The trucker 'convoy' is demanding our attention. But what do they want?

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The trucker ‘convoy’ is demanding our attention. But what do they want?



Bob Bolus of Scranton, Pa., drives his semi leading a “Freedom Convoy” in Pittston Township, Pa., on Feb. 23. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune/AP)

By Petula Dvorak
Columnist
Today at 9:48 a.m. EST

The National Guard has been activated, state police are on high alert, snow trucks are positioned to thwart the invasion, and Capitol Hill is full of unmarked cars parked in strategic spots and waiting. ... A crisis has erupted overseas. But these measures — and the millions of dollars they will cost us — have nothing to do with Vladimir Putin. ... Bob Bolus and his four trucks are coming.

With the international gaze fixed on Ukraine, Bolus decided to launch his own war — in our backyard. ... “We’re going to put a stranglehold on D.C.,” said Bolus, 79, a bloviating Trump supporter from Scranton, Pa., known for the boldly decorated, pro-Trump big rig that he steers into the sightline of any camera he can find.

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“They don’t have enough cops, enough people to stop us,” Bolus told me from his rest stop in Harrisburg, Pa., on his way to D.C. “We’re going to shut the Beltway down.” ... Which is pretty funny. Because we do a fine job of shutting down the Beltway with gridlock on our own, twice a day, nearly every day.

Inspired by the truckers “convoying” in Canada (at least one of whom told a judge he “thought it was a peaceful protest and based on my first amendment,” forgetting he is not American), groups of American truckers are planning convoys across the nation to D.C. to demand their rights.

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By Petula Dvorak
Petula is a columnist for The Post's local team who writes about homeless shelters, gun control, high heels, high school choirs, the politics of parenting, jails, abortion clinics, mayors, modern families, strip clubs and gas prices, among other things. Before coming to The Post, she covered social issues, crime and courts. Twitter https://twitter.com/petulad

[global1]

1. We Should Do What They Ultimately Did In Canada.....

Here's exactly what we should do to any of the participants in any street blocking convoys in this country.

Tell the participants that we will be recording license plates and taking their pics.

They will ultimately lose their trucks registrations and any participants and drivers will have their licenses revoked.

Force them to have to get lawyers to contest these actions. Tie them up for months with legal actions. Inconvenience them for as long as this can be strung out.

It will be hell for them not to be able to drive or to work for months or years - while this is in litigation.

That ought to get them to think twice before they create havoc in this country like the Canadian truckers caused.

[LuckyLib]

2. Attention.

Whose funding the fuel for this show?

[Runningdawg]

7. They have a website showing a fund of 464,731

I suspect the usual people are contributing, there is no definition of what the funds will cover, but since supporters take food and cash directly to the truckers, I'm betting it's for bail.
https://thepeoplesconvoy.org/

[WHITT]

3. Who Cares?

Block 'em, turn 'em around, arrest 'em if they don't cooperate.

[WHITT]

11. You Can't Block Streets

for an extended period of time. BLM did it for short stints, measured in minutes, and the RightWing freaked.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. We don't bring tractor trailers to our protest. We bring people with feet.

Tractor Trailers don't have human rights and are used to block commerce and transportation. The protest in Canada has been said to have cost the automakers over $300MM. I hope we learn from that fiasco in Canada and revoke commercial trucking licenses for those that use their rigs to shut down road systems that affects many more people than the number of people that protest losing their "freedumbs".

[EYESORE 9001]

4. That was yesterday

Surely to jeebus he’s somewhere outside PA by now. I’d like to see him get boxed-in along the side of the road.

[dameatball]

5. Same thing they always want. Poke liberals and Biden in the eye while showing off for the folks back

home. Screw some stuff up while they do it. Brats with trucks, too much time on their hands and too much Fox between their ears..

[2naSalit]

6. This old, retired...

Old school trucker agrees.

[IronLionZion]

9. His people are "unified," "invincible," "standing up and fighting."

He told me he’s mad at “Nancy Pelosi’s Gestapo” and “that wacko mayor of D.C.” and “the federales.” His people are “unified,” “invincible,” “standing up and fighting.” But details on what they’re fighting for are scant.