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Related: About this forumAnti-mask protesters holding demonstration in downtown Austin Saturday
AUSTIN (KXAN) Anti-mask protesters gathered for a Shed the Mask, Don the Flag demonstration in downtown Austin Saturday.
The protest took place in front of the Governors Mansion starting at 10 a.m. Organizers encouraged people to meet at the H-E-B on Ed Bluestein Blvd. ahead of time, so the group could drive into downtown Austin and flood the streets with traffic, creating a lock-in.
According to the events Facebook page, Texas gun rights groups were due to provide security at the protest.
The event details read in part, Our freedoms are being hit hard from so many angles right now, and this protest is going to bring to light TRUTH about COVID-19, why a virus or really NOTHING is ever an acceptable reason to take away your rights, and what YOU can do to combat unconstitutional orders taking place in your local government!
Read more: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/group-to-hold-anti-mask-protest-in-downtown-austin-today/
Protesters hold an anti-mask demonstration in Austin (Picture: KXAN/Todd Bynum)
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)lark
(23,102 posts)The trumpers are and hopefully they are the only ones to pay the price, not smart people who would never do this, but do have to work.
msongs
(67,409 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)from the carriers ... and let the others die. It is pointless trying to convince them to take adequate protection.
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)But many/most don't die or even get sick I suspect,
therefore reinforcing their beliefs and likely ensuring attendance at future CovidFests.
Sometimes it feels as though we are doomed.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)Tell us how that protest is going to bring to light TRUTH about COVID-19.
What was that TRUTH?
And According to the events Facebook page, Texas gun rights groups were due to provide security.
Why? From whom? Dont you have police in Texas? Cant Texans peaceably assemble any more?
Squidly
(783 posts)Of the bus loads of Antifa coming to get them!!
Rhiannon12866
(205,416 posts)Do they really think that all the sickness and death in this country - and the world - is some made up "hoax??" You'd think they'd want the "freedom" to remain alive.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)how infections/diseases are transmitted. Their ignorance is stunning and factual information makes no difference to them.
Rhiannon12866
(205,416 posts)Do they really think that the entire planet is in on this "hoax??" And we're seeing this bizarre mindset everywhere and it's spreading almost as fast as the virus. It really boggles the mind.
jmbar2
(4,888 posts)I've lived there twice in the past and it was always a very liberal and educated city.
I think this is a mass extinction movement that will cull the lower end of the gene pool.
Just worried that it will take out medical personnel as collateral damage. My sister is a nurse. I worry for her. She shouldn't have to risk her life for these idiots.
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)captain queeg
(10,201 posts)Sorry guys, anyone with any brains will be staying away.
Paladin
(28,262 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)the moron powers that be, opened early to take advantage of the holidays and I predicted back then, that there will be massive spikes mid june and mid july because of the holidays.
the next one will hit around the week of the 20th.
I'm no prognosticator, I'm just a guy who knows stupid well. And I live in Texas, so I have more than enough qualifications to know stupid very well.
TexasTowelie
(112,213 posts)I'm stupid. I'm detail-oriented, a former state employee, and 55 years old so I think that I hold similar qualifications to know the stupid.