Posted on 02/27/2016 10:03:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Wait… I thought Hillary Clinton was the champion of minority voters and the Social Justice Warriors? If so, this news is darned peculiar. At a rally in Atlanta, Georgia the security team covering the former Secretary of State hastily escorted a couple of attendees out of the facility yesterday for the outrageous crime of holding up some signs which the campaign staff had given them before the event began. Of course, they had altered the promotional material a bit by scrawling three little words on the back of one of the Hillary signs, and they weren’t we love you. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Meagan Mwanda and Ashona Husbands never wanted to hold the Hillary Clinton sign in the first place.
Early Friday, the two Georgia State University freshmen walked to Atlanta's City Hall to hear the Democratic presidential candidate. Last week, they attended a rally by Bernie Sanders at Morehouse College. They wanted a chance to size up Clinton on Friday but say they didn't get it.
Mwanda and Husbands claim they were kicked out of the rally for writing "Black Lives Matter" on the back of a Clinton sign.
"Why are these three words such a threat to her and her campaign?" Mwanda said.
The two young women also wrote the names of Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner on the sign. They had an additional, smaller piece of paper reading, "I am not a super predator." But the first big question here is who actually kicked the students out of the rally and who made that decision? Mwanda and Husbands claimed that they were tossed out by Clinton staffers, but pretty much everyone else is denying that. The students said they were removed by staffers and men with green military-type uniforms and bullet proof vests, who told them that their sign was “inappropriate” and that they would need to leave. But a spokeswoman for the Atlanta PD said they were removed by plain clothes cops and members of the Atlanta Proactive Enforcement Interdiction (APEX) Unit. I suppose it’s easy enough to understand how the young women could confuse plain clothes officers with the Clinton staff in the midst of all the confusion.
But the question which still begs an answer is, who made the call to remove them? Nobody involved seems to be claiming that the two were causing any sort of disruption. There was no chanting or singing or violence on the scene, just two students holding signs. Would the cops really respond to that with a physical ejection on their own initiative? That sounds dubious to me, with the far more likely scenario being that Clinton’s team noticed the sign and decided that was going to mess up their photo op. As with pretty much all the campaigns, all it takes at that point is a quick word to security and the offending guests can be removed on the premise of it being a private event.
Every time someone is kicked out of a Trump rally it seems to be national news for weeks on end. Granted, Trump tends to revel in the ejections from the podium and feeds red meat to the media that loves to bash him, but isn’t the end result the same? You’re still silencing the voices of those who oppose or at least question your message. And the message in question is of particular interest here. That smaller sign I mentioned above (dealing with the super predator question) is a direct reference to Hillary Clinton’s previous support (now apparently retracted) for the 1994 crime bill. I wrote about this yesterday but I wasn’t sure if it was going to catch fire among the Democratic base. It seems to be spreading, though, and if this gets too big Hillary is going to have a serious problem. She’s not just counting on the black vote to beat Bernie, but to edge her over the finish line in the general election as well. I’m seeing reports of very light voter turnout in South Carolina today already and Clinton can’t afford that in November.
Plus, she’s being forced by Sanders to backpedal on backing one of the most popular and successful pieces of crime prevention legislation in modern history. I very much look forward to her selling that position to the general election audience in the fall.
“Mwanda and Husbands claim they were kicked out of the rally for writing “Black Lives Matter” on the back of a Clinton sign. “Why are these three words such a threat to her and her campaign?” Mwanda said.”
DUH...
Because Blacks are supposed to be SEEN, not heard, at Democrat/Her Majesty’s rallies. They are there to SUPPORT THE MEME, nothing else.
HOW DARE THEY try to push a meme that could cost Master Clinton millions of White Voters.
While I detest Hillary Clinton, and think her to be among the vilest people on earth...I couldn’t blame even her for not wanting BLM sewer rats around.
She wants it both ways; she wants to pander to them and dangle “reparations” in front of them while hiding that pandering from white voters (especially women). She does the same thing with women (hiding the pandering from men).
She is a duplicitous snake, nothing less.
Mwanda said once she and Husbands got to City Hall, they were put in a holding area for students. At some point, a campaign staffer gave Mwanda a sign reading, “Ready for Hillary.”
“I didn’t want to hold it, because I don’t know if I am supporting her yet,” Mwanda said. “I gave it away, but it made its way back to me.”
It ended up in Husbands’ hands.
The students knew they would be at the rally for most of the day, so Husbands had her books and bag. She took out a marker and wrote “Black Lives Matter” on the back of the sign.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/georgia-state-students-bounced-clinton-rally-over-/nqYrd/
The sign they were given was crafted to look like it was home-made...instead of the usual mass produced, union made versions.
Hillary.Petard.Hoisted.
Also, the cops don’t like BLM, and may have removed them on their own initiative. Maybe?
Keep in mind this is ATL. The mayor is a muslim.... and overwhelming black corrupt govt. machinery well oiled and in place. Declining, but in place— just like in Birmingham—in both places they feel empowered.
Interesting experience trying to get business done with the machinery— that is, for white business to get it done w/out having to pony up the “kick” to the gangland managers of the govt. bureaucrats.
But it’s great though if they are around because they can destroy her black votes bwa ha ha ha, every little bit helps like that guy who got on Bill Clintons case yesterday about Benghazi, I love it! Hillarys campaign is turning into a debacle
Belt Lengths Matter = BLM
At least they didn’t hold their rally at the Richard B. Russell federal building like they did last time - named in honor of the Democrat Senator who also happened to lead the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
No, he is not.
Hillary and Bill came up in the days when Black radicals, at the behest of white radicals had taken over the Democrat Party and it was sinking fast. They would make a socialist demand and if not met, violence would ensue. In addition, Black on White hate crime was flourishing as was black crime, in general.
To win the election, they had to suppress the radicals and admit blacks were murdering whites with little punishment.
Well, here they are again. We are told that only black lives matter...blacks are violently attacking whites like crazy while everyone pretends it is not happening. Liberals are loving up on violent black criminals (victims) again. But whites know and you can’t win an election without whites.
. . .These girls is NOT white! They ain't even ol' timey!--Hillary Stokes
The BLM tossed some folks in Oregon; too.
True. Maybe Black Lives Matter is just the Democratic Party herding part of their membership.
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