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Ad-Rock, Beastie Boys Fans Hold Anti-Hate Rally in Brooklyn’s Adam Yauch Park
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Posted on 11/20/2016 11:39:13 AM PST by bryan999

Brooklyn residents packed a small park named for Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA) on Sunday morning at an anti-hate rally organized after vandals tagged playground equipment with swastikas and pro-Trump graffiti on Friday. Members of the crowd carried signs with Beastie Boys-themed slogans like, “No sleep til no hate in Brooklyn,” and decorated the location of the painted-over graffiti with paper hearts, flowers, and chalk.

Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock was in attendance, and addressed the crowd on a megaphone. “Spray painting swastikas in a children’s playground is a messed-up thing to do,” he said. “And for many of us, it has special meaning, because this park is named for Adam Yauch, who was my friend and bandmate for over 30 years. But he was also someone who taught non-violence in his music, in his life—to all of us, and to me.”

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So have they figured out who spray-painted the swastikas?

I think Horowitz is being used here...

1 posted on 11/20/2016 11:39:13 AM PST by bryan999
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A leftist pretending to be a Nazi.


2 posted on 11/20/2016 11:40:33 AM PST by Artemis Webb (Ted Kennedy burns in hell.)
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Or maybe he’s fully well part of the problem.. who knows?

Still kind of strange that they haven’t figured out who did this... aren’t there security cameras looking down on that park 24/7 ??


3 posted on 11/20/2016 11:40:48 AM PST by bryan999
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I take it this is the “Fake News” we keep hearing about. Especially when you consider they were non-swastika swastikas.


4 posted on 11/20/2016 11:45:04 AM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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after vandals tagged playground equipment with swastikas and pro-Trump graffiti on Friday.

It was Sabotage!

5 posted on 11/20/2016 11:46:20 AM PST by dfwgator
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Of course like all the other hoaxes, a week later, after the news cycle digests the story, they’ll find out the “pro-Trump fascism” was Soros-inspired smear campaign vandalism.


6 posted on 11/20/2016 11:47:07 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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Someone from Brooklyn... who voted 80% Hillary
Someone who engages in ‘tagging,’ the protest of choice of kids in the cities.
Someone who knows where MCA’s grave is...

Yeah... this is real.


7 posted on 11/20/2016 12:00:04 PM PST by rwilson99 (How exactly would John 3:16 not apply to Mary?)
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I see what you did there...


8 posted on 11/20/2016 12:03:22 PM PST by EEGator
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I don’t really know or care what the Beastie Boys’ politics are, but I have a lot of love for their music from back in my teen days - also admire their support for Tibetan independence from the PRC. That reminds me, I’ve been meaning to get “Paul’s Boutique” on vinyl.


9 posted on 11/20/2016 12:08:11 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Nice reference.


10 posted on 11/20/2016 12:14:37 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Hillary Clinton is a felon. As yet unindicted, but a felon nonetheless ))))
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Hey folks, it’s Brooklyn, not Richmond, VA.


11 posted on 11/20/2016 12:24:50 PM PST by Bogie
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If you have 30 minutes...(Lots of language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo


12 posted on 11/20/2016 12:32:53 PM PST by EEGator
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Thanks very much - watching it right now. So...many...celebrities lol.


13 posted on 11/20/2016 12:44:24 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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You’re welcome. I was enthralled the first time I watched it.


14 posted on 11/20/2016 12:50:35 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Two Kids' Dad

One of my all-time favorite videos.


15 posted on 11/20/2016 12:51:55 PM PST by dfwgator
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“But he was also someone who taught non-violence in his music...”

Well, maybe like this:

He pulled out his shotgun
He was quick on the draw, I thought I’d be dead
He put the gun to my head and this is what he said,

“Now my name is M.C.A., I’ve got a license to kill
I think you know what time it is, it’s time to get ill
Now what do we have here an outlaw and his beer
I run this land, you understand, I make myself clear.”

“Now I got the gun, you got the brew
You got two choices of what you can do
It’s not a tough decision as you can see
I can blow you away or you can ride with me”


16 posted on 11/20/2016 1:12:21 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I hate it when stupid druggie musicians hold anti-hate rallies.


17 posted on 11/20/2016 1:23:22 PM PST by heye2monn
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I hate it when stupid druggie musicians hold anti-hate rallies.


18 posted on 11/20/2016 1:24:23 PM PST by heye2monn
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A leftist pretending to be a Nazi.

What's there to pretend?
19 posted on 11/20/2016 1:27:09 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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Swastikas... right...

It occurs to me that white supremicists would know how to spray paint a swastika.

20 posted on 11/20/2016 1:32:39 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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