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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Tue May 9, 2017, 03:48 PM May 2017

Inside The Alt-Rights Campaign To Smear Trump Protesters As Anarchists

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/inside-the-alt-rights-campaign-to-smear-trump-protesters-as

Sources tell BuzzFeed News that viral photos of a sign urging violence against Melania Trump at an anti-Trump protest were planned by one of the organizers of the DeploraBall, Jack Posobiec.
Posted on January 11, 2017

Less than a week after the 2016 presidential election, a Trump supporter named Alan Beck tweeted two photographs of an anti-Trump protest in Washington, DC, in which a hooded figure held aloft a sign reading "Rape Melania." The images went viral, and the sign — as well as Twitter — drew swift condemnation from news outlets both right and left.

Some Trump supporters took the sign as confirmation that the passionate national opposition to the president-elect was ultimately anarchic and violent. (Many of these supporters had drawn a similar conclusion about the Black Lives Matter movement.) "The current surge in the left's propensity toward violence and mayhem should surprise no one," wrote one InfoWars commenter. And to some Clinton supporters, the sign was a gutting refutation of Michelle Obama's "when they go low, we go high" speech and a reminder that Trump rallies didn't hold a monopoly on menace.

But, BuzzFeed News has learned, the "Rape Melania" sign was not the work of an anti-Trump protester at all. Instead, according to sources, it was the brainchild of a group of Trump supporters led by Jack Posobiec, one of the organizers of the controversial DeploraBall inauguration party and a prominent figure in the pro-Trump internet.


Same alt-right person pushing the French Hack story:

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Inside The Alt-Rights Campaign To Smear Trump Protesters As Anarchists (Original Post) L. Coyote May 2017 OP
OK I will be an anarchist katmondoo May 2017 #1
Anti-protest bills would 'attack right to speak out' -- more than 30 separate anti-protest bills. L. Coyote May 2017 #2
And who is the Leninist in the White House that wants to destroy the state? dalton99a May 2017 #3
Destroy or just break up and liquidate for a profit? L. Coyote May 2017 #4

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
2. Anti-protest bills would 'attack right to speak out' -- more than 30 separate anti-protest bills.
Tue May 9, 2017, 05:17 PM
May 2017
Anti-protest bills would 'attack right to speak out' under Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/donald-trump-anti-protest-bills

The ACLU says more than 30 bills have been introduced amid a huge swell of activism, prompting UN intervention over criminalization of peaceful protest
Adam Gabbatt - 8 May 2017

More than 20 states have proposed bills that would crack down on protests and demonstrations since Donald Trump was elected, in a moved that UN experts have branded “incompatible with US obligations under international human rights law”.

The proposed laws would variously increase the penalties for protesting in large groups, ban protesters from wearing masks during demonstrations and, in some states, protect drivers from liability if they strike someone taking part in a protest.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said more than 30 separate anti-protest bills have been introduced since 8 November in “an unprecedented level of hostility towards protesters in the 21st century”. Their introduction comes amid a huge increase in activism and engagement, much of it inspired by Trump’s election to the presidency.

The ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild have said many of the bills are likely unconstitutional. ..................
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