January 20th could get a little crazy

Just do a Google search for January 20 protest.
People are getting ready.

The stage is set for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – not just the traditional swearing-in platform on Capitol Hill, but a massive security presence amid protest plans to “shut down” the nation’s capital....
He suggested the city could have as many as 750,000 demonstrators alone.
More than three-dozen law enforcement agencies are working together on security and safety plans in anticipation, including the Capitol Police, FBI, Secret Service and National Guard.
Roughly 7,500 Guardsmen from across the country will come to Washington, along with about 3,000 police officers from various states, with the Secret Service taking the lead on security....

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The protest groups aren't mincing words - they intend to make this ugly.

If you go to refusefascism.org, you will discover that the protests that they are organizing in Washington D.C. will begin on January 14th.  They say that they want to “stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts”, and they hope to have protests going “every day and every night” without interruption through at least January 20th.

Another group that plans to kick things off on January 14th is DisruptJ20.  Of course that is short for “Disrupt January 20th”.  If you go to their official website, you will find a long slate of events that have already been scheduled.

According to Legba Carrefour, a spokesperson for DisruptJ20, one of the goals of the group is to block major transportation routes into and throughout our nation’s capital.  And he is not shy about the fact that they literally want to “shut down the Inauguration”

“We are planning to shut down the inauguration, that’s the short of it,” he says. “We’re pretty literal about that, we are trying to create citywide paralysis on a level that I don’t think has been seen in D.C. before. We’re trying to shut down pretty much every ingress into the city as well as every checkpoint around the actual inauguration parade route.”

If Carrefour and his fellow conspirators are able to actually accomplish that, it truly would be unprecedented.

And while DisruptJ20 is not publicly advocating violence, they are not exactly discouraging it either…

Carrefour says DisruptJ20 has no publicly announced plans to jump barricades along the inauguration parade route or throw projectiles at the new president, but that autonomous direct actions are encouraged.

“I can’t comment on specific stuff we’re doing like that, mostly because that would be illegal. But, yeah, it will get pretty crazy, I expect,” he says. “‘Have fun!’ I say.”

If these groups follow through with these statements, it would be unprecedented.
And that's just D.C.
The protests will be nationwide.
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People online have gone truly bonkers.

Let's recall that anti-Trump riots have already happened.

What I find most interesting is the near deafening silence from the Republican establishment.
For instance, the DoJ is opening an unprecedented investigation of the FBI, while the CIA leaks anti-Trump slander, and Republican leader say....almost nothing?

Maybe that's why the betting odds of a Trump impeachment are 50-50.

Donald Trump is going to be the President of the United States. But if oddsmakers are right, there’s a 50-50 chance that he won’t hold the office for that long. At 4 p.m. Eastern, the British gambling company Ladbrokes said odds are even that Trump will be impeached or resign before his first term ends. By 5 p.m. the odds had risen even more, to 11-10.
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Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

it's the Empire putting on a Punch-and-Judy show.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

That's the point I tried to make linking to that documentary. Maybe one person will watch it.

I did know somebody who survived Dachau, he had the number tattoo. Lots of people did nothing for too long to resist that hatred. Kinda like lots of people do nothing about the homeless now, it's too horrible to think about or something. Kabuki working fine.

Peace

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who may have been working for "Correct the Record". Don't know this for a fact, but his job status was ambiguous last year and when Trump won the election, he wrote all of this Hillary Shill stuff on Facebook. He seldom posts to Facebook and has never seemed to be politically active at all.

So I fear for these hired protesters. The Correct the Record employees were not trolling because they cared . . . they were trolling so they could eat. They will protest so they can pay their rent this month.

And it sounds like they are being hired on both sides.

Very troubling!

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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020

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This "protest" has to be the Worst Strategy Ever - especially the parts about "...shutting down Washington, D.C."

If no protesters showed up, Trump and company would have to invent them - and they would. Yet these fools are going to give him exactly what he wants on a silver platter. No protest like this (almost guaranteed to become violent) is going to persuade Mr. and Mrs. Non-voting American to be sympathetic to their side, rather it will be the opposite: "Look at those hippies rioting, Marge! Maybe this Trump guy is right..."

Further, Meryl Streep will not be there at the barricades getting her teeth kicked in...

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Timing?

The U.S. Army general who heads the D.C. National Guard and is an integral part of overseeing the inauguration said Friday he has been ordered removed from command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz’s departure will come in the midst of the presidential ceremony, classified as a national special security event — and while thousands of his troops are deployed to help protect the nation’s capital during an inauguration he has spent months helping to plan.

“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz would command not only the members of the D.C. guard but also an additional 5,000 unarmed troops sent in from across the country to help. He also would oversee military air support protecting the nation’s capital during the inauguration.

“My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz, who turned 65 in October, said, “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said that he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”

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Fri, 01/13/2017 - 3:07pm — gjohnsit

This is weird

Timing?

The U.S. Army general who heads the D.C. National Guard and is an integral part of overseeing the inauguration said Friday he has been ordered removed from command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz’s departure will come in the midst of the presidential ceremony, classified as a national special security event — and while thousands of his troops are deployed to help protect the nation’s capital during an inauguration he has spent months helping to plan.

“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz would command not only the members of the D.C. guard but also an additional 5,000 unarmed troops sent in from across the country to help. He also would oversee military air support protecting the nation’s capital during the inauguration.

“My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz, who turned 65 in October, said, “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said that he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”

I wonder if this is where President Pence gets sworn in instead, with 'rioting' progressives to be blamed and killed for an assassination? This sure smells like the situation arranged for 9/11, with security all carefully scrambled -entirely by coincidence, of course - just at the strategic moment of doom...

Edit: anyone else getting long, thin ribbons of text running down the page? Re-edit: never mind!

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A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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As has been said many times in the past...

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

This just feels too choreographed and orchestrated to be a true grass roots effort. TPTB could very easily set this up in a way they could do pretty much anything they want with this crisis. Scapegoats are already being lined up and plausible deniability is piled high and deep. I'm pretty sure this is going to turn out very badly!

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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
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Or 2004?

Zero respect for these people who are, at best, dupes.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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and thread I went to fb. and this came through my feed. These are protestors in Turkey.

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No yelling. No screaming. No fighting.
A new form of protesting:
Thousands of people standing in complete silence, protesting in squares and public places in Turkey... baffling the police. Even creating a calm curiosity, instead of tension and aggression.

"Non-violence is the force that will change the world"

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Thanks! This is a great concept and one I hope will spread!

Also one that will make militarized police brutalizing protesters look even more like the monsters they are and shame those with consciences more deeply.

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in solidarity with the black and brown communities of NYC to end Stop & Frisk, just after the police killed the unarmed teenaged Ramarley Graham in the Bronx, by breaking down his door and shooting him in his bathroom in front of his grandmother, for allegedly carrying weed (my heart still breaks just writing that - think of the senselessness of it all). Tons of Occupy folks participated also (I have many pictures from the day).

Tens of thousands of people of every persuasion you could think of, representing the fabric of diversity the city is known for, showing up in solidarity to say they were sick of this racist, fascist program which was ruining the lives of too many, and tragically taking lives too. This was in the summer of 2102, two years before Eric Garner was brutally murdered in broad daylight, while 7 other cops stood around doing nothing to intervene as he pleaded for air, by the Staten Island goon Daniel Pantaleo.

Here's the Daily News coverage of it, "Protesters march in silence through upper Manhattan to protest NYPD's stop-and-frisk program."

Village Voice: "Thousands March Down Fifth Avenue in Silence in Protest of Police Brutality on Father's Day". Even The Nation did a piece. It was a pretty amazing day.

The idea of a silent march is very intriguing.

Recalls for me two other times of being in awe of the potency of such a tactic:

Remember when the Occupy protesters at Cal-Berkeley, I think it was, were pepper-sprayed gratuitously by that dumpy fascist pig who went up and down those sitting peacefully and spayed their faces with impunity?

The next day I think it was, or that night, the students demanded the school chancellor take responsibility for calling the cops and take proper action against their violence. I think she refused to meet with them. So they waited for her to come out a meeting and lined the entire pathway of her walk out to her car and looked her in the eyes in complete silence.

Another is Mark Twain's evocative recollection of a Civil War veterans parade, on the next street over and 110 years earlier from where we were on our police brutality protest march.

After the civil war ten regiments of bronzed New York veterans marched up Broadway in faded uniforms and faded battle flags that were mere shot-riddled rags - and in each battalion as it swung by, one noted a great gap, an eloquent vacancy, where had marched the comrades who had fallen and would march no more.

Always, as this procession advanced between the massed multitudes, its approach was welcomed by each block of people with a burst of proud and grateful enthusiasm - then the head of it passed, and suddenly revealed those pathetic gaps and silence fell upon that block, for every man in it had choked up, and could not get command of his voice and add it to the storm again for many minutes. That was the most moving and tremendous effect that I have ever witnessed - those affecting silences falling between those hurricanes of worshipping enthusiasm.

There was no costumery in that procession, no color, no tinsel, no brilliancy, yet it was the greatest spectacle and the most gracious and exalting and beautiful that has come within my experience. It was because it had history back of it and because it was a symbol and stood for something and because one viewed it with spiritual vision, not the physical. There was not much for the physical eye to see, but it revealed continental areas, limitless horizons, to the eye of the imagination and the spirit.

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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It was University of California Davis not Berkeley and yes -most powerful. And the students being peppersprayed by that fat cop - another powerful image.

Weird, isn't it that the powerful images are by silent passive particpants not angry actives ones. It says something strange about human nature - we usually like articulation not passivity.

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It's like the same things strike both of us as significant.

That one stuck with me.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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which is why I revere this place so much.

To that end, let's get an official C99 Gathering together soon, doncha think?
Or at least a bigger one than we had in Philly just before the DNC this past summer (which was great!).

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

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CO of DC Guard to be Replaced

Maj. General Schwartz is supposed to be replaced at 12:01 PM on 1/20/17, right in the middle of the massive Inauguration Day security operations conducted by the Guard, not before, not after. It's just weird.

It's unclear where the order is coming from, but the article says "the Pentagon", FWIW. I'm guessing that it's at Trump's behest, but it seems strange to do it right in the middle of the operation.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Selectively applied of course, but it started with the diplomatic corps didn't it?
https://thinkprogress.org/republican-us-diplomacy-49e22be4b98

Political appointees are usually major donors or people close to the president. They usually leave with the outgoing president but are often afforded extensions on a case-by-case basis so that, for example, their children can finish the school year. But in an unprecedented move, the Trump administration sent a cable on Dec. 23 asking for that the diplomats leave their posts “without exceptions.”

The blanket statement has shown a stunning lack of compassion for some like the Ambassador to Costa Rica, Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, who is looking for a house for his four school-age children and his wife, who has been fighting breast cancer.

Hang on, the ride is just beginning (just received most appropriate ear worm for the nasty precedent-elect).
Hang On Sloopy

This week, Congress also gave itself the power to slash the annual salary of any individual civil servant, a status which includes diplomats, to $1. They also gave themselves the ability to cut the entire budget of any federal program. While Congress is touting this as a way of holding federal workers accountable, it could be used to target Obama appointees.

Reality tv war on civil service from within the white house is how it looks to me, congress says okey-doke. We only had three branches to spare, now what.

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Banana Republic = no Constitutional, moral or legal impediment to doing what we/our masters want will be respected. They're saying that Mob rules of power are fully released, this being merely a portion of the next jack-booted step mentioned by a number of other commenters, one which is intended to be global and final, with absolute control over US 'elections' established and with the artificial aura of the 'sanctity of law' created by giving the abuses the labels of law in all corrupt branches of government creating an inhibition against widespread citizen revolt far greater than that of mere military force backing admittedly criminal acts.

Had an outside invader imposed such abuses, would Americans be reacting in such a passive fashion?

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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Written about and linked to in an essay here, not too long ago.

For just one example:

Activities of the Provocateur

1. Establishes “leaders” to set them up for a fall.

2. Suggests doing foolish, illegal things to get the group in trouble.

3. Encourages militancy.

4. Encourages taunting of the authorities.

5. Tries to get activists to compromise their values.

6. Attempts to instigate violence.

7. Attempts to provoke revolt among people who are ill-prepared to deal with the reaction of the authorities to such violence.

http://caucus99percent.com/content/people-planning-activism-need-read

The sheep are being led to slaughter.

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Thank you!

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

I'm not sure if that reply was aimed at me, or precisely which subject you are referencing. But if it was, and the subject was the chummy-ness of our ruling class, well then.

I just came off of a 12-hour Monday. I don't have as much time to write as I would like. You should write whatever you wish! You pretty reliably nail whatever subject you take on. I enjoy reading what you write, and keep an eye out for your comments, too. You bring lots of good stuff to this place.

I sank all my writing time this last Sunday into this essay: http://caucus99percent.com/content/no-establishment-dems-you-cant-have-i...
-which was posted, got very few eyeballs, turned into a tech forum regarding connection problems, and quickly sank out of sight. Not a single reply to the actual essay! Which is kind of funny, actually. I wrote it after you posted that video interview with Ray McGovern. It was like the missing piece of a puzzle that had been gnawing at my lizard hindbrain.

Anyway, WRITE! -And good luck!

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