One wonders which superpac was financing this protest; and of course, the (supposedly unbiased) reporters from Fox News are only speaking with the protesters, and they interviewed some elderly lady who claimed that Donald Trump was going to take over "like Hitler", because she remembered that. Now, this lady was said to be 80, so born around 1935, and would have been only a young girl when the war happened. What is interesting was that this lady was the only one they picked out of all the crowd of protesters to interview, gave her age and everything, and then the media reporter kept repeating what she had said. It is pretty obvious to me that this rally was staged, probablly much like the ones in Furgason were staged. I remember reading that there were actually ads placed on Craigslist for paid protesters to show up for that demonstration, and all of the looting and devastation that followed. Undoubtedly, most of these people were hired , too; probaby by one of the super-pacs of Cruz, Rubio, or even Hillary herself. In any case, it was probably the smartest thing for the rally to be shut down, and even more so for Donald Trump himself. The veiled "death threat" from Douthat might have been retracted; but the message certainly got across to Trump. And, it seems that others have been threatening Trump'ss death as well, and then calling it a joke. Glen Beck is another one, and he is apparently being investigated for his threat of literally stabbing Trump to death. This is NOT going well, not at all, folks....... http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...ump-with-the-pillow-they-used-to-kill-scalia/
What is a "superpac? Having grown up in Chicago, experienced the 1968 debacle, the charades played by Mayor Daly, the crooked politics exposed by the Tribune, then the ensuing years highlighting the dubious value of most of the "Crook" County leaders, I have never had any regrets for having pulled up stakes, and leaving the area. Frank
The protesters were more than simply college students, however. Bill Ayers, a former Obama official, was involved, as was one of the owners of Ben & Jerry's, a Bernie Sanders donor. These things are not grassroots protests brought on by actual student fervor. These things are generally planned, and I don't doubt that it goes to the top of the government.
Just like the protestors inside Trump's rallys who I also believe are "set ups" by those who do not want Trump to win.
Yes, there have been many ads on Twitter in the past recruiting idealists (who wanted a paycheck) for the Occupy Wall Street and Syria protests. I haven't searched around lately because I've been too busy, but back then, I would look around on there to see which hashtags were being used, and I'd tweet about them and post about them on Facebook, but it really didn't seem to matter. you'd think there'd be at least someone of integrity with a platform to expose it, but I don't recall it ever coming to light.
I still wonder how far "set-ups" can go, in reality. The Murrah Building? Lee Harvey Oswald, and then Jack Ruby? The Trade Center?
There are people making a living setting up groups. You can hire them for protest for or against anything even ready to start riots. These groups are organised and paid by someone. If you get these people started others not in the group will join in just to be part of a group.
When I was 8, an incident one block from our house in which a woman attempted to rent one of her apartments to a black family, caused the worst turmoil to which I have ever been exposed. It was a 3-story apartment building, in the all-white Chicago suburb of Cicero. The historic portrayal of it, which I will link below, is not quite accurate. Our front lawn (and everyone else's) was trampled by hordes of people on foot, all night long, for at least a week, as they strode up and down the block. The violence came about when hired goons broke into the 3rd. floor apartment, tore loose the heavy, cast iron heating radiators, and shoved them out of the windows, destroying the lovely Poplar trees, and possibly several parked vehicles. We saw many cars driving back and forth, all night long, bearing out of state license plates. The local police were not about to set a precedence by intervening, however, likely fearing for their own positions. No non-Caucasians were going to be allowed to reside in Cicero, via unspoken, unwritten decree from the very top of the political structure. The Illinois National Guard was called in, which set up a "perimeter", within which our own house (and the entire square block of homes) was contained. They were armed with military rifles, bayonets attached. My Dad had to show his drivers license to get back in coming home from work. My Mother and I walked our customary 3-blocks to Cermak Road, to buy groceries. She had no ID of any kind, never drove a car, but the soldiers were obviously not about to regard her as a subversive, with an 8 year-old kid, and they let us pass! At least one hooligan during this skirmish was bayoneted in the chest. It was a time of real civil strife. There was even humor to be had. I had two rabbits in a wire hutch in our back yard. The animals must have been terrified, for, unknown to us, they escaped during the night. At daybreak next morning, two uniformed Guardsmen pounded on our back door, politely explaining to my Mother and a wide-eyed little boy, that they had seen our rabbits out back during previous days, and were returning them, having captured them out on "Main Street", as they called it, actually 18th. St., but apparently code-named for their operation! Frank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero_race_riot_of_1951
It seems everyone has an agenda these days. It's exhausting trying to seek out legitimate news, since the press doesn't report unbiased information, but promotes an agenda and inserts a lot of promotional fluff and marketing in the center of that. I've never seen people so divided as I have lately on Twitter. It's really interesting to hear from the perspective of someone who was actually there @Frank Sanoica, thanks for sharing. I was a child of school age during the forced busing situation in Boston. Thankfully, we were just outside of Boston, and not subject to the ruling/decree. If we had been, we would have moved. Not because my parents had anything against blacks, but because kids shouldn't have to be bused an hour or more each way to school, when there are schools in their neighborhoods. If the schools were so bad (that was the excuse), fix the schools. If they're not good enough for black children, why force any children to attend? Fire bad teachers, hire good ones, make necessary repairs, and let kids walk to school or take a local city bus, as we did one town over, with children from all backgrounds, with no issues. I say decree, because I don't believe it should have ever been passed. I think putting school children through that was horrible, and it really bothers me that someone without a vested interest in the situation would insert himself into the lives of so many citizens in such a disruptive fashion. I'm tired of the government shoving its agenda down our throats. Many neighborhoods were integrated, and I believe the ones that weren't would have integrated on their own, naturally, with a lot less violence, had the issue not be forced.
It seems that Hillary was behind the protest at Trumps rally especially the ones yelling Bernie this was double fold. Trying to stop Trump and also discredit Bernie at the same time.
I wouldn't put it past Cruz's staff to sabotage another candidate since he did it to Ben Carson and Rubio. It was effective and Cruz did nothing to stop them the first time it happened. Rubio had to ask him to do something the 2nd time it happened. Cruz claims he never knows anything about it but why didn't he punish them in anyway until Rubio finally requested it?
I have trouble picturing anyone being so excited by Hillary as to do something like that, but I can see Bernie's supporters doing it. Bernie Sanders, I think, is an honest man, at the opposite end of the political spectrum as Trump, who is another honest man. Perhaps Trump isn't really at the opposite end of the political spectrum as he is pretty liberal about a few things, but they are not things that are likely to tear our country apart. Although I disagree with pretty much every policy issue that Bernie Sanders has, he has been pretty consistent through a long political career and, unlike many, who are billionaires before the end of their first term in office, he doesn't seem to have used his position to advance himself financially. He's no pauper but he's not rich in comparison to most everyone else who has held office for as long as he has. I can see the attraction in Bernie for those who aren't smart enough, haven't the experience, or who lack the understanding of history to realize that socialism doesn't work, and that his promises are impossible. He attracts those on the far left political spectrum and, in large part, people who are under the age of thirty, who have more ideals than common sense.
Okay, I did a little bit of digging. I couldn't find anything specific to the Chicago rally but Bernie Sanders did put a call out to his volunteers to show up at Trump's Boca Raton, Florida rally, and to bring signs. He even offered free tickets. He, or someone on his staff, has since removed the notice but Google had cached the call for volunteers to disrupt Trump's Boca Raton rally. Sometimes it take a while for Google to get around to caching a page and the Chicago call may not have been up long enough. Here is a link to Google's cache of Bernie's call for his volunteers to disrupt Trump's rally in Florida. Rather than calling out Bernie, Cruz, Rubio and Kasich called out Trump. The only reason Bernie isn't disrupting their rallies is because he knows he won't be running against them. Given that Google has shown some political motivations of its own, it's entirely possible that Google will remove its cache of this page at some point, but it is working right now. In the event that it disappears, here's a screen shot.