Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 10, 2021

It is great. Now in some states you can legally run them over. I’m putting a brush guard on the old dakota. Gotta be prepared.

Yeah, well, look at what happens when Liz Cheney speaks uncomfortable truths.

Explosives, flamethrowers, and incendiary devices are some of the weapons discovered by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies outside rallies and at protests during 2020 and 2021, court documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.

The documents, provided to the Guardian by the transparency group Property of the People, offer descriptions of an array of makeshift weapons that had been confiscated or found at major political events.

The documents focused, primarily, on the threat of the far-right, the Guardian reported.

One such weapon was an improvised flamethrower that is said to have been taken from protesters in Erie, Pennsylvania last June, the Guardian said.

The documents said that the homemade device appears to be modeled on a viral post of instructions on how to build a nearly exact copy of the “Not-A-Flamethrower” sold by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company.

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Some of the IEDS, the documents explained, may have been used by businesses attempting to deter looters.

According to the documents seen by the Guardian, a “suspected metal pipe bomb with mechanical timer” was found outside the Republican National Committee building in Washington DC. It was discovered on January 5 — the night before the deadly insurrection.

A similar device was found outside the Democratic National Committee building on the same night, the Guardian reported.

It is suspected that the same person, who is yet to be identified, planted both bombs, according to the FBI.

Molotov cocktails, powerful fireworks, and a plastic bottle with an “ignitable liquid” were also found in cities across the US, the documents said.

Concluding remarks referenced the “enduring threat” posed “by far-right, neo-Nazi and white supremacist world views” and explicitly call out Proud Boys and QAnon, the paper said.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/improvised-flamethrower-based-elon-musk-design-found-us-protests-2021-5

Under the GQP, Scott, some of us are more equal than others. Glad you have principles but the rest of your party doesn’t.

Protests are fine until they devolve into vandalism and riots, then they become an annoyance and a danger.

The Constitution guarantees free speech, for now, but social media platforms are not bound to that, nor should they be, actually suppression of descenting opinions and ideas can in fact be free speech

It’s all very well for Cheney, Romney, Murkowski et al to speak truth to power but if they don’t want to be plowed under they need to take action as well. They need to leave the party and either form their own or run as independents.

Carmen’s republicans are trying to make protesting and voting illegal.

Don’t worry, Carmen. The GOP is trying to change all that.

Odd that she “sees” streets full of protesters around her while the background indicates that she is alone in the countryside… but it is great that people are able to speak truth to power.

-then being SH_T or SLAMMED INTO CONCRETE BY VIOLENT, UNEDUCATED MOBS. We’re getting bettah, but have a LOOOOOOONG road before we’re “great.”

The best thing.

Republicans have 360 new laws to inhibit voting.

Actually, a great country is one in which people have the freedom, but not the need, to shout grievances at the top of their lungs in the streets.

As long as all they do is shout, it’s great. But let them riot, smash, burn and loot and it is no longer great.

Yeah, burning, looting, murdering, thats just so great and wonderful. What is our duty to the each other? According the fascist Democrats its shut up, pay taxes, and get in the boxcars when the time comes. All hail the faultless, wonderful and all knowing Democrats as we join Big Brother.