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 may be so, but we have to find a way to protest safely, without being lied about and smeared the way the enemedia wants to do.
Have you ever protested? Thought not.
As much as many Trump supporters don’t wish to dwell on it, most haven’t forgotten that once the J6 attendees began getting rounded up for bogus reasons, Trump didn’t have that much to say to or for them for quite a while.
He was understandably focused on the stolen election. Of course he would be.
We were all profoundly disappointed, but I didn’t hear him address those people who were locked away for months, most without any trial date. Some being physically abused.
It was a strange couple of months from November thru Feb. It would have been encouraging to hear Trump directly address their concerns a little more than he did. This indictment will be wrong and it will be stupid, but anyone protesting will be advised to first and foremost, think for yourself.
J6 showed us that you could find yourself abandoned, on your own and your life in ruins. It showed you can’t trust no one as you may be eagerly turned in to the FBI by family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances or fellow protesters who cut a deal to save their own skin. At the very least, you’ll be worried about when you’ll be found, arrested and having a federal conviction on your record. At worst, you may be sitting in prison for a few years or even dead .
Why the Hell can’t we protest?!!!
Democrats (and Antifa) are more violent now than 15-20 years ago.
I think those days are gone. I went to DC for Trumps inauguration. Loaded with pepper spray and batons... expecting the worst. Not much happened except for 200 who burned a guys limo/livelihood and were let go. I have the list. now. We are pre labeled terrorists. The guy who actually rented the limo above has had his bank freeze his accounts. Not the 200 who burned the guys stuff. The guy who rented the limo. Toronto closed that protest by stealing peoples money. We don’t even know how many people are in the gulag from Jan 6.
Good
And the people that did the violence on Jan 6 are not being prosecuted because they are the FBI or Antifa and protected.
Exactly. I think we must show our support of President Trump.
Of course, with situational awareness of bad actors.
But never, ever. Be scared into silence.
Cowering in fear of the state will not give Freedom, nor Justice.
Oh, and one other thing Kristinn didn’t cover, DO NOT poop on a police car!
If you’re an orangatan, SaveFerris, you can poop IN a police car ... but that’s the only exception.
Kristinn stands by his words and actions!…..he is the ‘real deal’…..
He has been and is a true defender of freedom …I personally became aware of his patriotism and loyalty in 1999…….
The enemy thinks they have a lock on us…….that we will cower and shake because of January 6
If so, they win.
President Trump has taken the slings and arrows for us many years now!
He’s asking for help!
A Republic, if you can keep it.
good advice.
it seems to me that the obvious place to protest is at Trump’s home, unless someone knows better, won’t they go to trap and arrest him there? so all our brothers and sisters should be safe enough in FL. DC is a different story. braynard has certainly had success running peaceful J6 protests there so it can be done.
i’d call the gov. office, the police, and the press. then camp out there, leave your phones at home, take your signs. bus in or drop off if you can.
surround the place and make your displeasure peacefully and legally known to the feds making the arrest. hopefully very orderly and loud.
To those who are blind and can’t see what is happening here:
This is an obvious trap.
Trump, yes, Trump announced this. It was first heard and seen on his own web site. Not CNN, not MSNBC, from Trump himself.
Stay away, do not protest. If you do, you’re an idiot.
He’s part of the show. Go back and watch his WWE performances. This is a part play, and has been for 8 years now. If you need more proof, go back and review the plandemic actions, the “election”, and the shit show that was the “stop the steal” fundraising effort.
Wake up.
Flame away cultists….
Tuesday is to take Biden’s crime family off of the headlines...
Frankly, I don’t think a code of contact, refraining from epithets or any actions will do any good. It is the hotbed of leftism (outside of DC, of course) and the PTB will turn it into whatever fracas they want to portray. And the MSM will be in there colluding with NYC and NYS leftist government. January 6 is the prime example of what they are capable of doing.
The real issue is the new digital currency- FedNow - and this bogus “arrest” will take America’s eyes off of this tyranny.
Everyone needs to stop playing checkers, the enemy is way ahead of us.
Enjoy your slavery, simps.
We must have just missed each other as I was there with the Trooprally’s at WR and Olney starting around 2006/07.
Hope all is well !
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