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Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
Tue May 30, 2017, 11:21 AM May 2017

Portland Repub says party should use militia groups after racial attack; view into alt right mindset

This is an important view into the alt right mindset. It truly is an alternative universe where they are the victims:

Guardian
County GOP chair James Buchal says security forces may be appropriate as tensions rise after two people died in a racial attack on public transport

As tensions continue in Portland following the racially charged murder of two men on Friday, the top Republican in the city said he is considering using militia groups as security for public events.

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Multnomah County GOP chair James Buchal, however, told the Guardian that recent street protests had prompted Portland Republicans to consider alternatives to “abandoning the public square”.

“I am sort of evolving to the point where I think that it is appropriate for Republicans to continue to go out there,” he said. “And if they need to have a security force protecting them, that’s an appropriate thing too.”

Asked if this meant Republicans making their own security arrangements rather than relying on city or state police, Buchal said: “Yeah. And there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.”

Asked if he was considering such groups as security providers, Buchal said: “Yeah. We’re thinking about that. Because there are now belligerent, unstable people who are convinced that Republicans are like Nazis.”

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“Our enemies are more dangerous than ever” he continues. “We are really in a life and death battle for the future of our society. And these globalist people are not going to give up.”

“If we don’t tell out fellow citizens that there are these dark forces in the government, like the CIA and the shadow government, who are trying to take Trump down with lies, who is going to tell them?”

Lots more:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/29/portland-attack-republican-james-buchal-militia-groups?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=228382&subid=20993289&CMP=GT_US_collection

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Portland Repub says party should use militia groups after racial attack; view into alt right mindset (Original Post) Amaryllis May 2017 OP
Soooo... let me get this straight, Buchal C_U_L8R May 2017 #1
Good one! Mme. Defarge May 2017 #2
The stupidity... Scurrilous May 2017 #3

C_U_L8R

(45,001 posts)
1. Soooo... let me get this straight, Buchal
Tue May 30, 2017, 11:26 AM
May 2017

You're upset that people think you're a Nazi so then
you're gonna go out and hire some brownshirt goons?

Well you're a special kind of stupid Nazi, arentcha?

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