Truckers Protest/Boycott Planned April 23-25

[Shebear]

I HAVE EDITED this news release for length, so go to source to read the whole thing at http://www.rense.com/general75/truckess.htm

Truckers Boycott Border States
"Circle-the-Wagons Blockade Against Anarchy"
By Frosty Wooldridge
3-26-7


S T O P the Bush-Kennedy Plan to Give Trucker-Jobs to Mexican Drivers

All 48 CONUS state legislature capital-buildings circled & shut down

National Capital U-Circled; Bumper-to-Bumper, Three-Wide

Monday * Tuesday - Wednesday

APRIL 23, 24, 25- 2007



The CB-radios are rumbling already- we have a 'war' on our hands.

Do you agree with the Bush-Kennedy Plan to "outsource" your job to a Mexican national driver ? Do you remember how the Congress stood up when the farmers circled the Capital with John Deere tractors, and tied-up the city big-time ?

President Bush and his ally, Sen. Teddy Kennedy have already set in motion a process to displace American truckers out of their jobs within 45 days- with their insidious Mexican trucker pilot program. Bush signed a Bill that allows thousands of substandard 18-wheeler long haul rigs from Mexico onto America's Interstate and local highway system. Mexican drivers, who can't read, speak or understand English- receive full access to America's highways.

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The Bush-Kennedy action mandates a new beginning- where American truckers' jobs vanish with a new version of the familiar song, "Mexican drivers do the jobs that American truckers won't do- for slave-wages."

This "takeover" will happen in gradual stages. Talk About Depressing.

First, the independent haulers will see their loads undercut by Mexican drivers. Later, Mexican drivers will chip away at produce- and contract- haulers.

Given just a little time- Wal-Mart and CostCo (Swift) and Home Depot will hire Mexican drivers at half the wages of American truckers- with no fringe-benefits.

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Therefore, truckers from four border states- Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California- and beyond, may smell the bacon and choose to participate in a trucker boycott; April 23, 24, 25, 2007. Those truckers that want to stop this latest insult to America's working class by this president and Congress may elect to shut their rigs down for the entire three days.

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"Truck Out" talking-points and Action-Steps:

1. Bush-Kennedy have already taken action to implement the plan, in less than 45 days, to allow anarchy- tens of thousands (17,000 or more to start) of Mexican trucks and truckers into our country with no checks and balances in place. There are not nearly enough qualified U.S. DOT inspectors, even if we wanted to inspect the Mexican trucks and drivers.

Rigs will be allowed to cross the border with no weight regulations, no load restrictions (as their loads will not be under the same security scrutiny that our truckers' loads have to comply to, which opens the door to more drugs, terrorist, weapons and human smuggling), some with no liability or collision insurance in place, some truckers with no driver-licenses and some with criminal driving records, no background checks, bald-tires and trucks that are not regulated to adhere to our strict safety regulations.

2. Once again the illegal aliens will be given special treatment by our government, above that of our legal American citizens and legal immigrants, which allows them to break laws in our country that our truckers cannot get away with- or our licenses would be pulled, our trucks impounded, and potentially criminally charged.

3. These foreign-national truckers have low-overhead (few expenses) and thus can haul for far less per load than our own truckers- and will take our jobs. This is not a threat, or something that may happen- it has been in the planning stages for several years now. American truckers WILL lose our jobs. In that process, American families (children in particular) will suffer. The greedy employers who hire the illegal aliens will increase their profits. What a deal !

4. This is a complete breakdown of the current trucking laws and regulations that govern our teamster truckers, independent trucking organizations, and mom-and-pop trucking families. This will work to destroy the truckers' livelihoods and futures- as for many, this is all they have ever done.

5. We cannot allow this to happen, not even to test it. This is the USA. NAFTA is a failed international policy that has backfired on the U.S., as warned, and is driving our country into total ruin. We do NOT need to pay-off the Kennedy-Bush debts.

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E-mail <mailto>inamericasince1700@yahoo.com for more information. A phone number is set up and posted on the new web sites <http>www.SaveAmericaFund.com and <http>www.save<http>America.com

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Please help us; Send this message to every trucker, every trucker chat room, message board, CB operator, short wave and Ham Operator in America . Start now to be ready to use these three days (23-25 Apr 2007) to make a statement with your 18-wheeler- or the chances are you won't have an 18-wheeler to drive by the time President Bush, Teddy Kennedy, and their friends destroy American Trucker Jobs!

[Twilight Flyer]

A couple of interesting excerpts that were 'edited'

Bush, Kennedy and friends place all American motorists at risk- Mexican drivers with average 6th grade educations gained in a Third World country, gross incompetence and habitually drunk Mexican drivers- as well as their un-inspected, unsafe trucks and trailers.

Mexican truckers, ever looking for black market loads of people, drugs and products, will create new smuggling routes across the USA.

Now, as much as I am in agreement with the overall concern over this, I can't help but laugh when I see something like this. I know that if I wanted to make a stand and get noticed, I wouldn't follow a bozo like that that cannot mask his racist hatred of a specific nationality.

In other words, "Message lost."

[Teal 95 KW]

thank god im in household goods.....i believe my job is safe here.

[emerlin]

For the record, Mexicans are not a race. They are a nationality. They are members of the Caucasian race as are "White Folk."

But I do agree with the sentiment of your post, Twilight.

All of this hysteria about Mexicans taking over everyone's job is getting ridiculous.

Besides, who'll pick the fruit if all the Mexicans come over and take our trucking jobs?

[Rev.Vassago]

For the record, Mexicans are not a race. They are a nationality. They are members of the Caucasian race as are "White Folk."

And here I thought they were members of the Hispanic race.

[coastie]

For the record, Mexicans are not a race. They are a nationality. They are members of the Caucasian race as are "White Folk."

And here I thought they were members of the Hispanic race.

Me too..

S T O P the Bush-Kennedy Plan to Give Trucker-Jobs to Mexican Drivers.

Now that explains it all. The Democrats brings it up get's it started, and Bush getting the blame.

[Twilight Flyer]

For the record, Mexicans are not a race. They are a nationality. They are members of the Caucasian race as are "White Folk."

True, but the comments are flat-out racist and no different than the KKK spouting their garbage about non-white's being thieving, murdering, rapists. Same sad stupid schtick and it gets plenty old.

I can understand people's concerns regarding the proliferation of Mexican trucks on our roads. I really can. But until someone can address it intelligently and without a zenophobic slant, they're doing nothing more than barking at the moon.

[Hat Rak]

These guys will be busy for those 3 days

[century451]

No wonder I love Taco's and I love grits. So am I a hispanic redneck of caucasion ancestry or am I a caucasion redneck with hispanic ancestry?

I am so confused I guess I need to see what INS say's.

[LilBit]

And just how likely is it that that many drivers would do this for the set amount of time? I'm sure there would some type of legal proceedings to follow this.........reminds me of the rumors I heard a few years back to park to try to lower fuel prices.........


I did however look around the main page of the mentioned site and found something interesting, if not humorous, about how to actually reach a human when calling customer service at some companies they have listed there.......

http://gethuman.com/us/

[Rev.Vassago]

Every spring there's talk of strikes and shutdowns. The rumours spread through the trucking message boards like wildfire. And then nothing happens. Just like nothing will happen with this one.

[silvan]

reminds me of the rumors I heard a few years back to park to try to lower fuel prices...

That's exactly what I was thinking.

All talk, no action. If we could ever get really organized and all on the same page, we could shut this country down, but it will never happen.

If I really thought anybody else would join me, I'd pop the valves on this sumbitch and walk away, but nobody is going to join me. It's every driver for him/herself anymore.

[allan5oh]

S T O P the Bush-Kennedy Plan to Give Trucker-Jobs to Mexican Drivers

Except it's not. It's opening the border for mexican drivers who carry international freight.

All 48 CONUS state legislature capital-buildings circled & shut down

National Capital U-Circled; Bumper-to-Bumper, Three-Wide

Sounds like a GREAT idea!

The CB-radios are rumbling already- we have a 'war' on our hands.

Only to the uninformed.

Do you agree with the Bush-Kennedy Plan to "outsource" your job to a Mexican national driver ? Do you remember how the Congress stood up when the farmers circled the Capital with John Deere tractors, and tied-up the city big-time ?

Except that's not what they're doing

President Bush and his ally, Sen. Teddy Kennedy have already set in motion a process to displace American truckers out of their jobs within 45 days- with their insidious Mexican trucker pilot program. Bush signed a Bill that allows thousands of substandard 18-wheeler long haul rigs from Mexico onto America's Interstate and local highway system. Mexican drivers, who can't read, speak or understand English- receive full access to America's highways.

Incorrect, every company and driver must pass strict standards to be able to cross. This includes being able to speak english and understand english directions.

First, the independent haulers will see their loads undercut by Mexican drivers. Later, Mexican drivers will chip away at produce- and contract- haulers.

All 300 of them? There are currently a measly 300 authorized to cross the border.

1. Bush-Kennedy have already taken action to implement the plan, in less than 45 days, to allow anarchy- tens of thousands (17,000 or more to start) of Mexican trucks and truckers into our country with no checks and balances in place. There are not nearly enough qualified U.S. DOT inspectors, even if we wanted to inspect the Mexican trucks and drivers.

Wrong wrong wrong. 300, not 17,000 are currently authorized. Everything else is plain wrong

Rigs will be allowed to cross the border with no weight regulations, no load restrictions (as their loads will not be under the same security scrutiny that our truckers' loads have to comply to, which opens the door to more drugs, terrorist, weapons and human smuggling), some with no liability or collision insurance in place, some truckers with no driver-licenses and some with criminal driving records, no background checks, bald-tires and trucks that are not regulated to adhere to our strict safety regulations.

Complete and utter bull****. Every mexican truck will go through a scanner, I can guarantee that. They must comply to all safety regulations before they can even think of crossing the border.

2. Once again the illegal aliens will be given special treatment by our government, above that of our legal American citizens and legal immigrants, which allows them to break laws in our country that our truckers cannot get away with- or our licenses would be pulled, our trucks impounded, and potentially criminally charged.

They have to comply with all the rules we do, and more.

3. These foreign-national truckers have low-overhead (few expenses) and thus can haul for far less per load than our own truckers- and will take our jobs. This is not a threat, or something that may happen- it has been in the planning stages for several years now. American truckers WILL lose our jobs. In that process, American families (children in particular) will suffer. The greedy employers who hire the illegal aliens will increase their profits. What a deal !

How do they have lower overhead? They must have insurance with an american company. They are not illegal aliens.

4. This is a complete breakdown of the current trucking laws and regulations that govern our teamster truckers, independent trucking organizations, and mom-and-pop trucking families. This will work to destroy the truckers' livelihoods and futures- as for many, this is all they have ever done.

nope

5. We cannot allow this to happen, not even to test it. This is the USA. NAFTA is a failed international policy that has backfired on the U.S., as warned, and is driving our country into total ruin. We do NOT need to pay-off the Kennedy-Bush debts.

NAFTA is an extremely successful treaty. If anyone says otherwise, they're either a fool or ignorant of the FACTS.


As a trucker that comes into the states legally and does not break any laws, I can tell you guys what this person has been posting for the past few weeks is complete bull****. They can bring in international freight, and american truck drivers can go into mexico with international freight. They are approved on a one-on-one basis(drivers AND companies). They must have a legal liscence, american based insurance, and can only touch freight either coming from or going to America.

This article is nothing but hate-mongering. If you changed everything from "mexican" to "canadian", what would happen then? The mexicans can and will do exactly what the Canadians do. I don't see everyone getting upset that Canadians are crossing the border?

[PDXer]

reminds me of the rumors I heard a few years back to park to try to lower fuel prices...

That's exactly what I was thinking.

All talk, no action. If we could ever get really organized and all on the same page, we could shut this country down, but it will never happen.

If I really thought anybody else would join me, I'd pop the valves on this sumbitch and walk away, but nobody is going to join me. It's every driver for him/herself anymore.

I'll do it. I'll shut down for those days.



Now wouild anybody like to sit in the dentist chair during those same days??? Root canal anyone? I can hear the drill now... :shock:

[Shebear]

You can write the author Frosty Wooldridge directly at frostyw@juno.com

In the meantime, I will contact him myself to verify his sources.

I think what happens to us when we drive is that we know little else about the world around us except the truckstops, the TV rooms, the loading docks, and C&W music on the Sirius. This doesn't really give you a perspective on what's happening on the little streets far away from the interstate.

There is a RACE WAR brewing along the southern border of the country, and it might be wise to prop open those itchy eyeballs and look around.

"Gang mayhem grips LA"

Quote from article below:
'All of the signs are there that a racial war is going to explode in this city,' says Khalid Shah, director of Stop the Violence. Memories of the 1992 Rodney King riots, which claimed 53 lives, remain fresh, but Shah believes that worse is ahead. 'It will be 10 times bigger than what happened after King. You are looking at an event which could not only paralyse an entire city but an entire state,' he warns.


TEXT:

A bloody conflict between Hispanic and black gangs is spreading across Los Angeles. Hundreds are dying as whole districts face the threat of ethnic cleansing. Paul Harris reports from the epicentre of America's new urban warfare for THE GUARDIAN UNLIMITED (U.K.).

Sunday March 18, 2007
The Observer


Father Greg Boyle keeps a grim count of the young gang members he has buried. Number 151 was Jonathan Hurtado, 18 - fresh out of jail. Now the kindly, bearded Jesuit mourns him. 'The day he got out I found him a job. He never missed a day. He was doing really well,' Boyle says.
But Hurtado made a mistake: he went back to his old neighbourhood in east Los Angeles. While sitting in a park, Hurtado was approached by a man on a bike who said to him: 'Hey, homie, what's up?' He then shot Hurtado four times. 'You can't come back. Not even for a visit,' says Boyle, who has worked for two decades against LA's gang culture.

Boyle's Los Angeles, where daily slaughter is a grim reality, is a world away from the glamorous Hollywood hills, Malibu beaches and Sunset Strip - the celebrity-drenched city that David Beckham and Posh Spice will soon make their home.

Boyle's Los Angeles is where an estimated 120,000 gang members across five counties battle over turf, pride and drugs. It is a city of violence as a new race war escalates between new Hispanic gangs and older black groups, each trying to ethnically cleanse the other. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has referred to his city as 'the gang capital of America', has launched a crackdown on the new threat.

The latest front is the tiny strip of turf known as Harbor Gateway, a nest of streets between malls and office blocks. It was here, just before Christmas, that Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old fond of junk food and television, died. At school she had just written a poem beginning: 'I am black and beautiful. I wonder how I shall live in the future.' She never found out. As she stood on a corner talking with friends, two Hispanic members of the neighbourhood's notorious 204th Street gang walked up and opened fire, killing Green and wounding three others. They were targeted because they were black. Traditionally the outside view of LA gangs has been of black youths like the Bloods and the Crips and their countless subsets. It focused on the streets of Compton and South-Central and the culture of gangsta rap. But Hispanic gangs are in the ascendant, spreading across America.

They have names such as Mara Salvatrucha, La Mirada Locos and Barrio Van Nuys, and now the 204th Street gang - who made it clear that they will kill innocent girls to force black families off their turf.

Last year there were 269 gang-related killings in LA. Gang-related crime leaped 15.7 per cent last year, as most other types of crime fell. Hate crimes against black people have surged. With a rapidly growing Hispanic population, LA's gang culture is shifting. It means that being black in the wrong neighbourhood can get you killed.

Green's murder was the latest in a line of killings by the 204th Street gang. In 1997, 11-year-old Marquis Wilbert was killed on his bike. In 2001, Robert Hightower, 19, was killed. In 2003, Eric Butler, 39, was shot dead trying to protect his daughter from being harassed. There are streets that blacks have been forbidden to cross.

Green's death brought the gang war between 'brown and black' to public awareness. Next week a summit will be held called the Black and Brown Strategy Meeting which aims to head off a race war. 'All of the signs are there that a racial war is going to explode in this city,' says Khalid Shah, director of Stop the Violence, one of the groups organising the meeting. Memories of the 1992 Rodney King riots, which claimed 53 lives, remain fresh, but Shah believes that worse is ahead. 'It will be 10 times bigger than what happened after King. You are looking at an event which could not only paralyse an entire city but an entire state,' he warns.

Green's death sparked Villaraigosa's crackdown. The police took the unprecedented step of publishing a list of the 11 worst gangs, including 204th Street. They vowed to go after them with police, FBI agents and injunctions to prevent members meeting. An extra 50 police were assigned to anti-gang duties in San Fernando Valley. In south LA, a team of 120 detectives and 10 FBI agents has been set up. An extra 18 officers have been put into Harbor Gateway. But Angelenos have seen it all before. The city's history is littered with anti-gang initiatives, and what the new effort shows is just how widespread the gangs have become. They have spread into the San Fernando Valley, an area previously famed for suburban prosperity. Last year one area of the north Valley saw a 160 per cent rise in gang crime.

Publishing the 'hit list' could backfire. In the warped gang sub-culture, being on the list is a badge of pride. The lesson of the 204th Street gang seems apt. They number only a few dozen members in a tiny strip of city that was open fields half a century ago, but killing blacks has propelled them from obscurity to enviable notoriety.

'Putting out a list was a bad idea. Groups that don't make the list will want to be on it. They don't exactly think rationally,' said Alex Alonso, a gang historian who has testified in more than 100 court cases.

Yet there is hope. Alfonso 'Chino' Visuet, 23, was sucked into the gang life as a teenager. There was the lure of excitement and riches, the push of a difficult home life. 'People who join a gang are always running away from something. They flee to the gang,' Visuet says.

Visuet is not running any more. He works for Father Boyle's Homeboy Industries (homeboy-industries.org), a project that helps people leave gang life. It provides jobs, an education, pays to have gang tattoos removed and gives counselling. It aims to remove the circumstances that lead to crime: poverty, abuse and unemployment. It is staffed almost entirely by former gang members and has spun off a bakery, a silk-screen printers and a restaurant. 'You have to address the lethal absence of hope. I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang,' Boyle says.

It worked for Visuet. He starts college this autumn and wants to be a probation officer. 'I was on the edge of doing something that would ruin my life, either by doing violence or having it done to me. That's over now,' he says.

For the moment it is organisations like Homeboy Industries that pick up the slack. Father Boyle has a catchphrase: 'Nothing stops a bullet like a job.' But that can be a hard message to get across in a city whose political classes see gangs as primarily a police issue. That is not the way it is on the street.

Visuet despairs at the conflict. 'A brown gang member now just sees a black gang member. What they don't see is how that person comes from the same place they do. They might have a mother who is an alcoholic as well or a father who beats on them. They have the same story,' he says.

Boyle and others have mixed feelings about the crackdown. The road to LA's problems is littered with failed plans and policing, and incompetence. Over the past decade the main anti-gang scheme, LA Bridges, has spent more than $100m yet keeps no record of whether those it helps leave gang life or return to it.

Then there is political scheming. The list of 11 gangs, critics say, was drawn up deliberately to present a 'balance' by covering the whole city. Politicians use the presence of a high-profile gang to act tough on law and order and police chiefs use it as a way of upping manpower. 'It is a ridiculous list,' says Alonso.

LA is a city of two worlds - Hollywood and gangs. On a two-lane highway that roars through the middle of Harbor Gateway, a few hundred yards from where Cheryl Green was gunned down, there is a billboard for a new TV show called Sons of Hollywood. It shows three rich young men against a backdrop of palm trees. It claims to be a 'reality' show, but for most of the impoverished, racially torn citizens it is nothing more than a fantasy.

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[Twilight Flyer]

I've read some things about Boyle. The guy is a saint, make no mistake.

However, what does the gang activity in L.A. have to do with a racist call to action for truckers to blockade state capitals. Once again, I can understand the concern and I think if someone could pull something like this off, the politicians would certainly have to listen. But the message is lost in the hateful diatribe and he ends up as just another racist with nothing to say.

[emerlin]

Let's not confuse drug related gang activity with a "race war." There is a huge difference, and most gangs fall along the lines of color.

Shebear, I think you are doing us a disservice by thinking all of us are uninformed about the world. We all have access to news on radio, TV, and sattelite broadcasting, not to mention the Internet. There is no shortage of information. Only a shortage of interest.

If you think our industry is going to be less regulated and allow substandard drivers, no matter what the skin color, you're wrong. There are constant efforts to tighten up already existing regs, and the government watchdogs are not going to let go of those efforts.

Anyone who wants to drive a commercial vehicle in the US will have to conform to our laws, just as anyone wishing to drive a commercial vehicle in any other country will have to conform to their laws. Doesn't matter their country of origin.

[Blacksheep]

What a load of sh*t, the American tuck driver can't agree on anything let alone a national strike/work stoppage.
Don't make me freekin laugh.

[allan5oh]

Shebear, I think you are doing us a disservice by thinking all of us are uninformed about the world. We all have access to news on radio, TV, and sattelite broadcasting, not to mention the Internet. There is no shortage of information. Only a shortage of interest.

If she thinks that the first article she posted is the truth, she is the one who is mis-informed of the facts.

[allan5oh]

You can write the author Frosty Wooldridge directly at frostyw@juno.com

I like to distance myself from people who are obviously racist, and want to believe whatever they believe.

In the meantime, I will contact him myself to verify his sources.

What sources? He doesn't state any whatsoever in his article. His article is pure opinion, nothing more. Take it at that.