Watchdog group issues dire warning: Portland Patriot Prayer rally could become 'the next Charlottesv
Source: Raw Story
MARTIN CIZMAR
25 JUL 2018 AT 23:04 ET
An upcoming rally by alt-right group Patriot Prayer scheduled to happen in Portland, Oregon in August could become “the next Charlottesville,” reports the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC has been keeping an eye on Patriot Prayer, which is led by Joey Gibson, an extremist who is based in the Portland suburb of Vancouver, Washington and running for senator as a Republican in the state.
We’re gonna have to get some swollen fists”
The Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer members have taken on a markedly more aggressive tone in the aftermath of the June 30 rally. “There will come a day when antifa will meet their match: about 30 guys or more with AR15s with bum [sic] stocks,” a poster wrote on a Patriot Prayer Facebook page after the rally.
“NOT me,” he continued, “because I don’t condone violence. I’m just laying down a prediction.”
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/watchdog-group-issues-dire-warning-portland-patriot-prayer-rally-become-next-charlottesville/
Another Charlottesville? Threats of violence loom over upcoming Portland Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer rally
July 25, 2018
Hatewatch Staff
Since early last year, the far-right groups Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys have held more than a dozen rallies throughout the Pacific Northwest under the banner of “freedom” — and with talk of bringing weapons and declarations that “this is war,” members are threatening to make next weekend’s march the most combustible yet.
These events have always been about exhibiting machismo, but — as political divisions in the country have grown — they’ve developed a more targeted purpose: far-right activists taking out their aggression on political opponents. As Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes once put it, “Fighting solves everything.”
Or, as their slogan goes, “Fuck around and find out.”
The glorification of violence was indisputable late last month, when the Proud Boys found a new hero on the streets of Portland. At a rally hosted by Patriot Prayer, 28-year-old Ethan Nordean — a burly member of the “Western chauvinist” group who goes by the moniker Rufio Panman in a reference to Stephen Spielberg’s Peter Pan film Hook — knocked out a black-clad counter-protester in a single swift punch.
More:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/07/25/another-charlottesville-threats-violence-loom-over-upcoming-portland-proud-boys-patriot
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'authorities' better be on their toes and treat these fascist forces of trump appropriately if any weapons of mass destruction are found. Yet, I think we all know who they will treat with violence...
Charlottesville also next month. Going to be really pivotal, I think in either encouraging these fools or letting them know no one of decency and loyalty to our nation is intimidated by our 'trump brownshirts'.
As soon as hitler 'won', his brownshirts started marching in the streets and intimidating anyone pointed out as Jewish....we better be a nation that turns them back, this time in our forward march of humanity. Trump and his fascist forces are trying to repeat the hitler playbook. By administration and propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Cabinet
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/google-and-facebook-are-strangling-the-free-press-to-death-democracy-is-the-loser
