Mon Feb 28, 2022 – 10:46 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. cross-country trucker convoy, which was organized to call for an end to all authoritarian COVID mandates and restrictions, is on track to reach the outskirts of Washington, D.C. as planned on March 5.
After passing through Texas and Oklahoma over the weekend, the so-called “People’s Convoy,” which began in southern California on February 23, reached Cuba, Missouri for an overnight stay Monday night.
The truckers will then cross through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland before reaching the Capital Beltway, a 64-mile stretch of the interstate highway that encircles Washington, D.C., on Saturday, March 5.
Modeled after the Canadian Freedom Convoy, which generated international attention for opposing Canada’s authoritarian COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns, participants in the American convoy hope to bring an end to the state of emergency declared in response to the coronavirus and instigate the curtailment of all remaining mandates, restrictions, and COVID-related requirements in the U.S.
“To our elected officials that believe they rule us: YOU work for US,” the convoy’s organizers stated on their website.
“Our [C]onstitution was written to provide enough power to act on a national level, but not
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