Yeah I don't understand how people don't understand this. If I were to go outside your house and lay on my horn for a few days I'd expect to get arrested.

Free speech has nothing to do with it.

Sadly, I doubt you even recognize your small contribution to, and complicity with, the normalization of an Orwellian, dystopian society.

Look at how casually you make these connections: speech -> noise -> sleeplessness -> damage ... therefore implying, purposefully or not, that speech = violence.

No. Speech is NOT violence. I suggest you get a pair of earplugs.

What makes you think they’re honking all through the night? From what I’ve heard they stop at 8:00pm. Claims to the contrary do not come with corresponding evidence.

Anyone here with on the ground experience about the nighttime situation?

I just don't think we have to take away their right of free speech in order to protect other people's rights to peace in their homes.

It doesn't have to be either one or the other. A more conciliatory approach by the Canadian government would pay off better. My personal opinion, only. I might be wrong, who knows?...

A fringe minority wouldn't be greeted by people lining highways and overpasses in freezing cold. [1] It wouldn't raise over nine million dollars in crowd funding, twice. [2] At the very least we're talking about a very large minority. It could even be the (previously silent) majority. And the issue is not just border crossing mandates, but all the rules (often absurd and arbitrary) that piled up over the last two years in Canada. Like curfews and prohibitions on shopping in Quebec. The border requirements were just the last straw that catalyzed a particular group of people to express the growing public discontent.

1 - https://youtu.be/pcGsqLRyKo0?t=67

2 - https://givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022

If you can't even describe the situation accurately, why should anyone care about your take on it?

Vaccine mandates are a huge deal. You think they aren't a big deal because you ignore all the evidence and testimonies of people who have been injured by them.

"Most likely the blockades will be shut down and everyone else will be able to get on with life."

Except for all people who can't because they got unlucky in the vaccine lottery, like Maddie de Garay:

https://thecovidblog.com/2021/07/08/maddie-de-garay-ohio-13-...

Note: de Garay is a child. Zero benefit from Covid vaccines to her or anyone else. It's bad enough when parents submit their children for medical experimentation like that, but when governments force them to do so it's even worse.