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 Post subject: Re: The Protest Thread
PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 7:13 pm 
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Sen. Susan Collins was confronted with a pro-abortion rights message Saturday night when an unknown person or persons wrote in chalk on the sidewalk outside her West Broadway home in Bangor, prompting a police response.

Bangor police responded to West Broadway at 9:20 p.m. Saturday to investigate a message written in chalk on a sidewalk, Bangor police spokesperson Wade Betters said.

“We are grateful to the Bangor police officers and the City public works employee who responded to the defacement of public property in front of our home,” Collins said.



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After cleaning that up, did Public Works and the Police harass the kids down the street drawing unicorns and suns and rainbows with their chalk? I heard they wiped out an entire hopscotch tournament a few blocks over.

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I mean I know what I am looking at. Why am I looking at a monkey statue scrotum


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I think it speaks to the big balls of Ukraine.

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 Post subject: Re: The Protest Thread
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Turns out the Proud Boys were led by FBI informants.

So what is the goal here? Job security?

I ask seriously, because I continue to not understand this place.


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elliseamos wrote:
Turns out the Proud Boys were led by FBI informants.

So what is the goal here? Job security?

I ask seriously, because I continue to not understand this place.



Informants or agents? It makes a difference as if they can prove or strongly insinuate agents, then the conspirators might escape more serious prosecution like in the Whitmer kidnap case.

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elliseamos wrote:
Turns out the Proud Boys were led by FBI informants.

So what is the goal here? Job security?

I ask seriously, because I continue to not understand this place.



Informants or agents? It makes a difference as if they can prove or strongly insinuate agents, then the conspirators might escape more serious prosecution like in the Whitmer kidnap case.

The story I read only said informants. The top two "boys".

But what is the overall plan here?

FBI/CIA/ATF drum up pawns to secure more funding for their agencies?

Or

Agencies drum up pawns to exert control in indirect ways? Large-scale slight of hand.

Or

Agencies drum up pawns to keep the focus on things outside said agencies (eventhough it's easily/typically traced back to them)?


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 Post subject: Re: The Protest Thread
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All of the above, plus they probably think it's funny.

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elliseamos wrote:
The story I read only said informants. The top two "boys".

Link?

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Ellis, if you’re going to channel a PJ song to describe this proud boys thing you could at least spell it correctly


Rats?

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Wait, is this about the Proud Boys being used as informants against antifa? Because the “overall plan” there seems clear.

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Bureau agents maintained connections with key Proud Boys leaders starting as early as 2019, a Reuters examination has found. At least four Proud Boys have provided information to the FBI, Reuters learned. Often these leaders were sharing intelligence about Antifa.

The connections between the Proud Boys and the FBI do not mean the agency had thoroughly penetrated the far-right group. But some law enforcement veterans say the ties show the agency could have done more to prepare for the deadly Jan. 6 uprising, which sought to overturn the election of Democrat Joe Biden as president.

“This was a group committing violence in public and promoting themselves as a violent group,” said Mike German, a former FBI agent who investigated domestic terrorism. German previously has criticized the bureau over what he says was a failure to focus on the Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6. Told of the findings of this story, German said: “It’s hard to understand how the FBI could have had a relationship with four individuals in the Proud Boys and didn’t understand the nature of the threat to the Capitol.”

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- One Proud Boy left the group in December after telling other members he was cooperating with the FBI by providing information about Antifa, say Tarrio and two other Proud Boy sources. The former member, whom Reuters was unable to identify, insisted to group leaders that he had not revealed information about the Proud Boys, these people say.

- A second Proud Boy leader bragged in 2019 about sharing information with the FBI about Antifa, according to private chats leaked on social media. The chats’ authenticity was confirmed by a source familiar with the Proud Boys and the Jan. 6 case.

- A third Proud Boy leader, Joseph Biggs, who was indicted and charged with conspiracy in the January attack, has said in court papers he reported information to the FBI about Antifa for months. Reuters spoke to Biggs two days before the riot. In that interview, he said he had specific plans for Jan. 6, but declined to disclose them. But, he volunteered to Reuters in that call, he was willing to tell his FBI contact of his plans for the coming rally, if asked. Reuters wasn’t able to determine whether such a contact took place.

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McParadigm wrote:
elliseamos wrote:
The story I read only said informants. The top two "boys".

Link?

Reading this: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cu ... s-1352629/

Made me look up and read this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/us/p ... rmant.html


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All of the above, plus they probably think it's funny.

So by making guns harder to get could we combat this sort of activity? It would be easier to trace where a gun came from which would then more directly/easily link these agencies, no?


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