About 100 people, including two horses and riders and a goat, braved the cold and snow to march through downtown Kincardine, Saturday afternoon, as part of the World Wide Rally for Freedom.
Led by Carol Blake and Lisa Carney, both of Kincardine, on their horses, and Blake’s goat, “Mizzy,” the group gathered in the municipal parking lot behind the main street, and then walked through the alley to Queen Street where it travelled north through the downtown to Tim Hortons, back south through downtown to Kincardine Avenue, and then returned to the parking lot behind Queen Street.
Blake and Carney rode their horses through the Tim Hortons drive-thru and requested coffee, but were refused service because they weren’t wearing masks.
Just prior to the march, Ruth Bell of Kincardine told the group that the peaceful protest is about freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and freedom of health.
“We cannot allow our inalienable human rights to be re-packaged as human privileges, to be conditioned upon compliance with authoritarian-mandated vaccine passports,” she said. “Any mandates that are violating informed consent must be stopped, through legal and public push-back.”
The group believes the following:
Lockdowns and border closures have caused increased suicide rates and destroyed livelihoods, causing financial ruin.
Excessive COVID-19 (Coronavirus) restriction measures must come to an end, and all state-of-emergency declarations, enabling these measures, must be repealed.
Tyrannical suppression of dissenting voices must be stopped, and peaceful citizen assembly must be respected.
“We have had our bodily autonomy violated by mask mandates, restricting our ability to breathe and speak freely,” said Blake. “All mask mandates must end.
“As one united, and peaceful community, we will stand up and demand an end to the current restrictions and authoritarian control measures. Authoritarian Coronavirus restrictions have damaged our lives more than any virus has, and even if the effects of the virus were more damaging, the restrictions to our freedoms would still have been unjust and unlawful.
“Our fundamental freedoms have top priority, and we cannot allow them to become constrained, for the sake of the generations that follow us.
“Throughout history, humanity has been tried and tested in difficult times, but in the end, freedom always wins. We stand for the rights of all people to push back against infringements against their freedoms.”
January 24, 2022
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