How Free Are We?

Sometimes I am really glad that I drive an old car. Some of the technology in newer cars is getting scary. It is no comfort to me that an insurance company can put a device in your car to monitor whether or not you are a safe driver. There are also other electronics that can be added to your car with questionable capabilities. I am posting the following article not knowing if it is true or possible. However, it does provide some insight as to where we might be headed.

A website called “Freedom Headlines” recently posted the following:

As a result of this protest in Canada truckers in the United States have followed suit and have assembled a trucker’s convoy in Washington DC.

And it looks like some of the corporate heads are showing their true colors in the United States just like they did with Canada.

It’s being reported by at least one trucker that the Penske Corporation remotely shutdown a trucker’s vehicle because they do not support this sort of protest.

According to Yahoo,

A Burkburnett man taking part in a national truck convoy protest found himself without a ride Friday.

Jeff Sandberg has been vocal in his support of the convoy on social media and was driving a rig bearing a banner covered in slogans.

“We’re just trying to show what the people who back us believe — and our own beliefs — of what our country needs to go back to,” Sandberg told the New York Times Wednesday.

By Thursday night, Sandberg was sidelined because the company he rented his truck from, Penske, shut down his truck remotely.

“Penske does not support the people’s convoy movement,” Sandberg said on a Facebook stream. “So, I’m in a situation where I’m not going to be able to continue on.”

There are some questions surrounding this story, however:

Penske said that they didn’t cut the power to the truck, but instead they pulled him as one of their drivers because he had a “Let’s Go Brandon” banner on his truck.

According to one man, that’s not the truth because he has a good friend who is higher up in the company and relayed that information, but I guess we can’t truly know for sure.

I am neither mechanically inclined nor electrically inclined. Can a truck engine be shut down remotely?

Support From The People Who Know

On Wednesday, 100% Fed Up posted an article about one group of people who have come out to help the Canadian truckers.

The article reports:

Polish immigrants arrived in Ottawa today with truckloads of Polish food for the Canadian truckers – #TruckersForFreedom – protesting the trucker vaccine mandate.

Thousands of Canadians have already come out in support of these truckers and what they stand for, lining the streets and highways to cheer on the convoy.

Among all of the support the truckers are getting, some of the most impactful support came from a group of Polish women, who were interviewed by Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson, former co-host of The 700 Club Canada.

Pulling up with trucks and crates filled with 1,550 Polish sausages, pączkis (polish donuts), and bread, these women came prepared to feed as many truckers as possible with all their delicious food.

When asked by Thompson why they brought all of this food, one of the women, Bernadette, replied,

“Because we stand behind them. We come from [a] communist country, and we came here because we didn’t want to have oppression. We wanted to live in the free country, and for the last two years, we’re living like prisoners. We are being told to stay at home, we’re told not to go to the restaurant, not to go to the church! I mean, this is unbelievable during communism times we were able and free to go to the church… I really can’t take it anymore.”

Wow. The backlash to the overreach of the Canadian government is amazing. Hopefully the backlash will spread to America in an obvious way. Please follow the link above to read the entire article and see the pictures. It is encouraging to see the people who have lived under tyranny protest the beginnings of tyranny in a supposedly free country.