Posted on 08/23/2017 12:18:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Like many events that end up with a person in handcuffs, my story begins in a bar. I was in Atlanta earlier this month for Netroots Nation, the annual meeting of progressive organizers and writers, when I overheard friends discussing how to resist President Trump’s first visit to Trump Tower. I jumped into the conversation: “Well, you call me, of course.” Twenty minutes later, we had a rough plan that we would unfurl a banner inside Trump Tower the following week. I have been to many protests since the inauguration, and I was proud to do my part.
Together with Ultraviolet and the Working Families Party, we commissioned a painted banner that read simply “Women Resist White Supremacy.” Through sheer luck, not only would Trump be in Trump Tower during my act of resistance, but he would be giving a news conference about 3:30 p.m. I knew from my previous work as a campaign advancer that the Secret Service would begin sweeps to clear the space about an hour before he spoke, so the best possible time for the action was 2 p.m.
Unlike previous presidents, Trump’s home is in a public space. You don’t have to sneak into Trump Tower. You enter via an atrium next to a Nike store. Then you pass through airport-style security run by the Secret Service. I wore my banner as a slip of sorts under my flowy dress. It was made of fabric, so it didn’t set off the metal detector....
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
It’s private property.
I can just hear her saying this from the back-of-the-throat voice that is the hallmark of millennial snowflake gurlz.....
“I was in Atlanta earlier this month for Netroots Nation...”
I think I see the problem!
The word “I” appears five times in her first paragraph alone.
> Unlike previous presidents, Trump’s home is in a public space. <
Uh, no. It’s private property, some of which might be open to the public.
It’s something like a car dealership. I can, for example, freely walk into any Toyota dealership. But I can’t then unfurl a big “Toyota Cars Are Junk” banner and not get in trouble.
In the article, she does not understand why security and secret service would react vigorously to someone unfurling a protest banner where POTUS is expected to appear shortly.
She also assumes that everyone in West Philly has the same radical political views as she.
No. It isn't.
Melissa Byrne is described as a "political strategist living in Philadelphia". Mighty pompous way of saying "twit".
> The word “I” appears five times in her first paragraph alone. <
She’s a rank amateur. Obama could easily get fives “I” ‘s into one sentence.
“Vocal fry”.
I guess I don’t get out much. I get the “valley girl” vibe from her writing.
+1
She is too stupid to realize she is a threat, albeit one easily arrested. Too bad she didn’t spend good sobering time in jail.
Lock her up.
she is lucky she is free to write such dribble and not in jail after violating someone else’s property rights
Is that the little beauty who wraps her life around the resist movement? Dang these lefty chicks are a crude breed
Maybe a round of pepper pellets will hit her in the pu**y???
Maybe a round of pepper pellets will hit her in the pu**y???
Yeah, I hear ya. There are a lot of people that confuse “public ownership” and “public access”. A city sidewalk is public property in that it is owned by the city. It is also public access as the public is allowed to freely use that sidewalk. The county jail is also public property in that it is owned by the county but it is NOT public access.
The owner determines the access is the basic theory but apparently that is not being taught in schools anymore.
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