Judge one's leaders by their actions, not their words.
G.O.P. Asks Secret Service to Move Protesters Away From Convention Venue
The Republican National Committee said moving protesters farther away from the venue in Milwaukee would reduce the risk of confrontations.
The Republican National Committee said moving protesters farther away from the venue in Milwaukee would reduce the risk of confrontations.
www.nytimes.com
The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July.
The three-page letter, signed by Todd R. Steggerda, counsel to the Republican National Committee, objected to the placement of an area where protesters would be allowed to demonstrate. Mr. Steggerda argued that convention attendees would be forced to pass by the protesters on their way into the venue, raising the potential for confrontations.
“As recent college and university campus clashes make plain,” Mr. Steggerda wrote in the letter obtained by The New York Times, “forced proximity heightens tensions among peaceful attendees and demonstrators of differing ideologies and increases the risk of escalation to verbal, or even physical, clashes.”
He's not wrong. Proud Boys seek violent confrontations. Mitigation of the purported risk of physical clashes, Mr Steggerda, may lie in your choice of convention attendees.
regarding the "risk of violence",
Tensions between students and universities continued over the weekend, with many universities saying that they support protests but that encampments violate school policy.
www.nbcnews.com
Some police reported they were injured while breaking up campus protests. But this seems pretty tame compared to what we went through at the hands of the police and Republican administration's DHS goons during the summers of 2018-2020.
Note that Democrats aren't asking for extra security measures.
www.rollingstone.com
www.huffpost.com
