The Democrats have been pushing anti-police rhetoric for years, especially since 2020.
The New York Times has been one of the largest purveyors of that message.
And now the anti-police New York Times wants to sic law enforcement on one group of protesters.
In 2020, The New York Times ran a piece with the headline: “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police.”
The Left don’t even try to hide their disdain for police, but in reality, they simply want to control the police.
James Lindsay, author and notable opponent of academic “wokeness,” summarized the goal of the Left in one sentence: “Criticize something until you control it.”
That’s how the Left view the police.
They want law enforcement to crack down on the growing trucker convoy in Canada.
Tens of thousands of truckers in Canada have organized a weeks-long peaceful protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s harsh lockdown restrictions and vaccine mandates.
The New York Times wrote:
“Just over a week has passed since a convoy of heavy trucks, pickup trucks and cars began their noisy, intimidating and unlawful, according to the police, occupation of Ottawa’s downtown core…Since the arrival of the truck convoy, the normally placid Centretown has become a congested and noisy nightmare for many residents.”
This is the same paper that turned a blind eye or flat-out encouraged the 2020 riots that lasted for months across the country.
In Portland, Antifa terrorists firebombed a courthouse every single night for weeks.
The corporate press claimed that riots were “mostly peaceful” as buildings burned in the background.
It was an absolute farce.
The Times interviewed a radical leftist running for mayor who identities as gender nonbinary.
City Council member Catherine McKenney—who uses the prefix “Mx.” instead of “Ms.”—told The Times:
“I’m receiving hundreds — and I’m not exaggerating — hundreds of emails telling me: ‘I went out to get groceries, I got yelled at, I got harassed. I got followed down the street, I’m so afraid that I can’t go out…The horn blaring is really meant to terrorize this community — and it’s working.”
And now the Ottawa government is starting to crack down against the truckers.
One man was arrested for simply bringing fuel to the truckers. The city is also imposing a ban on honking.
The Times didn’t seem to have any problems with Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters marching into suburban neighborhoods, chasing patrons out of restaurants, and burning down police precincts.
The Left’s hypocrisy is on full display.
But perhaps most revealing of all is their complete abandonment of civil liberties.
In reality, the Left have always been authoritarians.
Now that they have more cultural power, they want to flex their muscles, but people who still yearn for freedom are rising up and getting in the way.
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.