Posted on 05/12/2017 2:16:32 AM PDT by davikkm
It was expected that protests to Donald Trump’s Presidency would last for a while, but we have past 100 days and they show no signs of abating. Many have wondered how it is that people can afford to be out protesting every day, and how the permanent protestors are actually supporting themselves.
Soon after Trump’s election, a job ad appeared on Craigslist offering $15 per hour plus gas money for “activists” to protest in different locations around the country courtesy of moveon.org (a Soros funded movement). Many attributed this to a Bernie Sanders group. But the media were quick to dismiss this as a hoax.
The next suspect was Organizing for Action, a group that works for securing Obama’s legacy (Obamacare etc…), who paid for Barack’s website, barackobama.com, is run by former Obama staffer, Eric Holder, and boasts more than 250 offices around the country with more than 30,000 workers (foot soldiers). This group (suspiciously?) receives almost no media attention.
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It is time to arrest Broke Obama and Hitlerina, and Huma, and others for treason.
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But now, Californian companies have admitted publically that they are paying their employees to protest, engage politically, and carry out “activist” activities. William Morgan, founder and CEO of Buoyant (a tech company), says: “It’s not sufficient anymore to say we’re a profit engine and we’re making money and screw everything else. It’s part of our responsibility to be engaged, to be active,” and “We as individuals, we as companies exist in an ecosystem. We’re only here because there’s this environment around us. It can’t just be a one-way relationship.” And of course he has every right to pay his employees to get involved in political activism (as long as they are willing). But there are major questions that need to be answered.
Would he afford the same opportunities for political engagement to employees who have different views to his own? For example, if a Donald Trump supporter wanted to protest a protest, or join a show of solidarity with fellow Trump fans, would they be allowed to do so under the same rules without censure?
A two parter. Firstly, is his company receiving anything in return for its actions? E.g. Contracts, access to officials, patronage, money, advertising exposure etc..? And secondly, when elections occur (of any level), will the Democrats be registering your company’s efforts as some kind of donation? Clearly it is money being spent on a campaign, possibly hundreds of full-time workers hitting the streets, being paid, to help defeat a political opponent – Surely this falls under some kind of regulation?
Are your customers aware that the money they spend is going directly to a political cause? If a person gave money to a charity, they’d like to know which one. If a customer doesn’t want to support your politics through their purchases, they should be made aware of where the money is going. (If I knew that money I spent with a company was going to support something I disapproved of, like sweat-shops for example, I would want to know).
America is a supposedly free country, and people are free to engage in most any practice they wish. But politics is heavily regulated for a reason. If people are finding ways to circumvent rules and the democratic process, other people need to know.
Can’t wait for California’s two mega-cities to secede. San Diego and the agricultural areas can stay.
I suggested it years ago, a decade or more. Red money and blue money. Red companies and blue companies. In 6 months the commies will be gone.
Later
Surely hiring anarchists to foment insurrection is violating some kind of law.
Interesting comments at the end of the article.
I wonder if they are paying all the proper taxes on that income. Maybe it’s time the IRS to take a peak at their books.
Now that Trump is making progress on Draining the Swamp at the Justice Department, perhaps it’s time to consider going after these outfits.
Bottom line is very simple. If they organize peaceful, legal, protests, fine - that’s the First Amendment. But if they, in any way, start organizing ‘the Resistance’, as in violent protests, that is RICO.
We will keep praying that we once again respect the rule of law. Comey's termination was a huge victory. :)
“Can’t wait for California’s two mega-cities to secede. San Diego and the agricultural areas can stay.”
Secede, my behind! Let the army go in there and burn the place to the ground like they did in the South. Reconstruct them. Make it hurt or it won’t count. Send Sherman (spit) in there. Payback’s a bitch.
Headline: Trump creating more jobs!!!!
It would create an interesting legal case if an employee, at the explicit urging of his employer, showed up at a protest and committed an assault or other crime.
I think a lawyer could successfully argue that the employee was operating as an agent of his company, and thus the company shared liability.
Any actual lawyers care to give an opinion?
Laws will never be inspected until they are enforced. That is the main reason I voted for Trump who seems to have picked an excellent enforcer in Sessions. The enforcement mechanism was long in need of an overhaul and upgrade. Sessions and Rosenstein are the parts needed to rebuild the whole thing. Comey was a defective major part and was thrown in the salvage bin. The process should proceed down the line to the newest janitor in the Podunk, South Dakota, field office. The edict should go out that any Bureau official or employee who makes public pronouncements via any media without prior authorization is liable to be terminated and/or prosecuted.
As well as other states.
Plus professors giving students credit for going to protests instead of the classroom
So what is the agenda these companies are pushing other than they hate Donald Trump? I suspect they want to be free to hire more foreign workers?
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