So Remember Those Truckers Who Were Going To Block DC Traffic And Arrest Politicians? LOL
So Remember Those Truckers Who Were Going To Block DC Traffic And Arrest Politicians? LOL
Earlier in the week, Georgia trucker Earl Conlon told U.S. News And World Report that the following would occur this Friday in Washington D.C. as part of a rally called “Truckers Ride for the Constitution.”
[T]ractor-trailer drivers will circle the beltway “three lanes deep” as he rides with other participants to Congress to seek the arrest of congressmen for allegedly disregarding the Constitution.
The truckers circling I-495 will keep the left lane open for emergency vehicles, Conlon said, but “everybody that doesn’t have a supporter sticker on their window, good luck: Nobody in, nobody out.” The trucks will be going the 55 mile-per-hour speed limit.
D.C. commuters who wish to be allowed past the convoy must have “T2SDA” – an acronym for the event’s original name, “Truckers to Shut Down America” – written on their vehicle, he said.
“It’s going to be real fun for anyone who is not a supporter,” Conlon said, “[and] if cops decide to give us a hard time, we’re going to lock the brakes up, we’re going to stop right there, we’re going to be a three lane roadblock.”
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Conlon cited the idea of a citizens grand jury – meaning a pool of jurors convened without court approval – as the mechanism for indicting the officials.
“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.”
http://www.thesuperficial.com/truckers-washington-dc-threat-a-hoax-10-2013#more-2481732
The Senator Cruz example of green eggs.
Except what sounded like an incredible recipe for watching 18-wheelers get launched off the highway for being anti-teamster idiots (Proof: They think exactly like Michele Bachmann.) is suddenly being back-pedaled as just a hoax because here’s Earl telling the Washington Post the whole thing was to “ruffle some feathers.”
“The comments to U.S. News were designed to do one thing and one thing only: stir the feather of the mainstream media,” said Conlon, a father of three. “Nothing gets the attention of the mainstream media like some sort of disastrous threat. I knew it was going to ruffle some feathers.”
So while thousands of truckers may indeed come to Washington on Friday and many of them may travel along the inner loop of the Beltway, honking their horns, they won’t intentionally shut down traffic, he said.
“First of all, we know it would not be right to go to D.C. to lock down the city by the Belt loop,” said Conlon, 50, a veteran truck driver who has suffered through more than his share of traffic jams. “That wouldn’t be fair to the people there.”
And Conlon is not sure that he will even make it to town Friday.
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It even shows a photograph of trucks blocking traffic. (I realize a photograph is not definitive proof )
A little further digging.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/11/truck-convoy-protest-causing-traffic-problems-on-capital-beltway/
But WNEW’s John Domen, who began following the trucks as they drove north past a truck stop on Interstate-95 in Dumfries, Va., said trucks were taking up all four lanes of the Inner Loop of the Beltway in Annandale, Va. and had slowed to 10 mph, blocking traffic from getting by.
A Virginia State Police officer approached the small convoy and pulled over one truck to the shoulder. The other three trucks also pulled over to the side of the road near Exit 52A. After speaking with police, the trucks resumed their drive along the Beltway at about 40 mph. The posted speed limit for the entire 64-mile length of the interstate is 55 mph.
Now, that said, they're idiots. But we've seen what useful idiots have done over the past several years goaded on by the likes of Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. I think they should be kept track of (not spied on) rather than dismissed.
Yeah, lets stick it to the man by blocking the fucking road 
All they would have achieved is pissing off people trying to get home to their family.
The whole thing is a stupid idea. Take it to the people you have a problem with, morons.
