US truckers plan own ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests following Canada’s model

US truckers are reportedly planning their “Freedom Convoy” protests against what they refer to as “unlawful [COVID-19] mandates” after similar protests in Canada drew international support from anti-vaccine activists.

According to the Facebook group, Kansas Truckers for Freedom Convoy, US-based truck drivers will leave a truck stop on March 3 in Aurora, Colorado before taking major cross-country Interstate-70 highway across the State of Kansas, stopping for the night in city of Salina, and then heading into the state of Missouri through Kansas City.

The truck convoy will then live Salina on the morning of March 4 and “slow roll” through the cities of Junction City and Topeka for truckers to stop and collect donations, the groups added, encouraging “peaceful supporters” to participate in donating to the cause.

The group further states that the convoy will then drive across Missouri, and after making a stop in the mid-western State of Illinois, will head to the neighboring State of Indiana, where the convoy will wait for other truckers to arrive from northern routes.

The Kansas Truckers for Freedom Convoy group further emphasized that it is “standing up for freedoms” and is dedicated to fighting “unlawful mandates” peacefully and effectively.

According to various right-wing news outlets in the US, protesting truck convoys from across the country intend to eventually converge into Washington DC – where the nation’s President Joe Biden is due to deliver his annual State of the Union address in Congress on March 1.

The development came after American Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky declared last week that he hopes anti-vaccine protesters in trucks would "clog up [US] cities" amid a warning by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that a convoy of anti-vaccine truckers may soon begin in the country.

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