Jan 20, 2018, much of the Federal government's non-cooercive portions shut down on the anniversary of Trump's Inauguration. ICE, the FBI, and the military are not included in the shutdown. Meanwhile, protesters hit the streets all over DC. There was a satirical vigil for a broken window at the same Starbucks that got trashed on J20-2017, another Women's March, and a culminating banner drop between the flagpoles in front of Union Station.

This may have been the first time in living memory that a sitting US President was so unpopular that a second round of counter-inaugural protests took to the streets on the anniversary of his Inauguration. Last time around, counterinaugural protests took place over four days, and the last of them (the Women's March) has been reported to have been the largest protest in US history by turnout.

The events of Jan 20, 2018 began with a satirical vigil for a broken window outside the Starbucks at 12th and I sts NW, "memorializing" a window allegedly smashed by a small number of people breaking from the 500+ person anticapitalist march on Jan 20, 2017. Although the vigil was satire, it made the very serious point that 50 years in prison over a broken window is an obscenity and a shocking extreme of disproportion. Anyone reading this who has never had to replace a window broken by an errant baseball, a stone kicked up by tires on the road, or some other accident is quite fortunate. One of the videographers stepped forward from behind the camera to announce that "this is not about 11 broken windows, it's about one broken Presidency."

At least a half hour in advance of the publicly announced 1PM J20 solidarity cupcake Black Lives Matter, No Justice No Pride, SURJ, and DC area anti-fascist activists descended on Columbus Circle in front of Union Station. Two climbers, one a transgender woman, and one an African-American woman) started up the twinned flagpoles. By the time cops noticed anything was going on, they were safely out of reach. Slowly but surely they ascended, while cops unlawfully placed police lines all the way around the protesters on the ground supporting them. Finally they got high enough off the ground to unfurl a giant "Don't Trump Our Communities" Black Lives Matter banner. When cops threatened the protesters on the ground with arrest if they held their ground, they marched off, taking the street and circling to the opposite side of the banner, whose letters faced outward towards the street. Both climbers were eventually arrested, though they were reported to be out of police custody by evening.

Much of the activist community sees the remaining 59 J20 cases as a strategic threat to all future protests if anyone is ever convicted. This goes double for participants in events such as those of Ferguson and Baltimore, where police murder led to wholesale urban uprisings. Even before Trump there was the failed attempts by a GOP state government in North Dakota to prosecute a large number of people on serious felonies for daring to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. In 2017, over 100 DAPL felony charges were dropped. With these dangerous precedents, it is appropriate that Black Lives Matter-DC and No Justice No Pride joined forces for the high profile civil disobedience and banner drop between the flagpoles at Union Station. It is also appropriate that this is in "Columbus Circle," named for the first of the colonizing aggressors in whose footsteps Trump is following.

Speaking of broken Presidencies, the mostly Democratic Party based speakers at the Women's March called out Donald Trump as a failure for being unable to pass a budget or even keep the government (those parts not concerned with shooting or jailing people) running while his party controls both houses of Congress plus the White House. Many in the audience bore signs urging the Democrats to stand strong and refuse to back down on DACA. If Congress passes either a budget or a short-term spending bill with protection for "Dreamers" (immigrants brought here without documents as children), then Trump must either keep the "government" shut down or abandon his plans to deport the first 800,000 people of his proposal to deport up to 11 or 12 million.

Unfortunately, the Women's March did contain some seriously sour notes. It was organized by Women's March VA without the support of the national Women's March organizers. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was permitted to speak, even though much of her program such as more cops, more people in jail, and opposing raising the minimum wage is in line with Trump. Worst of all, Women's March VA (#womensmarch2018dc)blocked both No Justice No Pride and DMV Black Lives on all of their social media accounts. It's one thing not to work with local organizers but to actively block them and seek to deny their rank and file information about locally organized events is another story.

So many things happened a year ago! All the checkpoints into Trump's Inauguration were blockaded for hours on end, Richard Spencer got punched in the face, the original Women's March out-drew Trump's own Inaugural turnout, and a massive anti-capitalist march took to the streets from Logan Circle. That march was unlawfully mass-arrested, and cases to date have gone poorly for the US Attorney's Office and lead prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff. Six defendents were acquitted of all charges in the first set of trials, which began in November almost ten months after the kettle. Two days before the anniversary of Trump's Inauguratiion, the US Attorney's office announced they had to drop the charges against 129 of the remaining defendents due in part to the jury verdict in that first case. Fifty-nine people are still facing over 60 years in prison however, which is the rest of their lives.

cool story bro..tell it again

TL;DR nobody gives a flying fuck. Great post though.

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What a horrific display of trans-phobic, racist, misogynist, cis-normative patriarchal oppression!

I PROTEST this entire thread!

Luke Wrote:
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> Jan 20, 2018, much of the Federal government's
> non-cooercive portions shut down on the
> anniversary of Trump's Inauguration. ICE, the FBI,
> and the military are not included in the shutdown.
> Meanwhile, protesters hit the streets all over DC.
> There was a satirical vigil for a broken window at
> the same Starbucks that got trashed on J20-2017,
> another Women's March, and a culminating banner
> drop between the flagpoles in front of Union
> Station.
>
> This may have been the first time in living memory
> that a sitting US President was so unpopular that
> a second round of counter-inaugural protests took
> to the streets on the anniversary of his
> Inauguration. Last time around, counterinaugural
> protests took place over four days, and the last
> of them (the Women's March) has been reported to
> have been the largest protest in US history by
> turnout.
>
> The events of Jan 20, 2018 began with a satirical
> vigil for a broken window outside the Starbucks at
> 12th and I sts NW, "memorializing" a window
> allegedly smashed by a small number of people
> breaking from the 500+ person anticapitalist march
> on Jan 20, 2017. Although the vigil was satire, it
> made the very serious point that 50 years in
> prison over a broken window is an obscenity and a
> shocking extreme of disproportion. Anyone reading
> this who has never had to replace a window broken
> by an errant baseball, a stone kicked up by tires
> on the road, or some other accident is quite
> fortunate. One of the videographers stepped
> forward from behind the camera to announce that
> "this is not about 11 broken windows, it's about
> one broken Presidency."
>
> At least a half hour in advance of the publicly
> announced 1PM J20 solidarity cupcake Black Lives
> Matter, No Justice No Pride, SURJ, and DC area
> anti-fascist activists descended on Columbus
> Circle in front of Union Station. Two climbers,
> one a transgender woman, and one an
> African-American woman) started up the twinned
> flagpoles. By the time cops noticed anything was
> going on, they were safely out of reach. Slowly
> but surely they ascended, while cops unlawfully
> placed police lines all the way around the
> protesters on the ground supporting them. Finally
> they got high enough off the ground to unfurl a
> giant "Don't Trump Our Communities" Black Lives
> Matter banner. When cops threatened the protesters
> on the ground with arrest if they held their
> ground, they marched off, taking the street and
> circling to the opposite side of the banner, whose
> letters faced outward towards the street. Both
> climbers were eventually arrested, though they
> were reported to be out of police custody by
> evening.
>
> Much of the activist community sees the remaining
> 59 J20 cases as a strategic threat to all future
> protests if anyone is ever convicted. This goes
> double for participants in events such as those of
> Ferguson and Baltimore, where police murder led to
> wholesale urban uprisings. Even before Trump there
> was the failed attempts by a GOP state government
> in North Dakota to prosecute a large number of
> people on serious felonies for daring to oppose
> the Dakota Access Pipeline. In 2017, over 100 DAPL
> felony charges were dropped. With these dangerous
> precedents, it is appropriate that Black Lives
> Matter-DC and No Justice No Pride joined forces
> for the high profile civil disobedience and banner
> drop between the flagpoles at Union Station. It is
> also appropriate that this is in "Columbus
> Circle," named for the first of the colonizing
> aggressors in whose footsteps Trump is following.
>
> Speaking of broken Presidencies, the mostly
> Democratic Party based speakers at the Women's
> March called out Donald Trump as a failure for
> being unable to pass a budget or even keep the
> government (those parts not concerned with
> shooting or jailing people) running while his
> party controls both houses of Congress plus the
> White House. Many in the audience bore signs
> urging the Democrats to stand strong and refuse to
> back down on DACA. If Congress passes either a
> budget or a short-term spending bill with
> protection for "Dreamers" (immigrants brought here
> without documents as children), then Trump must
> either keep the "government" shut down or abandon
> his plans to deport the first 800,000 people of
> his proposal to deport up to 11 or 12 million.
>
> Unfortunately, the Women's March did contain some
> seriously sour notes. It was organized by Women's
> March VA without the support of the national
> Women's March organizers. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
> was permitted to speak, even though much of her
> program such as more cops, more people in jail,
> and opposing raising the minimum wage is in line
> with Trump. Worst of all, Women's March VA
> (#womensmarch2018dc)blocked both No Justice No
> Pride and DMV Black Lives on all of their social
> media accounts. It's one thing not to work with
> local organizers but to actively block them and
> seek to deny their rank and file information about
> locally organized events is another story.
>
> So many things happened a year ago! All the
> checkpoints into Trump's Inauguration were
> blockaded for hours on end, Richard Spencer got
> punched in the face, the original Women's March
> out-drew Trump's own Inaugural turnout, and a
> massive anti-capitalist march took to the streets
> from Logan Circle. That march was unlawfully
> mass-arrested, and cases to date have gone poorly
> for the US Attorney's Office and lead prosecutor
> Jennifer Kerkhoff. Six defendents were acquitted
> of all charges in the first set of trials, which
> began in November almost ten months after the
> kettle. Two days before the anniversary of Trump's
> Inauguratiion, the US Attorney's office announced
> they had to drop the charges against 129 of the
> remaining defendents due in part to the jury
> verdict in that first case. Fifty-nine people are
> still facing over 60 years in prison however,
> which is the rest of their lives.


 
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Luke Wrote:
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> Jan 20, 2018, much of the Federal government's
> non-cooercive portions shut down on the
> anniversary of Trump's Inauguration. ICE, the FBI,
> and the military are not included in the shutdown.
> Meanwhile, protesters hit the streets all over DC.
> There was a satirical vigil for a broken window at
> the same Starbucks that got trashed on J20-2017,
> another Women's March, and a culminating banner
> drop between the flagpoles in front of Union
> Station.
>
> This may have been the first time in living memory
> that a sitting US President was so unpopular that
> a second round of counter-inaugural protests took
> to the streets on the anniversary of his
> Inauguration. Last time around, counterinaugural
> protests took place over four days, and the last
> of them (the Women's March) has been reported to
> have been the largest protest in US history by
> turnout.
>
> The events of Jan 20, 2018 began with a satirical
> vigil for a broken window outside the Starbucks at
> 12th and I sts NW, "memorializing" a window
> allegedly smashed by a small number of people
> breaking from the 500+ person anticapitalist march
> on Jan 20, 2017. Although the vigil was satire, it
> made the very serious point that 50 years in
> prison over a broken window is an obscenity and a
> shocking extreme of disproportion. Anyone reading
> this who has never had to replace a window broken
> by an errant baseball, a stone kicked up by tires
> on the road, or some other accident is quite
> fortunate. One of the videographers stepped
> forward from behind the camera to announce that
> "this is not about 11 broken windows, it's about
> one broken Presidency."
>
> At least a half hour in advance of the publicly
> announced 1PM J20 solidarity cupcake Black Lives
> Matter, No Justice No Pride, SURJ, and DC area
> anti-fascist activists descended on Columbus
> Circle in front of Union Station. Two climbers,
> one a transgender woman, and one an
> African-American woman) started up the twinned
> flagpoles. By the time cops noticed anything was
> going on, they were safely out of reach. Slowly
> but surely they ascended, while cops unlawfully
> placed police lines all the way around the
> protesters on the ground supporting them. Finally
> they got high enough off the ground to unfurl a
> giant "Don't Trump Our Communities" Black Lives
> Matter banner. When cops threatened the protesters
> on the ground with arrest if they held their
> ground, they marched off, taking the street and
> circling to the opposite side of the banner, whose
> letters faced outward towards the street. Both
> climbers were eventually arrested, though they
> were reported to be out of police custody by
> evening.
>
> Much of the activist community sees the remaining
> 59 J20 cases as a strategic threat to all future
> protests if anyone is ever convicted. This goes
> double for participants in events such as those of
> Ferguson and Baltimore, where police murder led to
> wholesale urban uprisings. Even before Trump there
> was the failed attempts by a GOP state government
> in North Dakota to prosecute a large number of
> people on serious felonies for daring to oppose
> the Dakota Access Pipeline. In 2017, over 100 DAPL
> felony charges were dropped. With these dangerous
> precedents, it is appropriate that Black Lives
> Matter-DC and No Justice No Pride joined forces
> for the high profile civil disobedience and banner
> drop between the flagpoles at Union Station. It is
> also appropriate that this is in "Columbus
> Circle," named for the first of the colonizing
> aggressors in whose footsteps Trump is following.
>
> Speaking of broken Presidencies, the mostly
> Democratic Party based speakers at the Women's
> March called out Donald Trump as a failure for
> being unable to pass a budget or even keep the
> government (those parts not concerned with
> shooting or jailing people) running while his
> party controls both houses of Congress plus the
> White House. Many in the audience bore signs
> urging the Democrats to stand strong and refuse to
> back down on DACA. If Congress passes either a
> budget or a short-term spending bill with
> protection for "Dreamers" (immigrants brought here
> without documents as children), then Trump must
> either keep the "government" shut down or abandon
> his plans to deport the first 800,000 people of
> his proposal to deport up to 11 or 12 million.
>
> Unfortunately, the Women's March did contain some
> seriously sour notes. It was organized by Women's
> March VA without the support of the national
> Women's March organizers. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
> was permitted to speak, even though much of her
> program such as more cops, more people in jail,
> and opposing raising the minimum wage is in line
> with Trump. Worst of all, Women's March VA
> (#womensmarch2018dc)blocked both No Justice No
> Pride and DMV Black Lives on all of their social
> media accounts. It's one thing not to work with
> local organizers but to actively block them and
> seek to deny their rank and file information about
> locally organized events is another story.
>
> So many things happened a year ago! All the
> checkpoints into Trump's Inauguration were
> blockaded for hours on end, Richard Spencer got
> punched in the face, the original Women's March
> out-drew Trump's own Inaugural turnout, and a
> massive anti-capitalist march took to the streets
> from Logan Circle. That march was unlawfully
> mass-arrested, and cases to date have gone poorly
> for the US Attorney's Office and lead prosecutor
> Jennifer Kerkhoff. Six defendents were acquitted
> of all charges in the first set of trials, which
> began in November almost ten months after the
> kettle. Two days before the anniversary of Trump's
> Inauguratiion, the US Attorney's office announced
> they had to drop the charges against 129 of the
> remaining defendents due in part to the jury
> verdict in that first case. Fifty-nine people are
> still facing over 60 years in prison however,
> which is the rest of their lives.


Luke was one of the 3 guys guilty crimes: planning to stink bomb an inaugural ball of pro-Trump people.

His identity is no secret and is well-known among DC area activists. Paul Lucas Kuhn goes by Luke Kuhn, although he's often referred to as Wook due to his strange word pronunciation. An apt nick name that many use for him is Kook Loon.

Another nick name used for him by fellow leftists is Bike Boy as he bikes to almost every leftist protest in the DC area. Some leftists have disparaged him as being mentally ill.

Hey Luke, Bill White says "hi."

Bill White, a former best bud of Luke, is an actual Neo-Nazi, not like some conservatives falsely called neo-Nazis because they are more conservative than John Kasich.

Kuhn used to hang out with neo-Nazi Bill White in the 1990s when the two led the Utopian Anarchist Party. Apparently, White and Kuhn were the only two members of the party. InformationWeek.com had a 1998 article (http://www.informationweek.com/708/08olsg.htm) (link not good anymore) saying that White and Kuhn “have encouraged school pipe-bombings, threatening police, and aiding and abetting runaway teens.”

In 2008 the police searched Kuhn's home and Luke revealed that he still lived with his mother in Rockville, even as a man in his 40s.

Luke is in his 50s now and still lives with his mother. But then again most posters on FXUG are in their 50s and still live with their mother.

When Luke's Mom's house was searched by police with a search warrant looking for evidence of some of Luke's activities, some posters on DC IndyMedia (far left web site where Kuhn posts, he may even run the website) posted as follows:

Re: Dissident Radio Reporter Details Police Raid on Home, Threats, Harassment

06 May 2008

by Luke Kuhn's Mom


Dearest Luke, finally, you told the world that you still lived at home, even though it was only in one of the replies.

You run your illegal WSQT Guerriola Radio 88.1 FM and leave me holding the bag when the cops come calling to find evidence for that and your other crimes.

Look at your old high school friend, Bill White. He may be a notorious neo-Nazi hate-monger, but at least he no longer sponges off his Mom. Why aren't you more like Bill?

Your career plan is not working so well. Move out and support yourself!


Luke's Mother Grounded Him

11 May 2008

by Anonymous


I'll bet that Luke's Mother grounded him, took away his internet access and his bike because she was angry about the raid & blamed him.

But seriously, wonder if she force him to move out.
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Luke looks like Abbie Hoffman. Did his mom get boned by Hoffman and he is Abbie Hoffman's son?

Social Justice NOW! Wrote:
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> What a horrific display of trans-phobic, racist,
> misogynist, cis-normative patriarchal oppression!
>
> I PROTEST this entire thread!


LOL. Gotta be a joke, right?

I'll paraphrase that diarrhea spew for you.

Trump is still president. Libs are still butthurt.

One down, seven to go.

Losers
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Trump will be gone once the urine tape gets out.

Sure Ravi, just like all your predictions.

Wuke exploits culturally appropriation.

Liar claims that he is part Indian so he can avoid white guilt for his ancestors' crimes against Native Americans.

Not buying it, Bike Boy. When the Peoples Tribunal is in session many social justice warriors will testify against you. Maybe the Tribunal will take away his drivers license.

At every protest that I've attended progressives are almost all embarrassed by Luke and wish he was not there.

Billy White Wrote:
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> Luke is in his 50s now and still lives with his
> mother. But then again most posters on FXUG are in
> their 50s and still live with their mother.


Like Gerry2. Just sayin'.