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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 04:43 PM Dec 2012

New Villian Emerges In AFP Tent-Gate: Guy Fawkes-Masked 'Radical Anarchists' [View all]

Source: Tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

The tale of the Michigan AFP Tent just got a lot more interesting. A spokesperson for conservative group Americans For Prosperity told TPM on Thursday the tent’s collapse this week during protests outside the state capitol may have been instigated not by union protesters — some of whom were "helping us" after the tent collapse, she said — but rather by "radical anarchists" wearing Guy Fawkes masks and coming from the Occupy movement.

Spokesperson Annie Patnaude also alleged some of the protesters threatened to blow up propane tanks inside the tent, potentially creating a deadly conflagration. Meanwhile union supporters continued to say the tent was felled by AFP members themselves, a charge Patnaude called "upsetting."

At a press conference on Thursday afternoon in Lansing, Mich., AFP called on the mayor and police to open an investigation into the tent collapse and the events surrounding it.

A spokesman for the Lansing Police Department referred questions to the Michigan State Police, who are in charge of policing the state capital grounds. A spokesman for the state police, Inspector Gene Adamczyk, told TPM on Thursday afternoon that no official complaints had been filed regarding the tent collapse. If any are filed, he said, the agency will investigate.

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/afp-tent-guy-fawkes.php?ref=fpa





Next it'll be undocumented aliens.
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I believe him. I also believe the same said 'Radical Anarchists' are on their payroll Brother Buzz Dec 2012 #1
Must have been God's will. Downwinder Dec 2012 #2
Cue the GOP rent a mob... Politicub Dec 2012 #3
"Radical Anarchists" ... Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2012 #4
isn't the AFP, in fact, a radical anarchist group? olddad56 Dec 2012 #23
Americans For Prosperity? Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2012 #27
someone didn't get the memo CitizenPatriot Dec 2012 #5
They did blame them... meegbear Dec 2012 #6
If that is true, someone will have photos of people in those JDPriestly Dec 2012 #8
There is one on a video winterwar Dec 2012 #19
Do you have a link? creeksneakers2 Dec 2012 #20
I guess that was a no link CitizenPatriot Dec 2012 #26
Who cares? it was a tent FreeBC Dec 2012 #7
Bigfoot? A Yeti? Loch Ness monster? Roland99 Dec 2012 #9
Not only Bigfoot, a Yeti, or the Loch Ness Monster ... Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2012 #11
anarchists! i knew it was them! even when it was the bears.. frylock Dec 2012 #10
It's always us. Fantastic Anarchist Dec 2012 #12
You guys are BUSY! Union Scribe Dec 2012 #13
Masked, huh? How conveeenient. tanyev Dec 2012 #14
I am ready to see the truth winterwar Dec 2012 #15
Welcome to DU and I hope you enjoy the site. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #16
video winterwar Dec 2012 #17
Another video winterwar Dec 2012 #18
Typical Steven Crowder douchebaggery HawkeyeLibkid Dec 2012 #21
Welcome to DU and I hope you enjoy the site. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #22
Translation: "We still don't know how to put up a tent properly" struggle4progress Dec 2012 #24
VIDEO - Short clip of tent falling Cal Carpenter Dec 2012 #25
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