[Vision2020] Turd Reich: San Francisco dog owners lay minefield of poo for rightwing rally

Sat Aug 26 17:50:40 PDT 2017

Wow!

Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>  Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:55 PM
wrote::

"I think we need to quit looking for things to get offended by, quit
watching and listening to the "news" telling us who or what should offend
us, ignore the far- or alt-right and left elements, and live here in the
middle where things are going pretty darn good. "

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I don't know you, and you are probably a fine person...

But I for one don't listen to the news to tell me who or what should offend
me.  I can make up my own mind, and I find your post I am responding to
offensive: your words, not you as a human being!

Why?

Because I am offended by people being murdered and injured for simply
exercising their constitutional right to assemble and protest against hate
ideologies, while implications are being made that this outrage is simply a
manipulation of "the news.".  Oh, I forgot!  It's the "fake news" media
misleading me, right?  Just ask Donald Trump:
At Rally, Trump Blames Media for Country’s Deepening Divisions:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/trump-rally-arizona.html

Please correct me if I am wrong, but your post appeared to be adopting a
similar line of thinking as Donald Trump?  I'll just assume perhaps I have
this wrong, to give you the benefit of the doubt!

OK... I found out about the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville in
the "news."  But some sources in the news told me she deserved what she
got, as you can read: *"They were a bunch of communists out there
protesting against somebody's freedom of speech, so it doesn't bother me
that they got hurt at all."*
*http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-leader-charloteesville-im-glad-girl-dies-heather-heyer-killed-james-alex-fields-jr-grand-dragon-a7895851.html
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-leader-charloteesville-im-glad-girl-dies-heather-heyer-killed-james-alex-fields-jr-grand-dragon-a7895851.html>*

I am also offended by the so called "...middle where things are going
pretty darn good." as you phrased it, who were responsible for voting for
and placing in the presidency a man who has exhorted his followers to
engage in violence.against protestors.  I don't think it is a stretch to
make a connection between the example Trump has set for acceptable
behavior, and the death of Heather Heyer.  I continue to be stunned into
disbelief that a man who would publicly exhort his followers to engage in
violence, is actually President of the United States:

Tues. Feb, 23, 2016:
Donald Trump on Protestor: 'I'd Like to Punch Him in the Face'
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/politics/donald-trump-nevada-rally-punch/

"...here in the middle where things are going pretty darn good?"

You must be joking!
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com> wrote:

Yeah, this is ok, filling a park with dogshit.  Something to be proud of.
>
> The turd-layers are looked upon as skylarkers, just protesting the
> protestors in a whimsical way.
>
> But, had some ornery rednecks, or even some well-dressed college
> republicans, decided to do the same before a rally by some left-wing cause,
> we'd be up in arms, demanding arrests.  Plus all the other
> "counter-programming" that appears to be planned.  What if . . .
>
> It boggles my mind that folks even pay attention to these fringe
> elements.  The Klan didn't elect Trump.  Sure, they probably voted for him,
> but the 5,000 -10,000 members aren't what I'd call any sort of political
> player.
>
> I think we need to quit looking for things to get offended by, quit
> watching and listening to the "news" telling us who or what should offend
> us, ignore the far- or alt-right and left elements, and live here in the
> middle where things are going pretty darn good.
>
> Sorry for the long post, but this whole dumping of dog turds is a step too
> far, and I didn't see anything in the article where the organizers said
> they were going to clean up after, thereby leaving a real nice treat for
> the city crews.
>
> DC
>
> On Aug 25, 2017, at 16:27, Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> The rally has been cancelled:
>
> Saturday’s right-wing rally in Crissy Field canceled, organizers say
> <http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/25/san-francisco-right-wing-rally-cancelled-organizers-say/>
>
> Saturday’s right-wing rally in Crissy Field canceled, organizers say
>
> A right-wing rally scheduled for San Francisco’s Crissy Field on Saturday
> was called off by organizers, they sai...
>
> <http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/25/san-francisco-right-wing-rally-cancelled-organizers-say/>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, August 25, 2017, 2:20:32 PM PDT, Moscow Cares <
> moscowcares at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>
> You've jus' gotta *LOVE* the people of San Francisco.
>
> Courtesy of the *Guardian* at:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/24/san-
> francisco-dog-poo-protest-patriot-prayer-rally?CMP=share_btn_fb
>
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>
> Turd Reich: San Francisco dog owners lay minefield of poo for rightwing
> rally
>
> ‘I just had this image of alt-right people stomping around in the poop,’
> says the organizer of an unusual protest ahead of Saturday’s Patriot Prayer
> rally
>
> When a group of far-right activists come to San Francisco to hold a rally
> this Saturday, they will be met by peace activists offering them flowers to
> wear in their hair.
>
> Also, dog shit. Lots and lots of dog shit.
>
> Hundreds of San Franciscans plan to prepare Crissy Field, the picturesque
> beach in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge where rightwing protest group
> Patriot Prayer will gather, with a generous carpeting of excrement.
>
> “I just had this image of alt-right people stomping around in the poop,”
> Tuffy Tuffington said of the epiphany he had while walking Bob and Chuck,
> his two Patterdale terriers, and trying to think of the best way to respond
> to rightwing extremists in the wake of Charlottesville. “It seemed like a
> little bit of civil disobedience where we didn’t have to engage with them
> face to face.”
>
> Tuffington, a 45-year-old artist and designer, created a Facebook event
> page based on the concept, and the dog owners of San Francisco responded in
> droves. Many have declared their intention to stockpile their shitpiles for
> days in advance, then deliver them in bags for the site. (The group is also
> planning to reconvene on Sunday to “clean up the mess and hug each other”.)
>
> The presence of Patriot Prayer, whose “free speech” events in the Pacific
> north-west have frequently sparked violent street battles, in notoriously
> liberal San Francisco has city authorities on edge. Elected officials
> unsuccessfully pressured the National Park Service to deny the group a
> permit, and the police department is planning to deploy every available
> officer.
>
> But for many San Franciscans, an unwelcome visit from members of the
> “alt-right” is an opportunity to fight back in the spirit of the city by
> the bay – with flower power, drag queens, a little creativity, and an
> assist from the animal kingdom.
>
> Shannon Bolt, a behavior scientist who works at Crissy Field, intends to
> confront Patriot Prayer in the spirit of the Summer of Love. “As white
> supremacists and neo-Nazis gather in our midst, we’ll tune into the love
> frequency again and meet their hatred with flowers for their hair,” she
> wrote in a Facebook event description.
>
> If security forces keep the protest and counter-protest separate, Bolt
> told the Guardian, “We will have to offer our Flowers Against Fascism to
> them symbolically.”
>
> There will also be contingents of clowns, kayakers, cars, and kids – all
> hoping to use their particular strengths (humor, seaworthiness, the ability
> to monopolize parking spaces, and cuteness, respectively) to thumb their
> noses at hate.
>
> “You have a significant number of people who would like to go and punch
> Nazis, and then you have people who think they should be entirely ignored,”
> said veteran labor and LGBTQ rights activist Cleve Jones. “In between you
> have all sorts of creative and crazy ideas. I kind of like that.”
>
> Jones is working with local drag queen Juanita More to host a rally and
> march for equality beginning at Harvey Milk Plaza in the city’s Castro
> district. “There’s this desire to create fear,” he said of media coverage
> showing torch-wielding racists spewing hateful chants. “With these kinds of
> creative actions, we dispel fear. We say we’re going to fight you and we’re
> going to have a ball doing it and we’re going to laugh and love each other.”
>
> Jones is also taking inspiration from the German town of Wunsiedel, where
> residents have responded to an annual neo-Nazi march by sponsoring an
> “involuntary walkathon” that raises funds for anti-extremist causes.
>
> He is raising money for ten local organizations that reflect the diversity
> of San Francisco, including the Transgender Law Center, Disability Rights
> and Education Defense Fund, and Muslim Advocates. A similar
> Wunsiedel-inspired effort has been launched by Jewish Bar Association of
> San Francisco, which has raised more than $100,000 for the the Southern
> Poverty Law Center under the banner “Adopt-a-Nazi”.
>
> “When the dust has settled and the smoke has cleared,” Jones said, “I hope
> that the appearance of rightwing extremists in San Francisco will raise a
> significant amount of money for the people they seek to harm.”
>
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>
> Photo
>
> San Francisco’s Crissy Field, the site of the rightwing rally. Dog owners
> are said to be stockpiling excrement to carpet the field.
>
> http://www.moscowcares.com/Photos/Guardian_SanFrancisco_082517.jpg
>
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>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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