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Oregon Braces for Planned Far-Right Rally, Counterprotest This Weekend
KTLA ^ | 08/13/2019

Posted on 08/13/2019 6:24:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The groups know they will get a headline-grabbing reaction from Portland’s so-called “antifa,” whose members have issued an online call to their followers to turn out to “defend Portland from a far-Right attack.”

Portland’s Rose City Antifa, the nation’s oldest active anti-fascist group, says violence against right-wing demonstrators is “exactly what should happen..."

Portland leaders are planning a major law enforcement presence on the heels of similar rallies in June... None of the city’s nearly 1,000 police officers will have the day off, and Portland will get help from the Oregon State Police and the FBI. Mayor Ted Wheeler has said he may ask Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, to call up the Oregon National Guard.

At the June rally, masked antifa members beat up a conservative blogger named Andy Ngo. Video of the 30-second attack grabbed national attention and further turned the focus on Portland...

Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, of Texas, and Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, introduced a congressional resolution calling for anti-fascists to be declared domestic terrorists...Portland’s City Hall has been evacuated twice due to bomb threats after the June 29 skirmishes...

Police have noted the violence in June was limited to a small area of downtown Portland despite three different demonstrations that lasted more than five hours, with hundreds of people constantly on the move.

Joe Biggs, organizer of Saturday’s rally, said the attack on Ngo made him decide to hold the event with the goal of getting antifa declared a domestic terrorist organization. Biggs said those coming to Portland have been told not to bring weapons or start fights, but they will defend themselves if attacked.

He says he is not racist — he has a toddler daughter with his Guyanese wife — but wants to show the world antifa’s violent tactics.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: americanguard; anarchists; antifa; dailystomers; oathkeepers; occupy; occupywallstreet; proudboys; threepercenters
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1 posted on 08/13/2019 6:24:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

ground zero for our civil war I’m afraid ... these antifa chumps are going to find out they’ve bitten off much more than they can chew


2 posted on 08/13/2019 6:27:25 AM PDT by gogulls (frequent lurker since 2000 recount)
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To: BenLurkin

Marshmallow roast at the Reichstag?

KYPD


3 posted on 08/13/2019 6:27:46 AM PDT by petro45acp (CHAOS TO THE ENEMY!!! It is part of daily prayer now....every bit helps to get America back.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Far Right” - I believe that term now applies to anyone who has fallen behind on their dues payments to the Communist Party of America?

When’s the last time anyone saw a headline about the “Far Left” or “Left-Wing Extremists”?


4 posted on 08/13/2019 6:27:46 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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Portland is just begging - BEGGING - for BITS.

Naturally it will be blamed on Right Wingers.


5 posted on 08/13/2019 6:28:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Junk Silver
that term now applies to anyone who has fallen behind on their dues payments to the Communist Party

Stealing that!

6 posted on 08/13/2019 6:28:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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There is so much left wing propaganda in this its hard to believe they call it Journalism.
You can almost hear them cheering for Antifa to kill someone.
Isolated to a small area?
The protests are always near the city square off the MAX as its public and protesters get public funded transportation.

This is a perfect example of how the local MSM controls the message.
It started in CA and is now everywhere in the USA.
Control the message and you control the people.


7 posted on 08/13/2019 6:30:51 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: BenLurkin

Stop calling them anti-fascist. They are anything but. And if you go there, take extra magazines.


8 posted on 08/13/2019 6:31:00 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Junk Silver

“Far Right” - I believe that term now applies to anyone who has fallen behind on their dues payments to the Communist Party of America?”

Winner and keeper!!!!


9 posted on 08/13/2019 6:31:54 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Zathras

The worst of the pro-anarchist language was not included in the excerpt.


10 posted on 08/13/2019 6:31:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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It sounds like the far left is planning on going full retard with their violence.


11 posted on 08/13/2019 6:32:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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They should make sure to have multiple video recordings taken from everywhere and different angles. Post them to YT and elsewhere (as YT will probably remove them...).


12 posted on 08/13/2019 6:32:22 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Sounds like a lot of hogs need feeding in the Portland, OR area . . .

(h/t > J.Ross)

13 posted on 08/13/2019 6:33:23 AM PDT by tomkat ( /.02)
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Guess who the cops will protect?

Antifa, the nation’s oldest active anti-fascist group, says violence against right-wing demonstrators is “exactly what should happen..."

14 posted on 08/13/2019 6:34:09 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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This reminds me of years ago in the Bay Area. Sometimes a rally was planned, and local stores in downtown Oakland, and Berkeley would put wooden boards up covering their glass windows. It looked as though they were preparing for a hurricane or tsunami. Everyone knew to be away from that rowdy part of town towards the evening.

It would all start ‘peacefully’, with a march down main streets, blocking traffic. But after sunset, that was when groups such as Black Block, Antifa, BLM or LaRaza would send their thugs out, setting fires in trashcans, then tipping those cans over. It seemed done just for the sake of creating chaos.


15 posted on 08/13/2019 6:35:32 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Zathras

Leftist totalitarian Antifa have killed and maimed in a number of areas, including the last mass shooting.

Also they dont have to be wearing the uniform to be leftist killers.


16 posted on 08/13/2019 6:35:40 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There is no “far left”.

There is only leftwing totalitarianism - i.e. communism, socialism. marxism, progressivism, naziism, fascism, etc

Different brand names for Karl Marx’s failed 19th century cult called “leftism”.


17 posted on 08/13/2019 6:36:04 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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I love how the neo marxists are referred to as anti fascist and not communists


18 posted on 08/13/2019 6:39:57 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: BenLurkin

Get the popcorn.


19 posted on 08/13/2019 6:41:45 AM PDT by Brilliant
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What “Far Right” group would be dumb enough to assemble in Oregon? Law enforcement, Antifa, and the local/state political structure will be coordinated against them. People will be physically harmed, prosecuted for defending themselves, and lose their jobs for participating. Dumb.


20 posted on 08/13/2019 6:42:42 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Fact: Dogs can extract more info from smelling a pile of $h!t than humans can from viewing CNN)
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