Something's wrong. There's too much buzz going on around the internet about crisis actors, bussing in Antifa dressed in MAGA hats, bringing in sniper towers. The left has a plan to manage the Monday rally to their benefit. So you need to outfox and outmaneuver them. Change your plan!
I know some VA organizers, or people who can reach the organizers, must read here, so please do something like this:
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Cancel the rally, loudly and publicly, citing concerns about the threat to public safety from government use of force and Antifa. Get that narrative out there. Announce that anyone in Richmond on Monday does not represent you.
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Instead change to something else like simultaneous county-level rallies, another city, perhaps a different day. Move your key speakers there so it's clear that's where the rally is.
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Use your organizing structure to circulate private messages among your members and use that to do things like:
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Have everyone show up in jackets or suits. Everyone. Have members bring extras and set up fitting areas, get everyone suited up. It's hard to sell the message that a mob of people in dress clothes are a public threat.
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Enforce credentialing. Don't allow public attendance, just attendance of your members. Make out-of-state visitors show an NRA or other gun group membership to be permitted in, or pass a quick interview about gun culture, etc. Weed out plants.
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Decide on a credentialing symbol, like a specific flag sticker, and have everyone who has passed through credentialing given the prearranged symbol to wear.
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Live post to the internet to show your numbers on a wide variety of platforms.
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Do something to be countable. Have all attendees make a donation to something your opponents hate, like a gun group or (even better) Trump 2020, so the President can talk about how much money the VA dems raised for him and thus amplify your message. Try to get as many individual donations as possible, even if it's just for $1.
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Pass out lots of signs like "Hands off guns! Voting Republican in 2020" to connect the numbers to upcoming election results and tell VA leadership they are living on borrowed time and have to move carefully if they want to keep any power in the future.
Turn their plotting into an opportunity and suck the oxygen out of whatever nefarious scheme the left has cooked up.
if we abandon the plans or change venues that just ensures false flag with maximum casualties, and won't change the optics. as many patriots as possible.
as far as vetting: who watches the watchers? who validates? can actors play a role? false sense of security and provides validation that the shooter will be labeled as 'one of us.'
Both issues were already addressed in:
Point #1: You need to not be in the capitol and loudly have told the world in advance that you're not going to be. A false flag only works if they can connect it with you and if that's not where you are, it doesn't work. Suck the wind out of their sales. As many patriots as possible - but not where they're having their false flag.
Point #3: There already is an existing structure capable of vetting its own membership. There are organizers and those all belong to existing pro-gun groups which all have existing memberships lists. Turn the rallies into closed events. If you don't belong to at least pro-gun group, shame on you and no you can't attend.
I agree with your other points, but not these two.
1: watch me shift the narrative.
or just makes it easier to pass off a false flag with actors somewhere with no patriots to protect as legit.
3 - closed rally means less patriots. we need as many as possible. anyone can join nra just by donating. even if it could work, false flag will just move to perimeter. again, needs to be as many patriots in one place as possible, united against evil.
Your reply formatting is a big confusing. I'll do my best:
"last-minute change confusing people": Well, you have to be competent at organizing and that includes communicating (note my post is to the organizers, not the the general public). The easiest thing to do is loudly and publicly reschedule for another date, that disassociates the movement from any false flag.
"we need as many as possible" - no, you need as many non-plants as possible, a bit different. 1000 patriots plus 1 plant who can create bad media is much worse than 600 solid patriots. It's a media battle, imagery counts for a lot.
"as many patriots in one place as possible, united against evil." - Allow me to suggest that in 2020 we could be substitute "as many COUNTABLE patriots". If, for example, 1M people make coordinated donations to President Trump and the NRA (even if it's $1 each) and the next day they are both out in the media talking about getting 1M new donations yesterday because of Virginia, that's a big number. Or photos from a pro-gun rally with 100,000 people that happens to be in a city other than Richmond work just as well as photos taken in Richmond. It's the numbers that matter, not the location.
apologies for formatting.
number one was meant to illustrate what the media will say. they lie. free thinkers already know - we are trying to awaken the rest.
I agree with two and three in the sense that we need as many non plants as possible. one location ensures this. new location fractures and then bad actors will start announcing their own with only plants present.