“One time, a lift of bricks was mysteriously left in an alley a block from the courthouse, along with a few white rental vans from out of town.”

LE down my way were *appalled* at the way the 2020 BLM protests were conducted and vowed that would never happen down here.

A big part of that was that the police and sheriff’s department responded by being proactive about finding those pallets of bricks and rocks before ‘protests’ started.

And, they found some, to no one’s big surprise. One actual Antifa dressed in their riot gear ‘Black Bloc’ uniforms was targeted and kept an eye on, with uniformed police fairly close by in their mobile high-lift converted into an observation post. Air-conditioned (thanks to Florida’s miserable hot summer heat).

Down here, it was a teachable moment in how to deal with actual fascists.

Let ’em try that game in our small town, and see what happens :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

It’s a trifecta Raskin!!!

‘there’s’…. nope, should have been ‘there’.

Wish we had an edit function here.

Correction for : “…their were 30 of our group…”

The word ‘their’ should have been ‘there’s.

No, ot wasn’t spell check. It was me not paying attention. It’s early and not enough coffee yet.

😀

We didn’t let BLM pull their violence crap here.

They were across the state line in a city there, and the city let them basically do anything they wanted. Although there was a some attempts at looting and mobbing cars, a few police were attacked, a couple coming out of their restaurant they had closed when they saw what was going on was attacked and beaten when they refused to re-open the restaurant for the BLM members to use, and a dumpster fire, for the most part they blocked roadways and were a major irritant and tried to provoke confrontations. But then they started getting more restless they decided to branch out and moved across the state line into our area.

It was dark by now, and we caught them organizing and setting up a staging area in a parking lot of a business that was closed. We organized to, and quietly surrounded them out of sight and had them targeted. They never knew it until a few of us approached them.

We approached them, no guns, just looking like every day normal people. They saw us approach and one of them said “See that guy over there to get your signs” thinking we were there to join their protest. We explained that we just wanted to know what was going on and wanted to talk to who ever was in charge. That raised some eye brows, we waited, and saw more of their people arrive and start setting up their gear and supplies. We few just stood there, the rest of our group had taken up positions surrounding the area and settled into position out of sight. They kept looking at us, and then a few of guys and gals from their group walked up and said if we were not their to join them that we had to leave, and they were not nice about the way they said it.

We had a prepared statement and read it to them:

“We do not care if you peacefully protest. We believe in the first amendment, so go ahead and march and chant and scream and yell and wave your signs and flags, heck, the courts say its a first amendment right to burn the American flag so we can’t do anything about that so if you want to do that then ok even though we would prefer that you didn’t. We welcome you to peacefully protest, we want you to exercise your first amendment right. But, those of you who get violent and attack others or destroy private property or block cars trying to mob them or start fires – we will shoot you. We will even talk to the local cops on scene on your behalf when they show up and tell them you are going to be peaceful and not bother you if you promise to be peaceful and remain peaceful.” (we knew most of the officers that patrolled the area, and their command staff.)

They kinda laughed a little with smirks all around like they were in charge. Then on the radio we called out to the others of our group to show their selves, their were 30 of our group that had been in hidden positions with rifles surround their staging area, they never saw them. Our guys came out and we told the BLM’ers to look around and pointed out our guys.

We said again read out our prepared statement – “We do not care if you peacefully protest. We believe in the first amendment, so go ahead and march and chant and scream and yell and wave your signs and flags, heck, the courts say its a first amendment right to burn the American flag so we can’t do anything about that so if you want to do that then ok even though we would prefer that you didn’t. We welcome you to peacefully protest, we want you to exercise your first amendment right. But, those of you who get violent and attack others or destroy private property or block cars trying to mob them or start fires – we will shoot you. We will even talk to the local cops on scene on your behalf when they show up and tell them you are going to be peaceful and not bother you if you promise to be peaceful and remain peaceful.”

They looked at us with this wide eyed look like ‘something just happened here but we don’t really know what yet and how to react’.

We said “Do you understand. Do you have any questions?”

They did not say a word except telling their people to pack up and leave – and they did.

And that’s how we avoided the BLM violent ‘mostly peaceful’ weekend in our area.

You’re a cold man, 40. Woulda made for a good pic though…

Conservatives have had a firm grip on our local politics for decades. One -D mayor a few cycles ago had a short run, but he was pretty middle-of-the-road for a liberal (he was for sure no leftist). He won by a few votes, and he got them mostly because of the novelty of his relative youth.

I recall one major election year, the handful of county Democratic committee members had their meetings in a tavern for easier access to sorrow drowning libations. That would have been 2016.

The BLM/Antifa/No Kings types from out of town have tried to drum up protests on the courthouse lawn, but they they always get laughed out of town. May have been the presence of K-9 units too, that were there to make sure they could speak their piece peacefully. One time, a lift of bricks was mysteriously left in an alley a block from the courthouse, along with a few white rental vans from out of town. The chief had the foresight to post a K-9 unit on a nearby corner, just to make sure that nobody, you know, carried them off.

I ran into a similar thing prior the election. A few of our local left wingers were at a booth at an event selling T-Shirts. One style was a ‘We The People’ T-shirt.

I had on a ‘Trump-Vance 2024’ cap. I went over and picked up one of the ‘We The People’ shirts and this purple haired creepy kid with more piercing metal in his face than I have ever seen before, grabbed the shirt back and said ‘not for you, you ain’t part of We The People’.

I wanted so bad at that moment to have a hand full of magnets.

There’s a guy a few streets over who put his homemade “we the people means us” sign in his front yard after the 20 strong blue-haired Boomer dance party to what I assume was a James Taylor cover band Saturday.

I asked him “so, like, that means me too, right?” Knowing how I voted he was not amused.

Their message of unity really just means “for those who agree with me.” I find it insulting and disingenuous the way lefties pretend it doesn’t.

Real unity is easy when you just leave people alone. These tyrants can’t do that so what they want is oppression and control.