Whoops! Militias descend on Gettysburg to stop fake "ANTIFA flag-burning" ceremony...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...6ee4da-bb05-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html

For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

All the firepower in the world doesn't mean squat if you don't vet your intel, guys...


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Just goes to show how trigger happy some people are right now, and how much they don't check their intel. This has happened in the past for all sort of reasons, someone gets info on something happening, they gather in a min with no good leader, violence happens and whatever underlying tension led up to the event drives it higher.

I am just glad no one was hurt this time.
 
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They'll probably just say they scared them off.

The obsession some of my fellow Americans have over the flag is honestly weird the more I think about. Burning it is a sign of disrespect, I know, but at the end of the day, it's just a piece of cloth. If every flag in our country just spontaneously caught on fire, the United States of America would still endure just fine. The reverence some have for it borders on the fanatical.
 
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Burning it is a sign of disrespect, I know,
When we were in the Boy Scouts we learned that the proper way to dispose of an American flag which had become damaged or soiled beyond use was to burn it. I believe that it is also the proper way to dispose of a flag which has become metaphorically damaged or soiled by actions carried out under it. No disrespect to the flag itself should be imputed automatically to the protester burning it.
 
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They'll probably just say they scared them off.

The obsession some of my fellow Americans have over the flag is honestly weird the more I think about. Burning it is a sign of disrespect, I know, but at the end of the day, it's just a piece of cloth. If every flag in our country just spontaneously caught on fire, the United States of America would still endure just fine. The reverence some have for it borders on the fanatical.

I remember when I was young, learning that Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance because they believed it was worshipping the flag. I remember thinking that’s crazy, no one worships the flag. Recent years have shown me I was wrong and the Jehovah’s Witnesses were right. Some people really do worship the flag.
 
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When we were in the Boy Scouts we learned that the proper way to dispose of an American flag which had become damaged or soiled beyond use was to burn it. I believe that it is also the proper way to dispose of a flag which has become metaphorically damaged or soiled by actions carried out under it. No disrespect to the flag itself should be imputed automatically to the protester burning it.

And so what if it is disrespectful?

having established that burning is, in fact, the proper way to dispose of a flag...

Trump Says He Wants To Punish Flag Burning With A Year In Prison

... it's clear that these people are trying to criminalize disrespect. #whatfirstamendment?
 
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I remember when I was young, learning that Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance because they believed it was worshipping the flag. I remember thinking that’s crazy, no one worships the flag. Recent years have shown me I was wrong and the Jehovah’s Witnesses were right. Some people really do worship the flag.
Same here.
 
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Wait, isn't there supposed to be a news link to this?......Ahh, I see it was deleted....maybe because it was Fake News?.....thanks TLK for the laugh.....Hmm....wonder if that 'militia' was carrying model 1861 Springfield's?....and wearing blue wool serge uniforms?.....I mean it is Gettysburg weekend after all......
 
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Wait, isn't there supposed to be a news link to this?
? There's a link to the article in the OP. It guess to the Washington Post article; which you may find adblocked, but open the link in incognito mode and you can read it just fine.
 
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Wait, isn't there supposed to be a news link to this?......Ahh, I see it was deleted....maybe because it was Fake News?.....thanks TLK for the laugh.....Hmm....wonder if that 'militia' was carrying model 1861 Springfield's?....and wearing blue wool serge uniforms?.....I mean it is Gettysburg weekend after all......

...I would post the video from Youtube, but for language and an exposed nipple.
 
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All the firepower in the world doesn't mean squat if you don't vet your intel, guys...

....the the pastor wearing a Wesley cap and a BLM shirt was just a distraction. Antifa was camped out at Little Round Top.
 
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