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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Shut Down All Ports of Entry' Protest Canceled over Cartel Threats.
Early Saturday morning, an email went out from Shut Down All Ports of Entry protest organizer Stasyi Barth stating that due to threat of mass violence to attendees, along with very suspicious activity on the Facebook site, plans to protest along the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border had been cancelled. This just hours before the protests were scheduled to take place.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/09/20/Threat-of-Mass-Violence-Shuts-Down-Border-Protest-As-Far-As-Western-Hemisphere-s-Busiest-Land-Port
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'Shut Down All Ports of Entry' Protest Canceled over Cartel Threats. (Original Post)
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Sep 2014
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PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)1. Breitbart.com?
Give us a break, please.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)2. More likely they figured out
The whole operation was going to be a bust.
But I gotta love the way our fearless defenders bravely turned their tails and fled.
Come to think of it, until a few years back the most important reason for owning guns was to Defend Against Tyranny. We've had 6 years under a commie fascist Kenyan dictator so where the heck have our defenders been all this time?
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)3. Those guys are funny. n/t