And so the weekend festivities begin.
Iām looking forward to seeing how it goes with what I assume will be Trump & Putinās first public handshake. Lordy, I hope thereās tapes.
Not fucking helpfulā¦and Iām seriously beginning to wonder how much the whole radicalized/extremist āanti-faā and other āblack maskā type nonsense is being bankrolled, organized or in some way false-flagged by the very people who are supposedly their targets.
My thoughts exactly.
I thought Donnie issued an Executive Order banning all protests?
He even used a red āsharpieā to show he was really, really serious.
I read a report where it was noted that the black-masked gangs at various protests never seemed to get arrested. That it was as if their actions were officially condoned.
Imagine that! Itās as if their actions were/are right out of the playbook of the School of the Americas.
You donāt need direct collusion, just that sort of confluence of events that work so well to maintain the status quo. The targets donāt deploy their full resources to finding these folks, the police donāt investigate as much as they might because the resulting payoff would be minimal and the danger high. And before you know it, everybody except the normals gets what they want.
Betsy DeVos, head schoolmarmā¦
Watching BBC and CNN A
ar DFW airport. Protests are NOT over. Protestors now chanting āwelcome to hell.ā
Normally I might agree but this is Hamburg, a place very familiar to me. It is home to the St Pauli football club and a very large, very active antifascist community with a long tradition. Really, a focal point of that crowd throughout Europe, not at all just during G20.
You might say āthose people are assholesā and in many cases youād be right, in that what they amount to is left-wing (as opposed to the usual right-wing) football hooligans. But they are the real deal. Trust me on this one.
The new headline on the front page says that organizers have declared the protest over for the day. Which would suggest that the main organizers and the police are agreed on not wanting senseless violence to give people the wrong impression. (And I think that at this point āantifaā has become something distinct from most actual anti-fascist organizations. Which is sad.)
Uh, all of them?
Right out of the brownshirt playbook:
No photos on the Handmaidens Protest .