Armed neo-Nazis prepare for potential clash in small Kentucky town
Source: The Guardian
In a tent deep in the woods of rural Kentucky, an old neo-Nazi spoke bitterly of how he feels betrayed by Donald Trump.
Im sorry I voted for the son of a bitch, I really am, said Art Jones, who the Anti-Defamation League identifies as a Holocaust denier who has been dressing in Nazi garb and celebrating Hitler since the 1970s.
Im sorry I spent $180 out of my own pocket to buy three big banners that said, President Trump, build the wall, the blazer-clad Jones said, to a tent full of about 100 men, some of whom wore paramilitary-style uniforms. Now he says, Eh, what wall? Im embarrassed that I voted for him.
Jones blamed Trumps failures on the Jewish lobby and the presidents son-in-law and aide, Jared Kushner, who is Jewish.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/29/neo-nazi-rally-pikeville-kentucky-anti-fascist
What a depressing article. This is how far America is sinking. I hear Portugal is a beautiful country to retire to.
alfredo
(60,077 posts)Ahpook
(2,751 posts)They are just like him! Lying, fake, pissed off at everything and clueless. Only difference is they are rubes and think someone like Trump gives a shit about them.
Useful idiots!
alfredo
(60,077 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)Note that the article states Jones is a "Holocaust denier who has been dressing in Nazi garb and celebrating Hitler since the 1970s".
He and his ilk did not happen overnight and it has not become particularly more prevalent.
Some of it is a little bit more out in the open after the pumping up of the faux "alt-right" meme by Breitbart. They always were and are white supremacist fascists.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)NeoConsSuck
(2,544 posts)I know, I worked with a John Bircher nutjob in the 1970's. What has changed, is the rise of the NRA, and every potential altercation now is settled with handguns and military weapons:
In an interview last week, Matthew Heimbach, the leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, said the groups staging the rally would come with armed security officials, who would carry AR-15 rifles and wear body armor.
and further down the article:
The commander of the Indiana III percenters, who declined to give his name, said he expected at least 60 members to attend in full battle rattle, with our helmets full body armor, 9 thirty-round magazines and an AR-15. He said he expected at least four other III percenter groups to attend.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)See my post in this thread with news from the actual event today.
keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)Even Breitbart had to be told to not pick on Jared.
Wonder how long Bannon will go along with that.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,989 posts)Sometimes, it isn't even far-flung people who enjoy a rousing game of "Throw the Jew Down the Well". Of course, there are also those who will make all kinds of excuses for the anti-Semites and try to reroute the discussion to other social ills, they too, play a huge part in the anti-Semitism which still infects this country.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)to a great deal of schadenfreude over Neo-Nazi butt-hurt.
It's not like they would have voted for Hillary Clinton, but they could at least have stayed home on Election Day and washed their swastikas...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)Hardly peaceful, but no violence as white nationalists, protesters yell in Pikeville
{Good photo at the top of the page}
http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article147594424.html
By Bill Estep
About 125 white nationalists were on one side of Main Street in an enclosure beside the historic Pike County courthouse, while more than 150 opponents were on the opposite side of the street behind barriers.
A line of local and state police officers stood nearly shoulder-to-shoulder in the street between the two sides as they screamed at each other.
The white nationalists hoped to recruit members with a message of help for working people in a place where the economy has been hurt by a sharp drop in coal jobs, but they spent more time condemning their opponents for trying to shout them down.
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)it ended without violence. Sounds like the town did everything well.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Jews and Mexicans do you think there are in Pikeville Kentucky? If there are any I'll bet it's very few.
Zambero
(8,968 posts)Even hardened bigots know they've been lied to by this guy.
Rebl2
(13,557 posts)stay in that tent deep in the woods and never come back out into the civilized world-please.
joe_stampingbull
(165 posts)Drumpf still loves you.