Who’s Behind the Wave of Right Wing Protests?
. . . In 2015, a politically bipartisan group of 16 Second Amendment advocates shunned the Dorr family’s Minnesota Gun Rights group for predatory practices.
In Minnesota, mainstream conservatives have sought to sideline parts of this broader alignment. The Republican Party of Minnesota (RPM) and the official House and Senate Republican caucuses went further and made a website called MNScammersExposed, with a page dedicated to Minnesota Gun Rights, calling them scammers. The site calls out the Dorr brothers directly, saying “Scamming is a family affair for brothers Ben Dorr, Chris Dorr and Aaron Dorr“.
In a thread of tweets posted by social media researcher Erin Gallagher about the Dorr family connection to the anti-quarantine protests (or grifting efforts), Gallagher links to a Facebook video (below) that shows the Dorr brothers in videos representing their gun owner clubs with similar names across several different states. . . .
While City Pages looked at three of the Liberate Minnesota hosts, Unicorn Riot spoke with the other two:
Co-organizer Doug Malson told Unicorn Riot that this shutdown is creating a “black market” because the “economy is organic, it’s everybody here” and that Walz has no levers to stop it. Malson said the economy should open back up right now and not wait until May 4, as other lawmakers have agreed. Malson feared the White House’s three-phase plan is faulty because new tests will alter the case rate, preventing states from moving forward to the next phase.
“My understanding is that we have to have less cases for 14 straight days to go to the next phase, but we’re going to increase our testing up to 5,000 tests a day. There’s no way we’re going to have lower [cases] if we’re increasing the amount of tests we’re doing.” – Doug Malson, Liberate Minnesota Co-organizer
When asked about the risks to the protest and opening up the economy, Malson said, “absolutely there’s risks” but said if you have underlying conditions, stay home, and the rest should “live free, not scared.”
3 Percenter militia member and co-organizer of the protest, Randy Quick, called the Stay At Home order “draconian” and said he was worried about the precedent set by the measures that could allow for the state to suspend constitutional rights. . . .
There's lots more (and more video) in the Unicorn Riot piece. Like the MPR report, this is a must-read for understanding the people behind the Liberate Minnesota event.
We'll have some additional material on Quick and Malson in a bit.
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Photo: Organizers Marni Hockenberg and Michelle Even gleefully react when mentioning Trump tweeting “Liberate Minnesota.“ Image from Unicorn Riot's Niko Georgiades, Who’s Calling to ‘Liberate Minnesota’, and Why?.
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