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About That Fifth Column

Jeff Taylor | 2.3.2004 6:54 AM

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What irate group might be moving freely about the country, tossing off poison letters, planning a revolution? Illegal immigrants? Muslims? Illegal Muslims? Truckers?

As Moe Szyslak might say, even when I thought it was the bears, I knew it was the truckers.

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Jeff Taylor is a contributing editor at Reason.

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  1. thoreau   22 years ago

    I still think we can blame this one on illegal immigrants. How do we know that the truck driver in question isn't a Muslim in the country illegally?

    There, problem solved. It's the fault of illegal Muslim immigrants! 🙂

  2. dj of raleigh   22 years ago

    When the media is filled with terrorism,
    the nuts will have those acts come to mind
    when they finally get fed up with something.

    I mean, a nut case who has never been in the army
    will dress up like a vietnam vet, get an assault rifle,
    and go out shooting, cause he may be crazy,
    but he ain't stupid...that's the way to do it.

  3. Stephen Fetchet   22 years ago

    Well, if the recent D.C. snipings taught us anything, it's that when a crime of national prominence occurs, we oughtta look for a conservative or libertarian White male, age 25 - 40, to pin it on.

    Let the great White male trucker-hassle of 2004 begin!

  4. Douglas Fletcher   22 years ago

    "What irate group might be moving freely about the country, tossing off poison letters, planning a revolution?"

    The Fugs?

  5. Mike   22 years ago

    Great site and we appreciate it as we are industry related. We will gladly exchange links with other related sites - we have over 20. We specialize in trucking oversize and wideload shipments. If interested feel free to contact us. Thanks for the oppurtunity!

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