Posted on 05/26/2012 11:52:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
A horde of masked figures stormed the restaurant in a single-file line, wielding bats, claw hammers and metal batons — their presence announced when one shouted, “‘Hey, bitches, the ARA is going to f--- up this place.’ ”
With that, the shrouded thugs went on a rampage, clubbing diners at The Ashford House restaurant on May 19 in Tinley Park. They did not discriminate as to the targets of their violence, even pushing an 80-year-old woman to the ground, according to an eyewitness who’s a former Chicago police officer.
“Although the terrorist assault lasted only about a minute, it was the longest minute of my life,” the eyewitness said.
Authorities have said the attackers were targeting a group that believes in white supremacy and calls itself the Illinois European Heritage Association. At least 10 people were hurt during the attack, with three taken to a hospital for treatment.
Five Indiana men who prosecutors say are linked to the Anti-Racist Action Group remain in the Cook County Jail, charged with felony mob action, aggravated battery and criminal damage to property. They are John Tucker, 26, of Martinsville, Ind.; Cody Sutherlin, 23, and Alex Stuck, 22, both of Bloomington, Ind.; and Dylan Sutherlin, 20, and Jason Sutherlin, 33, both of Gosport, Ind. Two victims also were arrested on charges unrelated to the attack.
The Anti-Racist Action Group (ARA) is a “radical left-wing group” that often resorts to violent acts, said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Ala. The attack, he said, “did more harm to the cause of fighting racism than almost anyone can imagine.”
It was easy for the Anti-Racist Action Group to learn the other group was meeting in Tinley Park because it was advertised on two white supremacist websites, Potok said.
“It was incredibly foolish of them,” he said.
A member of the Illinois European Heritage Association has denied the group believes in white supremacy.
But one of the websites, Stormfront, is run by a man who is a former high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, Potok said, and the other, White News Now, is operated by the former “right-hand man to David Duke, the former Klan leader.
The eyewitness, whose identity the SouthtownStar has agreed to keep private because the man fears retaliation, said he and his family were having lunch when the frightening attack started. He quickly realized what he thought was a robbery had turned into a fight for his life.
“I also remember thinking that this must be the feeling that passengers experience on a hijacked plane,” he said.
The attackers began upending tables, hurling plates and silverware and attacking other diners.
“I stood up and grabbed a wooden chair as one of the assailants approached from the left. I started swinging the chair to protect my family and other elderly patrons in our corner,” the man says in a written statement. “Suddenly, another assailant charged at me from the right. He was violently swinging a metal baton. The terrorist swung two or three times at my head and face. Thank God I was able to block the brunt (of) his attack with the chair.”
The witness said he shared his account because he wants people to patronize The Ashford House, 7959 W. 159th St. He suffered a gash to his head, and one of his hands was still swollen days after the attack. But his injuries did not prevent him from dispensing some justice of his own.
“When I was fending them off, I realized my head was bleeding. And my hand was really hurting,” he said. “But when one of those guys said, ‘Don’t let him up,’ I ran across the room and hit him as hard as I could in the face with a chair.”
From this the people that conducted the attack will likely go to prison and restaurants will likely refuse to open their establishments to Stormfront (Nazis).
Advertise and meet again, only in a CCW state, and hope that the ARA shows up.
The only Constitutional issue here is property rights and not the right of the Stormfront affiliated group to meet in a restaurant.
I bet it is not all that good for a restaurant’s business when it becomes known that the eatery permits Stromfront to hold meetings.
Chicago desperately needs shall issue CCW. So many problems would evaporate in a number of weeks.
And yet, the people of Chicago keep electing the same party over and over.
Nazis? And they did carry mustard gas, portable crematoria, and other illegal weapons? What kind of Nazis those Nazis were?
From the ABC story:
—”The meeting of the Illinois European Heritage Association had been frequently mentioned on the “White Pride” webforum stormfront.org. It was called the “5th Annual White Nationalist Economic summit” and promoted as an opportunity to “work for whites.””
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****Now substitute the word “BLACK” for white in the paragraph and ask yourself how commonplace such pro-black gatherings are without any resistance:
—”The meeting of the Illinois AFRICAN Heritage Association had been frequently mentioned on the “BLACK Pride” webforum stormfront.org. It was called the “5th Annual BLACK Nationalist Economic summit” and promoted as an opportunity to “work for BLACKS.””
Nobody would bat an eyelash. Amazing how screwed up this country is.
Even if people hateful Nazi’s, they have a right to gather peacefully and free expression without being beaten up with hammers.
Notice two of them were from Bloomington? That's the home of Indiana University, which has had rep for harboring Reds and the mega-pervert Kinsey, going all the way back to the 1930's. Very, very Red schoolhouse.
You could get, and can still get, an education there -- my godfather attended, in the late 30's, and they didn't faze him.
But it's significant that those guys were from down there -- they weren't just over the line in Hammond or something.
There you go, restaurants everywhere have the right to refuse service to whiteys of bad odor. Now, if they were the New Black Panthers or Quanell X ..... think they could make that stick, in the face of CRA enforcement by Eric "My People" Holder?
And if that damned Jim Thompson shows up with a bunch of his "FReakers", why, just throw them out on their butts! They white! They gotta have good rep, man! They can't be "phobes" or "bigots" or "racists" or "capitalists" or any of that mess, man -- time White Boy got jerked up straight, man!
Do you agree?
Or how would you handle that -- the general proposition that you must accommodate persons of minority minoritage, whereas Beast People need to walk the line and can't join that damn Tea Party or Flea Republic or whatever the hell they call it -- I ain't having no cracka mess in here!!!
Right?
It’s unlikely that the restaurant knew the affiliation of the group. All they probably knew was “XXXX wants to reserve a table for XXXX”.
The owners of the restaurant have property rights with the power to decide who they service, and consumers have the right to not frequent a restaurant that permits Stormfront or the Black Panthers to meet.
National Socialist Party, or Nazi for short. You know, history class? Just like last time.
Only this time its your family that will be beaten into submission, not some Germans.
None of which has to do with whether peaceable people - even peaceable people with odious viewpoints - peacably assembling should be beaten with hammers or not.
No kidding, Mr Patronizer? You're talking about the falsified history class, don't you! Go ahead, keep up the illusion that a couple of hundred clowns who like to dress up in spiffy uniforms, are a danger to the civilization while your favorite Leftists are beating you and your family into submission of political correctness, socialized medicine, and low flow toilets, and that's just for starters. And make sure you never listen to Wagner!
I don’t believe that I condoned the attack on the Stormfront folks.
I think you misunderstood me. To me, Obama is a perfect parallel to the National Socialist party and El’Duce the Fascist dictator of the Italian Fascist party of World War II rolled into one.
Right out of History Class, one of the classes replaced by advanced sexual studies in the socialist controlled government schools.
I think I misunderstood you too... Seems we are on the same page!
OK, sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes, we are on the same page.
FROM THE LINK:
The Indiana group has several initiatives in the area, including raising money for hate crime victims and providing security for gay and lesbian events...
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