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struggle4progress

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5. There's lots of different stuff going on here. One is that the City of Dallas

Reply to longship (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:44 PM

Nov 2013

held an event on the 50th, but only for a relatively small number of select invited guests

Then the police blocked off the area, with a perimeter three or four blocks from the event site to exclude "undesireables", as seems to have become increasingly common in recent years -- plus ça change ...

Your guess is probably as good as mine about what views the protestors may have held in common:

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Meh! No indication of what it was about? longship Nov 2013 #1

Looks like Alex Jones was there, Holly_Hobby Nov 2013 #2

It looked like a gaggle of conspiracy theorists Warpy Nov 2013 #3

They are always all over the map. longship Nov 2013 #6

I've got a lot of questions Warpy Nov 2013 #7

What the JFK conspiracy advocates want is questions, not answers. longship Nov 2013 #8

You nuts? Conspiracy theorists have ALL the answers Warpy Nov 2013 #9

There's lots of different stuff going on here. One is that the City of Dallas struggle4progress Nov 2013 #5

Months ago a DUer complained bitterly here about the guest list & co-ordinated events Hekate Nov 2013 #4