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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMilitias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent social media hoax
This is just slightly too old for LBN:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/hundreds-of-armed-men-went-to-gettysburg-to-defend-it-from-a-phantom-antifa-flag-burner-created-on-social-media/2020/07/04/206ee4da-bb05-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html
Lets 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 nations flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.
On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.
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Fullduplexxx
(7,864 posts)From place to place
fleur-de-lisa
(14,627 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Just like the Pig does, fabricate an issue, stir sh*t up about it, makes some pronouncement or sic Jared on it to do fn nothing, sign an imperial edict and proclaim victory.
XanaDUer2
(10,683 posts)Some innocent people could die as a result of a "prank" like this.
There was an incident in WA state last month where the locals harrassed some "antifa":
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/09/us/washington-family-accused-antifa/index.html
XanaDUer2
(10,683 posts)These people are like a powder keg ready to go off. Scary people.
Me.
(35,454 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)but the troll farms probably figured out that an opportunity for the 101st Chairbornes to beat up flag burning libruls was even more irresistible than a pro-Trump meetup.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)I would have gone over the top with it. LMAO!
Me.
(35,454 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Whipping armed dumbasses into a frenzy goes well beyond "prank," and the people, law enforcement, etc. of the Gettsburg area don't deserve that.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)Read the comments below the story, some gems in there...
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)We have relatives near there and they're total suckers for all this trump nonsense.
brewens
(13,596 posts)fire up the white nationalists like that.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)-with love.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Still, news of this years supposed event spread quickly in conservative circles.