Freedom Convoy Books Start to Roll

By John Goddard

People will say years from now that they went to Ottawa to demonstrate with the Freedom Convoy. They will describe the giant trucks, the carnival spirit, the disturbing intransigence of a haughty prime minister, and the brutal government-empowered police crackdown that marked the protests as a political watershed in Canadian history.

Benjamin Dichter and I are writing a book. Benjamin served as the official spokesperson for the Freedom Convoy. He also helped Tamara Lich float the ill-fated GoFundMe campaign, which raised the first $10 million in support, and he helped pioneer a Bitcoin crowdfunding operation that received support from Bitcoiners from around the world. When all else failed, a group of bitcoin activist on the ground delivered assets directly to a core contingent of Freedom Convoy truckers. Benjamin is telling me his story of what it was like to be at the centre of the biggest news event of the pandemic, a combined grassroots movement and political awakening. The book will be out this fall in time for Christmas.

For people who couldn’t really be there, the first convoy books are ready to crib from. One is a Dr. Seuss parody, riding high on the Amazon Canada bestseller list, called How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom. It portrays an unnamed prime minister with lovely hair reacting to news of a convoy of vaccine-mandate protesters. “My dear assistant listen to me,” he says, “these truckers are a small fringe minority!”

Two other titles are hot off the presses. One is The Freedom Convoy, by journalist Andrew Lawton of the online news network True North. He tells a straightforward, balanced story of how the convoy idea originated and how it manifested so powerfully for three weeks at in the nation’s capital. The book recognizes the key players, chronicles the main events, and does a good job debunking much of the slanderous nonsense published and broadcast by corporate news organizations.

The Freedom Convoy by Andrew Lawton - Available in select book stores

Witness to Deceit, by Tom Quiggin, drills into the deceptions and outright lies that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some of his senior cabinet ministers perpetrated on the Canadian people and the Canadian Parliament. Quiggin was part of the convoy’s organizational team. Using his background as an intelligence analyst for the Canadian military, he wrote daily intelligence briefings on developments, which he posted online and handed out directly to truckers parked in the downtown streets. Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, Quiggin concludes, “more out of spite and vindictiveness than any degree of necessity.”

Eyewitness to Deceit by Tom Quiggin - Available on Amazon

Our book will be available in time for the Government of Canada report outlining why the emergencies act was authorized and under whose authorization Canadian Citizens bank accounts were frozen.