Posted on 03/18/2023 10:20:25 PM PDT by bitt
President Trump has called on supporters to protest his expected arrest next week by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on bogus charges arising out of the alleged 2016 Stormy Daniels hush money arrangement. Several so-called influencers are warning supporters to stay home to avoid being entrapped by the feds into another January 6 riot.
As one of the most experienced conservative street activists who was active in our Nation’s Capital for over a decade, I want to offer my advice on whether to go out and protest (yes) and how to do it.
First, some background. I was active in the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com from 1998 into the early 2010s, but mostly through the end of 2007 when I left the area and returned a few times a year. I organized hundreds of street protests and counter-protests against President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and other corrupt Democrat politicians. I organized an annual protest of liberal media bias outside the White House Correspondents Dinner for about fifteen years. Through Free Republic, Move America Forward and the Gathering of Eagles, we organized several rallies and counter-rallies supporting our troops in the war on terror in the years after 9/11. On a few occasions, we acted as human shields against the violent left and radical Islamists, protecting The White House, the Danish Embassy, Armed Forces Recruiting stations and even the Washington Post. I also helped organize the FReeper inaugural ball in 2005 attended by nearly 1,000 guests or so.
We dealt with D.C. Police, Capitol Police, Park Police, Secret Service, various other federal law enforcement agencies and the military in demonstrations at the White House, Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Arlington Cemetery, the old Walter Reed Army Hospital, the Vice President’s Residence, aka “Cheney’s House”, and many locales in and around D.C.
We faced off against communists, anarchists, Black Bloc (pre-Antifa), Code Pink, ANSWER, radical Islamists, Democrats, RINOs, dishonest media and the Westboro Baptist Church extremists.
We did all that by being peaceful and behaving in a civilized manner at all times. We hade a code of conduct that served us well.
Briefly, it read, “No violence, no racism, no profanity, no provocations, obey the law and treat all law enforcement officers with respect.”
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That’s exactly what they wanted…. To make it so we thought twice or more about protesting.
That’s the point of show trials.
Sometimes the piece of cheese is simply too big to resist.
Think of the brave patriots who signed the Declaration of Independence.
As I’ve stated before, right or wrong, I think he was advised by lawyers not to say anything both to protect him legally and the J6 attendees/prisoners.
I see what you did there :)
Oh, that is who she is.
I would love to support Trump at this time, but Feds will be getting involved everywhere. My city ain’t too important or big, but it is big enough. Kristinn Taylor’s advice is great assuming the weaponized government wouldn’t be aiming to discredit MAGA supporters. With that in mind, how do we protest and protect ourselves?
Blue flu
Boycott anything made, broadcast, etc. in new york state. Anything at all.
Yes, I worry about the government weaponization against protesters. Kristinn’s advice is good for anyone protesting, but assumes 50-100 people who knew each other would be protesting together. We know to avoid guys in khakis, but what if they show up in jeans? I wouldn’t be involved with violence, but what could Weaponized Feds have planned this time? At the same time, F the weaponized feds. This is my right!
Excellent advice!
MAGA2024!
PTB?
Noem talked about the digital currency on Tucker last week. Is that related to the Fed something about money...crud! Govt bill pay, maybe?
Everyone wear all black only and be peaceful. Black for mourning the country.
Yes, protest by not buying anything on Tuesday
If you go anywhere to protest,
buy a burner phone and don’t turn it on anywhere near your home.
Wrap it in tinfoil.
And best to let the only people at the “protests” be the FBI and Antifa.
Powers
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Makes righteous sense.
No masks.
Don’t do it. It’s a trap. The protests will look like another “Trump-sponsored” J6 riot.
I guess I didn’t read your message very carefully. It was called FedNow.
Different in streets than in capital building with democracy and all lol. The optics not quite the same.
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