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by 82_28 » Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:23 pm
by American Dream » Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:45 am
Why There Will Be Another Trump: Focusing on the Cause, Not the Symptom
Sean Posey JULY 7, 2016
June was not kind to Donald Trump. After a brief bump in the polls when he secured the status of presumptive nominee, The Donald's numbers began their march to the basement . He now finds himself in a deeply unenviable position. An increasing number of pundits (and, judging by the numbers of them avoiding the upcoming party convention in Cleveland, politicians) are suggesting Trump's candidacy could be a disaster on par with Republican Barry Goldwater's landslide defeat in 1964 or Democrat George McGovern's in 1972.
Writing off Trump might be presumptuous at this point (since the media and other experts missed almost every salient facet of Trump's seemingly improbable rise). Yet even if his campaign encounters electoral bankruptcy in November, the specter of another Trumpian figure emerging in the future remains highly probable.
Consider the numbers : Between 1928 and 1979, the top 1 percent's economic share declined in every single state; between 1979 and 2007, the share of income going to the top earners increased in every state. In 19 states the top 1 percent of earners took in at least half of the total growth in income. The consequences of the 2007-08 financial crisis further exacerbated the situation: Between 2007 and 2010, median family income declined by almost 8 percent in real terms. Median net worth fell by almost 40 percent.
Yet with the stock market rebounding nicely (at least, until the Brexit) and unemployment seemingly on the decline, politicos saw nothing to disrupt a predictable genteel war between the Clinton and Bush dynasties; instead, the face behind The Apprentice, a businessman seemingly straight out of the Gordon Gekko era of the 1980s, emerged to trounce one of the largest fields of candidates in recent GOP history. He's now the second-most likely person to become our next president. And while (not undeservedly) a large measure of reporting fixates on Trump's wild remarks and nativist proposals, the economic dynamics that led to Trump's candidacy are underappreciated.
As Trump expertly demolished the GOP field, a coterie of the conservative establishment rushed to denigrate not just The Donald's quixotic quest, but also his base ( Kevin Williamson of National Review singled out ) - a large chunk of the white electorate.
"The white middle class may like the idea of Trump as a giant pulsing humanoid middle finger held up in the face of the Cathedral, they may sing hymns to Trump the destroyer and whisper darkly about 'globalists' and - odious, stupid term - 'the Establishment,' but nobody did this to them," Williamson wrote. "They failed themselves."
Did they? Or did the people for whom they voted fail them? Starting with Ronald Reagan and continuing through the administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, recent presidents of both political parties arguably have championed America's globalizing business interests over those of its workers.
While the recovery passes up wide swaths of America, the professional class of the Democratic Party looks to the stock market and to the select parts of the country where life is good and incomes are on the rise. For evidence, we need only to look to President Obama's reassuring (albeit also self-serving) remark in his final State of the Union Address: "Let me start with the economy, and a basic fact: The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world … anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction."
The fact is that for Trump's voters - and perhaps voters who have yet to decide how they will cast their ballots - that worldview is not fiction at all.
While the American economy is indeed a relative bastion of stability compared with much of the world, a large portion of the population is experiencing a marked reversal of fortune. This is true both in the United States where labor, a traditional part of the Democratic base, is on the decline, and also throughout Europe, especially in places such as the Rust Belt towns of Great Britain that voted for "Brexit." As economist Branko Milanovic points out, "For simplicity, these people may be called 'the lower middle class of the rich world.' And they are certainly not the winners of globalization."
Thomas Frank's poignant analysis captures the class divide for the Democrats:"Inequality is the reason that some people find such incredible significance in the ceiling height of an entrance foyer, or the hop content of a beer, while other people will never believe in anything again."
That kind of despondency has fueled Trump's apocalyptic populism. And despite his many repugnant policy positions, he's hit the pulse of a large portion of America that is aware, quite correctly, that the middle class is fading; the real growing middle classes are in Asia today. When Trump says he'll turn the GOP into a "worker's party" and that NAFTA will be ended or renegotiated, economically left-behind workers in many states listen.
Trump's voters can be found in regions of the country almost entirely bypassed by the post-Great Recession recovery. This covers a lot of territory: Between 2010 and 2014, almost 60 percent of counties witnessed more businesses closing than opening. That contrasts sharply with the period following the recession of 1990-91, when only 17 percent of counties continued to see declines in business establishments. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a mere 20 counties produced half of the growth in new businesses.
The real danger is that the Democrats will win a runaway victory in November and fail to heed any of the lessons behind Trump's rise. With Clinton's campaign actively wooing disaffected Republicans, chances are considerable that the populist strands of both Trump's and Bernie Sanders' campaign will receive little but lip service. "If Hillary Clinton goes for the Republican support," remarked longtime journalist Robert Scheer, "she will not be better. And then four years from now what Trump represents will be stronger." Paul Ryan's doubling down on austerity politics - the same ones thoroughly rejected by Republican voters in the primaries - will add fuel to the fire.
With the recent decision by Great Britain to leave the European Union, it seems that reactionary populism in the West has won a major victory; it should perhaps come as no surprise. A recent study by the Centre for Economic Policy Research found that far-right parties gain the most politically in the wake of major financial crises. While the research focuses on Europe, it's clear that the mix of populism and nativism brewing there is echoed by Trump here. And even if he loses in November, without a major change from both parties, someone else will tap into the vein of anger and discontentment that he's so expertly mined.
by American Dream » Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:13 pm
Republican National Convention Day 1: The Boneheads Are Here!
Matt Forney, center holding smartphone, live streaming for White Supremacist Red Ice
They didn’t like to be called neo-Nazis, but if an “alt-right” character walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… Welcome to Cleveland, Nazis!
Matt Forney, who is particularly known as a “Men’s Rights Activist” (MRA) that has written articles with titles such as “How to Crush a Girl’s Self-Esteem” and “Why Fat Girls Don’t Deserve to Be Loved,” was at one rally live-streaming for the White Supremacist radio podcast Red Ice along with William Rome of Occidental Dissent and Edwin Oslan of the paleoconservative Savage Hippie blog who recently had Holocaust denier David Cole on his podcast. When rally participants learned who they were, they were chased out of the initial meeting spot although they remained on the sidewalk as the protesters marched downtown.
The America First Unity Rally, which was sponsored by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and conservative propagandist Roger Stone, also brought out the White Supremacists, notably National Policy Institute’s Richard Spencer, Nathan Damigo of Identity Eyropa (formerly the National Youth Front), who is also doing reports for Red Ice and Matthew Heimbach, who got into a shouting match with antifa. Later, It’s Going Down tweeted a photo of members of the Finnish neo-Fascist anti-immigration vigilante group Soldiers of Odin, purporting to be the U.S. chapter of the group out in the streets.
by American Dream » Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:08 am
PEGIDA Canada Comments on Republican National Convention and Black Lives Matter
Watching the dumpster fire/hate fest that is the Republican National Convention, this writer decided to check in on one of the groups being monitored by ARC. Since we haven't looked at PEGIDA Canada in a while, we figured we'd take a gander to see if they had written anything:
Indeed they had, though the first comment wasn't so much on the convention as it was on the protests. Specifically, PEGIDA Canada posted this article in which a Muslim-American decided to show up with a firearm. Now, he certainly wasn't alone as numerous Trump supporters were also armed, Ohio being an open carry state.
The members/supporters at PEGIDA Canada were all pleased to see this Muslim-American exercising his Second Amendment right to bare arms, proving that he was supported those values that they believed other Muslim-Americans lacked.
Just kidding!
No, they openly called for his murder:
by American Dream » Thu Jul 21, 2016 10:52 am
It's Time to Ring the Alarm About White Nationalism
Spencer Sunshine JUL 19, 2016
While the media has heavily covered Islamist terrorist activity and the recent deadly ambushes on police, it has largely overlooked increasingly brazen demonstrations and violence by the Far Right. In the last year, the level of violence has ramped up dramatically and is only now hitting its stride.
On July 7, Michael Strickland, a right-wing journalist who videotapes left-leaning protests and puts participants' photos on the Internet, was arrested after waving a gun at a Portland Black Lives Matter rally. He claimed that he feared for his life. because someone allegedly shoved him while he was taping the peaceful demonstration.
After a late June confrontation with fascists who had secured a permit to rally at the California state courthouse, nine counter-protestors were hospitalized, with five of them stabbed. The fascists, operating under the banner of the Traditionalist Worker Party (but comprised mostly of members of the neo-Nazi Golden State Skinheads), fled after the clash with protestors. A loaded gun was left at the scene, which anti-fascists claimed neo-Nazis has dropped as they ran away.
Four months before, on February 28, three anti-racist activists were stabbed while confronting Ku Klux Klan members who were attempting to rally in Anaheim, California.
Patriot Movement paramilitaries took over an Oregon wildlife refuge for 41 days in January, their fourth armed encampment in two years.
And all of this has happened barely a year after 21-year-old White supremacist Dylann Roof attended a bible study session at Charleston, South Carolina’s historic Emanuel AME Church, and then fatally shot nine Black worshippers.
This violence needs to serve as a wake-up call.
The media is not hiding these incidents, but they are reported in isolation from each other. Taken together, they paint a picture of a resurgent, armed radical right-wing movement, which ranges from Patriot Movement paramilitaries to neo-Nazis. In the last year, this part of the Right has become brazen in ways not seen in years. They have lost their fear of seizing federal facilities at gunpoint, stabbing anti-fascist protestors, and shooting at Black Lives Matter rallies.
While Donald Trump has "disavowed and will continue to disavow the support of any such groups associated with a message of hate,” the Republican presidential nominee has inspired and energized White supremacist organizers. In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that prominent fascist Andrew Anglin calls Trump “the Glorious Leader." As Trump won multiple primaries in May, Anglin wrote on his Daily Stormer website, "White men in America and across the planet are partying like it’s 1999 following Trump’s decisive victory over the evil enemies of our race." Mother Jones reports that William Johnson, the American Freedom Party leader whom Trump named as a delegate then rescinded the offer, has funded paranoid robocalls including one that decries how "the White race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called 'racist.'" “Trump’s candidacy has absolutely electrified the radical right," Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center has told The Wall Street Journal.
At the beginning of the Republican primary race, many media outlets treated the developer and reality TV star as comic relief for Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz. The Huffington Post even put their coverage of Trump’s campaign in their entertainment section. But by last fall, that laughter had turned into fear, and a heated debate broke out amongst certain left-leaning intellectuals about whether Trump fit the criteria for being an actual fascist.
The period we're in now reminds me of the 1980s and early ‘90s, when the Georgia town I grew up in became flush with neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan organizing. There and in the surrounding communities racist rallies drew hundreds of participants; in 1987, 5,000 showed up to a pro-segregation rally in neighboring Forsyth County.
Around this time, The Order, an underground White Power group, blazed a cross-country trail of murder and armed robbery. Their most famous victim was Denver talk show host Alan Berg killed in 1984.
Nazi skinhead activity became a youth fad in cities like Portland, Chicago and Atlanta. In the latter, they overran the punk scene, becoming the only organized political faction. Attacks on queer folks, people of color, anti-racists, and the homeless became common.
Louisiana elected David Duke, a former neo-Nazi and founder of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, as a state representative. Between 1987 and 1995, thousands of people were attacked, and many were murdered by members of the organized racist movement. In the early 1990s, the militias—themselves an outgrowth of this movement—joined in as another armed faction on the Right.
The violence topped out in 1995 when 168 people were killed in a truck bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Two militia movement members, one of whom was influenced by neo-Nazism, were convicted.
It's starting to feel like the bad old days again. Cynical as this may sound, Roof’s massacre was not surprising to those of us who monitor the Far Right. Racist mass shootings are like clockwork; every two or three years, another massacre happens. In August 2012, a Nazi skinhead murdered six Sikh people at an Oak Creek, Wisconsin gurdwara. In April 2014, Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., a longtime racist leader, killed three people at Jewish centers in Overland Park, Kansas.
The list grows longer if you factor in mass shootings by neo-Nazis which don’t seem to be politically motivated. In July, a neo-Nazi in southern Washington state allegedly killed three people. In March 2015, a man affiliated with the violent Hammerskins group killed one and wounded five people in Mesa, Arizona.
But in the months after the Charleston massacre, the Far Right increased its public displays of provocation and violence dramatically. In November 2015, a Patriot Movement sympathizer shot five Black Lives Matter protestors in Minneapolis. In December, the Hammerskins—the most dangerous of the Nazi skinhead gangs—announced they were holding a march in Seattle. (They ended up not showing after hundreds took to the streets in opposition.)
The Far Right movement has retooled its image and ideology since the last big wave ended in the late 1990s. It’s no longer simply made up of Klan and Nazi thugs on one end, and “suit-and-tie Nazis” like David Duke on the other.
Intellectuals such as Richard Spencer and Kevin MacDonald have come into the movement, helping to expand its appeal. At the same time, neo-Nazi prison gangs flourish, with members both on the inside and outside.
U.S. groups have been influenced by European variants of fascism, giving them a new tone and approach. For example, the Traditionalist Worker Party borrows from European Third Positionism, which stresses racial separatism and hostility to global capitalism. And for those to whom Trump is too moderate, but fascism too extreme, there is a whole field of reactionary movements between the two to choose from, including neo-Confederates, anti-immigrant activists, vigilante border patrols, Islamophobes, and the Men’s Rights Movement.
But the most important new trend is the “alternative right,” embraced by racist millennials, and disturbingly now championed by the website Breitbart. The alternative right are racists who have finally figured out how to use the internet, and have injected catch-phrases and slogans—like “cuckservative”—into the mainstream Right.
The Sacramento rally where five protestors were stabbed was sponsored by Matthew Heimbach, one of the Far Right’s bright new faces. Politically he is old wine in a new bottle, but Heimbach has helped give the movement a makeover for those who think Klan hoods and oxblood Doc Martins are relics of their parents’ or grandparents’ generation of racists.
Heimbach is able to maneuver between factions in a movement famous for infighting, and get various groups to cooperate with him. For example, the Sacramento rally was attended by members of the Golden State Skinheads who were apparently rechristened as members of the Traditionalist Worker Party for the occasion. Heimbach didn’t even bother to show up.
Conflicts between anti-fascists and fascists tend to be ritualized, mediated by a large police presence that keeps the two groups apart. Clashes, when they do happen, rarely involve more than fists and clubs. The multiple stabbings and the presence of firearms at these conflicts is a new change. So is the policing strategy. Although the reason for this is unclear, law enforcement was completely absent in Anaheim and incompetent in Sacramento.
What is clear, however, is that authorities have only charged anti-fascists in these incidents. At the Anaheim rally, seven counter-protestors received charges for assault, battery, or resisting arrest—while no Klan members have been charged in the three stabbings.
Heimbach himself was caught on video assaulting a Black woman at a Trump rally in March in Kentucky. He, too, has not been charged.
Heimbach's group, said their next move would be to join the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, but then publicly canceled saying they could not secure permits. They showed up anyway. I suspect their feint was probably to prevent a more robust antifascist presence from being organized. It looks like even Heimbach is not prepared for the results of what he seems to be so keen to provoke.
There is no sign this violence will stop anytime soon, not even after the November presidential election. By using blatantly anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim language that had previously been taboo to use in public, Trump has removed the cork in the genie’s bottle of White resentment—just as right-wing populists have done all over Europe.
If he wins, it’s possible Trump will continue to condone racially charged violence, as he’s done at his rallies. If he loses, the violent rage that he has awoken among reactionaries may look for a more radical vehicle. It seems like only a matter a time before somebody dies in these clashes.
Law enforcement around the country has shown little interest in reigning in the new White nationalist movement. Federal authorities have consistently blocked attempts to redirect counterterrorism resources on the domestic Far Right, instead continuing to focus on Islamists.
The rest of us need to be prepared to respond to this violence from the Far Right. If you are going to protest a Klan or Nazi rally, police may not be there to separate the two groups, and the racists may be armed, at the least, with knives. We need to have plans ready to respond if businesses, community centers, and mosques are vandalized or burned. Support systems, including safehouses, should be arranged if people are attacked in their homes. And we need to send a strong public message that vigilante "street patrols," designed to harass immigrants and Muslims, are not welcome in our communities. It is better to be prepared for these emergencies ahead of time, and not scrambling to set them up afterwards.
Spencer Sunshine is an associate fellow at Political Research Associates. Follow him on Twitter @transform6789.
by tapitsbo » Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:13 am
by American Dream » Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:21 pm
by American Dream » Thu Jul 21, 2016 1:09 pm
The most far-right party at the 2016 Republican National Convention may have also been the most pro-LGBT.
Breitbart provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos held a “gays for Trump” party late Tuesday night in Cleveland.
He was joined by far-right anti-Muslim leaders Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders. All three gave adoringly pro-Trump speeches full of anti-Muslim vitriol.
The rhetoric was strikingly reminiscent of the extreme anti-Semitism of the early 20th century, yet directed at Muslims instead of Jews. All of the speakers explicitly condemned Islam itself, not just Islamic extremism.
LGBT for Trump founder Cris Barron stressed the importance of defending “Western civilization” from the existential threat posed by Muslims.
Wilders spoke of a “war” against Islam. He proclaimed “Islam is the problem” and condemned refugees for turning Europe into “Eurabia.”
Geller joined the speakers in applauding Trump’s “ban on Muslims from jihad nations,” which she called a “logical, rational and reasonable” policy.
Milo called Trump “the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history” and proclaimed, “The left’s stranglehold on homosexuals is over.”
Not one speaker mentioned U.S. and European foreign policy and wars, instead conflating the Islamic extremism fueled by Western-backed military conflicts and the political Islamism spread by Western allies with the millennium-old religion practiced by 1.6 billion Muslims.
The speakers all also excoriated the left, which they accused of supporting Islamism and of valuing Muslims over LGBT people.
...Geert Wilders, a far-right politician from the Netherlands who has frequently been described as a fascist, was the first to speak at the party.
Barron introduced Wilders as the “hope for Western civilization,” rhetoric the Dutch leader himself frequently uses.
Wilders opened his speech warning Europe has been turned into “Eurabia,” due to Arab and Muslim migration.
“Europe is imploding,” he claimed, adding it has been flooded with “jihadis.”
“It will only get worse,” Wilders insisted, because Europe’s “stupid governments” keep letting in refugees from Muslim-majority countries.
He called open borders “the worst policy ever.” He also condemned “cultural relativism, the biggest disease in Europe today.”
Wilders claimed refugees and migrants are not integrating and assimilating into white European culture, leading to a “suicide policy.”
The far-right Dutch leader stressed that the enemy is not just Islamic extremism, but Islam itself.
“Get rid of your political correctness,” Wilders declared, as the audience went wild. “Islam and Sharia law are exactly the same,” he said, warning Americans not to “allow Islam to be planted in your soil.”
He accused Muslim migrants of being behind an “explosion of crime, rape… of harassment of our daughters, of the gay community.”
“We are at war,” Wilders proclaimed and reiterated, claiming Sharia law is being implemented in Europe and the U.S.
“Islam is the problem,” he stated clearly, condemning “bullshit about ‘radical Islam.'” The audience applauded loudly, and a young man with a Trump hat on shouted, “Send them back!”
by American Dream » Thu Jul 21, 2016 1:39 pm
The conspiracy convention: Alex Jones and the fringe right get their Cleveland spotlight
The prime time programming for Republican convention hadn’t started yet Monday morning in Cleveland, but the true Donald Trump fan base came out in force at Settler’s Landing Park, a small green strip next to the Cuyahoga River. The crowd, composed mostly of angry white men festooned in either biker gear or T-shirts decrying Hillary Clinton, was there for the America First Unity Rally, hosted by a group called Citizens for Trump. It was a proud showing of what used to be called the “fringe” right, but is now the faction that, through Donald Trump, controls the Republican party.
But while the rally was ostensibly about rallying support for Trump, the true man of the hour was Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who runs “Infowars” and who was there to claim his victory in destroying the last remaining strips of sense and reality-based thinking within conservatism. While other speakers, such as Sen. John McCain’s primary challenger Kelli Ward and talk show host Wayne Dupree drew applause and some whoops of support, it was only when Jones ascended the stage that the crowd really came alive, rushing the stage to get near their hero as he unleashed a stream of paranoid rhetoric that really only makes sense to his avid fan base.
“The establishment, George Soros and others have done everything they can to try to shut down our free speech,” Jones ranted as the crowd gazed upon him rapturously. “They tried to destroy our sovereignty. They tried to attack our Second Amendment. And everything they’ve done has blown up in their face. They are failing and Donald Trump is surging in every major poll across the country!”
“The answer to 1984 is 1776!” Jones added triumphantly, as the crowd joined in, chanting along with what was clearly a favorite slogan from his long-running media empire of radio shows, videos, and “news” stories that paint a picture of a world where every violent event is a “false flag” and the world is run by a shadowy conspiracy of “globalists” that seem, by the number of times his name was mentioned, to answer solely to the liberal-ish philanthropist George Soros.
It’s tempting to write off this rally as a fringe event that has no real bearing on what’s going on in the main hall of the Republican National Convention. But the grim truth is that, as the events in the Quicken Loans Center demonstrated, so-called “mainstream” Republicans had lost out and these folks, with views shaped more by paranoid urban legends than by ideology, had won the day by getting their guy, Trump, nominated.
“Donald Trump is finally saying the things America needs,” a Infowars shirt-wearing man from Morgan Hill, California who would only provide the name “Wade” to me, argued. “We’ve been on too long, side-stepping the issues, and trying to make everything politically correct.”
When asked how long he had been a fan of Alex Jones, Wade perked up.
“Since 9/11. He was the only one speaking the truth about 9/11 and is to this day,” Wade said.
When pressed about what this truth is, Wade continued by saying, “The planes sure as hell didn’t bring the buildings down.”
“Buildings don’t fall flat and go to dust,” he added, laughing ruefully at those who believe otherwise.
Jones is a long-time 9/11 truther, probably the most prominent one in the country. He is also tight with Trump, who has popped up on Infowars as an honored guest.
“Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down,” Trump gushed while giving an interview to Jones in December.
Jones returned the praise, saying, “my audience, 90% of them, they support you.”
That certainly seemed to be the case with the crowd of Jones fanatics that turned out to Monday’s rally. The mutual admiration society between Trump and Jones is especially notable, as Jones generally sprays hate and disdain for all politicians, Democratic or Republican, who he views as “globalists” engaged in a worldwide conspiracy of villainy.
Wade had an explanation for why Jones makes an exception to this general rule for his orange-hued billionaire buddy.
“Trump’s not the typical Republican,” Wade said, thoughtfully. “Like Ronald Reagan, Trump’s hijacked the Republican Party for the people.”
“The people”, of course, is a hazy phrase. The folks at the America First Unity Rally certainly thought of themselves as “the people”. The rhetoric, from speaker after speaker, focused on portraying their audiences as the authentic America, one that has supposedly been marginalized by the forces of “political correctness”.
But, to my eyes, this group of people, at best, represented a very thin slice of America: Almost completely white, mostly male, paranoid, and sticking to an aesthetic that is best described as “defensively masculine”, with a heavy emphasis on biker gear and ill-fitting T-shirts. It was a crowd completely detached from any relationship to truth or facts — there was quite a bit of chatter about George Soros supposedly funding “agitators” to disrupt the RNC — and instead caught up, to an alarming degree, with the fact-free world according to Alex Jones.
People who fit this description aren’t small in number — Infowars has a healthy audience, needless to say — but they hardly represent the whole of America. But it’s not surprising that they feel vindicated, as if they were a truly representative group instead of a small and paranoid minority. After all, they just conquered a political party, and if the mood in the air was any indication, they think their candidate is about to win the presidency.
by American Dream » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:31 pm
CONVENTION OF CHAOS
Originally posted to It’s Going Down
We mentioned everyone who appears to be sitting this one out, from anarchists to NGOs. The internet fascists however have not chosen to sit this one out. In fact, some of the most infamous among them have showed up with the supposed goal of recruiting and rubbing elbows with those who hold power. We’ve spotted Matt Heimbach, who yelled from behind police lines, “How’s your brown folks we put in the ICU?”Heimbach would go on to tell reporters that he was planning to meet with supporters and RNC delegates in a private meeting, and was encouraging delegates to write in the late George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. He stated:
Several white nationalists have already been expelled from being delegates. All I’m gonna say is the RNC didn’t find all of them.
Heimbach was joined by “Scott Hess” and a female supporter. Nathan Damigo of Identity Evropa was out live streaming for Red Ice Radio, and was sure to find his good friend Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute who held a sign read, “Wanna Talk to a Racist?” 3%ers were literally roaming the streets with rifles strapped to their backs. Soldiers of Odin were seen scoping the bar scene around the convention center on Monday night. We have seen more concealed guns printing on sketchy people than we could even count.
While these alt-right types and neo-fascists have come to Cleveland, they primarily seem to be here to garner media attention or to experience feeling like a movement. They don’t have the numbers. There are no gangs of Heimbach boot-lickers roaming the streets ready to be the enforcers of all that is good and white. They are weak now, but maintaining the kind of vigilance that took place in Sacramento is vital in keeping them weak. It’s also interesting that all of these groups aren’t really rolling together or clique up, at least out in the open. They seem more interested in live-streaming the event and deciding what they think of Alt-Right internet troll Milo than anything else, or hanging around Alex Jones’ rally and attempting to talk to Info-Wars fans.
by 82_28 » Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:41 pm
by American Dream » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:43 pm
by American Dream » Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:17 am
Birth of a Nation
Make no mistake about it, what's going on in Cleveland right now is a national Klonvocation of present and future lynch mobs.
If Barack Obama showed up on that convention floor, the various state delegations would be arguing about who gets to put the rope around his neck. The convocation of lynchers would lynch him not because the economic recovery has been the weakest in the post-war period; not because drone strikes have killed thousands; not because he has pursued the deportation of migrants with a vengeance; not because use of food stamps has doubled; not because a single worker has lost a single job, but because, and only because Obama is, literally, African-American and has dared to presume he has the same right to preserving US capitalism, to use the military and its weapons against civilian populations, the same right to obstruct, prevaricate, cover-up, misdirect, misinform, murder, destabilize, manipulate, spy, provoke conflicts as a white man.
And if Hillary Clinton showed up, this resurrection of the Redemptionists, this expo of nightriders, would lynch her too, but only after assaulting her sexually, for she is a woman who thinks she has the same rights as the African-American who thinks he has the same rights as a white man.
It's just that simple. Doesn't mean vote for Hillary, or vote for anyone. It simply means, recognize this gathering of Kleagles for what it is. Lincoln and Grant-- no pictures of you on US currency; Trump and Trumpettes have targeted those slots for Nathan Bedford Forrest and D.C. Stephenson.
by American Dream » Fri Jul 22, 2016 1:12 pm
by American Dream » Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:11 pm
Armed Agents of the State Escort Alex Jones Away From Shouty Communists
CLEVELAND — It’s getting warmer here at the Republican National Convention, and tensions are rising. On Tuesday afternoon, right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones strode into a crowd gathered in Cleveland’s Public Square, drawing the attention of Trump supporters, the media, and members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who screamed in his face: “Off our streets, Nazi scum.” Caught in a scuffle on the stone steps leading up to the speaker podium at the south end of the square, Jones was quickly and unceremoniously ushered out of the scrum by police.
Jones wasn’t under arrest. “For safety reasons, we escorted Mr. Jones away from the situation,” a very tired-sounding spokesman for the Cleveland Police Department told Gawker. “Cooler heads prevailed.”
“COMMUNISTS ATTACK ALEX JONES OUTSIDE RNC,” blared the headline on InfoWars.com later on Tuesday. “It looks like the communists started to attack Alex,” a videographer narrated, “and he defended himself.” A representative for the site did not respond to a request from Gawker. In another video, Jones says he shoved a demonstrator away who had been throwing punches.
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