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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Thursday, March 20, 2003 ::
USATODAY.com - Farmer surrenders in Washington
The standoff closed a stretch of Constitution Avenue - a major traffic artery - and side streets. During peak driving times, some commuters were stuck for three hours. That gave them plenty of time to question the government's ability to respond to terrorism. Monday night, the national terrorism alert was raised to "high" because of the looming war with Iraq.
"An American from North Carolina, a tobacco farmer, can hold up a third of D.C. for three days?" asked a bewildered Brian Petitt, president of Dynamic Technology Systems in Alexandria, Va. He spent 90 minutes Tuesday getting to a meeting in Washington. "I can't even imagine if he had a Ryder truck and had a foreign accent."------------------------------------------- posted 8:58 PM :: reference link ::
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