(02-14-2019 12:32 AM)q5sys Wrote: (02-13-2019 09:25 PM)JRsec Wrote: The kids were set up by organizers and somebody working in the permit department for the city. Those two other demonstrations wouldn't have amounted to spit out bubblegum for publicity without those kids to make them look like victims. So the permit was issued for the kids, the other two protests played off them by framing a media event. Typical Alinsky tactics. The thing that ticks me off is that the damned press as usual was wholly complicit. That's why they rolled the video when Phillips wandered into the kids group and the raced to press with his story. It's not just fake news, It's lying news!
the kids didn't have a permit. The March for Life thing has gone on for decades.
A permit wasn't issued for 'the kids'. Its just the ugly flip of the coin that a teacher told them to meet at the Lincoln Memorial where those other two groups were.
The National Mall is a big place.
It doesn't make that much difference. The pros in the other protests, of which Phillips was one, new exactly what to do. They just framed it on the fly.
And it doesn't change the fact that these kinds of things happen frequently. Confrontation makes the moment for the cameras and they are all trained for it.
Surely you realize that most of these protesters are paid to go from event to event and cause to cause. They flesh out their ranks with local or nearby volunteers, but the core already knows how it will go down, what buttons they want to push with bystanders or counter demonstrators, and what they want, or hope to catch, on film. It's not the protest that is as important as the images from it. Those images can be spun to the public as needed, like they were with the Covington kids.
Quite frankly most of America doesn't care to attend these things. So they play on the fringe and young to fill / populate their ranks for the backdrop to make the cause look popular. But it will be the traveling crowd that the local hotels love, and the chamber of commerce sees as a mixed bag benefit, that are paid. Celebrities who are using the cause to stay relevant will be with them. They all know how the script is supposed to go. The organizer will be there but in the background observing and instructing. They know the whole agenda and are paid by an entity behind the scenes. The paid travelers and the celebrities might not even know the whole agenda.
A march to clean up a neighborhood might have a hidden political agenda, but the marchers think they are helping the community. They like to get local personalities such as civic and religious leaders on board so they have legitimate looking local folks who are sold on the notion of the stated cause. What they don't know is that there can be nefarious hidden causes that their persona's are being used to disguise.
What the locals see is one move, their action. What they don't see are the things that change behind the scenes because of their action.
The bottom line for any of these events is that those doing the protesting will never know if their action was legitimate, or a front for something else.
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