And once again...they fall for a hoax

[Crepitus]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

It is not unbelievable. The bastards have burnt cities to the ground.

Lol, a couple of dumpster fires and a Wendy's does not equal "burned whole cities down".

The mayor of Minneapolis is asking the Federal government for 500,000,000 million dollars to repair damage to his city that he allowed. That's a mighty big dumpster fire idiot.

You can rebuild a whole city that was burnt to the ground for $50,000,000 (the amount before you added a zero to make it look more impressive)?

That's amazing.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Lol, a couple of dumpster fires and a Wendy's does not equal "burned whole cities down".

Oh, is that all it is, you lying cocksucker?

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View attachment 359713

A pic of the burning Wendy's.

Not sure what you think that proves...

It proves you're a lying cocksucker.

Of course everyone already knew that.

democrats, at the prompting of your government, have be raping and pillaging across the nation. You lied about a "dumpster fire" and thought you could get away with it.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

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.

I am against burning the American flag. I don't like it one bit... but it is a freedom of speech & expression, and I love those just as much if not more. What is sad and dangerous is just how easy it is to make a post like this and to have so many people to show up armed to the gills despite the fact that there was no immediate threat posed to any individual. They then become the threat. Don't tell me it is their right to bear arms, because it absolutely is, but it is their INTENT that is the difference. Even if burning the flag was illegal, it is NOT a capital offense, and it certainly shouldn't be handled by militant citizens. All it is going to take is one idiot to set off a firework, or one scared fool to fire the first shot on accident, and you will have a domino effect that kills and injures many.

EXACTLY! I think you are the only one to get the point here. Anonymous people, on the internet exploiting our fears and divisions. Is it planking or is there something more serious behind it?

And conservatives have an abundance of fears to exploit – the antifa myth among them.

ANIFTA myth? Roflmao, cripes you're a stupid son of a bitch

 

[Crepitus]

Lol, a couple of dumpster fires and a Wendy's does not equal "burned whole cities down".

Oh, is that all it is, you lying cocksucker?

View attachment 359711
View attachment 359713

A pic of the burning Wendy's.

Not sure what you think that proves...

It proves you're a lying cocksucker.

Of course everyone already knew that.

democrats, at the prompting of your government, have be raping and pillaging across the nation. You lied about a "dumpster fire" and thought you could get away with it.

Lol, you really should listen to some real news every now and then. You have no idea what's really happening in the world.

 

[Uncensored2008]

They are a small non organized group of radicals that you on the right have built up into something more. And you have people believing it so strongly they get swallowed by these hoaxes.

Comrade;

Can you provide examples of your fellow Maoists being attacked for wearing Che Guevara shirts? Or Obama shirts, or Biden shirts?

What about if Americans wear a Trump hat, do you vicious animals attack them? Do you vandalize cars that have Trump bumper stickers? Do you burn down homes that have Trump signs in the yard?

It's not a small group of radicals, it's democrats. You are NO different than the Nazis in 1928. Cancel Culture is terrorism. You use it to silence dissent. If ANYONE speaks out against you thugs, you destroy their lives and black list them from jobs and careers.

Never again means we shut you down.

And we will in November, but you'll get far more violent when you lose than you are now - and you are VERY violent now.

 

[OldLady]

Wouldn't it qualify as a cybercrime?

Sure seems like inciting a riot to me. Except it didn't happen. So I dunno. Does the riot have to happen to arrest someone for trying?

 

[Uncensored2008]

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.

I am against burning the American flag. I don't like it one bit... but it is a freedom of speech & expression, and I love those just as much if not more. What is sad and dangerous is just how easy it is to make a post like this and to have so many people to show up armed to the gills despite the fact that there was no immediate threat posed to any individual. They then become the threat. Don't tell me it is their right to bear arms, because it absolutely is, but it is their INTENT that is the difference. Even if burning the flag was illegal, it is NOT a capital offense, and it certainly shouldn't be handled by militant citizens. All it is going to take is one idiot to set off a firework, or one scared fool to fire the first shot on accident, and you will have a domino effect that kills and injures many.

EXACTLY! I think you are the only one to get the point here. Anonymous people, on the internet exploiting our fears and divisions. Is it planking or is there something more serious behind it?

And conservatives have an abundance of fears to exploit – the antifa myth among them.

ANIFTA myth? Roflmao, cripes you're a stupid son of a bitch

The Stalinists tried that one a couple of weeks ago. It fell flat.

It's all part of their Big Lie technique.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Lol, a couple of dumpster fires and a Wendy's does not equal "burned whole cities down".

Oh, is that all it is, you lying cocksucker?

View attachment 359711
View attachment 359713

A pic of the burning Wendy's.

Not sure what you think that proves...

It proves you're a lying cocksucker.

Of course everyone already knew that.

democrats, at the prompting of your government, have be raping and pillaging across the nation. You lied about a "dumpster fire" and thought you could get away with it.

Lol, you really should listen to some real news every now and then. You have no idea what's really happening in the world.

Moron ChiCom troll.

{

The protests over the police killing of George Floyd devolved into looting, vandalism, and arson across America that destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments, and they started where George Floyd died, in Minneapolis. On Wednesday, the city reported that no fewer than 700 buildings were damaged, burned, or destroyed in the riots. It also released a map showing just how widespread the looting, vandalism, and arson spread.



The map breaks down the damage into four categories: cosmetic damage, minor damage, major damage, and wholly destroyed, CBS Local reported.

According to the map, twelve structures were “wholly destroyed” — and these buildings housed multiple businesses.

“This is not just the structures that have been impacted, it’s the community that’s been impacted, and if you take a look at where the destruction has happened, some of it is not because of the uprising, some of it is because people came into the community and tried to terrorize some neighborhoods and set buildings on fire,” explained Erik Hansen, Minneapolis’s director of economic policy and development.

}

MAP: See the Destruction the George Floyd Riots Wreaked All Over Minneapolis

The City of Minneapolis released a map showing the 700 buildings destroyed in the George Floyd riots.

pjmedia.com

 

[Pete7469]

The only one falling for any real hoax are you bed wetters Coyote.

You still believe in MMGW. You still believe your meat puppet faggot messiah was an accomplished executive who left behind a legacy of success in the WH. You still believe Mooch is a woman. You still believe ANTIFA is not hell bent on destroying this country. You still believe it is not run by the same elitist sociopaths that fund democrook political whores. You still believe hitlary is innocent, and that she would have done anything positive for the country. You still believe in collectivist economic policy. You still believe the UN is a positive force of good on earth. You still believe the media is objective when in fact "journalistic integrity" is a punchline as far as all the cognizant people are concerned. You still believe regressive marxist policies will lead to some "equality" other than widespread poverty and a massive decline in quality of life. You still believe public education actually "educates" people. You still believe more gun control laws will be obeyed by criminal psychopaths.

The asinine shit you believe in forces you to make an effort to maintain your ignorance.


.

 

[IM2]

Some here are trying to find any excuse they can to try using massive amounts of violence to shut down a POV they don't want to hear. So they arm themselves and march to a location based on fake news on social media. The people doing this are fascists.

 

[IM2]

Lol, a couple of dumpster fires and a Wendy's does not equal "burned whole cities down".

Oh, is that all it is, you lying cocksucker?

View attachment 359711
View attachment 359713

A pic of the burning Wendy's.

Not sure what you think that proves...

It proves you're a lying cocksucker.

Of course everyone already knew that.

democrats, at the prompting of your government, have be raping and pillaging across the nation. You lied about a "dumpster fire" and thought you could get away with it.

Lol, you really should listen to some real news every now and then. You have no idea what's really happening in the world.

Moron ChiCom troll.

{

The protests over the police killing of George Floyd devolved into looting, vandalism, and arson across America that destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments, and they started where George Floyd died, in Minneapolis. On Wednesday, the city reported that no fewer than 700 buildings were damaged, burned, or destroyed in the riots. It also released a map showing just how widespread the looting, vandalism, and arson spread.



The map breaks down the damage into four categories: cosmetic damage, minor damage, major damage, and wholly destroyed, CBS Local reported.

According to the map, twelve structures were “wholly destroyed” — and these buildings housed multiple businesses.

“This is not just the structures that have been impacted, it’s the community that’s been impacted, and if you take a look at where the destruction has happened, some of it is not because of the uprising, some of it is because people came into the community and tried to terrorize some neighborhoods and set buildings on fire,” explained Erik Hansen, Minneapolis’s director of economic policy and development.

}

MAP: See the Destruction the George Floyd Riots Wreaked All Over Minneapolis

The City of Minneapolis released a map showing the 700 buildings destroyed in the George Floyd riots.

pjmedia.com

PJmedia is a far right piece of garbage.

 

[Coyote]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

Lol, you're completely brainwashed and have no clue it's even happened to you.

You guys STILL cant produce evidence that this was a hoax? Why does this thread even exist in the current events section? I could make a thread that suggests it was Santa Claus and it would be just as useful.

Let’s see...a big flag burning event, face painting, a no-bikers invite, doesn’t appear on any ANTIFA sites, person posting it doesn’t exist...and not a single ANTIFA member showing up.....ya, I think is demonstrably a hoax.

 

[WelfareQueen]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

It is not unbelievable. The bastards have burnt cities to the ground.

Lol, a couple of dumpster fires and a Wendy's does not equal "burned whole cities down".

The mayor of Minneapolis is asking the Federal government for 500,000,000 million dollars to repair damage to his city that he allowed. That's a mighty big dumpster fire idiot.

You can rebuild a whole city that was burnt to the ground for $50,000,000 (the amount before you added a zero to make it look more impressive)?

That's amazing.

You claimed there was a burnt Wendy's and a few dumpster fires. You either lied or are an idiot.

The Dim mayor of Minneapolis claims there was half a billion dollars damage to his city alone. Hardly a dumpster fire. But hey, keep lying there are probably a few Dims stupid enough to believe you.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

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.

Who were the stupidly gullible again? Oh yeah, the ones who bought into the american dream and cannot wake up.

I almost felt patriotic yesterday in all the institutionally indoctrinated hype and corporate state mania over the illusion of what america is on July 4th. But then I recalled how the system used me as a sharecropper for half a century, how “the law” sees we the people as the enemy and ignores its own laws, how the system runs upon oppression of the working and underclasses tweaked into insanity along white supremacist ideology, how the power structure has leveraged a pandemic into a eugenic cleansing operation, and how we have a neo-Nazi in the administration writing July 4th propaganda spewings for a white nationalist president. So in lieu of fireworks we gathered to burn a flag.

Fuck it; america is not our dream. We are the people. We see what this system does to we the people and they’ve lost all semblance of legitimacy.

 

[Godboy]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

Lol, you're completely brainwashed and have no clue it's even happened to you.

You guys STILL cant produce evidence that this was a hoax? Why does this thread even exist in the current events section? I could make a thread that suggests it was Santa Claus and it would be just as useful.

Let’s see...a big flag burning event, face painting, a no-bikers invite, doesn’t appear on any ANTIFA sites, person posting it doesn’t exist...and not a single ANTIFA member showing up.....ya, I think is demonstrably a hoax.

How is a failed event a hoax?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

Lol, you're completely brainwashed and have no clue it's even happened to you.

You guys STILL cant produce evidence that this was a hoax? Why does this thread even exist in the current events section? I could make a thread that suggests it was Santa Claus and it would be just as useful.

Let’s see...a big flag burning event, face painting, a no-bikers invite, doesn’t appear on any ANTIFA sites, person posting it doesn’t exist...and not a single ANTIFA member showing up.....ya, I think is demonstrably a hoax.

ANIFTA sites? Your idiot fellow left loon, Clayton, just posted ANIFTA is a myth

All one has to do is sit back, snicker, then pounce.....like a cat on mice.

 

[Coyote]

The only one falling for any real hoax are you bed wetters Coyote.

You still believe in MMGW. You still believe your meat puppet faggot messiah was an accomplished executive who left behind a legacy of success in the WH. You still believe Mooch is a woman. You still believe ANTIFA is not hell bent on destroying this country. You still believe it is not run by the same elitist sociopaths that fund democrook political whores. You still believe hitlary is innocent, and that she would have done anything positive for the country. You still believe in collectivist economic policy. You still believe the UN is a positive force of good on earth. You still believe the media is objective when in fact "journalistic integrity" is a punchline as far as all the cognizant people are concerned. You still believe regressive marxist policies will lead to some "equality" other than widespread poverty and a massive decline in quality of life. You still believe public education actually "educates" people. You still believe more gun control laws will be obeyed by criminal psychopaths.

The asinine shit you believe in forces you to make an effort to maintain your ignorance.


.

So....what does any of that have to do with the hoax perpetrated in the OP? Or, more broadly...the ability of completely anonymous fake people to exploit our divides? Anything?

 

[WillowTree]

Maybe he is just a very clever troll....this part is sort of funny. They fell for the same hoax three years ago.

A Facebook page called Central PA Antifa quickly denounced the event as fake, likening it to a hoax in Gettysburg three years ago.​

​

In 2017, rumors of an antifa event at the national park prompted a large group of armed militia members to show up. They encountered no one from antifa, but one of the armed militia members accidentally shot himself in the leg with a revolver.​

But wait... Antifa was not supposed to exist?

I don’t know who claimed that, but you have been misinformed.

The media that you consistently whore to told me that.

Link. Or admit you whore your rightwing masters.

Men don't whore Coyote. But both men and women can follow what is going on in the forum they moderate.

After Nadler Claims Antifa Doesn't Exist

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/06/26/after-nadler-claims-antifa-doesnt-exist-republicans-give-details-about-the-violent-group-n2571402 During a speech on the House floor Thursday afternoon, Democratic Congressman and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler claimed...

www.usmessageboard.com

Police Confirming: ANTIFA Does Not Exist! (Historians Report WWII An Actual 20th Century Event!)

So widely used is the ANTIFA Terrorist concept by the widely known, completed Disconnected, Trump Administration: That it even finds itself being used as some nature of threat on this very same message board of the Truth(?)! Actually it is probably more common on Facebook pages, and in Twitter...

www.usmessageboard.com

The Greatest Trick The Right Has Pulled Is Convincing The World Antifa Exists

"The rumors followed what has become a nationwide pattern of unfounded speculation about roaming bands of “antifa” — short for antifascist — destroying towns under the pretext of Black Lives Matter protests. The whispers frequently center on “busloads” of outside infiltrators and often inspire...

www.usmessageboard.com

The far left posters Lyistrata and Dragonlady at minimum believe (or believed) that Antifa does not exist. Perhaps you should convince them they exist, once all are convinced, perhaps then we can plan on how to eliminate the terrorists.

They are a small non organized group of radicals that you on the right have built up into something more. And you have people believing it so strongly they get swallowed by these hoaxes.

They are all over the country and they attack republicans every god damn chance they get. They come to our rallies and they come to our protests and they attack us. It has been happening for years and there are THOUSANDS of assaults racked up at this point. Do you have any idea how insulting it is to hear people like you suggest that it isnt a big deal?

She does not give a shit. Lefty does not give a shit.

 

[Coyote]

“be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

That's hilarious!!

And these uneducated tRumplings fall for it. SMH.

What is so unbelievable about democrats burning flags? Furthermore, i have yet to see proof that this was a hoax. The fact that no one showed up to his flag burning party is irrelevant.

Lol, you're completely brainwashed and have no clue it's even happened to you.

You guys STILL cant produce evidence that this was a hoax? Why does this thread even exist in the current events section? I could make a thread that suggests it was Santa Claus and it would be just as useful.

Let’s see...a big flag burning event, face painting, a no-bikers invite, doesn’t appear on any ANTIFA sites, person posting it doesn’t exist...and not a single ANTIFA member showing up.....ya, I think is demonstrably a hoax.

ANIFTA sites? Your idiot fellow left loon, Clayton, just posted ANIFTA is a myth

All one has to do is sit back, snicker, then pounce.....like a cat on mice.

At least real cats catch mice, and don’t confuse dust balls for vermin.

To repeat: when you have an event that doesn’t appear on any of the promoting group’s sites...and no one from that group attends...and it targets bikers as not invited...umh you think up it might be hoax? Gad you peop,e are gullible if you insist on arguing it wasn’t a hoax.

 

[OldLady]

Maybe he is just a very clever troll....this part is sort of funny. They fell for the same hoax three years ago.

A Facebook page called Central PA Antifa quickly denounced the event as fake, likening it to a hoax in Gettysburg three years ago.​

​

In 2017, rumors of an antifa event at the national park prompted a large group of armed militia members to show up. They encountered no one from antifa, but one of the armed militia members accidentally shot himself in the leg with a revolver.​

But wait... Antifa was not supposed to exist?

I don’t know who claimed that, but you have been misinformed.

The media that you consistently whore to told me that.

Link. Or admit you whore your rightwing masters.

Men don't whore Coyote. But both men and women can follow what is going on in the forum they moderate.

After Nadler Claims Antifa Doesn't Exist

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/06/26/after-nadler-claims-antifa-doesnt-exist-republicans-give-details-about-the-violent-group-n2571402 During a speech on the House floor Thursday afternoon, Democratic Congressman and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler claimed...

www.usmessageboard.com

Police Confirming: ANTIFA Does Not Exist! (Historians Report WWII An Actual 20th Century Event!)

So widely used is the ANTIFA Terrorist concept by the widely known, completed Disconnected, Trump Administration: That it even finds itself being used as some nature of threat on this very same message board of the Truth(?)! Actually it is probably more common on Facebook pages, and in Twitter...

www.usmessageboard.com

The Greatest Trick The Right Has Pulled Is Convincing The World Antifa Exists

"The rumors followed what has become a nationwide pattern of unfounded speculation about roaming bands of “antifa” — short for antifascist — destroying towns under the pretext of Black Lives Matter protests. The whispers frequently center on “busloads” of outside infiltrators and often inspire...

www.usmessageboard.com

The far left posters Lyistrata and Dragonlady at minimum believe (or believed) that Antifa does not exist. Perhaps you should convince them they exist, once all are convinced, perhaps then we can plan on how to eliminate the terrorists.

They are a small non organized group of radicals that you on the right have built up into something more. And you have people believing it so strongly they get swallowed by these hoaxes.

They are all over the country and they attack republicans every god damn chance they get. They come to our rallies and they come to our protests and they attack us. It has been happening for years and there are THOUSANDS of assaults racked up at this point. Do you have any idea how insulting it is to hear people like you suggest that it isnt a big deal?

Of course they exist. I've seen them fighting right wingers. They come ready to rumble. So do the right wingers, if the things people say on this board are true. Everyone comes with their banner and their shield, right?
Hopefully they get arrested just as fast as the right wingers if they started it. But honestly, this talk about who is more to blame for the fights that break out at political protests--it reminds me of nothing so much as the poor elementary school principal standing there listening to two fourth graders both loudly howling "but HE started it." Suspend 'em both and listen to both kid's parents holler about it.