How Not To Protest the Government

Have you heard of Truckers for the Constitution? They have an unwieldy hashtag. And a non-self-explanatory acronym. And some pretty hefty demands. Namely: to restore constitutional order, arrest nearly everyone in power in the U.S. capital, dismantle the Department of Homeland Security, and generally overturn tyranny.

For about a week now, they've been loudly threatening to do this by sending a convoy thousands of semi-trucks long to Washington, D.C., to spend the Columbus Day weekend circling the Capital Beltway, non-stop, ensnarling traffic (although they've borrowed the language of the shutdown, they don't seem all that interested in reopening the federal government). The Facebook page for the plan has 164,000 likes. One organizer vowed no less than 10,000 trucks. Hundreds of people were tweeting cheers for the cause this morning. Even Zipcar warned local drivers to be on the lookout.