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Who brought violence? The ones who covered their faces? The ones who threw punches? The ones with pepper spray? The ones with sticks and other weapons? That covers people on both sides. Both parties were extremists and not representative of their respective parties. Alt- Right vs Alt-Left.
Why have a Trump rally on one of the most liberal campuses in the US? Because they expected a warm welcome? That too can be seen as provocative.
Politics used to be about trying to win people over to your side. Now they want to get you to vote for them by hating the other side because emotion is easier to convince them than using logic.
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 08-08-2018 at 08:01 PM.
The people whose goal was to use violence to suppress free speech and the people who started the violence.
It's called free speech, there are a few students there who are trump supporters and a few who might listen to Trump supporters' points of view, it is NOT provocative, stop spewing AntiFa garbage.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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The people who bring violence are the group who engage in violent skirmishes wherever they go. Which is the best predictor of violence when they show up? Trump Supporters? Proud Boys? Patriot Prayer? Or antifa?
Bernie Sanders got a warm welcome from Liberty University. Do we need to hold leftists to a different standard? Are they savages who can't help but be violent in the presence of right-wingers?Why have a Trump rally on one of the most liberal campuses in the US? Because they expected a warm welcome? That too can be seen as provocative.
Ben Shapiro came to UC Berkeley in 2016 without incident. He came again last year and antifa showed up with intent to cause mayhem. Luckily the BPD did their jobs for once and it was peaceful. He's not even a Trump supporter. The escalatory elements is antifa, no one else.
NeoReactionary. American High Tory.
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
Actually the last three. They all have records of violence when they show up. I would not link all Trump supporters with them.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2018/08/0...s-senate-race/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...144139072.htmlGibson has led dozens of protests along the west coast. His events often attract alt-right figures, white supremacists and armed militia members. In Portland, the Patriot Prayer rallies often devolved into street brawls.
The worst-ever violence at a Patriot Prayer event broke out on June 30, when Gibson's followers, joined by a large coalition of Proud Boys, clashed with antifascist counterprotesters. Members of the far-right group beat antifascists with flagpoles after counterprotesters lobbed rocks and fireworks at the Patriot Prayer crowd. Five people sought treatment in Portland hospitals after the riot.
The most recent rally on Aug. 4 avoided similar beatings, but ended with police firing explosives and chemical irritants at the counterprotesters, injuring several people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...t-left/534192/Explained: Who are the far-right Proud Boys?
As the 2016 presidential elections agitated already sharp political divisions in the United States, a host of far-right groups began to emerge across the country.
With anti-fascist groups also setting up shop in many cities and towns, violent clashes also became part and parcel of protests, particularly in the months following US President Donald Trump's inauguration.
One of the many far-right organisations that welcomed opportunities to engage in violence was the Proud Boys, a self-described pro-Western, chauvinist "fraternity" headed by a former media executive.
Established in 2016 by Vice cofounder Gavin McInnes, the Proud Boys boast of chapters in several major North American cities in the US and Canada, as well as places as far away as Israel.
McInnes, who left Vice in 2008 due to what he described as "creative differences", used his former programme at Rebel Media, a right-wing online Canadian outlet, to promote the Proud Boys.
The Rise of the Violent Left
Antifa’s activists say they’re battling burgeoning authoritarianism on the American right. Are they fueling it instead?
Since 1907, portland, oregon, has hosted an annual Rose Festival. Since 2007, the festival had included a parade down 82nd Avenue. Since 2013, the Republican Party of Multnomah County, which includes Portland, had taken part. This April, all of that changed.
In the days leading up to the planned parade, a group called the Direct Action Alliance declared, “Fascists plan to march through the streets,” and warned, “Nazis will not march through Portland unopposed.” The alliance said it didn’t object to the Multnomah GOP itself, but to “fascists” who planned to infiltrate its ranks. Yet it also denounced marchers with “Trump flags” and “red maga hats” who could “normalize support for an orange man who bragged about sexually harassing women and who is waging a war of hate, racism and prejudice.” A second group, Oregon Students Empowered, created a Facebook page called “Shut down fascism! No nazis in Portland!”
Next, the parade’s organizers received an anonymous email warning that if “Trump supporters” and others who promote “hateful rhetoric” marched, “we will have two hundred or more people rush into the parade … and drag and push those people out.” When Portland police said they lacked the resources to provide adequate security, the organizers canceled the parade. It was a sign of things to come.
On Inauguration Day, a masked activist punched the white-supremacist leader Richard Spencer. In February, protesters violently disrupted UC Berkeley’s plans to host a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart.com editor. In March, protesters pushed and shoved the controversial conservative political scientist Charles Murray when he spoke at Middlebury College, in Vermont.
As far-flung as these incidents were, they have something crucial in common. Like the organizations that opposed the Multnomah County Republican Party’s participation in the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, these activists appear to be linked to a movement called “antifa,” which is short for antifascist or Anti-Fascist Action. The movement’s secrecy makes definitively cataloging its activities difficult, but this much is certain: Antifa’s power is growing. And how the rest of the activist left responds will help define its moral character in the Trump age.The violence is not directed only at avowed racists like Spencer: In June of last year, demonstrators—at least some of whom were associated with antifa—punched and threw eggs at people exiting a Trump rally in San Jose, California. An article in It’s Going Down celebrated the “righteous beatings.”Antifascists call such actions defensive. Hate speech against vulnerable minorities, they argue, leads to violence against vulnerable minorities. But Trump supporters and white nationalists see antifa’s attacks as an assault on their right to freely assemble, which they in turn seek to reassert. The result is a level of sustained political street warfare not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s. A few weeks after the attacks in San Jose, for instance, a white-supremacist leader announced that he would host a march in Sacramento to protest the attacks at Trump rallies. Anti-Fascist Action Sacramento called for a counterdemonstration; in the end, at least 10 people were stabbed.
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 08-08-2018 at 08:21 PM.
There would be no violence at Proud Boy or Patriot Prayer rallies were it not for antifa. That's what you seem to be incapable of grasping. Antifa goes down to these gatherings to "bash the fash". They're totally open about it. There are peaceful rallies when these groups are unmolested. There are no peaceful antifa rallies unless the cops crack down hard.
NeoReactionary. American High Tory.
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
lol Al Jazeera. The news organization funded by ultra-conservative Qatar that pushes progressivism, BLM and anti-Trump $#@! in the US. Anyway, even with that, these links just prove my point. The only time there's violence at these Proud Boy rallies is when antifa goes there and attacks them.
NeoReactionary. American High Tory.
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
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The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
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Where are all the supporters of jury nullification? After all, isn't this is precisely the kind of result to be expected if the jury is to be allowed to ignore the law given to them by the judge and acquit someone for whatever reason they choose? As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for -- you might get it.
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-Major General Smedley Butler, USMC,There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
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Sets a dangerous precedent. He will be sued civilly and pay some serious bucks to the victim, but this sends a clear message that it's open season in Cali to assault with a deadly weapon.... if you have the preferred political affiliation.
-Major General Smedley Butler, USMC,There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Author of, War is a Racket!
- Diogenes of SinopeIt is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
You have a serious reading comprehension problem.
The jury has found all five defendants not guilty of misdemeanor assault, and not guilty of assault causing great bodily injury, also a misdemeanor.
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/06...rump-supporter
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
Erwin N. Griswold
Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension.
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You mean they are not attacked by counter protestors. There is often violence and destruction by these same antifa vandals (black bloc) with no opposition protesters present. Newspaper stands, McDonald’s, Starbuck’s, CVS, Whole Foods, and assorted large and small local businesses are some of their favorite targets.
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not represent this forum or any other entities or persons.
Pfizer Macht Frei!
Openly Straight Man, Danke, Awarded Top Rated Influencer. Community Standards Enforcer.
Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
Short Income Tax Video
The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes
The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
-Major General Smedley Butler, USMC,There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Author of, War is a Racket!
- Diogenes of SinopeIt is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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You know, I sort of see a parallel here. Conservative groups hold a rally, and antifa shows up to be disruptive and violent. I say that antifa is not some grass roots organization of yesteryear. They appear to be funded by high rollers.
RPFers try to promote liberty and we get infiltrated by Zip and his Open Society Foundation high rollers. Some people here are fooled by the ZippyJuan Group's superficial politeness, but that is naivete at it's worst. They are shrewd, organized, and downright nasty.
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