As you see from other posts, No Kings In America is resounding throughout the land, while Trump’s $45 million blowout has less attendance than a colonoscopy scheduled for two a.m. This is the one protest I would have gone to myself, but I couldn’t figure out the logistics, and, as I said in my previous piece, I’m glad I didn’t because tear gas. So, since we live in a smallish town a few miles from Atlanta, I think I can call it “our” protest. Let me tell you, this did not come out well for certain people. Lady Karma never forgets. From Raw Story:
Members of the Proud Boys were viciously booed and shouted down at a “No Kings” anti-Trump protest, and video shows the encounter. A recording appears to show members of the far-right group crashing a protest, with people yelling and booing at them.
The video was posted on social media by Blue Georgia, a popular account that provides “political videos and commentary.” “Some neckbeard Proud Boys decided to show up to Atlanta’s #NoKingsProtest,” Blue Georgia wrote. One popular user, Machine Pun Kelly, pointed out that at the 24-second mark, a woman “pulls down her mask and yells, ‘Does your wife love you?'”
Harsh, yet well deserved *grin.* I was pretty sure the protestors would throw them out. They know *exactly* why the Proud Boys are there, and they barely gave them time to get a word in before throwing them out. I’m thinking that other people were planted to turn the protests violent, and also got thrown out. These are supposed to be peaceful, right? Sooooo, all the protestors were not going to even give them a chance with that shizzle. Raw Story has the video up on their page, as well as some others, so you can see it here.
Damn. The Atlanta protest did not end well, even after throwing out the Proud Boys. That’s just embarrassing! I wonder if there were other agitators hidden in the crowd that were missed. In the picture I found, above, something is burning. If they arrested the people who did it, I can’t say I’d argue in their defense. This gives Atlanta a bad, bad name.
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, “That’s all, folks!”. I’ll see you on the flip side! Thanks for sticking with me!
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A burning car?
Send in the National Guard and the Marines.
I wish more people would understand the concept of “agents provocateurs”, often referred to as “outside agtators.”. Yes, the pro-trumpers do engage unidentified hooligans to mess up peaceful protests, because it is easy to portray them as genuine protesters.
Some anarchist groups also do this, because they want to stir up as much trouble as possible, in the totally misguided belief that this will just help bring down the system, although I beivee most anarchist groups are non-violent. Others may just be hooligans who enjoy violence or else whose main goal (in the context of urban riots) is looting.Rarely are these people found and identified.
I still remember witnessing two agent provocateurs at the Bobby Seale rally at Yale on the evening of May 1 haranguing the crowd, They were urging us to get out there and mess things up because “this was the beginning of the Revolution.” Fortunately nobody did. everybody was well aware that for the past few days shopkeepers had been boarding up their stores and the city of New Haven was flooded with military personnel, transport, etc. Federal paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division had been brought up to Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and Marines from the Second Marine Division were sent to Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island, and troops were on standby in case of civil unrest during the rally. In fact there were practically no violent incidents. The rally itself was entirely peaceful. A few minor incidents did occur in the evening, which were suspected to be the owrk of outside agitators.
Sorry, I meant to write “May 1, 1970.” That dates me, I guess.
Susan:
Where did you get the picture you found of a car burning in Atlanta? The only pictures of cars burning in Atlanta I could find on Google were from the demonstrations after George Floyd’s death in 2020. None of the newspaper pictures from Georgia papers featured anything burning after today’s No Kings marches.
Dave, thanks for pointing this out. I also await an answer from Ms Fenyx, who lives near Atlanta and so might have access we don’t. Any such burning of vehicles would surely be plastered all over rightwingding media.
Woah! “… less attendance than a colonoscopy scheduled for two a.m…” oh please, and respectfully, that’s way, way too generous 🙂