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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A bimb will be set?
Is Inspector Clouseau in charge?
Excellent post.
The rules have changed.
Hopefully most Freepers do not have to learn that lesson the hard way.
Interesting how blacks, Antifa-BLM, homosexuals and some other fringe elements in times past did not care about arrest or government at protests and caused far more damage than conservatives did or would and yet many of us are afraid to protest. What does it take for the people to finally say, “We don’t care what you do, we PROTEST!!!
My dad repeatedly said, “People get the kind of government they deserve.”
:-)
Desantis is silent so far.
Oops, sorry. I saw that in comments, long after I’d commented.
What is weird is I was thinking about not spending any money on Tuesday, and here it is being talked about.
Let’s do spend some money on Tuesday.
Everybody fill up your gas tank and gas cans.
(bimb)
I think he meant ‘bimbo’
AOC being sent to destroy America?
😛😛😛
Just curious, but how much damage to public property have actual conservatives ever done?
Yes, the opposition has changed and become more physical, even in 2015, 2016.
Also, anyone planning to go to NYC, there is a warning upthread about armed opposition. And NYC does not allow full-face masks. Same for wooden or metal sticks to hold signs up; you have to use cardboard tubes for that.
bitt, thanks for posting article from Kristinn!
Kristinn, thanks for great advice! I attended several D.C. protests that you organized where there were no problems. Patriots expressed their opinions and had fun too. Thanks for all you do, Kristinn! Miss you.
YMMV meant that each has to access their own risks.
Kristinn is a rock star.
Enough with the street protests and tough talk about CWII. It’s embarrassing. It’s time for a general strike. Truckers can start it. The Junta fears that more than angry mobs easily put down.
I'd also highly recommend Lazamataz's post on this forum today as well.
“Democrats (and Antifa) are more violent now than 15-20 years ago.”
Not as violent as 50 years ago - 4,000 bomb threats in the 1970s.
This has to be grass roots.
If the Holy Spirit set upon your heart we only have 7 days left, what would you do? How hard would you spread the word and gift of repentance?
The gop establishment & itstreachery regarding the tea party movement taught me you can’t trust the gop leadership not to knife you in the back while the DNC just wants to shoot you in the back of the head!
What if there is a rally and only the professional provocateurs and media showed up?
All that needs to be done there is video documentation of their fake provocations to be released immediately.
It’s all staged — see Jan. 6th — we just need the video documentation of the stage being set up. With that truth out there, they lose their persuasive media power.
It goes without saying, absolutely no violence on the part of real MAGA Patriots.
I was at the Chicago rally the first time Trump ran and saw first hand how the professional provocateurs operated. They wanted a riot and we wouldn’t give it to them. Instead they only got a disruption that the media tried to pump up to riot status — they failed and Trump got elected.
These professional provocateur idiots think we are stupid and not onto their games.
IMHO, let them be the only ones to show up.
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