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I went to the Anti-Nazi protest today in Madison. Still editing some of the video I took, which will be online tomorrow.
There were a few very perplexing issues that have come up to wrack my brain hours later. It just doesn't get down to hateful ignorance represented by people who were fed the hatred from their parents. It gets down to how these Nazis needed to have the city spend time and resources at taxpayer expense to try to tell us that it's the government that they attack that is the problem.
By resources, there were 300 police with riot gear on that formed multiple rows to protect these vermin. There were gates and blockades built to protect these scum. There were weapons ready to attack those that protested them if we dared move iinto the perimeter.
These Nazis are cowards. Chickens. Yellow-bellied mama's boys. If they truly felt their message would be accepted, why did they demand to be protected by an armed militia with riot gear and protective gates that would have easily overwhelmed a weaponless crowd. I yelled at one point that we would have to kick their asses again, like we did in WWII.
I was proud of the protesting crowd with some signs, a couple bullhorns, a voice and the ability to be there were there in the rain; wheelchairs, crutches, seeing-eye dogs and such not stopping them. Families with kids, students, workers, farmers, hippies, people of all races and creeds and whoever felt it necessary to make their presence known stood up and shouted these sycophants down.
I'm not sure if there was sage burned after the hate-fest in the well-protected area where the 50 or so Nazis stood with their swastika signs and other embellishments.
What was shocking was the time before the group finally showed up, heavily escorted by the police, to their stage. People were chanting beforehand, but there was a noticeable shrill in some of the protestors when they showed their faces. Grasping the reality that these people actually exist is as bad as watching a car accident happen in slow motion.
As if timed by the gods, the rain began as soon as they began to speak.
It was generally "peaceful" throughout the event, but at what cost. Seeing a Nazi flag flying by the state capitol building was enough reason for someone like to ask people in the crowd if they wanted to find out where these bastards parked their cars. I didn't act on it.
Like the rain gods that knew when to help ruin an event, surely the road gods will swallow these evil clowns just when they least expect it on their way to try to pollute another town with their poison.