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'Truckers for the Constitution' Plan to Slow D.C. Beltway, Arrest Congressmen [W:192]

It sounds like a nice plan at first until I have to get somewhere and I can't get through someone's protest. I support protesting. Just don't screw with my daily activities while you do it.
 
When you purposely congest something you don't GO the speed limit, hence illegal. Your hypocrisy is showing.

Actually you can congest the hell out of a roadway just going the speed limit especially if there are differential speed limits. I don't remember if Washington DC has differential speed limits or not. If not, it still can be done quite effectively as most motorists speed by about 10 mph or better. I wont get into the resulting physics but its actually real easy to accomplish.
 
Most truckers are unionized. Unions tend not to be replublicrats. This is much ado about absolutely nothing.

News to me on most truckers being unionized. I think your info is off. I run a logistics company, so I would know if most trucking companies are unionized let alone drivers. Most are independents or small fleets less then 10 trucks.
 
as much as im unhappy with most of government, if this happens i hope the truckers get tickets and or arrested and id support it. This is just an idiotic idea.

Sorry you simply dont get to take over I-495, and decide "who gets in and who gets out" or "lock up the brakes and become a three lane road block" if your given a hard time. It endangers everybody else.

pretty simple.

I agree with you. They want to affect policy then get all the drivers together or a large majority of them and refuse to work for a few days. That will get EVERYONES attention. Otherwise its just pointless affectation.
 
I agree with you. They want to affect policy then get all the drivers together or a large majority of them and refuse to work for a few days. That will get EVERYONES attention. Otherwise its just pointless affectation.

Yep

again not sure if id be a fan f that either but at least that is legal and doesnt endanger lives.

Im all for fighting people fighting for their causes though, just do it the right way
 
Your bigotted comment doesn't take away from the fact that thet make your life pissible.

If you think it doesn't take brains,...try it sometime.

I used to be an instructor. A monkey can be trained to drive a class 8 unit. Only a driver can be trained to drive one safely and efficiently.

By the why I could care less about their comments. They are ignorant just as we are on some things. No need to worry. Besides if Verax really is that ignorant then he probably doesn't know he's getting taken to the cleaners on transportation costs. :mrgreen:
 
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The realization these retards command 80,000 pounds of material is chilling.

Really? I challenge you to try it, if you think you're better.
 
Right back to the days of WS, J-mac would vehemently defend alot of the things GWB was doing, that Obama does today that he vilifies him for.

It`s always been his style.

Difference is that Obama villified what Bush was doing, and said he wouldn't do it.
 
No, they don't. Mostly they do it because it requires no brains and they get paid well.

:lamo your funny. Clueless but funny. The one about collective intellect was good too. Really. ;)
 
The accepted venacular is truck driver, not trucker. Trucker is a derogatory term.

I think the latest accepted term is "logistics facilitating engineer".
 
The realization these retards command 80,000 pounds of material is chilling.

Those retards routinely command more actually. Most are no smarter then monkeys. They cant even spell the word business. Speaking of which most drivers are small businessmen. Ironic isn't it? They are small businessmen, just like you are. I wonder how many retards it takes to run a restaurant? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to flip a burger, now does it? :cool:

By the way I presume you get your restaurant supplies by truck. I don't know of any restaurants with rail facilities. You might want to keep that opinion to yourself. Otherwise your supplier might take offense and take you to the cleaners. Being a logistics guy and all I have found that it takes more pennies to get a truck to deliver to a known "jackass". They are an independent lot you know.
 
I think the latest accepted term is "logistics facilitating engineer".

Truck driver works just fine. Why some try to make the job sound more than it is I have no idea. Trucker also works. I don't get offended when I somebody calls me that. Its what my job is when I am doing that. I kinda wish I could do it a bit more. Not as many people to deal with. I run a business and do the logistics side mostly now. Logistics for those of you who don't know is the movements of goods via all sorts of transportation, rail, truck, airplane, ship, alpaca, donkey, whatever.
 
News to me on most truckers being unionized. I think your info is off. I run a logistics company, so I would know if most trucking companies are unionized let alone drivers. Most are independents or small fleets less then 10 trucks.

Never heard of the teamsters?
 
Right on brothers, and sisters!!! I hope DC gets shutdown for real!

I believe you can start running them over for kidnapping if what Clad claims is true. Though it may be hard to run over a semi.
 
Just get a pair of bolt cutters on lop open the locking pin. Voila, now said driver is gonna be accused of stealing, lol.
 
Really were members of groups on the left charged with kidnapping when they attempt to arrest people like Cheney, or Rove?

There is a difference between attempting to actually physically arrest someone (without any actual authority to do so) and saying that someone would be under arrest should they go to a certain area. One is a political statement, that until acted upon, is nothing more than talk, but the other would be an action, that can be viewed as beyond simple political talk. Should someone ever try to arrest Cheney or Rove or Bush or any other politicians simply for what they view as "war crimes" in the US, that would be against the law and those people could be charged with kidnapping and/or unlawful imprisonment.

I haven't found any evidence that there was any physical attempt to arrest Cheney or Rove though, only threats and political posturing from anti-war groups.
 
Really? I challenge you to try it, if you think you're better.

I worked with a guy that thought he was too smart to be a truck driver; believed that he was doing a mindless job. He took out a family of five one day, because he didn't respect the equipment he was operating.
 
Right on brothers, and sisters!!! I hope DC gets shutdown for real!

What? They are only targeting people that have nothing to do with the problem. This is like saying to protest high taxes I'm going to block my neighbor's drive way so he can't get to work.
 
So wait a minute here. You've criticized groups like OWS for causing disruption and now you cheer on a group using a similiar tactic added with possible kidnapping? Hypocrisy much?
Ever boo when the opposing team makes a good play, yet cheer when you team makes a good play?

Same thing.
 
Ever boo when the opposing team makes a good play, yet cheer when you team makes a good play?

Same thing.

Sports analogies in politics are why people are stupid. Or maybe it's the other way around, but it doesn't really matter.
 
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