I live in the DC area, and about 10-15 years ago, a group calling itself "Janitors for Justice" conducted a series of protests to highlight poor pay and working conditions. Their plan was to block the major bridges into DC by stopping cars on those bridges and throwing the keys in to the Potomac.
And it worked! It worked to convince everybody in the region that these poor janitors were in fact total assholes. Even those, like myself, who support better working conditions and better pay for janitors were turned off by their behavior.
Which brings us to a nut bag idiot group calling itself "Truckers for the Constitution." This group of moronic asshats is planning a 3-day event in DC which according to US News & World Report includes:
Tractor-trailer drivers will circle the beltway "three lanes deep" as he rides with other participants to Congress to seek the arrest of congressmen for allegedly disregarding the Constitution.
The truckers circling I-495 will keep the left lane open for emergency vehicles, Conlon said, but "everybody that doesn't have a supporter sticker on their window, good luck: Nobody in, nobody out." The trucks will be going the 55 mile-per-hour speed limit.
D.C. commuters who wish to be allowed past the convoy must have "T2SDA" – an acronym for the event's original name, "Truckers to Shut Down America" – written on their vehicle, he said.
"It's going to be real fun for anyone who is not a supporter," Conlon said, "[and] if cops decide to give us a hard time, we're going to lock the brakes up, we're going to stop right there, we're going to be a three lane roadblock."
The idiot in charge of logistics is Earl Conlon, from Georgia. (
I know, shocking, an idiot from the South.)
One thing alone proves Conlon to be a complete moron: he thinks his truck convoy will drive 55 mph on the Beltway during morning rush hour! If his convoy of Tea Party malcontents can succeed in this, it will not cause gridlock, but will be hailed as the first successful effort in decades to get Beltway traffic moving at the speed limit during rush hour in decades!!
Local governments throughout the region will beg the "protest" to continue as long as possible!!
But in reality, the mass of ignorant, "Truckers for the Constitution" will just be a scattered bunch of dumb asses, sitting in rush hour gridlock like the rest of us do every day.
And about their threat of convening "citizen grand juries" to indict members of Congress?
Kudos to them, they have succeeded in a creating story too fucking stupid for the even The Onion to make up!!
But most of all they will succeed in one thing: not only does the Tea Party consist of wacked out loons that believe President Obama was born in Kenya and is leading the charge for the UN to take control of your guns...
but that the Tea party is really nothing but a bunch of assholes as well.