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Illinois theater cancels conservative event due to 'really, really bad' threats
Fox News ^ | January 21, 2023 1:50pm EST | Timothy H.J. Nerozzi

Posted on 01/22/2023 12:28:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

A theater in Des Plaines, Illinois canceled a conservative group's event after saying it has received a bombardment of threats.

The Des Plaines Theater pulled the plug on a panel discussion on reforming sex education, scheduled for early February by conservative activist group Awake Illinois. 

"Awake Illinois learned the Des Plaines Theater opted to halt the contract of the 'Coalition For Kids' event originally scheduled for February 8, 2023," Awake Illinois said in a press statement. "Due to threats of physical violence directed at the venue and participants, this decision was made by Onesti Entertainment, which has no affiliation with our organization."

Shannon Adcock, founder and president of Awake Illinois, spoke to Fox News Digital about the incident.

The group drew the ire of LGBT activists over unspecified comments that sparked intense backlash, according to local outlet ABC 7. Fox News Digital has so far been unable to confirm the nature of the controversy, and Adcock claims she is unaware of any specific comments cited for the outrage.

"I think they don't like that we say, ‘groomers,’" Adcock speculated.

According to Adcock, Des Plaines Theater management told her that they received a bullet in the mail amid other death threats.

"I was really proud to be able to provide an opportunity for a forum for some positive, hopefully positive, or what I thought would be possible discussions," theater operator Ron Onesti told ABC 7.

Onesti told the local outlet that he was unaware of the politics of the event until threats began rolling in.

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1 posted on 01/22/2023 12:28:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

drew the ire of LGBT activists over unspecified comments


Doesn’t matter what you say. Stand up to them.


2 posted on 01/22/2023 12:33:00 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The message is clear: “Terrorism works”


3 posted on 01/22/2023 12:33:42 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More “mostly peaceful protest” right around the corner? The Dept. of Injustice ... I mean Justice is quick to label nothing burgers and blame “white supremacist” but never seems to worry about “mostly actual domestic terrorism”


4 posted on 01/22/2023 12:36:49 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gutless or rainbow management?


5 posted on 01/22/2023 12:37:03 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isn’t this a “hate” crime? SMH.


6 posted on 01/22/2023 12:41:23 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nationThat of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Read your Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... get up to date. It’s like the weathermen all over again. Lockup. Why Ayers skipped that part is sort of weird.


7 posted on 01/22/2023 12:42:21 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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8 posted on 01/22/2023 12:44:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Preach love and tolerance and diversity of opinion with threats of force and violence…this will totally promote a peaceful live and let live environment and totally won’t lead to tragic unintended consequences when the majority of mild mannered people finally get pushed too far


9 posted on 01/22/2023 12:45:21 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Clutch Martin

Reminds me of a little man with a mustache using his SA to threaten violence against Germans patronizing stores owned by Germans he didn’t like. How is it different with this Antifa bunch. The police did nothing then, too, to their shame.


10 posted on 01/22/2023 12:46:18 PM PST by laconic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And this is why they win and feel emboldened to keep pushing.

But, the way things are today, they have the event, things get violent, the public-law enforcement-courts blame the event organizer not the scum protesters.


11 posted on 01/22/2023 12:46:57 PM PST by qaz123
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Solzhenitsyn knew what’s up


12 posted on 01/22/2023 12:48:31 PM PST by qaz123
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To: qaz123
Anarcho-tyranny is the dehumanizing state of affairs whereby the state refuses to prosecute violent crime, yet vigorously enforces the law against victims who successfully defend themselves against the violent criminals they love so much.
13 posted on 01/22/2023 12:48:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is counter to what the queers are always claiming that THEY are the victims. As more of this goes on, fewer people will care about the fake homosexual persecution claims. You can cry wolf only so many times.


14 posted on 01/22/2023 12:52:43 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Des Plaines

How do you pronounce "Des Moines"? Da Moin

How do you pronounce "Des Plaines"? Da Plane, Da Plane!

15 posted on 01/22/2023 12:56:32 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

is that not terrorism???

turn it into the DHS


16 posted on 01/22/2023 1:02:25 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

They were never the victims.

They got homosexuality removed from the list of mental illnesses by the American Psychiatric Association by terrorist acts against members of the APA.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/archives/psychiatrists-in-a-shift-declare-homosexuality-no-mental-illness.html

https://daily.jstor.org/how-lgbtq-activists-got-homosexuality-out-of-the-dsm/


17 posted on 01/22/2023 1:03:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: laconic

He also liked to use sexual deviants as foot soldiers. Then he killed most of them when he got into power.


18 posted on 01/22/2023 1:06:40 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: laconic

And this madman murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust.


19 posted on 01/22/2023 1:10:35 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: HYPOCRACY

And plunged most of Europe into a world war, along with Japan.


20 posted on 01/22/2023 1:11:16 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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