"Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

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  • bobbys
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2009
    • 30711

    #16
    Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

    Antifa, the lefts masked Jack boot thugs that are doing the dirty work for .tolerant...libs..

    Thus they can sit back smugly and talk love and peace while people are beat up in portland..

    The last Democrats to wear masks were the KKK.

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    • Old Dryfoot
      That Richard Guy
      • May 2010
      • 18548

      #17
      Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

      It stinks of troll in here.

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      • S.V. Airlie
        Ancient Mariner
        • Dec 2006
        • 63914

        #18
        Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

        Originally posted by bobbys
        Antifa, the lefts masked Jack boot thugs that are doing the dirty work for .tolerant...libs..

        Thus they can sit back smugly and talk love and peace while people are beat up in portland..

        The last Democrats to wear masks were the KKK.
        How in heck have you survived for 66 yrs as ignorant as you appear to come across bobbys?

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        • Old Dryfoot
          That Richard Guy
          • May 2010
          • 18548

          #19
          Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

          Jamie, please, don't feed the troll.

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          • Domesticated_Mr. Know It All
            treetop flyer
            • Sep 2003
            • 23853

            #20
            Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

            Keep calm, persistence beats resistance.

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            • Art Haberland
              Fluent in Typo
              • May 2015
              • 10190

              #21
              Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

              "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"

              -Dalai Lama

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              • SeanM26
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2019
                • 643

                #22
                Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

                Wants to be macho.

                Calls themselves 'boys'.

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                • S.V. Airlie
                  Ancient Mariner
                  • Dec 2006
                  • 63914

                  #23
                  Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

                  Originally posted by Old Dryfoot
                  Jamie, please, don't feed the troll.
                  Looking at all the posts, I'm far from being the only one. Look at today, maybe a total of 4 posts total.

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                  • sonofswen
                    Senior Member
                    • Apr 2019
                    • 2487

                    #24
                    Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

                    the protests remained largely peaceful and the bulk of the alt-right demonstrators were escorted out of the area police had cordoned off for them following a brief event.
                    the president did not warn or criticize the controversial right-wing group organizing the rally that antifa was planning to protest against. Organizers Joe Biggs and Enrique Tarrio, who did not receive a permit for the rally, are members of the Proud Boys, a group of self-proclaimed “Western chauvinists” with links to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and a history of violence against left-wing activists. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated them as a hate group.

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                    • Jimmy W
                      SE USA MS or sometimes GA
                      • Feb 2010
                      • 29069

                      #25
                      Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

                      Bs is gonna promote the fascists every chance that he gets.

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                      • David G
                        Senior Member
                        • Dec 2003
                        • 89688

                        #26
                        Re: "Proud" Boys in Portland,Or.

                        Another take from someone who knew Hans Linde --




                        Perhaps the most important legacy of the Linde years were his opinions interpreting Oregon’s free-speech guarantee much more broadly than the federal First Amendment. That protection has helped preserve Oregon’s wide-open democratic culture, where ideas from the Neanderthal to the utopian can contend, and where human experience comes in many shades.

                        That very culture, I suspect, is what has drawn out-of-state fascist leaders to focus on Portland. From years of study—and personal experience—I know about Oregon’s dark racist past and the shadow it casts over the state today. Nonetheless, in recent years, leaders here have worked to create an inclusive culture—one that the fascists would like to discredit, stigmatize, and eventually destroy. Since the Saturday demonstration, the Proud Boys have announced that they will be back every month until the City suppresses the antifa movement, whom they call “domestic terrorists.”


                        The impudence is striking. The Proud Boys are threatening violence to achieve political change. That is the textbook definition of terrorism. Moreover, even before Charlottesville, domestic terrorism had emerged as a danger from the right—that is, from the very people now demanding that the government crush their enemies so that they can own the streets. Consider a very partial list of horrendous crimes motivated by right-wing racism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism: a mass killing at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina; pipe bombs sent to public figures who oppose Donald Trump; a massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue; and 20 people—mostly Latino—gunned down at an El Paso Walmart.

                        Read: The lost boys

                        Meanwhile, some antifa protesters have worn masks or armor, or have shouted down speakers; some beat up the conservative journalist Andy Ngo at a demonstration earlier this year; some have thrown milkshakes, and some have threatened violence or physically fought at right-wing rallies. But the number of mass shootings committed by people identified with antifa is zero, and so is the number of lives taken.

                        The demonstrators that trapped my family in the museum were there to disrupt the politics of a city they have no stake in. Many, if not most, of the counterprotesters were there to defend their hometown. Most of them were nonviolent and came to oppose violence.

                        Having lived in the Northwest for many years, I am familiar with left-wing forces that use violent tactics. Violence is self-defeating and morally wrong, and I want no part of it or them. But there is simply no equivalence here.

                        Although no major political figure has embraced antifa activism, the Republican Party has begun to embrace the Proud Boys. Last fall, the Metropolitan Republican Club invited a Proud Boys leader to speak at a club event. (After the event, two Proud Boys beat four protesters so badly that a jury on Monday convicted two of them on charges of assault and riot.) The Republican activist Roger Stone has said he was initiated as a Proud Boy, and Proud Boys appeared at a federal courthouse when he turned himself in on charges brought by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Stone and the Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson posed in the Fox greenroom with two Proud Boys accompanying Stone.

                        This summer, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy are sponsoring a resolution that would designate antifa as a “domestic terrorist group.” No mention of the Proud Boys or any of the other neofascist groups who feel empowered by the ascent of Trump......


                        David G
                        Harbor Woodworks
                        https://www.facebook.com/HarborWoodworks/

                        "It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)

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