You'd Think They Were Dealing with Terrorists
'They act like an animal...The police, they act like a criminal.'
Part 1: I Came Together with the People
By the time Luis made it back to his truck, after being released from police custody, Peter was gone. But the rig was still running and it was blessedly warm inside. Much of Wellington was deserted. Except for the cops, who were everywhere.
"I sleep in my truck," he remembers. "Sometimes you have to take a risk. I was praying."
Luis hasn't heard from the legal system since. He has never received a summons, never been obliged to hire a lawyer, never seen the inside of a courtroom. It appears that, before he was released from police custody, someone made the decision not to press charges against him.
Friends of his weren't as fortunate. He talks about one from Calgary who was fined $1,800 plus three hundred hours of community service. Another, "he's a Mexican guy. When I got arrested, he got arrested same time. He have to go to court and work for free for the city hall, in Ottawa."
Awaking Saturday morning, Luis pulled his truck in closer to Parliament, joining the last cluster of vehicles still at that location. Amongst them were Boom Truck Ben's stage truck, Jay's truck with The Shed, Csaba's red Volvo, and Revvin' Kevin's black bomber.
Luis also remembers a car that was parked between the trucks, facing him. There was a woman inside, he says. And a boy, "I don't know, maybe six to ten years old. Sitting in the backseat."
He remembers a police vehicle arriving, and multiple cops jumping out and running past him. "They did not see me, I was in my truck. I was looking in the mirror, they pass me."
Everything happened quickly, he says. Something smoky - he thinks it was teargas - was sprayed inside a truck ahead of him. But the driver, a friend of Luis, had already exited, was on the street. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Coming around the front, an officer collided with that driver, dislodging his pistol in the process. "The stupid gun came out, I don't know how." Luis remembers it spinning on the icy ground. "The police, he can't catch the gun. And then he got the gun and arrested my friend."
You'd think the cops were dealing with terrorists, he says. "I see the lady in the car. The police opened the door. Boom, put the gas in the car. And the kid was in there." They dragged the woman out, he says. To this day, he doesn't know her name or what happened to the child.
He saw protesters trying to rescue expensive sound equipment from the stage. He remembers them arguing with the police in front of Parliament. In the midst of all of this, he says, "I asked my Jesus. 'Jesus, I think it's time for me to go out. I think I better go.' And then I back up a little bit, make a turn, and leave."
But Luis didn't head home. Rather, he was amongst scores (perhaps hundreds) of trucks who instead retreated to various private property addresses within a short distance from Ottawa. For several days after they'd been pushed out of the nation's capital, it seemed possible the truckers might regroup and return to Parliament Hill.
During that time of limbo, two days after his arrest, Luis encouraged other truckers to join the cause during a live interview. "I want to tell you guys not to be afraid," he told Druthers News. The truckers hadn't done anything wrong, he said. "We was there in peace, sharing food, making friends, talking to each other." It was the government and the police, he said, who'd behaved despicably.
"I saw those policemen. They act like, I can say, like an animal. This is the truth. I don't want to lie to the people. The police, they act like a criminal. It's very bad."
The Freedom Convoy protest had been about more than just the COVID shots, the told the interviewer. "It's against the pressure from the government. They're forcing people. Even they do not know what is the consequence in one year, two years. But if you don't take the vaccine bye, bye - no work, no job for you. This is worse than the Communists."
When asked if he knew anyone who'd been injured by the vaccines, Luis replied, "I have friends in Ottawa. Wife got the two shots. Two weeks after, she died. She died for that vaccine."
What message did he have for viewers across Canada and internationally? Luis said the future was grim unless people found their courage and spoke up:
Stand together. Pray. Be positive...Don't let other people intimidate you...But one thing I tell you, do in the right way. Not against the law. Peacefully. That is a very important thing. Peacefully...I know we are going to win this. It's just a matter of time. Be positive.
final installment: We Are Not OK
I just came upon this in my feed after reading a Substack by Dr McCulloch about research which shows the rates of adverse events culled from Pfizer’s data, which that company tried in court to keep locked up for 75 years and failed. Millions of doses across 2020 to April 2022. Worst event is death. It seems that the earliest batches which were mostly also the smallest, were most lethal and injurious. Pfizer knew within months of rolling them out what the risks were, how serious they were, which types were likeliest, INCLUDING spontaneous abortions and cardiac deaths in youths, and lied. And the overall death rate was 2%. This was no better than the overall death rate from catching COVID, but actually worse, because the highest death rates in COVID cases were in people who were already older than average life expectancy and already sick with other highly-terminal conditions: the death rates from the vaccines were in every age group of previously healthy people. We were all forced to be lab rats, while Pfizer executives and stockholders became billionaires.