Protesters’ selfish vanity is hurting others with their actions

By Lethbridge Herald on February 4, 2022.

Editor:

It was particularly distressing to see the “demonstration” in Ottawa and at the Coutts border crossing. If the demonstrators could have stuck to the idea that some of the provincial and federal rules and mandates have been applied inconsistently, they might have had been able to exert influence.

But they didn’t.

They crossed over into anti-vaccine territory. 

They attracted delusional fools who thought they could actually dissolve Parliament and force the Prime Minister to resign. 

They danced and urinated on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They waved Confederate and Nazi flags. They took the Canadian flag and placed it upside down on the statue of Terry Fox.

Tracking some of them on social media shows me that they live in their own clickbait tunnel. When you simply state facts back to them, after about two messages they block you. 

Some of them actually felt Sunday morning was a “glorious day” and they were proud of what they did.

My parents lived through the Depression and six years of World War Two. They knew about sacrifice. My son died from osteogenic sarcoma, the same cancer Terry Fox had. 

 I know about suffering. These people have some legitimate complaints – we all do – but they live in a world of selfish vanity that hurts other people.

Instead of a glorious beginning, January 29 will be remembered as a dark day that will hurt their cause.

Allan Wilson

Lethbridge