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Milwaukee sheriff says it's 'pitchforks and torches time' and stands by Trump
The Manchester Guardian ^ | October 15, 2016 | Lois Beckett

Posted on 10/15/2016 2:31:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It’s “pitchforks and torches time”, a prominent conservative sheriff tweeted on Saturday, with a condemnation of the government and media that echoes the increasingly heated rhetoric of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

David A Clarke, the elected sheriff of Milwaukee County, is a leading Trump supporter who has previously called Black Lives Matter activists the “enemy”.

Clarke paired what appeared to be an accusation of the corruption in most of the United States government with a photoshopped image of a crowd of people carrying burning sticks and pitchforks....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: lawenforcement; milwaukee; trump; wisconsin
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1 posted on 10/15/2016 2:31:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny how they never mention he’s a democrat


2 posted on 10/15/2016 2:34:51 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yes! we are so ready!


3 posted on 10/15/2016 2:36:00 PM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yes! we are so ready!


4 posted on 10/15/2016 2:36:02 PM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: onona

Of course , it is a UK newsie


5 posted on 10/15/2016 2:36:04 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This could get a lot more serious than pitchforks and torches


6 posted on 10/15/2016 2:40:24 PM PDT by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's foreheadknows)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

that’s what we need plastic pitchforks and torches (not real ones) and picket CNN etc..let them feel the burn


7 posted on 10/15/2016 2:43:55 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: onona

AR time!


8 posted on 10/15/2016 2:44:28 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: Bullish

With a leader like Sheriff Clarke at the front, yes it could.


9 posted on 10/15/2016 2:44:44 PM PDT by OKSooner (Them Rooskies done it 'cause I seen 'em!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have loved this brave man from the first time I heard him.


10 posted on 10/15/2016 2:52:10 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Windflier

windflier’s tag line is one of my favorites on FR

Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)


11 posted on 10/15/2016 3:09:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Defeat the DREEGs.


12 posted on 10/15/2016 3:34:17 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: rolling_stone
that’s what we need plastic pitchforks and torches (not real ones) and picket CNN etc..let them feel the burn

Oooh, that'll scare em. Pfft..

We should be surrounding their buildings and daring them to come out!

13 posted on 10/15/2016 3:35:04 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox

Have to be careful to not incite a riot or falsely imprison someone (not letting them leave)


14 posted on 10/15/2016 3:41:17 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: onona

I’m laughing so hard at the idiot Never Trump tweets - aka rick wilson, john podretz (sp) who are having a fit over Clarke’s comment.

These idiots will attach themselves to the thinnest threads just to make a point.


15 posted on 10/15/2016 3:50:38 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bookmark


16 posted on 10/15/2016 3:52:15 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: uncitizen

Let him replace Comey’ after a public tv “you are fired” moment in Jan 2017


17 posted on 10/15/2016 4:05:05 PM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Thanks, Lurk.

I ‘borrowed’ that line from a Treeper at Conservative Treehouse.

Hey, it wasn’t nailed down or nuttin’ LOL


18 posted on 10/15/2016 4:22:37 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: onona

“Funny how they never mention he’s a democrat”

Whaaaaat?

Thump...


19 posted on 10/15/2016 4:24:08 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
FNC 10 12 2016 8 17 42 AM Fox and Friends – DOJ tipping off Clinton (Youtube 2:53)

Sheriff David Clarke - "It is pitchfork and torches time, to use the metaphor."

20 posted on 10/15/2016 4:26:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (~Questionable Hillary thinks Putin made me post this!~)
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