Rant #2,833: Torture (?)

Those ridiculous protests at the Canada/U.S. border are over, and I see that supporters of this nonsense are actually giving themselves pats on the back for not leveling any destruction on Ottawa, saying that this proves their point entirely that “peaceful” protests can take place regarding inoculation mandates without any destruction or bloodshed being prevalent.
 
Funny, while these protests might not have featured any “bloodshed,” blood of another kind was spilled there, and that is the injury that was leveled against national and international commerce and really, our American way of life, by this idiotic action.
 
If you want anarchy, you got it at this “event,” and all participants should face some sort of punishment, but I am getting ahead of myself now.
 
Here is what I had to say about this thing on Facebook, which I wrote as I saw people being arrested and led away in handcuffs in TV coverage of the event, as the police finally used their might to rid the city of this vermin:
 
“About those trucker protests in Canada...
 
It is one thing to protest their stance in a positive way. There is another thing to shut down roads, highways and bridges in and out of a country and affect commerce, which is going to hit the little guy hardest.
 
And please, don’t tell me that this isn't being funded by the same people who have funded the previous "Occupy" movements. Too much neo-Nazi and Antifa involvement for me to support these imbeciles.
 
And now it supposedly is coming here ...
 
I am not saying our government has been correct in their handling of this pandemic, but there are positive protests and there are negative ones.

This one is negative in my eyes. And it is negative because ultimately, it hurts the little guy, in terms of commerce, availability, and, of course, prices.

These participants are true cowards, joining the crowd for all the wrong reasons.
They are leaving and brag they didn't destroy anything? That is something to brag about?
 
Sorry, if you support these bozos, don't crab when you are paying extra for your groceries and your gas and everything else in the coming weeks.

If I employed any if these participating truck drivers, once they got their trucks back to the depot, I would fire them all.”
 
Of course, my post got mixed reviews.
 
Some people agreed with me, others did not, proclaiming those truckers participating in this anarchistic mess as “patriots” and heroes.”
 
Again, please stop insulting my intelligence.
 
Here is what I had to say about that type of real imbecility:
 
“And I have seen signs held up there in TV coverage that are neo-Nazi in nature ... the same type of signs I saw in the coverage of the BLM, Portland and other such "protests." 

And anyone has the right to their own opinion, but when it directly impacts me in a negative way, then what they have to say becomes irrelevant. Nothing but anarchistic cowards, and each and every participant should be fired by their respective companies. Then maybe they will see how foolhardy what they did really is.”
 
But some people persist in this paranoia that the shots are filled with little robots that will not only eventually poison us, but somehow will control us and force us to do things against our will before our bodies cave into the "poison" that the injections somehow possess.
 
To those people, I had this to say:
 
“Paranoia will destroy you, and as long as such a movement supports your fear of the shots, you blindly support it ... and that is your right to do. 

But I cannot support a movement that threatens our commerce--which is much more than simply getting the goods that I want--and a movement that is supported by the groups of anarchists that I mentioned in my post. 

You simply cannot see past those "dreaded" shots and what "harm" they will do to you, even though the statistics state otherwise. You have a right to believe what you want to believe, but you are blind to the bigger picture. 

And I will not support anarchic events that are supported by such lawless groups. Open up your eyes a bit and you will see that even if you are against inoculation, this was an event that you really should not be supporting. These are not heroes, they are cowards falling into line, joining gangs and threatening the American way of life.”
 
Some people are so fearful of both the shots and our supposed loss of liberty in what we are being forced to do that it blinds them from the bigger picture, which is that yes, this virus exists … yes, it has been totally mishandled in every aspect of its being since Day One of this situation … yes, we have the tools to fight this thing now … and yes, I am as disgruntled as anybody is about all the mandates and rules and regulations applied to this situation.
 
I personally don’t believe in mandates, being told and/or forced to get the shots and do other things related to the virus.
 
But if those mandates are in place, anyone who tampers with their livelihoods and their safety and who really and truly believes that the authorities will stand up and say, “Oh, you will lose your job if you do not get the shots … oh, we can’t have that!” … well, that simply isn’t going to happen.
 
So you either get the shots or you lose EVERYTHING, both in the near term and the far term.
 
You lose your job, you lose your salary, you cannot get unemployment insurance because your decision is looked at as quitting, and in the far term, you greatly impact your Social Security.
 
Is all of this right?
 
It is, as long as you have been given a choice—get the shots, or don’t get them … that is your choice.
 
Millions of people who did not want to get the shots have gotten them simply because they thought in both the long and short term and decided that it was better to get the shots than not get them.
 
What do you say to them?
 
Look, you can die from getting an allergy shot.
 
We have gotten shots since we were newborns.
 
The incidence of any problems from any of the shots we have received throughout our lives is minimal.
 
Our rights are not being taken away by getting the shots.
 
There are just some things in life that you have to do that you don’t want to do, like paying taxes, serving on jury duty, etc.
 
Are my rights abridged because I am being forced to do these things?
 
And with the truckers, when their event upsets international commerce--and, thus, actually has a great impact on their own livelihoods, I really wonder what they actually believe they are fighting for.
 
This is not a modern version of the Boston Tea Party.
 
And when neo-Nazis, Antifa and anarchists are involved—as well as questionable financing sources—I mean, how can anyone in their right minds support this behavior?