Earl Conlon, the Georgia man who said he and a squad of other truckers were coming to D.C. this weekend to clog the roads and try to arrest congresspeople, now says his wild-eyed threats were just a bunch of baseless lies. This kind of honesty from fringe wingnuts is rare, so savor it.
A trucker group plans to intentionally slow the flow of traffic in the Washington, D.C., beltway's inner loop beginning this Friday in a rally being called "Truckers Ride for the Constitution." Those truckers then plan to march on Congress and put legislators in handcuffs. What could go wrong with this genius scheme?
It's always a bummer to get stopped by cops on the highway! But if your truck gets pulled over, it's better to be the driver than the dead body on top.
We all know that texting while driving kills the world, but that means nothing to truckers: they're fighting prohibitive legislation because it will cost them money to pull over and check on-board computers. And because they like being fringe. [NYT]
The Way We Live Now: Forced into a life of crime. The System doesn't want us to go straight. Madoff's scam barely even hurt anyone. Spectacular helicopter heists get all the attention. Meanwhile, our big beet business plan gets torpedoed!
