Posted on 04/15/2016 11:31:06 AM PDT by firebrand
It was good that we did it. There was a mixup regarding meeting place that caused us to have fewer people than we should have had at five-thirty, but we eventually ended up with a bunch of stalwarts who were still there bringing people in from the sidewalk and yelling to drivers when I left at a quarter to eight. We followed the old freeper rule that a few protesters, or even one protester, is better than no one at all. One of the people in a video I watched last night said, "There are actually some pro-Trump people here." I didn't see anything about us today. Post it if you see it?
At the onset, we were besieged by protesters who came right up to our barricades and started waving their arms and screaming hate-filled tirades at us. Their favorite topic was how hate-filled we were! The police yanked them away before any violence could start, and after that we were mostly yelled at from across the avenue.
At one point, the Strategic Response Team arrived to investigate a banner that had been dropped from a window in an upper floor of the Hyatt. It said GOP + Trump = Party of Hate. It started to occur to me that they are trying to reverse the language again, this time with the word "hate." The SRT might have been concerned about the heavy cans that were attached to the banner to keep it from blowing in the wind (it didn't work) but maybe they were just checking out which floor it was coming from and which window. It soon disappeared.
The cops overall were fantastic and we were very grateful. They were drawn from all the boroughs and there were many, many of them.
The BLM and other protesters in the big mob dispersed before the event at the Hyatt was over. I guess they were being paid by the hour. I didn't see the part where they arrested the people who caused a disturbance in the security line. I did see a bunch of cops holding lots of plastic handcuffs head toward the main entrance.
Those in our group who held out the longest were treated to the arrival of Info Wars staff, with cameras etc. They are now on their way to Portland to deal with anti-free-speech problems out there. During the course of the event, we had CBC, NBC, Newsday, and others.
Thanks to all who attended!
I like to think it was for Trump, since he always says “Do we love our cops?”
But in truth they just do their job, and they do it very, very well.
Oh, woe! I hope it’s over for a while at least.
He said that one pro-Trump person got inside the pen with the bad guys and the police had to get him out. I didn't watch the whole show so I don't know anything further.
At least my dentist and all of the girls and their families are BIG TRUMPERS! :-)
Good to hear that we were mentioned. That was not one of our people who entered the mob area, though. We were all on best behavior. Someone said there were pro-Trump Teamsters there—waiting in the wrong place because of the faulty Net posting!
The unions are strong in that hotel. I at first thought the Cruz speech noise might have been their handiwork, but as I read more I saw that it was real.
Great work!
I think that may have been Leventhal that I saw/heard. I don’t have a TV so I don’t know all the different personalities. He was walking around pointing different things out. Our corner spot was actually in the background in one of the shots: northeast corner of 42nd and Lex.
I guess Info Wars stopped off in Colorado. I just saw them in a live feed. Hope there is a rerun later. They are doing good work!
Good! And good for the Pardons family.
That sounds right, and a circle of cops talking in the middle of the intersection.
It turned out that they gave us a very good spot, because one part of the parade went right past us going east to west. I guess they all met up in different spots. Some came from the other direction. At that point the drivers were cussing at us, because they were stopped cold until the parade was finished, but we were telling them “It’s not us!” so we wouldn’t be giving Trump a bad name.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Trump’s rallies are an orgy of love. Where do they get the idea there is hate?
Thanks!
Thank You!
“Where do they get the idea there is hate?
They are pathetic.
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Mind control. They try to destroy your reality.
Good job firebrand - you did the family proud...
They tried putting the hate label on the Tea Party. They watched every move they made and put them under the microscope. They couldn’t find anything. The Tea Party even cleaned up their own mess.
You can go to their website for more information.
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