Don't you just love peaceful protesters?

[Rogue 9]

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I could let the thread speak for itself, but perhaps I'd best quote the opening post, at least. Behold, the politics of peace:

PROTEST WARRIOR, the Nazi-like thugs who disrupt our first amendment right for free speech with their destructive, hateful propaganda, will be infiltrating many of our marches. They need to be taken out. We need to come up with several ideas to counter them.

Since they are confrontational, and not peaceful, they deserve to be taken out any way possible.

Here are some suggestions:

1. Carry water pistols filled with black paint, and squirt their messages.

2. Form a cordon around them, make it tighter, until they relinquish their signs where we can destroy them.

3. Just yell at them. The marshals will remove them because they don't want any trouble, and in general they tell the minority to leave to avoit trouble. If they DON"T remove them, then they will be in compliance with THERE views and we can file a protest after the march to censor them.

4. If all else fails, we can get a few people to "take it for the team". In other words, they can physically take away the signs. Of course, this may start a riot and the nazis may arrest us. I would suggest getting a few people from New Orleans who are homeless and are pissed at ANTHING republican. In most cases they will be released and we will treat them as heroes.

The will be filming. I would suggest trying to get their cameras and destroying them. Of course its against the law, but this will get us more sympathy.

The bottom line: Protest Warriors are a MAJOR IMPEDIMENT to our cause and NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT. Since they advocate confrontation and violence, the rules of engagement are clear. Any physical reaction against them, in this case, is justified.

If you want to see their site (which I have decided not to link), it's www.protestwarrior.com. They will be putting up marching orders shortly before they march, so we will have advance knowledge where they are at.

Destroy them so they become irrevelant!

So, let's review: People that disagree with us voice their dissent. Therefore, they are Nazi thugs. This means that we must stop them from voicing their disagreement, thusly justifying us in... acting like Nazi thugs. Ain't irony great?

[Josh]

Hey, political protest is big business and has been for years. Can't have you whacky kids running around spoiling all their brilliant schemes.

[Gandalf]

These types of guys shit me. In every protest group there's always a few guys looking to "mix it up" with the police.

As a result, on the news it looks like a few hundred/thousand people gathered to start a riot. And the massage that we were trying to send gets lost.

[Caz]

A lot of people here just protest everything because they want to go to a good protest.

[Rogue 9]

A lot of people here just protest everything because they want to go to a good protest.

And God forbid that anyone protest the protesters.

[Josh]

Protests these days are, as I said, business in nature. Whistle up the rent-a-mob and the perennial losers and throw them out with the appropriate signs.

Essentially, it's just another piece on the chess board.

[Rogue 9]

Oh yeah. It literally is a rent-a-mob a lot of times; International A.N.S.W.E.R. is known to hire people to come out and hold signs, with the money payable at the end of the day.

[Josh]

Oh yeah, goes back to before ANSWER. TV made protests an effective tool for a while, so they were incorporated into the standard bag of tricks. Once that became prevalent, all the various angles came with it- rent-a-mob, camera angles that could turn a crowd of two hundred into thousands, you name it.

Problem is that nobody really pays attention to protests anymore. For the morass of the public, they're just so much background noise. That essentially leaves them as something to be deployed as part of the standard strategy, much like the first act in divorce proceedings is for everyone to get restraining orders tossed at each other.

[Mayabird]

On two slightly related notes:

As for in other countries, I've heard that in Bangladesh for the equivalent of a couple cents each you can rally up a hundred thousand street people to hold signs in a "protest" all day.

That being said, I think I got mistaken for a tourist attraction this one time I went to a protest as a part of my summer job. Kids pointing at me like, "Mommy, mommy, real protesters, just like on TV!"

[Dark Silver]

just a couple cents a day?

Damn...wonder what I can scrouge up for 2 bucks....

[Rogue 9]

On two slightly related notes:

As for in other countries, I've heard that in Bangladesh for the equivalent of a couple cents each you can rally up a hundred thousand street people to hold signs in a "protest" all day.

That being said, I think I got mistaken for a tourist attraction this one time I went to a protest as a part of my summer job. Kids pointing at me like, "Mommy, mommy, real protesters, just like on TV!"

Awwwwww, that's so cute! What were you protesting?

And what kind of job pays for the employees to go to a protest? I want one!

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

In Indonesia, some people make profits by being a 'protest planner'. They give out lunch money to poor & unemployed folks; rallying them to be 'protesters'. Each 'protester' receives about fifteen thousand Rupiahs (about one and half bucks).

A 'protest planner' usually take orders from political elites, upper-rank fundies, and such, at various rate. The 'protesters' can be adorned in various 'costumes' according to the 'theme'. So you want a Moslem protest in front of the US Embassy? Fine, we can dress them with 'Moslem' clothing. You want a protest to support your party? Sure, that can be arranged. You want a protest to bash your political opponent? No problem. Of course, as long as you pay the right fee.

And no, I kid you not.

[Josh]

No surprise there, Kreshna. It's not so formalized here, but it's moving that way.

[Rogue 9]

Wheeeeeeeee! The cowards banned me!

[Josh]

You fucking rabble rouser.

*beams with pride* Fight the power!

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

No surprise there, Kreshna. It's not so formalized here, but it's moving that way.

How about starting a 'protest venture', then?

Speaking of business, how goes yours?

[Rogue 9]

You fucking rabble rouser.

*beams with pride* Fight the power!

And now, having banned me, they're talking about how I'm a sociopath because I quoted Heinlein in my sig. I'm sure you can probably guess the passage.