“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.
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:
“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.
Times Square – December 8, 2017 – 4:30 pm to 7 pm – Seventh Avenue and 42nd st.
4:15 pm. The “Palestinians” were already gathering in their pen and YELLING. I soon saw why, the PRO Israel patriots, they TOO were already on-site. Not as many. But the flag of Israel was driving them to taunt their opposition with as much NOISE as they could muster.
For the next 90 minutes, I heard many vile chants. Like, “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud,” (“Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning”) a battle cry when attacking Jews or Israelis.
While a young hijabbed Muslima taunted the Israelis supporters with, “We’re still HERE!“.
And , ” ‘al-Quds” is ISLAMIC LAND, no one can change that reality”
3 video PLAYLIST – Khaybar” chants and more as “Palestinians” swarm Jews and ignore NYPD- Times Square
What is an intifada? Most commonly, the Arabic word انتفاضة is associated with two long Palestinian uprisings against Israel. The first one occurred between 1987 and 1993, followed by a more violent second uprising in the early 2000s that lasted for about four years. The uprisings are known as the first intifada and the second intifada, and both proved destructive to the Palestinian economy.
The word itself carries a lot of other meanings, however. Apart from “uprising,” it can be translated as “shaking something off,” or “tremor.” WaPo (Just like Debbie Almontaser’s Intifada NYC t-shirt)
On college campuses and in op-ed pages, the same crowd wraps itself snugly in the mantle of social justice, arguing that it wants nothing more than peace and equality for Palestine’s oppressed, but in the streets the picture’s sharper and more ghoulish: It’s all about violence against Jews.[Tablet Mag]
Boldly OUTRAGED against the Jews, Israel AND Trump: “Call it the Sarsourization of New York (and national Dem) politics. Under Giuliani there were clear red lines for rallies and protests. Calling for terror and death was a red line. But Bill de Blasio, New York’s current top dog, had crawled deep into bed with Linda Sarsour and Islamists. And that’s where you get this from. “[D. Greenfield]
Flickr slide show – Anti Israel
Flickr slideshow – Pro Israel
Part 1 video. After quite few years of diminished “Fakestinian” rallies, today was back to the old formula: BUS ’em in from Jersey. Pack the pens. And that is what happened.
Part 2 video. They kept coming. Families – young and old. hijabs and kufiyas. A visual blight.
Part 3 video. They made A LOT of NOISE.
Part 4 video. At first the NYPD didn’t have many officers on site, but that soon changed. Once this crowd of Muslim “yoots” (and friends) made it clear they were NOT going to obey the rules of public assembly. Perhaps this is what we get from 24/7 media coverage of the BLM and Antifa anarchists.
Part 5 video. The NYPD was GREAT. Very impressive while dealing with a complicated bunch of Muslim “Palestinians”. OUR laws were not going to be obeyed. No way. No how.
Part 6 video. As the “Palestinians” surrounded and harassed the pro- Israel contingent – on a public sidewalk. It was a very heated attempt at intimidation but, THEY did NOT succeed. We STAYED. Even when the police suggested we leave as the Fakestinians marched to the Israeli Consulate. We thanked them, but NO. We were fine. We stayed. Am Yisrael Chai!!
[Pictures and video property of Pamela Hall]
++ other links reporting on the competing protests++
Videos that shows our group from the other side of the police barricade: Yenisfak.com
And then, 3 days later, December 11, 2017. A Muslim JIHADI strikes again, taunting Trump before he struck, “Trump you failed to protect your nation..” NYPost
We have been warned, and yet, the ignorance rolls on….
“Despite Ullah’s alleged words and Trump’s efforts to restrict immigration, statistics suggest that the threat posed by terrorism is exceedingly low.
For example, a person living in the US is about 123 times as likely to die in a gun assault than by a foreign-born terrorist, and more than 400 times as likely to die in a vehicle incident.
“We’re doing an awful lot of effort for a very low-risk threat,” Oxley said. “Maybe we need to work harder to make these folks feel comfortable and assimilate into our society … If we let these people in, maybe we should work harder to make them a part of our culture.” FOOLS
November 11, 2016 – On the bus – Fifth Avenue- Trying to get to mid-town. Traffic is very, very slow. After speaking to a couple of Brits – heading to the U.N.- I remembered they were closing off Fifth Avenue, beginning at Fifth and 57th, because of the PROTESTING sore-losers.
“We will gather … in cities across the nation to affirm to ourselves and one another that, despite the outcome of this election, we will not give up. No matter what challenges confront us in the times to come, we will unite with one another and defend our communities—across race, religion, gender, age, ability, national origin, immigration status, sexual orientation, class, and all of our identities. The fight for a nation with liberty and justice for all—and with an economy and democracy that work for everyone—continues.
…. (we) share our reactions, pledge our mutual solidarity, and resolve to forge ahead together in this moment of peril. We have experienced setbacks before, and we have always come back. Our movements are resilient and unstoppable.”
“Note the call to resistance – the logic being that these leftists are the ones under attack, and only reacting in rational defense. This is what nearly eight years of an Obama administration, including a radical, activist Justice Department and a propaganda-pushing Education Department, have brought. Perhaps a Trump administration means that come January 20, the adults are back in charge.” [the excerpt above from Pamela Geller]
My how things changed after a few days and a TRUMP Victory can make Soros and Company…. Making a mess of travel – controlled chaos that the rabble loves. And so does the media.
Got off at 60th. Paused at Trump Tower- seeing the new lay of the land. Much has changed since Sat. November 5th.
Many barricades. A NEW police-hut at 56th. Police cars. Police. And Tourists. (Lots of selfies going on)
However- I found the closure of Fifth was more than Trump Tower. It was the Veterans Day Parade!
They used Fifth, as always, from 23rd to 53rd and this street closure was A-OK. Took some cellphone pics and vids. Then headed back to midtown.
[Slide show of a few pictures- 2 short videos]
Later I read this letter from a Retired Navy- Sheepdog- R Davis. I always appreciate his thoughts
So I kept my word, I went to bed early on Tues and did not know the result until Wed morning around 0600 when my son-in-law texted me “Trump won!”
For 8 long years we have suffered as Obama jammed all his distasteful agendas down our throats, juked them down our throats like dirty laundry…..
Maybe the most satisfying thing is that the Clinton machine is over, their foundation and their influence are finished. The D’s don’t have any obvious stars right now and we have a bunch.
For me, I want to start building the wall on day one and dismantling ObamaCare and rebuild our military. We need more active duty so we don’t have to rely on our reserves. Especially our active duty Army and Marines – I hope he doubles them, and he said he would increase our Navy to 350 ships (and increase our submarines too). We need that to be a top priority.
So I’m happy but I‘m also very very annoyed at these disgusting disgraceful rioters in cities all over America – they are being influenced by anarchists, some paid, all rabid.
Obama and the democrats love it, we hate it – hopefully the cold weather will help end it soon.
I’m grateful that Trump will stop the insane inflow of Syrian refugees into America, he said that people coming into America “must love our people” – also, he will bring respect to our police officers and all law enforcement officers and first responders. Trump understands “safety of ship and crew” and Law and Order is a top priority of his (mine too). America First!!
Thanks always for our troops and our cops and their families – they are the best of us – so glad they will have Trump looking out for them instead of Hillary who supported “Black Lives Matter” and takes money from countries that hate us.
To the Troops and Cops and all Law Enforcement!
To their families!
To America and Israel!
To Victory over evil at home and abroad!
Jihad never sleeps – they want to kill, but now they better keep one eye open….
October 28, 2016. Trump gets no respite from the protesting Left. From Nasty Women (two days previous) to Super Predator. Anarchists & Leftards,
the true NASTIES and Predators-lurk, smirk and snarkily assailed those
who passed by Trump Tower with lies, lies and more lies.“From Sexual Assault to stirring up racist, sexist,and misogynistic emotions, Donald Trump has proven time and again that he’s the SUPER PREDATOR that he claims others (like the Central Park Five) are. Take the fight to his doorstep (Trump Tower) before he’s at ours.”
It was quite a show. Hard-core Leftards of Occu-Evolve verbally sparring with Gary Phaneuf, the Staten Island Heckler. Gary usually hands out China Daily – the official “state-owned enterprise” of the People’s Republic of China while hawking the glories of Che and the Red Chinese.However, this day he was pretending to support Trump/Pence while handing The Hamiltonian – Voice of the Lyndon Larouche Political Movement – to the “angels unaware”. The casual observer had to be a bit confused by Gary, his signs, his newspaper and the heckling between him and the Leftards. Street theatre meant to confuse. Seems the deception is what camera-darling, Marni Halasa, enjoys. No apologies or explanations necessary. Smiling. Blowing kisses. Posing with her “Make America HATE Again” sign. She brings smiles to the faces of those passing by. ( the cops, too)
If you just glance you might think Marni, like Gary, is in the pro-Trump camp. Surely some of have to see sparks when they look at their pictures (LATER) and see what her sign really says.
The first sign of activity when I arrived was “Mr Turd” guy – selling his Turd buttons. A familiar face who always hawks something, cashing in on the moment. Compared to the “Nasty Women – Dump Trump” protest two days ago, these wack jobs are even more nasty since their game includes mocking the gullible touristas. Like this fellow.
His sign, his spiel aims to deceive. Sounding pro-American. Reasonable [see just-a-guy interview in March Central Park 3/16]
Compared with Gary Phaneuf [past link here] Mayday-2010, holding his more familiar props,Red Chinese Flag, China Daily agitprop and Che, while arguing with everyone. Trump Tower 2016, a change of props, and cra-cra Gary, ranting about Soros, Hillary, China and Russia, seemed ‘reasonable’.
Would love to report on more than hard-core Hate Trump-America types – but then – this IS New York City; a radical city, run by Red Bill de Blasio(SEE LINK),
Even so, there were three stalwart pro-Trump protestors. Eliciting a response from one loud-mouthed Lefty- very impressed with her knowledge of borders, “You heard of the Rio Grande?!” [VIDEOof her rant begins at 1:28]
An anti-Hillary / Bernie guy joined the”Prison For Hillary/Build the Wall” guys While one oddly quiet Leftard stood next to these three, and reminded all that it was IMPORTANT to VOTE. Each group was mostly in their own space – the cops in theirs. No pens. No doors blocked. No sidewalks jammed. Just a bit of Leftard Street Theatre – 10 days before the official Election Day. Election Day *sigh* It used to seem more special – But the Left is deconstructing that, too. (I HATE EARLY VOTING)
If “Hilda’ loses, what will happen on the streets post Nov 8 – street theatre at its worst? Hoping America will not buckle to the threats and chaos that might ensue. The LEFT will not take defeat nicely and Hilda – seems she has BIG plans – as winner– IF SHE LOSES – what will she do with all those fireworks!
March 19, 2016. Columbus Circle. “Crush Trump!” (Part 2)
[Part 1 from “Crush Trump” is HERE] A day of “snark and hubris”.
(You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all)
But repetition breeds complacency, so bring it on.The “Dump/Crush Trump” protestS. Redux. Rolls-on. Ad nauseum.
These same players (and maybe the 5000 no-show anarchists)will spread their chaos in-the-streets nation-wide. However, on March 19, the mischief-makers gathered slowly, VERY slowly, never reaching the trumpeted throng of 5,000.
YET, “LOVE” was in- the-air.High Noon. Start time. The press, lingering, wondering, where’s the 5000 who were on-call to fight FASCISM?The student-majority, mostly a happy “throng”; laughing, singing, drumming …. and chanting… lined-up with a banner and a few pithy signs.
SLIDE SHOW of pictures (to access place cursor on picture)
Noon was looking a tad disappointing. The lethargic press (looking for ANYTHING to cover) came alive with the beat of the drums. Hoping for the perfect photo to take back to the boss.
But, a slow trickle was too calm and love just doesn’t “do it”.
What does the media really HOPE for? The fake ‘aggressive’ Trump protestors ‘assaulting’ those “calm” anti-trump protestors, of course. (Insurgent plants make a much better story)
Wisconsin: “You touched my chest” – the faked uproar from the ‘victim’ (Alex Drake) and perhaps – the intentional pepper spray. Watched many videos and the guy in red hat slyly positions himself, just before the punch. (Me-thinks he KNEW it was coming) It was ALL too well planned (rehearsed) yet that gets played over and over…as though it were spontaneous. (It sells)
NOT this meek little gathering. The banner unfurled. The ubiquitous drum, drum, drumming filling the air. The press was looking at a short day.
Some Commie-handlers were observed – walking back and forth from the park- entrance to the circle protestors… hovering in the background…
This usually means they are co-ordinating something. Waiting. Watching (it turned out) for the missing hoards. And then … it was time….
Some of the missing protestors (still not 5,000) had finally marched over from Fifth Avenue.
It was TIME for the mini- ‘PARADE” to make the short-hop across Central Park West.
Obediently they marched with signs and banners across CPW to the Central Park entrance. [and the press went “wild”] Pressing, pushing through the small crowd. Once again, HOPING for that perfect picture.
In the Park: We now had a crowd, thick with press, and protestors.
And colors. Lots of colors. Green (Anti-fas).
Yellow (Socialists).
Red (Commies)
With the usual Black (BIG A-anarchists)
“fakestinian” kuffeyas.
and BLM (Black Lives Matter) sentiments, scattered throughout the protest.
A fairly solid example of an everyday college campus.
Barking profane chants and carrying hand made signs that went from childish sex jokes to racist cracks to … “LOVE”….
THEY kept telling us THEY own the franchise on LOVE. (observe, please, the Spit-Queen of Love)
Slideshow of pictures (to access place cursor on picture)
There were speakers (using a small megaphone) with the “students” packed hard against the ‘staging area’. This always makes the crowd look bigger and is good for photo-ops.
Video playlist
Muslim-speakers were there. Linda Sarsour, in particular, who has long been in-training to be Brooklyn Burrough President (it’s on her bucket-list)
She was joined by more distaff speakers, 20-somethings, who wore “american” flag-type hijabs. [one female, who spoke, wore a BLACK-starred flag]
Once the protest began it’s march back to the Fifth Avenue Trump Towers, I spotted a dancing Pinocchio-nosed Trump (with snarky signs)
And more smack-down Fascism signs.Immigration banners on the fountain steps. (they also stretched one across CPW) Illegal Immigrants, SI! But, No Walls. No way. Throughout my two hours (before they marched east to Fifth Avenue) nothing NEW seemed to happen. But, still— not great— when you see the press (particularly the foreign press) so eager to see America fall apart.
French. German. Spanish. Saw them all interviewing the pro-America “No OPEN Borders” counter-protestors. But, finding a pro- America report post protest- that’s a search that too often ends in vain. Sometimes you might find a one-line quote, here and there, supporting America. (maybe)
BUT, that is so NOT what this crowd was looking for. Chaos. Confusion. Revolution. Another dose of anarchy – sadly – in Belgium -and these fools and tools in Columbus Circle are grinning (winning?)
G-d save us all from the do-gooders, anarchists and their Community Organizers.
One Final Thought. What, might you ask, are they PROTESTING?
What do the radicals claim to want? (Many of the main groups endorsing Democracy Spring are FUNDED by billionaire Soros and supported by groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and as usual the AFL-CIO)
THIS GROUP complains that “American elections are dominated by billionaires and big money interests who can spend unlimited sums of money on political campaigns to protect their special interests at the general expense…The American people deserve free and fair elections, not billionaire auctions.”
So, if you are moved to join your fellow anarchists at Democracy Spring, for the 10 Day March, all you have to do is contact your friendly New York Community organizer.
From Philadelphia, Democracy Spring marchers are planning protest stops in Wilmington and Newark in Delaware; Perryville, Joppa, Baltimore, Elkridge, and Beltsville in Maryland ( 0n their way to D.C.) and then encamping in Columbus Circle at 11 AM Eastern on April 11: a day of National encampments….
100 people have confirmed that they will participate in the full march, with activists hailing from 33 states across country. Those protesters signed an option on the coalition’s website explicitly stating, “I pledge to be one among thousands who will risk arrest to save democracy in DC between April 11 – 16.”
And remember, (promising only 2,000 this time), they’ll be back at Columbus Circle, April 11, 2016 at 11:00 AM.
Democracy Spring,a coalition of far-left groups plotting mass civil disobedience with thousands pledging to risk arrest, is set to kick off its nationwide activism on Saturday at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia’s Independence Mall.
OWS. The Arab “spring’ it was just the beginning of their downhill run. Right before our eyes- under our noses- they feed the foolish with their agit-prop. Deconstruct the system. And what they choose to destroy- to abhor- they CLAIM to protect. NOW they wish to SAVE “democracy”.
I begin the “Crush Trump” Protest, organized by the Cosmopolitan Antifascists, with a report on the NY-ICE counter protest. There will be more posts of the soc/commie/anarchists, pictures and some video.
Noon. Columbus Circle. March 19, 2016
I arrived at about 11:30. The gathering of the anti-Trump brigades was slow. This one-man flag waver for Socialism was leading the way…alone….it was so slow starting that, for quite awhile, the press outnumbered the protestors. This was looking to be a slow day for a protest.Though things did pick up once they all crossed Central Park West to the park entrance. There was even OPEN Borders banner blocking the street. More and more of the Bernie-fied anti-Fa’s finally trickled in. GREEN seemed to be the color of the day, as well as yellow arm bands for the avowed socialists. But, green? Left over from St. Paddy’s Day?? I’m not up on what that signifies (if anything). [Update:ANTI-Fascists “GO GREEN”]NY-ICE – (New Yorkers for Immigration Control)“Saying NO to open Borders. Build the Wall” was also there. The press was interested in statements from NY-ICE and THAT made the already angry anarchists even more bilious.
“More and more, people who show their support to Donald Trump are intimidated,” said one among them, Jim MacDonald, of NY-ICE.
“We are here to show that it is still America for the time being … we have a right to free speech,” he added.
“As frightening as this is, we are going to show that we have the right to show our support to Donald Trump whether it pleases the other side or not.”
The flickr slide show below focuses on NY-ICE and a couple of the soc/commie infiltrators who attempted to end the interviews by stepping in to the discussions (like this red-hatted, “peace-loving” woman) Her ploy didn’t seem to work as well as it has in the past. [And she left quickly once she was asked to explain why she supported socialism vs free-market capitalism]
(Please place cursor on photo to access slide show)
SO …. the next approach to end the press interviews was to “scream, curse, and chant-sing” the press into a submission (of sorts) That too didn’t work. For once the press hung in there, as did NY-ICE (they always do)
VIDEO- NY ICE Patriots quietly countering the hatred spewing from the mouths of the vile soc/commie/anarchists. “F#*k Trump” was the chant of the day.
This clip is longer than I usually post, she ranted for 15 minutes or more [repetition is part of the art of chaos] I edited as best I could, without losing some of the main-points of the opposition to Trump etc.
STARTING at [3:33-6:18] there was a spirited exchange regarding Zionism, Jews, Ben Carson, Israel (apartheid & Walls) and Russia (a FINE example of NO walls) and continues at[7:01-7:38] The protestor was seemingly OKAY with Russia having Borders and Border patrols (go figure)
And there was very open support for BERNIE. NOT Hillary (no surprise)
Obnoxious chants were led by the particularly obscene “Spit-Queen”- her intentional spittle flew at 2:12 – aimed at NY-ICE. Yet she continued to preach that she was all about Love. TRUMP was Hate. They were LOVE.
Side Note: The spit-queen has a history of spitting as a tool-of-protest. And she ALWAYS screams and curses like a sailor!
VIDEO – NY ICE and some of their interaction with the press. I was able to catch brief interview quotes from the NY-ICE Patriots, particularly NY-ICE member, Jim, who was being interviewed starting at1:57.
The Commie-handlers always walk the perimeter of the protests. I happened to spot Andy Pollack, who loves to bully and threaten the opposition. But, today, he seemed to be on quiet-patrol. Once Pollack had observed NY-ICE a few times is when the spit-queen took her position down-front – next to the NY-ICE press interviews- No accident. For sure.
I am guessing the police let a lot slide earlier while I was observing at the park entrance. They usually make groups like NY-ICE stand away from the protestors. Not sure that mixing was all that much fun, annoying, but the police (watching and waiting) were saving their energy for the MARCH. (I guess) NEXT will be my pics etc as I look at the Wild Side. Reports came out later (after I left around 2 pm) that the March to Trump Tower, just a couple of blocks East, is when the anarchists and loons finally took to the streets. Chaos, NOT LOVE, is their goal. (Always.) Challenging Law and Order. (I understand there were some arrests and pepper spraying)
Part 3 of a three part series The Speakers Protest in front of the Plaza.
December 11, 2015. Noon. NY’s Plaza Hotel.
“Communities UNITED! Confronting Trump…“ “Say NO to Trump’s Racism and Hate” “Trump is a symptom of a white supremacist sickness that is rooted deeply in our political system. We are mobilizing this Friday to share a vision of communities beyond policing, beyond incarceration, and beyond detention.”
A “DUMP TRUMP” protest supported by these organizations:
Families for Freedom Black Alliance for Just Immigration- BAJI Queer Detainee Empowerment Project- QDEP Responsible Endowments Coalition Showing Up for Racial Justice- SURJ Council on American-Islamic Relations- CAIR BAYAN- USA Jews For Racial and Economic Justice- JFREJ Black and Pink Jewish Voices for Peace Arab American Association of NY
“A liberal activist group said that Pennsylvania Republicans should dump Donald Trump as the speaker at a party fundraiser after the mogul proposed a “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the U.S.”
Game On: Trump was inside at the Pennsylvania GOP’s annual Commonwealth Club luncheon.
“The party is standing by its man.Donald Trump will be the keynote speaker at our Friday fundraiser in New York,” Pennsylvania GOP spokeswoman Megan Sweeney said. [And he was]
As I arrived, I saw a large crowd hoping for a glimpse of “The Donald”.
NO PRESS was allowed inside the luncheon, so the press and passersby (LOTS of “just plain folk”) were jammed at the entrance.
Also, in Grand Army Plaza, was the “Dump Trump” protest. A crowd comprised of Commies (young and old) …… Illegal Trespassing supporters [like Percy Lujan from Revolutionary Student Co-ordinating Committee) and lots of trend-setting white-folk.
Muslims (of course) —- many Muslimas actually—
A Christian Clergywoman, who held high her sign, “Love Your Muslim Neighbor”.
As though LOVE would have stopped Boston’s murderous Tsarnaev Brothers and their VILE, INSANE mother, Yeah. LOVE. That’ll stop ’em.
The ubiquitous Rabbi Michael Feinberg(Rabbi for Human Rights & Exec. Dir. Greater N. Y. Labor-Religion Coalition.) present as always…
Flickr Slideshow (place cursor on picture to access slide show)
The Speakers: At Noon, the Commies (and friends) began a lively “Dump Trump” protest with many speakers crammed into just one hour.
They preached, lectured, chanted and SCREAMED! (often) “ORGANIZE AND EDUCATE, THAT IS HOW WE END THE HATE”.
“Resistance to U.S. Imperialism. (War and Prisons.) We’re here taking Collective Action. We also want to build Collective Trust. Take a moment to get to know the folks around you.” [had a moment of “Meet and Greet” ] Then an Hispanic female from Families For Freedom led a ‘walk through’ of some chants, like:”We’re Gonna Bring Trump Down” and “End the US War Machine from Syria, to Iraq and the Philippines”. “We’re not gonna stand for Fascists like him and the Fascists he represents. He is the epitome of US Imperialism. How dare he slander all Muslims”
VIDEO
Playlist of all 11 short videos
However, I lost the video I took of the FAKE Republican. (My bad.) But, what a hoot she was! She was introduced as an EX-Republican! Now reformed. Enlightened. She sees the ERROR of her misguided days as a Repub. (ya think?)
What made her change? “It was the HIS-To-Ry of FASCISM!!” (twitter link)
[Video from Ash J on Twitter #NYC Anti-#Trump protesters across street from Plaza]
“Your assignment today, if you choose to do it” — CLAIM to be an ex-Repub who voted for GW — (yeah. That’s the ticket) FAKE REPUB WOMAN during her speech. (Do people actually BELIEVE her?) The crowd during the speakers’ hour was also entertained by professional protestor, Marni Halasa. Often dressed as an NYPD “BIMBO Cop” aka Babs the Bankster-Buster. Whatever the costume, always on SKATES and Camera-Ready.
Do people READ her coyly written signs? Or do they just want to take a picture with a pretty girl.
Once the speakers dispersed, a team of “t.RUTT” artistes paraded a guerrilla-bus painted with “t. RUTT” (t. RUMP) ’round and ’round the Plaza traffic circle.
Even though the press was in absentia, the bus team was quite pleased with their guerrilla-art bus “success”. [See alsoTwitter link for bus]
The woman who was interviewed by NY1 ( in video at 00:56) seemed to represent the artist(or was the artist) not quite sure.
“Trump is a Black Swan ” (so says she) “… a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.”
VIDEO
NEXT (after the t.RUMP bus) I found the Commies – a small group of Muslim, Arab, immigrant, and LGBTQ community members – at the south entrance to the Plaza regrouping after being THROWN OUT of the GOP Luncheon (See Part 2)
The GOP Banner-Nut Luncheon-Crashers was a small group of Commies, Muslim, Arab, immigrant, and LGBTQ community members – at the south entrance to the Plaza regrouping after being THROWN OUT of the GOP Luncheon. They were talking quietly to the press [“Muslim, Jewish, Queer, and Immigrant justice organizations joined together to pull off this critical action.
“Wherever Trump goes, whenever he has a platform to speak, the people will be there to resist and disrupt”. SO, they went into attack mode as soon as they saw the volunteer from the Pennsylvania GOP talking to the press. He had to be shut-down with SCREAMING and screaming and more screaming.
Twitter video of the obnoxious harassment of the GOP volunteer
“Tell us WHY. Why do people gotta to DIE?”, “TRUMP is trying to bring us DOWN, attacking people Black and Brown”. He was relentlessly harassed (mid-interviews).
The Commies CHEERED as the volunteer was forced back inside the Plaza (First Amendment be damned) Pictured from L – Zakararia(h) Ismail Kronemer and Jamela Hammami. Far right, Jorge Gonzalez. But, the GOP volunteer was NOT finished. He returned confidently and finished his interviews. (starting at 2:57 below)First part of my video is the very LOUD verbal assaults by the Banner-Nuts.
FYI: Leading the harassment was “Megaphone-guy”, Zakarariah Kronemer, who is of Egyptian descent, and the “Loud and Proud”, transgendered , Imami Henry [Staff Organizer at the International Action Center (IAC).]
Found more on the actual invasion. Seems the Islamophobia Banner-Nuts managed to invade the GOP luncheon INside the Plaza. (In spite of LOTS of security) Because….
“An ally inside the event was able to open a side doorallowing the four demonstrators to enter. The Arab and Latino protesters effectively disrupted Trump’s speech singing, “Mama Mama tell us why, why our people gotta die. Trump is trying to bring us down, attacking people black and brown.” A dozen security guards and some attendees of the event swarmed on the demonstrators and aggressively dragged them out. In the commotion, one of the members … an arab woman , Jamela Hammami, a demonstration organizer and Executive Director of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, was thrown to the ground.”
Videos reveal how resistant and practiced they at NOT leaving when asked. When ever possible they THROW themselves to the ground and wail and moan. What matters is lots of copy. Which they got.
Jorge Gonzalez,who was injured while serving in the Iraq war, was thrown down a flight of marble stairs after disrupting an event where Donald Trump was speaking inside the Plaza Hotel, demonstrators said.
This video of their unceremonious expulsion is from Twitter
Without too much searching, I found the names and predictable background info of the ‘players’ who crashed the Pennsylvania GOP luncheon. (All “Loud and Proud”)
Jamela Hammami, is an Arab Muslimah, N African Tunisian and exec dir of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project. Also a key protest organizer leading the activists interrupting Trump’s $1,000-a-head GOP fundraiser.Zakarariah Kronemer,is an organizer for the Virginia youth climate justice movement who is of Egyptian descent. He said, “The people must interrupt him (Trump) anywhere he is invited to speak. It’s leading to violence in the Arab community [in America]”.
Jamela Hammami, “(Trump’s) statements are completely steeped in levels of Islamapobia and Arabphobia…a symptom of being a part of american society still steeped in xenophobia reminiscent of the McCarthy era. We will continue to face hate and violence until we fight against it and demand safety and freedom for our people.”
2nd video of the expulsion from CBS News
“Mama, mama tell us why, why our people gotta die? Donald Trump is trying to bring us down, attacking people black and brown,” the mini mob chanted
The protesters had their own messages to impart and the press loved it. They are adored…respected…the “20-somethings” as well as the older Jewish contingent (who actually attended the luncheon.)
Jewish seniors, veterans, and white allies standing up to Trump’s hate and his manhandling goons. #StandUp4Refugees
They were protesting Trump’s call to close the United States to Muslim immigrants and visitors.
“It’s our responsibility,” said Sandra Abramson of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
“We believe that this country has values and we need to uphold those values.”
Abramson, a Brooklyn resident, says she was allowed to take the elevator after being removed from the event.
Sandra Abramson, 69, one of the protesters, said she spent $3,000 to get herself and two friends into the event. She wanted to read a Bible passage, Leviticus 19:33, about the need to treat foreigners justly. She said security removed her, but Mr. Trump “just kept on talking.”
“He was talking about how terrible Hillary was, how terrible Obamacare was … and how terrible the world is except for “The Donald,“ Ms. Abramson said. Others said Mr. Trump also discussed his own strong polling, and the importance of Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry.
Of the check she signed to attend the event, Ms. Abramson said, ”It will be canceled immediately.“
Other activists were tossed out more forcefully. “Trump is trying to bring us down,” they chanted outside. “We have a room in the hotel so we have a right to be here,” said protester Jamila Hammami. “But those guards pushed us down several flights of stairs.”
Hammami says Trump is to blame for the recent wave of hate crimes against Muslim-Americans. “This is because of the hate coming out of his mouth and no one is checking him,” she said.
In case you are curious,more info on the people outside the Plaza being interviewed by the press – after the “invasion” – THEY ARE WAY TOO OFTEN PROFESSORS – of some sort – Educators. Our college tuition goes to their salaries – Our kids come home INDOCTRINATED.
There were eight older protestors who paid to attend the $1,000-a-plate luncheon, made loud statements during Trump’s speech” saying, outside the Plaza, that they were surprised and offended by their swift removal from the luncheon (Yeah. Sure they were)
“Judith Plaskow, 68, of New York, a Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College and a Jewish feminist theologian,said she bought a ticket at the door with a $1,000 check – a check she hoped to later cancel. She was among a group of women ejected from the ballroom when they stood and started singing, “We are kind and welcoming people.” Asked why she attended, Plaskow said, “I feel ashamed to be an American right now. The level of hate speech that I’m hearing in the country right now, I find deeply, deeply disturbing.”
Plaskow said she is a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and has many Muslim friends.
Another member, Jordan Wouk, said he used a ticket purchased by another activist and was driven to bear witness against Trump. “I wanted to try to let people know that not everybody approves of Trump’s hateful message,” said Wouk, 67, of Manhattan.
“… upstairs Jordan Wouk,a New York Democrat, along with his wife and two other protesters who had obtained tickets to the event, stood and started a disturbance by reciting a revised version of German pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous poem about the rise of the Nazi Party … The protesters recited the first few lines of their version, which began “First they came for the Muslims,” before being ejected by security.”
Jennifer Hirsch, a Columbia University professorwho focuses her research on gender, sexuality, and reproductive health, U.S.-Mexico migration and migrant health, the comparative anthropology of love, and the applications of anthropological theory and methods to public health research and programs, was also bounced from the party, said it took just seconds for security to descend on her as she tried to read a statement aloud to the crowd.
“I’m proud to be a Jew speaking out against Islamophobia,” she said.
Hirsch was among several protesters from a group called Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, who bought tickets, tried to interrupt Trump, and were ejected from the event.
Smith College Professor of Government Program for the Study of Women and Gender
Born in 1946 in New York City to Socialist Zionist parents, Martha Ackelsberg went on to earn a bachelors degree in social studies from Radcliffe College, and her masters and doctorate degrees in political philosophy from Princeton. She has been a political science professor at Smith College since 1972. She has written extensively on the topics of women’s community activism, gender and public policy, feminist and democratic theory, and women in Jewish communities.
A self-described “feminist/anarchist,” Ackelsberg believes that all Jews who are currently living in the Judea and Samaria communities of the West Bank should leave. She contends that until this occurs, the U.S. State Department ought to withhold financial aid to Israel. Professor Ackelsberg is a member of the editorial staff of Michael Lerner’s anti-Israel publication, Tikkun Magazine. She was a signatory to the LGBT-OUT (Lesbians/Gays/Bisexuals and Transgendered Of the University of Toronto) petition proclaiming the urgent need “to eliminate homophobia and heterosexism from the university,” yet she detests Israel – the only nation in the Middle East that offers civil rights protections and lifestyle freedoms to its gay population.
Martha Ackelsberg and Margery Fine are like most of the adult protestors, members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice .
But, the speakers were not the whole agenda. There was a “pre-show” press event at 11 AM
Part 1 : Keystone Progress executive director Michael Morrill said, “We put a petition online, asking the PA Republican Party to dis-invite Donald Trump as keynote speaker.”After collecting over 10,000 signatures they attempted to deliver said petition to the Pennsylvania GOP. Predictably, Morrill and Keystone Progress board member, Mike Crossey, were firmly “escorted”awayfrom The Plaza Hotel entrance. (see Getty Images videobelow at 1:07)
2nd video– Morrill explains Keystone Progress and the petition
Busy, Busy, Busy. Cause—-America must be FIXED.
The following is a slide show of my pictures (please place cursor on picture to access slide show)
There was one very confident guy (Italian- from Brooklyn) A solid one-man counter-protest promoting Smart Gun Ownership. Wearing a sandwich board with an ad from a local Firing Range, he LOUDLY urged the crowd to LEARN HOW To DEFEND YOURSELF.
This brave American drove the Commies insane.
In Video 1 (at 00:58) He urged them to “LEARN how to Protect your Family“. Warned that “ISIS is HERE”. [The hecklers were now being HECKLED!] They went silent (Fun) while deciding how to react…(group-think)… Oh,Yeah! Cover him with signs and shout “Dump Trump! Dump Trump!”
Video 1
Video 2 The Commie speaker, Percy Lujan, when he finally spoke- after being cut off by ” Gun-Guy” – suddenly he was promoting “Learn How to Defend Yourself”
Video 3
After the protest speakers had finished, I found the Second Amendment guy speaking to the press right in front of the Plaza. He was emphasizing the importance of ‘Learning to Shoot Firearms Safely” to a French reporter who seemed to have some difficulty with the idea that the people in Paris might have lived if they had been armed with hand guns. There was one heckler and a female reporter to my left, who closed up her camera with a scornful shake of the head.
Some of his points: They’re trying to take away our Second Amendment rights. Rights that our soldiers fought to defend. He mentioned No Fly Lists. That include our soldiers. He stressed, You Need to Protect Yourself. You need to have a hand gun. Mentions Texas (Garland, Texas) Pointing out that those terrorists lasted about 10 seconds. He says we need a President like Donald Trump to change the gun laws so States like NY/Chicago can get concealed weapons license permits.
BTW – He was grossly misquoted by one of the Commies (of course). “Gun-Guy” was to the side of the protest – not in front- and did NOT call for violence nor call any one present RETARDS or Terrorists. [LISTEN to his OWN words in videos above]
69mirs One of #trump ‘s supporters #pro#hate#pro#gun and who is #racist he stood in front of us calling us “retards, terrorists and invited the tourists walking by us to learn to shoot guns so they can protect themselves from us” I am so angry that he felt protected as a white male and that he felt entitled to show up with pictures of guns and calling for violence – what did the police do ? When he was verbally attacking us ? Nothing … If this person was a person of color we would have been already shot, manhandled, or choked to death …. – #DropTrump#no more #war#no more #
The US Constitution made an appearance. Along with the ONLY Old Glory I saw and it was being used as a blind-fold.
So, Who or What is the problem?…. Guns? Criminals? Terrorists?…. The U.S. Constitution vs INTERNATIONAL Law??
“Power to the People”, Si? [ONLY if you are NOT a Republican]
America […. ]is being dragged down by broken cities full of broken families whose mayors would like to trash the Bill of Rights for the entire country in the vain hope that national gun control will save their cities, even though gun control is likely to be as much help to Chicago or New Orleans as the War on Drugs.
Obama’s pretense that there needs to be a national conversation about rural American gun owners is a dishonest and cynical ploy that distracts attention from the real problem that he and politicians like him have sat on for generations.
America does not have a gun problem. Its problem is in the broken culture of cities administered by Democrats. We do not need to have a conversation about gun violence [… ]We need to have a conversation about what the Democrats have done to our cities.
The long winded Commie blather- you might think you’d hear this tripe just in the movies- NOOPE these people REALLY speak like:
First, ComradeTony Murphy, promoting the next Trump protest on Dec 20 (covered here), as he urged the crowd to attend in his best commie-tones.
Ending the Speakers hour with WARNINGS of FASCISM and Greedy CAPITALISM was this fiery Commie lass.
NEXT installment : Part Tw0 – Media Darlings who Crashed the GOP Luncheon
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For reference: Video Playlist
Flickr Slideshow (place cursor on picture to access slide show)