[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Carolyn Reichert

Martin Luther King peacefully led protests about civil rights. There were protests against the Vietnam War, mostly peaceful. What cause is McGinty and others of his ilk protesting--the election of a President? What McGinty and others do is not protesting. They attend rallies and other events to agitate, confront, and practice hate speech with his signage. My advice to McGinty is to organize his own events consistent with HIS political beliefs, attend the meetings of the Democrat Club, and vote on November 3rd. McGinty was looking for trouble and he found it--any school kid knows that.

"Martin Luther King peacefully led protests about civil rights."

Except there was a major riot in just about every large city he visited about a week later. Bag man for the funding?????

"There were protests against the Vietnam War, mostly peaceful."

Kent State.

Again, the victim should NEVER have been assaulted, but in the real world one needs to be cognizant of the possible outcomes of a given action.

[Trynforpar]

Eventually some idiot decided that physical force will teach him to change his view. What he actually accomplished was to further his cause by inviting the media in from all around the country to brand us as thugs and him as the people’s hero.

[karostay]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

McGinty wasn't at any protest. He was out in front of the Winn Dixie, driving his golf cart.

Can you substantiate that for us ?

[Joanne19335]

Originally Posted by gatherer47

he was quoted as saying the man was possibly "Italian"-isn't that ethnic profiling ?

I am Italian. Whoever said that IS ethnic profiling—just as people who assume we’re all in the Mafia.

[karostay]

Ever mistakenly cut in front of someone here standing in line...Whow !
I could only imagine the confrontation

[Cranford61]

Life’s tough when you are a provocateur. Keep poking at a lion with a stick and you might, someday, get bit. Sniff, sniff!

[soniak4@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by davem4616

ya wanna be an activist ...this stuff is gonna happen

very sad that anyone was assaulted...however...no matter how flat the pancake is there is always two sides to it
....his behavior may have egged it on, no way of knowing...but just saying

if he got into someone's face, he's the one at fault...and would have escalated it...maybe he crossed the wrong person, someone
that had had a lousy breakfast and had gas and was in a bad mood to begin with....who knows for sure

no one knows what someone leaves behind when they leave the house

but I wasn't there and I'm not passing any judgment on anybody

all I can say is:

"well this is certainly a fine kettle of fish that we've gotten ourselves into Ollie, isn't it"

we are a nation divided....what should we think is going to happen when two zealots from opposite sides of the spectrum come head to head?

Let me guess...you probably also believe that a woman wearing a short, low cut dress is asking to be raped, right? Your response is ludicrous. Mr. McGinty was in his cart, driving through a parking lot. He has a right to put any sign he wants on his cart. He was stopped and attacked. Get real!!!

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by kathyspear

The rally did not meet or drive near the Winn Dixie. Sorry to hear he was attacked but it did not happen at the rally.

kathy

That was stated by the OP.

[Guitarman1951]

Originally Posted by Love2Swim

Ed McGinty, who is known as an anti-Trump protester, was physically attacked by one of the Trump supporters who hijacked the Blue Lives Matter parade, near Sumter Landing today. His picture was on Facebook, and showed him to be battered and bleeding. McGinty was on his way to his daily protest, and from the sounds of it was not at the actual parade. The attack took place near the Sumter Landing Winn Dixie.

This is outrageous and is a black stain on Florida's Friendliest Hometown. Whether you like his views or not, he certainly has a right to protest, and to face physical violence in this manner is just frightening. He has also received threatening letters. What is the matter with these people?

The problem is that he isn't just protesting. He is purposely being very antagonistic with outrageous and absurd signs. He is encouraging confrontations. It would be fine if he or anyone else simply used signs to show who they support or even the "Dump Trump" kind of signs but when you put huge signs with extremely derogatory statements, you are asking for trouble.

[noslices1]

Didn’t this guy send himself threatening letters before? Maybe, he also beat himself up, just to make a point. Don’t trust him.

[GoodLife]

I suggest sympathizers for Mr McGinty go to Minneapolis, Baltimore, Chicago etc and drive around with a Blue Lives Matter sign and see how well your free speech rights are respected.

[New Englander]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Ed's signs weren't inteded to provide dialogue, inform or work to any solution, they were intended to inflame and aggravate. When you do that sooner or later you put yourself in harms way.

You are absolutely correct! He tries to provoke people. His signs are nasty.

[Kgcetm]

There are crazies among us, even in America’s Friendliest Hometown. 1st amendment notwithstanding, in this highly and overly charged political atmosphere one might consider toning down their personal distaste of the other person’s party.

[karostay]

Originally Posted by New Englander

You are absolutely correct! He tries to provoke people. His signs are nasty.

Nasty signs come from nasty minds

[Bill1701]

People were asked to not have any political signs on their carts for the parade. He did. Also, he was not attacked at the parade but in the Winn-Dixie parking lot. There is no proof that his attacker was even at the parade.