Independence Day protest sends a “don’t shoot” message to National Guardsmen at JFTB

While most were out celebrating freedom with fireworks, about 50 or 60 protesters walked peacefully outside the gates of the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos on July 4 to use their freedom of speech to protest the use of ICE and the National Guard troops stationed now being trained to wage street war with other Americans.

Organizers Stephanie Wade and Amy Stevens, of OC Indivisible Coalition, said it was a protest, not against the troops, but a protest to disagree with the way they are being used.

“With a masked, secret police abducting people off the streets to ship them, sans due process, to foreign gulags and the National Guard deployed to Los Angeles in a provocative attempt to incite fear and violence, many of us felt that the most patriotic thing we could do on Independence Day was to protest the un-American activities now being run out of our local base,” said Wade…

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