I traveled across the U.S. with the People’s Convoy from Adelanto, CA to Hagerstown, MD beginning on Feb. 23. We arrived at the Hagerstown Speedway Friday, March 4. People ask me all the time why are the truckers protesting mandates if the mandates are gone? Let’s talk about that with a few questions and thoughts.
Are you aware that Biden re-upped the emergency order which is still in effect as I write? See this story by my colleague, Michelle Edwards if you don’t believe me. Or, read mine here.
Are you aware that even though Biden reinstituted the emergency order, on May 23, illegals will freely move across the U.S. border with the lifting of Title 42? With the lifting of that order, border officials estimate upwards of 18k immigrants will cross the border daily.
I still see masks on people. States have lifted the mandates but many k-12 schools in the U.S. still require them for young children even though children have had almost zero susceptibility to severe illness or death from COVID-19 and masks do not prevent the spread of the virus. The shots don’t either, by the way.
Just this week, a federal appeals court reinstated Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal employees. That means military too. Folks, that is a lot of people mandated to take an experimental gene therapy drug that is not only causing severe harm and death in many but does not prevent transmission of the virus.
You should ask yourself why natural immunity has not been widely recognized as protective against reinfection from the virus when, historically, natural immunity has been widely recognized to protect from future infection with a virus.
I could go on and on.
The truckers have carved out time from their lives to fight for all Americans. They have lost workdays and have been away from their families for weeks on end in many cases. I have to say that traveling with these men and women was one of the best things I have ever done and here’s why:
To a person, these hard-working, blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth people are more clear on the contents of the Bill of Rights and our Constitution than are most of my privileged, college-educated friends.
These truckers are plain-speaking people. They are goal-driven, hard-working souls who know the value of community. They take care of each other. Along the way, I saw truckers helping each other with mechanical issues. I saw them supporting one another. I never heard complaints about the long days on the road without a single bathroom break.
One of their pack, Bill Clark, who traveled across with the same group I did from CA to MD, had a terrible motorcycle accident on his way home. The truckers went hours out of their way to roll by his rehab facility in Texas and some stopped to show Bill he is loved. I started a givesendgo for Bill and within days almost $20k was raised.
Why do a convoy in the U.S., you ask?
You can see why with pictures in the documentary video I compiled from my trip. Please watch it here:
Why do the convoy? Americans needed it. Americans showed up in droves along deserted patches of desert, on remote overpasses, in cities, sitting on fences and on horseback. I saw little boys waving tiny flags holding their mother’s hands in front of farmhouses. I saw people in wheelchairs, on the back of pickup trucks, on fire engines, cranes, and tractors.
The last couple of years have been enormously difficult for people around the world. However, it has been particularly difficult for Americans because we are not used to having our liberties stripped, one by one. And stripped they have been. And, I might add, they have been stripped unnecessarily and served only the powerful.
It truly is time to stop the nonsense of throwing shade on a group of gals and guys who are standing up for all of us while you, and you know who you are, continue to sit at home acting like nothing is out of place. I am absolutely amazed at how much time people spend posting on social media while also stating they have no time to take action.
If you are a person who thinks that young children should have sexualized material in schools, or we should allow 6 million unvetted illegal immigrants in our country, or children should wear masks, or we should give our choice away when it comes to what we inject in our bodies, or we should just accept high gas prices and food even though both are in plentiful supply here, absent the stupid policies that are artificially strangling supply—then this is not the place for you. You should consider living somewhere else.
I am convinced that what is happening at the border right under our noses will usher in years of terrible policies for our country. It will be the way future elections will be won to prop up those who do not want our country to be a sovereign nation. Just as the 2020 election was stolen, and it was, right under our noses and we did nothing to stop it, so it is at the border. When you go on social media, just notice how many times you actually see people talking about the border as a real threat in their lives. It is coming, people.
I am telling you. We cannot sustain this onslaught. We cannot continue to enjoy liberty if we do not put our shoulders to the wheel. Our people are dying of fentanyl overdoses, babies are being trafficked, cheap labor is flooding in, or worse, many will end up on the dole. For myself and my husband, we have worked our butts off to achieve the things we have achieved. That is the case for most Americans.
I often ask myself why we allowed our schools to be overrun with identity politics. Why are we not talking about the threats at the border? Why is child porn a multibillion-dollar industry? Why do we spend more time on social media and our phones than we do with our friends and family? I am not sure. It could be because since WWll we have become a spoiled, entitled populace. We have had no wolves at the door—or at least we do not recognize them as such.
Trust me. We have wolves at the door. It is time to recognize them for what they are and to take stock of the way we spend our time. Do we have faith in God, in something bigger than we are? Do we have a true north or are our values transient? Are we clear about why we have been free? Are we confident in our principles and unafraid to abide by them? When we say we don’t have time, is that really true?
This post is not meant to shame, although admittedly I am irritated. It is meant to provoke thought. I am irritated because much of the nonsense we are suffering is completely unnecessary.
I think daily about where my priorities are and whether they are serving my country, my family, my friends, and the issues I care about. It is easy to be the critic. It is easy to swipe away hours of precious time and then turn around to say we have just been too busy to show up.
I hope you take the time to read my columns on UncoverDC, where I write on news topics of the day. I hope you take the time to examine whether the freedoms we have relished are important enough to you to carve out time for something that serves someone other than you. I urge you to develop some grit. I urge you to be more spirited. These are very dangerous times for our country but not for the reasons we might think. In my opinion, these are dangerous times because we are allowing ourselves to crumble from within—in large part because we are either too mindless, too apathetic, too lazy, or just not committed and vigilant enough to attend to the things that make our country exceptional. We have a lot to lose and we must fight to keep what we hold so dear—our God-given right to be free.