walkawayarchie wrote:
As I remember the report- the "youth" were connected with one of the megachurches over there... and there were STRONG hints that they were "working under orders". There was a car-full of them when they were caught- something like 5 of them, and they'd been "working" for a few days.

There were also reports of the same thing happening in other counties- but that was the only report where they were actually caught in the act, and as I remember they also confessed (probably with pride) to destroying over a thousand signs. Most of this also didn't make the news (as if I should expect the conservative news sources to actually expose church wrongdoing!)
They need to be careful with that...if those kids were acting "under orders" then who ever gave those orders has a good chance of also being brought up on charges should anyone press charges or if any warrants are issued...and if it goes on long enough, that may not be up to the local police.

Of course, the police didn't do much of anything about it. I guess us Liberals don't count as citizens.
If the police aren't doing their jobs and get caught at it, then they're looking at federal or state intervention. Back in the 90's there was a city here in Michigan where the crime rate got so bad and the local police were having so many issues that the state deployed state troopers from all over the state there on a rotating basis. Not to mention, if there's any evidence of repeated use of political intimidation and nothing gets done about it, the FBI will eventually get involved...as if they and the secret service aren't busy enough dealing with right wing nutjobs inciting against the government and the president these days...it's becoming pretty obvious, too, that Dominionism and/or Racism is a factor in most of it.

I'm starting to wonder if there's some sort of effort in the works to provoke an incident, like Ruby Ridge or Waco, or to provoke a federal crackdown...so that they can point to that and say that they're being oppressed.

  

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