Democrats who supported the most damaging riots in American history and “CHAZ” insurrectionists want to seize the money, children, and pets of peaceful Canadian trucker convoy
Democrats who supported the most damaging riots in American history and “CHAZ” insurrectionists want to seize the money, children, and pets of peaceful Canadian trucker convoy
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The Guardian has a piece up purporting to show the hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers when it comes to supporting the Canadian trucker convoy and opposing the BLM/Antifa protests/riots of 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. And, in fairness, there is a solid point to be made there. Politicians are hypocritical creatures by nature. However, they expose their own hypocrisy as readily as they expose the GOP’s.
Never mind the fact that they and their “fact-checkers” somehow missed the fact that that is Senator Rand Paul and not his father, former congressman Ron Paul, The Guardian’s agenda couldn’t be clearer: protests and violent riots that can be co-opted and used by the regime to further a narrative they approve of are to be celebrated, but peaceful protests against the regime’s policies must be destroyed.
In the wake of racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd, a wave of Republican lawmakers supported legislation to punish protesters who blocked roads. Now some of those same Republicans are supporting similar tactics from conservative trucker convoys protesting against vaccine mandates.
It’s true that there is hypocrisy on the part of some Republicans, but it’s also hypocrisy on the part of The Guardian not to point out that they and many Democrats who supported not only the peaceful protests after George Floyd’s death but also the violent riots suddenly, and just as hypocritically, want to punish these protestors for blocking roads. In other words, Republicans wanted to punish protestors that were against their political interests, and now people on the left want to punish protestors that are against their political interests.
The Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who has criticized the disruptive tactics of racial justice protesters in the US, is “all for” the disruption of a trucker convoy. “I hope the truckers do come to America. I hope they clog up cities,” Paul told the Daily Signal, a publication of the conservative thinktank the Heritage Foundation.
Paul said: “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
In 2020, Paul described a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters that confronted him in Washington as an “angry mob”, thanking police for escorting him and “literally saving our lives from a crazed mob”.
Here The Guardian is trying to make out that Senator Rand Paul is uniquely hypocritical in his claims, but they leave out the fact that Senator Paul has been shot at and physically assaulted for his political positions in the past and that there was no reason to believe, given the level of violence that protestors were engaging in around the country at the time, that these particular protestors would not seek to attack them.
As you can see in The Guardian’s own video above, it is completely fair to claim that the people surrounding the Pauls were an “angry mob” and there is certainly nothing wrong with Paul thanking the police for protecting him and his wife from a potentially dangerous situation. Now we can’t know for sure that this mob would have attacked the Pauls absent the police protection, but as a high-profile senator who has been attacked on more than one occasion in the past why take the risk?
They claim that Paul “has criticized the disruptive tactics of racial justice protesters in the US,” but that he’s ““all for” the disruption of a trucker convoy.” What have his criticisms been? Might it have something to do with the historic levels of property destruction and violence that rioters were engaging in across the country at the time that the corporate media, such as The Guardian, spent much of its time pretending wasn’t happening?
Ironically, Senator Paul is one of the few Republicans to actually “say her name,” as Reason reports:
It's notable that the protesters repeatedly shouted at Paul to "say her name." The her in question is Breonna Taylor, a woman who police killed during a no-knock raid on her home in the middle of the night on March 13. Taylor is an unambiguous victim of police violence and of unnecessary Drug War tactics, and protesters are right to demand justice for her.
Paul, though, has done much more than just saying Taylor's name: He sponsored the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, which would prohibit no-knock raids.
"After talking with Breonna Taylor's family, I've come to the conclusion that it's long past time to get rid of no-knock warrants," said Paul back in June. "This bill will effectively end no-knock raids in the United States."
The Guardian’s concern about political hypocrisy is clearly itself hypocritical, and nothing more than a veneer to push their agenda of vilifying anyone who dares dissent from the regime in any meaningful way.