This headline could have been written by Mr. Trump: “Freedom Convoy: Kanadas toimub sellist, millest liberaalne meedia objektiivslt kirjutad ei taha.” (Translation: “The liberal media doesn’t want to write objectively about something that’s happening in Canada.”)
Another article entitled, (roughly translated) “If the protest can’t legally be shut down, hidden weapons will be found,” implying that the Canadian government could launch a “false flag” operation – contrive an illegality – to squash the demonstration.
And yet an additional piece was misleadingly entitled, “The Freedom Convoy’s huge victory: Canada’s Ontario province ends requirement for vaccination passport”. In fact the article states that the reason for ending the proof of vaccination was the high vaccination rate in the province and the decline in omicron infections.
The articles, posted recently in Uued Uudised (New News), EKRE’s on-line voice, were one of many that have been a distortion of the facts and have painted the international spread of the Canadian-born truckers’ blockade as a valiant fight for democratic freedoms.
To use ‘freedom’ as the rallying cry for truckers protesting government protocols in controlling the spread of COVID-19 infections is a cheap twisting of the true meaning of the concept.
Uued Uudised has not reported other aspects of the truckers’ blockade of the streets surrounding Canadian parliament buildings, circumstances that have been observed by journalists on location in Ottawa. EKRE’s news portal not revealed that demonstrators have urinated on the National War Memorial, danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, demanded food from a poverty centre while harassing staff, defecated in public, uttered racist and threatening comments, blockaded access to schools, and crowded into area malls and shopping centres forcing businesses to close. And this behaviour for the most part has gone totally without any legal consequences, Very few in Canada have been held responsible.
(Pikemalt saab lugeda Eesti Elu 18. veebruari 2022 paber- ja PDF/digilehest)
