Hah! I was googling South River Forest disinformation and a post from Black Flag Cafe comes up? LOL. Had to bop in and say hello. And J! It's been a long time. I have loads of friends who fell for the QAnon thing and I always think of you, "Alphabet," and our lovely afternoon in San Pedro.
Anyway, just FYI, the Stop Cop City fiasco is 100% a Nazi problem. I'm a supervisor in DeKalb now, so South River Forest is in our district. The main coalition of protesters and activists work with the South River Watershed Alliance. The people who caused the violence and property damage refuse to work with them, ahem. The day of the most recent fiasco, a small group of the most obvious Nazis in the world (led b the stereotypical hot older guy no one knew before the protests lol) got a group of about 100 protesters to do a "peaceful march." Then they broke from the group and set a couple of vehicles on fire. About 35 people were arrested, but almost everyone who was from Georgia was released, including the guys who set the vehicles on fire. Ahem.
We're not supposed to deal with any of those protesters, just the South River Alliance activists, but I couldn't stop myself. Two young women were telling me that it was a "communication problem" and they just simply hadn't realized that the undercover Nazis... um, I mean their fellow protesters acting in good faith, had said there would be violence. Oops!
I was like, "the hot older guys alway calling for violence and property damage are 100% the cop, ladies! Give them herpes, not support! Something to take home to their wives as a souvenir of their undercover work." Alas, youth has to learn from experience I guess. Hopefully I've planted a seed of doubt, at least. But the grownups, even the milquetoast Atlanta Mayor and South River Forest Steering Committee, which are 100% and 90% fo the training center respectively, are able to see through it. That's why they released the body cam recording of the Kemp's state troopers talking about how they'd shot each other during the Tortugita killing. And why the training center just shrank by another 45 acres, to 85 acres.
Anyway, if I remember how this place works, Q and Tarkan and the usual suspects will jump in to discredit me, with zero on-the-ground experience in DeKalb and no special knowledge at all, because "anti-fascism is terrorism" is the narrative they've been pushing since I joined Black Flag Cafe. Which sounds super fun but instead I'll just say hello to everyone and be on my merry way. Feel free to friend me on Facebook for more scintillating Dekalb County environmental news, or follow our conservation page:
https://www.facebook.com/DeKalbSWCDTL; DR: The Stop Cop City fiasco was absolutely caused by a couple of undercover Nazis, Umbrella Man types, who tricked several protesters into marching then caused violence and property damage to undermine legitimate protesters and expand the training academy footprint. It didn't seem to work.