The“Freedom Convoy”, a collection of long haul trucks, pickup trucks RVs and cars is on it’s way to Washington. expected to arrive there on Friday.
The Canadian convoyers, most of whom were not truckers, many of whom were right wing extremists, made life Hell for folks in Ottowa. They blocked traffic at the US Canadian border for several days now.
Now there are people who want to do that here.
They were in Oklahoma, when last I heard. This isn’t a day trip. People going from Idaho to DC will have to do more than pack a lunch.
They will have to stop for food. They will have to find some place to sleep. They will have to stop to relieve themselves.
They will want coffee.
Of course nobody has to sell them food. Hotels and motels can refuse to let them stay. You can certainly refuse permission to allow anyone to camp on your land.
They can be told that restrooms are for paying customers only.
If someone does use the roadside for a restroom, they can be fined, if the police find out.
So, if the convoy comes through your town, make them unwelcome. Let them know that you don’t like what they’re doing and you are not going to help them.
Start by telling your city government that you don’t want the convoy blocking traffic and damaging property, so they shouldn’t be allowed in your town.
If they come to your restaurant, don’t serve them food. If they come to your grocery, don’t sell them food. Don’t let them spend the night in your town, in or out of a motel.
If you catch one of them relieving themselves someplace besides a restroom, take a picture. Send it to the police.
If some fast food chain offers them free food, boycott the chain, and let them know you’re boycotting.
Email the oil companies now, and tell them that if their stations sell gal to convoy drivers, you will be filling your car up at their competitors.
People in Vancouver kept the Canadian convoy out of their town by blocking the road with bicycles. Folks in Toronto chased them away with noise.
The Canadian convoy was able to wreak havoc in Ottowa because of some very un Canadian Canadians, who supported them with food, money and gasoline.
If the American Convoy doesn’t get support, they won’t get past Missouri.
They will be a joke.
They will know that the country doesn’t support them. Which is what these right wing radicals need to know.