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Virus restrictions fuel anti-government ‘boogaloo’ movement
Associated Press ^ | May 13, 2020 | Michael Kunzelman

Posted on 05/13/2020 12:24:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai

They carry high-powered rifles and wear tactical gear, but their Hawaiian shirts and leis are what stand out in the crowds that have formed at state capital buildings to protest COVID-19 lockdown orders. The signature look for the “boogaloo” anti-government movement is designed to get attention.

The group, which uses an ’80s movie sequel as a code word for a second civil war, is among the extremists using the armed protests against state-at-home orders as a platform. Like other movements that once largely inhabited corners of the internet, it has seized on the social unrest and economic calamity caused by the pandemic to publicize its violent messages.

In April, armed demonstrators passed out “Liberty or Boogaloo” fliers at a statehouse protest in Concord, New Hampshire. A leader of the Three Percenters militia movement who organized a rally in Olympia, Washington, last month encouraged rally participants to wear Hawaiian shirts, according to the Anti-Defamation League. On Saturday, a demonstration in Raleigh, North Carolina, promoted by a Facebook group called “Blue Igloo” — a derivation of the term — led to a police investigation of a confrontation between an armed protester and a couple pushing a stroller.

Another anti-lockdown rally is planned for Thursday at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, site of an angry protest last month that included armed members of the Michigan Liberty Militia. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has been the target of violent threats on Facebook forums, including a private one called “The Rhett E. Boogie Group.” …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: 4chan; 8chan; bigigloo; boog; boogaloo; coronavirus; covid19; cw2; cwii; dissociatedpress; fakenews; globalagenda; hoax; igloo; liberalagenda; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: lee martell

https://bluesjazzbookclub.com/2019/12/15/what-we-know-about-boogaloo-the-dance-of-the-1960s/


21 posted on 05/13/2020 12:51:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Salamander

I never even heard of the movie and finally got around to looking up the ‘karen’ meme a few minutes ago.


22 posted on 05/13/2020 12:52:33 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: lee martell

23 posted on 05/13/2020 12:54:33 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: posterchild

Everything is evolving into one inside meme joke after another.

It’s hard to keep up.

:)


24 posted on 05/13/2020 12:54:49 PM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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To: PapaBear3625

The “memetic warfare” made me laugh.


25 posted on 05/13/2020 12:55:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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To: Olog-hai

The AssPress is worse than CNN.


26 posted on 05/13/2020 12:56:19 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Olog-hai
Extremists? I don't think they are that "extreme" at all. They are protesting peacefully and well within their Rights. They even clean up after themselves and police their own.

If I roll up with a mobile guillotine... Then things could be considered heading in an "extreme" direction...

27 posted on 05/13/2020 12:59:10 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Powered by compressed air or magnets?


28 posted on 05/13/2020 1:06:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: PapaBear3625

29 posted on 05/13/2020 1:07:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Olog-hai

Paranoia from the Left.

Yet they have no concern about the suspension of the Bill of Rights.

Right of free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of gathering to pray.
Right of free travel.
Right to work.
Etc

Virtual house arrest.


30 posted on 05/13/2020 1:20:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Olog-hai

The only thing about brandishing, if you will, guns is that if your “bluff” is called you better intend to use them. Or leave them the hell home.


31 posted on 05/13/2020 1:20:37 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: E.Allen

Hawaiian shirts with tactical gear has been a MilSim/Airsoft thing for a long time.

In fact, I think we’ll just take credit for it.

Your welcome world.


32 posted on 05/13/2020 1:21:23 PM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: dsc

THE FANTASTIC JOHNNY C BOOGALOO DOWN BROADWAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ng3p3Tlc0I

Some Latin Boogaloo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiM9GqZG9kE

Born In Harlem, And Swept the World: The Story Of Latin Boogaloo | NBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lanGvlnBt6c


33 posted on 05/13/2020 1:23:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: TalBlack

What is the intent that the gun carriers are supposedly “bluffing” about?


34 posted on 05/13/2020 1:23:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Hawaiian shirts are cultural appropriation


35 posted on 05/13/2020 1:23:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: mewzilla

How many of the “hate groups” are on the government payroll?


36 posted on 05/13/2020 1:24:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: yesthatjallen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations...

The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI’s stated motivation was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order”.[17]


37 posted on 05/13/2020 1:26:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: I want the USA back

I’m certain the the FBI (under Obama) tried to infiltration the TEA Party movement and provoke a “terrorist attack” (as they have done with some Islamist groups and witness some militant wannabe Islamist push a do-nothing button on a “bomb”).


38 posted on 05/13/2020 1:28:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise

Good research.


39 posted on 05/13/2020 1:29:10 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: Olog-hai
Did somebody say Bugaloos?


40 posted on 05/13/2020 1:30:31 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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