"Constitution" Rally Truckers Stopped After Slowing Capital Beltway Traffic

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"Constitution" Rally Truckers Stopped After Slowing Capital Beltway Traffic

Truckers are protesting industry regulations, expressing frustration with elected leaders


Friday, Oct 11, 2013 | Updated 2:11 PM EDT

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Truckers slowed traffic on the Beltway Friday to express their frustration with the nation's political leaders, as well as policies regulating the trucking industry.



Dozens of drivers of tractor-trailers and pickup trucks expressed their frustration over trucking industry regulations and the government shutdown Friday in a way that was guaranteed to get attention: They slowed traffic on Washington's Beltway in a rolling protest.

Those participating in the "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" rally (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Truckers-Plan-to-Clog-Beltway-for-3-Day-Protest-226910001.html) had said they planned to circle the inner loop of the Capital Beltway "three lanes deep" Friday morning.

About 30 commercial vehicles and 15 pickup trucks, many sporting U.S. flags and "#T2SDA" placards, crossed over into Maryland on I-495 northbound at around 8 a.m., Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corrine Geller said.

Nearly an hour later, four tractor-trailers began driving side-by-side and slowed traffic to 15 mph. State troopers stopped the trucks at mile marker 53 and warned them not to impede traffic, Geller says. They were not given tickets and were allowed to continue.

Around 10:15 a.m., about a dozen truckers returned to Virginia via the westbound lanes of the inner loop, but they were met with already congested traffic caused by heavy volume and weather conditions.

Geller says there have been no major incidents as a result of the convoys.
A Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ridefortheconstitution) for the rally had more than 59,000 likes and about 3,000 RSVPs -- a far cry from the number of actual participants seen Friday.

Organizers say the three-day rally was scheduled for a holiday weekend to reduce harm and to allow others to participate in their cause.
A Virginia State Police spokesperson says additional troopers will work through the weekend to respond to any incidents that may arise.

In 2007, a similar rally was held to protest illegal immigration and competition from Mexican truckers, U.S. News & World Report said (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/07/truckers-for-the-constitution-plan-to-slow-dc-beltway-arrest-congressmen?page=2). But it did not heavily affect commuters.

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Soros-funded Media Matters effort to slander and discredit DC Trucker Protest October 10, 2013 By 21wire (http://21stcenturywire.com/author/21wire/) 3 Comments (http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/10/10/soros-funded-media-matters-slander-campaign-to-discredit-dc-trucker-protesters/#comments)
SEE ALSO: So It Begins: #T2SDA Trucker Protest Causes Traffic Delays into Nation’s Capital (http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/10/11/and-so-it-begins-t2sda-trucker-protest-causing-traffic-delays-into-nations-capital/)
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America is becoming more and more polarised politically these days, and as a result, there are a number of highly partisan media organisations who are masquerading as press outlets, and invariably, when printing attack pieces on activists they don’t like, they tend to overplay their hand.

As political media attack dogs go, George Soros’s pet project, Media Matters (http://mediamatters.org/), has one of worst cases of leftist rabies imaginable. According to their website, they have created a special kind of pig’s trough:

“Our blog section features rapid response fact-checks of conservative misinformation, links to media criticism from around the web, commentary, analysis and breaking news from Media Matters’ senior fellows, investigative team, researchers and other staff.”

It’s sounds rather painfully like a high school activist blog on steriods, but there you go.

This week, Media Matters has been working overtime in attempt to convince Americans to fear this weekend’s DC Trucker rally (http://ridefortheconstitution.org/press-release-the-american-drivers-terms/) protest, branding it as the work of crazed conspiracy theorists. There are many people high up in America’s left and right wing branches of the establishment who do not want to see a nonpartisan demonstration, or display of civil disobedience in public – because such an event would undermine their expressed task of dividing and ruling along various lines – Democrat vs Republican lines, racial lines, or gender lines. Busy bodies in Washington love their lines so much, that they spend fortunes snorting them up their noses (so say nine out ten overly enthusiast interns).

http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Zeeda_Andrews_1.jpgTargeted by Media Matters: DC Trucker spokeswoman Zeeda Andrews

In one of the worst cases of partisan muck-raking seen yet, one of the Media Matters featured bloggers was sent on what can only described as a poisonous fishing expedition.

His name is Ben Dimerio, and his job this week was to troll through the Facebook page of DC Trucker organiser and spokeswomen, Zeeda Andrews, pulling up posts which were either shared, or liked, in order to build a demonic picture of the person targeted, and then publishing them in a Media Matters article (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/09/meet-the-conspiracy-theorist-behind-this-weeks/196366) on October 9th. A cowardly act, to say the least, and an abuse of the social network, considering many people post, comment, share and like items which a private conversations – expressing opinions between friends.

After reading Dimerio’s rather nasty little piece of blog roll, one can only come to conclusion that it took a very hateful and unhappy person to dive into someone’s Facebook page in order to nail them to a political cross. Even worse, if Dimerio did this for a bag of silver…

In my youth, to make your bones as a hack, sub editor’s would give you the unpleasant job of setting up copy on the Alpha Type machine. If you managed to survive there, you’d get sent down to cover bowling on the green. It was long, tedious, and rather boring, but it’s what was done.

What Media Matters is asking its staff to do on a daily basis may be considered ‘progressive’ inside insular liberal circles, but it’s somewhat disconcerting in terms of civilisation in the 21st century. One almost feels sorry watching a young person write a slanderous piece on an activist, although Washington DC is a city where bottom-feeding is more prevalent than others. It’s simply one in a long list of dirty little things one must do these days, scraping the bottom of the barrel – in order to move up the foundation career ladder.

Of course, it doesn’t take a journalist to do the work of a troll, to go and spend hours digging up items which a person has posted, shared, or liked on any given social network. Anyone can do it, but normally this kind of activity is reserved for political hatchet men (and women) and other professionals at the lower rungs of society, like those employed to dig up dirt for partisan left-wing blogs – oops, sorry we’ve come full circle. Fancy that?

If you’ve ever been through the pain of having someone ‘friend’ you on Facebook, only to go in and dig up anything and everything in your account, in order to profile you for a hit-piece in the national (or global) media, you can imagine what an invasion of privacy that must feel like. Especially when everything which was gathered is taken completely out of context. This is the ugly side of America’s foundation-funded partisan media, where destroying individuals takes precedent over debating the issues. Unfortunately, at Media Matters, this sort of nauseating practice is still classed as journalism.

In the spirit of reciprocity and equal time, it’s only right to put a face to the man who’s dishing out the dirt for Media Matters. Here’s what looks like the recently wed (?), gutter journalist-for-hire, Mr. Ben Dimerio, a residentof Washington DC.

Ben too has a Facebook page (Image, below). There’s a handsome Ben. Yes, what a lovely couple. As you can see, Ben very cool, he has a lovely head of hair, and a beautiful chin. And what a dashing pink bow tie on Ben (please, we kindly insist that our readers not make any off-colour metro sexual remarks in the comment section provided below)…
http://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ben.dimiero.jpg (http://21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ben.dimiero.jpg)
Fair play. As it goes, there could very be a number other, rather much, much more interesting images and posts one could easily lift from Ben’s Facebook page, which one could, if one was that way inclined – to reassemble item in a certain way, and then post them below with lurid commentary, in order to do exactly what Ben Dimerio has done this week in his attempt to assassinate the public character of American activist Zeeda Andrews, but in the spirit of good cricket, and healthy transatlantic relations… we’ll press the pause button.

The sad reality here, is that what this man attempted to do to Ms. Andrews says a whole lot more about Ben Dimerio… than it does about his latest prey. The obvious and dubious, underhanded practices of Media Matters - provide another very clear example of exactly how far certain elements will go in order to demonise any messenger – with the ultimate objective of completely shutting down the conversation in America.
America is on a boiler at the moment, because corruption in Washington DC is at an all time high. The White House is working feverish to hide and bury its mistakes – and crimes. Trillions of dollars per year are being sucked out of the public purse, and year in, year out, no one in Washington seems to want to answer where all that money actually disappeared. These Constitutional Truckers are normal Americans who want their grievances answered – but no one in Buckingham Palace West seems to care much for the plebs.

If you truly add up the numbers, it’s a fairly safe bet that many more Americans would side with regular citizens like Zeeda Andrews and the truckers she represents – than with the political clone army at Media Muggers.

Unlike Ben Dimerio and his ilk, the DC Truckers and their spokespersons… do not pretend to be perfect.

You have to ask yourself, why would Media Matters expend so much effort to attacking individual activists, instead of doing what ‘media’ should really be doing – and attack the government corruption which is threatening the basis of US constitutional law and could, if left unchecked, destroy American society as a whole.

‘Media’ is only media. It is not “the press”. Media Matters is only partisan propaganda. Period, Full stop.
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Follow the DC Trucker Rally as the roll to the Capital at Ride for the Constitution.org (http://ridefortheconstitution.org/)

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Published on Oct 11, 2013
Truck drivers protesting government corruption in today's "Ride for the Constitution" may have been intimidated by government officials and law enforcement, according to Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and former Department of Justice prosecutor. Klayman revealed to MRCTV in an exclusive interview that the truckers were allegedly threatened with arrest and advised to stay out of D.C.




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Truckers Descend On DC Amid Low Turnout And Media Coverage 1 hour ago | Politics (http://benswann.com/category/politics/), US (http://benswann.com/category/politics/us/) | Posted by Kristin Tate

October 11, 2013

A group of truckers descended on Washington, DC today to protest the government’s “corruption against the Constitution.” Their movement is called “Truckers Ride For The Constitution.” (https://www.facebook.com/ridefortheconstitution)
The media, both on the left and the right, was rabidly reporting on the event prior to its happening, building up considerable hype.
It is strange, then, that when you Google “Truckers Ride For The Constitution” today, virtually no articles reporting on the event pop up. Without doing some real digging, the only write-ups that surface are purely anticipatory (written prior to the event’s actual occurrence).
The few photos that are posted of the event look underwhelming, and show a few trucks driving along a rainy DC freeway:

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Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with Pete Santilli, one of the event’s main organizers.
Santilli described a carefully planned strategy, claiming that it was “always the plan” to have fewer trucks turn out on the morning of the 11th. “We did not want to send all of our best guns out right away. We wanted to test the waters out, and see how media and law enforcement treated us,” he said.
Santilli said that the media coverage of the event was underwhelming thanks to Fox News. He said that prior to “Truckers Ride For The Constitution” actually happening, Fox News “overwhelmed” the truckers with phone calls, “begging” for exclusive all-day coverage during the event.
According to Santilli, the truckers promised FoxNews special coverage all day. However, the morning of the event, Fox pulled out of all coverage at the last minute. Santilli believes that this was done on purpose to “take away the hype,” and that the motivation might have been due to pressure from major corporations.
He said, “We wanted to shut down commerce, and major corporations are trying to use the media to take the sting out of it. By not providing that media coverage, corporations keep the system running.”
On the bright side, however, Santili said law enforcement has been very accommodating and friendly towards the group. “The police have been great, they just told us they want a peaceful and don’t want anything silly. They love it and they want to communicate with us,” Santilli said. “The media failed our test, but law enforcement passed.”
Another issue for the truckers, in terms of creating hype, is the fact that their website was down for over 12 hours before Friday morning. The site was offline starting at 9pm on Thursday due to overwhelming traffic plus several cyber attacks.
Now the site is up and running again.
Looking forward, Santilli said we can expect to see the truckers’ protest grow. He said Sunday will likely be the biggest day in terms of turn-out.
On Sunday, the truckers will join with the “Million Vets March” in DC to peacefully protest. Santilli said large convoys will head down to DC from a variety of places, such as Alaska and South Carolina, and that 1,000-2,000 truckers are expected to show up.
We’ll keep you updated on the “Truckers Ride For The Constitution” protest here at BenSwann.com, so keep checking back.

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Santilli said large convoys will head down to DC from a variety of places, such as Alaska and South Carolina, and that 1,000-2,000 truckers are expected to show up.



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He said Sunday will likely be the biggest day in terms of turn-out.

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Truckers Change Mind, Won't 'Arrest' Congressmen



News coverage of a trucker protest seeking to clog the roads in and around Washington, D.C., this weekend prompted a schism between the ride's leaders. The ride's loosely organized leadership is now in agreement, however: truckers will not seek to "arrest" congressmen.

Longtime Georgia trucker Earl Conlon was until Monday morning the coordinator of truckers traveling to D.C. on Oct. 11-13. He claims credit for calling the protest, a vision articulated in part by former country music singer Zeeda Andrews along with social media promotion.
Conlon originally told U.S. News he would seek to arrest congressmen Friday for allegedly committing treason as other truckers circle the inner loop of the I-495 beltway "three lanes deep."
He's changed his mind.


Conlon still believes a "citizens grand jury," meaning a body of jurors convened without court authorization, has the power to issue indictments, but he told U.S. News in an update "the truckers are not doing any arresting."

Former Department of Justice attorney Larry Klayman has popularized the concept of citizen grand juries, but it's unlikely law enforcement would acknowledge such indictments.

"We want these people arrested, and we're coming in with the grand jury to do it," Conlon originally said Monday. "We are going to ask the law enforcement to uphold their constitutional oath and make these arrests. If they refuse to do it, by the power of the people of the United States and the people's grand jury, they don't want to do it, we will."
If police interfere with the I-495 convoy, Conlon said Monday, truckers would turn off the vehicles and make the road a parking lot.
Conlon's comments infuriated Peter Santilli, an online radio host who is not a trucker. Santilli is hosting a parallel rally in California and will not be joining the D.C. protest, but he's acting as a spokesman for an umbrella of nationwide rallies called "Truckers Ride for the Constitution."

Rather than seeking the arrest of lawmakers, Santilli told U.S. News in an email, "we are asking [congressmen] to voluntarily resign if they refuse to accept our peaceful demands to follow the U.S. Constitution and the law. If they refuse to follow the law, we the people will bring the free-market economy to a halt... If it results in a major traffic jam as we saw in Egypt – so be it."

Santilli says truckers and other participants will ask for the impeachment of President Barack Obama, but it's unlawful, he says, for truckers to "arrest" congressmen and he says it would be unsafe for truckers to turn I-495 into a parking lot.

Conlon snapped back at Santilli, who surprised him with an on-air radio call (http://www.spreaker.com/user/thepetesantillishow/earl_conlon_advised_not_to_misrepresent) the trucker believed was a private conversation. Conlon said citizens do indeed have the authority to arrest public officials and that truckers can legally turn off their trucks on the road - if they're complying with regulations requiring a 34-hour "restart" after truckers "run out of hours" they're allowed to work.
"You're having your rally, I'm having mine," Conlon told Santilli. "You might as well find a new place to meet. ... I'm not going there to smile and blow my horn."

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/08/truckers-change-mind-wont-arrest-congressmen

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According to their website, Ride for the Constitution (http://ridefortheconstitution.org/t2sda-reaches-tipping-point-trucker-shutdown-now-unstoppable/), they may actually begin their public protests in the small Pennsylvania town of Gilberton to support controversial, machine gun-firing former police Chief Mark Kessler at a town hall meeting.
"The momentum is now unstoppable," the group said in a message on its website. "The American people will be heard between now and well into the weekend of October 11."

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/Conservative_truckers_say_they_will_shut_down_DC_B eltway_seek_arrest_of_elected_officials.html#f6cWo WZgbIBXDjsh.99


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Santilli says truckers and other participants will ask for the impeachment of President Barack Obama, but it's unlawful, he says, for truckers to "arrest" congressmen and he says it would be unsafe for truckers to turn I-495 into a parking lot.

Sooner or later it's going to get through that you don't ask permission from someone, or a government that is NOT YOUR MASTER.

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