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   From: liamhardshell@bikerider.com   
      
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   >Rand Paul's convenient U-turn on protests   
   >February 13, 2022   
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   >As Canadian trucker protests against   
   >Covid-19 mandates continued into   
   >another week, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul   
   >said he hoped the convoy would move   
   >south to "clog" the streets of   
   >American cities.   
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   >With his vocal stance against Covid-19   
   >restrictions, Paul's support of the   
   >cause isn't surprising. But his sudden   
   >encouragement of civil disobedience is   
   >hypocritical politics at its best as   
   >he apparently roots for a protest that   
   >could cause higher inflation, harming   
   >his political opponents alongside   
   >everyday Americans.   
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   >This is the same Republican   
   >senator who has criticized   
   >Black Lives Matter activists,   
   >including after they disrupted   
   >a 2015 Bernie Sanders rally. In   
   >August 2020, when a group of BLM   
   >protesters yelled at Paul to   
   >acknowledge the Louisville police   
   >killing of Breonna Taylor, Paul   
   >responded by calling the activists   
   >an "angry ... crazed mob."   
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   >But if truck drivers and others   
   >were to descend upon American   
   >cities and disrupt daily life in   
   >protest of Covid-related mandates?   
   >Paul is "all for it."   
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   >https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/opinions/canada-truckers-protest-rand-pau   
   >l-obeidallah/index.html   
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