Got to be smart about this.

[augyboston]

Mark Meadows stated that tRump is planning on sending these Federal Storm Troopers to more cities naming only cities run by Democratic mayors.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-meadows-trump-democratic-cities_n_5f14c04fc5b6d14c3368cdda

We've got to be smart about this. Shut down protesting in progressive cities and target cities run by GOP knuckle draggers. Force tRump and his thugs to shut down these violent operations in blue cities and make them send their storm troopers to red cities!

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. There should not be stormtroopers sent to ANY city.

[jaxexpat]

3. Only the best blue skies and rainbows in our cities.

Nor should we plan for that which isn't happening yet.
Stormtroopers should only work in bad weather.
Can't we all just get behind that?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Christ.

[Scarsdale]

4. How about this idea -

our side stays home and lets the "others" do all the damage. Let them arrest their own instigators. I really believe that a lot of the most violent protesters are there just to inflame and cause problems. Let them take the brunt of the storm trooper brigade violence. Protest more productively, by signing up voters to make a chance come November. All this violence is not helping anyone's cause, apart from tRump, who WANTS this.

[JHB]

5. Does he really have the personnel to do that in many places at once?

In Portland he's relying on the Border Patrol tactical team. If he puts them somewhere else then they're not in Portland anymore, and it's not as if it's the size of an army that could make that show of force in multiple locations simultaneously. He could scrape other DHS divisions for more people, but how many would that really be for this sort of job? And how reliable would they be? Not everyone is as kool-aid addicted as the BP.

The military won't be reliable for this -- they already pushed back on him in DC.

[Laelth]

6. How do you plan to shut down protesting?

There is no “protest central command” that can tell the protesters to do anything. They’re going to do what they’re going to do. The Democratic Party doesn’t control the protesters. Antifa doesn’t control the protesters. Heck, Antifa is an idea, not an organization. Antifa doesn’t control anything. It doesn’t even have an office. DU certainly has no control over the protesters.

What do you want us to do?



-Laelth

[augyboston]

7. Was there a command central when these protests started?

It's called a groundswell appealing to reason and what's best for the movement and those that support it.

There are always leaders of any political actions and while there is no autocratic top down authority there are those within the protests who are respected and looked up to.

BTW, this is not a demand or an order; it's an appeal.

[Laelth]

9. Martin Luther King, Jr. had the SCLC.

They had an office. They had an organizational structure.

By contrast, the current protests in the United States are completely grassroots. They are beyond anyone’s control, for better or for worse.

-Laelth

[greenjar_01]

8. Yeesh