The day’s signage

To mark Hands Off! day, Elaine and I participated in an unofficial protest outside a VFW post in a nearby town, where Mary Miller (R, IL-15) was the guest speaker at a Lincoln Day breakfast. (Lincoln Day is an annual Republican event; the local Republicans rented the venue.) We thought it smarter to add to the numbers there than at a larger event.

We protesters, fifty or so, lined the two-lane road across from the VFW. Signage for the First Felon and Juvenile Delinquent lined the VFW side of the road. Men dressed in black — really — checked the cars pulling into the VFW lot. We had parked down the road in the lot of a golf-cart business and watched for any sign of a tow truck. At some point during the breakfast there was to be a raffle for a Ruger EC9s. I.e., a gun. You can’t make this shit up.

Elaine’s two-sided sign:

NEVER AGAIN
IS NOW

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SHAME ON
YOU, MARY

Elaine meant “Never Again” to encompass all the horrors of fascism.

My two-sided sign:

    PARTICIPLES

The world is burning.

Trump is golfing.

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wtf = bs + bs + bs
            0 * 0 * 0

        “MATH”

All of it was lost on the men in black, one of whom did a little dance as we chanted, none of whom looked at our signs.

And to the woman on the VFW side of the road who took our picture and gave us the finger, right back atcha.

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A friend who stayed a little longer than we did says it wasn’t clear that Mary Miller showed up.

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Miller was there, and she waited inside until protesters left before leaving herself (with the blackshirts and a sheriff’s escort). So reports someone who left but went back for a chance to yell at her.

Related reading
All OCA Mary Miller posts (Pinboard)

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