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Re: Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media

By: oldCADuser in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (0)
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Of course, they'll make the argument, like that militia group in Oregon last month, that they scared away the George Soros sponsored ANTIFA caravans of black looters, which only existed in the minds of the right-wing, white supremacist militia members who showed-up armed to the teeth. They are too far gone to accept the notion that someone has been playing to their most base instincts, and it was so easy, just a few posts on social media and suddenly the world is coming to an end if they don't get in their pick-up trucks and drive halfway across the country with their Confederate flags and AR-15's.




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Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media
By: clo in FFFT3
Sun, 05 Jul 20 8:44 PM 		Msg. 59096 of 65535

Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media

On Independence Day, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups flooded the historic site — unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious organizer of the purported flag-burning was not who the person claimed to be.

By Shawn Boburg and Dalton Bennett ●

For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s 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 nation’s 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.

Biographical details — some from the person’s Facebook page and others provided to The Washington Post in a series of messages — did not match official records. An image the person once posted on a profile page was a picture of a man taken by a German photographer for a stock photo service.

Read more & look at the pictures. OMG

http://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?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

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