As rogue truckers threaten to blockade major cities with their rigs, I'm wondering if there is such
an offense as "willful endangerment of public health" or something similar.
These blockades will stop firemen, police, ambulances and moms-to-be on their way to the hospital.
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But the idea of piling them up like a Jenga set is appealing.
many truckstops will have a booming tire business....
Sabotaging trucks.
I survived two national truck strikes back in the last century and it was very scary with people dropping rocks from overpasses and doing other stupid stuff.
Why be like the people you despise? People who willfully take actions to slow the supply chain are aiding the magats and their intent to shut it all down and starve us into submission.
...they have a lot of leverage. There's not enough jail space to arrest them all, and the exact kinds of people and equipment you need to move trucks, well, you'd get them from trucking companies. Compounding the matter, there was already a shortage of qualified drivers before the protest and the industry is thoroughly regulated, so there aren't any scabs to hire.
The earlier reports about this being a fringe group--while they were certainly the most accurate numbers possible for accredited journalists to obtain--with hindsight we can see just weren't very accurate.
I'm thankful the average journalist isn't in charge of game-planning the response because their ideas have been idiotic. The truckers are coordinating at a level that indicates either they're fucking brilliant, or they have some form of military backing. They've avoided being baited to violence several times already and have smart counter-operations to the police. Last night the cops went in to begin arrests and the crowd simply started singing the national anthem and took all the momentum out of it. Prior to that they had the jerry can congo line to counter the gas confiscation policies. They're winning hearts on the ground by cleaning the streets and public facilities, and the judge stopping the honking pretty much gave the city an own-goal because it was the thing most bothering residents.
The best strategy at this point is to pivot and give in. The sooner it's done the more effective it would be. But we won't do that. We'll continue to push the mandates in lunk-headed ways, harrass the truckers, and cause their numbers to grow. I have no clue why, but it's obviously what the government has mentally committed to.
