Alt Right Protest In Seattle Draws Just 7 Protestors

[Initech]

Far-right “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec tweeted videos and photos Wednesday showing him leading a group of people protesting a Vladimir Lenin statue in Seattle.

Video shows Posobiec leading the group in a chant of “tear it down, tear it down” as the protesters — wearing “Make America Great Again” caps and holding placards bearing phrases like “Lenin is Hitler” and “Alt Left Hate” — marched around the statue.

It appears that about 7 people, including Posobiec, attended the demonstration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seattle-lenin-protest-jack-posobiec_us_59955bb3e4b0acc593e53b45

[FLPanhandle]

1. The risk of being outed to friends, family, and employers is too much

These guys don't like the spotlight, they are like roaches.

[liberal N proud]

2. Hopefully the actions since Charlottesville will drive them back into the woods

[loveandlight]

6. I think they'll be back...

in a state where they are allowed full open carry. They won't appear anywhere with large majorities against them or in states where they can't carry their weapons. They mean to be threatening, even a few dozen people carry assault weapons can be threatening. A few men without guns is nothing.

[bearsfootball516]

3. Who thought a protest in seattle would be a good idea?

Seattle is probably one of the most progressive cities in the country.

[FSogol]

4. The Lenin Statue is in Fremont as a kind of joke. It isn't there because people admire Lenin.

From wiki

Lewis E. Carpenter, an English teacher in Poprad originally from Issaquah, Washington, found the monumental statue lying in a scrapyard with a homeless man living inside the hollow statue. The Lenin statue was waiting to be cut up and sold for the price of the bronze. Carpenter had met and befriended the sculptor, Venkov, in an earlier visit to Czechoslovakia. Carpenter's initial interest in buying the statue was to preserve it for its historic and artistic merit. Later he intended to use it attract customers for an ethnic Slovak restaurant he wanted to open in Issaquah.

In close collaboration with a local journalist and good friend, Tomáš Fülöpp, Carpenter approached the city officials with a claim that despite its current unpopularity, the sculpture was still a work of art worth preserving, and he offered to buy it for US$13,000 (equivalent to $20,000 in 2016).

The Carpenter family continues to seek a buyer for the statue. As of 2015 the asking price was US$250,000, up from a 1996 price of US$150,000 (equivalent to $230,000 in 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle

[Persondem]

5. "Lenin is Hitler" ... there must be much hilarity in the afterlife because of that nt