Posted on 04/27/2017 9:11:58 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
For 10 years, the 82nd Avenue of Roses Business Association has kicked off the city of Portland’s annual Rose Festival with a family-friendly parade meant to attract crowds to its diverse neighborhood.
Set to march in the parade’s 67th spot this year was the Multnomah County Republican Party, a fact that so outraged two self-described antifascist groups in the deep blue Oregon city that they pledged to protest and disrupt the April 29 event.
Then came an anonymous and ominous email, according to parade organizers, that instructed them to cancel the GOP group’s registration — or else.
“You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely,” the anonymous email said, referring to the violent riots that hit Portland after the 2016 presidential election, reported the Oregonian. “This is nonnegotiable.”
The email said that 200 people would “rush into the parade” and “drag and push” those marching with the Republican Party.
Anyone seeing any parallels between 20th century Europe and the USA here?
What is that graphic supposed to represent?
Is there no rule of law in Portland?
Portland has been a whack left city since the dawn of time!
There’s rule of law but not for anarchists...
Do the “antifa” members not see the irony of using extreme violence to shut down free speech and right to assemble is a very fascist tactic, or are they so convinced that they are on a holy crusade that any means to their end are allowed. I guess it goes back to the WW2 question “did the Nazis see themselves as evil?”
for anarchists there’s the rule of Glock
I don’t know how you threaten a rose parade with violence. Maybe the garbage needs to rounded up and dumped in Tillamook bay...let the tide carry it out to sea.
The pretzel logic of the left...These ass wipes are very dangerous. Gitmo is not good enough for them.
Portland rose parade canceled after ‘antifascists’ threaten GOP marchers
The brown-shirts of the thirties have reemerged as the black-shirts of the year and apparently they like the brown-shirts are winning. Every time this works for them it only emboldens them all the more.
You definitely answered your own question. It's not evil when they do it. They are on a mission from God, only different.
These types are the natural fruit coming out of decades of political indoctrination and social engineering. Totally self-focused, gods in their own minds, intolerant of the reality outside of their own delusions.
What can you do with people who are convinced that they themselves define and create reality? The mentality is really no different than that of activist transgenders, or muslim invaders. Power for the sake of power.
How desperate is one's own position if the only way to 'validate' it is to plot evil to destroy all opposition?
Antifa ARE the fascists.
Obama’s brown shirts.
Maine splits it’s electoral votes.
80% of Maine...the 2nd congressional district...was carried by Trump, and both men and women in the district voted for him. It’s should be 80% red...
Appeasement worked really well with that other Nazi, Hitler.
George Santayana was right, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.
“When fascism comes to America it will be called anti-fascism.” - Huey Long.
ANTIFACISTS my @$$ ,,, they are brown shirt thugs in the wool of WWII German SS troopers .
You are exactly right, they are more embolden after each successful attack or cave from the police and governments. This will not end well because these Bolsheviks will eventually come across a mayor or police chief, sheriff or a group of Americans who will stand up and say enough, you want a street fight you got one Vladimir!
I don’t know where this will happen or the spark but it is coming as the average American is fed up with this totalitarian and bullying behavior. When it does happen blood will flow from both sides.
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