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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, wants to see truckers stage a Canadian-style protest in America, saying he hopes they “clog things up” with a demonstration against pandemic mandates.
“I hope the truckers do come to America. I hope they clog up cities,” said Mr. Paul in a Friday interview with the Daily Signal.
His comments came amid reports that the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring efforts to hold a trucker protest on Super Bowl Sunday in Los Angeles, as well as launch a convoy from California to Washington.
“I’m all for it,” Mr. Paul said. “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
Mr. Paul, a physician, is a longtime critic of government mask and vaccination mandates. In 2020, he famously refused to wear a mask at the Capitol after recovering from COVID-19, citing his natural immunity.
He said the U.S. government deserves some of the blame for the Canadian pushback against emergency pandemic orders, touched off by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vaccination mandate for truckers reentering Canada from the south, which went into effect Jan. 15.
“And some of this, we started,” Mr. Paul said. “We put [COVID-19] mandates on truckers coming across the border from Canada so then they put mandates on, and the truckers are annoyed. They’re riding in a cab by themselves, most of them, for eight, 10-hour long hauls, and they just want to do what they want to do. It’s their own business.”
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