These are the guys who were arrested last June in Idaho for supposedly planning a riot at a gay pride event. No charges were ever filed and there have been no stories on it since the day of the arrest. Nothing. No media follow up as to whatever happened to them. Total black hole. That tells you a lot.
was that the arrest where the PFers were allowed to keep their masks on even after they were arrested?
Police name 31 members of Patriot Front ‘little army’ arrested for plan to ‘riot’ Idaho Pride event
Then, in September the trials of some of those arrested began, contrary to the mis-statement made by circlecity. Here are some links to news reports on that:
In this NPR propaganda piece a bunch of leftists whine that the Patriot Front guys should spend 10 years in prison via Federal prosecutions. The same sort of ridiculous over charging we've seen for many of the J6 participants.
Trials begin for Patriot Front members, but some say local prosecutions aren't enough
One of then pled guilty to disturbing the peace, and the recomended sentence was 6 months in jail, suspended. Patriot Front Member Pleads Guilty to Disturbing the Peace
It's kinda of sad watching Freepers all fall in line with the obviously false (but comforting) narrative that these guys are all FBI agents. Clearly they are not.
They are also probably not what NPR and the ADL call them either. Alexander N. Sisenstein, of Midvale, Utah, is 27. He's young, as are most of the rest.
It's instructive to compare their last few events with the last great boomer-patriot protest: was the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 6.
I know several Freepers who attended, and also several friends in my town. All were over 60.
Now that was an event completely infiltrated by Feds, fronted of Boomer created orgs compromised by Feds, like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, and mostly consisting of naive patriots, led to the figurative slaughter by the shady Ali Alexander. Hundreds of people are still languishung in the Fed Gulag as a result of that fiasco.
While I understand that many boomer-patriot types here on Free Republic are comforted believing Patriot Front are "glowies" the truth is they are just 20-somethings who have learned a lot from current events and their peers. Yes, they dress alike. And wear masks. Both tactics that they observed allowed antifa, their peers, to avoid arrest and doxing. They do not announce their events in advance. That way they don't have shills showing up and smashing windows or hoisting Nazi flags to detract from their message and discredit their cause. The Jan 6 protest had many shills posing as MAGA doing a lot of the vandalism. Previous alt-right rallies have had problems with infiltraitors.
In the Idaho thing, didn’t it come out at some point that there were at least 15 FBI undercover operatives involved?