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Richmond, Virginia.
A guy came in with a cart full of T-shirts that had the text “Biden is not my president,” but no one bought even though they only cost ten dollars.
The city would have been full of gun lovers with guns, but it was only a few different militia groups that roamed the streets around the Virginia Capitol. They did their best to appear belligerent and determined, but after a while they felt more sorry for them.
What would they do? Where would they go?
Mike Don, 20, ran a department belonging to the “Last Sons of Liberty” and they went down Eighth Street and then they turned and went up and then they turned right and headed to Ninth Street that extends beyond the Capitol. There they stood in front of a garage for government employees.
A cold wind was blowing off the James River and Mike Don’s group honestly looked lost. And this despite the fact that Don was very belligerent and determined. He said, for example, that his magazine contained twice as many shots as Virginia law allows and that his carbine was loaded and ready to fire, and that if someone tried to take it, he intended to use his constitutional right to defend himself.
Loaded and ready, he said.
But no one asked to see your magazine.
Police behind the riot fence running through the entire government neighborhood were nearly all shaking, and the cops riding bikes through the gated communities looked hot and out of breath on the slopes of Ninth Street, though they were doing their best not to look tired in front of Mike Don and his men.
Monday was a national holiday, Martin Luther King Day, honoring the great leader of black liberty who was assassinated in 1968. A gun organization called the Virginia Citizens Defense Association is trying to make it their own. On the day the nation dedicates Martin Luther King, who fell by the bullet of an assassin, the citizens of Virginia will demonstrate for their right to bear arms.
Last year, thousands of people filled the streets around the Capitol.
This year they were at most 200.
Photo: PETER WIXTRÖM
Sylvia Silva and Queen Richardson.
Photo: PETER WIXTRÖM
Queen Richardson, with painted nails and guns, demonstrates for the right to bear arms.
No one could explain why, it could be due to leadership after all the troubles in Washington, it could be due to the crown or the weather. Or was it because the federal police, the FBI, listened and advised some key people to stay home. In any case, I know the FBI called Doug Sweet, who was involved in the robbery on the Capitol in Washington and whom I interviewed last week. The FBI agent suggested that Sweet ignore this year’s gun show.
Mike Don and his men had enough they put on warm underwear because they seemed to be quite comfortable where they were and stationed in the garage. A guy named Duncan Lemp was holding a banner with the text “Join or die.” In general, it can be said that everyone outside had many flags.
Duncan Lemp said he opposed the government’s constant clumsiness, everything it should put out, and that he even has opinions about citizens’ guns that are contrary to the constitution.
They were harsh words and dramatic messages, but they lost their sharpness, they seemed to disappear in the unexpectedly cold wind, when nobody really cared.
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Mike Don, The Last Sons of Liberty.
After a while, it passed without incident. exhausting. The journalists and photographers were much more than the perhaps ten last children of freedom. Soon all the photographs were taken and all the questions asked. If they stayed much longer, there was a risk that journalists would start joking that they looked like warrior parking guards.
The militiamen wore headphones. Mike Don gave orders into his microphone, we moved, and they went down to the river and from what I understood it was just to be greeted by one of the guys who was going home.
Down at the intersection of Ninth Street and Storgatan, by the way, was a group of black militiamen in black uniforms, who got stressed when they were surrounded by journalists.
Enough is enough, I’ve already answered, said the leader who had new boots and a new jersey with the remaining press folds. I have already responded! he said, although no one understood who he was, what the group was called or what he had replied.
Photo: PETER WIXTRÖM
Gruppen Black Panther.
Photo: PETER WIXTRÖM
Black Panther Gruppen.
And another group came that had no name, but it was clear from a sign that they were against all taxes, “The tax is extortion,” it said, and they were for the right to bear arms, you could see by their carbines and pistols. .
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Bob Keefer doesn’t like taxes.
The leader’s name was Joe, a pharmacist by profession. He wore a carbine across his chest and camouflage clothing, a helmet and sunglasses even though it was cloudy and made a circular motion with his hand when the group was about to move. He knew of a decent food restaurant a little further afield.
Photo: PETER WIXTRÖM
Joe, a pharmacist by trade. He wore a carbine across his chest and camouflage clothing, a helmet and sunglasses even though it was cloudy and he made a circular motion with his hand when the group was about to move.
Everyone who has seen war movies has seen officers make that movement with their hand. Looks great.
After just a couple of hours, both journalists and militiamen had grown tired of wandering the empty streets. The woman who with high hopes kept her food restaurant in Storgatan open took the sign and locked it. She was disappointed.
So the day ended and everyone went home.
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