Not Just Ferguson: Protests Scheduled for 83 Cities, “Direct Action Trainings” Held for Protesters
Everyone knows the government, with its lapdog mainstream
media in lockstep, has whipped up the Ferguson situation into a total frenzy.
It doesn’t matter what the grand jury decides now.
Fear and anger are very powerful weapons and everyone who has allowed the
powers that (shouldn’t) be to steer their emotions on this one has taken the
bait.
The cops have stocked up on nearly $200k worth of riot gear,
less-lethal ammunition and the like. Ferguson residents have been advised to go get guns because
the cops won’t be able to protect them all from what’s coming. Firearm sales in
the area have skyrocketed. Everyone is on edge.
Missouri’s governor has now preemptively declared a 30-day state of emergency and
called out the National Guard — and the grand jury hasn’t even made it’s
decision yet!
Basically, it’s on.
Ferguson, however, is not the only city set to hold protests
immediately following the Darren Wilson grand jury announcement.
Actually, they aren’t even being referred to as protests
anymore. They are now being called “planned responses.”
A Tumblr page for something called the “Ferguson National
Response Network” has posted a very organized list with graphics for each
location (which must have taken a lot of time and effort) detailing these
“planned responses” that have been scheduled for a total of 82 cities across
the U.S. and one in Canada after the grand jury announces their decision
(something which, if it’s as scripted as the rest of this situation has been
and continues to be, will be expertly timed with the holidays coming up).
Organizers are also holding something called “direct action
trainings.”
Community. We train. We protest. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/hq3hcr3vom
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 15, 2014
The organizers have also released a list of 19 “Proposed Rules of Engagement.”
Wow. Just wow. This is not your average civil disobedience.
Martha Stewart has thrown less organized birthday parties than this. There are
White House functions with less planning and training involved.
Anyone else get the sense that this whole thing has been
co-opted? Think about it.
When you’re mad about something that’s wrong with the
system, what do you do if you want to protest it? You pull out a black marker,
get a poster board, call up your friends, maybe send out a few Tweets or
Facebook messages, then you find a corner and start protesting.
You don’t get so angry with the system that you first a)
write a proposed rules of engagement list, b) start fundraising campaigns, c)
set up highly coordinated protests in 83 cities, d) coordinate mass
informational meetings and finally e) hold direct action trainings then
get ready to protest.
What average, random person has the time and money to pull
off all that off properly?
Sure people have been protesting this for months now, but still.
What monster has Ferguson now mutated into? Who is ultimately behind it,
driving the agenda?
Many of the people who showed up to protest in Ferguson from
the beginning were coming from out of town. There were definite provocateurs
among the crowds trying to incite violence.
At this point, people are apparently quitting their
jobs and flocking to Ferguson to devote all their time and energy to this.
A little over a week ago, The Washington Post ran an article titled, “Ferguson
protest organizers: ‘I sleep, eat and breathe this.’”
Really?
Here’s an excerpt:
But a common thread runs through some of the most
influential organizers. They are black, relatively new to civil rights activism
and technologically savvy, masters of social media. Using Twitter, Vine and
Instagram, they mobilize their peers, document every twist and turn, and
annotate history in real time.
New to activism, huh? And yet, wow, they just so happen to
be influential, savvy tech masters of social media who know how to mobilize
everyone? No, that doesn’t stink of George Soros-funded phony color revolution
stuff at all… (That was sarcasm, of course.)
On the same day as the WP article came out, The Daily Sheeple published an article about the fact that
cops kill an average of THREE PEOPLE EVERY DAY in this country.
Three people a day!
Where’s the outrage from all Americans on all sides,
all races, colors and creeds, on the bigger police state growing all around all
of us EVERY SINGLE DAY in America? Where are the organized protests for all
those who have died at the hands of an ever-increasing, ratcheted up tyrannical
system enslaving us all?
There is a highly organized, scripted, funded, targeted agenda
playing out in Ferguson, and people are basically falling for it.
The list of cities set for these “planned responses” to the
Darren Wilson grand jury decision is below. If you live near one of these
things, heads up.
When this all goes down, it’s not going to be pretty…which
is exactly the way the people ultimately engineering this situation want it.
Can you say “martial law?”
- Albany, NY
- Albuquerque, NM
- Atlanta, GA
- Austin, TX
- Baltimore, MD
- Bangor, ME
- Beavercreek, OH
- Blacksburg, VA
- Boston, MA
- Buffalo, NY
- Carbondale, IL
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Chattanooga, TN
- Chicago, IL
- Cleveland, OH
- Columbia, MO
- Columbus, OH
- Dallas, TX
- Denver, CO
- Des Moines, IA
- Detroit, MI
- Durham, NC
- Ferguson, MO
- Gainesville, FL
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Greensboro, NC
- Greenville, NC
- Grinnell, IA
- Houston, TX
- Indianapolis, IN
- Iowa City, IA
- Jackson, MI
- Kansas City, MO
- Kennesaw, GA
- Lawrence, KS
- Lexington, KY
- Longview, TX
- Los Angeles, CA
- Louisville, KY
- Meadville, PA
- Memphis, TN
- Milwaukee, WI
- Minneapolis, MN
- Mobile, AL
- Monpelier, VT
- Monroeville, OH
- Nashville, TN
- New London, CT
- New Orleans, LA
- Newark, NJ
- Northampton, MA
- NYC, NY
- Oak Ridge, TN
- Oakland, CA
- Olympia, WA
- Oshkosh, WI
- Phoenix, AZ
- Philadelphia, PA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Portland, OR
- Providence, RI
- Raleigh, NC
- Rochester, NY
- Rocky Mount, NC
- San Diego, CA
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Seattle, WA
- South Hadley, MA
- Spring Valley, NY
- Springfield, MA
- St. Paul, MN
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Stroudsberg, PA
- Tallahassee, FL
- Tampa, FL
- Toledo, OH
- Toronto, Canada
- Tucson, AZ
- Washington, D.C.
- West Hartford, CT
- West Palm Beach, FL
- Williamsburg, VA
- Worcester, MA
UPDATE: Curiously, Obama has announced that he’s
going to be in Las Vegas on Friday (when the media has hinted the grand jury
decision might come) after he announces his amnesty decision. Las Vegas is,
ever so coincidentally, not on this list…in fact, Nevada isn’t even on this
list, period.
(H/T Craig Wood)
