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The Beginning (Barstow Truck Convoy)
tldavis.substack.com ^ | 23 Feb, 2022 | T. L.Davis

Posted on 02/23/2022 9:51:49 AM PST by MtnClimber

(Text from e-mail, Source Link to status video)

After driving all night and half of the next day, I sat in the car, looking out at the scene of the People’s Convoy; dirt parking lots, lots of wind in excess of 45 mph, making whatever efforts I made to record or evaluate the crowd meaningless. When people can’t hear each other talk for the whistling of the wind, it’s difficult to do an interview and if I were like the others, who were only going to be there that day, I would have gotten the interviews anyway, but I’m with the convoy for the long haul.

At the end of that frustrating day, however, I felt as if none of it mattered. Yes, after all I had been through to get there, it felt empty, hollow, because I realized that when they decide to jail us all, the feds would sweep through without an ounce of resistance and the United States as a people would shrug and go about their business. As I thought about it more, sitting in the cold car, I realized that when this freedom is gone, the last bit of it while they gather all of their intelligence on who is there, where they are parked, what they are saying and soon, what they’re thinking, what will they have achieved but the death of everything that makes the world a unique and interesting place?

Government is a machine that searches for power, constantly on the prowl, tipping over trash cans, pushing on doors to see if they’re open, like a mechanical bear. It’s insatiable; always, always, more and more. Until it empties the world of creativity and innovation through enforced common thought. You don’t get both, sorry. One or the other, power or dynamic, free intelligence. So, it continues on, without thought, without inspiration. Government thinks that it’s supporting ingenuity and creativity because it looks for unique ways to achieve more power; all of human intelligence grinding along looking for that one extra ounce from some newly discovered source.

Our labor pays for their ability to censor us and force us closer and closer to our labor as the only value of a human being. The mind that can see their faults is not tolerated, so the mind that can create something beautiful is censored. It’s a constant, downward spiral that the governmental machine cannot see, feel or hear for the pounding of the pistons forming power from the raw freedom.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; downer; iylm
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1 posted on 02/23/2022 9:51:49 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I hope that they are not already compromised by FBI infiltrators that will perform the violent acts that will be blamed on the truck protest and that they could be wrongly charged with.


2 posted on 02/23/2022 9:51:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Barstow to Vegas, what a trip.


3 posted on 02/23/2022 9:54:07 AM PST by mylife (A Bunker : the closer people get to me , the more they want to kill me.)
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To: MtnClimber

Video is 6 min.


4 posted on 02/23/2022 9:55:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Barstow, CA.

Not Bartow, FL.

5.56mm


5 posted on 02/23/2022 9:55:55 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: MtnClimber

fi bbies have
“set the Table.”
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,,,wise as Serpants,
Gentle as Doves.


6 posted on 02/23/2022 9:57:36 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: MtnClimber

multiple live streams in one
https://odysee.com/@Snickerpie:b/FreedomConvoyProtest:b


7 posted on 02/23/2022 9:59:09 AM PST by conservativeimage (Spark up a fire. Light up this place. Burn out this darkness and tear down the fear.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Adelanto California
To
Kingman AZ.

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Giddy-up!


8 posted on 02/23/2022 10:01:15 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: MtnClimber

Proton Mail
Signal


9 posted on 02/23/2022 10:01:25 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: MtnClimber

Man, is he a Debbie Downer

What does he think was going through the minds of the farmers in Lexington and Concord in 1775?

https://www.revolutionary-war.net/the-battle-of-concord/


10 posted on 02/23/2022 10:01:31 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: MtnClimber

Barstow is a good place to leave.


11 posted on 02/23/2022 10:03:24 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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[rant]

Who named this the "People's Convoy"? Sounds communist.

[/rant]

12 posted on 02/23/2022 10:04:42 AM PST by VinnieCCT
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To: MtnClimber

It’s not Barstow. Adelanto. South of Barstow.


13 posted on 02/23/2022 10:04:55 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Big Red Badger; Openurmind

Kingman got a LOVES Truckstop?


14 posted on 02/23/2022 10:05:14 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: MtnClimber

I say a strategy is not to stop or park. just go slow. oick several routes to clog the streets.


15 posted on 02/23/2022 10:08:01 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: MtnClimber

These two just joined the convoy

https://thelibertydaily.com/the-american-truckers-freedom-convoy-just-added-two-powerful-conservatives-to-their-ranks/


16 posted on 02/23/2022 10:18:41 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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Government is necessary. It is woven into our existence. You can’t not have government.

So we strive relentlessly for good government. Or less bad government. When you sit in your truck at the convoy you sit with John Hancock and Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

More significantly you sit with thousands of nameless men who suffered and even died while with them. No statues of them, little record. They are the true heroes.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.


17 posted on 02/23/2022 10:23:41 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: dforest

16 posts before a CW McCall reference...

looks like we got us a convoy...

clean clear to flag town, c’mon?


18 posted on 02/23/2022 10:25:11 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: teeman8r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA


19 posted on 02/23/2022 10:28:10 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: MtnClimber

My Guess: They will not be allowed to enter DC.


20 posted on 02/23/2022 10:34:24 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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