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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I never even heard of the movie and finally got around to looking up the ‘karen’ meme a few minutes ago.
Everything is evolving into one inside meme joke after another.
It’s hard to keep up.
:)
The “memetic warfare” made me laugh.
The AssPress is worse than CNN.
If I roll up with a mobile guillotine... Then things could be considered heading in an "extreme" direction...
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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.
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.
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.
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
What is the intent that the gun carriers are supposedly “bluffing” about?
Hawaiian shirts are cultural appropriation
How many of the “hate groups” are on the government payroll?
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]
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”).
Good research.
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