A group called South Dakotans Against Racism drove out from Pierre to Gettysburg yesterday to counter another Pierre resident’s effort to rally in favor of the racist, traitor flag that the Gettysburg Police Department finally removed from its insignia earlier this month.
The good guys issued this statement on why we shouldn’t emblazon law enforcement or other public services with racist traitor symbols:
We believe that while they are performing their duties, public officials, including the police, should wear imagery that lifts up all the people involved, whether they are citizens or government officials. The Confederate flag represents a group of people who seceded from and fought against the United States to protect their ability to own other human beings. It was revived in our nation’s consciousness in the 1950s by anti-Civil Rights politicians and supporters. Since its uses have only been in opposition to the freedom of Black people, we find nothing honorable in it.
The Confederate flag tells Black people they are unwelcome at the very least. There is no place for such a flag on the uniform of someone whose wages are paid by taxpayers. We stand in support of Police Chief Mogard’s decision to remove it from the Gettysburg Police uniform, and in solidarity with the Black community.
South Dakotans Against Racism are a grassroots collective facilitating discussions on racism in South Dakota by educating about history, implicit bias, terminology, and more [South Dakotans Against Racism, press release, 2020.07.26].
SDAR took this picture of the racists and traitors who camped out to promote evil in the Gettysburg park:
SDAR also provides this picture of the good guys, the patriots who stood up Sunday for real American values:
SDAR reports the de-Confederatized Gettysburg PD circled the park but did not interfere with the demonstrations.
Another twitter post identifying who the real enemy is: right wing extremists. William Barr. Donald Trump. “Fine people”. Vladimir Putin.
Charlie Savage
@charlie_savage
· Jul 25
Promised confidentiality by the FBI, a Russia expert who had collected Trump-Russia chatter for the Steele dossier agreed to cooperate with agents vetting it. Barr directed the FBI to declassify a road map to identifying him. w/ @adamgoldmanNYT https://nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/politics/igor-danchenko-steele-dossier.h
Atlantic, today:
Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have promoted and sponsored around the world, with the hope that they might eventually be of some political or commercial use. Many of these bets didn’t pay off, but in 2016, Putin finally hit the jackpot: His operatives helped elect an American president with long-standing Russian links who would not only sow chaos, but systematically undermine America’s alliances, erode American influence, and even, in the spring of 2020, render the American federal government dysfunctional, damaging the reputation of both the U.S. and democracy more broadly.
A huge success for Putin’s people has proved a terrible tragedy for the rest of the world—a tragedy that also touches ordinary Russians.
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/12/he-sounded-the-alarm-on-hateland-daryl-johnson-warned-us-about-right-wing-terror-in-2009/
Kristi dog-whistles these terrorists wearing her camo tactical cap just like the III%ers, just like her boss Trump, just like his boss Putin.
Nothing happened in Gettysburg, but sure helped the local businesses, gas stations anyway. snapped pic of license plates at the park, (out of staters and couple of locals) the “good guys” plates were a lot of
SD plates, was a good thing to see
The law enforcement talked to both camps
So the sheriff car in park wasn’t part of the “camp” as some of the pics out there are reporting.
Was peaceful and both camps willing to talk and speak their “peace”
Thanks for checking out the situation, T! I’m glad folks were willing to talk, I’m glad fisticuffs did not ensue, and I’m glad the local cops finally got right with history and ripped off that racist traitor patch.
Turns out the Umbrella Man in Minneapolis is a white scumacyst. He’s the guy who incited the initial violence during the George Floyd protests. He was all dressed in black, wearing a gas mask, carrying a black umbrella and casually smashing out windows in the auto parts store with a 4 lb hammer. (That was the first building looted and burned to the ground.)
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The pattern continues to hold. The people who incited the violence, who firebombed buildings, etc, were white and on the right or anarchists.
Same is true in Portland. The protests were peaceful except for graffiti, until white racist Cadet Bone Spurs sent in his white boy Eric Prince’s white trumpstapo.
Yes, some BIPOC participated in Minneapolis after the white boys started it, but BIPOC are not the problem. White scumacysts and anarchists are the problem.
Found this yesterday, 8/14/20…. Seems like Justice Alito knows racism when he sees it affecting wasicu victims only.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/23/21228636/alito-racism-ramos-louisiana-unanimous-jury
Scummy racist, alleged pro-life dirtbag just made discrimination against her brown skin child acceptable because of his color.
https://thegrio.com/2020/08/25/rnc-speaker-abby-johnson-biracial-son-violent-offence-white-sons/
I really don’t think this will be helpful to the side of rational people.
Her children, especially the Black one, have my sympathy. It’s a common tactic for hateful, racist people to cite distorted stats to support their twisted outlooks.