Posted on 05/23/2020 11:01:21 PM PDT by thecodont
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the state Capitol on Saturday to protest against California's stay-at-home orders even as residents entered the Memorial Day weekend with newly expanded options for beachgoing, barbecuing and shopping.
The rally to demand that Gov. Gavin Newsom lift his restrictions on business, religious gatherings and other activities took on the atmosphere of a political rally and festival on a closed-off street.
California Highway Patrol officers closed the Capitol lawn to demonstrators, so speakers addressed the crowd from the back of a flatbed truck as an airplane flew above towing a banner with a picture of Newsom and the words “End his tyranny!” Protesters waved dozens of flags and signs, many in support of President Donald Trump.
Few people wore masks and there was little room for social distancing on the sidewalk or closed-off street.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Few people wore masks and there was little room for social distancing on the sidewalk or closed-off street.
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OK, Karen.
If Trump needs another AG to be the one to say “arrest them for treason,” I’ll happily do it. I wouldn’t mind my signature being on the execution order.
media mostly ignoring anti-lockdown protests, including those going on all week in Spain:
23 May: BBC: Coronavirus: Anti-lockdown car protest draws thousands
Thousands of people in Spain are protesting against the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
The far-right Vox party urged supporters to drive through major cities without leaving their vehicles in order to maintain social distancing.
Protesters in the capital, Madrid, drove in convoy and waved Spanish flags as they called for socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to resign...
But, on Saturday, far-right protesters called for the lockdown to be lifted entirely owing to its impact on jobs and the economy.
Almost one million jobs were lost in March alone, and forecasts suggest the Spanish economy will contract by up to 12% this year as a result of the pandemic.
The demonstrators called for both Mr Sanchez and Deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias, who heads the left-wing Podemos party, to step down over their handling of the crisis.
The party’s leader, Santiago Abascal, led the protest from an open-topped bus in Madrid. He wore a face mask and accused the government of being “directly responsible for the worst management of this crisis on the entire planet”.
“Let your desire be heard for the resignation of the government,” he told supporters in a speech that was broadcast on radio.
Similar protests also took place in Seville, Barcelona and other regional capitals where rows of cars and motorbikes decked in Spanish flags honked their horns.
Others followed the convoys on foot and held placards...
While protests against his leadership took place around the country, Prime Minister Sanchez announced two major relaxations of the lockdown.
He said the country’s borders would reopen to foreign tourists from July.
Mr Sanchez also announced that football matches in La Liga - the top league of Spanish football - could resume from the week of 8 June...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52783936
VIDEO/PICS: The Olive Press: IN PICS: Thousands shut down Spain’ Palma de Mallorca in mass protest organised by Vox against government’s management of Covid-19 crisis
Citizens demonstrated in their cars to protest against the government’s management of the coronavirus crisis, calling for Pedro Sanchez’s resignation
by Isha Sesay
Throughout the week, protesters have taken to the streets to criticise Pedro Sanchez’s handling of the crisis...
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2020/05/23/in-pics-thousands-shut-down-spains-palma-de-mallorca-in-mass-protest-organised-by-vox-against-governments-management-of-covid-19-crisis/
Piers Corbyn (astrophysicist, weather forecaster and well-known gloBULL warming sceptic) appears with megaphone just after 2mins in, and gets arrested. check the number of police:
17 May: Youtube: 4m13s: UK: Jeremy Corbyn’s brother among 19 arrested at London anti-lockdown protest
At least 19 protesters were arrested in an anti-lockdown demonstration in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday. Piers Corbyn, brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, was also among those arrested.
Footage shows the protesters holding placards and chanting slogans, in addition to the arrests...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfIg0QM9eUg
Wikipedia: Piers Corbyn
At 18 he went to Imperial College London, being awarded a first class BSc degree in physics in 1968...
Corbyn’s denial of current global warming has tended to find more favour in right-wing Conservative circles, however. Ex-Mayor of London and current Prime Minister Boris Johnson had repeatedly suggested in his Daily Telegraph column and elsewhere that Corbyn might be correct.
Corbyn’s predictions are based on what is called “The Solar Weather Technique”. The technique “combines statistical analysis of over a century of historical weather patterns with clues derived from solar observations.” He considers past weather patterns and solar observations and sun-earth magnetic connectivity...
Climate change denial
Corbyn has stated his belief that the anthropogenic contribution to global warming is minimal, with any increase in temperature due to increased solar activity...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Corbyn
not a single police officer to be seen, as they protest to keep cars off the street post-lockdown:
17 May: Youtube: 2m45s: UK: Extinction Rebellion holds cycle-demo to ‘reclaim our streets’ amid lockdown-easing
Footage shows the activists riding in the middle of the streets, wearing vests and flags with the Extinction Rebellion symbol.
“It’s to reclaim the streets, to try and make sure that the world doesn’t just go back to normal and cars and busyness and try and show that the streets could be used for more things than just business,” said one activist.
“And this group in particular, it was cycling around Hackney, but in the UK there are lots of other groups like this one. And, we cycled in the middle of the street, just to reclaim our streets because it’s always full of cars now,” said another activist...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYzSyHTpgIA
Reuters has little to say:
24 May: Reuters: Police arrest 60 at anti-lockdown demonstrations in Berlin: report
The protesters had violated official guidelines to keep the virus contained, and some had attacked police officials, the newspaper said, citing a police spokesman.
Two police officers were slightly injured, the paper added.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-protest/police-arrest-60-at-anti-lockdown-demonstrations-in-berlin-report-idUSKBN22Z0QN?il=0
24 May: Russia Today: Police in Hamburg use WATER CANNONS to disperse demonstrators against anti-lockdown protest (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Police had to intervene after a small group of about 120 counter-protesters, many of them clad in black hoodies, repeatedly ignored police requests to stay clear of the ‘Vigil for the Basic Law’ rally against the lockdown measures on Saturday.
The counter-demonstrators, who showed up unannounced, lacking any permission from the authorities, argued that the anti-lockdown rally attracted many right-wing extremists. “Against conspiracy fantasies, anti-semites and the right-wing agenda,” one of the posters read...
The anti-lockdown gathering was greenlit to go ahead after organizers agreed to cap the number of its participants at 750 instead of some 3,500-4,000, as originally requested.
Less than 20 minutes after the meeting officially kicked off, at about 3:17 p.m. local time, the maximum allowed number of participants had already arrived, police said, noting that it had to block more people from coming...
One of the speakers at the rally argued that more people have died due to planned surgeries being postponed than from the virus itself. There have also been calls to make future vaccinations voluntary, although the authorities have never said that the coronavirus shot would be mandatory.
Several dozen rallies for and against the lockdown measures were also held in Berlin, including outside the Reichstag building, home to the German parliament...
That gathering also prompted a counter-action, with demonstrators branding those opposing the coronavirus restrictions “tin foil hats” and “Nazis.” Some 1000 police were deployed to ensure social distancing. In the wake of the protests, some 180 people faced administrative and criminal charges for violating the restrictions, including The Infectious Diseases Protection Act, police said.
https://www.rt.com/news/489599-germany-protests-lockdown-coronavirus/
So you enjoy watching small businesses going broke and going out of business? I don’t mind if people like you get accidentally shot.
Protests by the Left Get a Pass - While Conservatives Get Arrested
All protestors are equal - but some are more equal than others.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/protests-left-get-pass-while-conservatives-are-daniel-greenfield/
They want to see everyone working for big corporations that enforce social mandates under “trust and respect” and “diversity” policies if you aren’t reliant on the state via welfare/UBI.
Headline says “hundreds” and photo caption says “two thousand”.
Leftists can’t even cover their own misleading agenda.
He lives in NYC and has no ambition to leave what he says he hates. Imagine what influence his surroundings have on his thinking.
They corrected the headline to “thousands.”
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Rally-against-Newsom-s-stay-at-home-coronavirus-15291370.php
No you damn idiot. I'm talking about those in government depriving people of their Natural Rights. And nice lefty speech, saying I should be shot.
I have no ambition to leave? Where did I say such a thing?
A few wasted years ago when you gave me all the excuses one could stand about why you couldn’t afford to move out.
Anyone can afford to move out of where they don’t like being if they have the drive for it. It’s just a matter of priorities.
But we’ve already been through this...
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