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My former minister’s son was paid during Occupy Wall Street to protest. It was from an organization under the ACORN umbrella. He was paid $15/hr and guaranteed free use of a lawyer on their payroll, along with bail money, under certain provisions. His father amazingly had no issue with this. I did.
There definitely are paid agitators, and unquestionably a number at these BLM protests, but $10K for a week sounds way out of line.
Were we talking in person I could give you the kid’s name and you could look up his at least one arrest associated with it. This isn’t a case of “heard it from a friend...”
One might make an argument that if you're a paid protester you lose freedom of speech protection as you're essentially advertising the position of someone else.
There are professional community organizers who do get paid. Obama was a community organizer. Part of their job is to organize protests to make sure they are done legally and safely.
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One might make an argument that if you're a paid protester you lose freedom of speech protection as you're essentially advertising the position of someone else.
And someone else might make an argument that no where does the First Amendment prohibit that action.
Who in their right mind would ever believe that people on the left pay others to be agitators for their cause?
The left has far too much class to stoop that low!
To hear the right's views on the left. We are all sitting on our asses collecting welfare. Seems those kinds of people would jump at the chance to make 15 bucks an hour cash while visiting with like minded friends.
There are professional community organizers who do get paid. Obama was a community organizer. Part of their job is to organize protests to make sure they are done legally and safely.
When Obama was a community organizer he was on the payroll of the Catholic church.
How convenient that she didn't recall the name on the check, which would have been the number one item of importance to anyone concerned about it. And the one detail that could be independently verified.
Indeed.
If this tale was even close to true, the would have checked.
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