Is peaceful dissent to be shut down merely because it is politically incorrect and goes against the elite’s view of what is just and unjust?
In his End of the Day Report, Gary Bauer often notes that the left doesn’t want to win the debate. The left wants to shut the debate down.
We can see an example of that in the recent case of the rise and fall of the peaceful protests of the Canadian truckers.
For the first time since it was passed in 1988, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to shut down the protests of the Canadian truckers.
To see how far to the left Trudeau is, note what he proclaimed in 2016 upon the death of the notorious dictator who brought communism to Cuba: “Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and health care of his island nation.”
Why did the truck drivers protest in the first place? They resented being forced to be double-vaccinated against the coronavirus. Some of them apparently were vaccinated, but they resented the vaccine mandate as an encroachment on their freedom.
This post originally appeared on WND News Center.