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June 18, 2020
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Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:21 AM

Foreign-Funded Dark-Money Groups Lobby IRS to Repeal Remaining Reporting Requirements

Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:22 AM

From Eric’s post: Antifa riot panic in Coquille, Oregon. (gasp!) This is like a modern-day version of Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.

From the New York Times: “What can we possibly make of the crisis that unfolded in the remote Oregon seaside town of Coquille? Coquille is a sleepy logging community of 3,800 people, almost all of them white. It is miles and miles from nowhere. Portland is 250 miles to the north. San Francisco is 500 miles to the south. But Fox News is in a frenzy about rioters and looters, and President Trump warns about the anti-fascist movement known as antifa. So early this month as a small group of local residents planned a peaceful “Black Lives Matter” protest in Coquille, word raced around that three busloads of antifa activists were headed to Coquille to bust up the town. The sheriff and his deputies donned bulletproof vests, prepared their MRAP armored vehicle and took up positions to fight off the invasion. Almost 200 local people, some shouldering rifles and others holding flags, gathered to protect their town (overshadowing the handful of people who had come to wave Black Lives Matter signs). “I feel defensive and want to protect my home,” one man, Timothy Robinette, told the local newspaper, The World. A sheriff from a nearby county, John Ward, warned citizens in a public Facebook post of rumors that the anti-fascists could rampage into his area as well. “I was told they are looking for a fight,” he explained. Ward added that he had no problem with peaceful protests — a Black Lives Matter protest had been held peacefully in the local town of Brookings — but he hinted that citizens might want to help the police fend off any antifa attack. “Without asking,” he said, “I am sure we have a lot of local boys, too, with guns that will protect our citizens.” Of course, no rampaging anarchists ever showed up. The Battle of Coquille ended without beginning. — Read more The New York Times coverage on this story.