Freedom truckers in DC would be asking for trouble: It's a laudable demonstration, but they'll take substantial legal risks, likely with meager chances of meaningful success

American Thinker ^ | 02/25/2022 | William Marbury

[SeekAndFind]

According to reports, a copycat trucker convoy intends to visit Washington, D.C. I suggest they rethink their plans. The participants will be incurring great risk for minimal, if any, potential benefit.

First, the risk. The police, prosecutors, judges, and indeed the jury pool in the District of Columbia are so partisan that Republicans and constitutional conservatives can be arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed without having committed any crime. Indeed, it appears from the example of the January 6 prisoners that they can be jailed indefinitely without the legal system even bothering about prosecution or conviction.

On the other hand, Democrats and leftists will not likely be arrested, and if arrested, not likely prosecuted, and if prosecuted, not likely convicted, and if convicted, not likely to get meaningful punishment. Knowing this, they can act provocatively with little fear of being called to account for any crime they may commit during the provocation. This double-whammy of one-sidedness in the criminal "justice" system creates great legal risk for any Republican or constitutional conservative who may set foot or wheel within the geographic boundaries of the District of Columbia.

As to potential benefit, a demonstration requires two things to be effective: some warm bodies to show up in public and lots of sympathetic publicity. Because of the nature of the corporate media, any freedom-supporting trucker convoy will never get the sympathetic publicity necessary for an effective demonstration. Instead, the "mainstream" media will demonize the demonstrators. Admittedly, this is gradually changing with the emergence of alternative media and distribution of information via the internet, but this is not yet sufficient in scale to outweigh the mass effects of the corporate media. Too many apathetic Americans still rely on the alphabet media and the New York Times echo chamber.

[SuperLuminal]

Good old American Stinker...
As usual, shriveling up into the journalistic fetal position and spewing mewling de facto support for the tyrants who now rule us...

IOW, truckers, keep your trouble-making mouths shut and follow our communist master's rules:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...

[gitmo]

Sounds like conservatives should stay home until they die.