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Freedom Convoy Organizers Condemn Media Lies in First Press Conference

February 2, 2022 GOVERNMENT, MEDIA, Tyranny, WORLD 0

ER Editor: It is inserted into the article below, but the Freedom Convoy’s first press conference was given on Jan. 30 without any of the MSM being there for reasons co-organizer Benjamin Dichter explains. See the tweet immediately below for this press conference. It runs for almost 50 minutes and is really worth our time.

Dichter also makes it clear that the rumour of there being a withholding of funds by GoFundMe was simply a lie, put out to cause them problems. An additional point worth noting is that, according to Dichter’s sources, it was the Trudeau administration which pushed or persuaded Biden’s to adopt the vaccine program / restrictions for truckers. As Dichter says, ‘The Americans have us to thank for it.” And “why is the US accommodating Canada? We don’t know.”

There is so much more of interest in this interview, including information about China and its effect on the North American supply chain, which is strangling truckers’ ability to maintain their rigs. And this isn’t a new problem. Quebec’s tyrannical leader, Legault, who wanted to impose taxes on the unvaccinated, has done much to unite Quebec with Alberta, according to Dichter. Canadians know how ‘apart’ these provinces have always been. Immigrant truckers from eastern Europe, from former Communist regimes, are some of the most sympathetic to this cause, including Sikhs who came to Canada for freedom. At 47 minutes, an independent reporter with a very connected background in intelligence and finance nails what is going on.

This is a formidable team (the three of them) of players representing the Canadian truckers and the popular will.

‘We’re fighting two fights …one, we’re fighting the Trudeau government, the mandates and the passports, but the other is, we’re fighting … the smears … of the legacy media’

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Newish Tweet – a roadblock by Canada’s RCMP (police) at the Alberta / Montana border hasn’t worked:

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Freedom Convoy organizers condemn media lies in first press conference: ‘We’re in this for the long haul’

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‘We know if we had invited the Toronto Star, CBC, all these mainstream news organizations, they’d do what they always do: they’ll come in with five people, and they’ll have these giant cameras and take up half the floor space and bully everybody else.’

Featured ImageFreedom Convoy Ottawa, January 29, 2022.The Post Millenial/Twitter screenshot

OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The leaders of the trucker revolt aren’t interested in speaking to mainstream media who peddle fake news.  

The organizers of the Freedom Convoy held their first press conference on Sunday. Liberal media was banned from the event, and the spokespeople made it clear that they have no intention of leaving Ottawa any time soon. 

The Counter Signal founder Keean Bexte asked the organizers how long they intended to stay in Ottawa. Co-organizer Benjamin Dichter replied, “We’re in this for the long-haul; we don’t have any time limit.” He also joked about the “days getting longer” and it being “summer soon,” signifying that the truckers will stay for as long as they must. 

Dichter said they have enough money from the GoFundMe to provide resources to last well into 2023.

Dichter also said that they had “omitted” and “banned” left wing establishment media from the media event because they had not been reporting honestly on the convoy. They’re also bullies, he suggested.

“We know if we had invited the Toronto Star, CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation], all these mainstream news organizations, they’d do what they always do: they’ll come in with five people, and they’ll have these giant cameras and take up half the floor space and bully everybody else,” he said.  

“That’s not what this is about. This is about us coming together.” 

Many establishment media outlets have attempted to label the movement as violent and hateful. True North journalist Andrew Lawton asked the organizers to respond to claims that the protest is violent in the face of confirmations by the Ottawa Police Chief that the movement has been peaceful.  

They laughed, and Dichter quipped, “Fake news media.” 

Co-organizer Tamara Lich – who set up the GoFundMe which has raised almost $10 million (approximately $7.9 million U.S.) – said: “We’ve been working with local law authorities all across the way, and they’ve all been fantastic. We got an escort [from police] through Ontario.”  

One reporter asked them to comment on fallacious claims from establishment reporters about the size of the convoy. Benjamin Dichter said about the media, “I think it’s a race to the bottom to see whose reputation is going to be destroyed first.”  

They stressed that the movement is not partisan, calling out both liberal and conservative leaders.  

“They’re all horrible, all of them; they should be ashamed of themselves,” Dichter said. 

Lich added, “We took a vote as an organization [to determine that] we are not partisan.”  

Thus, the group decided to not officially link themselves to a political party or candidate. 

A reporter asked what the group hoped would happen. Even if the Canadian government dropped the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, the U.S. still has its own mandate, he pointed out. Dichter said that his sources told him that the “Biden administration had zero interest in the program.”  

“It was the Trudeau government that lobbied and reached out to the Biden administration and encouraged them to adopt this platform, just like in Canada,” Dichter stated.  

Asked if he thought Trudeau would have a change of heart and drop the mandate, Dichter replied: “If he wants to eat, yeah, because this is the supply chain saying, ‘We’re not doing it.’” 

The movement is not against COVID vaccinations per se but COVID vaccination mandates. The organizers believe the latter are wrong because taking a particular medication should be a personal choice. 

Dichter, who is fully vaccinated, said that he has “friends who had the first vaccine, and they had this major adverse reaction, and they started getting bruises all over them… Their doctor said, ‘You know what? Just don’t take the next one.’” 

Meanwhile, the organizers stressed that they are not just fighting vaccine mandates, but all COVID policies. 

The press conference ended with Dichter saying: “The enemy… is the political class who are pushing us into serfdom, and if you don’t speak up now and you don’t get engaged, this is not going to end, and this is your opportunity…”  

“If you want to maintain your basic freedoms, this is the movement that is there for you.” 

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