The other massive march scheduled for today
by digby
… didn’t happen. Because threats from bad guys. Supposedly:
An anti-immigration protest group threatening to “shut down all ports of entry” in four southern border states backed out of plans to do so mere hours before the event was scheduled to take place Saturday morning. Lead organizer Stasyi Barth claimed that the protest was cancelled because a cartel was “threatening a blood bath” at the border.
Barth said she was suspicious after receiving multiple social media requests to join the “Shut Down All Ports Of Entry” Facebook page from Sonora, Mexico, and another organizer was allegedly followed and told not to attend. The move comes at a time when militia members have sharply increased their presence along the border in an effort to combat the the influx of children fleeing into the United States, most from Central America.
On its now-changed website, organizers called on Americans to meet at 16 locations in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and California to get “enough people to shut down your desired port” and coordinate stopping their vehicles at ports of entry along the U.S. southern border.
Barth told right-wing site Breitbart that cartels had “people at every port listed… waiting for us, so I was told.” She said, “Cartel threatening mass blood shed. One of the guys in Texas was followed into a Walmart, on the freeway, then approached at his hotel. At the same time, I got a bunch of requests to join the [Facebook] page from Sonora Mexico. I grabbed as many as I could, but realized it was getting out of control fast and I didn’t want them to see who the attendees were. This is after it was requested that we avoid certain areas, because of the recent border threats, unrelated to us. The cartel has people at every port listed..waiting for us, so I was told.”
But even Breitbart was skeptical of the legitimacy of the threat, noting, “While the protest calling for the shut-down of the bridges had a big following on social media, it remains unclear if there were any protesters actually willing to shut down the bridge.”
Also too, a two for one special this week-end on the Very Blueberry Cheesecake Waffullicious Waffle at IHOP.
And anyway I think they’ve misunderstood. The threat was from ISIS not the cartels. (Unless the cartels and ISIS are now working together — which is so very likely considering their common interests. Uh oh …)
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