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Threats, videos and a recall: A California militia fuels civic revolt in a red county
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 20, 2021 | Anita Chabria and Hailey Branson-Potts

Posted on 05/20/2021 12:20:18 PM PDT by artichokegrower

REDDING, Calif. — It was a slow night in the trendy Market Street Blade and Barrel restaurant when line cook Nathan Pinkney, a budding comic and Black Lives Matter activist, spotted Carlos Zapata at the bar. He knew it meant trouble.

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Interesting read. Citizens policing their own neighborhoods are “militia” extremists I would feel much safer in Redding, CA than in Portland or Seattle
1 posted on 05/20/2021 12:20:18 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, line cook.


2 posted on 05/20/2021 12:25:40 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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Why do I get the strong impression that the author of this article is working very hard to make a “victim” of the aggressor?


3 posted on 05/20/2021 12:33:50 PM PDT by Howie66 (God Bless TEXAS! #Texit)
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Here’s how I scan this headline:

San Francisco Chronicle ...... Uh-Oh

California militia ............ Here it comes.

red county .................... Boom!


4 posted on 05/20/2021 12:34:27 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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I’ve never had a direct interaction with a line cook at a restaurant or bar. How does that scenario play out?

Usually they are in the back doing their job and I am in the front paying for their services....

sounds to me like he went looking for trouble.


6 posted on 05/20/2021 12:35:10 PM PDT by NicoDon
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Key "info". A woman claimed she had been harrassed and threatened, but was unwilling to give her name, because she was afraid "they" would find out who she was.

If they did not know, how could her home be vandalized and she be threatened and harassed?

Nameless anonymous accusation. Thy name is Critical Race Theory, ANTIFA, BLM.

7 posted on 05/20/2021 12:38:23 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: NohSpinZone

This whole article reads like fiction to me.


8 posted on 05/20/2021 12:39:39 PM PDT by pnut22
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line cook Nathan Pinkney

A prime example of why I haven't eaten out in years. I'd feel safer showering in COVID than eating anywhere this cook, cooks.

9 posted on 05/20/2021 12:41:50 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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I read the article, I don’t believe a word of the encounter.

Don’t know who this “Zapata” guy it, but I know Leftists lie every time they open their mouths.


10 posted on 05/20/2021 12:45:25 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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Yep. I see it that way too.


11 posted on 05/20/2021 12:46:20 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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This whole article is way more words than this commie rag has ever published on the dangerous tactics of Antifa and BLM. I mean WAY more.


12 posted on 05/20/2021 12:48:33 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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If he is a budding social activist and wannabe comic, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t in the back cooking, ethnicity aside. I could see some hipster or trans/goth/nerd out annoying patrons. Who actually imagines AOC in her bar quietly wiping down the bar and minding her biznss?. LOL! I can’t.


13 posted on 05/20/2021 12:52:02 PM PDT by z3n
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“That night, the BLM activist ended up with a black eye after two associates of Zapata allegedly assaulted him at the rear entrance of the restaurant...”

Since BLM and Antifa are perfectly cool with political violence, I don’t see what the problem is here.


14 posted on 05/20/2021 1:03:10 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Hmmm. True story, I guess. I initially thought it was about the famed architect Carlos Zapata from Venezuela who has influenced landscapes across the globe.

Gwjack


15 posted on 05/20/2021 1:07:54 PM PDT by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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More of this. Let the shitlibs wet themselves.


16 posted on 05/20/2021 1:12:36 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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““There is not a person in this county who is going to serve that f——— thing,” said Zapata.

Truth.

So now the left will work with ACLU and others to invent a federal crime and bring in the FBI.

But I sure wouldn’t want to be the guy identified as cooperating with the FBI in the State of Jefferson.

We don’t cotton to that kind.


17 posted on 05/20/2021 1:14:34 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“That night, the BLM activist ended up with a black eye after two associates of Zapata allegedly assaulted him at the rear entrance of the restaurant...”

Well I hope he learned his lesson.


18 posted on 05/20/2021 1:29:13 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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Truth.

Sounds about right. Zapata sounds like a good patriot, trying to push back on liberals in their town (in the State of Jefferson in upper California). I've enjoyed many trips to Redding and Shasta City, decent conservative folks there. 180 degrees opposite of the liberal SF Bay Area hundreds of miles south.

19 posted on 05/20/2021 1:30:46 PM PDT by roadcat
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Google him. He made an awesome speech at his county seat. Just let know what the deal is. He definitely has a set of brass ones.


20 posted on 05/20/2021 1:45:58 PM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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