Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
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There's a great deal of historical precedence to make it easy to believe. My city was home to an international fruit company for many years with extensive farming interests in Central and South America. One of our local Nun/Professor at local college ran an advocacy group which routinely paid a good percentage of our local homeless shelter residents to inflate numbers at her organized protests against the company. Protests are all about drawing attention, and sometimes you have to pay for it.
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Quite an anecdote. The inflated numbers I recall were those thousands of Catholic school teens who were routinely bussed to the annual anti-abortion march in Washington, D.C. They got out of the school for the day for a field trip and got to be on television. Wonder who paid for that?

In the meantime, some of my friends are still waiting for their check from George Soros [who is always mentioned as the payor of any anti-establishment protest]. I imagine he's been quite busy what with the million women march, etc. etc.