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Buzz cook

(2,470 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:05 AM Jul 2020

Militias flock to Gettysburg to foil supposed flag burning

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Source: SFGate


"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."

Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Militias-flock-to-Gettysburg-to-foil-supposed-15386643.php#photo-19635745



What if someone held a flag burning and no one came?

Personally, for many years I've believed that we should burn confederate flags to protest bad acts by government. It is that rag that most symbolizes oppression and excess in the USA.
The red, white and blue flag belongs to us, not the assholes we protest against.
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Militias flock to Gettysburg to foil supposed flag burning (Original Post) Buzz cook Jul 2020 OP
I'd like some registration papers for these "well regulated militias" the Constitution calls for. LakeArenal Jul 2020 #1
I've mentioned that on gun forums Buzz cook Jul 2020 #2
After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve Jul 2020 #3

LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
1. I'd like some registration papers for these "well regulated militias" the Constitution calls for.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:12 AM
Jul 2020

I doubt these YooHaas like any regulations.

Buzz cook

(2,470 posts)
2. I've mentioned that on gun forums
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:15 AM
Jul 2020

If you're part of a well regulated militia then gun registration is demanded by the 2nd amendment.

They don't take that idea very well.

Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
3. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:16 AM
Jul 2020

Published 7:09 pm PDT, Saturday, July 4, 2020

Way over 12 hours old for LBN.

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