Secretive anti-Trump protests to erupt Super Bowl weekend in Houston

[TomCADem]

Source: USA Today

HOUSTON — They gathered after nightfall at an undisclosed location downtown.

People representing more than a half-dozen protest groups that are set to march and rally here Super Bowl weekend met to coordinate their efforts — in a way New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick would have appreciated. That is to say, the protesters discussed using encrypted communication that would keep opponents from intercepting their messages.

It was so secretive Tuesday night, not all of the group representatives got the full game plan, said Blake Stroud, who created a group called #ResistHouston to connect the protesters and provided USA TODAY Sports with an account of the meeting.

“I guess they’re going for the element of surprise,’’ he said.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/97421790/?client=safari

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Maybe Koch will hire some Black Bloc types to mar the protests and discredit the protesters.

[ffr]

1. K&R to peaceful protests against the wannabee king

[Galileo126]

2. I guess it's not so secretive now... nt

[monmouth4]

3. All this will accomplish is annoying people, me included. Leave Superbowl alone!!!..n/t

[snooper2]

6. not like they are going to be on the field LOL- Don't worry asshole Brady will still lose

[Liberalagogo]

8. Because it's all about YOU

n/t

[niyad]

9. you forgot the sarcasm icon, yes? PLEASE tell me you forgot the sarcasm icon!!

[dchill]

33. +1000

[heaven05]

10. really

[gopiscrap]

14. FUCK THE SUPERBOWL

there are issues WAY!!!! more important than a stupid god damn football game. Also the Patriots have a bunch of very pro trump fuckers playing for them. Disruption of everything needs to be the norm til the trumpenfuhrer is out of there!

[dhill926]

22. what you done said....

righteous!

[gopiscrap]

24. thank you

[tazkcmo]

30. Kick!!!! n/t

[niyad]

41. exactly!!!!

[McKim]

20. Life is Just Not Normal Anymore for So Many

I think that it is valuable to bring this issue to the Superbowl. Life cannot go on as normal under Trump for many many of our people.
Normality is over.

[gopiscrap]

26. thank you

You said it nicer than I did

[tazkcmo]

28. It's working already. n/t

[Javaman]

32. ...

[msanthrope]

36. Emily Davison was an inconvenience, wasn't she???? nt

[elmac]

4. disrupt, peacefully, en masse

its been reported by witnesses (Robert Reich) that the violent protesters at Berkeley looked like paramilitary types. Maybe those Navy Seals that love tRump so much.

[IronLionZion]

11. Trumpster himself has called them "professional anarchists"

so he might know something about it. Plus he has always claimed that there were paid protestors at his rallies, so maybe he's the one paying them.

[McKim]

23. Agent Provacateurs Are Very Useful to Stir Up Trouble

Agent Provocateurs are very useful. They encourage violence. If someone shows up at meetings and doesn't do the work, sews dissent,
encourages violence, be suspicious. "By their fruits you shall know them". Keep that little phrase in mind. The right has already been caught on video trying to bribe some young people to make trouble at demonstrations.

[TomCADem]

17. They Are Like Goon Squads Breaking Up Union Pickets...

...the Black Bloc Anarchists are a pro-Trump militia trying to discredit and intimidate peaceful protesters.

[starshine00]

25. this would not surprise me at all

During the protests in Turkey a few years ago I was online with folks from there who would look at the photos an say 'he's police' about certain 'protesters'...I would have never been able to tell but they could tell just by their clothing who were really gov't agents there to disrupt, this is one reason why people got hurt so badly during those protests

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

5. Good luck with that.

The security at the Super Bowl is going to be tremendous, second only to a presidential inauguration. I think there will be little tolerance for anything that could make security difficult to manage. And the perimeter of the bowl is more easily managed than blocks and blocks of a parade route.

[yallerdawg]

7. Houston is BIG and liberal and full of immigrants!

With a potential TV audience of 150,000,000 - an awful lot of worldwide coverage!

The goal: Present a large, loud, peaceful and, in the end, united front, mostly targeting President Trump and his policies on immigration. No fewer than five marches and rallies are scheduled across Houston for Friday through Sunday, and the protests will culminate on game day outside NRG Stadium, site of Super Bowl LI.

And, hey - anarchists and their 'civil disobedience' are a reflection of just how many people are seriously pissed-off! They are willing to put their lives on the line against the system. To do it in Texas where law-enforcement don't play - that says something!

[doodle1]

12. boston over here

just don't hurt my brady

[gopiscrap]

15. Brady and the Patriots gave money to trump

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[IronLionZion]

34. I pray no one gets hurt

But sincerely wish Brady and the Pats a memorable and humiliating loss on the football field!

[doodle1]

35. lol

we are going to kick ass and on Monday morning I will remind you

[IronLionZion]

39. Welcome to DU!

[doodle1]

45. LOL nt

[niyad]

42. brady is a drumpfenfuhrer supporter, the slimeball.

[jimmil]

13. Looking for trouble....

This is not going to end good. The same type of people that brought us Berkeley will do the same in Houston. It will not do us, the thinking rational folks who want this herd of criminals out, any good if any violence occurs. Doing it at an event that is held in reverence more than church is just a bad idea knowing riots will be the end result. Just my opinion. I could be wrong.

[TomCADem]

16. Do We Surrender to the James O'Keefe Types...

...whose mission is to undercut and silence peaceful dissent?

[McKim]

27. We have to show up and believe

We have to show up and believe in goodness while deflecting violence and trouble. Show up and be prepared. Peaceful protestors can move around these creeps like amoebas around a foreign object. That's what happened at the WTO in Seattle. Just keep on keeping on.

[stonecutter357]

37. The same type of people that brought us Berkeley russian agitators ?

[Lisa0825]

18. I didn't know it was a secret....

I have been sharing the event page on FB! LOL

Resist Houston is the organizer for the event I am going to. I know they are organizing with BLM.

[packman]

19. Echoing a previous post - Fuck the Superbowl

Crass, money grabbing, profit driven, greed and avarice at its supremacy with all the glitter and glam of a honky tonk spectacle. A creature born out of the NFL self-promoting and pulled over the eyes of the American public and put on for the gullible. The players, coaches, and everyone associated with it have only one thing in mind - how many dollars can we get out of this?

Circus and bread

[Dawson Leery]

29. +1

[niyad]

43. + several gazillion

[Occulus]

21. This is not smart thinking at all.

This will hinder people going to and from a game which is not a political event and which vast swaths of Americans will deeply resent being politicized. I can think of an easy dozen ways this could all go very pear-shaped very quickly.

Now add in what the fallout from any kind of outside incident at the game could be. This game is a target and everyone knows it; there's huge security in, on, and around the venue every year. I mean, duh, right? It's the frigging Super Bowl.

To draw a very disquieting mental image (and for the record I am most definitely NOT advocating for any such thing that follows here), imagine a bomb going off in or near the stadium on game day (or even "just" a shooting, with an unknown number of suspects). Now imagine a huge protest outside or nearby when that happened. Now try to imagine the reaction regarding free assembly this administration would have to any such incident.

Chilling as hell, and rightly so.

People have been mentioning the Reichstag fire here lately. I can't think of a more tailor-made situation for that moment in history to repeat itself right now than for something ugly to happen at the Super Bowl, and if that were to occur, the protesters in the area would surely be somehow blamed, and blamed immediately with no proof forthcoming by Trump and his lackeys. Most of red-blooded America would go right along with it, mob mentality in full force, and fascism would fall on us all like a bag of hammers.

These protests at this time and place are a very, very misguided idea. Way too much could go wrong in too many ways, and the fallout would be.... Unfortunate. For all of us.

I have a very bad feeling about this. I think protesting Trump then and there, no matter how right and no matter how morally justified, is fighting the right battle on the wrong battlefield.

Or, as Mr. Horse once said, "no sir... I don't like it."

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. Bannon and company should be licking their chops over this opportunity.

Send in the anarchists, vandals, arsonists to discredit the protesters.

Of course, Bannon would not actually do this. Of course.

[kwassa]

38. Cathy Lanier, former DC police chief, is now head of NFL security.

She has had a lot of experience with demonstrations in DC.

[Idoru]

40. This is stupid

People will ask "wtf are they protesting the Superbowl for" and they will be right.

The anarchists will show up and make it violent.

Right now we have the support of the people, in general. Shit like this may blow that all to hell and I will hold anyone rooting for this accountable. It's pointless and stupid.

[niyad]

44. rigggghtttt. protesting the horrors of the drumpfenfuhrer administration is pointless and stupid.

got it.