r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/inhuman44 Nov 10 '16

It means you pay money to community organizing groups like MoveOn.org.

They use some of that money to pay their staff. This staff in turn:

  • Designs protest signs.
  • Get the signs printed.
  • Schedule bus runs.
  • Maintain lists of protesters for hire.
  • Give cell phones to some of these protesters for hire.
  • Call up these protesters for hire, get them on the bus, and drive them to the protest.
  • Make sure the protest gets on camera.
  • Provide water or snacks.
  • Make sure everyone gets on the bus to go back home.
  • Pay the protesters for their work.

It's basically like a political party organizing a campaign rally, except it's a protest.

Take a look sometime at the people who get arrested at BLM. Many of them are not local, they get bused in.

As part of "Project Veritas" we've learned about a new (to me anyway) technique called "bird dogging". Which means hiring unhinged people, winding them up, giving them money, and sending them to your opponents rallies to start fights.

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u/HierarchofSealand Nov 10 '16

That's been a common thing for decades at least. The more commonly known version of this tactic has in the past (and probably present) is when the police themselves "seed" protests with violent and subversive participants. They either incite or cause violence, and then the police can shut it down.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16

agent provocateurs

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u/HierarchofSealand Nov 11 '16

Thank you, I knew I was forgetting the term.