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Watch Pete Santilli's Border Shutdown Protest Fail Spectacularly

They had the motorcycles. They had the flags. And they had some people eager to protest child refugees coming over the border. What they didn鈥檛 have was a real plan.

That was the upshot of a failed effort by extremist radio host Pete Santilli and a group of bikers to shut down the Tijuana border crossing, south of San Diego, on July 5th.

The plan, on his show, was for his antigovernment 鈥溾 listeners to join forces with his biker friends to protest immigration policies and the imprisonment of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi in Mexico. So many bikers and 鈥淧atriots鈥 would turn out, Santilli hoped, that the resulting traffic jam and commotion would shut down the border.

Except, that didn鈥檛 happen. Not even close.

One day before the planned border shutdown protest, Santilli was in Murrieta, California, where he shouted at police officers on the scene, calling them 鈥渄omestic terrorists.鈥

The next day, having met up with his biker buddies who have been rallying for Tahmooressi鈥檚 return, Santilli and his crew set out southbound on Interstate 5. About ten miles from their destination, however, a California Highway Patrol officer pulled over Santilli鈥檚 vehicle.

All of this was caught on Santilli鈥檚 live-streaming broadcast of the 鈥渆vent.鈥 As Santilli鈥檚 car pulls off to the shoulder with the officer behind them, the bikers cruise on by and keep going.

It was the last that Santilli, or his supporters, were to see of them that day. That begs the question of whether the bikers are, in fact, working closely with Santilli or whether he鈥檚 simply trying to piggyback on their activities.

In the meantime, a smattering of protesters drawn by the , and led by a conspiracist named , had gathered in Tijuana to try to join Santilli鈥檚 protest. They too , comprised largely of two men wandering around trying to find a protest that wasn鈥檛 happening.

Murdock joked as he walked toward the Tijuana crossing plaza: 鈥淭here鈥檚 people waiting to see what goes on in the world. They鈥檙e like, 鈥楬ey, you didn鈥檛 have sex with a hooker, did you? You idiot! That鈥檚 Mexico! That鈥檚 nasty!鈥 鈥

In the meantime, Santilli鈥檚 traffic stop took 38 minutes 鈥 Santilli鈥檚 car had expired plates, though it was a rental, and he was ticketed for failure to carry proof of insurance 鈥 and he was left to fume for the rest of the way about the looming 鈥減olice state鈥 and to wonder paranoiacally if it had been part of a plot to disrupt the protest.

By the time Santilli arrived at the scene in Tijuana, the bikers were nowhere to be found (assuming that they were in fact headed toward the border). He and his crew could only find a couple of protesters. So they pulled the plug on the protest, got in their cars and went home.

One of the few protesters who showed up 鈥 Ernest 鈥淕eneral鈥 Lee of Santilli鈥檚 鈥 was left to file a bitter report about the day鈥檚 鈥渘onevent鈥.

鈥淲as it not enough publicity?鈥 he wondered. 鈥淲as it a bad weekend choice?鈥

Lee shook his head. 鈥淔rom a great event, to a non-event. I hate even filing this update.鈥

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