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Good morning Stroock's Books Commune.

Alert reader(s) may have noticed a second post last night from a Canadian known only as Citizen of Canuckstan. We are recruiting other foreigners as well and hope to make these overseas postings [Canada is in North America-Ed], a regular feature here.  Are you one of these people? Email us at wtstroock@yahoo.com. 

[How do we know these people are real? I mean, look at Qbi Wan-Ed]

Are you saying Qbi Wan is just an imaginary friend meant to mess with any feds who might be (and probably are) monitoring my comms and I just think the name Qbi Wan is hilarious?

[You really think the feds are reading your emails?-Ed]

They read Tucker's emails after he tried to get an interview with Putin, and I, you know, write for him too. 

[Tucker?-Ed.]

No, Putin.

We admit we're getting paranoid.

[Getting? Six months ago a black SUV pulled up to the house and you shouted, 'It's happening!' That nice young man delivered flowers-Ed.]

True.

[You checked the flowers for listening devises, didn't you?- Ed]

No comment.

In our research of the Kremlin [Again with the Russians?-Ed] we discovered that it's defended by a unit called The Kremlin Regiment. This is an ad-hoc force of soldiers who pass a rigorous test to join the regiment. During the Cold War they were very often combat vets. We're thinking we should give more space to this regiment and create a character to do so. Which is how scenes, books, entire series grow like weeds. We already have a couple of guys hanging around Lenin's Tomb wondering why choppers are approaching Red Square....

Which brings us to...Will Writes: One must avoid the urge to write about something just for the sake of showing off that one learned something cool. Tom Clancy did this, and it was one of the reasons his novels were seven, eight, nine hundred pages long. We did this in A Line Through the Desert. That Grafenwoehr gunnery scene is damn near unreadable, no? But it seemed so cool at the time. We found a guy who used to run the gunnery exercises, and a couple of guys were on the range the day Iraq invaded Kuwait. We even got our hands on physical copies of the gunnery tables. So what one reads there is the way it was.

What Will's Watching, or should we say, what the actual fuck? The Book of Boba Fett Chapter-6 was another episode of The Mandalorian with Luke and Baby Yoda thrown in. The Luke and Baby Yoda scenes were really blatant masturbatory fan service. 'Yoda once told me...' Did you at least get five bucks for that hand job? Jesus. BoBF is bad and Lucas Films knows it. 1/4

From the Foreign Desk: Sir John A. MacDonald

CANADA, Citizen of Canuckstan - “Silence is Violence” was the mantra of the Black Lives Matter protesters last year. For the BLM protest in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out and took a knee to show his support. When churches were being burned across Canada to protest a “recently found mass grave” on the grounds of a former residential school, Trudeau called the church burnings “understandable”. We have since learned that there may be no mass grave at all.

Trudeau instituted a vaccine mandate for all truckers crossing the US border into Canada. He has further said that he will impose a vaccine mandate for any truckers crossing provincial borders. Now, the truckers have come to Ottawa to protest. Trudeau tarred them as racists, white supremacists and every other left wing boogeyman you can think of, and refused to meet with them. So they have stayed for almost two weeks. Trudeau has fled the capital. The Ottawa police have admitted that the protesters are calling the shots. A raid to try and move them out Sunday night has pretty much failed. Ottawa city council wants to put together a class action lawsuit against the trucker protesters. Tow truck companies are refusing to tow the protesters vehicles. GoFundMe tried to seize their funds.

And this is spreading. Coutts, Alberta, a major crossing on the US-Canada border is blocked. The police have been unable to move them and people have breached police lines to join them. There have been trucker protests in Vancouver (the mayor has told them to protest and get out), Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Sarnia, London (Ontario), Quebec City and Halifax. And those are only the places there have been some reports about. Farmers are joining.

I don’t think Trudeau will back down. He’s been made to look weak. This is a Prime Minister who simply cannot handle anyone disagreeing with him. It’s the way he’s been raised. So I think this will spread further. So far, it’s been largely peaceful. Air horns and honking are annoying but most protests are loud anyway. At this point the military is sitting things out and considering how far this has spread, it’s unlikely they could stop it anyway. 67 000 troops in the entire military, counting the Air Force and Navy. What will they do, try to put the protesters under the guns of HMCS Charlottetown? I’m not sure they could get it up the Ottawa river. There have been 4 arrests in Ottawa and apparently 2 of them were Ottawa citizens threatening the protesters. Compare that to Occupy Wall Street or the CHOP zone.

I hope this will spread the to the US. Get your convoy together sooner rather than later. Remind your neighbours that while silence is violence, air horns are anarchy.