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Hell Hath No Fury

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9. This is actually a group called The Freedom Keepers --
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:19 AM
Aug 2017

“The Freedom Keepers have appeared as a camouflage-garbed security force at ‘free speech’ confrontations up and down the west coast hosted by the nationalist movement known as the ‘alt-right’ ,” Willamette Week news editor Aaron Mesh explained, after similar events in several Oregon cities. “They describe themselves as a ‘patriot’ group,” despite the prominence of Nazi, Confederate, and Ku Klux Klan regalia at their events, “and recently protested the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans.”

http://www.animals24-7.org/2017/08/15/what-was-no-kill-nation-founder-debi-day-doing-in-charlottesville/

I found out about them because a very prominent animal rights advocate was spotted as a member (you can see her in the photo you posted) and pretty much flipped out the animal rights community.

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