In a unpredictable development, an upsurge in exports of the Freedom Truckers Convoy model is trending worldwide . The Canadian export of this brand is catching on internationally. Observers are commenting that they didn’t think Canadians had it in them to have such a home grown bunch of disruptive unapologetic bullies capable of attracting like minded far right tacticians around the globe.
Another successful Canadian export product that was deemed a terrorist organization and outlawed by the Great Dominion: The Proud Boys is doing extremely well on the international far right stage of their own hateful volition with style conscious macho threads.
Many are surprised by this market appeal, more than a few are not.
Following text source: Excerpted from POLITICO Feb 6/22
First Canada, next the world It’s not every day that Canada becomes the red-hot center of a global protest movement.
But what started as a rally of Canadian truckers angry at cross-border vaccine mandates has fast become a magnet for far-right grievances around the world.
Similar “convoys” are now being organized across the U.S.
Since early February, similar protests have also sprouted up across Europe — often using encrypted Telegram channels and country-specific hashtags under which supporters can rally.
Far-right groups have taken advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to tap into the anti-government rhetoric of the anti-vaccine movement, repeatedly posting claims in these social media channels in favor of their extremist beliefs, based on POLITICO’s analysis of six months of social media activity.
Upcoming convoys are being planned in all 27 European Union countries. Organizers are also preparing to descend on Brussels — home to the EU’s main institutions — in force on Feb. 14.
