And once again...they fall for a hoax

[WillPower]

"Hoax"? The leftist cowards saw what was in store for them and slinked off like the yellow scum they are.

 

[Correll]

At least this time, I hope they took walk around the battlefield and actually learned some history.

But what is worrisome is that anonymous people seem intent on creating and provoking potentially lethal confrontations among groups and exploiting if not widening divisions.

who are these people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”


As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds — heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.

The episode at Gettysburg is a stark illustration of how shadowy figures on social media have stoked fears about the protests against racial injustice and excessive police force that have swept across the nation since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25.

Armed vigilantes lined the streets of small Idaho towns last month after false claims circulated online about antifa, a loose collection of activists who oppose fascism and have sometimes embraced property damage and violent protest in recent years. Similar hoaxes have befallen towns in New Jersey, South Dakota and Michigan in recent weeks.

The difference is that no harm was done here, because the Right showed up and there was nothing going on, adn that was the end of it.


Compare that to the frauds from the left that gin up hate that eventually leads to violence. As intended.

The "right showed up?" Translates to the KKK.

No, it doesn't. Try to be less bat shit crazy.


My point stands.


The difference is that no harm was done here, because the Right showed up and there was nothing going on, adn that was the end of it.


Compare that to the frauds from the left that gin up hate that eventually leads to violence. As intended.

Far right protest....

Yep. A tiny, mostly harmless fringe, compared to the far left mobs murdering people in the streets and burning building and shutting down cities.


Meanwhile my point about what happened in the op stands. The attempt to gin up a confrontation failed, because the people that showed up, were not scum of the earth like you lefites.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

False flagging is a legitimate form of protest. We used it quite a lot back in the day. you announce that you are going to do something and stoke it up. The target gets agitated and over reacts. Then you settle back, enjoy a beer and enjoy the outcomes.
We used to announce regular pickets of a solicitor. One of our number worked on the same street and would report back that they had hired security for the day. So we won. Every now and then we would actually visit. Mind games.
The trick is to make it sound realistic. Easy to do when you are dealing with half wits.

 

[Correll]

False flagging is a legitimate form of protest. We used it quite a lot back in the day. you announce that you are going to do something and stoke it up. The target gets agitated and over reacts. Then you settle back, enjoy a beer and enjoy the outcomes.
We used to announce regular pickets of a solicitor. One of our number worked on the same street and would report back that they had hired security for the day. So we won. Every now and then we would actually visit. Mind games.
The trick is to make it sound realistic. Easy to do when you are dealing with half wits.

So, if it is a realistic threat, and they respond appropriately, what about that, makes them a "half wit"?


Oh, that was you, just rationalizing your shitty behavior.


SO, they stop take precautions and then something happens and someone gets hurt, would you consider that a "win"?


Or, what if they found out it was you, and pissed off about all the money that you got them to waste, and/or the people that got hurt, they came down to your bar, and kicked your fucking asses?


Would that be a legitimate form of protest?

 

[bendog]

At least this time, I hope they took walk around the battlefield and actually learned some history.

But what is worrisome is that anonymous people seem intent on creating and provoking potentially lethal confrontations among groups and exploiting if not widening divisions.

who are these people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, PA. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”


As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds — heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.

The episode at Gettysburg is a stark illustration of how shadowy figures on social media have stoked fears about the protests against racial injustice and excessive police force that have swept across the nation since the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25.

Armed vigilantes lined the streets of small Idaho towns last month after false claims circulated online about antifa, a loose collection of activists who oppose fascism and have sometimes embraced property damage and violent protest in recent years. Similar hoaxes have befallen towns in New Jersey, South Dakota and Michigan in recent weeks.

It may be irrelevant to them whether there was actually any credibility, and they just wanted a justification to come out an play soldiers

 

[miketx]

My Dad was a Civil War buff, and as kid I loved touring the battlefield sites and learning about the history. That would have been ear,y 70’s. Gettysburg was hugely different then, not the tourist trap it is now. But here, I think is an important distinction. Battlefield parks and museums are exactly these things belong, in the context of their history. I don’t think many, if any, would disagree with that or the importance of such places. Sadly, many are beingenroached on by development.

And yet your troops will burn it down if you get any chance. democrats are dedicated to the utter and complete erasure of America.

Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it.