The 30-mile-long People’s Convoy is circling the Washington D.C. Beltway in protest at “unconstitutional” coronavirus restrictions, such as mask and vaccine mandates. MailOnline has more.
The self-styled freedom convoy departed from the speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland Sunday morning on a journey to parade the 64-mile highway surrounding the capital city.
“Hold the line,” organiser Brian Brase told the crowd of drivers before they headed out, instructing them to stay with the protest.
“I beg of you to stay with the convoy. I beg of you to stay with the convoy and then come back down here, meet again and talk about our next plan.’
Brase, who was met with applause, added: “We are not going to sit idly by. We are going to continue to press forward with our mission, but we are also going to do so with some diplomacy to show that we are not unreasonable and willing to talk, but also flex our muscle if you do not hear us.”
The group plans to circle the Beltway twice – a route that should take about four to five hours. Drivers were reminded to maintain safe distances, speeds of approximately 40 to 50 miles per hour and to be mindful of possible rainy weather conditions.
The convoy is reportedly cooperating with state and local law enforcement and does not plan to cause havoc in the area. Authorities had previously voiced concerns that the trucker protest could result in chaos similar to the January 6th Capitol riot.
Brase told the Washington Post Friday night that the group would continue its route around the Beltway each day this week, clogging one of the main arteries into DC until the group’s demands are met. However, as of Saturday morning, he indicated that plans will be determined day-by-day.
Another organiser did not rule out the trucks honking their horns along Pennsylvania Avenue.
“I can tell you now that there will be select trucks going to the White House,” organiser Dan Fitzgerald revealed on his Friday morning livestream. “I don’t want people thinking we are invading D.C. This is not the convoy going into D.C. commons. This is a few select drivers.”
“Today, we decided that we are going to go on to the Beltway,” Brase said to the crowd of cheering supporters Sunday morning in Hagerstown.
“We are going to do this peacefully, we’re going to do this with some class. We’re going to do this the way that we’ve done it coming all the way across the country. We’re not going to shut anything down today. We’re just going to do a convoy so that they can see that we’re in their backyard and that we are huge.”
The People’s Convoy – a spinoff from a protest in Canada started by truckers upset at vaccine requirements to cross the Canadian border – travelled from southern California nearly 2,500 miles to D.C. on an 11-day journey. The group stopped in major U.S. cities and rural towns along they way, holding rallies and meeting with their supporters. …
The People’s Convoy – which has raised more than $1.6 million in donations made through its own website – is demanding that President Joe Biden end the national emergency originally declared at the start of the pandemic, as well as scrap any remaining coronavirus mandates.
The truckers allege the Government has infringed upon their constitutional rights with the mandates.
While many states are currently lifting Covid requirements, there are still 19 with vaccine mandates of various kinds in effect, and the Federal Government is refusing to end the national state of emergency. A recent effort by the Senate to end the pandemic state of emergency was thwarted by the Democrat-controlled House and the President. So more pressure it appears is required.
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Not a peep from the MSM.
If anyone by now, doesn’t recognise there is an organised campaign to hoodwink the public they need their head examined.
Beat me to it, wall to wall coverage from the BBC.
There has not been a single demonstration against Covid restrictions or vaccine mandates world wide, amazing really.
BBC took the mick last year when instead of covering the freedom protests in London on a sat in summer time, they chose to cover an LGBT protest in I think hungry.
I hope they don’t park up which was the Canadians big mistake – to keep circling is the way to go.
Nothing the cops can do about it – it isn’t an offence to drive on the road if you have a licence and are insured.
Maybe GB News will cover it and give it a bit of traction.
I just thought I’d post this (and see if I can).
it would be rather interesting to see a Canada style trucker protest in the states and also the states potential response, just imagine if bank accounts are frozen of US citizens in a country with multiple weapons.
Colonials love to talk a good game about how having guns protects them from tyranny, but I see precious little evidence of it. How many of them have gone down shooting?
You can point at States with Constitutional carry laws and see that they’re correlated with low or brief levels of Coofs despotism, but that’s all it is: correlation. I don’t buy for a second that the oligarchs or their creatures are in the least bothered about the number of guns that the populace has, given that they don’t seem minded to use them for their explicitly intended purpose.
regarding US weapons, my view is the people in the US have the guns, but the state has the minds.
Be interesting to see though a la truedeau style response in a country with a different culture, food for thought.
What is Coofs despotism?
Canada has a higher per-capita gun ownership.
That may well be true, but the population is much smaller and spread over wider areas. So probably a lot easier for a brutal state machine to suppress should it come to that.
Russia!
BURMA!
(I panicked)
Chipangali! (Also has orphans!)
Our great Dr. Paul Alexander and Dr. Pierre Kory are there.
Follow him on palexander.substack.com
Good on them, although as always the merits of inconveniencing regular people and not the oligarchs’ underlings seem unclear.
My real concern is how many Confederate flags, across-State-lines scaryguns, and copies of Mein Kampf the FBI will plant and find among them before they are all labelled as domestic terrorists.
Just to link this…are the police in Russia citing pandemic rules when dispersing antiwar demonstrations? Word is that a few thousand antiwar demonstrators were arrested in Russia today. If the antiwar movement could link up with the anti Covid restrictions movement, that’d be great.
Pardon me if I remain completely underwhelmed. It took the bloody Canadians to stir up the ‘Government can’t mess with our civil liberties because Constitution’ Americans. In London last year we were pulling in hundreds of thousands weekly, ditto many parts of Europe, and there was barely a peep from the Americans.
It is wonderfully ironic that it was the Canadians, so famous for being ‘law-abiding’ and for not rocking the boat, who were the staunchest in taking the fight to the tyrants. But overall, we all did too little, too late. And for the Americans to bowl up now as if they are ‘fighting for freedom’ is an absolute joke and an insult.
The Jan6th ‘shock and awe’ crackdown had the intended effect on political disent. Most patriots concluded it was best to keep their head down and hope the next election won’t be stolen under the pretext of universal covid postal voting.
Colour me suspicious about this trucker protest – coming as it does just before the midterms when covid restrictions and mandates are slowly being rolled back. Seems ideal timing for another FBI-staged false-flag with armed huwite supremacists ‘threatening our democracy’ or some such staged nonsense.
Whuwhhhwhhite
Urgent – respond to the ‘consultation’ on the Human Rights Act
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights-consultation
Deadline 8th. March, i.e. Tuesday.
Tell them you don’t want individual rights watered down as they propose. If they get away with this, it makes it easier to mandate vaccines … as far as I know, never done in England except for childhood smallpox in the 19th.C, a vac. which was abandoned later that century.
There are also lots of other human rights questions they want answered, if you have time.
https://senatormastriano.com/2022/03/01/expert-panel-discussion-on-covid-19-and-medical-freedom/
Absolutely explosive panel discussion. Steve Kirsch accuses the US government of murdering Americans and covering it up.
McCullough and Renz also speak. Very outspoken. Wow.
On Friday, March 4th, a group of Pennsylvania legislators from both state chambers as well as a group of panelists joined a meeting to discuss COVID-19, medical freedom, and the implications about what many lament is a looming federalization of medicine. Included among those was cardiologist-researcher Dr. Peter McCullough who made the case for the four pillars of COVID-19 care.
Senator Doug Mastriano led the event. This Republican served as host of this event held at the Capitol building in Harrisburg, inviting what many in the medical establishment consider controversial figures including the internationally known Dr. Peter McCullough, MD, MPH but also acupuncturist Brian Ardis as well as multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur and COVID-19 vaccine- skeptic Steve Kirsch and attorney Thomas Renz.
https://trialsitenews.com/dr-peter-mccullough-shares-the-four-pillars-of-covid-19-care-to-pennsylvania-lawmakers/
Stunning speech by Steve Kirsch
Would love to get some Ivermectin just in case – but not sure about ordering from a no-name, no-address Indian pharmacy. Might just be selling sugar pills. Also I thought it was supposed to cost 3p/pill but they seem to want $45 for 12. Think I’ll pass and take my chances with the old immune system.
I can’t think of anything more boring about reading a book about Anthony Fauci. And who knows what’s in these tablets you are trying so desperately to flog – road dust and elephant dung swept up off the streets of Delhi and pressed into tablet form?
Anyone who orders ‘Ivermectin’ from India is just prolonging the Covid scam.
The book is a real eye opener – I can assure you it NOT boring!!!
Extremely well written and reasearched.
I won’t pass comment on your disparagement of Indian ivermectin from your tone I take it you have never been o India?
Does West Bromwich count?