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FROM the LEFT: Independent Journalists and Photographers claim “Journalism is Under Attack”

“Journalism is Not a Crime” rally took place in Foley Square, New York City, on October 1, 2025.

Following the raid/arrest of a photojournalist + ICE assaults on press at 26 Federal Plaza (amid nationwide spike in assaults on press), a press conference/rally was organized by photojournalists (on the Left) in protest against attacks on the press in NYC & beyond…..to advocate for First Amendment protections following multiple incidents of alleged assault and intimidation by law enforcement (specifically ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Court).

,….the last time the NYC press corp organized a public demo, it was a vigil for journalists killed in Gaza. At the time, the number was 36.

.This event was a “press-led rally” organized by a group of independent journalists and photographers (from the Left)

It is extremely rare for NYC press to organize demos, but in both instances it’s largely attended by street press, not desk jockeys…to advocate for enhanced press protections, dropping charges against press, and defending First Amendment-protected activity”

VIDEO PLAY LIST 5 short videos
Talia Jane
was the MC making the intro statement. (with CC)

.Flickr slide show from Press Rally
The journalism is not a crime presser/rally was primarily organized by independent journalists and photographers from the Left, claiming their First Amendment rights are under attack.

Opposition to Israel, Trump and ICE were pro forma

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. The following is a list that included NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. I did not stay to hear all the speakers.

Key individuals involved in the rally or who spoke were:

  • Talia Jane: An independent reporter and one of the primary organizers who addressed the crowd and explained the incidents that led to the rally.
  • Jumaane Williams: The New York City Public Advocate, who spoke about the violence faced by journalists from law enforcement and called on the Manhattan District Attorney to drop charges against a photojournalist.
  • Alexa Wilkinson: A New York-based photojournalist whose arrest and subsequent hate crime charges (which she pled not guilty to) were a central focus of the protest.
  • Ian Bartlett: Another journalist mentioned by organizers as having been arrested by police.
  • Neil Constantine and Josh Pacheco: Photographers/journalists who were thanked by organizers for their involvement.
  • An amNewYork reporter and a Turkish journalist (Vural Elibol) who were reportedly assaulted by ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Court shortly before the rally. 
  • Michael Loeb: An individual who spoke during a press conference segment, raising concerns about journalistic practices regarding the privacy of children’s faces. 

Also, Leigh Kunkel: A Chicago journalist who spoke via phone about being shot with a pepper ball by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The raison d’etre for the rally remained Alexa Wilkinson:  

.Police arrested and charged photographer Alexa Wilkinson with aggravated harassment and hate crimes. The speakers urged people to contact the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to demand the charges against Alexa Wilkinson be dropped. The charges stemmed from a July 30 incident Wilkinson reported on in which protesters covered the NY Times headquarters in Manhattan with graffiti.

Protesters charged the New York Times with complicity in the Gaza genocide because of its pro-Zionist reporting and editorial policies.

Wilkinson allegedly shared screenshots of an X post that read–‘They hanged newspaper editors at Nuremberg’ (a reference to the Nazi journalist Julius Streicher.)

The complaint said Wilkinson captioned the screenshots with the phrase ‘Looking at you (Joseph Kahn),’ referring to the NYTimes’ executive editor.”

“The New York Times has an endless list of ties to the “IOF” and “israel”, as well as a clear bias towards Zionist and imperialist propaganda which manufacturers consent for the horrors we are live-streaming from Gaza day-after-day.” 

While the New York Times and its executive editor Joe Kahn have been targeted by various groups for their war crimes, the building itself has remained relatively untouched …. until now. …

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4 am on July 30th-“An anonymous people-of-conscience escalated an ongoing protest of the NYT for their complicity and manufactured consent in the genocide of Palestinians.

This legacy media outlet proves daily how embedded it is with empire and colonial power players. Shame on the NYT and everyone who’s remained not only silent, but complicit.”

Free Palestine 🇵🇸  Photos by @framed.unrest

Protest photographer Alexa Wilkinsonthey/them  [@framed.unrest] IG

..The World Socialist Web Site

“….the last time the NYC press corp organized a public demo, it was a vigil for journalists killed in Gaza. At the time, the number was 36.

It is extremely rare for NYC press to organize demos, but in both instances it’s largely attended by street press, not desk jockeys.”

In conclusion,” Alexa Wilkinson is facing felony hate crime charges for documenting protesters’ vandalism of the New York Times office in Manhattan and social media posts critiquing the publication’s executive editor.”

READ THE DOSSIER:The New York Times has been a zionist rag for decades. One look at the paper’s present and past staff proves that the paper’s racist and islamophobic coverage isn’t a matter of simple Western ignorance or run-of-the-mill media bias, but intentional and ideologically driven journalistic malpractice.

In our new dossier, published at newyorkwarcrimes.com, we show how—across each section and rank of the warmongering Times—you will find explicit connections between the paper’s staff and the “IOF”, Zionist lobby groups, and Israeli think-tanks. These connections to violent entities and the israel lobby should be considered conflicts-of-interest…” [newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier]

Across the country,
press freedoms are under attack

Do ICE and the NYPD assault journalists in New York City?
That is the question

….World Socialist Website answers the claims….

Reject imperial propaganda.
Boycott, divest, and unsubscribe
from the New York Times!

“Here in the so-called land of the free-press, journalists who dare to fulfill their mandate to document reality and report the truth are facing escalating retaliation. They are surveilled, raided, harassed, assaulted and arrested for capturing the moments Empire would prefer to stay hidden.” [Writers against the War on Gaza]

JOURNALISM IS UNDER ATTACK!

[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

“Repression Breeds Resistance” LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA

“The fact that Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes yet allowed to speak at the U.N. shows how international institutions are a blatant joke. Human rights has always been used as a tool to support some while creating genocide for another. They don’t think of Palestinians as human.
[Nerdeen Kiswani Sept 18, 2024)

Nerdeen Kiswani and Within Our Lifetime
Flooding NYC for GAZA


“We call on all those who stand with Palestine to take
to the streets
to collectively demand an end
to U.S. sponsored genocide in Gaza.

“Repression Breeds Resistance”
LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA

Sept 2, 2024. Labor Day in the U.S.
Within Our Lifetime posted on Twitter-X that their Labor Day action was to raise awareness about work place discrimination in the tech and health care industries against employees who support the “palestinian” people.
[Nurse fired in NYC for wearing pali flag]

Open in New Tab to enlarge next poster for a
closer
look at who endorsed this action

Led by Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime  ..… to oppose genocide in Palestine … she repeats endlessly that the palis are the VICTIMS of ZIONISTS.

Extinction Rebellion NYC was one of the surprise participants that joined the coalition

.There were also Communist orgs
(at least two that I saw) recruiting.

[https://communistusa.org/]

“The RCA (Revolutionary Communists of America) is a party of class-fighters committed to the overthrow of capitalism. We fight for a world of superabundance and reject the artificial scarcity of a system based on the pursuit of profits. We fight to establish a workers’ government to tackle the roots of war, inequality, oppression, and climate catastrophe.”

Another soc/commie group recruiting:
The World Party of Socialist Revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
[https://www.wsws.org]
[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/08/iviz-a08.html]

As we remember today’s meme (some light reading that was handed out)
“Repression Breeds Resistance”
LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA!

W.O.L. published a series of posters detailing accusations of criminal actions by the NYPD (a tool of Israel) against the the Palestinian Liberation Movement. (approx 10 seconds a slide/ pause video to read more info)

.“Israel is comparable to ISIS, just like how they (ISIS) hijacked Islam. And so we know Israel is a terrorist state. Israel’s a genocidal state. Israel is a colonial project and Palestinians will only get justice when Israel ceases to exist” WOL founder Nerdeen Kiswani said to the crowd on Labor Day. (always long winded, this vid is approx 17 minutes of agitprop)  …. with captions….

 “Note to @WOLPalestine‘s @Nerdeen Kiswani & her lackeys: If Israel ceased to exist, Hamas would rule & there would be no justice for Palestinians.”

Flickr Slide Show Part 1, begins with posters that were put up and then quickly torn down by the palis

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.”The peaceful protesters carried Palestinian, Syrian, Iranian, and Hezbollah flags, one man waved a banner emblazoned with the images of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and PFLP general secretary Ahmad Sa’adat. The logo on the banner belonged to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a PFLP-tied NGO.”

Flickr Slide Show Part 2 exposing more of the dangerously pathetic misdirection of so many tools….

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.There is no shortage of radical propaganda
aimed at these gullible followers.

“Zionism is the Catastrophe”
Seven months and seventy-six years of Nakba

They claim unwarranted censorship :Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, shut down the Instagram account of WOL in early February.  In early July, Meta also shut down the Instagram account of the Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoner Network, and in the last week shut down the accounts for Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, and NYU’s People’s Solidarity Coalition.”  (VICTIMIZED by META )

From NY War Crimes Newszine
[https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/zionism-is-the-catastrophe]

“People are still either failing or refusing to grasp that this genocide is equally the product of US imperialism and Israeli democracy.”

RISE UP for palestinian LIBERATION     
NYPD=KKK=IDF 

They never rest from the agitprop that genocide is and has been against GAZA.

Those in power have doubled-down, sending more money and more weapons to the Zionist entity. The seemingly intractable appears at once daunting and hallucinatory, personally painful too, for those in our movement whose families and friends have spent their long October transmitting fear and rage from America’s extermination camps. If there is any solace to be found it is in those dreams and words and rockets that have remodeled the land — 76 years of assembly and disassembly, 76 years too long, but also proof that with Gaza as the heart, there will be courage and with Gaza as the eyes, the aim will be true.”

[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

Protests Continue “Stop Drag Queen Story Hours” NYC 53rd St Library

May 1, 2023 – 53rd St Library. 4 pm

On a chilly afternoon,  a small group of hard core”Drag Story” DEFENDERS gathered in front of the library to make noise and block the entrance.

What books are read is never revealed, and by not letting the Guardians of Divinity enter the library ( even after the story hour)  they must be HIDING something. Popular books:  This Book is Gay; Gender Queer; Beyond Magenta; Jacobs New Dress; Drag Dictionary and OUT!(How to be your Authentic Self).

These books are found in the libraries and in our schools, clearly setting the stage for easy grooming.

Meanwhile, the so called ‘DEFENDERS” bang on anything metal, slap rattles and shake tambourines, noise pollution for alll who pass by while “giving the bird” to the Guardians of Divinity…. for the kids to see and hear.

Across 53rd, the Guardians of Divinity defend the innocence of the children with signs like  “Let the Kids be Kids” and “Save the Children” from groomers.


And they welcomed explaining the issues to passersby. Many stopped to chat.


Except for one F-You guy who angrily shouted as he passed by the Guardians.

.As for the police, seemed like too many for the noisy protestors. They were tasked with standing on both sides of the street AND only BLOCKED the Guardians of Divinity from entering the library. (Noisy Lefties were welcomed)

Flicker slide show Part 1 – A look at both sides of the protest.  A small group of pro “drag story hour” lefties gathered in front of the library, challenged by the Guardians of Divinity with great signs and chants

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Flicker slide show Part 2- More of both sides, the police and the fake Fox reporter.

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a few short videos next:

Part 1 (2:32) Had a lot of short clips of both sides. The usual profanity came from the Leftists (plus they love to flip off everyone)And their mascot, “CrackHead Barney”. The children’s drag show “defenders” LOVE her. “Barney” is loud and obscene. Sometimes half-naked (sometimes  … her breasts are exposed) as she performs in a smelly, obscene costume. Ending with a few nannies and their very young charges leaving the Drag Story hour.

Part 2 –  Gay Activist,  Jay Walker did his usual blah-blah-blah. And  the Guardians Mascot Brad was front and center on the  metal barricade.

.Part 3 – The Guardians of Divinity continued to protest the grooming of children whiles fake reporter, Walter Masterson –a wanna-be actor who crashes protests , today pretended to be a FOX reporter. It seemed to fool the leftards, but he fooled  no one on the Guardians side.

.Last video is Talia Ben Ora, Last video is Talia Ben Ora, a lefty ‘journalist’ hanger-on ,who promotes the library drag story hours while working the police with supposed intel.  She also promotes herself on patreon as a ‘journo” who needs MONEY.

Oddly , the police seem to have willingly been snookered by her.  (she has said as much on Twitter)

Talia schmoozes the lead cops. Hangs wherever she chooses. And proudly encourages the censorship of those she label Right Wing Fascists. A VERY obnoxious woman who amused while performing for the camera.

.Update: Happy to have observed , starting with the BLM/Jordan Neeley riots, that Talia’s “Junior G-Man” badge seems to have expired.

 

 

The NYPD is no longer welcoming her ‘guidance” ((amusing exchange with police/she’s NOT happy)

With this latest leftist rabble assaulting the police and reporters, blocking streets and public transportation, The police might become impatient with the ACAB (all cops are bastards) / DEFUND the Police insurgents. It was time…

.Guess we found out. Lots of arrests on May 9th

Wanting NO Replay of the 2020 riots, the police were finally pro-active.

(Sorry Talia!) LOL

 

[Where indicated, pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall- VSB]

Leftists “March Against NYPD Violence and Rioting” at Columbus (LENAPE) Circle

LEFTISTS Marched Against NYPD Violence and Rioting
1 pm – Saturday, November 14, 2020
Columbus Circle aka Lenape Circle – New York City
[American-Indian names are the new /old identifiers.
Columbus Circle – they demand – be changed to Lenape Circle
]
 

VOCAL New York claimed:

“The NYPD has notoriously attacked black-led protests for years. Notable upticks have occurred since this summer’s #DefundThePolice uprisings. We condemn police violence and treating protest as a crime.”

Hard-core LEFTists like BLM, Socialist Alternative NYC,  Trump/Pence Out Now and Rise and Resist gathered in “Lenape Circle” to OPPOSEDFascism.

 Jay W. Walker (who organized this protest) is an organizer-activist  and co-founder of the Reclaim Pride Coalition, Gays Against Guns, Rise and Resist and Refuse Fascism (a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party.)

Before they marched into Central Park, he spoke against police violence aimed at protestors. As always, the soc/commies are victims of the FASCIST police.

Jay Walker video transcribed: “Democratic, Liberal movements take a stand against police rioting thru out this city. The People of NY aught to take a stand. Some protestors they “protect”, and others – outside agitators – are “violent insurrectionists”; leftists mobs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every activist group in this city has been working in concert for four years to rid this country of the Trump administration. We have been working non-stop throughout all of that time.

We must end police violence against  communities of color; religious minorities; against women; all women around this country; against ICE and government violence against all of our communities. We have stood united since November 2016 and the NYPD cannot. ever. divide us. (cheers/jeers)[1:59]

Over the course of the last week  we have seen the NY media be complicit in spreading lies and propaganda. They have not been doing journalism as they have covered these police riots against protestors.

They have been putting out propaganda. [2:28]

We know that they have been putting out propaganda because they release statements from the police without ever interviewing a single organizer of a single protest at which the police have chosen to herd and deter. And we will not stand for it. ( cheers/jeers) [2:52]

So we are out here today to hold the NYPD to account. We are out here today to hold the NYC media to account.

A quick note to all of these protest movements, “Do not be afraid of the press.” The press is there to get your message out. [3:20]

Don’t let the press use you. YOU use the press to get your message out. (cheers/jeers)

Now, we’ve seen all the lies. We’ve seen all the distortions. We’ve seen cops obstruct protestors, search their belongings and then say, “Oh, they weren’t armed.”  And then we see a media that doesn’t say, “Well, were they brandishing these weapons or were they just locked away in their back pack?” cause you would never have known about them if you hadn’t attacked and brutalized them.

This is the kind of journalism that we expect people who have gone through these great ivy-league , J-school(journalism) programs, who have these media studies mastered; who are reporting from local or national news stations to do and yet they do not. WE must hold them accountable. (crowd- YES!)” [End Video]

The NYPD officers, waiting for the march, were ridiculed and  assailed with accusations of violence.

Walker was pleased to announce they had ‘tricked’ the NYPD into placing vehicles and officers on the south side of the park, knowing they were marching north to Central Park’s Seneca Village (near 72nd St and 5th Ave)

“Seneca Village existed from 1825 through 1857.  Seneca Village was Manhattan’s first significant community of African American property owners. By the 1840s, it had become a multi-ethnic community African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants, and perhaps a few Native Americans. In 1855 … within two years, Seneca Village would be razed and its identity erased by the creation of Central Park.”

As for the NYPD, they still seem committed to “protect and serve”, in spite of the lack of support received from our communist-loving Mayor de Blasio.

Flickr Slide Show

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Unfortunately, Mayor “deBozo” continues to deconstruct the city with lock downs as he relentlessly works to neuter the NYPD. Most recently, de Blasio is removing the NYPD from certain emergency calls. His pilot program will send Mental Health workers to lead/replace the police in what they describe as non-violent emergency calls. It  will debut in Feb. 2021 (good luck with predicting who’s armed)

A pilot program in New York City will be launched to replace police officers with mental health professionals when responding to emergency mental health calls, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday, Gothamist reports.  The pilot will begin in February.

Meanwhile, this day in DC, over a million MAGA patriots gathered PEACEFULLY. Image may contain: one or more people, crowd and outdoor

But they were attacked viciously by the LEFT. Some questioned whether the DC police were able or willingly to protect and serve the peaceful citizens who were just trying to go home.

In Conclusion: The Communist/Socialist insurgents have worked relentlessly for over a hundred years to take down our constitutional government.Their hatred for our independence has never waned, generation after generation.  Decade after decade they have mocked and stripped our “By the People and For the People” government of its strength.

“WE The People”, like the brainless Eloi, have walked passively into our 2020 prisons; imprisoned by the rules of tyrants, government by fiat. We have no say in our future.

Mayors and Governors have shut down our economy; closed our schools; restricted travel and NOW, they plan to restrict what we do in our homes; how we gather privately. Americans are no longer independent. No man’s home is his castle, not anymore.

Face diapers at the ready, Americans have become a compliant culture willing to suffer the bleakness of a totalitarian economy. Is this is our future?

Perhaps not. Perhaps a Civil War is brewing: Us against the Soc/Commie tyrants.

“My Declaration of Independence”. I will not be subservient to the “Rule of these Tyrants.” Ten months and counting, I proudly declare, “I resist!” Whenever and wherever I can.I refuse the idea that face diapers are necessary. They are a symbol of mental and physical slavery. I will fight this tyranny, relentlessly. I will not go quietly.”

As I observed the PRIVILEGED Soc/Commie ‘victims’ of an America they hate, claiming falsely that they suffer abuse, I feel anger. Frustration. Dismay. For those of us who refuse to live under this tyranny,  it’s not the Soc/Commies who are being victimized: AMERICA Must Fight back.

[Where indicated, Pictures and Videos Property Of Pamela Hall (VSB)]

July 3, 2020 -Occupy City Hall – a Shanty Town’s Decay

July 3, 2020. Returning to Occupy City Hall, found a disgusting shanty town, no longer quaint, just dirty; a mess.

Also, some new signs, “Do Not Film or take pictures of Occupy Faces”

This is for their SAFETY, they say,  from police.

Also, new, no part of these public buildings or sidewalks has not been defaced. Occupy City Hall is befouled by graffiti.

The Mayor, sort of whimpered that this graffiti was unfortunate, and then: SILENCE.

PROFANITY was welcomed  (of course)

The encampment was trashed.

Video Part 1 – Sitting a-top their old Mexican style “Vote Bus”, a cheeky singer serenaded the crowd with “My Favorite Things”. (definitely NOT what I expected) with a pithy new lyric, “Then I don’t FEAR so bad.

Her song was followed by a rude speech to the NYPD officers standing-watch across Chambers St.  FEAR! “You about to Lose your Job!” and “This is BLACK JOY!”

Fear the occupiers. For sure.  Since this sign encouraged exposing personal info of the police officers.

The Occupy residents still don’t have much to do. They sit. lay around. (trying to stay dry since the rains were a deluge) That first week they very busy. painting. vandalizing. harassing. But, now. it was VERY quiet. Still plenty of food. and ice. and water. And someone is paying to have their laundry picked up and delivered. (wow)

Flickr Slide Show

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Video Part 2. Watched these BLM thugs harass the cops who stood quietly against the trashed federal building. Fearless thuggery. They know they can be as rude and as a threatening as they like. DeBlasio said Hands Off. This is WRONG.

An appalling abuse of public property. Because they are “progressives”. Socialists. Marxists. So, what do New Yorkers do? To Fight Back? They are MOVING OUT! Especially the moneyed. Not just the regular folk who have lost their jobs. New York City is on its way to being another DETROIT.

Who would have thought this to be our future.

[Pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]

 

Queer Liberation March joins BLM to Protest NYPD

June 28, 2020.  Foley Square


“No permission” was asked nor expected for them to have a protest/march. (They acknowledged proudly)

A HUGE crowd of disaffected gays and people of color marched against Police Brutality.

The police waited patiently, as the crowd gathered to march; with lots of nasty political posturing.

Despite the snarky signs and banners, the police were very laid back.

The march was HUGE. They never stopped arriving at Foley.(Organizers estimated 50,000 protesters attended the march) To their credit, the police quietly walked the protest through lower Manhattan to Washington Square.

Once evening arrived, however, the peaceful march behaved disgracefully towards the NYPD. Under shade of night, all bets of peaceful were off.

“The second annual event for the Reclaim Pride Coalition.  When the marchers arrived at their final destination — a rally in Washington Square Park — they allegedly faced police brutality, according to witnesses and march organizers…. the New York City Police Department confirmed three people were arrested for allegedly assaulting officers, adding that the use of pepper spray and force on protesters transpired after cops tried to arrest one of them for allegedly vandalizing a police vehicle.” [NBC News] [NY Post

Apparently the city cannot control these protests. They protest, march, hang-out (forget social distancing), unchecked; a PRIVILEGE denied to the average citizens who would like to go to church, have a picnic, and WORK!

Meanwhile, the PRIVILEGED Gay/BLM parade-march insist THEY have it bad Living in America.

3 short videos: Part 1

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Part 3

Flickr slide shows: Part 1

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Part 2

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Part 3

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If they are so unhappy – why not LEAVE? Otherwise, go home, have a beer and CHILL.

[Pictures and Videos Property of Pamela Hall]

BLM Declares “The Blueprint: It’s WAR!” June 7, 2020

June 7, 2020. Noon. TIMES SQUARE


“This is not a rally… this is a call of ACTION! We shut down Time Square to present our Black agenda! Protest without strategy is an empty threat…. revealing our black agenda …. presenting NYC with demands & legislation. This is what? A revolution!!”

However, the NYPD made Times Square, between 47th and 42nd, OFF LIMITS. The anarchists were forced to gather at 42nd and Bdwy. (They were NOT happy) They were pissed that “the mayor” had shut down Times Sq.

When you announce that  you are declaring WAR against the NYPD. What can you expect? An invitation?

Black Lives Matter leader has declared war on the police and plans to release a blueprint for change that involves Black Panther style armed ‘patrols’ monitoring the behavior of officers on the streets, DailyMailTV can reveal.

Hawk Newsome, Chairman of BLM’s Greater New York chapter, says the black rights group is ‘mobilizing’ its base and aims to develop a highly-trained ‘military’ arm to challenge police brutality head on. [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8384065/Black-Lives-Matter-leader-declares-war-police.html]

FYI: The Black Lives Matter leader declared war on police and is ‘training our people’ to defend our communities’ in Black Panther style armed ‘patrols’.

Flickr Slide show:

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 “Are you ready NYC?! The time is now for liberation!”

Can anything good come from these anarchists “REPEALING 50-A” and de-funding the police? From the point of view of the NY citizenry: NOT.

A full repeal of 50-a will increase the transparency of police misconduct and allow communities timely access to important misconduct and discipline records across the state. Repeal of 50-a is a key priority of the. Read more about Letter to Gov. [https://www.changethenypd.org/topic/repeal-50]

At this point, things have gone from bad to worse for these brave civil servants in the NYPD. Made most evident by the clutter of ads and signs through out Times Square – supporting the BLM anarchy. Everyone is running SCARED of these THUGS who today declared WAR against the NYPD.

“The NYPD are being pelted with concrete-filled tennis balls during George Floyd protests, the NYPD warned its members Sunday. During these violent times cops can’t relax for a minute because they are sitting ducks out there,” one Manhattan cop told The Post.” [https://nypost.com/2020/06/07/cops-need-to-lookout-for-concrete-filled-tennis-balls-nypd-says/]

Of course – TRUMP is responsible – for everything. (in case you forgot)


This is insurrection is NOT GOOD for anyone.

[Pictures property of Pamela Hall]

Vids and Pics: “No Nazi NYC” Press Conference and Rally

October 19, 2018 – 6:30 PM – NYPD 19th Precinct  New York – Hosted by Peoples Power Assemblies

Some light reading from snowflakes on the left: “On Friday, October 12th, our city was shocked to see footage of “anti-racist” protesters viciously attacked by a “fascist” self-proclaimed gang called the Proud Boys … after a rally hosted by gang leader Gavin McInnes at the Metropolitan Republican Club.”

Scores of NYPD Strategic Response Group (SRG),Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) and police from the 19th precinct were present, but only to monitor and repress anti-racist groups while continuing to escort and protect the fascist gang members.

Despite witnessing repeated acts of violence against protesters, the NYPD stood by, intervening to repress or taunt protesters by saying things like, “You should be lucky we’re not letting them beat your a**es.”

[End of anti-racist left weeping and rending of garments]

Flickr slide show (screen shots) of both sides:

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Transcribed excerpts of three speakers from the “No Nazis NYPD” presser:

“Sophia” (transcribed excerpts) “Despite repeated attacks … the NYPD stood by… saying you should feel lucky we’re not letting them beat your ass … In our white supremacist system, poor people, people of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ are fair game, therefore the collusion between the Proud Boys and the police on Friday comes as no surprise to the activists in New York.

On October 13, Gavin McInnis stated on his broad cast that he has a lot of support in the NYPD. We know this to be true.

[…] We will continue our struggle to protect New York City from racism,  sexism, homophobia and  all other forms of oppression.[CROWD: That’s right and CHEERS]

“Popi”(transcribed excerpts): “To the press assembled here today, thank you for joining us. Thank you for helping our message reach a broader audience. The press has played an essential role thus far exposing the vicious attacks committed by fascists last Friday night. […] In the aftermath of these attacks … questions  … were repeatedly asked, “Why didn’t the NYPD intervene?” The real question is,”Why would anyone expect them to.”

This is a call to action for all the people who have forsaken our struggle. We need you to join us out on the streets. The police will not keep us safe . WE keep us safe.[CROWD: We keep us safe]

Show up with us on the streets. When there’s a call to action, we need as many people here as possible. Because, let me tell you, if one out of every one-hundred people who tweeted about this stuff, showed up last Friday, they wouldn’t’ve had the guts to go in to that building, let alone walk out. Cops or no. Because the people have the power.

So fight back! Not just against them, but against these guys as well (points to NYPD) [CROWD– cheering/jeering] Chants now, “Who keeps us safe. We keep us safe, Who keeps us safe. We keep us safe. Who keeps us safe. We keep us safe. Who Keeps. Us. Safe!

“Louis” of Antifa (transcribed excerpts):

“Hi, my name is Louis. I’m here on behalf of … ANTIFA …. On October 12th … my reason for being there that night was to stand against …. the anti-Semitic …. misogynist, homophobic ….. bigots. [physically and verbally] while celebrating and reenacting the murder of [ ….] a Socialist who was murdered on live television in Japan by fascists on Oct. 12, 1960 during a televised political debate.

[“Just prior to the fight, the Proud Boys hosted an event at the Republican club to “discuss historical context and offer perspective on the environment that surrounded Otoya Yamaguchi,” an extremist right-wing Japanese activist who murdered a politician with whom he disagreed using a sword, then killed himself, “in 1960’s Japan.”[Newsweek]

That night right-wing extremists and nazi sympathizers and skin-heads, all in matching uniforms … were escorted and protected by the NYPD, by the strategic response group at the Metropolitan Republican Club and by the 19th precinct. The following day we saw the right wing media defend political violence.

 I am not surprised that the NYPD did not bring anybody to justice that night. I am not surprised that we have to take matters in to our own hands. The NYPD and SRG , the TARU and 19th Precinct, you are not on the right side of history.

We will not be oppressed by the Republicans; we will not be oppressed by Democrats, by the NYPD, by the Task Forces; neither by neo-Nazis, nazi sympathizers or the Proud Boys. We will organize. We will always fight back at injustice. We are demanding the NYPD be held accountable for defending White Supremacy that evening.”(CHEERS)

Barely Informed with Elad‘s video has even more, “Antifa doesn’t attack anyone. It’s self defense.

** [July 2018] FYI- Antifa ATTACKED Patriot Michelle. She was dragged backwards off a park bench when they grabbed her “Trump in 2020” flag. The police chased the ANTIFA scum down, but I don’t thing much came of his arrest.

** Same protest, the police stood aside while the ANTIFA blocked the patriots and this reporter, denying our rights to protest and report. So much for the police not protecting the “anti-racist/antifas”.

VIDEOS, our side. Blue Lives Matter, where every one speaks clearly. (How refreshing)

Jim McD and “Barely Informed with Elad”

Karen Braun excerpts,  in defense of the NYPD

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Links to reports on the “anti-fascist” vandalism that began it all:

“The self-identified “Western Chauvinists” had apparently descended on the Upper East Side during an anti-McInnes protest outside the Metropolitan Club. Earlier in the day, vandals painted anarchist symbols on the doors of the clubhouse, smashed two windows, and left a note condemning the conservative group for inviting “a hipster-fascist clown to dance for them.” While McInnes spoke at the event on Friday night, a crowd of at least 50 protesters gathered, chanting “Kill more Nazis.  [Gothamist]

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[Buzz Feed“Before Friday’s event, vandals broke the club’s windows and graffitied the anarchist symbol. The club also received threatening phone calls voicing displeasure with McInnes.” [SO, who did the NYPD arrest?]

Police Have Made Their Second Arrest Of Members Of The Far-Right Men’s Group That Beat Up Protesters In New York”

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Rich Lowry [NY Post  : “McInnis (said) … “My guys are left to fight. And here’s the crucial part: We do. And we beat the crap out of them.” […] He proceeded to mock the fighting prowess of Antifa: “They’re easy prey”; “it feels sexist to beat them up, ’cause when you punch them it feels like a girl”; “it’s only fun to beat up the first three.”

Latest on the arrests from NY POST

Members of the far-right Proud Boys — which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — got into a fracas with leftist protesters after the group’s founder, Gavin McInnes, delivered a speech at the usually staid club. [and AFTER the Antifa had vandalized the club]

[Re the SPLC arbitrary designations- Why is ANTIFA not a hate group? SPLC says: “…. groups that engage in anti-fascist violence (Antifa)…  differ from hate groups in that they are not typically organized around bigotry against people….”]

(John) Kinsman, one of five Proud Boys arrested so far, was previously described by Assistant DA Joshua Steinglass as the “single most vicious of all the attackers” that night. According to prosecutors, Kinsman body slammed, repeatedly punched and stomped on an Antifa member all while a cigarette dangled from his mouth. (he) faces assault, attempted gang assault and riot raps.

Attorney Ronald Hart said last week in court that “The Proud Boys did not instigate this fight” and that Kinsman had been overcharged because of the surrounding publicity. In addition to Kinsman, Irvin Antillon, 41, Douglas Lennan, 40, Maxwell Hare, 26, and Geoffrey Young, 38, have been charged in connection to the beat down.”

[NO ANTIFA was arrested]

[Where indicated Pictures and Videos property of Pamela Hall]

 

Illegal Migrants Reclaim “Dignity” – Trump Tower 8/31/16

Proudly they proclaimed: Eight Cosecherxs (eros) were able to block Trump Tower, imagine what we can accomplish with 11 million.[Facebook photo attribution]

Our brave Cosecheras and Cosecheros

“Even though 24hours in NYC jail was unpleasant I felt incredibly lucky to have the support of this crew, and so thankful for all the support we had on the outside. Special thanks to Catalina Adorno for legal coordination, Nataly Castaño Vélez for calling and reassuring my parents that everything was fine, Roberto Juarez for picking up your phone at all hours, Carlos Saavedra Diaz for excellent police liaisoning, Vera Parra for being an incredible media coordinator, and to Fhatima Paulino for sending love and guidance from afar and for managing our social media media accounts while we were locked up, and to so many others who worked tirelessly to make sure we had everything we needed. ” (Always over-reaching)

What follows are STATEMENTS FROM the COSECHERXS  [arrest photos property of George A. Adorno, Erik McGregor and Cosecha Facebook  / Built By Us]

Carlos E. Rojas Rodriguez – Lives in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, From San Juan De Lurigancho, Lima, Peru

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“I am engaging in this civil disobedience to honor my parents’ labor. My parents are one of the most vulnerable workers in this country– they’re farm workers. We migrated from Oaxaca, Mexico to Homestead, Florida in 2005. The experience of the undocumented workers that worked on Trump Tower is parallel to the experience of my parents who work hard under the sun for a mediocre salary. Donald Trump and his supporters don’t recognize the dependency this economy has on hands of working immigrants. I am getting arrested because I know that my parents aren’t the only ones who struggle because they don’t have permanent protection, dignity, and respect. I want to send a message to our community: we will not stand with Trump’s rhetoric of hatred and racism. His ideology is a threat to my family, to me, to 11 million people. The time is now to stand against hate and racism.”

 Amanda Jusino – East Boston, Mass.

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“My parents grew up in New York City, both from Puerto Rican immigrant families. Because we are Puerto Rican my family never had to live with the fear and uncertainty of not having papers but they did have to learn to adjust to life in a different language, culture and country. Growing up in Western, MA I saw the disrespect my mom faced at her job in a doctor’s office. Everyday when she came home from work I saw the powerlessness she felt in the face of mistreatment and her inability to leave her job for fear of not getting another. This daily dehumanization wore our family down. I know this is just a tiny sliver of the injustice, disrespect and mistreatment that immigrant families face in this country every day. I’m getting arrested with Cosecha today because I want all immigrants, children of immigrants and grandchildren of immigrants to know that we don’t have stay silent and watch our families and our communities face mistreatment. We are here to demand dignity for our entire community from my mom, to the undocumented workers who build Trump Tower, to the farm workers who picked the apple I ate for breakfast this morning.”

Maria Fernanda Cabello, Lives in Frederick, Md, From Hermosillo, Mexico

When I saw the headlines that Trump started his campaign by saying “When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best” I became upset not by Trump, but by all his supporters that came out and agreed with him. It reminded me of the story of this country. Countless times I have seen racist and xenophobic people treat my family and people like us like we are less deserving because we are immigrants and undocumented. I am getting arrested today because I want to make a statement that you cannot talk down on immigrants while benefiting from our labor. I am getting arrested so that more immigrants join Cosecha and fight against this hateful narrative and to win permanent protection, dignity and respect for immigrants in this country. I want more people to join harvest and fight with us against the anti-immigrant sentiment, so that we can get permanent protection, dignity and respect for our undocumented community.”

 Juan Pablo Orjuela, Boston, Massachusetts

adjusted-14114917_1038375916257711_2171830339732725633_o-copyFive years ago, I made a promise to myself and the immigrant community that I was going to fight for us the way they fought for me. That was the same day that the DREAM Act failed on the Senate floor. I had driven all the way down from New Jersey the night before, only to watch the votes come in against me, my community, our future. I saw everyone. The disappointment. The pain. I promised to never allow this pain to come to my community ever again. For five years, I failed to complete my promise and it has eaten at me and bothered me. Especially now. Now, we have the opportunity to start things up again, to take a step towards completing my promise. I’ve realized I’ve been trying to keep this promise by myself so I have to do something that reactivates my community so we can fight together, just like we did in 2010. So I want to tell our community: I need your help. I can’t do this alone anymore.”

Cata Santiago – Lives in Florida City, Florida, From Coatecas Altas, Mexico

14124488_1038376126257690_4478179127215749305_o“My name is Cata Santiago and I am engaging in this civil disobedience to honor my parents’ labor. My parents are one of the most vulnerable workers in this country– they’re farm workers. We migrated from Oaxaca, Mexico to Homestead, Florida in 2005. The experience of the undocumented workers that worked on Trump Tower is parallel to the experience of my parents who work hard under the sun for a mediocre salary. Donald Trump and his supporters don’t recognize the dependency this economy has on hands of working immigrants. I am getting arrested because I know that my parents aren’t the only ones who struggle because they don’t have permanent protection, dignity, and respect. I want to send a message to our community: we will not stand with Trump’s rhetoric of hatred and racism. His ideology is a threat to my family, to me, to 11 million people. The time is now to stand against hate and racism.”

 Emily Bloch –  From Brookline, Massachusetts

“It deeply bothers me to live in a country that does not remember its own history. My family came here as Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe almost 100 years ago. We came looking for a better life and fleeing persecution just like the 200 undocumented Polish workers that built Trump Tower. I stand with immigrants now because it does not serve this country to have a class of exploited workers who live in perpetual insecurity. I stand with immigrants now, in this civil disobedience, because the people close to my heart can’t get arrested. During this action, I will be thinking of Sonia, an undocumented woman from Peru, who has not seen her children in 12 years. She sees me as one of her children, but it pains me to know that she can’t give her own kids a hug. On her 12th year anniversary of her leaving her country, I called her and we cried on the phone together. We cried because of how deeply we value our relationship, and I cried because I didn’t want to be her substitute child– I want her to see her own children. I want to tell the immigrant community that there’s hope, you have power, and you have allies. This country needs this movement.”

Phoebe Gardener – Lives in Providence, Rhode Island

“I have been organizing immigrant workers for 5 years and I have seen the pain of not being valued because of your status. I’ve seen the pain of working so hard, but not getting paid. The pain of not being treated as a full person. I am engaging in this nonviolent civil disobedience to say that we will not longer accept the pain anymore. I want to show my support and love for the undocumented workers across the country. I am also doing this because of the undocumented people who are making a sacrifice by my side during this action. I want to tell the immigrant community that I will be here until the strike– we are not going anywhere. I see you– I see the sacrifices that you make, the work you do, and I want to honor you. It’s time to do something bigger than we’ve ever done before to make this country recognize that this country relies on you.”

Thaís Marques – Lives in Newark, New Jersey, From Belém, Brazil

“My parents are legal permanent residents, my brother is a citizen and I’m undocumented. I recently had my application for a green card rejected. I sent in the application a week before my 21st birthday, but United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) has the right to be discretionary about their decided that because I applied so close to my birthday I no longer qualified as a minor. Living in a country where decisions about my future are all discretionary, is suffocating. Living here without any rights is suffocating. I’m tired of feeling like I don’t have any control over my future.”
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There you have it. Eight very entitled ILLEGAL migrants (and friends) . Chained. Chanting their Lies. Claiming ILLEGALS BUILT Trump Tower!

Trump Tower was built by 200 low wage, undocumented immigrant workers. 35 years later, our people continue to work in fields, construction sites, restaurants, and other industries for less than minimum wage without any dignity or respect. Join us as we honor the undocumented workers who built this tower, but also the workers who continue to build this country.”

WRONG.

In fact, a union lawsuit against the contractor was for pension and welfare benefits for 200 POLISH illegals who were hired to TEAR DOWN the Bonwit Teller Department store, not the CONSTRUCTION of the Tower.

Critical COMMENT made on-line to rebut the Cosecheros :

Built by us? Unless you helped build it with your own hands you have no right saying that. You have no right taking credit for the hard work of Americans and immigrants. Immigrants are and always have been welcome here. Shame on you for trying to equate immigrants with illegal aliens.

++ In these two short video clips, the illegals proudly twist the narrative. VIDEO #1-  I caught snippets of two press interviews.

 Carlos Saavedra Diaz – speaking to NBC: “Once again, the hypocrisy of the message of anti-immigrant racism that Donald Trump has supported, while this building was itself and his hotel in D.C. has been built on the hands and the work of undocumented (aka ILLEGAL) immigrants (MIGRANTS)

Q- What’s going on in front of the door?

” In front of the door we have people that are willing to get arrested, they’re here and in solidarity with this movement- and they’re trying to show that this  (?) messaging, this (?) racist,hateful messaging you can’t send” (HUH?)

Q: What do you hope to accomplish then.

“We’re hoping to accomplish, to recognize the labor of  “undocumented immigrants” that it took to build this country. Took to build Trump’s Tower which is called the most important project in the world  and what it took to build his hotel in D.C.”

Q: (chanting begins again)

“Undocumented workers” have always been misrepresented. We don’t have enough voices (very loud chanting)

Young female (unidentified) gave some of the correct historical background re the demolition of Bonwit Teller (before construction)

“Donald Trump is a hypocrite because he (has used) hate rhetoric against immigrants while (pointing skyward) this tower, before it was built, was demolished by over 200 “undocumented” Polish workers 35 years ago…”

In VIDEO #2,  illegal protestor, Tais Marques, spoke while chained  at the Tower Doors.

Thaís Marques (Cosecha protestor while chained to door) ” My name is Thaís Marques. I am “undocumented”. I am a daughter of legal, permanent residents. My brother is a U.S.  citizen. I am here today to honor the 200 “undocumented” workers who worked on the tower and the 11 million (where do they get these numbers?) “undocumented” who built this. This country DEPENDS on US. (unclear) This country, this economy would FALL. This country depends on us.”

++So. Yes. It was a Peaceful Protest. The “Cosecha EIGHT”  (the 4 chained and 2 each foot-blocking the revolving doors) calmly executed their plan. NO one was getting IN or OUT of the doors (for about an hour). But, the NYPD’s plan was tight, as well: To clear the entrance – from all sides – making it difficult to get good pictures due to the ‘crowd cover’ of police bodies .

Stop Deportations Now! ICE-Free NYC-The Speakers (1-8-16)

I.C.E. Free NYC – NOW! 
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
Say NO to SECURE Communities. Sanctuary Cities, Si!

45 minutes – 11 speakers  (2- 4 minutes each) A Sidewalk forum with no amplification.
Still, they forge ahead. Practiced. Skilled at disseminating agitprop to the home-team.

Flickr Slideshow of initial protest (before the street shut-down) Please place mouse on picture to access slide show

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No one is in doubt amongst those lining the walls. Dedicated to an ICE Free NYC.Playing to the cameras from RT TV, Iran’s Press TV, NY 1, Telemundo, Democracy Now! and Japanese TV, NHK.They hang around. The media. They film (a little) Do interview (a few) But, the NY-ICE counter-protestor [in the background] was noticed by only a few…
The media reports are usually short and simple. So, what results from this all, too, familiar protest (with such modest coverage.) Perhaps the results, too, are simple: The reason for the treason: The illegals. Their Families. Their children. Won-over. Manipulated.

The Illegals, convinced only the Communist Left cares about them, work hard to repay The Party. A voting block they can count on.
So, no matter that this protest seemed small and quiet.
Taking only a few NYPD officers off-the-streets. Patrolling the sidewalk. Making sure the entrance to the ICE Federal building wasn’t blocked.
Even their “parade”,  a small, quiet procession, was so low-key that it only involved a couple of scooter cops. [a walk around the block]HOWEVER, there was more. Given a heads-up by a protestor about “A PLAN” Don’t leave.  It was about to happen. Soon.
So, I hung around. Waiting. Walking ’round-the-block.
And there it was. As we came back to the Federal Building. A Street Action. (THE PLAN)  SHUT DOWN THE STREETS!
The anarchist’s favorite toy : Chaos. Confusion. PLANNED.Controlled, but, still, Chaos. The best laid plans (of Mice and Men) Shut the whole Fuckin’ City DOWN!” (If they could)
See previous post for more on “The Plan” [Part 1] Below is the Video Playlist and Flickr slideshow of the Civil Disobedience:

Picture slide show – The Plan (place mouse on picture to access slide show)

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And some extra screen shots of the action (place mouse on picture to access slide show)

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Back to the speakers and their with 30-45 minutes of propaganda. Repeated. Over and over and over.

Video Playlist of the speakers (before they shut down the streets)

The average guy. (America) Needs to hear this anti-American blather. Exposed. Countered. But, the media promotes them. Quietly. Without contradiction.Transparency (for real) drives the LEFTISTS to distraction. (They do NOT like exposure.) Controlling every word. Every picture. (Immigration Prison? Family over (evil) Profits) ‘Trade secrets’ carefully disseminated. (To those chosen)

The ‘subtle’ approach demands more than the intellect. Emotions, Si!
The wrong press. The wrong message- unapproved. Not allowed. Requires ignoring those reporters. Bloggers. Blocking their cameras. This, too, is A PLAN.

So, I FILM. Expose (irritate and frustrate them). American should demand Transparency Unapproved!

Granted these are not Trade Secrets: Open Borders. Down with American Imperialism. The Evils of Greedy Capitalism. No Prisons. No “Crime and Punishment”.
Crime (maybe) but punishment? Not for their Comrades. And NOT if you are a person of color. Or, say, ILLEGAL. Say NO to Fascism!  [Yeah, that’s the ticket]
They preach the evils of White America. The White man’s 21st century world is Unfair! He enslaves men and women, black and brown.
The White Man must suffer. His greedy Empire-building must be stopped. White people GET OUT.  Go BACK where you came from. Reverse Racism,  Si! This palaver is but a secular, Marxist-controlled religion, peopled by faux- Christians.  “Do-Gooder” Lefties who Say NO to Secure Communities. Open the Borders! STOP Deportations!
They chip away at inconvenient laws. Nurture unrest. Manipulating. Corrupting (or ignoring) the RULE Of LAW.
The American Constitution-Bad. Communism-Good. Anarchy, Si! 
Even though the NYPD was caught off-guard by the SECRET Plan, they kept the peace.
Nothing new at Varick and Houston. Pro-Forma. Dealing with the well-rehearsed wild-side was a well-rehearsed NYPD.
The police were calm, focused, professional. They are a fine police force (in spite of De Blasio). Firmly dealing with the insurgents.  Bratty. Spoiled. Entitled. Anarchists with a plan. A game-plan. (For now)  For Real …. when we don’t expect it …
Can we hope to stop this insanity? Not while we have the Mark-Viveritos, De Blasios, Cuomos and Obamas (with Clintons and Sanders in the wings) All ELECTED to office and deconstructing America one day, one year, one decade  at a time.

They have a PLAN. 1. Create Chaos. 2. Restore order.  3. ‘Keep the Peace’. [Can we say “Banana Republic?”]

Eventually, once accomplished, there will be no recovery from their mission. Just passive acceptance. Sad. Sad. Sad.
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