Posted on 03/01/2021 7:57:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In a repeat of a Valentine’s Day protest, a group of anti-maskers with picket signs congregated outside of a Trader Joe’s in Santa Cruz to protest the city’s mask mandate.
Unlike the organization’s earlier February demonstration, in which they stormed into the grocery store and took food from the shelves — while leaving cash at registers for cashiers who refused to serve them — this protest took place almost exclusively outside.
This go-around, a line of Trader Joe’s employees guarded the entrances — prohibiting entry for the group of protesters while letting masked customers enter.
Sunday, in fact, was allegedly known as “National Maskless Day,” based on fliers hung up by the group around the city, reported the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The group regularly protests outside the city's farmer's market. It also offers "free hugs," according to Lookout Santa Cruz.
The Sentinel also reported that signs held up by the protesters read: “Maskless Lives Matter” and “Enforce Love.”
The collective reportedly heckled masked shoppers, with one asking a customer if they were wearing a jockstrap.
Officers did not cite or arrest any of the protesters, but were at the scene in their vehicles. Santa Cruz police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE.
Trader Joe’s has experienced a spate of anti-mask protesters throughout the state and elsewhere in the West Coast.
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“My body my choice!”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
Surprising given that Santa Cruz is about as left as a city can get.
In Denver, a customer must wait in line and use a cart to gain entry. Trader Joes that is. After a certain # of carts leave, an equal # of carts will be allowed to enter. Just like the Stepford Wives inside the store. Completely ruled and regulated. Creepy and watched like the German SS or the East German Communism Party. The local Kroger(King Soopers) is larger and much freer. I am no longer shopping at TJs.
They are considering building a TJ’s outside of Bristol, TN...I hope those plans fall thru...they attract an unsavory element.
Trader Joe’s sells lots of candy type foods. Lots of cookies and sugary cake type deserts. And finger foods. And flavorful TV dinners. In a way TJs is a candy store for adults. And lots of chips and dips.
Stepford Wives...what an apt description! I drive by the TJ's in soviet-occupied Asheville, NC now and then...all the little Stepford Wives lined right up for their progressive goodies.
I have type 12 diabetes. I have to go to meetings to keep me off the good stuff.
Love it. Screw masks. They suck and are forced submission
I went to the Trader Joe’s in Louisville about a month ago. The sheeple were lined up with mask on each holding a cart each 6 feet apart in a line outside. They were admitted to the store one person each time a person left.
I was there to buy bourbon at the liquor store. I went into the liquor store directly since there was no line there without wearing a mask got a dirty look from the young blond at the register. Bought my Bourbon and walked out.
Anyone in this country not making survival plans is very foolish. Wise up and start looking out for number one and your family. Because this is not salvageable.
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