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swag

(26,490 posts)
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:05 PM Jun 2017

Multnomah County Republicans Formally Allow Militia Groups to Run Security

Source: Portland Mercury

By Doug Brown

The Multnomah County Republican Party (MCRP) has formally decided to pair up with right-wing militia groups to run security at their events.

The formal resolution was passed on on Monday and its text was leaked to the Mercury Friday morning. MCRP Chairman James Buchal, despite being displeased with the leak, confirmed his group approved pairing up with the Oregon Three Percenters and Oath Keepers via a resolution earlier this week:

Proposed Resolution of Chairman Buchal: Resolve that the MCRP may utilize volunteers from the Oregon Three Percenters, Oath Keepers, and other security groups. To provide security where such volunteers are certified to provide private security service by the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Kay Bridges moved and Janice Dysinger seconded. Resolution passed.

As the Guardian pointed out late last month, in the wake of the MAX hate crime stabbings and ahead of the the June 4 alt-right rally downtown, the MCRP was considering the plan to allow the militia groups to run security for right-wing. It's now official. A militia member was spotted helping a federal cop detail and arrest a protester at that rally. The militia groups have previously volunteered as security at pro-Donald Trump rallies in Lake Oswego in March and at Patriot Prayer's Vancouver, WA, rally in April. Patriot Prayer is hosting a rally in downtown Portland Friday evening.

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Read more: http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/06/30/19130461/multnomah-county-republicans-formally-allow-militia-groups-to-run-security

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Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
4. Are taxpayers being charged for this?
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:12 PM
Jun 2017

The gop requested $25,000 each for security details. Do the right thing, represent your constituents, and you do not need "security" People will be killed before this is all over with. Is this how tRump planned to MAGA?

DBoon

(22,397 posts)
10. Brownshirts started as Hitler's personal security
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:43 PM
Jun 2017

They later evolved into a political death squad

Archae

(46,347 posts)
16. Actually...
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 04:53 PM
Jun 2017

The "Brownshirts" or "Stormtroopers" (had nothing to do with Star Wars,) that were led by Ernst Rohm were purged by Heinrich Himmler's SS in the "Night Of The Long Knives," on June 30, 1934.

GentryDixon

(2,961 posts)
2. Seems appropriate for the hate filled GOP.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:07 PM
Jun 2017

I wonder how they will spin the first fatality at the hands of these eagar beavers.

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
3. Well well - so here it is. Been waiting for this...reluctantly, but waiting nevertheless.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:12 PM
Jun 2017

As with everything else these days, "we shall see" how this plays out... (*sigh*)

 

onit2day

(1,201 posts)
8. It's not about 'security', it's about dominance
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:35 PM
Jun 2017

Notice how almost always it is the same people who cause violence against those who disagree with the right wing they choose to provide security.

Marthe48

(17,027 posts)
11. and a lack of experience dealing with crowd control
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:45 PM
Jun 2017

I don't think bar brawls count.

OTOH, the goons that hired the goons don't care what kind of riots ensue.

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
9. I get the impression from what I've seen on oafs and %ers that their ability to
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:41 PM
Jun 2017

"organize" is minimal...it's when and if the new blackwater, old tigerswan mercs (Standing Rock alumni) come into play that makes my brow furrow in worry (seriously)...

And will ICE and the border patrol agents do the bidding of a traitorous government? Are various LE groups being prepped for..."security" details?

There's so much I don't know about various armed outfits that may stand ready and willing to take aim at fellow American citizens, but I think I "know" enough to be somewhat nauseous about the possibilities here, eh...just - damn

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
12. The GOP is the minority in Multnomah Co.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 02:57 PM
Jun 2017

This is how the fascist minority take control of the majority. All they have to work with is fear, threat, and goading. They make their own emergency if they can't have a real one. There was no problem before and that's just not going to give them the war they drool for.
This tactic is as old as civilization itself.

keithbvadu2

(36,917 posts)
15. Militia members helping the police? - The police should be wary.
Fri Jun 30, 2017, 04:11 PM
Jun 2017

Militia members helping the police? - The police should be wary.

Conservative militia requests/encourages killing of police.

Starts about 10:40 on the timeline

One of our Christian, patriot, conservative militia heroes encouraging supporters to come shoot the police when they conquered and captured an unmanned Federal nature preserve in Oregon.

Where were our conservatives to call this out as wrong?
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