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Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests
CNN-LOL ^ | 4 June 2020 | Robert Kuznia, Drew Griffin and Curt Devine

Posted on 06/04/2020 5:14:04 AM PDT by Magnatron

Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists.

The "alert" was from a man who had a run-in with the Minneapolis police while on the frontline of the police-brutality protests set off by the death of George Floyd. "He caught mace to the face," said Teeter, and "put out a national notice to our network."

After Teeter -- who goes by Ryan -- said he saw the online posting, he and a handful of other Boogaloo friends in the area mobilized. They grabbed their guns -- mostly assault rifles -- hopped into their vehicles, and made the 18-hour trek to Minneapolis.

The Boogaloos are an emerging incarnation of extremism that seems to defy easy categorization. They are yet another confounding factor in the ongoing effort among local, state and federal officials to puzzle out the political sympathies of the agitators showing up to the mostly peaceful George Floyd rallies who have destroyed property, looted businesses, or -- in the case of the Boogaloos who descended on Minneapolis -- walked around the streets with assault rifles.

Boogaloo members appear to hold conflicting ideological views with some identifying as anarchists and others rejecting formal titles. Some pockets of the group have espoused white supremacy while others reject it. But they have at least two things in common: an affinity for toting around guns in public and a "boogaloo" rallying cry, which is commonly viewed as code for another US civil war.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020electionbias; banglist; bigigloo; boogaloo; dogwhistle; fakenews; iii; oathkeepers; patriots; rkba; threepers
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To: Leep

Leep, you’re a sheep. Wake up. This is CNN propaganda.


41 posted on 06/04/2020 5:59:15 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: griswold3

Unfortunately, I fear you are correct.


42 posted on 06/04/2020 5:59:55 AM PDT by Have Ruck - Will Travel (It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion...)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Absolutely propaganda.


43 posted on 06/04/2020 6:01:45 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Just mythoughts; All

“This nation has allowed Marxism, to be the theology that reigns over education, and we are reaping what has been planted. Our 4 pillars of civilization, politics, economy, education, last but not least, religion have been corrupted. The devil is in the details.”

Great thoughts. Speaking of Barnie Sanders...look at the ZERO compassion FACE of his PSYCHOTIC supporter.

https://heavy.com/news/2017/06/james-hodgkinson-alexandria-gop-baseball-shooter-shooting-gunman-identified-illinois/

FACE - WORDS - DEEDS...how to spot one. Right Obamas, Hillary, Huma, AOC, Brennan, Strzok, Manson, Bundy, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pelosi, Feinstein, Cuomo, Whitmer etc., etc.,?


44 posted on 06/04/2020 6:03:09 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Just mythoughts

Marx too.


45 posted on 06/04/2020 6:04:02 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Magnatron

Yeah right. We are going to take some young kids called BOOGALOO seriously. Maybe the STEPANDFETCHIT group will emerge next. The left are idiots.


46 posted on 06/04/2020 6:09:31 AM PDT by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: Magnatron
Nobody can do the Boogaloo like I do!
47 posted on 06/04/2020 6:11:04 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: backwoods-engineer
Actually, FR has discussed this months ago...

The Boogaloo: Extremists’ New Slang Term for A Coming Civil War

Virus restrictions fuel anti-government ‘boogaloo’ movement

48 posted on 06/04/2020 6:12:33 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: BeauBo
The Bugaloos? I always thought the Brit chick was kinda hot.


49 posted on 06/04/2020 6:12:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Magnatron; All

Labyrinth of the Psychopath: When the Demon Knocks at Your Door

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2otx0j


50 posted on 06/04/2020 6:13:34 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: babble-on
right wing nuts

Looks like freepers from a quick google search:

"Boogaloo , an upcoming event where libertarian militias will take up arms to defend their rights against an authoritarian government and/or the alphabet boys (ATF/FBI/NSA)"

I first heard the term in VA when THOUSANDS of them showed up to protest their RKBA from Gov Blackface. Guess what? No one got hurt, everyone behaved, they all picked up trash and left the place better than any leftist or their supporters.

I remember the press saying they were dangerous.....I thought they were pretty cool.

51 posted on 06/04/2020 6:13:37 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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To: bang_list

whoops...forgot to ping you guys....


52 posted on 06/04/2020 6:15:00 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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To: Magnatron

Boogaloo is simply short for Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo. Which was a movie in the 80’s about break dancing.

The “movement” is not a movement at all, it is just a funny word for those that believe civil war 2 may be on its way. CW2 Electric Boogaloo.

I have never seen any antifa types using this word, at least not before all this. It is usually people who love firearms, believe that we are heading towards CWII, and are prepared for such an eventuality.

To deem is a movement is asinine. Of course this is CNN so......


53 posted on 06/04/2020 6:25:01 AM PDT by walkingdead (By the time you realize this is not worth reading, it will be too late....)
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To: Just mythoughts
How surreal is it to have admitted socialists, Bernie Sanders, and his crowd call the ‘right’ Nazis?

I've had this argument with lefties many times. The Nazis are not politically to the right, by any stretch of the imagination. Then I actually listened to the lefties. From where the hard left is sitting politically, the Nazis ARE to the right side of the political spectrum! From where we are sitting they are both hard left and evil. Once I understood that, I started countering their NAZIs are to the right rhetoric with, "All socialist movements, whether National, or International, dehumanize people and treat them like chattel. All are cancerous to the world."

54 posted on 06/04/2020 6:27:32 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I'm trying to kick off a new internet acronym:

ATSOS

This one is even more subtle, for leftist social media.

I used a red-dot sight instead of a cross-hair to fly under the radar on leftist-censored social media.

55 posted on 06/04/2020 6:33:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Like the idea, but will only cause more problems. Looks like it is going to be an irresolvable problem. So many people do not know God, there is no solution. We’re headed for totalitarian control to stop this.


56 posted on 06/04/2020 6:36:19 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Magnatron

The MSM describes the Oath Keepers as “anti government”, so take the slant of this article with a Huge grain of salt.


57 posted on 06/04/2020 6:36:25 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: LizardQueen
a. It’s not a “movement”.
b. Its not a far-right counter group, its not an organized group at all.
c. Overall, the “boogalooers” don’t want a civil war but is expecting one because of the actions of the left.
d. The Hawaiian shirt thing is a tongue-in-cheek dress code because of many permutations of the phrase “boogaloo”.
e. It is mostly just gun owners who want to protect their lives and property and are dressed in Hawaiian shirts, who understand the world is going to sh*t .

This is only the start, if you are a gun owner or a conservative or especially both expect to be villified and scapegoated as the cause for this mess. It is already happening.

Thanks for this post. I went looking for info on them and found typical sounding left-wing criticism. Are there any instances where Boogaloo Boys have committed crimes? They just sound like preppers that prefer to rely on weapons rather than food stores.

58 posted on 06/04/2020 6:36:47 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Magnatron

59 posted on 06/04/2020 6:36:51 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: broken_clock
Boogaloo wear started in either Afghanistan or Hawaii/police in 2010-2012 and then picked up by OAF nation (Operator as F**) boys. They are in no way right wing terrorists:

OAF nation sells this shirt as the Mk 18

Also, lots of Narcotics officers have picked up the trend

So I contend that these most likely are the GOOD GUYS and some of you are falling for the leftist media LIES

60 posted on 06/04/2020 6:39:52 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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