Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNot Now blockade DNC, get violent police assault and fake "insurrection" claims
On the 15th of November, an IfNotNow/JVP blockade of the DNC's doors was met with overwhelming police violence and pepper spray. At least one person was thrown down the stairs. Online trolls and pro-Israel members of Congress claimed that protesters were storming not blockading the building, video evidence says otherwise. Some even claimed this was an "insurrection," as MTG did a month ago, With Dems believeing their own hype, the DNC was evacuated.
The IfNotNow Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace vigil outside and door blockade of the Democratic National Committee was to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
The response was an astounding display of official and unofficial fury and venom. Someone reportedly overheard one of the Dems telling the police to "use full force." They did: cops muscled in on the blockade, and at least one person was physically thrown down the stairs. There was a report of "bear mace" most likely the big fire extinguisher-based mace soakers used by riot cops in DC.
Report is that the DNC was at least partially evacuated as cops and CongressCritters believed their own hype.
After this scrum was over, matters got even nastier! First came a "false kettle" where cops surround protesters but do not follow through with a mass arrest. After that, the trolls on social media started up, no doubt with planted stories ready to roll. Congressman Brad $herman (D-CA maybe D-Tel Aviv?) went so far as to claim on Birdchan(AKA Twitter/X) to claim that activists pepper sprayed the cops, instead of police mace blowing back on them with the wind as so often happens.
It seems Brad Sherman would be more at home on the MAGA side of the house. He is attemptng to gaslight the whole country, being one of the sources of the claim that those clearly seen on video blocking the doors with locked arms were instead trying to storm the building. It's hard to pepper spray a cop with both hands busy locking arms!
Claims by Rep Sherman and others that protesters tried to storm thge building are contradicted by what is clearly shown on video to be a blockade. The author of this report was in plenty of building stormings with Occupy DC about a decade ago and in later pipeline protests. I've also seen hundreds of blockades, and this was a blockade. An attempt to storm the building would have run straight into the blockaders and ended in complete failure. Clearly Congressman Brad Sherman is nothing but a gaslighting liar.
Riffing on the spurious "storming" charge, we even have trolls calling this an insurrection, though no weapons are present other than those of the cops! There are no shields, no gas masks, none of the protective gear our fighters wore during the Uprising (our 2020 Intifada) or in later battles with the Proud Boys. This was clearly a protest and judging by the equipment and markings used was intended to be peaceful.
Well, I guess the though of standing up for Gaza is more than Genocide Joe's Democrats (should we call them autocrats?) can stand. Already they are screaming about the sheer volume of calls they are getting demanding a ceasefire, while clearly they support a total wipeout of Gaza.
@LukefromDC
Pavlovian Biden's attitude, who first blindly supported Netanyhou's camarilla, will contribute to his loss of re-election. US jews, which for most of them vote(d) democrate, are now strongly against what Israel became for twenty years and the automatic alignment of US to Israelian positions. And ALL the muslim minority, the first one in US, supports the palestinian people. For Me, Biden is dead for 2024.
@RocknRoll_Papy Indeed: Biden has flushed away half the Jewish vote and all of the Muslim vote by earning the name "Genocide Joe." Millions of US Jews know genocide when they see it, and they may be staying home, voting for the Green candidate, or not casting a Presidential ballot in 2024. I would be surprised if Biden get any Muslim votes whatsoever.
There are enough very closely matched "purple" states for this to sink Biden. This is not about "swing voters" as the parties are too far apart on some issues for many to mix their votes. Rather, elections are decided by who votes and who stays home. With genocide on both sides of the ballot, millions won't have ANYONE to vote for who would be permitted to win. They can vote for the Green candidate but the odds of the Greens capturing the White House are probably less than 1 in one thousand.
A vote for Biden is a vote for Bibi. A vote for Trump is a vote for Bibi. A vote for DeSantis is sure as hell a vote for Bibi. You will not be able to vote against genocide at the ballot box. The one place we are cleaning up at the polls is referendums on things like abortion, there too we see efforts to block the vote (Florida abortion rights, Cop City in Georgia) and efforts to ignore the results (e.g. Ohio on abortion). In other words, if something the ruling class can't be on both sides of the ballot, it won't be on the ballot at all.
Trump will mean genocide here too starting with trans folks, but state governments have already started that with Biden in office, and while Federal courts have temporarily halted the worst measures, to keep them halted the GOP would have to be kept out of the White House forever. Efforts to disqualify Trump on 14th Amendment grounds of having participated in an insurrection have so far been cast aside in every state they've been tried in. He was believed to have this election in the bag even before Bibi's war, but now that may be almost certain.
Whatever you do in November 2024, don't stop with it, and be prepared for the mother of all battles in the streets after it.
As for November 2028, Trump may as well declare the US an Empire openly, saying "the last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away." Many say November 2024 may be the last election held in the US other than shams where only one candidate can win.
@SocialistStan@RocknRoll_Papy I still remember "vote NO for President" bumperstickers back in 1980. Some have proposed that "none of the above" should be on the ballot for every position and that when "none of the above" wins, the office should be left vacant. That vote, however is one we must cast in the streets.
Here in Florida, Mickey Mouse(traditional symbol of the write-in vote) will get more votes for President that DeSantis would get in Orlando, but those won't be counted unless Disney files paperwork to get him on the ballot formally. DC's former mayor Anthony Williams once won an election by write-in votes after being knocked off the ballot for re-election by his own petition signature shortcuts and scams. His team spread false rumors in Anacostia that Congre$$ would revoke home rule if he lost. A few years later, the US Dept of State used the same trick in El Salvador to delay the defeat of the fascist ARENA party at the hands of the FMLN by one election cycle. It didn't work twice though
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