We’ve Got Ourselves A Convoy – The People’s Convoy Rolled Across America
The People’s Convoy, a group of truckers and their supporters, left California on February 23rd and journeyed across America – with other truckers from all over America traveling to meet at the Hagerstown’s Speedway in Hagerstown, Maryland on March 4th. The People’s Convoy has been circling the Washington, DC Beltway since March 6th.
The People’s Convoy – Official Facebook Page declares their Mission Statement:
“Americans love our freedoms and love the Constitution of The United States of America. This convoy aims to bring back our freedoms, our civil liberties, and bring an end to all unconstitutional mandates. This is about our rights, as well as the freedom of future generations. It's not about political parties, but more so about a government that has forgotten its place and has no regard for our founding fathers instructions, The Constitution.”
Thousands and thousands of Americans share the beliefs of The People’s Convoy and have been flocking to overpasses and alongside the highways, waving American flags and holding up signs of support. Farm tractors, fire trucks, Amish families – all have been turning out to show their support.
I traveled to I-79 in Cochranton, Pennsylvania on March 3rd to photograph the Convoy group from New York and Erie that was traveling to Scranton, Pennsylvania. Two days later, I made the trek to New Stanton, Pennsylvania and stood at a bridge along with over 100 supporters and witnessed the main convoy from California roll down I-70 to I-76 as they made their way to Hagerstown.
From their Trucker’s Declaration on their website (www.thepeoplesconvoy.org):
“We the People of the United States, in Order to restore our once perfect Union, re-establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense of all, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty, do ordain and establish the restoration movement of The People’s Convoy for the United States of America.”
WE DEMAND THE DECLARATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CONCERNING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC BE LIFTED IMMEDIATELY AND OUR CHERISHED CONSTITUTION REIGN SUPREME.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND WE STAND TOGETHER UNDER THE BANNER OF FREEDOM – FREEDOM IS THE ONE THING THAT UNITES US ALL. LIBERTY FLOWS THROUGH ALL OF OUR VEINS.
WHO WE ARE: We are truckers, moms, students, nurses, doctors, investors, county workers, teachers, cowboys, loggers, engineers, sanitation workers, professors, cashiers, flight attendants, pilots, sales reps, physical therapists. WE ARE, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, married, single, divorced, separated, gay, straight. WE ARE Black, White, Asian, Native American. WE ARE immigrants, natives: WE ARE citizens of the free world.
To our elected officials that believe they rule us: YOU work for US. Our constitution was written to provide enough power to act on a national level, but not enough to deprive the people of fundamental rights. The people are prepared to see this challenge through — as we have seen through all challenges to our Freedom in the past. And we will prevail and prosper.
To our brave and courageous neighbors to the North — our Canadian brothers and sisters who led the charge — we join your call to Freedom with THE PEOPLE’S CONVOY.
LET THE GOLDEN LIGHT OF LIBERTY BURN BRIGHT: LET FREEDOM ROLL!!
On March 8th, members of The People’s Convoy met with US Senators Ron Wilson (R-WI) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) at a meeting and told their story. On March 10th, Senator Ted Cruz rode along with The People’s Convoy as they made their loop along the DC Beltway and afterwards held a press conference at the Capitol Rotunda.
Caption:
The Lead Truck in The People’s Convoy travels down I-70 in New Stanton, Pennsylvania on March 4th. Mike Landis, the owner and driver of the Mack cabover, told a very moving story about the large American Flag flying from the trailer. At one of their stops during their trek across America, a man came up to Mike and Convoy co-organizer Brian Brase and presented them with the American Flag. The man’s Grandfather drove a tank during World War II and was killed in action. This flag draped his coffin when his body was returned to the United States. The flag had been in a case for over 70 years, until the deceased soldier’s daughter told her son to present it to the Convoy as The People’s Convoy “reminded me of freedom”