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2020-09-17 Fifth Column

300 and counting: Push by feds to arrest in US protests

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-17 06:46|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 Horsefeathers. "Stymie demonstrators" would be to surround the whole protest with cops and take them all in.

Posted by Bobby 2020-09-17 08:17|| 2020-09-17 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Even if it's appropriate?

Posted by gorb 2020-09-17 08:38|| 2020-09-17 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 according to officials with knowledge of last week’s call who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Clean house

Posted by Frank G 2020-09-17 08:49|| 2020-09-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Barr attacks prosecutors inside his own Justice Department

Posted by Frank G 2020-09-17 08:54|| 2020-09-17 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet another classic case of disinformation from Pravda. This latest attempt to spin is so blatant it's actually worse than Pravda, whose lies were at least told with some flair.

Count the lies, beginning with the teaser about what "an AP analysis shows."

Ok, so where's the "analysis"? Any evidence? Any tallies or any data at all? No? Never mind, let's quote an unbiased source: a defense lawyer!l's opinion! "Some cases are viewed as trumped up and should not be in federal court, lawyers say...."

Then enjoy this soup of bullshit, scary verbs that apply only to the Trumpists: "pounced," etc. and that ends with the repetition of that unintentionally hilarious mantra, "mostly peaceful," which serves as their equivalent of Pravda's "proletarian vanguard":

"The Trump administration has seized on the demonstrations and an aggressive federal response to showcase what the president says is his law-and-order prowess, claiming he’s countering rising crime in cities run by Democrats. Trump has derided protesters and played up the violence around protests, though the majority are peaceful.

Even this is too obvious a lie, so they add weasel words to admit the Feds are justified--"pockets of violence" which, to be sure, have "indeed" "popped up." (Y'know, the way a worm or two might pop up on your lawn after it rains.)

But this is only after the Mostly Peaceful(TM) protests "devolved" into neutral, both-sides-to-blame "clashes."

"Pockets of violence have indeed popped up in cities across the U.S., including Portland, Oregon, where protests devolved into clashes with law enforcement for weeks on end.

Posted by Kofi Cliger5461 2020-09-17 09:17|| 2020-09-17 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 If prosecutors are not doing their jobs and following the rule of law, replace them with those who will. The DOJ has been infested with some real vermin judging from the hatchet jobs done on Flynn and the Mueller attempted rape job on Trump.

Barr has asked prosecutors to "look" into bringing sedition charges against BLM/Antifa terrorists.

Sedition carries a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-09-17 10:06|| 2020-09-17 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Roll em up.

Posted by Iblis 2020-09-17 12:56|| 2020-09-17 12:56|| Front Page Top

#8 RE #1: "Stymy demonstrators" would be mounting a Ma-Deuce on 50 pick-ups and "patrol" the area with live fire. If we'd done that in the first week, there would have been no demonstrations by mid-June.

Posted by Old Patriot 2020-09-17 20:43|| 2020-09-17 20:43|| Front Page Top

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