Chapter 75: Patriots

297     Barber was vaccinated  John G. Smith, “Freedom Convoy’s Chris Barber Takes Stand in Emergencies Act Hearing,” Truck News, November 1, 2022, www.trucknews.com/transportation/freedom-convoys-chris-barber-takes-stand-in-emergencies-act-hearing/1003170176.
 
297     “tyranny at its finest”  Chris Barber quoted in Maggie Parkhill, “Who Is Who? A Guide to the Major Players in the Trucker Convoy Protest,” CTV News, February 10, 2022, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/who-is-who-a-guide-to-the-major-players-in-the-trucker-convoy-protest.
 
297     in 167 . . . 133 of which . . .“white supremacist channels” Ciarán O’Connor, The Conspiracy Consortium: Examining Discussions of COVID-19 Among Right-Wing Extremist Telegram Channels, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2021, www.documentcloud.org/documents/21158735-the-conspiracy-consortium/?mode=document, 3.
 
297       engaged in active discussions of the . . . pandemic  O’Connor, The Conspiracy Consortium, www.documentcloud.org/documents/21158735-the-conspiracy-consortium/?mode=document, 3.
 
297     “downplayed the severity of COVID-19 . . .” O’Connor, The Conspiracy Consortium,www.documentcloud.org/documents/21158735-the-conspiracy-consortium/?mode=document, 3.
 
297     “COVID-19 has served as a catalyst for radicalization”  Ciarán O’Connor quoted in David Klepper and Lori Hinnant, “Far-Right Using COVID-19 Theories to Grow Reach, Study Shows,” Associated Press (AP) News, December 17, 2021, apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-race-and-ethnicity-europe-1952ea369c0f4afdb6d23c7706aaadc8.
 
297     connected with Pat King  Jordan Gowling and Mackenzie Gray, “Pat King Involved in Early Freedom Convoy Protest Planning, Court Documents Show,” CTV News, July 5, 2022, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/pat-king-involved-in-early-freedom-convoy-protest-planning-court-documents-show/.
 
297     had made a name . . . counterprotesting . . . in 2020 “Convoy Organizer Pat King to Remain in custody Until at Least Friday,” Sault Star, February 22, 2022, www.saultstar.com/news/convoy-organizer-pat-king-to-remain-in-custody-until-at-least-friday; Kevin Maimann, “Police Investigating After Hate Groups Invade Anti-Racism Rally,” VICE, September 22, 2020, www.vice.com/en/article/police-investigating-after-hate-groups-invade-anti-racism-rally; and Jim Storrie, “White Supremacists Attack Anti-Racist Rally in Red Deer,” Progress Report, September 22, 2020, www.theprogressreport.ca/progress_report_234.
 
297     recorded . . . tackling and slapping . . .  Maimann, “Police Investigating After Hate Groups Invade Anti-Racism Rally,” www.vice.com/en/article/police-investigating-after-hate-groups-invade-anti-racism-rally.
 
297     “That’s patriots kicking antifa out of their towns!”  Pat King quoted in Maimann, “Police Investigating After Hate Groups Invade Anti-Racism Rally,” www.vice.com/en/article/police-investigating-after-hate-groups-invade-anti-racism-rally.
 
297     campaigned for “Wexit”  Steven Zhou, “#Wexit Founders Are Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists,” VICE, October 30, 2019, www.vice.com/en/article/wexit-founders-are-far-right-conspiracy-theorists; and Robin Levinson-King, “Wexit: Why Some Albertans Want to Separate from Canada,” BBC News, October 11, 2019, www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49899113.
 
297     allowing “irregular border crossers” . . . “true-blooded Canadians”  Pat King quoted in Zhou, “#Wexit Founders Are Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists,” www.vice.com/en/article/wexit-founders-are-far-right-conspiracy-theorists.
 
297–298 then connected with Tamara Lich Gowling and Gray, “Pat King Involved in Early Freedom Convoy Protest Planning, Court Documents Show,” www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/pat-king-involved-in-early-freedom-convoy-protest-planning-court-documents-show/.
 
297–298 lived in . . . helped King on the Wexit campaign  Adrian Humphreys, “As Trucker Protest Shifts from Convoy to Siege on Parliament, a Struggle for Hearts, Minds and Message,” National Post, February 3, 2022, nationalpost.com/news/as-trucker-protest-shifts-from-convoy-to-siege-on-parliament-a-struggle-for-hearts-minds-and-message; and James Menzies, “The So-Called Freedom Convoy Was Never About Truckers, or Border Mandates,” Truck News, January 30, 2022, www.trucknews.com/blogs/the-so-called-freedom-convoy-was-never-about-truckers-or-border-mandates.
 
298     participated . . . “United We Roll” . . . approximately two hundred trucks  Humphreys, “As Trucker Protest Shifts from Convoy to Siege on Parliament, a Struggle for Hearts, Minds and Message,” nationalpost.com/news/as-trucker-protest-shifts-from-convoy-to-siege-on-parliament-a-struggle-for-hearts-minds-and-message; and Taylor Blewett, “United We Roll Protest: Truck Convoy Ends Hill Rally, Gears Up for Day 2,” Ottawa Citizen, February 20, 2019, updated February 21, 2019, . ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/united-we-roll-protest-what-to-expect-downtown-this-week.
 
298     rolled . . . to Parliament Hill   Blewett, “United We Roll Protest: Truck Convoy Ends Hill Rally, Gears Up for Day 2,” ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/united-we-roll-protest-what-to-expect-downtown-this-week.
 
298     protested against . . . on energy projects  Blewett, “United We Roll Protest: Truck Convoy Ends Hill Rally, Gears Up for Day 2,” ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/united-we-roll-protest-what-to-expect-downtown-this-week.
 
298     lasted a few days Dave Dormer, “United We Roll Convoy ‘100%’ Successful, Says Organizer, Despite Concerns Over Funds Raised,” CBC News, February 23, 2019, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-united-we-roll-convoy-organizer-1.5031454.
 
298     got to work organizing  Gowling and Gray, “Pat King Involved in Early Freedom Convoy Protest Planning, Court Documents Show, ”www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/pat-king-involved-in-early-freedom-convoy-protest-planning-court-documents-show/.
 
298     the first trucker convoy left Prince Rupert  Paul S. Rouleau, Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency, vol. 1 Public Order Emergency Commission, February 2023, publicorderemergencycommission.ca/files/documents/Final-Report/Vol-1-Report-of-the-Public-Inquiry-into-the-2022-Public-Order-Emergency.pdf, 37.
 
298     departed Delta Geoff Agombar, “Convoy Organizer Predicts 30,000 Trucks in Ottawa Next Week,” The Record, January 24, 2022, updated January 30, 2022, www.sherbrookerecord.com/convoy-organizer-predicts-30000-trucks-in-ottawa-next-week.
 
298     headed to Ottawa  On January 29, 2022, CBC News reported, “Streets in downtown Ottawa have been clogged with hundreds of vehicles, many of them transport trucks, and thousands of pedestrians who are congregating on Parliament Hill.” “Thousands of Vehicles, Pedestrians Arrive with Truck Convoy in Ottawa,” CBC News, January 29, 2022, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/navigating-ottawa-during-protest-convoy-1.6331704.
 
298     out of step with most Canadians  “Thousands in Ottawa Protest COVID Mandates, Many rebuked,” Associated Press (AP) News, January 30, 2022, apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-justin-trudeau-canada-45778ef0bdca45501411fb21066c46a0; and Clifton van der Linden and Alexander G W Beyer, “Analysis: Majority of Canadians Disagree with ‘Freedom Convoy’ on Vaccine Mandates and Lockdowns,” McMaster University, February 4, 2022, brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-majority-of-canadians-disagree-with-freedom-convoy-on-vaccine-mandates-and-lockdowns/.
 
298     “patriot movement”  Quoted in “How Tamara Lich Transformed from Spokeswoman to Symbol of ‘Freedom Convoy’ Movement,” CTV News, September 3, 2023, www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/how-tamara-lich-transformed-from-spokeswoman-to-symbol-of-freedom-convoy-movement.
 
298     “During my time at the Convoy . . .”  Tom Marazzo, X, January 30, 2024, 8:20 a.m., x.com/TomMarazzo/status/1752320774772228331, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/VI13b.
 
298     “with the convoy . . . was the best day of my life . . .”  Tom Marazzo, Twitter, January 30, 2024, 7:29 p.m., x.com/TomMarazzo/status/1752489151968993712, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/H0bDr.
 
298     “we as democrats and patriots will not be silenced”  Alice Weidel quoted in "AfD Leader Loses Case vs. German TV Show That Calls Her ‘Nazi bitch,’” Reuters, May 17, 2017, www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN18D296.
 
299     “have the nerve to resist . . .”  Renaud Camus, Le Grand Remplacement (Paris: Reinharc, 2011), trans. Grace Ashton, (unpublished translation), 65. Visit search.worldcat.org/es/title/Le-grand-remplacement/oclc/767578742to find this book at a library.
 
299       “patriotic sentiment”  Camus, Le Grand Remplacement, trans. Grace Ashton (unpublished translation), 65. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/es/title/Le-grand-remplacement/oclc/767578742.
 
299     helped . . . raise millions . . . on GoFundMe  Parkhill, “Who Is Who? A Guide to the Major Players in the Trucker Convoy Protest,” ktvz.com/news/2022/02/12/who-is-who-a-guide-to-the-major-players-in-the-trucker-convoy-protest/.
 
299       identified as the vice president of the convoy  Parkhill, “Who Is Who? A Guide to the Major Players in the Trucker Convoy Protest,” ktvz.com/news/2022/02/12/who-is-who-a-guide-to-the-major-players-in-the-trucker-convoy-protest/.  
 
299     ran for parliament . . . lost  Parkhill, “Who Is Who? A Guide to the Major Players in the Trucker Convoy Protest,” ktvz.com/news/2022/02/12/who-is-who-a-guide-to-the-major-players-in-the-trucker-convoy-protest/.  
 
299     joined Canada’s new great replacement party  Parkhill, “Who Is Who? A Guide to the Major Players in the Trucker Convoy Protest,” ktvz.com/news/2022/02/12/who-is-who-a-guide-to-the-major-players-in-the-trucker-convoy-protest/.