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The Modern American Revolution - Truckers ride on DC
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Posted on 10/10/2013 6:18:24 AM PDT by Lucky9teen

This month ALL Americans have an opportunity to participate in a nationwide protest.

None of us can ever say we couldn't do anything to make a difference because there is an option available to EVERYONE. On… See moreSee More

This month ALL Americans have an opportunity to participate in a nationwide protest.

None of us can ever say we couldn't do anything to make a difference because there is an option available to EVERYONE. On Friday, October 11th through Su...nday, October 13th, American truckers are planning an event called, Truckers Ride For The Constitution. Thousands of truckers plan on driving their rigs to Washington DC to shut down the city with a ‘super sized’ traffic jam. Others are planning to do the same at their state capitols. Many truckers can’t take off to Washington DC, but they have refused to haul anything during this pivotal 3 days. There will be no gas delivered to stations, groceries delivered to the local grocery store, and myriad of other products won’t be delivered if it depends on an 18 wheeler.

What can you do to help? After all, you don’t drive a truck. There are 10 things most of us can do. You can do what millions of others plan to do from Friday through Sunday night.


1. If you live close to an interstate rest stop: Take your grill out and feed these hungry trucker Patriots!! Let them know they have your support and good wishes. The Modern American Revolution will be out in full-swing this weekend with their grills a'blazing.

Rest Stop Locations: http://restareas.appspot.com/

2. Find your closest Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment group and go hold a sign up to encourage the truckers. If you can’t physically go to an overpass, help someone who can by helping make signs and gather flags for others to hold up.

3. Drive with your lights on in solidarity with the truckers and honk, wave and smile at them as they pass you.

4. Fly your flag at home.

5. Put signs in your yard.

6. Post encouraging memes etc. on Facebook.

7. Wear red, white, and blue.

8. Call and/or email your representatives in Washington and let them know that a few thousand of your closest friends are headed their way to deliver a message from you.

9. You can show your solidarity with the truckers by refusing to spend any money on those days. None, zilch. Don’t participate in any commerce at all. Fill up your car with gas on October 9th. Buy your groceries, pay your bills, get cash out of the bank, and stock up on needed supplies beforehand. Just don’t buy anything at all during this important revolt.

10. As always, take pictures and film everything possible and post to Facebook and YouTube...if the MSM won't cover this peaceful political action, We Will!

If you are unwilling to do any of these things, you are siding with the enemies of our Constitution, whether intentionally or not. This protest can be highly successful if we all participate. The revenue lost in taxes alone will get their attention even if they try to ignore the thousands of trucks tooling around the city.

Donations for grill equipment, food, beverages, etc for the BBQ's can be made here: https://rally.org/modernamericanrevolution

Fuel donations for the truckers may be made on their main site: http://ridefortheconstitution.org/truckers-constitution-rally-information/

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST FAR AND WIDE!
We're counting on YOU to make this event a huge success!


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: march; revolt; revolution; truckers
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To: Lucky9teen

https://www.facebook.com/MillionTruckersToDC?ref=stream


41 posted on 10/10/2013 11:24:58 AM PDT by blondee123 (DICTATORSHIP HAS ARRIVED! Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: Lucky9teen; All

Hi Lucky...just talked to my trucker husband who said he’s been hearing some chatter today on the CB about this...I wish them great success!! Thanks for keeping us informed about it...hope to see lots of pics...(and thanks for your weekly silliness thread, too).


42 posted on 10/10/2013 1:14:50 PM PDT by viaveritasvita ("The One who reigns forever, He is a friend of mine, the G-d of angel armies, is always by my side.")
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To: blondee123

just visited, liked, and invited all my facebook “friends” to the page.


43 posted on 10/10/2013 3:32:32 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: xrmusn

“A 4 car 1 Tractor Trailer accident can tie Rush Hour traffic up for hours, add a serious injury or death and the shut down time is undetermined”

So, you’re all for something deadly happening, huh? Make it nicely more inconvenient, won’t it? And thus bring Congress to its knees?

I can’t believe no one has called you on this.

This potential, along with the massive inconvenience to regular people far away from the actual government, causes me much misgiving on this plan.


44 posted on 10/10/2013 4:25:15 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“A 4 car 1 Tractor Trailer accident can tie Rush Hour traffic up for hours, add a serious injury or death and the shut down time is undetermined”

So, you’re all for something deadly happening, huh?
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Of course not.
I merely stated a FACT.
I probably should have ‘bracketed’ it but I was trying to point out that FEWER trucks, well placed would cause more ‘grief’ since an accident as I described does exactly as I described it.
At 739 this AM, the WashPost reported an overturned tractor trailer shut down ALL LANES of 495 @ Landover Rd. MDSP unsure HOW LONG BEFORE OPENED UP.
In the same ‘Alert’, they cite an accident on Balt/Wash Pkwy@175 with SOUTBOUND lanes are bumper to bumper and UNKNOWN how long before open - saying several hours.
ONE (if not both) of these was still going on at NOON, saying it happened at 4AM.

I am NOT sure, but I thought that the truckers had planned this BEFORE the shutdown.

‘They’ allowed the Immigration thing to go on because it was pre planned...we shall see....

And you are correct, it inconveniences the ‘wrong people’ but I think the original plan involved circling the Capitol and White House but they probably scrapped that ‘bad’ idea giving the present circumstances.

If you get 20-30(ea) rigs to hit the Beltway in both directions from 95 S in Md and N in VA, just doing the speed limit can/will tie the area up for hours and if they are doing the speed limit and staying out of the left lane they ‘just happen to be there’ and not exiting....


45 posted on 10/10/2013 5:56:14 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Egoist:A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. (Ambrose Bierce))
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To: xrmusn

And all they’ll do is PO a lot of people. The way you wrote made it seem you were looking for ways to increase the efficiency of the disruption.

(BTW, the 175 was a pedestrian fatality. It was bad but I’m sure it finished before the truck issue. Why a pedestrian on the highway I don’t know.)


46 posted on 10/10/2013 6:48:59 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: justiceseeker93; Lucky9teen
I'm looking forward to watching this and may have more faith in Fox News than you, lol. I worry a bit about a truck delivery shutdown in cities but as others write, it may be a good wakeup call.
47 posted on 10/10/2013 7:01:32 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Lucky9teen

I sure hope there’s a lot of video of this because the MSM won’t show it at all.


48 posted on 10/10/2013 9:09:05 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: potlatch

From Facebook page: Breitbart - One Voice Silenced, Millions Awakened Liked · 2 hours ago

EARLY REPORTS FROM DC: TRUCKS ARE ROLLING IN LIKE CRAZY TO DC; LINES OF TRUCKERS ARE LEAVING THEIR STATES NEAR DC AND POURING ONTO THE ROADS TOWARD DC!

HOTELS ARE OFFERING FREE ROOMS TO PROTESTERS!

TRUCKER CB CHANNEL 15

Photo from here
49 posted on 10/10/2013 9:42:04 PM PDT by Lucky9teen ("The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." ~ Edward Abbey)
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To: Lucky9teen
Wonder what kind of noise thousands air horns blowing at one time will make?

My guess is awesome.

50 posted on 10/10/2013 9:47:57 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for the ping!


51 posted on 10/10/2013 9:48:37 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Farnsworth

Watching 495 traffic cams on trafficland.com. Nothing looks out of the ordinary. Will be in the vicinity late tonight. Curious to see what is going on. Boss already told me stay off 495. He was told pics will be taken and expect FMCSA audits if your truck is in one. Wouldn’t put it past this regime. A truck is a rolling billboard for the company.


52 posted on 10/11/2013 4:30:42 AM PDT by cork (Remember Bengazi!)
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To: Lucky9teen

That pix is from Hagerstown, probably not shocking since the interstates are very popular for trucks in the Appalachians.

Report on FOX that looks like a dud. Ironically were truckers scared by the awful rain? Or just a dud, period? I can say they picked a hell of a day and would totally muck up things if they came.

As they said hopefully on FOX, there is still time.


53 posted on 10/11/2013 5:51:08 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: cork

WOW. thanks for the info


54 posted on 10/11/2013 5:55:54 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: Farnsworth
Here's some pics coming out on twitter:














55 posted on 10/11/2013 10:24:13 AM PDT by Lucky9teen ("The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." ~ Edward Abbey)
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To: Admin Moderator

Is it possible to move this and make this into a “Live Thread” so others can follow along as the protest goes?


56 posted on 10/11/2013 10:24:57 AM PDT by Lucky9teen ("The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." ~ Edward Abbey)
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To: cork

Yeh, I wonder if they are going to mess with the traffic cams, like they did with the biker rally. I sure hope not. I hope there are so many trucks, it’s not possible to hide them.


57 posted on 10/11/2013 10:26:53 AM PDT by Lucky9teen ("The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." ~ Edward Abbey)
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To: Lucky9teen

interesting....

Completely different “account”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/11/dozens-not-thousands-show-up-for-dc-trucker-protest/?intcmp=latestnews


58 posted on 10/11/2013 10:43:32 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: Lucky9teen; ntnychik; PhilDragoo

Thank you, thank you! I’ve been checking the TV channels and not finding anything. Sadly I found a link on Drudge that says ‘dozens, not thousands of trucks.....’, but I’m hoping it’s too early to judge yet.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/11/dozens-not-thousands-show-up-for-dc-trucker-protest/?intcmp=latestnews


59 posted on 10/11/2013 12:17:32 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

I predicted it would beat the Million Muslim March numbers (27).

Sounds like I’ve got a shot at being right.


60 posted on 10/11/2013 12:18:22 PM PDT by nascarnation (Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
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