Oathkeepers cancel protest; counter-protesters burn flag
According to the Associated Press, Oathkeepers planned a protest at Maxine Waters’ office in Los Angeles, California and then cancelled it at the last moment.
A pickup with two passengers didn’t get the word and when they showed up at Waters’ office, counter-protesters ripped the flag from the truck, stomped on it and burned the flag;
“The Oath Keepers would like nothing more than to inflame racial tensions and create an explosive conflict in our community,” Waters said in a statement a day earlier urging counter-protesters to stay away.
A few dozen counter-protesters including union workers, church leaders, South Los Angeles residents and members of activist groups gathered peacefully outside the office at midday. Some held signs proclaiming “Black, brown and labor unity!” and “Resist!”
“These people are coming here to cause problems,” said Cliff Smith, an organizer with United Union of Roofers Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local No. 36. “Violent right wing groups have no business here.”
Yeah, the “racist” Oathkeepers deployed to Ferguson, Missouri a few years back to defend Michael Brown supporters against the police. I’m no fan of the Oathkeepers and it pisses me off to defend them.
Category: Oath Keepers
I’m kind of at a loss for words. I have little to no use for the so called “Oathkeepers”, and yet…Maxine Waters, and her bunch. And flag burning.
Gotta love it. Those who “gathered peacefully” stole someone else’s property and burned it.
Perfect, ArmyATC.
Aren’t the Goatkeepers a bunch of fakers and embellishers?
YOU would know fakers and embellishers wouldn’t you? Except the oathkeepers are NOT…they are trying to promote a return to patriotism , honor, and ” OATH keeping” but you wouldn’t understand that would you?
That evil warthog bitch says the oathkeepers are there to create racial tension and conflict? Does that dizzy bitch ever listen to the puke she spews out? Who in hell is creating more racial tension and encouraging rioting that this dirty son of a bitch? I would love to see her hanging by the neck from a telephone pole! imho
Felt I was being transported back in time to the 1960s/early 1970s when I watched the short video that was embedded in the LA Times story on the incident:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-maxine-waters-protest-20180719-story.html
Have no problems with folks protesting in a peaceful manner (guess they don’t have jobs or took off from their employment to protest?) However, DO have a problem with them burning our Flag in public because of anger or to gain attention as well as using a Race to make a point (*Sigh* it’s getting old..)
IMHO, Oathkeepers announcing they were going to show up at Aunt Maxine’s office did not help as well. It was as if they were wanting to pick a fight to possibly get attention as well..(and that gets old).
Silence from Aunt Maxine. West Side Story now has a new meaning. And it’s all Trump’s fault (sarc)…
I’m not a “love it or leave it” type, but until some of these flag-burning, America-hating douchebags decides to pack up and move to the Congo, I’m going to point out that their position is a gutless one.
One of these days somebody gonna show up with a Starbucks coffee cup full of gasoline and accidently spill it as the flag is lit afire.
Been waiting forty years for that to happen.
Amazing that it hasn’t. That’s tolerance!
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Since they stole, then destroyed SOMEONE ELSE’S fag, were any charges filed??? Hmmmm???
that’s *flag… Who will get an edit button first – Twitter or TAH?
That’s *flag*… Who will give us an Edit Button first – Twitter, or TAH?
Oh, if only it had been a ‘fag’….
That is 1960s post-WWII slang for ‘cigarette’, you know.
Those of us with Dashboard access can edit comments, something I will not do unless specifically asked.
Not to mention infringing on their First Amendment rights to assemble and speech.
I pray for my country. It’s being torn apart. God help us.
Just when you thought Crazy Maxine and her lunatic band of supporters couldn’t get more un-American.
They keep going lower and lower. They’re so low, they’re almost to China. Which is their goal anyway, to turn us into China.
Mad Max’s constituents. This explains much.
Always sorta hoped those flag burners would have some splashback and imitate Buddhist monks.
“The Oath Keepers would like nothing more than to inflame racial tensions and create an explosive conflict in our community,” Waters said….
‘Scuuuuuze me, Maxine, you gasbag, but WHO is it that is creating racial tensions and conflict?????? Looked in the mirror lately, you horse-faced old – – – – -.
Oh, never mind. She probably called the counter-protestors herself, for the sole purpose of making a statement to the press.
This is the useless bitch who, as an LA City Councilwoman back in 1992, was all over TV screeching, “No justice! No peace!”
She should have been nailed to the wall for incitement to riot. And her rhetoric over the years only got worse.
I used to love it when she’d show up on the Larry Elder Show on KABC, and routinely get her bony ass handed to her. You know she knew she had already lost when she busted out the Uncle Tom card on Larry.
Ah, good times. Good times.
Correction. She was in Congress in 1992.
Another case for term limits.
Right on!~ ex-ph2
These people are coming here to cause problems,” said Cliff Smith, an organizer with United Union of Roofers Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local No. 36.
I get it. Cliff and his ilk can cause the problems w/o any help from anyone.
That dipshit Waters is actually concerned about explosive conflict in the community? Bitch should leave her mansion inside a gated community and return to her district at night and listen to the gunfire. That will give her an idea of explosive conflict. She’s breathing air a decent person might need some day.
It’s not her community. She don’t live in her district.
Would it be wrong of me to send both these clowns and the Oaf Keepers several bags of sugar-free gummy dicks?