10 Nasty Paragraphs
Poison pen letter to the truckers drips with scorn & condescension.
Many people who reside in and around Ottawa supported the Freedom Convoy. They didn’t just talk, they acted. These people fed the truckers, they did the truckers’ laundry, they provided hot showers, rides to church, and days of respite.
One man walked around the streets of Ottawa with a megaphone, declaring: “Welcome to Ottawa…Thank you for coming. You’re doing the right thing.”
Another typed out a full page letter and distributed it a “few weeks” after the truckers arrived. “I have taken it upon myself to play host and cordially welcome you to Ottawa on behalf of all Canadians,” it explains. Then it says something poignant:
I promise you that people don’t hate you. Not truly. They are just scared. To exclude or hate is not who we are as Canadians. Only the unloved hate; only the unloved and the unnatural.
I have had the pleasure of examining hundreds upon hundreds of communiques given to the truckers be members of the public. Letters long and short, homemade cards. Formal, pre-printed thank you cards. Notes scribbled on index cards. Scriptures and children’s drawings. Pre-printed and homemade Valentines. Samples of handmade soap, inexpensive Catholic rosaries, cookies - all with notes attached.
Amongst the box of hundreds of such tributes brought home by one Nova Scotia trucker was something unsavoury. If sarcasm is a weapon of the weak, let us hope the author feels stronger now than they did when they penned this letter.
10 nasty paragraphs. Scorn and condescension. Insincerity. Directed toward working class men and women - the competent folk who keep our civilization running. The ones who know how to grow, build, repair, and move things. Who are out there in the weather. Early in the morning, late at night.
Many of the truckers struggled while they were in Ottawa. These aren’t people who are used to sitting still, staying in one place. They’re fond of wide open spaces, not tall buildings and concrete everywhere. As the protest dragged on, some were missing their families dreadfully, missing important events back home.
The author of this letter, this frightened, unloved person, did his/her best to demoralize and discourage those participating in this grassroots, peaceful, good-humoured protest.
How very sad.
I don’t really see this letter as hateful.. but rather someone who believes the mainstream media. Unfortunately, I know a number of people who STILL feel the same way.
They REALLY believe our government is acting in our best interest and TRUST our prime minister.
While I am working EVERY DAY to help illuminate the truth and worrying about what is happening, others seem quite unperturbed!
Needless to say, the truckers were never the problem. Without a dictatorial, " take the shots or starve" attitude from Ottawa's cesspool, the trucks would have rolled and kept the machinery of commerce lubricated.
A drama queen playing political theatre rules our House of Parliament.
Someone needs to bluntly tell the denizens of the Ottawa quagmire , because they live in the seat of tax and spend burden of Canada, don't be surprised of a few thinking, productive people make life unpleasant for you. Dishing out mandates that strip individual of the ability to support themselves is no way to garner public support.