American truckers are following Canada’s lead and organizing a protest against vaccine mandates. The U.S. group’s Facebook page, however, was removed early Wednesday in a move that the organizer called “censorship at its finest.”
The group, titled “Convoy to D.C. 2022,” acted as a place for truckers to plan and coordinate their trek from California to Washington, D.C.
Jeremy Johnson, who set up the Facebook group, said his personal account was also removed, prompting him to contact a civil rights attorney to discuss the next steps.
“They like to silence people that speak the truth,” Johnson said of his Facebook ban.
A spokesperson for Facebook’s parent company, Meta, provided this statement to Fox News: “We have removed this group for repeatedly violating our policies around QAnon.” In October 2020, Facebook labeled QAnon a “violence-inducing conspiracy network” and announced group pages and admins tied to QAnon will be removed.
Brian Brase, co-organizer of the event, disputed the way Facebook characterized the group.
“I have to laugh about that. Can they contact me or something? Can we talk? That’s not true,” he asked on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. “They actually had offered the administrators to remove content and then request to review again. They didn’t even give that option.
“They literally wiped Mike Landis and Jeremy completely out of Facebook,” he said. “They don’t even have a profile anymore, so how are you supposed to request a review or remove anything?”
Landis, a trucker involved in the freedom convoy, told host Carley Shimkus that this movement is “a long time coming.” He said Americans are tired of the “government overreach” and criticized politicians for, as he believes, not following the Constitution.
“The presence of that amount of people that show that they are unhappy with what’s going on is a good way to hopefully get their attention,” he said.
Johnson and Brase anticipate a wide range of Americans, not only truckers, will come out to support their cause.
“This crosses all genders, all races, all sexual orientations, all occupations,” Brase said. “Truckers might be standing up, but it’s not about the truckers. It’s about America.”
The group’s goal is to end vaccine mandates through peaceful protests.
“The government needs to really take a look at what the American people want,” Johnson said. “And they don’t want mandates.”
HD Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last month condemned Big Tech’s politically biased censorship of Conservatives.
“Big Tech has become the censorship arm of the Democratic Party and political left, silencing and de-platforming anyone who rejects the chosen left-wing narrative,” the Governor Tweeted. “Silicon Valley oligarchs shouldn’t be the arbiters of free speech in our country. We must fight back!”
DeSantis was responding to information provided by the Heritage Foundation which revealed that conservatives are suspended from social media 21 times more often than Democrats, and Republicans in congress were censored at a ratio of 53 to one.
Jeremy Johnson the organizer of the US freedom convoy correctly summarize the problem with Tech companies like Facebook, by saying that “they like to silence people that speak the truth.”
2 Timothy 3:1, 8-9 states that “perilous times” will come in the time prior to the return of Christ in which “men of corrupt minds” will “resist the truth.”
Romans 1:18 similarly states that the “wrath of God is revealed from heaven against” those “who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” The word “hold” in this verse, comes from the Greek word “κατέχω,” which means to “hold back,” “restrain,” or “hinder.”
The freedom Convoy in Canada has sparked other countries to join in, creating convoys of their own.
Among those who have cheered on Canadian Truckers is Franklin Graham who wrote on Facebook:
I love these guys—Canadian truckers standing for freedom! Mat who has been in Ottawa all week made it clear when he told the media, “We’re not anti-vax, we’re not anti-anything other than anti-mandate…The message is freedom for every Canadian.” Another trucker said, “Give people their freedom back. Give people their lives back. Give people their choices back. We want freedom, we want our Canada back.” God bless them! If we don’t defend the liberties that are so important to us, they can be so quickly lost.
