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Post by Fiddler on Aug 31, 2020 15:01:06 GMT
Events of late only go to verify..
On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of more than 100 far-right activists, including Proud Boys and armed militia members, descended on Portland, Ore., staging a “Back the Blue” rally in front of the Justice Center that houses the downtown police precinct. Hundreds of antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters gathered to oppose the far-right crowd.
People in the far-right crowd came armed with paintball guns, metal rods, aluminum bats, fireworks, pepper spray, rifles and handguns. Some people in the opposing left-leaning crowd brought rocks, fireworks and bottles filled with chemical solutions. Both crowds sported shields and helmets.
The two groups sparred for more than two hours, as people exchanged blows, fired paintballs at each other and blasted chemicals indiscriminately into the crowd. People lobbed fireworks back and forth. At least one person was hit in the abdomen with a device that flashed and exploded, causing bleeding.
As the brawls unfolded, Portland police officers remained at a distance. They made several announcements over loudspeakers, encouraging the crowds to “self-monitor for criminal activity,” even as people beat others with sticks, and at least two right-wing activists brandished handguns.
Amid the right-wing crowd was a widely known Proud Boy, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, who has frequently brawled in Portland since early 2017.
Last year, he pleaded guilty in a 2018 assault in exchange for a two-year probation that requires him to stay away from protests until his probationary period ends in 2021. Even before he showed up at Saturday’s rally, there was an active warrant for Toese’s arrest for violating other terms of his probation.
As the far-right crowd left downtown Portland, Toese walked past several Portland police officers who did not attempt to apprehend him.
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Post by petep on Aug 31, 2020 16:47:30 GMT
I suppose when the proud boys start the killing and looting and rioting and destroying property and business and the left and antifa and violent socialists come in to stop them I may just switch my support to the defenders of the law.
Then again, there are those who label the homeowner who shoots the intruder a murderer.
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Post by RWB on Aug 31, 2020 16:56:34 GMT
Events of late only go to verify..
On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of more than 100 far-right activists, including Proud Boys and armed militia members, descended on Portland, Ore., staging a “Back the Blue” rally in front of the Justice Center that houses the downtown police precinct. Hundreds of antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters gathered to oppose the far-right crowd.
People in the far-right crowd came armed with paintball guns, metal rods, aluminum bats, fireworks, pepper spray, rifles and handguns. Some people in the opposing left-leaning crowd brought rocks, fireworks and bottles filled with chemical solutions. Both crowds sported shields and helmets.
The two groups sparred for more than two hours, as people exchanged blows, fired paintballs at each other and blasted chemicals indiscriminately into the crowd. People lobbed fireworks back and forth. At least one person was hit in the abdomen with a device that flashed and exploded, causing bleeding.
As the brawls unfolded, Portland police officers remained at a distance. They made several announcements over loudspeakers, encouraging the crowds to “self-monitor for criminal activity,” even as people beat others with sticks, and at least two right-wing activists brandished handguns.
Amid the right-wing crowd was a widely known Proud Boy, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, who has frequently brawled in Portland since early 2017.
Last year, he pleaded guilty in a 2018 assault in exchange for a two-year probation that requires him to stay away from protests until his probationary period ends in 2021. Even before he showed up at Saturday’s rally, there was an active warrant for Toese’s arrest for violating other terms of his probation.
As the far-right crowd left downtown Portland, Toese walked past several Portland police officers who did not attempt to apprehend him.
maybe if the braindead leftist mayor would let the police do their jobs and not let the Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists run amok that wouldn't be happening. |
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Post by rabbitreborn on Aug 31, 2020 17:10:16 GMT
The “back the blue” demonstrators are “far right”.
Antifa is “left leaning”.
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Post by rabbitreborn on Aug 31, 2020 17:12:38 GMT
On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of more than 100 far-right activists, including Proud Boys and armed militia members, descended on Portland, Ore., staging a “Back the Blue” rally in front of the Justice Center that houses the downtown police precinct. Hundreds of antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters gathered to oppose the far-right crowd. So what group gathered to “oppose” the other? Shouldn’t have been there, especially if they lived 15 minutes away. |
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Post by thor on Aug 31, 2020 17:21:07 GMT
On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of more than 100 far-right activists, including Proud Boys and armed militia members, descended on Portland, Ore., staging a “Back the Blue” rally in front of the Justice Center that houses the downtown police precinct. Hundreds of antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters gathered to oppose the far-right crowd. So what group gathered to “oppose” the other? Shouldn’t have been there, especially if they lived 15 minutes away. You seem upset about opposition to Fascists. Scratch a right wing 'libertarian'..... |
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Post by Fiddler on Aug 31, 2020 17:29:47 GMT
On Saturday afternoon, a large crowd of more than 100 far-right activists, including Proud Boys and armed militia members, descended on Portland, Ore., staging a “Back the Blue” rally in front of the Justice Center that houses the downtown police precinct. Hundreds of antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters gathered to oppose the far-right crowd. So what group gathered to “oppose” the other? Shouldn’t have been there, especially if they lived 15 minutes away.
Portland has had a far-right militia problem for decades..
Portland has joined Berkeley, New York, Charlottesville, and Seattle as liberal cities that have become flash points for far-right violence since Donald Trump took office in 2017. But Portland is unique in that the far right has turned the city into a regular battleground.
Why Portland? The city presents a unique mix of past and present white nationalism; policing that enables the far right; weak political leaders; and a legacy of antifascist organizing. Combined, these elements allow the far right to stage violent spectacles with few legal consequences against their ideological enemies — antifa, liberals, so-called PC culture, cities — while using social media to glorify the violence as a recruiting tool and proof of their racial and masculine virility.
. . It starts with Oregon’s history. The state was envisioned as a white utopia and barred black people from residency until 1926. To this day, Portland is the whitest big city in America, with a population that is 77 percent white and less then 6 percent black, and that racial homogeneity has proved for decades to be fertile recruiting ground for racist hate groups.
Joseph Lowndes, associate professor of political science at University of Oregon and co-author of “Producers, Parasites, Producers: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity,” said that “in the 1980s, for groups like Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance, Portland was a choice spot for their ‘10 percent strategy.’ That meant if the city was 10 percent or less people of color, the far right could organize working-class whites there as they believed they wouldn’t meet much resistance.”
Oregon currently has a disproportionate number of hate groups and militias, while in the broader Pacific Northwest, many far-right groups participated in and were energized by the Bundy family’s armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon in early 2016.
Speaking of the massive brawls in Portland, Lowndes said, “There is another legacy of the anti-authoritarian left, anarchists, and anti-fascists who also since the 1980s have been a militant street-oriented left.”
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Post by rabbitreborn on Aug 31, 2020 18:13:49 GMT
Trump supporter executed in Portland.
Portland burns from left-wing activism.
Board leftists: "Portland has a long time problem with right wing violence!!!!!11111"
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Post by Fiddler on Aug 31, 2020 18:35:53 GMT
Trump supporter executed in Portland. Portland burns from left-wing activism. Board leftists: "Portland has a long time problem with right wing violence!!!!!11111"
Fine.. Don't read the background info .. no point in being versed ..
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Post by Lomelis on Sept 1, 2020 6:23:12 GMT
Leftist: "Portland has a far right militia problem!"
Leftist, been burning down Portland for 90 days straight.
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Post by Odysseus on Sept 1, 2020 9:08:10 GMT
So what group gathered to “oppose” the other? Shouldn’t have been there, especially if they lived 15 minutes away.
Portland has had a far-right militia problem for decades..
Portland has joined Berkeley, New York, Charlottesville, and Seattle as liberal cities that have become flash points for far-right violence since Donald Trump took office in 2017. But Portland is unique in that the far right has turned the city into a regular battleground.
Why Portland? The city presents a unique mix of past and present white nationalism; policing that enables the far right; weak political leaders; and a legacy of antifascist organizing. Combined, these elements allow the far right to stage violent spectacles with few legal consequences against their ideological enemies — antifa, liberals, so-called PC culture, cities — while using social media to glorify the violence as a recruiting tool and proof of their racial and masculine virility.
. . It starts with Oregon’s history. The state was envisioned as a white utopia and barred black people from residency until 1926. To this day, Portland is the whitest big city in America, with a population that is 77 percent white and less then 6 percent black, and that racial homogeneity has proved for decades to be fertile recruiting ground for racist hate groups.
Joseph Lowndes, associate professor of political science at University of Oregon and co-author of “Producers, Parasites, Producers: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity,” said that “in the 1980s, for groups like Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance, Portland was a choice spot for their ‘10 percent strategy.’ That meant if the city was 10 percent or less people of color, the far right could organize working-class whites there as they believed they wouldn’t meet much resistance.”
Oregon currently has a disproportionate number of hate groups and militias, while in the broader Pacific Northwest, many far-right groups participated in and were energized by the Bundy family’s armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon in early 2016.
Speaking of the massive brawls in Portland, Lowndes said, “There is another legacy of the anti-authoritarian left, anarchists, and anti-fascists who also since the 1980s have been a militant street-oriented left.”
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I have a close relative who has lived in Portland for about 50 years. I remember him saying some time ago that Oregon has more than its share of right wing zealots. I have also heard this attributed to the influx of Oakies during the Great Depression, who bypassed California, which was already overflowing with people seeking work, and settled in Oregon instead. I'm also aware that cars with California license plates can engender hostility from conservative Oregonians ... with newcomers looking forward to the day they can replace their plates.
The recent invasion of Portland by conservative rural thugs is consistent with this demographic.
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