You have no freedoms without freedom to transact

Or, differently, the right to property supports all of the other rights. If you can't own, use, buy, sell property, you have no freedom of speech, assembly, or any of the others.

How does property enter into the picture? Must you own the pen that writes?

I say: you give up your freedoms when you take them away from others.

In the case of the “truckers”, they already no longer had those freedoms once the government intervened, since they themselves had already taken away the residents’ with their illegal occupation.

So freedom just means power. Got it.