Former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe thanked supporters after being arrested for training “civil disobedience” throughout in a Southern California metropolis council assembly the place the set up of a MAGA plaque was being mentioned.
“I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day,” the NFL veteran posted on Bluesky Thursday. “Remember — peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.”
Kluwe and different protesters confirmed as much as Tuesday’s assembly to oppose a plaque baring the phrases “Magical, Alluring, Galvanizing, Adventurous” being put in at a metropolis library.
The 6’4” former athlete instructed these in attendance that to him, the MAGA acronym — which stands for Make America Nice Once more to Donald Trump supporters — symbolizes a protracted checklist of adverse issues the president represents.
Kluwe criticized the motion as bigoted and harmful to the nation’s establishments in a spirited rant likening MAGA to considered one of historical past’s darkest political organizations.
Former Minnesota Vikings NFL participant Chris Kluwe joins a small group of protestors exterior the Pelican Hill Nation Membership the place Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to attend a luncheon fundraiser, in Newport Seaside, California, October 9, 2017. (ROBYN BECK/AFP through Getty Photos)
“‘MAGA’ is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and, most importantly, ‘MAGA’ is explicitly a Nazi movement,” Kluwe mentioned from behind a podium Tuesday.
He then introduced he would “engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience” earlier than approaching metropolis council members, sitting on the bottom in entrance of them and being arrested.
The 43-year-old former punter spent eight seasons within the NFL. He’s a longtime homosexual rights advocate who suspects his activism would be the cause he was booted from skilled soccer.
