Posted on 07/20/2016 8:00:00 AM PDT by C19fan
Activists marched illegally down streets, fought with one another and defied a downtown tennis ball ban Tuesday during the second day of the Republican National Convention. But as the excitement unfolded, some activist leaders wondered where the crowds were.
Cleveland has seen far smaller protests than those at other recent conventions, despite the nomination of Donald Trump eliciting a rage from progressives that rivals or exceeds their hatred of former President George W. Bush. In a further distinction, it has also seen very few activism-related arrests.
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Same reason they did it in 1968.
I’d love to see the phone calls and emails between Lynch and the BLM leaders. I have a hunch that the assassination of police officers has had a very chilling effect on their ardor, for the moment. And perhaps all the open carry folks has also had an effect.
Ferguson was attended and led by groups from Chicago and Oakland, CA. The common thieves that waited on the fringes were East St Louisans to some degree.
You funny guy!
More seriously, and on second thought, I think the reason the hoards haven’t shown up is that the Hillarists/Obammunists have made sure that the funding was yanked for their violent thugs because they’re finally realizing the optics of what’s been going is extremely detrimental in the eyes of most voters and that having violent far-leftists create thuggish chaos in Cleveland could help cement a Trump victory.
Exactly, they can’t afford a white woman being attacked by immigrants at the convention. Elsewhere is perfectly fine, but it would be too difficult for the media to sweep away if it happened this week in Cleveland.
Did I write 'sheltering in place?'
I'm sorry.
Of course I meant 'Sheltering A Piece'
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