Can Anti Trump Protesters Expect Crackdown On Dissent?

[TheMastersNemesis]

Even though anti Trump protests are non violent Trumps rhetoric could signal a crackdown on dissent against him or the GOP. He seemed really aggressive and making a point that the left and anti racist protesters were responsible for the violence and tragedy. The implication was that if they had not been around to disrupt a "peaceful" white supremacist demonstration nothing would have happened.

Reality is getting more twisted and distorted by the day. Can we expect the same treatment that the "Occupy" movement got?

[democratisphere]

1. Next we will hear the tiki torch carrying Nazis and white supremacists

we're just having a friendly luau. drumpf is attempting to normalize hatred.

[AlexSFCA]

3. yes and he is moving fast

millions of symaptizers are now ok with that. 80% republican voters approve of him.

[AlexSFCA]

2. no doubt

This strategy is directly from putin's playbook. One more tragedy and jurisdictions may have enough support to stop issuing permits to alt right (violence is not free speech). This will in turn open a door to banning anti-trump protests, now being defined by trump as 'alt left'. He will likely continue to blame 'the left' for provoking violence to build his 'case'.

This is why ACLU is doing the most important job right now, to make sure everyone gets a permit regardless of anything. We must support it, long term it is likely better to expose those extremists and shame them and really stop watching their rallies, they want audience, they want counterprotestors because it gives them massive media coverage and new recruits, almost always young people. They need to branded as lame.
BUT this all works when you don't have 'alt right' president so we are in Hitler's terrirotory right now and I don't know if anything will be effective unless he is gone.

[Not Ruth]

5. The position of some protesters is that a march with a permit issued by the police is not a protest

It is the Thanksgiving day parade

[Not Ruth]

4. Ask the 200+ arrested on Inauguration day that are looking at 75 years

One has taken a plea for a few months. My advice is for counter protesters to wear pink. No arrests at the Women's March.

"Dane Powell, the first of the more than 200 defendants arrested for rioting on Inauguration Day to be sentenced on felony charges, was led out of the court in handcuffs Friday to begin serving the four months of two 36-month sentences Judge Lynn Leibovitz handed down for felony rioting and felony assault on a police officer.

The judge argued that her ruling "addressed only Mr. Powell's conduct" and not that of the other defendants. "He's not one of the persons whose participation was limited to marching, chanting, or wearing black," Leibovitz said as she handed down her sentence. An off-duty police officer standing near the back of the room beside a U.S. Marshall said "damn right."


Though many of the charges against the defendants are based on wearing black or covering their faces while in proximity to an alleged "black bloc" group that destroyed property, even Jennifer Kerkhoff, the prosecutor, who was herself wearing a black jacket in court, agreed that Powell's case is "not about wearing black…not about wearing a mask."

Unlike the other defendants, Powell pleaded guilty to the two felonies in April. It is the only felony plea out of the more than two hundred cases."

http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcpnews-j20-protester-sentenced-to-prison-for-breaking-windows-throwing-rocks-20170707-story.html