Well, maybe not, if he can prove it. I did not, myself, hear any such careful distinction nor any such precise tactical distinction, but if he did, then he can cite it as easily as I cite mine.
So, breaking it down…Trump is advised that the police could protect him getting to the podium and away from it…through the crowd of ravening socialists…but not while he was standing at the podium. Got that about right, do I, Hank?
Be that as it may, how can it help but underscore the point that, at the moment Trump canceled…there was no palpable threat, people started losing their shit after the event was cancelled. Have I got that about right as well, Hank?
Ignoring for the moment that Sanders is not anti-GMO, do you have any credible cites that the anti-GMO movement has caused millions of children to starve to death? What crops have they prevented that would have saved millions of lives if planted? I’m not in any way anti-GMO, so I don’t support the movement, but I’m skeptical that they’ve managed to cause mass starvation.
For what it’s worth, I don’t even understand how this is controversial. I think Trump, and everyone who attends his rallies, are fools. The only people more foolish are the ones who think it is their right to disrupt these rallies.
Don’t you, at the very least, have to show us that they did disrupt it? And maybe tell us how they did it?
Was there a dangerous level of violence in the arena before Trump bailed out? Police didn’t seem to think so. So, who did? Maybe the Secret Service? Dunno. But we have witnesses and video that strongly suggest that nothing much happened before Trump courageously scampered away.
The protesters themselves were patting themselves on their own backs for stopping Trump from speaking.
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““Who won? We won!” protesters chanted as helicopters hovered above.*”
I want to be able to go to a talk by Richard Dawkins without having creationists shout him down. I want to be able to go to see a Louis CK set without Focus on the Family demonstrating inside. And, I want to hear Donald Trump bloviate about nonsense without a handful of people on my own side making us all look like the way Foxnews portrays us.
It’s a marketplace of ideas, not a marketplace of drowning out the other side’s ideas.
He was? Do you have any source for this claim? Or course he never claimed that he canceled the ralley out of concern for his own safety anyway, so your point is irrelevant, but if you are going to make it anyway you might as well provide a source.
Trump decided that the thousands of protesters with the stared intent of #SHUTTINGITDOWN!!! were enough of a threat to cancel. When you have your anti-Trump rally and thousands of his supporters organize and show up to try to silence you, you can and make a different decision and show the world how much braver you are than Trump.
Most of the types of people that participate in these kinds of “actions” lost their shit long ago. Do you have some reason to think they would have been more well-behaved had Trump shown up? They seemed pretty irate, I doubt having the target of their hate in the room would have done anything to cool down their misinformed passion.
By organizing using the #SHUTITDOWN hangtag and thereby filling the arena with thousands of protesters intent on disrupting the event, causing the person putting on the event to cancel in order to prevent injuries.
“Forced”? Don’t know about that. He sure as Hell didn’t cancel it for fear of violence (we know he has none, where political rallies are concerned) – only for fear of counterdemonstration in front of the cameras.
The only time he has encouraged violence, that I have seen, has been against people who were themselves being violent. Remember, his rallies begin with an announcement telling attendees not to touch protesters.
Until yesterday the only violence he was apologetic towards was also against people being violent.
Now, he seems to be, when asked, giving some implicit support to the elderly guy who clocked the kid flipping of the crowd while being led out of the ralley, saying that he is “looking into” paying his legal expenses. I guess he thinks that a lot of people will be sympathetic to the old coot.
This keeps being repeated by people who have apparently never met an activists. People, activists take credit for everything. If Trump had spoken, but they’d all held up their signs, they would have taken credit. If they’d all been forcibly removed, they would have taken credit. If they’d been arrested en masse, they would have taken credit. That’s what activists do.
There may be proof that the plan was to prevent Trump from speaking, but activists taking credit for preventing him from speaking is not that proof.