Truckers plan 3-day slowdown on D.C. Beltway

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Truckers plan 3-day slowdown on D.C. Beltway

Brace yourselves, Washington, D.C., drivers. Angry truckers are coming to town Friday as part of a three-day protest to "shut down America" and "restore our Constitutional Republic."

Enraged by low wages, fuel prices, regulations, the government shutdown, the debt ceiling, President Obama and "the corruption that is destroying America," the "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" aims to tie up three lanes of Interstate 495 circling the nation's capital, with big rigs traveling 55 mph, an organizer told U.S. News & World Report.

Last week, one of the promoters said 3,000 truckers had said they planned to participate in the holiday-weekend rally. Two convoys reportedly will leave from the Doswell Truck Stop in Doswell, Va.

The "general strike" seeks to enlist sympathetic motorists — and will let them pass if they display the group's calling card: T2SDA, which stands for "Truckers to Shut Down America," the original name.

The group behind the rally, "Ride for the Constitution," said in a news release that the "stage is now set for what we now consider the last peaceful defensive stand in a war that has been declared by Wall Street, Washington, and the Whitehouse upon the American people."

But a Georgia trucker handling logistics, Earl Conlon, told U.S. News & World Report that he and other truckers would block the highway if police intervened and that they also would try to arrest members of Congress for disregarding the Constitution.

"We want these people arrested, and we're coming in with the grand jury to do it," he said. "We are going to ask the law enforcement to uphold their constitutional oath and make these arrests. If they refuse to do it, by the power of the people of the United States and the people's grand jury, they don't want to do it, we will. ... We the people will find a way."​

In a statement posted to its Facebook page Monday evening, the Truckers Ride said Conlon did not speak for the group.

Folks, here's the entire scoop on US News & World Report attempting to get a sensational title from someone not authorized to speak on behalf of all peaceful protesters. As we approach the event, this is what we can expect from the MSM and potential saboteurs --- but NOTHING will stop us!

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source: Truckers plan 3-day slowdown on D.C. Beltway

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Police say a convoy of about 30 trucks began traveling north on Interstate 95 from Doswell, Va., on Friday morning. The truckers are circling the Beltway.

However, the presence was not quite the thousands of truckers that organizers had predicted, or the ten thousand Fox News had asserted. On Friday morning, just a handful of people had showed up at a key staging area.

Thirty trucks is indeed not thousands of trucks—the math checks out, though there have already been some attempts Twitter unskewing of the number by posting an old picture of a Make-a-Wish trucker convoy and claiming success.

The conservative trucker rebellion was a bit dodgy from the outset.


The organizers are a motley crew of conspiracy theorists, including one who believes that Osama Bin Laden was Barack Obama in a Hollywood-created, CIA-provided disguise, because they both have the same "bone structure" and are both left handed, and a radio host who is an avid 9/11 conspiracy theorist and who promised a "bloody battle" if the trucker protest was not sufficiently successful in … dissuading the government from confiscating all the guns, or something. It's not clear.


So presuming about 10,000 more conservative truck-drivers do not appear out of thin air anytime soon, it would appear that the conservative trucker protest is, like most other bits of the movement these days, a failed plot based on a collection of conspiracy theories whose naturally invisible successes will be retold by the group in future conspiracy theories. A bit unnerving to think that these thirty-ish people drive trucks around our highways on a daily basis, but there you go.