Baltimore Sun: Trucker Convoy Arrives With No Clear Plan

The trucker convoys are confusing - the one I wrote about in a different post was confused with several other convoys so I thought I would do a thread on the Big Convoy with a news article from a source that is local to the stopping point of the convoy.

‘Freedom Convoy’ spinoff arrives in Md. with about 1,000 vehicles and unclear plans

HAGERSTOWN — They drove pickup trucks, RVs, 18-wheelers and minivans, some making a 2,500-mile journey from Southern California. More joined as the convoy passed through Amarillo, Tex., or rallied at a farm equipment supplier in Monrovia, Ind. And others came in Friday, as about 1,000 vehicles converged at a speedway in Hagerstown, Md., under the rallying cry of “freedom.”

The truckers and supporters are now the closest they have been to the nation’s capital, where they want to hold lawmakers “accountable” for the government’s pandemic responses. But it’s not clear what they will do next to accomplish their goals.

On Friday night, Brian Brase, a convoy organizer, looked out at a crowd, some dressed in red-white-and-blue beanies and waving American flags, and told them to celebrate the distance they had traveled. But they would have to wait longer to learn their final destination and what to do when they get there.

Source: Baltimore Sun

A second source says the line of trucks was about a mile long, which matched the footage someone posted last night. There's all sorts of claims about how many vehicles and people are involved and the length of the convoy.

So there they are... supposedly they'll announce plans today. DC is on alert, trying to figure out just what they're going to do. Local news says that some smaller groups (convoys) will depart the site today and do...something

District officials say the trucker-protesters, which include semis, RVs, pickup trucks and passenger cars, have a First Amendment right to protest, but not to disrupt.

Don't confuse it with the New Jersey trucker protest that's going on today

The New Jersey convoy isn't near Hagerstown and is possibly just local to New Jersey.


As the first article says, the demands are fairly vague and not consistent, with different goals. It's my feeling that this is suffering from the same problems as Occupy Wall Street where people came out to protest and ask for redress of wrongs... only there was no coordination of demands or clear goals.

So... on my side of the fence it looks like a big rally with a kind of murky "now what do we do" sort of outcome and that numbers reported elsewhere ( Gateway Pundit, for example) were inflated by people who didn't actually count the vehicles.




There. Now we can talk about all of them, not the one that was set up for and ended after the State of the Union address.

We'll soon see if they have been infiltrated by govt agents 🤓

a reply to: Byrd



"There. Now we can talk about all of them, not the one that was set up for and ended after the State of the Union address"


Better.

Slightly.


Gonna also discuss the 10,000 truck, 70 mile convoy that is the ACTUAL protest group?


I'll start:

www.thegatewaypundit.com... etch-videos/

originally posted by: PatriotGames4u


Gonna also discuss the 10,000 truck, 70 mile convoy that is the ACTUAL protest group?

nope, just the narrative.

a reply to: Byrd

Almost sounds like it's 'all about the journey, and not the destination', but yeah, I'm not real sure what that could accomplish.



If that's really true that they have no actual plan, then it's rather surprising & quite odd for this day and age. That sounds more like something that could happen pre-cell phones, but not now. Without the ease of communication, then I could see everyone showing up assuming that other people had a plan, but in current times you'd think they would have realized that much much sooner.

There is a real advantage to not having a plan. Who would be able to figure out your plan and stop you?

a reply to: Byrd

Why does anyone ever need to justify their reason to exercise their 1st Amendment rights?

a reply to: Byrd

I thought this was over. Weren't they supposed to have arrived at DC already?

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Byrd

Why does anyone ever need to justify their reason to exercise their 1st Amendment rights?

Because 'someone' wants to prevent 'anyone' from exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

By pretending that 'anyone' is invisible.

While deceptively implying that some other unrelated group is the 'anyone' in question.



(At least she didn't call them racist right wing extremist terrorists this time)

a reply to: Wisenox


That was OP's intention with the red herring toss.


www.thegatewaypundit.com... etch-videos/

Well, with the SOTU we have officially moved on from COVID so...I guess there is that. Too bad.

Also why is that fence erected?

There are many Trucker Convoy's coming from all over the country going into Washington DC

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Trucks gather in Hagerstown, Maryland for trucker convoy as it makes its way through the DMV.

aerial view (56:08 long)
www.youtube.com...

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More Convoy's coming from around the country leaving on these dates:
3/2/2022 I-10 Corridor Convoy
3/1/2022 Central Southeast Route
3/03/2022 North Dakota to Washington DC Area
3/1/2022 Washington State to Washington DC Area
3/6/2022 Cleveland Ohio to Washington DC Area
3/6/2022 Columbus Ohio to Washington DC Area

www.greatamericanpatriotproject.org...

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Freedom Convoy – Indiana
March 5 & 6, 2022
youcountindiana.com...
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Freedom Convoy Health Choice - Maine

healthchoicemaine.org...

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Connecticut residents organizing to support ‘People’s Convoy”’ of truckers headed to D.C.
Feb. 28, 2022
www.thehour.com...

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American Freedom Convoy - Oregan
March 4 (story)
news.yahoo.com...

The American Freedom Convoy, begun a week ago in Portland, Oregon (...)
(...) One of the groups held a rally in Nashville on Thursday with more than 2,000 people attending

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I also know of a Midwest Freedom Convoy (sorry no link)

a reply to: matafuchs
Also why is that fence erected?

FEAR!

a reply to: Byrd

They decided to call it off because leftest were hiding in the trailers ...i guess.

I bet they are going to keep all that go fund me money.
This might have been a scam from the start.

originally posted by: xuenchen
We'll soon see if they have been infiltrated by govt agents 🤓

I was thinking it might be the other way around

a reply to: xuenchen

Are they going to give back all the funded money they got?

a reply to: Byrd

First a thread claiming that it flopped.

Now a thread claiming that they dont have intentions.

Seems very disingenuous. Im going to go out on a limb here and say thats no matter what they demand or protest against, youre not going to agree.

Do they need a reason? (They do have them if you look)

a reply to: Byrd

I got the feeling that the media is downplaying any way they can the US people's convoy, that is why it seems confusing, to me the goal is to get to DC and they will.

What else is there to do, go in a frenzy of burning and unlawful behavior? i am sure CNN and their tabloid news would love that to happen.

a reply to: PatriotGames4u

10,000 truck

prove it.

a reply to: Byrd

If they just give speeches and display signs like

"Biden Sucks"

"Biden Hates All of You"

"Phuck Biden"

etc...

That's all that's needed. Mission accomplished.