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The Freedom Convoy In The US Mirror

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What I hear from Canada via e-mail about the Freedom Convoy suggests to me that the whole story isn't as cut and dried as its supporters, especially in the US, might believe, and I'm not in a position to comment on it directly. On the other hand, the two countries are close whether either likes it or not, and events like the Freedom Convoy inevitably affect both sides of the border -- how much did a 2020 trucker protest in Washington, illustrated above, inspire the Canadian truckers in 2022? By thr same token, US Homeland Security is now warning of a potential US Freedom Convoy starting at the Super Bowl and proceeding to Washington next week: According to senior law enforcement officials and documents obtained by Yahoo News, the warning circulated to law enforcement nationwide on Tuesday by DHS states that the agency “has received reports of a convoy of truckers planning to potentially block roads in major metropolitan cities in the United States in protest of, among o...