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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeanwhile, masked neo-Nazis march in Washington D.C.
Link to tweet
Police escort the last of about 150 masked members of the Patriot Front from a parking garage near Capitol Hill, February 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Theiler
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,064 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)but hate speech shouldn't be considered protected free speech. These bastards should be in prison.
Different Drummer
(7,652 posts)DD
wnylib
(21,661 posts)these goons, is domestic terrorism.
However, making it criminal could have unintended ramifications. How often we say in ordinary conversation things like, "I hate people who (fill in an action, like park in handicap spaces, litter, etc). Or more mildly "I hate it when people.......
Hard to define "criminal speech" without affecting harmless people.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Totally agree.
spanone
(135,900 posts)ArtTownsend
(439 posts)babylonsister
(171,102 posts)they're trying to indoctrinate us.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)They have ONE objective in mind: Cause a riot.
BEWARE: Their ultimate goal is a shoot out in the street, with people of color lying on the ground bleeding.
Scotch-Irish
(464 posts)These are terrorists. In plain sight.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Creepy AF
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Patriot Front (PF) is a white nationalist hate group that formed in the aftermath of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. The organization broke off from Vanguard America (VA), a neo-Nazi group that participated in the chaotic demonstration. PFs founder, Thomas Rousseau, led VA members during Unite the Right, including James Alex Fields, Jr., the young man accused of murdering anti-racist protester Heather Heyer after fatally driving his vehicle into a crowd of protesters ...
PFs manifesto makes frequent reference to American historical figures, casting its politics as a revival of an allegedly authentic American identity based on pan-European colonizers. As Rousseau notes in his internal announcement of the organizations split with VA, PFs rebranding was aesthetic, not ideological. The groups politics remain staunchly white nationalist, albeit less explicitly ...
PFs activism typically consists of anonymously posting flyers, dropping banners off buildings or overpasses or performing miscellaneous acts of public service such as park cleanups. When PF orchestrates protests or public appearances, they are typically tightly choreographed and scripted to maximize propaganda value. Virtually all its activities are undertaken with propaganda value in mind ...
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/patriot-front
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)... Patriot Front falls into the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement but presents itself as a patriotic nationalist group. A manifesto posted to the groups website soon after it formed called for American Fascism, which it described as a return to the traditions and virtues of our forefathers. The manifesto also made clear that non-whites were not Americans.
Patriot Front graphics typically feature an upright fasces, often surrounded by a circle of 13 stars or placed on the breast of an eagle similar to bald eagle imagery associated with the U.S. government ...
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/patriot-front
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)... white nationalist/supremacist organizations and individuals, like a cancer on the body politic, continue to mutate and step up their activities. According to the ADLs Center on Extremism (COE), which tracks white supremacist propaganda efforts, the 2018 data shows a 182% increase of incidents from the previous year, with 1,187 cases reported, compared to 421 in 2017.
In the first weeks of November, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) reported that the FBI agents arrested white supremacist Richard Holzer for allegedly plotting to bomb a Pueblo, Colorado, synagogue; East Tennessee University campus officials were opening an investigation after signs saying Its okay to be white a popular white supremacist slogan appeared around campus; A man in Milwaukee is facing felony hate-crime charges for allegedly throwing acid on a Latino man because of his heritage; and, students at Arizona State University Campus in Tempe, woke up one morning to find posters with swastikas plastered around campus.
Mass Live recently reported that Stickers created by the white nationalist group Patriot Front have been put up on street signs and utility poles across Middleborough and West Bridgewater. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Stickers and flyers with pro-white messages and tied to white supremacists appeared at Ohio Wesleyan and Ohio State universities over the weekend.
Boston Magazines Michael Damiano recently reported that, local chapters of white supremacist organizations
using anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant rhetoric,
[have been] posting fliers, including ones denying the Holocaust, in public spaces and on synagogues throughout New England.
[H]ate-fueled incidents have included property crimesvandals have damaged the New England Holocaust Memorial downtown, toppled a menorah in Harvard Square, and desecrated a Jewish cemetery in Fall Riveras well as more-personal acts of violence ...
https://buzzflash.com/articles/racist-and-anti-semitic-patriot-front-pummeling-colleges-universities-and-synagogues-with-white-supremacist-propaganda
3catwoman3
(24,071 posts)..an activity/endeavor, that tells you its something you shouldnt be engaged in.
Big, tough chickenshits.
TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)Hmm.