed curfews by early June 2020, while more than 30 states and Washington, D.C., activated over 96,000 National Guard and State Guard service members.[33][34][35][36] The deployment constituted the largest military operation other than war in U.S. history.[37]
Conservatives are just snowflakes because it happened to their guys just one time.
Tell that to Typhoid Mary.
Which is what the "trucker convoy" was.
1: of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority
2: of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people
It was quite pointedly, exactly neither of these. Words have meanings.
i.e. Not constitutionally responsible to the people.
Words have meaning, as do actions, sir, and you're choose to ignore both because of your partisan blind spots.
There was no "peaceful" presentation of grievance. There was weeks of civil disobedience and actual acts of violence.
The twisted part, again, is the ideologically biased game you're playing.
Reminder that blocked traffic and hurt feelings are not violence, otherwise we'd need to classify every climate action as unbearably and irrevocably violent.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.6400768
even on the anniversary:
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/officers-issued-multiple-violation...
How about two seconds of googling? Or are you afraid of having your world view threatened?
>https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.6400768 Obstruction/assault of police officer. IE, altercation with police. Expected at a protest.
>https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/officers-issued-multiple-violation... One man charged with assault. You finally found one, congratulations. No details whether it was protest related, or just happened to be in the area. Could have been a provocation. Which would also be expected at a large protest.
None of these articles paint a picture of untoward violence any worse than what goes on at a normal pop/rock concert.
But I suppose pearl clutchers are gonna clutch (and not read their own articles).
Will you press charges and expect the police to respond?
Also when your wife leaves the house, someone (not me) will follow her and harass her for wearing a mask.
Then an ambulance will come by to pick up your elderly relative and someone will make sure my truck is in front of it, stopping it from getting to the hospital, because the hospital is a place that poisons people with COVID jabs.
This is all ok and peaceful behaviour, to you? Right?
Tell me how you feel about the January 6th event, while you're at it. How about the Munich Beer Hall Putsch?
Partisans love to play this game, where they judge a large group of people by the worst possible interpretation of the actions of a tiny subset of them.
For a protest which some estimates say peaked at ~18,000, this was the resulting set of "violent" charges:
"12 charges of assaulting a peace officer; six charges of assault; three charges of assault or intimidation with a weapon; five charges of possessing a weapon dangerous to public peace; two charges of carrying a concealed weapon; one charge of possessing a restricted firearm; and four charges of uttering threats of death or bodily harm." [0]
Obviously this is not acceptable, but the idea that the protesters as a group were "authoritarians" because 0.01% of them got violent is hysterical nonsense.
(Also... Partisan hardly describes me. I've never voted Liberal in my life and have been opposed to this PM since day one. Ask any of my annoyed coworkers and friends.)
Of course it's always with the best of intentions that peoples' rights get stripped away from them.
Though since COVID I'm hardly surprised anymore when serious people expose themselves to be unabashedly authoritarian.