The tents and canopies were stretched for blocks and venders lined the curbs as people arrived to get a coveted seat at the big arena.
  Word hit the crowds that Mayor Bynum has fully lifted the curfew language, now that the Secret Service is confident of the situation on the ground.
  The iron wall of 9ft fencing is still not completely installed, and foot traffic is allowed unchecked, in the 'green zone', today.
 We went downtown to observe the vehicle perimeter. It appears that the only entrances into the green zone will be at 4th & Boulder, and near 7th & Houston.
  Then a 2nd perimeter will block all access to the arena complex.  That inner perimeter seems to have access checkpoints at 3rd & Houston, and 4th & Frisco. We could be slightly off on the exact inner gate locations. 

 A curfew is now in effect for the "green zone" and a thorough sweep is underway from  the Secret Service.It's not known when the general public will be allowed inside the green zone, but we expect that the 6am Friday morning rush of business workers will have to face metal detectors, physical searches, and temperature checks, in order to get in at any of the 3 entrances.
  We suspect there will be entrances at the north, east, and south sides of the fenceline.
  The fences are formidable, at 9 feet high and made of iron.  We're told by those in today's line, that there will be a 2nd inner fence around the 3 venues. That's where people will have to part with many items such as bottled liquids and umbrellas.
  

  On Thursday afternoon, in Tulsa; several dozens of Trump supporters had already begun an early festival kickoff and canopy caravan on the front entrance to the BOK Arena. We rolled the video camera while greeting several of them to the city. While We were speaking to a group on midwesterners, a black young man is seen in the background sneaking up on a Floridian of Cuban descent.
  The young black man (in an orange shirt) began punching the Cuban whose head was down. The bloody assault to his face was not responded to with return blows or use of weapons. 

  President Trump's advance team announced a multi-screen theater complex will go up around the exterior of the BOK Center.  The first screen is being erected on the wall of the BOK Arena parking structure, at 3rd & Frisco Ave.
  Laura Trump told the Spicer & Co tv show on Wednesday night that 'some special surprises will also be a part of the outdoor experience. She did not say how many screens will be erected, but their rapid response team has multiple options to handle many thousands.
​  The looming challenge for rally-goers is to get into Tulsa early, so they don't risk a clogged interstate road, on Saturday.

  Donald Trump has selected Tulsa, Oklahoma to be the site of his coming out of Covid party. It is already being called 'The Mother of all Campaign rallies', as nearly 1 million requests for free tickets are reported by the Trump election team.
  Tulsa citizens are determined to make this a success for every visitor coming to Tulsa, as will as the 400,000 citizens who live in Tulsa. To that end, many are already helping provide logistical support for travelers.  This article will become a progressive work over the week as we draw near to the Saturday rally. Here are some pointers and advisories.

1. Get to Tulsa by Friday, if at all possible. Events like this have caused whole interstate highway systems to become parking lots because everyone thought they could arrive on the morning of the event. If you've been a longtime listener to the Rush Limbaugh Show, you may recall the "Dan's Bake Sale" in Fort Collins which drew 90,000 attendees. Many of them sat on interstate 25 for most of that Saturday, because they thought; 'There won't be that many going'.  Let's hope all of you get safely to Tulsa by Friday and the highways will be accessible for the first responders to get to citizens in need.  If you get here early, city planners and event planners can better predict the expected crowds at the arena and be better prepared to make your rally experience a happy one.

  It seems Keith is alarmed at the massive popularity of a Trump rally and how it may catapult his general election campaign. She seems determined to stop the momentum in any way she can, and by any argument she can muster.
  Her claim that the arena cannot be rented out for any political group, seems to put her at odds with constitutional law and the oath of office she swore faithfulness to.
​  At some point the citizens must consider this failure to recognize constitutional rights and the promises that Keith & other county & city leaders made regarding the BOK arena and it's potential uses by concert promoters, church groups, and any endeavor.
  Taxpayers were persuaded to approve the commercial venue in hopes that it would attract top national events and boost the profile of Tulsa as a growing metropolitan center.  Music concerts were especially pitched as a reason to spend tax dollars on the venue. It was supposed to build our economy by boosting tourism and creating jobs.

  On June 20, 1921, Oklahoma Republicans played a big role in advancing equal rights for women, when Republican Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson, of Muskogee, OK became the first woman to preside over a session of the US House of Representatives.
​​  The Oklahoma Historical Society reports..

  How Ironic! The Democrat Party leaders got one significance very very correct.
  The Kente cloth scarves are a tribute to slave-trading Ashanti warlords who enslaved enemy tribes and sold thousands of them to Spanish slave traders.  The Ashanti were brutal toward their conquered subjects.
A recent PBS documentary included a detailed origin of the Kente cloth's significance..

  The Trump Rally Registration website just posted new details on the June 20th Saturday Night Event. The BOK Center is officially the venue.
​ It's likely that the presidential campaign speech will be at 8pm. Expect to get out of downtown sometime after 10pm

  Parking is likely to be a challenge, and so will the lines. It will be important to bring water and snacks with you for the time spent in line.

  Many in Tulsa are planning to celebrate Juneteenth for the first time, next week, although their official events were all cancelled weeks ago. But they don't want President Trump to mark the day of emancipation of slaves in Texas; while he's in Tulsa.  Keep a couple things in mind.

• Slavery continued long after that day of Texas liberty. In Oklahoma, it took over a year longer for  the US President to negotiate an end to Indian tribal slavery of Africans. July 10th of 1866 is the actual first date of Oklahoma's end to African slavery by the territory's only legal residents, Indian Tribes.
  ​ The Choctaw Nation's principal Chief, Greenwood LeFlore (of whom Greenwood Avenue & 'Black Wall street' is named), owned & exploited several scores of Africans. Yet the descendants of those African slaves now love to identify with the street name of 'Greenwood'.  
• The official Tulsa Juneteenth organization cancelled this year's commemoration & events, due to pandemic concerns. They are not expected to organize any events until June of 2021.  Perhaps its fitting that President Trump's event would include this commemoration, in his visit.
• There are separate dates of emancipation for the freed African slaves, according to when the tribes signed federal treaties: But no Oklahoma slave was ever emancipated on June 19th 1865, nor during the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln.

  Multiple media outlets confirmed what many of us were keeping quiet for hours. President Donald Trump is now mobilizing his campaign schedule and Tulsa is the next venue on his itinerary. KOTV News announced that Congressman Kevin Hern broke the news. The Trump Tulsa Campaign office also posted a brief social media video.
  What we have is a date.  What we don't yet know is;

• Will he return to the ORU campus and the Mabee Center arena? The city of Tulsa claims no knowledge, but as one who has worked with the Secret Service, I can say that the president's advance team and the secret service prefer a window of silence while inspecting facilities and creating logistics. Even the vehicle route is a very distinct secret. ( I drove in Rick Santorum's Secret Service motorcade and I wasn't even given knowledge beyond 'follow the cops in front of you, keep up with them, and don't hit them')
• The event is ticketed (get your's free). The trump Campaign office in Tulsa will announce more details, as the date nears.
• The BOK center is larger, but parking and lines would be on public streets & walkways. The Mabee center provides more control by keeping control of who is allowed in the parking lots.
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Congressman Kevin Hern is organizing the event with his campaign office. Reserve your seats, here: 
https://action.hernforcongress.com/trump/

  Pop culture has plenty of icons, these days.  And our recent mass isolations have perhaps set us up for some shocking realities that might not have seemed so stark if we'd been a fully integrated society throughout 2020.
 But along with the cloaked morphing of so many fragile and impressionable young people, what is revealed over the past couple weeks is a society of folks who are starved for social acceptance and validation.
 I want to turn our attention to the many various motivations for how people are interacting. It's naive to assume that every attendee at a mass riot is motivated by the same internal and external forces. You can clearly see, by how they behave in a large group.  It appears that manhood, in it's finest virtues; is not in full demonstration, in Mpls, or any other city where the smoke dissipates and the stores are gutted.

Howie Carr published a humorous & stereotypcal expository list of protestors who won free photoshoots at the local police station after being selected from a group who auditioned at a riot venue.

  Why are the vast majority of protests led by women, but largely attended by pajama boys?  And why are the few violent & rogue operatives quickly taking over the events, turning them into criminal pursuits? 
​  The answer is astonishing! Google listed this set of definitions

Last night at just minutes before the 10pm local TV news, a group of local youth spontaneously gathered outside the county jail, and took a group photo,  As that was happening, a few local news outlets pulled up and pulled out camera tripods.

 Then, as the clocks hit the top of the hour, the chants and march began. The group marched out to the intersection.    The on scene reporters & producers had given the group the timing of when the cameras would go live, so the very impassioned chants could commence at the right times for full cinema effect.
  The live reports on TV wrapped up and went to commercial. Suddenly the protest stopped, even quicker than it commenced just minutes earlier.

  The Tulsa World is reporting on the arrest & booking of an 18 year old youth who was seen on multiple video accounts of looting vandalism, & inciting others, in the wider scale crime spree which some activists insisted was just a peaceful & constitutionally protected protest.
  The event heated up around 9pm when the first storefronts were smashed at Memorial Drive, just north of 71st St. In the Woodland Hills Shopping District.
  Police had all the unruly crowd concentrated in the closed off street near the west entrance to the Woodland Hills Mall complex. Ocassional tear gas was used to encourage the activists to disperse. Police had declared the assembly to be unlawful, since a felony investigation was in progress at the scene of the Autozone Auto Parts store.
  Sadly, the activists did disperse in multiple directions and began their mass vandalism and evidently some suspected looting.  This failure played out live on several media outlets. The police simply did not have the manpower to contain the rowdy group,  And were even less effective at protecting the community when the activists split up in multiple directions.

  To no one's surprise, a big leftist American city has some bigots in power. It's not like those bigots were already there when the Democrats took over. Mpls has always been leftist & very Democrat.
  The Minnesota DFL (Democrat Farmer-Labor) party has some 'splain'n to do.  The unionized police force is furious at the mayor's office. They've been fighting for years over policies which have 'handcuffed' the cops and let criminals of certain ethnicities 'skate'.
  When your arrest quota if full up on one ethnicity, how do you protect a neighborhood from one of their own who's gone bad? And do you get in trouble for using the term 'gone bad'?
  The political correctness is run amuck. Group-think owns the culture and the penalties for dissent are merciless.

  George Floyd & his girlfriend needed a truly integrated community. Mpls failed to be that city, for them.