Citizens must push back over blockades

As illegal protests and blockades beset the nation, the time has come for citizens to push back — if the police will not do so.

As I write this (Feb. 14), a group of anti-gas-line protesters have illegally blockaded traffic at a busy intersection in downtown Saskatoon. And meanwhile, Unifor has set up another illegal fence at a Co-op card-lock station just north of the city.

If I were to come across the downtown protest, I would slowly, inexorably, keep steering my car forward, thereby separating the illegal street-blockers in front of me.

And if I were a customer at the card-lock facility, I would slowly, inexorably, push the temporary fence aside and cross into the business area on the other side.

Would I be arrested? Probably. (But a Gofundme appeal would doubtless help me cover the fine.) But, again, it’s time to see which side of the law the police are on.

I know where public sentiment lies regarding the spate of rail-stopping, gas-line-preventing actions. As for the police — both RCMP and local — they apparently have forgotten that their basic purpose is to uphold the law, not behave like social workers.

Under our spineless, feckless prime minister, the country is anarchy-bound — and will continue to be, unless and until the self-appointed protesters now running the show are met with citizen counter-protesters and/or the police and/or the army to show the protesters who’s boss.

Wayne Eyre, Saskatoon