On the Ground at the Chaotic Right-Wing 'Liberty Revolution' at the Arizona State Capitol

[TexasTowelie]

A member of the "Good Citizens" militia at the "Liberty Revolution" rally.
Photo: Katya Schwenk


Hours before Friday morning's long-awaited presentation of the results of Arizona’s bogus “audit,” a parade of Arizona’s fringiest right-wing characters gathered at the state capitol for an event dubbed “Liberty Revolution."

Planned as a rally “against the medical tyranny taking place,” in the words of its organizers (the Arizona Coalition for Medical Freedom, an anti-vaccine group that predates the pandemic), it was also expected to be a celebration of some kind, given the release of the audit results.

The rally quickly devolved, though, into a shouting match between a fractured crowd. Speakers clashed and grew divided over whether the results of that months-long, theatrical ballot review (which, despite its extremely questionable methodology, confirmed that Biden won) was indeed a victory for the far-right.

Friday’s speakers included: Arizona Sen. Kelly Townsend; former U.S. representative and current candidate for governor Matt Salmon; and Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, among others. They took the stage in turn, addressing a crowd of over a hundred who had gathered, waving American flags and signs that railed against both “forced injections" and electoral fraud. An armed militia, which calls itself the "Good Citizens," patrolled the crowd. (The secretive group has begun appearing at protests this summer, though its origins are unclear; one of the armed men told Phoenix New Times that the event organizers had “asked us to be here,” as security, though would not elaborate.)

Read more: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/on-the-ground-at-the-chaotic-right-wing-liberty-revolution-at-the-arizona-state-capitol-12075461


The "Liberty Revolution" rally
Photo: Katya Schwenk

The poor kid in the photo above will likely be embarrassed later in life.

[msongs]

1. republican taliban has expensive looking signs, hardly the common people nt

[abqtommy]

2. Looks like a Super-Spreader event to me. Given a little time there won't be many

of this crowd left alive. I do hope the kid survives. He doesn't deserve this idiocy.

[Baked Potato]

3. Something is so off about this "rally"

Very unrealistic looking.

[Thunderbeast]

4. I think as a mixer...

They all gave sloppy French kisses to the 12 people closest to them.

THAT will piss off the libruls.

[secondwind]

5. HOW DID WE GET SO CRAZY??!!!???!?

This scares the heck out of me….. FUCK TRUMP

[Woodwizard]

6. The cosplay military guy

Gives it 100% credibility............

[orwell]

7. Were those signs made in China?

Can I buy them at Wally World on aisle MAGA?

Astroturf anyone?

[SergeStorms]

8. Ahhh, there's the moron I've been looking for.

The ignorant WOMAN holding the sign saying, VACCINE MANDATES VIOLATE BODILY AUTONOMY

How can any woman hold that sign without seeing the hypocrisy of what that sign says?

The ignorance and hypocrisy in that bunch of fucking lunatics is astonishing.

Another says, FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE COVID-19 VACCINE

Here are those five things;
1. They work
2. They work
3. They work
4. They work
5. They work

End of fucking list.