Far right organizers have announced the end of a “freedom convoy” that was headed to Washington D.C. after launching in California, saying that they didn’t have enough participants to get past the Kansas-Missouri border.
Saturday morning, Freedom Convoy USA 2022 announced on its Facebook page that it had relaunched. it didn’t have enough members in its convoy to warrant pressing on toward the nation’s capital.
“The launch in California had a good turn out of supporters, but only 5 trucks were with us on arrival in Vegas,” the group said in its social media post.
Last week, hundreds turned out for the convoy’s kickoff event in Adelanto, California, organized to emulate a convoy of truckers that were protesting against COVID-19 regulations in Canada last month. However, many of the people who came to the event were only spectators — and most of the truckers and vehicle drivers who started out with the convoy said that They were going to drop out once they crossed into Arizona..
Similar unsuccessful outcomes have been reported for other convoys across the U.S. Last week, a convoy from Scranton in Pennsylvania managed to find a mere half-dozen people and then got lost on its way towards Washington. The co-organizer eventually admitted that the demonstration was a failure.
“You are not going to see a convoy,” That person said, adding that the turnout was “disappointing.”
Although organizers of convoys in the U.S. claim to be nonpartisan, it’s evident that the Participants hold far right viewsMany of the participants have expressed strong support for Trump, and they are not alone. Although the convoys were formed to support repealing pandemic-related regulations they seem motivated mainly by animosity towards the Biden administration.
It’s unclear what types of COVID-19 regulations these convoys are even against; vaccine requirements that were introduced by the Biden White House These have been struck down, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently revised their masking guidance. 70 percent of the nation’s population no longer has to mask indoors.
However, it appears that some convoys are still going, and may arrive in Washington later this week — on or around the day that President Joe Biden intends to give his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress. In preparation for possible traffic problems in the area, The National Guard has trained hundreds of unarmed guardsmenBegrate potential convoy groups when they arrive.
