There’s a difference between freedom and anarchy

What the gathered mob failed to do was to self-police their own event to ensure these crazies understood that swastikas, Confederate flags, and public urination on war memorials would not be tolerated.

A group of Groypers, white nationalist conservative provocateurs, taunt a counter protest gathered at Ottawa City Hall on Feb. 5, as the ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation of downtown Ottawa enters the second week. The problem for the convoy organizers and participants is not that some fringe loonies attempted to hijack the media attention generated by this mass gathering of big-rig trucks—it’s that they failed to stop them, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 7, 2022

OTTAWA—I will begin this column with the personal disclosure that I am a longtime downtown resident of Ottawa. As such, my family and I have been fully immersed in the noisy chaos of what is now widely known as the “freedom convoy.” We are not participants in this protest. But given the reali...

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