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The trucker convoy begun in Canada is planning protests in the United States and around the world. That is, if they can stay on track.

To organizers' great chagrin, some of the main Telegram channels for the convoy protests keep getting overrun with conspiracy theories, including QAnon. Administrators repeatedly post warnings not to discuss various conspiracies and ban those who do-but they keep showing up.

The trucker convoy protests converged on Ottawa, Canada last month. Originally a single-issue protest of COVID-19 restrictions on cross-border truckers, the movement quickly evolved to apply to all pandemic rules, then to government overreach in general.

Some organizers have embraced the shift, which attracts supporters and donations.

The administrators of some convoy channels on Telegram aren't so sure that all the expansion is a good thing. They've grown concerned that the conspiracy theories that keep clogging up their channels are distracting from their purpose and undermining their legitimacy.

The admins of the People's Convoy (Official) Discussion Group and the Official Freedom Canada Convoy 2022 have attempted to tamp down on the conspiracy theories by establishing rules against posting about them. Nevertheless, the channels, both of which have roughly 50,000 subscribers, are struggling to keep abreast of the flood of conspiracies.

Their frustration has grown palpable in recent days.

"Q AND QANON TALKS STOPS NOW. EITHER VIEWPOINT WARRANTS AUTOMATIC BAN," an admin of the People's Convoy channel posted on Tuesday.

"PLEASE TEST ME," they added when people didn't heed the warning to stop posting about a cabal of cannibalistic pedophile Satanists controlling the world.

Another conspiracy theory the People's Convoy has banned concerns the United Nations. In recent days, a conspiracy emerged that the U.N. had troops in Canada.

"UN foreign troops occupy Canada," wrote one subscriber in the People's Convoy channel. Another opined that the authorities hoped the convoy would "give them an excuse to enact martial law after which the UN will be given powers to police the country."

Subscribers piled on with additional U.N. conspiracies.

The conspiracy about U.N. troops was incited by a photo of a U.N. plane on a tarmac and false rumors that Ottawa police who cleared the protest area were actually from the U.N.

As the People's Convoy admins and several subscribers explained, the U.N. doesn't have troops in Canada. The vice mayor of North Bay, Ontario, where the plane was photographed, told CNN that the conspiracy was "so stupid." "Totally nuts," added the spokesperson for the Canadian Public Safety Minister, per CNN.

In an effort to get things back on track, on Monday, People's Convoy administrators posted a blanket warning telling people to stop posting about the U.N.

"No UN talk please that was overplayed the last two days we are done with it," the warning states. "Posts will be deleted."

The rule against posting about the U.N. and various other topics is pinned to the top of the channel. It's been posted several times a day since Monday.

The warnings haven't been particularly effective.

People continue posting conspiracies about pedophiles, cannibals, and the U.N.

It probably isn't helping matters that one of their sister channels, TruckersforFreedom, has been blasting the conspiracy about U.N. troops to its 100,000 subscribers for nearly a week.

TruckersforFreedom most recently repeated the conspiracy about U.N. troops on Wednesday morning.

The American convoy departs from Southern California at 10am local time today. They plan to arrive in the Washington, D.C. area on March 5.

According to a press release, the truckers expect to be joined by others who oppose pandemic restrictions and mandatory COVID vaccinations.

"The message of The People's Convoy is simple," the release states. "...it is now time to re-open the country."

The release doesn't mention pedophiles, cannibalism, or the U.N.

Claire Goforth is a staff writer at the Daily Dot covering all things politics and technology with a focus on the far right and conspiracy theories.

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Truck convoy Telegram groups keep getting overrun with conspiracies about the U.N., QAnon

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The trucker convoy begun in Canada is planning protests in the United States and around the world. That is, if they can stay on track. To organizers' great chagrin, some of the main Telegram channels for the convoy protests keep getting overrun with conspiracy theories, including QAnon.

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Canada Protests: Plans for a Protest by Truckers in the U.S. Gain Momentum

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A convoy-style demonstration starting in California and ending in Washington appears to be gathering supporters online.

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Canadian Media Launches Latest Anti-Trucker Convoy Propaganda: BLAME RUSSIA! ⋆ 🔔 The Liberty Daily

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It’s no secret that the government and corporate media apparatus in Canada is similar to that in the United States. Some would say they’re even more leftist than what we have, especially with their woke Prime Minister and his cronies in the press. That’s why there’s nothing surprising about the late…

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ABC and NBC continued their kvetching Monday over the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, Canada and their massive crowds protesting the socialist country's coronavirus vaccine mandate in order to cross the U.S./Canada border to deliver goods that keep our economies running.

ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir led off the segment whining about "hundreds of trucks part of the freedom truck convoy, they say, bringing the government center to a standstill. And tonight, the protests now spreading to the U.S. border. Long lines of semi's at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit now."

Muir then turned to correspondent Trevor Ault for his report on the Freedom Convoy. Much like Muir, Ault was also concerned that the convoy was spreading. " The police chief saying his city is under siege, calling the demonstrations a nationwide insurrection as solidarity protests pop up across Canada and in Alaska," Ault warned. " And the protests are supported by sympathizers around the world, including in the United States. "

Ault tried to smear the protesters by citing outlier instances of "national monuments desecrated, and some protesters displaying symbols of hate," as if that justified a "state of emergency." He also seemed to brag that "A multimillion-dollar GoFundMe page now taken down. The company saying in a statement the fundraiser had to be refunded due to increasing reports of violence and other unlawful activities," he reported

Over on NBC Nightly News, national correspondent Miguel Almaguer wailed that "the movement is being called an insurrection by some, paralyzing the Canadian capitol."

Almaguer continued lamenting that "with reports of protests turning violent, Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau says there's no plan, for now, to call in the military to clear the streets." Later, when noting the impact the protests have had on the capital city, Almaguer ironically referred to the convoy as an "unprecedented occupation."

NBC even seemed disappointed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had yet to institute a plan "to call in the military to clear the streets." "The 11-day protest now declared a state of emergency, with much of the city locked down in a blanket of gridlock. The mayor now asking for 2,000 additional police officers," Almaguer noted.

It's a safe bet you didn't hear this type of language in the summer of 2020 during the networks' coverage of the actual occupation in downtown Seattle, Washington in the form of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ/CHOP) where multiple people were killed and businesses were being extorted. NBC highlighted the Ottawa businesses annoyed with the truckers but they didn't care about those Seattle residents.

This latest example of the leftist evening broadcast network coverage of the freedom caravan was brought to you by Liberty Mutual on ABC and Fidelity on NBC. Their information is linked.
To read the transcripts of each segment click expand:

ABC's World News Tonight
02/07/2022
6:36:40 PM

DAVID MUIR: In the meantime, we turn north of the border tonight, another developing scene and the state of emergency in Canada's capitol city, Ottawa. The growing protests that began over a vaccine mandate for truck drivers now a protest against all Covid restrictions. Hundreds of trucks part of the freedom truck convoy, they say, bringing the government center to a standstill. And tonight, the protests now spreading to the U.S. Border. Long lines of semi's at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit now. ABC's Trevor Ault from Ottawa.

TREVOR AULT: Tonight, Canada's massive truck driver protests now spreading to the US border. Video showing lines of semis at the ambassador bridge into Detroit. Officials saying demonstrators were slowing border wait times. It comes as Canada's capitol city has been crippled by 11 straight days of protests. Hundreds of trucks and thousands of demonstrators clogging the streets of Ottawa. The so-called freedom convoy, first protesting a vaccine mandate for truck drivers in order to cross the border, now calling for an end to all Covid restrictions. The noise is constant here and its engines and horns and speeches and music. These protesters are going to be heard.

UNIDENTIFIED TRUCK DRIVER: We've been here since last Saturday.

AULT: Last Saturday?

UNIDENTIFIED TRUCK DRIVER: Yeah.

AULT: Just staying in the truck?

UNIDENTIFIED TRUCK DRIVER: Yup.

AULT: How long do you think you'll be out here?

UNIDENTIFIED TRUCK DRIVER: Until something happens.

AULT: Officials now declaring a state of emergency, citing national monuments desecrated, and some protesters displaying symbols of hate.

POLICE CHIEF PETER SLOLY: I have my own officers who live in and around those areas. They and their children have not been able to sleep. They and their children have not been able to go to school.

AULT: The police chief saying his city is under siege, calling the demonstrations a nationwide insurrection as solidarity protests pop up across Canada and in Alaska. And the protests are supported by sympathizers around the world, including in the United States. Well over 100,000 donors trying to bankroll the demonstrations. A multimillion-dollar GoFundMe page now taken down. Company saying in a statement the fundraiser had to be refunded due to increasing reports of violence and other unlawful activities.

And David, as those the demonstrators are now near Detroit on the ambassador bridge, the busiest land crossing in North America, a lot of anti-vaccine, anti-mandate sympathizers want to use this as a blueprint and there's already some evidence of potential plans for similar demonstrations in Europe and in Washington, D.C. David?

LESTER HOLT: In Canada, a major vaccine protest that could have an impact here. More than a thousand truckers in the capitol protesting a vaccine requirement to enter the U.S. Using their big rigs to drive home their point. Here is Miguel Almaguer.

MIGUEL ALMAGUER: The ear-piercing protest snarling streets with big rigs as demonstrators demand an end to the country's mandatory vaccine requirement for truckers crossing the U.S./Canadian border. Dubbed the freedom convoy, the movement is being called an insurrection by some, paralyzing the Canadian capitol.

PROTESTER: No one's here to hurt anything. We're just here to be heard.

ALMAGUER: The Canadian trucking alliance estimates just 10% of cross-border truckers are unvaccinated. In a blow to protesters, one source of funding has been cut off after GoFundMe said they'll return $9 million in donations citing unlawful activity.

POLICE CHIEF PETER SLOLY: We are turning up the heat in every way we possibly can within our operations and enforcement.

ALMAGUER: Today a Canadian judge signed an injunction to stop incessant honking as diesel fumes frustrate residents and shop owners alike.

SARAH CHOWN (RESTAURANT OWNER): It's difficult to breathe. You can't hear yourself think after an hour, you know, the headache is excruciating.

ALMAGUER: The 11-day protest now declared a state of emergency, with much of the city locked down in a blanket of gridlock. The mayor now asking for 2,000 additional police officers.

OTTAWA MAYOR JIM WATSON: What was initially described as a peaceful protest has now turned into a siege of our downtown area.

ALMAGUER: With reports of protests turning violent, Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau says there's no plan, for now, to call in the military to clear the streets.

PROTESTER: We gonna end these mandates, we gonna end these lockdowns.

ALMAGUER: Sarah Chown's restaurant is empty. The unprecedented occupation of Ottawa has a stranglehold on the economy.

CHOWN: People are struggling to pay their bills, pay their rent. They're begging to come in for work, but there's simply no work to be had right now.

ALMAGUER: For now, the White House says the chaos in Canada has not yet affected the fragile supply chain here in the U.S. But that could soon change. Lester?

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ABC, NBC Bemoan 'Insurrectionist' Freedom Convoy 'Occupying' Ottawa

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ABC and NBC continued their kvetching Monday over the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, Canada and their massive crowds protesting the socialist country's coronavirus vaccine mandate in order to cross the U.S./Canada border to deliver goods that keep our economies running.

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‘Slash The Tires’! CNN PSYCHO Lashes Out at Freedom Convoy

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Harvard professor, former Obama DHS official, and CNN national security analyst, Juliette Kayyem was channeling some real Carrie Underwood energy (Before He Cheats) as she took to Twitter Thursday to lash out at the Canadian Freedom Convoy, demanding that Canadian authorities “slash” their tires and…

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The protests for the freedom of truckers, farmers, and people from all walks of life continue.

Truckers from Canada blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Canada and the US.

Truckers block the Ambassador Bridge connecting Canada and the US. This bridge is the busiest international crossing in North America. More than 25% of trade between the United States and Canada passes through this border. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/jpoq0rqnlM

- Blue Collar Patriot (@MosesJericho) February 8, 2022

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Truck drivers in Alaska made their own " Alaska Freedom Convoy " on Sunday in support of Canadian truckers.

Alaska 'Freedom Convoy' held in support of Canadian truckers' 🇺🇸
pic.twitter.com/xg9E7PsqdP
- Art TakingBack 🇺🇸 (@ArtValley818_) February 7, 2022

Now, Hundreds or thousands of protestors drove in convoy to New Zealand's capital on Tuesday and blocked the parliament to protest against vaccine and mask mandates.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern refused to meet the convoy saying she has other priorities.

🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand Convoy pic.twitter.com/bUasMyY785

- Fede Rores (@FedeRores) February 6, 2022

🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND

FREEDOM CONVOY NZ 22 pic.twitter.com/mWA1CNXNUH

- Fede Rores (@FedeRores) February 6, 2022

More from Breitbart:

Vehicles in the convoy included cars, trucks and motorbikes and displayed signs such as "Jabcinda we know you sold your soul to the devil", "Stop the mandate #Freedom" and "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful."

A multitude of flags were also spotted alongside the NZ flags brandished by the protestors including the United States' flag, former President Donald Trump-themed flags, and British flags.

The vehicles remained outside New Zealand's Parliament - which had just reconvened after their summer break - for hours, and appear to have left the area peacefully later on in the day, with the Wellington police not reporting any arrests.

The key aims of the protest were reported to be to challenge the mask mandate for pupils in schools and also the vaccination requirement for certain public sector jobs such as for nurses, teachers and police officers.

After the anti-mandate protest in Parliament, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has sent a message to vaccinated New Zealanders claiming that these people aren't representative of the majority of Kiwis and "this too will pass," Newshub reported.

It can be recalled that a massive freedom convoy was organized outside parliament in Helsinki, Finland demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sanna Marin's government, cutting 50% of fuel tax, and an end to all COVID restrictions.

"CONVOY FINLAND 2022″ is expected to resume daily through Wednesday, February 9, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day.

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New Zealand Joins Canada and Finland - Convoy Blocks Parliament and Demands to End Vaccine and Mask Mandates

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The protests for the freedom of truckers, farmers, and people from all walks of life continue. Truckers from Canada blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Canada and the US. Truckers block the Ambassador Bridge connecting Canada and the US. This bridge is the busiest international crossing in North America.

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Freedom Convoy: Why Canadian truckers are protesting in Ottawa

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The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is protesting vaccine mandates but police are worried about fringe elements.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer: 'Time for the protestors to hear our jackboots on the ground.'

Rebel News/Twitter screenshot

OTTAWA ( LifeSiteNews) - A series of shocking text exchanges attributed to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) group chat reportedly displays members full of glee at using brutal force against Freedom Convoy members who were peacefully protesting the government's COVID-19 mandates.

Over the weekend, horrifying reports emerged from Canada's capital city showing police officers on horseback trampling protesters and callously injuring a disabled elderly woman while conservative journalists were savagely beaten and shot by police with a tear gas canister.
READ: Ottawa police on horseback trample freedom protesters
While Ottawa police repeatedly posted messages denying the use of strong-arm tactics, the RCMP private chat tells a completely different story.

Screenshots of the disturbing messages, obtained by Rebel News, show RCMP officers delighting in the over-the-top brutality of their fellow law enforcement officers.

"Time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground," RCMP officer Andrew Nixon wrote.

After officer Robin Thibault jokingly warned Nixon, "this is a kinder, gentler RCMP," Nixon responded, "Okay, we can give out free hugs and unicorn stickers."

In another posting, Nixon wrote, "Cheers crew! Here's to some sweet OT this weekend for our on call members. Don't kick all of them out until next weeks group gets our turn."

When a Facebook video showing police horses trampling peaceful protesters was posted, it was met with praise.

"That's awesome," Scott Peever wrote.

"We only think we're living the dream," Chris Russell said.

"That's what we need to do!" Nixon wrote.

READ: Conservative reporters beaten and shot by Ottawa police with gas canister gun
"Just watched that horse video- that is awesome!!!" Marca wrote. "We should practice that manoevre." Château Laurier. The hotel photos present a stark contrast to the harsh conditions the protesters endured as they've tried to catch the ear of Canadian government officials concerning the unreasonableness of COVID-19 mandates.

The authenticity of the messages was ostensibly verified in an official statement by the RCMP, saying "we are looking into the matter," and declaring "this material is not representative" of its members.

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Chrystia Freeland with George Soros Trudeau’s deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum and the granddaughter of a prominent Nazi, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent. Freeland made the announcement this week after Trudeau invoked the…