CNN calls Freedom Convoy protest ‘sedition,’ ‘threat to democracy’

CNN joined other media outlets in criticizing the ongoing protests in Canada against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions.

The “Freedom Convoy” initially began on Jan. 23 when hundreds of big rig trucks left Vancouver, British Columbia to travel to Ottawa, where they arrived on Saturday. There, thousands of Canadians joined the truckers in protesting against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s coronavirus policies.

CNN’s “Inside Politics” discussed the protestors, which had entered its second week, on Monday’s episode. Host John King quickly labeled the Freedom Convoy as “a nationwide insurrection.”

“The state of emergency in place in Ottawa where the police chief says COVID protests are ‘a nationwide insurrection driven by madness.’ Thousands of Canadians, you see the pictures there, protesting vaccine mandates. It started with the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ led by truckers protesting a new mandate requiring vaccines in order to enter the country,” King said.

CNN correspondent Paula Newton followed up comparing the convoy to “sedition” and “a threat to democracy.”

“And just think of the language. I know it sounds familiar to you. A threat to democracy. An insurrection, sedition. I want to be clear things have quieted down a bit, but that does not take away from the basic truck in, right, the sit-in that’s going in right in front of the national parliament,” Newton said.- READ MORE