Portland's Patriot Prayer Rally Could Be Most Violent Since Charlottesville, Activists Say

[NeoConsSuck]

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Source: HuffPost

Armed, proto-fascist gangs are set to rally in Portland, Oregon, this weekend, stirring fears that the city could witness the kind of political violence not seen since the deadly white supremacist “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia, nearly a year ago.

Members of the two violent far-right groups, Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys — both of which have deep ties to white supremacist organizations — plan to rally in Tom McCall Waterfront Park at noon Saturday. The so-called “Gibson for Senate Freedom March” is being organized by Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson, who is running for Senate as a Republican from Washington state.

The last rally, on June 30, was declared a riot by the city of Portland after Patriot Prayer and Proud Boy members, many in body armor and carrying weapons, repeatedly charged at anti-fascist protesters. A viral video showed one Proud Boy member knocking a masked anti-fascist unconscious. Other videos showed Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer members isolating and circling counterprotesters, beating them.

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Earlier this week, Gibson announced he was moving the location of the rally to Tom McCall Waterfront Park, where local ordinances will allow demonstrators to legally carry firearms.


Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/portland-patriot-prayer-proud-boys-rally_us_5b646217e4b0de86f4a0ba04

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Welcome to T-Rump's America...

Here's another link:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/portland-expect-patriot-prayer-rally-180803154247734.html

[Botany]

1. Please everybody stay away!

No need for any anti fascist protesters or anybody to show up for a counter protest
let these gun toting mouth breathers have a private party.

[drmeow]

10. Totally agree

Also, keep away all the news cameras. Film no footage of the march (report on it without footage). It will drive them NUTS!

[byronius]

2. The video of them beating a counter protester was startlingly Brownshirt.

Just so absolutely dark and evil. Every one of them needs to :poof:.

Goddamn idiots raised by goddamned idiots.

[IADEMO2004]

3. Ghosting these assholes seems a good response.

bunch of local state and federal government agencies spanking and sending them home to their mommies would be more satisfying.

[mn9driver]

4. Every business anywhere close to the park should close on Saturday

The police should set up barricades and leave only one entrance with a couple thousand cops surrounding the perimeter and arrest anyone that tries take the rally outside the line.

Everyone else should stay home and ignore them.

[lunasun]

8. That sounds good if you can get business in the area to cooperate.

[Coventina]

5. Proto-fascist? Um, no. Full-on fascist.

Call it what it is.

(directed at Huffpo, not the poster).

[SergeStorms]

6. And this is all on Trump.

These are his people. These are the Republicans people. They've dog whistled these fascist asshats for decades, and Trump has "legitimized" them, even if only in their own, warped, sick minds.

The Grand Trump Party owns every bit of what will happen. Welcome to Trump Amerikkka.

[lunasun]

7. "Patriot Prayer" Rally? Who was it that said when facism comes to the United States it will be

wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross ?

[0rganism]

11. twas Sinclair Lewis

[OnlinePoker]

12. No, that's never been found in any of Lewis' writing.

The closest he came was in "It Can't Happen Here" (1935) where he said: But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word ‘Fascism’ and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty.

[0rganism]

13. well, let's just call it a common misattribution then

still a succinct and relevant piece of writing

[Grassy Knoll]

9. So It's A Trump Rally, Without The Naked King...

...
I Hope CNN Covers This Story And Ties
Trumps Testicles Around His Utterly Racist Support Group.

Have A Nice Day, Idiots.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Locking - the hosts feel this a feature story, with speculation

rather than a news story on something that has happened. Please repost in GD. Thanks.