The National Butterfly Center has announced that it is closing for the weekend citing a “credible threat” connected to a far-right gathering nearby their building.
The center said in an “urgent notice” posted on social media that the venue was closing “due to credible threats we have received from a former state official, regarding activities planned by the We Stand America event, taking place in McAllen, TX, this weekend. This MAGA, mid-term election rally, hosted by Trump’s former National Security Advisor and pardoned-criminal, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, is the national, kick-off event for what they are calling their ‘Take Action Tour.'”
The center wrote: “We made the difficult decision to close the center when [executive director Marianna Treviño Wright] was advised by the former state official (whose daughter is the Hidalgo County GOP chairperson) that she should be armed at all times or out of town this weekend, because the We Stand America events include a ‘Trump Train’-style, ‘caravan to the border.’ He said the National Butterfly Center would likely be a stop on this “take action tour,” and she and the center are targets,”
The announcement added: “This 3-day, fundraising event organized by Trump operatives is just too similar to the 3-day Wall-o-thon organized by Bannon, Kolfage and Tommy Fisher, in celebration of their first, private border wall project (prior to their Mission project,) that likely incited the Wal-mart Massacre in El Paso. We simply cannot risk the safety and lives of our staff and visitors during this dangerous time.”
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The National Butterfly Center said it would pay their staff what they would have made working “because this disruption to our operations caused by the disparagement of our organization should not result in their suffering the loss of wages that feed their families and pay their bills.”
URGENT NOTICE! National Butterfly Center CLOSED Jan 28-30 due to credible threats. Please read more & SHARE here: https://t.co/joMfYz4Zya
— National Butterfly (@NatButterflies) January 27, 2022
