Posted on 06/10/2020 1:03:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Is Martin Gugino an Antifa provocateur?
Or a beloved Catholic peace activist who was the victim of police brutality in Buffalo, New York?
A Tuesday morning tweet from President Donald Trump suggested the former, drawing a wave of shock and outrage from friends of the 75-year-old activist who was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police during a protest last Thursday outside City Hall.
Friends of the retired computer programmer described Gugino as a devout Catholic and a graduate of Canisius High School, a private Jesuit school in Buffalo, who is a passionate advocate for multiple causes on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised. Gugino spent his retirement lending a hand to multiple causes, among them Black Lives Matter.
“Martin has a passion for social justice,” said Mark Colville, who runs Amistad Catholic Worker in New Haven, Connecticut, and has known Gugino for years. “When he sees wrong he wants to be involved in making it right.”
“Martin is shy and reserved,” Colville said. “He likes his privacy. He doesn’t make a spectacle of himself. He likes to show up and be present. He likes to be involved in these movements for justice. But he doesn’t do it in a self-promoting kind of way.”
The two have worked for years to advocate for the closing of Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. detention camp in Cuba where terrorism suspects could be detained without process.
Gugino is active in Witness Against Torture, an organization formed in 2005 to protest the treatment of detainees on the base. Each January, group members travel to Washington, D.C., to fast and hold vigil outside the Department of Justice.
Much of the work was done on behalf of Muslim prisoners, many of whom were picked up by the CIA and taken to Guantanamo after the 9/11 terrorist strikes.
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do I need to ask?
Same thing.
Yeah, either way he’s an a**hole.
A SJW.
Why did he just delete his far left social media postings?
How'd that work out?
Let’s use words to confuse people.
This is easier for them now that he deleted his social media.
On the other hand, he is rather old to be antifa.
On the other other hand, we were told this is no antifa, just people who identify as anti-fascist. Are they saying he isn’t anti-fascist?
On the other other other hand, can’t he be both a catholic peace activist, AND trying to scan information with his phone?
Why is he holding his phone that way? It looks like he’s trying to scan. The other possibility is that he is trying to point the camera at his face, hoping the police hit him and he’ll have a picture of it.
The hardest part of this is figuring out how so many people came to the conclusion that the push was obviously “too hard” and “uncalled for”. Because the push is completely irrespective of what he was doing with the phone.
He clearly got pushed back. He tried to catch himself on the concrete pillar, but he had a helmet in his hand, you can hear the helmet hit the concrete, then it appears he dropped the helmet and fell over.
Again though, if the push is bad, it is bad whether he trips or not. Is it unacceptable for police to push protesters who run up to them while they are advancing? Are they supposed to stop?
Better known as a Granola Grampa
He’s shy and reserved but he physically got in the way of a line of police approaching a crowd of protesters.
They use every code word in the book for the fact that he’s a marxist agitator.
the article says he’s not Antifa, but he is Black Lies Matter. 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other, he’s still a far-left kook who appears to have been deliberately provoking the police who were attempting to restore order. Someone told me that in some pictures you can see that the “blood” was coming from a tube. I don’t know if that is true or not, but it doesn’t matter, he provoked an incident and got pushed, so what.
the 2 letters aside from CNN that is full of fake news BS-ERY...AP
Like the Berrigan’s!
1. Why would I believe his friends?
2. Why can’t he believe he’s a devout Catholic and still assist, aid, and abet Antifa? Does Antifa have an anti-Catholic membership clause?
3. Then what was he doing with his cellphone-like device? By their fruits you shall know them. This behavior was not Christian.
“He doesn’t make a spectacle of himself.”
LOL
“This is easier for them now that he deleted his social media.”
Yup.
That’s why the anti Trumpers MSM went full steam ahead of discredit PDJT. BUT pjmedia and other rightwing outlets got the full social media evidence before Grampa Goonsquad erased them.
Now why would you erase ALL social media accounts when you had them for more than 10 years full of commie messages?
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