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Truckers in the DC Convoy: Please don’t come
American Thinker ^ | 26 Feb, 2022 | James Simpson

Posted on 02/26/2022 4:11:01 AM PST by MtnClimber

I am with you in spirit, but Biden and the Democrats are salivating over the opportunity this will give them to turbocharge the “domestic terrorist” narrative they have been promoting following the fake, contrived, January 6 “insurrection".

This is to my friends in the trucking community. Don’t come to DC in your convoy. Biden and the Democrats are salivating over the opportunity this will give them to turbocharge the “domestic terrorist” narrative they have been promoting following the fake, contrived, January 6 “insurrection” which they very likely orchestrated, jail some of you and further sabotage the economy.

I fully understand and agree with your very valid concerns over their treatment of America and am with you in spirit. Everything from the failed Afghanistan withdrawal and their disastrous open borders policy, to shutting down American oil production, sabotaging our supply chain with insane regulations, right up to Biden’s inept handling of the Ukrainian crisis, has been a deliberate effort to undermine and destroy America. It is impossible to consider this as mere incompetence. They are doing it on purpose.

But you will be helping them. And it will not end well. El Comandante Trudeau (Castro Jr.?) has already set the table. Arresting, jailing and confiscating the property of Truckers and anyone who helps them is a precedent already set by our kindly northern neighbors.

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To: MtnClimber

Come or not, the agitators will again show up to pretend to be protesters in order to tarnish the group and the message.


21 posted on 02/26/2022 4:46:10 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t think it matters if they come or not.

The fed can send in a few trucks into DC that morning, cause problems and blame it on the convoy. The MSM will follow their lead.

The convoy is well aware what the feds can do and from what I’ve read they just plan to circle the beltway and NOT go into D.C.

I hope they do come. The optics of tons of people standing on the beltway overpasses cheering them on would be a giant “Let’s Go Brandon”


22 posted on 02/26/2022 4:48:13 AM PST by lizma2
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To: MtnClimber

See my tagline.....
Stand up for your beliefs or hide in a hole like Hussain did.


23 posted on 02/26/2022 4:49:32 AM PST by magyars4 (To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men!)
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To: MtnClimber

I heard someone suggest………
What if the truckers maybe didn’t go into DC, but just surrounded it, blocking off the roads into DC, leaving narrow openings so that individual cars and emergency vehicles could get through but truck deliveries would be difficult. They could watch for any trucks displaying Nazi, confederate, etc flags and tear them down, force them out…. Make a big show of “we don’t like them, they are not us”.

They would be able to make a visible and powerful peaceful statement, show DC what it would be like to get no deliveries into town for a month…. More like setting an example or lesson, exercising their free speech rights, rather than making an ultimatum. And afterwards, leaving peacefully all together yet leaving the message of, “ don’t tread on us”.

Like the historical Boston Tea Party, the patriots didn’t stay after making their statement (tossing the tea) then stand in place with an ultimatum. They made their point and then left, leaving the rulers to think about the ramifications.


24 posted on 02/26/2022 4:51:34 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: MtnClimber

Time for the sunshine patriots to stfu and gtfo of the way.


25 posted on 02/26/2022 4:52:02 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: MtnClimber

It is really a strategic conundrum.

Be seen or not to be heard.

A general strike? Press just blames it on the supply chain shortage or now...the war in Ukraine.

A visible protest? Lose your truck, bank account, potentially your job and/or be arrested under “terrorism” laws.

It really is a bad situation our country finds itself in. First Amendment is failing. First it was shadow banning, then outright banning under ever changing TOS, to the concerns we are talking about right on this thread. We are being shutdown and removed from polite society.

We are being silenced.


26 posted on 02/26/2022 4:58:20 AM PST by EBH (Hold My Beer. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: MtnClimber

I say bring it on, for it will awaken even more people. We must show the people what they are planning and what will be disastrous even for people not involved, as well as ,those who may be against it.


27 posted on 02/26/2022 4:59:43 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: MtnClimber

I’m a trucker. I don’t get it. US truckers do not have the federally-mandated burdens that the Canadian truckers were recently protesting, but they’re heading to Washington to get 1/6’d for following the failed, naive Canadian convoy protest model. Why, exactly?

Nobody has to show up with the wrong kind of flag. Watch what happens if someone dies because an ambulance, firetruck, or police vehicle got gridlocked on the Beltway due to people with no coherent aims or plan deciding to stage a shiny spectacle.


28 posted on 02/26/2022 5:01:10 AM PST by Iowa Slim
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To: MtnClimber

“Biden and the Democrats are salivating over the opportunity this will give them to turbocharge the “domestic terrorist” narrative they have been promoting following the fake, contrived, January 6 “insurrection” which they very likely orchestrated, jail some of you and further sabotage the economy. “

...and we give Putin crap for cracking down on protesters.


29 posted on 02/26/2022 5:02:44 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Skwor

“Just saying stay inactive is not a solution”

I agree. This at least displays that the people can and will organize if pushed into a corner.


30 posted on 02/26/2022 5:03:09 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MtnClimber

Tamara Lich is still in jail without bail charged with ‘ counseling to commit mischief’.
I think the Truckers in this convoy have watched and learned. There are no plans to go to DC. The fight should be with the states. (CDC is setting policy but has lost all credibility). Now as the trucks begin to move mandates are being dropped. I don’t care if they mean to discredit the convoy, it’s working still.
PS. Outlaw this:
“The World Heath Organization, which had such a great pandemic, wants to ‘facilitate’ its 194 member states to introduce digital vaccination certificates. To do so it’s setting up a ‘gateway’ to standardize the issuing of QR codes that confer privileged health status to their owner. Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has been chosen as an industry partner to develop the vaccination validation services.”
https://telecoms.com/513608/dt-chosen-to-help-create-global-heath-passport/


31 posted on 02/26/2022 5:05:56 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: MtnClimber

I sort of agree, I think the best solution would be for the Truckers to just QUIT and go on Strike, NO DELIVERIES of Anything within 100 miles of DC.


32 posted on 02/26/2022 5:07:51 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: joma89

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33 posted on 02/26/2022 5:14:34 AM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: eyeamok

Striking is good. Why not just circle the beltways, 395 and 495 for a couple days. The deep staters will get the idea and nobody will be arrested or lose their truck.


34 posted on 02/26/2022 5:15:59 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: Iowa Slim

It is not just about the mandates Driver... It is against all the government overreach and loss of freedoms, if allowed to fly it will open the door for more garbage. For instance and example, why should commercial drivers have to take a sleep apnea test/study to pass the medical? Who is going to be driving while they are asleep??? It is an illogical unneeded burden. Time to put this garbage to a stop.


35 posted on 02/26/2022 5:17:11 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MtnClimber

The Surrender Caucus chimes in.

L


36 posted on 02/26/2022 5:17:53 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: joma89

“When” to fight is key. The world is on edge as NATO braces for war, Putin making ominous hints of nuclear retaliation, gallant citizens are battling Ruskies for the future of their country and the truckers want to make a convoy now???


37 posted on 02/26/2022 5:19:47 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: Pollard

Pollard wrote: “I think they should be going to state capitols in the states they live in. State governments need to grow a pair anyway. Just look at the 2020 elections with repub legislators letting others usurp their Constitutional power of being in charge of elections.”

Interesting idea. Might have more impact, multiple locations, targeted on local politicians. Health care mandates are imposed by local politicians. Avoids the stigma of blocking traffic. And, travelling to local capitols is far less expensive than travelling cross country.


38 posted on 02/26/2022 5:23:27 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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I am with you in spirit …
No you aren’t.
39 posted on 02/26/2022 5:29:38 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: MtnClimber

Giving up, and hiding under your bed is always a winning strategy.


40 posted on 02/26/2022 5:43:05 AM PST by euram
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