US Presidential Hopeful Slams Freezing of Trucker Bank Accounts

'This cataclysm, this devastating use of government repression.'

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Canada’s Freedom Convoy changed history. There’s no question these working class truckers altered the trajectory of our nation’s pandemic response. But it goes well beyond that. The Trudeau government’s appalling response to the truckers opened many eyes. It changed the way influential people think about freedom.

Robert Kennedy Jr, who’s attempting to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s candidate in the 2024 US presidential election, delivered a speech in Miami last week. In front of thousands of Bitcoin conference attendees, he defended the trucker protest and emphatically denounced the Canadian government.

This is important. This is historic. Here’s what Mr Kennedy said in that portion of his speech (captured by the two-minute video clip above):

As most of you know, that trucker strike was a peaceful demonstration. Of people who were demanding rights that are sacred and are taken for granted for every American. The right to be free of government mandates, the right for free assembly, the right for free speech, the right to petition our government. All of those things that we take for granted.

…it was a peaceful demonstration. Nonetheless, the Canadian government fiercely repressed the truckers’ protest. Government officials declared a state of emergency. They suppressed free speech. Perhaps most alarmingly, they froze the bank accounts of hundreds of protesters and their supporters…

…none of these lawful and peaceful protesters had violated any law. They had not been charged and they certainly had not been convicted. But suddenly, they found that they could not access their money, their bank accounts, to pay their mortgages or to feed their families.

When I witnessed this cataclysm, this devastating use of government repression, I realized for the first time how free money is as important to freedom as free expression.

Mr Kennedy went on to declare that he sees Bitcoin as a means of preventing government overreach, a means of defending democracy and freedom.

Watch Mr Kennedy’s entire, 25-minute speech here.