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.
Virginians should change their venue to D.C. This should be made into a U.S. vs Virginia civil rights issue, because that is what it really is. Just as the governor of Arkansas, years ago, tried to use state police and threatened to use the National Guard, to deny Arkansas minorities the right to attend desegregated public schools, another state governor is in defiance of the authority of the federal government and it's duty to defend the civil rights of its citizens.
The President should, again, use federal law enforcement, or even federal troops, to secure the rights of the people against the government of a state that is in rebellion. A state government actively denying, or threatening to deny, civil rights is also rebelling against the supremacy of the federal government and the Constitution of the United States.
The citizens of Virginia, by protesting only inside virginia, are acting as if this was just a local government trying to vote higher property taxes in the middle of the night after promising not to. This is a state with police officers, prosecutors, prisons, and even a military, denying their civil rights. It is the duty of the Federal Government to intervene and defend the rights of the people of Virginia against the tyranny of the Virginia government. It is also the duty of the Federal Government to defend the Constitution of the United States against the domestic enemy that the government of Virginia has made itself to be. It would better serve the people of Virginia to spend their time and energy reminding the federal government of that fact.
Every argument, petition, demonstration, march, or campaign by the people of Virginia to their government has been and will always be ignored by the current state government. Their time, energy, and money would be better used to petition the federal government to take action in Virginia to defend their civil rights against a rogue state government that is rebelling against the federal government and the Constitution. For a state government to deny its citizens any of their civil rights, is to deny the supremacy of the Constitution and the Federal government as its defender.
Neither Governors, nor state legislators are immune to federal laws. Many Governors and state legislators have gone to federal prison for violating federal law. It is punishable by fine, imprisonment, ,or even death, to deny or conspire to deny people of their civil rights. This is what the governor of Virginia and his legislators are guilty of. The federal government must be made aware of this, and must be pressured into investigating and prosecuting them.
EDITED several times for spelling/grammar. I just woke up. Fuck it, I'm leaving it alone now.