Posted on 10/09/2015 7:39:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Several groups plan to protest President Barack Obama’s visit to Roseburg, Oregon, on Friday.
Many residents of the conservative community are not happy with the president because he politicized the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College before all the bodies had even been identified. David Jaques, publisher of the conservative Roseburg Beacon, put out the word earlier this week that the president would not be welcome in his town because he was coming to further his anti-gun agenda.
On Monday, Jaques told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that he had talked to “dozens and dozens of citizens, some family members of the victims, our elected officials.”
He said Douglas County commissioners, the sheriff, and the chief of police had signed a letter stating the the president would not be welcome in Roseburg to grandstand for political purposes.
Meanwhile, a Facebook page called “Defend Roseburg — Deny Barack Obama” emerged this week outlining plans for a protest at 11 a.m. on Friday before the president’s early afternoon arrival.
So far, 7,600 people have indicated that they will be ”going” to the rally, and another 3,400 have said “maybe.”
The organizers stress that they want a peaceful protest and have asked those attending to behave in an appropriate manner so that 2nd Amendment supporters are not put in a bad light.
“Conduct yourselves like adults,” the event description reads. “Show the nation and the world a strong force of principled, good, responsible patriots. Represent yourself and the country with excellence because the world is truly watching.”The organizers also recognize that gun control opponents will express themselves by carrying weapons.”If you choose to carry a firearm that is your right. Be safe, be responsible. We suggest that you carry a handgun as opposed to a rifle, but again, you have the right to carry what you wish. Whatever you carry, keep it holstered/secure. Show the world that American gun owners are responsible patriots. Look out for each other.”
The Douglas County Tea Party announced that at least two separate protests are planned, with the intention of showing support for County Sheriff John Hanlin, an outspoken opponent of additional restrictions on gun ownership.
The White House insists that this will not be a political visit, but rather a private one for the president to “console” the grieving families.
“I hope that’s the case,” Chris Boice, a Douglas County commissioner, told Bill O’Reilly earlier this week. “It’s difficult to judge one’s motives, but the president has been very clear since the beginning of this that he has an agenda about gun control.”
Boice added that “if the president is truly coming to visit the families, that’d be great.”
O’Reilly asked Boice if he knew how the families of the victims were feeling about the visit.
The commissioner answered that the victims’ family members he had spoken to sounded much like “what we’ve heard already.” He also claimed that one young man told told him he had no interest in talking to the president “about political issues.”
O’Reilly asked if it was true that Umpqua shooting hero Chris Mintz, who was shot by the killer seven times, had indicated he was “not interested” in meeting with Obama.
Boice said that when he had mentioned the presidential visit to Mintz, the hero just said “he was not real excited about getting involved in the political side of this, either.”
The president is combining his visit to Roseburg with a West Coast fundraising trip this weekend.
“Can the People begin waking up?”
Lets hope so.
Oregon has been a blue state since 1988.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Wouldn’t put it past his gang to fake some sort of attack on him.
The same is true in many states where the democRATS control the big cities and outnumber the Republicans in the rural areas.
Tee Times in SoCal all weekend,,,
King Putt,
White hutt Swinger!
Fruitless, unfortunately. Obama will meet in a highly-broadcast event with hand-picked, carefully-screened Libtards who will cheer and stamp and whistle approval at each of his useless bromides. No matter how small the crowd, the cameras will make sure to show no empty seats with plenty of close-ups of the sweating, cheering crowd. The nedworks will show nothing of the anti-Obama crowds outside or other such groups. The media will declare the meeting a smashing success and Chris Matthews will look into the camera, damn the NRA, blame Republicans for all gun deaths, and ask rhetorically why anyone would oppose more gun laws.
“Not one protestor will be shown on the evening news. Nothing to see here; move on.”
They might have to dub in the cheering and applause.
As I said in another thread, “Rats eat cockroaches”
I agree.
The increasingly bizarre —and too convenient— details posted online by the shooters in their so-called “manifestos” suggest that these manifestos may have been uploaded—or revised— by somebody else—someone with a coordinated agenda.
Note that the media and public are tipped to these online ramblings only after the perp is dead or in custody. Then they’re quickly scrubbed.
The handlers are getting so desperate they’re slipping up.
Obama is in front of the cameras before the bodies are cold.
4-chan postings predicted the shooting, but targeted the wrong suspect.
Again, we learn of these postings, and all about the wrong suspect, before the bodies are cold.
Yet days later the FBI is curiously flummoxed in determining the source of these 4-chan posts, or whether there is any connection to the shooting. Gosh darn. If I didn’t know better, I’d wonder if this were intentional misdirection, to give the handlers time to get the evidence planted and the “real” story straight.
Meanwhile, the shooter’s identity is withheld for hours.
Then his identity and online history hit the airwaves simultaneously.
We’re informed the dead perp was an antisocial genius with Asperger’s, whose single mother bought him guns. Gosh darn, he’s an Adam Lanza clone, but wait! He’s a “conservative republican” —even more dangerous!
All those photos of IRA terrorists and jihadis? Ignore !!! Note GUNS!
He’s a conservative republican gun nut!
Then we learn his still living, but curiously unavailable-for-comment mother posted her views online too! She thinks gun laws are lame! She read to her boy when he was a child—from Trump’s The Art of the Deal!
Did she actually say these things?
Truth, hoax, satire, psyops? Who knows anymore?
Has anybody —ANYBODY—been able to determine the ISP addresses from which these postings —or possible later edits and revisions— originated?
Obama just lifted off from Eugene airport, headed for Roseburg.
News has said there were “several hundred” protesters, many of them armed with HOLSTERED handguns.
Looks like he’s got Marine One and 3 or 4 V-22 Ospreys in the formation.
As Marine One was buttoned up, the Marine doing so did it with precision. Not surprised.
They are showing protesters NOW. Saw one guy with a sign that quite plainly said: “Obama...My Flag At Half Staff Until You Leave Office”.
Thanks for post,
Real time reports.
And Thank God for that!
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