The Rise of the Violent Left

The Atlantic ^ | The September 2017 Issue | Peter Beinart

[2ndDivisionVet]

Antifa’s activists say they’re battling burgeoning authoritarianism on the American right. Are they fueling it instead?

Since 1907, Portland, Oregon, has hosted an annual Rose Festival. Since 2007, the festival had included a parade down 82nd Avenue. Since 2013, the Republican Party of Multnomah County, which includes Portland, had taken part. This April, all of that changed.

In the days leading up to the planned parade, a group called the Direct Action Alliance declared, “Fascists plan to march through the streets,” and warned, “Nazis will not march through Portland unopposed.” The alliance said it didn’t object to the Multnomah GOP itself, but to “fascists” who planned to infiltrate its ranks. Yet it also denounced marchers with “Trump flags” and “red maga hats” who could “normalize support for an orange man who bragged about sexually harassing women and who is waging a war of hate, racism and prejudice.” A second group, Oregon Students Empowered, created a Facebook page called “Shut down fascism! No nazis in Portland!”

Next, the parade’s organizers received an anonymous email warning that if “Trump supporters” and others who promote “hateful rhetoric” marched, “we will have two hundred or more people rush into the parade … and drag and push those people out.” When Portland police said they lacked the resources to provide adequate security, the organizers canceled the parade. It was a sign of things to come.....

[Zippo44]

“The fateful email to parade organizers warned, “The police cannot stop us from shutting down roads.”

Time to get that railroad iron and razor wire aftermarket front bumper and the bulletproof film for the glass on my SUV. That and my .357 magnum car gun will have to do to get me through the human roadblock; otherwise known as the human speedbumps.

[LonePalm]

Not yet but they are working on it.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[crz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlV9C36zPAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGOzLez8zs

I ever get to see this in person I WILL follow the skunk and KILL the pissant away from the proceedings.

Now tell me that I will go to prison.

[jmacusa]

As a former Lefty I've warned time and again how these punks are and how to deal with them. They put one of ours in the hospital we put one of theirs in the morgue. It's the only thing they understand and the only way to deal with them.

[a fool in paradise]

Stalinists lie. Always

Antifa called police “fascists”.
Antifa called President Bush a “fascist”.

It’s just a convenient cover so they can riot and engage in militant violence.

[minnesota_bound]

Look at any riot or murder of a politician and it is because of socialist/communists.

[JimRed]

...who bragged about sexually harassing women...

Tell the lie often enough and it becomes truth.

He said that THEY WOULD LET YOU grab stuff if you are rich, not that HE HAD GRABBED STUFF!

[JimRed]

He didn’t even say that he approved of grabbing stuff.

[Incorrigible]

"When antifascists forced the cancellation of the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, Trump supporters responded with a “March for Free Speech.” Among those who attended was Jeremy Christian, a burly ex-con draped in an American flag, who uttered racial slurs and made Nazi salutes.

The next day, Christian boarded a light-rail train and began yelling that “colored people” were ruining the city... three men interposed themselves between Christian and his targets. “Please,” one said, “get off this train.” Christian stabbed all three."

From the video I saw, Jeremy Christian was denied entrance to that free speech rally. He was already known by police and local residents as a nut case.