Posted on 10/18/2016 8:04:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KMSP) - An act of democracy was met with an act of crime in Bloomington, Minnesota. The vandals were right on busy Normandale Boulevard when they torched the big Donald Trump sign on Lorri Kreuscher’s lawn.
"It was Saturday night, probably 9 p.m., and someone came to our door and said, ‘Do you know your sign is on fire?’” Kreuscher said.
The Trump sign was decorated with women's bras and lit on fire. It happened only a few feet from where vandals hit 3 weeks earlier, using road salt to kill the grass and spell out her candidate’s name.
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"If you don't fight back, you're doing exactly what they want,” Kreuscher said. “They win."
But Kreuscher seems to be an anomaly this election cycle, as many are keeping their yards and their bumpers free of politics.
"Maybe one or two percent of the population is actually moved by a lawn sign,” said political science professor David Schultz. "Cell phones and the internet have replaced yard signs.”
Schultz is betting yard signs won't even be around in 10 years.
"It's really not clear that putting up signs is going to change people's minds, so why bother?” he said.
Activists.
The Fascists are getting out of control
It probably won’t be long before I get myself banned here expressing my true thoughts.
I tend to agree. Yard signs and bumper stickers will be relics of the past. On the bright side, it will save the campaigns money and no one will know who you support. Sounds like a win/win to me.
Schultz is a well known DFL political hack.
He may have been the point man in this vandalism.
How so?
“We pay mentally-ill people to do crazy s#it”
This story would also be "national news."
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We’re running out of peaceful ways to fix this country.
If Hillary is allowed to steal this election, the question will be answered. Because if Hillary gets into the White House, there won't be no tomorrow. She will use the power of the Government to silence her [real and imagined] enemies.
Once upon a time it used to be a matter of pride for people to know who you supported.
We shall see.............
If I am not mistaken Normandale College is not to far from the scene of the crime.
That we shall, My FRiend, that we shall.
Some German Jews did not believe that Hitler would go after them, either. Germany is a civilized Nation, they said. Others tried to warn them.
History tells us who was correct and who was wrong.
That we shall, My FRiend, that we shall.
Some German Jews did not believe that Hitler would go after them, either. Germany is a civilized Nation, they said. Others tried to warn them.
History tells us who was correct and who was wrong.
Has anyone yet suggested that it might be fun to set traps for all the destroyers? Catch them in the acts and prosecute. Bait the traps and grab them in the act and call the Sheriff.
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