The most important story in the world right now is the Canadian truckers’ protest. You can tell because the mainstream media has been ignoring it.
My favourite excuse so far for the lack of coverage is this hot take on Twitter from someone called Matt who probably lives in Plymouth.
Yes, Matt from Plymouth. That will be it. All the news editors saw that there was a HUGE story breaking about one of the most important popular uprisings in history: a convoy of trucks, more than 70 miles long, grinding and honking through the snow and ice, cheered on by millions of shivering well-wishers with an exultation redolent of the crowds that welcomed the liberators in June, July and August 1944, descending on the nation’s capital to menace and put to shame the vile, slimy dictator who for two years has been subjecting his once-proud nation to the kind of oppression and immiseration his Dad Fidel used to impose on the Cubans…
…Only suddenly to realise: ‘Fuck. It’s in Canada. We can’t report on it because it’s Canadian news and according to our in-house style book the only Canadian news we’re allowed to cover is when Neil Young or Joni Mitchell or Men Without Hats say something. I’ve just checked with one of our top stringers, Matt from Plymouth, and he’s confirmed that this is The Rule.
No, Matt from Plymouth. Sorry, mate, but I don’t think it’s an aversion to Canadian news stories which explains the MSM’s near total Omertà on the subject of the Canadian truckers. I think, rather, it’s an aversion to any story that conflicts with The Narrative.
The Narrative, essentially, is every lie the mainstream media has assiduously promulgated over the last two years: Black Lives Matter is a noble cause; Extinction Rebellion have a point; Greta the Doom Goblin is a visionary seer; David Attenborough is a national treasure; the Pope is Catholic; Joe Biden won the US presidency fair and square; the Pandemic is the realest scariest medical emergency since Spanish Flu; vaccines are safe and effective; Bill Gates is a global health expert we can trust; our doctors know what’s good for us; the scientists haven’t been lying; the Great Reset is a conspiracy theory; inflation is not out of control; masks, lockdowns, quarantines can make a difference; imprisoning your population, destroying their jobs and businesses, forbidding them to worship in church, letting their elderly loved ones die alone, forcing them to take a dangerous, experimental procedure they don’t need and then denying all liability when people start dying as a result – all these acts of apparent totalitarian thuggery are in fact reasonable and proportionate responses to an urgent and real problem…
George Orwell once wrote – and he actually wrote this, as opposed to just having it attributed to him and put in white-on-black letters next to a photo of him on the internet – “If there was hope, it must lie in the proles.” The Canadian truckers’ revolt is this observation’s apotheosis. Unlike, the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution and all those other revolutions orchestrated in the interests of The Powers That Be, the Truckers’ Revolution (soon to go global) is a genuine, popular uprising that really does threaten to change the world forever – and, for once, in a totally good and desirable way.
It’s the turning point that the more optimistic forecasters among us – Clif High, for example, and Paul Gregory Martin – have been predicting for some time; but which the more bruised and cynical among us scarcely dared hope would ever become a reality.
Just think, for a moment, how bad things were before Christmas: numerous countries making death jabs compulsory on pain of fines, sacking or near-total exclusion from normal life; wall to wall propaganda, praising the success of the ‘vaccine’ roll-out, vilifying ‘anti-vaxxers’, covering up or lying about the causes of adverse reactions; quarantine camps springing up like mushrooms and looking worryingly more like concentration camps than a caring public health measure; increasing police brutality against dissenters; etc.
Few, if any of these problems have gone away, so I’m not for one moment suggesting it’s all over. (On the contrary, I think it’s a false dawn and that the worst is yet to come). But the significant difference between then and now is that the worst-hit countries, such as Canada and Australia, seemed to be just rolling over and accepting their fate. Obviously I mean no disrespect to those brave souls who DID take to the streets, who were prepared to lose their jobs or get arrested: you are heroes, all of you. I just mean that the resistance at that point all felt a bit futile: there just weren’t enough of us, yet, and possibly ever, to make a difference. Sure, the 10 per cent or maybe 20 per cent of us who were awake were committed happy warriors and delighted to have found one another. But where, we wondered, in our darker moments was the next 30 per cent we’d need to recruit if ever we were to carry the day?
The truckers’ protest is a game changer, I think, partly because it’s a simple, scaleable idea which can be repeated across the world (already there are plans for a UK version and an Australian version); partly because, unlike all those freedom marches the MSM has been refusing to report on, it’s much harder to ignore because tailbacks of monster trucks are bigger and not so quickly dispersed; and partly because it’s a form of protest which seems more universal, more apolitical, more relatable than a bunch of anti-vaxxers, anti-5G-ers, and libertarians marching down the streets with witty placards.
Me, I love going on those marches and the people I meet on them: they’re the best in the world. But we’re too easily misrepresented (especially by the MSM) as freaks who believe crazy things and who are not representative of the country at large. It’s much harder to smear truckers, who are widely seen as independent-minded, honest, hard-working, down-to-earth folk who perform the undeniably useful job of keeping us all fed and supplied with all the essentials and luxuries we’ve come to expect to arrive within about 24 hours of our ordering it online. The truckers have given Normies permission to express the dissent which they may have suppressed until now for fear of being labelled a ‘granny-killer’ or ‘anti-science’ or a ‘Covid denier’.
What a lot of us in the Resistance have come to realise in the last couple of years is that the problems we are facing have been entrenched over decades (if not centuries, if not millennia), that almost no one in the Establishment is our friend and that we cannot rely on White Hats to ride to our rescue. If we’re going to win this one – and we can and we will – it has to come from the bottom up, from the people not from the ‘elites’.
As George Orwell never said, the Truckers’ Rebellion is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. I think the Elites must realise this (our evil overlords aren’t stupid) because they’re starting to look a bit panicky. President Bieber, for example, has gone into hiding, pretending it’s because he tested positive for ‘Covid’ when, of course, really he’s thinking about the fate of his ideological soulmates the Ceausescus. Meanwhile, one of Jeff Bezos’s diseased organs, the Washington Post, has run a delicious opinion piece headed ‘Canada must confront the toxic ‘Freedom Convoy’ head on’.
Just in case anyone failed to get the point, WaPo also ran a cartoon by its resident mirthsmith Michael de Adder depicting the fundamental evil of this fascist protest. He did so using the genius ruse of drawing a convoy of trucks with – no, wait: this is why political cartoonists of de Adder’s calibre get paid top dollar – ‘FASCISM’ written on them.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
The fact that the MSM has moved on from the first stage and is finally starting to report on the truck protests – albeit through gritted teeth and with heavy negative editorialising – is not a sign that it is waking up to its responsibilities and that it is finally reporting the news. Rather, it is a sign of desperation.
It accords with something Clif High has been predicting about the MSM, viz that there will come a time when it will no longer be able to act as the dam barrier which prevents Normies accessing the flood of information to which the Awake have long been privy. That’s because so much of this information is now leaking out, despite the MSM’s attempts at censorship, that the MSM perforce has to cover some of the stuff it previously pretended wasn’t true or didn’t exist in a desperate attempt to persuade its dwindling and increasingly sceptical audience that it is still relevant.
Does this mean that finally we are winning? Well I wouldn’t go quite that far. But I don’t think we should take too seriously those voices on our side which are claiming that the truckers’ protest is just another Cabal psy op or a scam of some kind.
As evidence that this protest has legs, I present to you the hilarious tale of what happened when the Mayor of Ottawa tried to get local tow truck companies to remove all the trucks blocking the capital. The tow truck companies all replied that they’d love to help but unfortunately their staff all had Covid. Rebellions are like wild fires. The spark has been lit.
Also, the Canadian public’s enthusiasm for the protest has emboldened Scott Moe, the Premier of Saskatchewan, to announce that he will be ending the province’s vaccine mandate.
I’m not quite sure what we should read into Elon Musk’s decision to chuck $50,000 into the truckers’ coffers – he’s still Cabal, as far as I’m concerned – but I think it’s probably a positive. He has seen what the winning side looks like and he wants to grab some of the glory. Well, let him, if it makes him happy and distracts him temporarily from wanting to turn us into machine slaves of the technocratic New World Order.
Sure I understand why so many of us Awake folk are paranoid or suspicious of anything that smells vaguely of hopium. But I think that after the two years of near-relentless despair we’ve been through, where absolutely nothing appears to have gone our way, we shouldn’t be looking any gift horses that come our way in the mouth.
This is a victory. A small victory, maybe. But definitely one worth acknowledging and celebrating.
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Author James Delingpole
