3rd shooting in Minnesota.

[putnam6]

This is interesting...

This is supposed to be grass roots, spur of the moment protesting, right ? People of the community coming together to stand up for Democracy.

Now, one would think that a local, who was a true believer in the cause, would have a truck or SUV to haul around the hand made signs
{ the real signs. The ones that are a little sloppy and each one, while holding to the general message, have different slogans } but these are identical. Mass produced.
I mean, I can see professional agitators who flew in needing to rent a vehicle, but that's impossible innit ? There's no paid protestors, there's no one funding all this, it just so happens to be a highly co ordinated group of concerned citizens who just so happen to print, assemble and distribute all those signs exactly when and where they're needed.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/haplUHKw_Ys]

I'll go further... even if it's domestic all funded and organized by the common person, is one concern,

while foreign influence,funding and organization by elected officials, is another

[David64]

Are you saying that is a paid protestor ?

That's a privately owned company truck. How do I know that ? Well, along with spending a LOT of time in Texas, look at the letters TPCL on the front quarter panel.

That stands for Texas Pest Control License. Someone owns that company and I'd bet the owner is the one driving.

[David64]

I'll go further... even if it's domestic all funded and organized by the common person, is one concern,

while foreign influence,funding and organization by elected officials, is another

https://www.newsnationnow.com/investigat...-protests/

(NewsNation) — Congressional investigators are examining whether an American billionaire living in Shanghai is funding anti-ICE protests across the United States at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, according to multiple committee letters and subpoenas.
Neville Roy Singham, who sold his consulting company in 2017 for nearly $1 billion and has reported ties to the CCP, faces scrutiny from the House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee over his alleged efforts to sow discord in America.

[Kurokage]

Are you saying that is a paid protestor ?

That's a privately owned company truck. How do I know that ? Well, along with spending a LOT of time in Texas, look at the letters TPCL on the front quarter panel.

That stands for Texas Pest Control License. Someone owns that company and I'd bet the owner is the one driving.

No, what I'm saying is that just because someone passionately supports an idea, movement or demonstration doesn't necessarily make them a 'paid' protester.

ETA...

I was looking for an old video from Jan 6th but couldn't find it.  It's a similar looking truck with with someone handing out MAGA signs.  I didn't instantly jump to 'paid' protester when I saw that, and could see the same with the vid' you posted.

[putnam6]

You can say that about many avid supporters who help organise a march or similar on both sides..
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Yeah Kur, that guy isn't handing out the same Trump signs to dozens of others to go impede LEOs

big diff in active supporter and an active organized activist impeding FEDERAL OFFICERS from arresting convicted criminals

[Vermilion]

This is interesting...

This is supposed to be grass roots, spur of the moment protesting, right ? People of the community coming together to stand up for Democracy.

Now, one would think that a local, who was a true believer in the cause, would have a truck or SUV to haul around the hand made signs
{ the real signs. The ones that are a little sloppy and each one, while holding to the general message, have different slogans } but these are identical. Mass produced.
I mean, I can see professional agitators who flew in needing to rent a vehicle, but that's impossible innit ? There's no paid protestors, there's no one funding all this, it just so happens to be a highly co ordinated group of concerned citizens who just so happen to print, assemble and distribute all those signs exactly when and where they're needed.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/haplUHKw_Ys]

You’re over the target now when you bring up “grassroots”.
Here’s a little excerpt from a communist playbook from the Cold War era.
Notice all the similarities…

“In a 1957 tract, Czech Communist Party theoretician Jan Kozák explained how a small number of communists managed to gain power in Czechoslovakia through parliamentary maneuvers. The trick was to exert pressure for radical change from two directions simultaneously-from the upper levels of government and from provocateurs in the streets. Kozák called this tactic "pressure from above and below."
One way to exert "pressure from below," as Kozák explained, was to fill the streets with rioters, strikers and protesters, thus creating the illusion of a widespread clamor for change from the grassroots. Radicals in the government would then exert "pressure from above," enacting new laws on the pretext of appeasing the protesters in the street-even though the protesters (or at least their leaders) were themselves part of the plot. The majority of the people would have no idea what was going on. Squeezed from
"above" and "below," most would sink into apathy and despair, believing they were hopelessly outnumbered by the radicals even though they were not. Thus could a radical minority impose its will on a moderate majority, even under a democratic, parliamentary system.”

We know their playbook.
They’ve told us.
They’ve shown us dozens of times.
It always ends in misery and death.

[putnam6]

https://www.newsnationnow.com/investigat...-protests/

You mean CodePink's founder's husband...that foreign influence

How about zero foreign influence

[WallFlowerActive]

We know their playbook.
They’ve told us.
They’ve shown us dozens of times.
It always ends in misery and death.

But.. but.. Trump is a fascist.

[David64]

But.. but.. Trump is a fascist.

Yeah and they keep calling us Nazis.

Nazis use to patrol the streets asking for people's papers just because they were out of their house.

Where have we seen that in the last few years.

[UltraBudgie]

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Blood thirsty animals

Name calling and dehumanizing doesn't help.

The point of that video is that it shows that characterizing the behaviour of Pretti as a "peaceful observer" is absurdly biased.

In fact it shows Pretti was a violent criminal, violating 18 U.S. Code §1361, destruction of federal property. ICE could have arrested him, and they should have, but if they detain they cannot press charges by themselves as far as I know. Pretti would most likely be alive and in jail right now if local and state Democrats were not preventing local law enforcement cooperation.