Yeah, I joined, and the admin posted the following:
So with the recent activity that has taken place around the county and our country, I have been monitoring a group called “defend East county “. I am proud to see our boys stand up this week to protect “R” town but I believe we may have been a little pushy. Also we protected a intersection but left our old town unprotected other then a few shop owners. Instead of keeping peace a few were stoking the fire. As much as we will never give up our 2 amendment, we can not deny people their 1st amendment. It Does not work both ways. This groups only purpose, will be to aid our first responders when ever needed. This town has seen and experienced a lot over the years from fires to flooding and now a realization that there are people that would love to destroy communities. I am not saying that any of the recent protesters had those intentions, but there are people trying to use them as a way to destroy. So I hope this group can grow to be a positive and not a negative. We will not allow any kind of racism or white supremacy in this group. We are all god’s people and deserve equality and we base our principles on that. hope this work out and looking for any help to make this grow. God bless you all.
So basic right wing claptrap except…they actually acknowledge that some of them were the problem at our town’s protests, which to me is a step forward. It remains to be seen if they stick to the no racism thing, but at least I’m in and watching.