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werdna

(1,252 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 01:48 AM May 2025

Beware! Like the Monkees, they may be coming to your town!

Unlike the Monkees, however, they're not "just tryin' to be friendly.

Article: Class offers to help ‘flush out’ people ‘hostile to liberty’ in Portage County
"The Portage County Republican Party is promoting an all-day “Into Action” class on June 21, which is being marketed to people who wish to “identify individuals and organizations hostile to liberty.” "
https://theportager.com/class-offers-to-help-flush-out-people-hostile-to-liberty-in-portage-county/

Article: Event targeting 'organizations hostile to liberty' and pledging to 'flush them out raises concerns in Portage County
"The 'Into Action class,' hosted by an organization called the Allied Special Intelligence Group, was previously promoted by the Portage County GOP."
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/portage-county/planned-class-portage-county-pledges-train-communities-identify-individuals-organizations-hostile-to-liberty/95-5254fcca-730d-4c96-9436-ce0a3176ad2

The ASIG web link: https://asig2.com/

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Beware! Like the Monkees, they may be coming to your town! (Original Post) werdna May 2025 OP
Sounds a bit like canetoad May 2025 #1
An organization hostile to liberty DFW May 2025 #2
Hey, hey, we're the Stazi... JHB May 2025 #3
Luckily the comments section is totally negative at this time. Boomerproud May 2025 #4
Fascists have no shame. Emile May 2025 #5
Instructors, the ad says, will be military combat veterans with special ops experience, former law enforcement personnel Celerity May 2025 #6

DFW

(60,436 posts)
2. An organization hostile to liberty
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:16 AM
May 2025

That sounds like a perfectly accurate description of the Portage County Republican Party.

JHB

(38,337 posts)
3. Hey, hey, we're the Stazi...
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:26 AM
May 2025

...people say we Nazi around.
And we're so busy pinging,
any snitch to put you down.


Boomerproud

(9,363 posts)
4. Luckily the comments section is totally negative at this time.
Wed May 28, 2025, 04:50 AM
May 2025

I have very deep roots in Portage county and this disturbs me deeply. I hope this is a bust, but in today's world I can't count on that.

Celerity

(54,878 posts)
6. Instructors, the ad says, will be military combat veterans with special ops experience, former law enforcement personnel
Wed May 28, 2025, 05:51 AM
May 2025
elected officials and intelligence professionals with special skills.

Allied Special Intelligence Group’s website promises instructors versed in “how to legally and lawfully delay, disrupt, dismantle and remove Communists/Marxists and terrorists from our communities in order to restore and protect our Constitutional Republic.”


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