No Kings Fort Bragg is peaceful, counts 1000+, come with us on a photo story
The closest thing I saw to an arrest at No Kings was me!
I slowed down at Noyo Bridge to take a video and a SUV came up behind me beeping wildly. This was humorous as the crowd all thought she was beeping support for the protest. About halfway across the bridge the Fort Bragg Police pulled up alongside me and told me I had to go faster as I was holding up traffic.
My wife said I could go any speed I wanted. Actually this is NOT true. Its up to the discretion of the officer if Im going too fast –or too slow for the road conditions. I sped up. it wasnt enough and he told me again, so i went faster yet. Oh well on the video. The officer was doing his job and the honker stopped doing that when he pulled up.
We saw a truck with a big Confederate flag in the back of a drive-through. But he waved. About a dozen people revved their engines, and I heard a few insults thrown. Many more honked in support. It was all pretty much peaceful. Two women I know had a frightening encounter with a man who pulled over and started menacing them and calling them bitches and coming toward them in his car. Then a man walking behind them took the guy on. They jawed at each other and the women, who have not had such an experience at previous protests, left, feeling a bit upset by the fury of the counterprotester. They all graduated from high school in the 1970s, protesters and counter-protesters in that encounter.
The event was pretty much the happy reunion of Coasties all these have been. It looked about the same size as past NO KINGS! protests I have been to. I beleive there have been 2? At the last one, myself and others counted and came to 900-1500 as the range. This time people left sooner than in the past, despite sunny conditions, or maybe because of them, to get out to the beach! But a grand of people at least I’d say.
The messages varied wildly, from “Eat the Rich and Fuck Ice (many times) to “No Kings just Love” and a young woman who sat on the railing on the west side, curled her legs under her, so she was Buddha like and waving at every car. and smiling with no sign. I so wanted to interview her, but work called.
A little music to start, low key! And there were FIVE bands performing, mostly impromptu
Ill have more later. By best advice to make a difference is stop shopping on Amazon. Its all economics. And Resist and Unsubcrbe has already cost the Epstein class $285 million. How much have you cost them?
Good place to start?
QuitGPT. Chat GPT is Trump’s biggest tech donor and a facilitator of ICE. Enough said.
Come on! Do it!! Here is another chance.
