A US Trucker Convoy To Washington DC Will Begin On March 4th

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Organizers say the American truckers' protest, dubbed "The People's Convoy," will depart on Interstate 40 heading east from Barstow on February 23.

Truckers headed toward the nation's capital are demanding an end to the Emergency Powers Act concerning the pandemic, and to "restore our nation's constitution."

Maureen Steele, the national organizer of the effort, told Newsmax that some 1,000 trucks are expected to start the trip and more will join in as the convoy heads east.

"The Canadian convoy was pretty organic when it happened," said Steele. "Ours, they had a month's notice, so our concern is disruptive groups coming in. We're trying to just prepare for counter-protests and to take safety precautions for that."

"This is about our rights, as well as the freedom of future generations," organizers of the convoy wrote on Facebook. "It's not about political parties, but more so about a government that has forgotten its place and has no regard for our founding fathers' instructions."

Washington D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department said it plans to deploy its civil disturbance units from February 23 to March 1, in preparation for possible trucker convoys, WUSA9 reported.

A truck convoy organizer says that his group has plans to shut down the Capital Beltway in the D.C. region this week.

Bob Bolus, who owns a Scranton-based tow truck and truck parts business, said in a Sunday interview that there are plans to block off the Beltway, a local Fox News station reported.

"I'll give you an analogy of that of a giant boa constrictor," Bolus said to Fox5. "That basically squeezes you, chokes you and it swallows you, and that's what we're going to do D.C."

Bolus said that he is planning to leave Pennsylvania on Wednesday and then make his way to the Beltway, the news outlet noted.

"We will be along the Beltway where the Beltway will be shut down," Bolus said, according to Fox News.

Though Blous confirmed to Fox News that the goal of the protest is to block off the major roadway, he said that the demonstrators will not prevent emergency vehicles from passing by.

"There will be a lane open for emergency vehicles, they'll be able to get in and out and all that," Bolus reportedly said. "We will not compromise anybody's safety or health, one way or the other."

When asked about how the road blockage will affect local commuters, Bolus responded with less sympathy.

"As far as if they can't get to work, geez that's too bad," Fox5 reported.

The Pentagon is expected to approve the deployment of 700 to 800 unarmed National Guard troops to the nation’s capital, a U.S. official said Tuesday, in the face of trucker convoys that are planning protests against pandemic restrictions beginning next week.

The District of Columbia government and the U.S. Capitol Police are requesting the National Guard assistance. The troops would be used largely to help control traffic and are expected to come from the district’s National Guard and three states, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss aid not yet formally approved.

Following a Wednesday morning rally at the Adelanto Stadium, the People's Convoy plans to depart from Southern California to Arizona, where it will stay in Kingman overnight. The group then plans to head east on I-40, driving through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, before reaching Oklahoma on Saturday.

Departing Oklahoma after the weekend, the truckers will next move northeast through Missouri, Indiana and then Ohio.

After spending the night in Cambridge, Ohio on the evening of March 3, the group will stay in Hagerstown, Maryland, for the final night of the transcontinental convoy. The People's Convoy will then leave Maryland for Washington, D.C., and plans to arrive in the beltway area by the evening of March 5.

"The People's Convoy will abide by agreements with local authorities, and terminate in the vicinity of the DC area, but will NOT be going into DC proper," the group said on Sunday.

The route is subject to change.

A group of truckers calling itself the “People’s Convoy,” which protested vaccine mandates and aired other right-wing grievances by driving around the Washington region in March, returned to the Hagerstown Speedway in Maryland on Tuesday.

The group had left the speedway on March 31 to return to California, after spending more than three weeks driving in circles around the Capital Beltway and later attempting to drive through D.C., where residents reported harassment and attacks by its members. The convoy is hosting a rally Tuesday evening at the speedway, which is about 80 miles northwest of D.C.

The People’s Convoy, a U.S.-based group of protesters, has been driving around the country in an apparent protest of vaccine mandates, despite many coronavirus-related restrictions at the federal and local levels already being blocked or rescinded.

As the group left Ohio on Monday, it included about 100 vehicles, most of which were passenger cars, not trucks, said Sgt. Brice Nihiser, a spokesman for the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Organizers have not publicized their plans. A statement on the People’s Convoy’s official Telegram channel included calls for “civil disobedience” and apparent regret over how the demonstrations were handled in March, and an incendiary quote from participant David Riddell.

“When we go back to DC, we are not the same convoy that went there the first time,” Riddell said in the statement. “We are coming back with teeth and a backbone!”

In March, D.C. police blocked interstate exits into downtown Washington, restricting the convoy’s ability to drive through the city. It’s not clear whether authorities will be using the same tactics. D.C. police spokeswoman Brianna Burch declined to comment on specific strategies.

People’s Convoy organizers have rallied people by calling pandemic restrictions and mandates an infringement on their freedoms. Leaders initially said the group wanted an end to the national emergency declaration in response to the virus — first issued by President Donald Trump in March 2020 and later extended by President Biden — and for Congress to hold hearings investigating the government’s response to the pandemic.

Still, this movement in the United States, like the “Freedom Convoy” trucker protests in Ottawa, is fueled by far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists, extremism researchers have said. The convoy demonstrators’ hostility toward vaccine mandates is just one of several anti-government, far-right beliefs held by people in this broader movement.

While in Hagerstown in March, the People’s Convoy brought together parents concerned about vaccine mandates for their children, health-care workers who refused to be vaccinated, and members of the Three Percenters, part of the self-styled militia movement, and those who believe QAnon conspiracy theories, including false claims about satanic child-sex-trafficking rings. Christian nationalism was evident in the group’s frequent prayers and invocations of biblical battles. Some urged citizen’s arrests of Biden and Vice President Harris and bragged about being part of the insurrectionist mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In California last month, convoy participants blasted their horns outside the East Bay home of state Assembly member Buffy Wicks, protesting the Democrat’s support of an abortion rights bill. They were chased out of the neighborhood after area residents, including the younger ones, greeted them with expletives, middle fingers and cartons of eggs.

What was the convoy’s presence like last time?
The convoy embarked on hours-long demonstrations that amounted to sitting in traffic on the Beltway and later, drivers honking their horns along city streets. Some organizers did meet with Republican lawmakers at the Capitol and gave Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) a ride from the speedway into D.C. for a news conference.

During one of the convoy’s morning meetings in Hagerstown, a participant launched into a racist rant against Black Lives Matter Plaza, urging the crowd to go into the District and vandalize it. That afternoon, members of the convoy drove their trucks through the plaza.

Upon leaving the region, the protest had failed to accomplish any of its stated demands and saw a dwindling number of participants, division among supporters, and pushback from local residents and activists.

What has the convoy done since leaving?
The convoy left Hagerstown on March 31 to head to an April 10 vaccination protest in Los Angeles organized by Defeat the Mandates — the same group that rallied on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in January, attracting thousands of people from across the country including anti-vaccine crusaders such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Robert Malone.

As the People’s Convoy traveled across the country and rallied in Hagerstown, it claimed to have amassed more than $1.7 million in donations. That amount was collected by the American Foundation for Civil Liberties and Freedom and has increased to $1.89 million, according to the convoy’s website.

Christopher Marston, who is listed in the foundation’s incorporation paperwork as its president, secretary and treasurer, said in March that about 90 percent of the contributions were from small donors — people hearing about the convoy online, or through news or friends — with most financial contributions being no more than $1,000.

At the time, he estimated that when the convoy first traveled across the country, fuel costs were about $50,000 to $70,000 a day. While the convoy was in the D.C. region, daily fuel costs were about $30,000, Marston previously said. There are also other costs associated with the convoy, he said, such as lodging, renting the speedway and security.

On Tuesday, Marston wrote that the AFCLF stepped away from assisting the convoy with advocacy about a month ago and will be ceasing its financial work with the group within a week.Marston said the AFCLF is only disbursing the remainder of the funds raised.and said that “not much funding remains from what was raised.”