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Advice to Trump Supporters Considering Protesting His Expected Arrest Next Week, from an Experienced Conservative Street Activist
gateway pundit ^ | 3/18/2023 | KRISTINN TAYLOR

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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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alvinbragg; arrest; bragggate; freeper; freerepublic; kristinntaylor; presdjt; presidenttrump; protest; protesting; safeprotest; trump
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To: EBH

3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. Jonah


81 posted on 03/19/2023 4:48:55 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: Lazamataz

Satellite phone.


82 posted on 03/19/2023 4:51:22 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Syncro

They effectively have countered the constitutional right to peaceably assemble, haven’t they with their violent stooges and plants at peaceable protests.


83 posted on 03/19/2023 5:04:34 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

This is the big story.


84 posted on 03/19/2023 5:07:44 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Cobra64

“Don’t do it. It’s a trap. The protests will look like another “Trump-sponsored” J6 riot.”

No matter how disciplined, well behaved and non-violent the actual Pro-Trumpers will be, the Left/FBI/Antifa infiltrators will false flag it into another “violent insurrection” they can ride all the way to the 2024 election and beyond.


85 posted on 03/19/2023 5:08:44 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Lazamataz

Well said, excellent advice


86 posted on 03/19/2023 5:34:07 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: bitt

If the Governor of New York and the Mayor of NYC had any Cajones, Bragg would have been removed from office months ago.


87 posted on 03/19/2023 5:34:20 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: bitt

Attention!

Your right to protest peacefully is over because the left has taken it away by having your peaceful protest infiltrated by the FIBs and antifa in order to cause a riot in which you will be arrested and stuffed in a gulag without a speedy trial.

This is what happens when we let them steal the WH and get away with it. Now they run the whole system with injustice.


88 posted on 03/19/2023 5:43:00 AM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: sauropod
Have you ever protested? Thought not.

Yes, I helped lead a contingent of Freepers to Tallahassee for several days in 2020, to protest the Bush/Gore recount. I made several large protest signs using real estate yard signs, then used some cool software to print out large pictures made of some of the images that Freeper Registered had made like Sore Looserman and Kangaroo Court. Those signs ended up in photos of us on the front page of UsA Today and other newspapers, and ultimately ended up in the Florida State Museum.

And I considered going to J6 but knew better. The votes were already decided, so it was going to inevitably break out into anger and fights with police, and lots of people going to jail. Cost/benefit was clearly not worth it, and I began to more clearly see how Trump’s vanity corrupts his judgement, and puts the conservative movement at risk. I’m not even convinced he will even be arrested Tuesday, either, so far all we have is Trump claiming it, when supposedly the grand jury hasn’t even voted to indict yet or not. But feel free to book your tickets if that’s what’s important to you. Just don’t be surprised if only a few nutcases show up.

89 posted on 03/19/2023 5:50:49 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Florida is where WOKE goes to DIE!)
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To: sauropod; Golden Eagle; Husker; bitt; Gene Eric
I've protested. Sometimes I swear that in my mind, I'm stuck in D.C. on the National Mall holding my Gadsden Flag and I cannot leave because I know it's where I'm supposed to be and on top of that, it was so much fun.

It pains me every year that nothing happens on April 15th. I miss being present around so many, so so many good people. It's much more impactful to be around all of you people in real life, than just on the forum. Having good laughs, shaking hands, sharing ideas and information, even some singing. We're not meant to be digital whiners.

A decade ago we were so successful, and haven't been as successful as that since. It's now the gold standard. I will say, I have huge applause for the March for Life. After so many decades, they found success too. That's what happens when you don't give in and give up. When your cause is righteous and you stand, you win.

Every year we refuse to protest we are making a grave, grave mistake.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; ---> or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, <--- and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

We fail to act like our Founders. ^^^ This. ^^^ These are instructions that the Founders gave to us.

"Go do it. Go speak freely. Go petition your government for redress. Go protest."

This is the behavior of free people. We're not listening. We do not behave like a free people should behave with such obvious role models as these to follow, these Founders of ours. April 15th is less than 30 days away now. All those DTOM flags are just collecting dust, or worse,

They were thrown away. Like garbage. How saddening is that.

90 posted on 03/19/2023 5:51:54 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: sauropod

-—Times are different now.-—

We are old


91 posted on 03/19/2023 5:52:12 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: bert

True dat.


92 posted on 03/19/2023 5:53:30 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy thmkeorist stuff, there.”)
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To: EBH

I would heartily support this……
….but keep in mind …..
…you may need to ‘count the costs’

Actually, this may be the best idea…….hundreds of thousands congregating to pray……..and if the police come, make sure it’s documented!

We attended the 2020 Prayer March….on the National Mall…… organized by Franklin Graham
Over 100,000 people attended!
Of course our President Trump was fully supportive……but stayed at the White House
It was not a political event…….it was a prayer event

It was a beautiful sight!

(Caveat)…….At one point Pence showed up……..this was not appreciated or wanted, imo
Franklin acted like he was completely surprised.


93 posted on 03/19/2023 5:56:06 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: NetAddicted

Powers that be


94 posted on 03/19/2023 5:58:51 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Laslo Fripp

Yeah


96 posted on 03/19/2023 6:11:21 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: 4Liberty

“ Tuesday is to take Biden’s crime family off of the headlines...”

If it doesn’t work, He’ll get them to run another drone into a Russian plane.


97 posted on 03/19/2023 6:22:53 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: NetAddicted

Powers that be …. And, Kristinn is a HE.


98 posted on 03/19/2023 6:23:42 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: bitt

Don’t go to Manhattan DOJ to protest. Rumors abound about a bimb set by the Weathermen.


99 posted on 03/19/2023 6:24:57 AM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Golden Eagle; bitt; kristinn; Jim Robinson

I think he was a good President back in 2017 and 2018 but he’s not someone I would protest for now.


We know.

So, why not take your REPEATED Trump disapproval to another thread, as you so often do?

This is a Pres Trump SUPPORT thread.


100 posted on 03/19/2023 6:28:18 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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