Posted on 08/21/2016 4:52:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m old enough to remember the good old days when everyone was terribly concerned about Donald Trump rallies and how his supporters would probably go all nutcase on the world, turning violent and gunning down random passers by if they happened to feel like it. After all, what else would you expect? Thankfully, all of the forces opposed to Trump are far more civil, expressing their discontent with his candidacy in the form of strongly worded letters to the editor or prayer circles calling for peace. Take for example, the events outside of this meeting with fundraisers in Minneapolis. (The Hill)
Protesters pushed, verbally harassed and spat on donors attending a Donald Trump fundraiser in Minneapolis on Friday night, the Star Tribune reported. The Minneapolis Convention Center area became unruly as attendees left after the event, according to the newspaper.
“Some fundraiser attendees were pushed and jostled, spit on and verbally harassed as they left the convention center,” the Star Tribune’s Patrick Condon reported.
Trump never appeared in public, according to the report.
Notice how the local coverage still chooses to invoke the phrase, “peaceful protesters” (the Minnesota Immigrants Rights Action Committee) before getting to the highlight of the events outside.
For example, in this video tweeted by a Star Tribune photographer, we see two dangerous looking fundraisers leaving the event. You can see what a threat they must be to the community as demonstrated by the mask-wearing peaceful protesters who come running up from behind them and begin pelting them with debris. Sure… they may look like they’re well past retirement age, but you never know with these Trump supporters. The woman might whip an assault rifle out of her dress jacket at any moment.
(VIDEO-AND-TWEET-AT-LINK)
And here are the peaceful protesters attempting to stop the motorcade after the event.
(VIDEO-AND-TWEET-AT-LINK)
Over at the New York Post, Mary Kay Linge picks apart a few more video clips and digs up these items for the highlight reel.
Video posted to social media shows demonstrators, some masked, landing punches on an elderly man, picking the pocket of a teen, and verbally harassing an African-American attendee as he pushed his way through a shouting crowd to the doors of the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Other clips show protesters burning an American flag. One black-clad man leaped onto the windshield of an SUV in the Trump motorcade.
Yeah. Trump is certainly the problem alright. (/sarcasm) Does anyone really believe this is an isolated incident? I suppose they might if they restrict their news consumption to one or two cable channels, but the reality out on the streets is quite different. I don’t know if all of these folks are all pro-Hillary liberals, #NeverTrump spoilers or a mixture of the two, but the result is the same.
It’s 2016 and this is apparently democracy in action.
You can’t expect decency from hillary voters.
These were NOT “protesters”, but a Hillary/Soros rent-a-mob of VICIOUS THUGS!!!!
If Hillary wins, we shall have MOB RULE in our country!!! Hillary will not only shred the Second Amendment, but the First as well!!!!
And the Minneapolis police were too “Minnesota Nice” to the thugs!!!! There should have been arrests, and even trips to the hospital!!!!
This is how the criminal der Hildebeast works. It is by illegal subterfuge that she hires protesters to perform lawless acts to slander the opposition. Why has not anyone unraveled this line of activity to its source. Once the source (der Hildebeast) is identified, the crimes committed by her hired thugs will be in her lap. Once the source is identified, like hiring a person to kill a wife, they, too, are responsible for the crime committed.
Nothing changes but the names. Remember WAY BACK at the beginning of this Administration when Homeland Security and a Federally-funded DoD study determined that right-wing militias and Veterans were the most dangerous groups in terms of potential for violence and riot? The same meme has been reiterated several times over these past years.
This is called a “False Flag” operation. Focus your attention on a false danger and ignore the real one. While purposes may vary, in this case the Left builds its forces just like Obama promised in 2008, a force other than the military to help him CHANGE America!
its not an election to them, its a riot, marshall law...etc
Swahilis and “Sammies”?
I would have ripped someones eyes out if they tried that shiite with me.
FWIW...Spent the afternoon at the range.
I fully expect these Democratic Party Brownshirts to start shooting before the election. They’ve been given a get out of jail pass by the presstitutes.
They never found where Hitler ordered the killing of millions of Jews.
They could never prove Al Capone had numerous people whacked.
Hillary has made sure she has many degrees of Kevin Bacon between her and the mobs.
Stupid article. ‘Pelting’ and ‘spitting’ are NOT ‘peaceful’, they are acts of assault. Didn’t read article because title contradicted itself.
No, it is ironic.
Bear in mind that oftentimes, headlines are written by someone else, not the author.
That's true. I went into my archives and checked the letters to the editor I've had published, each submitted with a suggested headline. None matched the print version.
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