joey gibson prayer

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</div><div>see militia</div><div>
</div><div>see patriot prayer</div><div>
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</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">adl</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WASHINGTON STATE:Joe Kent will be the Republican nominee for the U.S. House seat representing Washington State's 3rd District. One day after his win was announced, Kent appeared on <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/steve-bannon-five-things-know" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration="text-decoration" underline="underline" solid="solid" var="var" secondary-lighten="secondary-lighten" rem="rem" text-underline-offset="text-underline-offset" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Steve Bannon's</a> podcast, where he said, "We are at war [with the left]," adding, <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/we-are-at-war-so-much-for-the-gop-general-election-pivot-to-the-middle/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration="text-decoration" underline="underline" solid="solid" var="var" secondary-lighten="secondary-lighten" rem="rem" text-underline-offset="text-underline-offset" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">"We have to go after these people."</a>  Kent has ties to <a href="https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1409886319120113685?s=20&t=EdMREq7BlxIiTPwZG3K5wg" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration="text-decoration" underline="underline" solid="solid" var="var" secondary-lighten="secondary-lighten" rem="rem" text-underline-offset="text-underline-offset" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">and has praised</a> the putatively religious far-right group Patriot Prayer and its leader, Joey Gibson, who spoke at a Kent fundraising event in June 2021.  Gibson and Patriot Prayer often appear alongside other right-wing extremist groups in the Pacific Northwest, including the <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/proud-boys-0" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration="text-decoration" underline="underline" solid="solid" var="var" secondary-lighten="secondary-lighten" rem="rem" text-underline-offset="text-underline-offset" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Proud Boys</a> and Washington State <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/three-percenters" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration="text-decoration" underline="underline" solid="solid" var="var" secondary-lighten="secondary-lighten" rem="rem" text-underline-offset="text-underline-offset" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Three Percenters</a>. Kent attended and spoke at the March 5, 2022 “GRIT” (Government Resistance Impedes Tyranny) event at the Washington State Capitol and <a href="https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1500518519028387842?s=20&t=EdMREq7BlxIiTPwZG3K5wg" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration="text-decoration" underline="underline" solid="solid" var="var" secondary-lighten="secondary-lighten" rem="rem" text-underline-offset="text-underline-offset" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">posted about his participation on Twitter</a>.  The rally was hosted by anti-government extremist group Washington State Three Percenters. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/its-going-down-june-28-2019/">https://kpfa.org/episode/its-going-down-june-28-2019/</a></div><div>
</div><div>mass up , black bloc ~  dayton ohio vs 5 kkk  pop mob</div><div>
</div><div>joey  gibson  on tucker, homophobe</div><div>
</div><div>youtuber, livestreaming</div><div>
</div><div>used to be semi-strategic, confront ppl and then try to portray themselves as victim</div><div>
</div><div>over longer term, white nat'list will cozy up to more mod org/celeb, but when that runs out, they get desperate for attn thus violent.</div><div>
</div><div>cpac : ID europa exclude but posob in</div><div>
</div><div>Shane</div><div>=</div><div>tries to soften/hijack CRM rhet love new suits not boots? helps tucker mainstream wht nat'l hate?</div><div>
</div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://thehumanist.com/magazine/january-february-2019/features/what-patriot-prayer-is-praying-for">https://thehumanist.com/magazine/january-february-2019/features/what-patriot-prayer-is-praying-for</a></div><div>
</div><div>"<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">THERE HAVE DEFINITELY been a couple of times where I walked away from one our rallies and thought: Was that bad for the country? Did I just make things worse?”</div><div class="text" style="margin: 0px 2.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">This is not what I’d expected to hear from Joey Gibson, the founder of the Portland-based far-right group Patriot Prayer, when he agreed to let me interview him last year.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“I mean I don’t think that’s true, but I have thought about it a couple of times,” he said sheepishly.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Gibson is of white and Japanese descent. In his early thirties, he has a round, babyish face with a wide smile and a slight tan. His eyes are large, coffee brown and almond shaped, and are constantly shifting to check his surroundings. He has a strong jawline covered with a well-kept black beard, a shaved head, broad shoulders, and a stocky build. In fact, he reminded of the caricatures of soldiers used in video games like <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Call of Duty. Gibson doesn’t slouch; he walks with his back straight and his head up. He exudes confidence and is a passionate speaker. I can understand why so many people are drawn to him.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">When I first met Gibson he was wearing a black trucker hat with a grayscale American flag patch on the front, similar to those sewn onto the tactical uniforms of battlefield soldiers. The same flag adorned the back of his black-hooded jacket, both of his chest pockets, and his left sleeve—the same place I wore mine when I was in Iraq with the Third Brigade of the Eighty-Second Airborne Division. He also sported “Don’t Tread On Me” and “In God We Trust” patches and carried a coyote-brown, military-style backpack. In the army, we called it an assault bag.<hr style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 1px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;" /><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“I believe my purpose is to spread the message of free speech and love. No liberal is going to be mad when I talk about freedom, or free speech, or love, or God.”</h3><hr style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 1px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">When I accompanied Gibson and his crew to Seattle, Washington, for the Second Annual Women’s March in January of 2018, they dressed like they were going to war. They wore flak vests and ballistic helmets. Some had detachable, embroidered name tapes attached to hats, jackets, and the like. Of the approximately thirty people in the group, I met just one who was a military veteran like me. (In the army, we had politically incorrect names for guys who liked to deck themselves in all sorts of unnecessary gear. These were the soldiers who never left the big, cushy forward operating bases with their Pizza Huts and Burger Kings. The truth is, when you’re on patrol, conducting a cordon and search or on an overwatch mission, you want to be as light as possible.)<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Joining Gibson’s Patriot Prayer were members of the “fraternity of proud Western chauvinists” known as the Proud Boys, led that day by Tusitala “Tiny” Toese. The Proud Boys is a faction of the alt-right listed as a general hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and classified by the Federal Bureau of Investigations as an extremists group with ties to white nationalism, according to an article published by the <em style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Guardian this past November. Earlier, in October, members of the Proud Boys were arrested in New York for assault following a speaking engagement at the Metropolitan Republican Club by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes (who publicly broke with the group following the <em style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Guardian piece).<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">When we arrived at the march, I noticed flyers warning marchers of the presence of Joey Gibson and the “misogynistic Proud Boys” and urging marchers not to engage with them. “Don’t feed the trolls!” the flyers read. Some of the Proud Boys also wore flak vests and the like, and one wore a pin and carried a flag emblazoned with Pepe the Frog, a cartoon meme used by white nationalists but which the Proud Boys claim is not racist. In the spirit of true hipster exceptionalism, they claimed they’re just being “ironic” and “triggering snowflakes” when employing racists tropes.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">The Patriot Prayer group and the Proud Boys both shouted overtly misogynistic slurs at the marchers and then screamed “Triggered!” if any woman dared to react. The only real difference between the two was the Proud Boys constantly shouting, “proud of your boy!” and “Uhuru!” intermittently. “Proud of Your Boy” is a song from the stage production of the Disney film <em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Aladdin, and the impetus for the group’s name. The shouting of “Uhuru” comes from a YouTube video featuring well-known queer black activist Gazi Kudzo, who shouts “Uhuru” every time he gets a white person to agree that white people should pay reparations for slavery. Again claiming irony, it seems more akin to mockery.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">The Proud Boys say they are pro-West and anti-white guilt. They also claim they’re not racist and have members of all races. As a matter of fact, most deny the existence of racism altogether and say the only reason it persists is because liberals say it exists. They are, however, proclaimed nationalists, anti-immigrant, anti-political correctness, and anti-gay and trans, though they do have some members from the LGBTQ community in their group.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">During the Women’s March, the Proud Boys were decidedly inflammatory. Some wore shirts that targeted feminists as “parasites to the patriarchy.” They stole a pink hat off a woman’s head and passed it around like bullies on a playground. They called women fat whores, baby killers, faggots, and dikes. They told them that they only hated Trump because he wouldn’t grab their pussies and occasionally told them to go make a sandwich.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Later that night I drove Gibson to a rally in Portland, Oregon. When I asked him how he felt about the Proud Boys’ earlier escapades, he deflected and told me, “I didn’t hear them say that.” Likewise, when a woman confronted him, saying that one of his group had punched her in the face at his last rally, he told her that he hadn’t seen it and doubted that it had happened. “The Proud Boys respect women,” he said. Gibson told me that the Proud Boys were just there for security, to make sure that Patriot Prayer could spread their message, not to start a fight.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">He went on to describe that message and tell me what inspired him to become an activist.<div id="attachment_21554" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 1.2em 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; float: left; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; width: 310px;"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21554" class="wp-image-21554 size-medium" src="https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_3-300x176.png" alt="" width="300" height="176" srcset="https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_3-300x176.png 300w, https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_3-768x451.png 768w, https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_3.png 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 200, 204); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;" /><p id="caption-attachment-21554" class="wp-caption-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.1; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">A member of the “Hell-Shaking Preachers” from southern Washington joined Patriot Prayer’s counterdemonstration at the second Women’s March in Seattle. (photo by W.B. Nichols)</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“It wasn’t Trump,” Gibson said, “it was the social justice warriors [SJWs]. I knew how bad the political correctness in America had gotten in terms of the SJWs. How they want to control our speech, and our thoughts, and how they’re brainwashing the public.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">He told me of a news clip he’d seen a year earlier in which a teenage Trump supporter was chased by a crowd outside one of Trump’s rallies in San Jose, California. “I knew things were bad in America, but I didn’t know they were that bad,” he lamented. “There’s something wrong when you start seeing mobs of liberals chasing kids.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">For Gibson this was a call to action. He says it changed his life and gave it purpose. As he talked he became visibly excited, gesticulating with large, sweeping movements. His eyes roamed around the inside of my Ford Flex like he was addressing a crowd. His voice took on a timbre tinged with authority and belief.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“I believe my purpose is to spread the message of free speech and love. No liberal is going to be mad when I talk about freedom, or free speech, or love, or God. One of the things I believe is that God has told me to be a protector of truth. He gave me the image of a lighthouse.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">When I asked him what exactly that meant, he said he was supposed to expose the truth,<blockquote style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 1em 2em; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">To make people see the hypocrisy and the craziness of the liberals and the SJWs. Not with <span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">my words but through <span style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">our actions. Being a lighthouse is basically just standing tall with a very consistent message, no matter how crazy things get. I’m like a beacon for other people who are nearby or watching or listening to the videos. God wants me to preach a certain truth to people and to protect that truth whatever it may be. Especially when we’re surrounded by so many lies in this country.[stand your ground]</blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Despite his talk of love and peace, Gibson’s rallies often erupt into violence. Though he rarely, if ever, openly promotes violence, he draws and allows people into his events who he knows will be violent. In addition to the Proud Boys, Gibson had the SPLC-labeled hate group Oath Keepers conduct security at one of his rallies as well as the anti-government militia group called the Three Percenters. They were the ones in pseudo-military gear carrying AR-15’s across their chests during the “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August of 2017—the rally that ended with the murder of thirty-two-year-old Heather Heyer, who was run over by a white supremacist.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I brought up the March 4, 2017, “March 4 Trump” demonstration in Berkeley,  California, that turned violent. Members of the alt-right, decked out in faux-military gear, had faced off against members of the anti-fascist group Antifa, who donned their standard uniform of black clothes and covered faces. Though Gibson was present, it wasn’t organized by his group.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“It was like a total war zone,” he recalled. “I was running around, like helping people and stuff and…it was crazy. I’ve never seen anything like it.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Of course, I had seen a war zone during my active duty in Iraq, and I told Gibson that a bunch of people playing dress up and fighting in a field is nothing at all like a war zone.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Yeah, but that was a huge eye opener for me,” he responded. “Especially the police standdown. It made me committed to go and keep hitting places until the police did their jobs. I felt like the politicians, the mayor, and the city council were using the police as political pawns. They stopped the police from doing their job.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">On May 26, 2017, in Portland, Oregon, fifty-three-year-old war veteran Rick Best, twenty-three-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, and twenty-one-year-old Micah Fletcher intervened and stopped a man from harassing two young girls on the city’s lightrail train, one of whom wore a hijab. The man they confronted was Jeremy Christian, a self-professed white supremacist who was in town for Gibson’s “Freedom Rally.” Christian stabbed all three men in the neck, killing Best and Namkai-Meche and severely wounding Fletcher.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I wondered how Gibson felt about the death of these two men. He’d held another rally in Portland just one week after the murders. A rally which, again, ended in violence.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Tell me about Jeremy Christian,” I said. Joey turned to face me with narrowed eyes and a furrowed brow. This was something Joey did not want to discuss.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Why are we talking about him?” he asked gruffly. “How did we get here?” He rolled his eyes slightly and let out a kind of sigh. “Look,” he said, “I posted a week’s worth of videos against white supremacy, and [neo-Nazi group] Identity Evropa, and identity politics before that march.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“So, why do you think those people show up?” I asked.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“For the publicity,” he said. “To further their own cause.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“What about Jeremy Christian?” I asked. “He didn’t have a group. He was just a white supremacist who was attracted to your message. Does it concern you that these are the people who are answering your call, so to speak?”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Gibson repeated that he’d never promoted violence against anybody.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I thought about his “message” of freedom and love that God supposedly gave him. I found it flawed in its reasoning. He says God called him to protect and preach the truth, which is that liberals are crazy. Really? That’s it? With all the horrible things going on in the world right now, is this really what Gibson and his group think God is worried about? Does God simply want to thwart the liberal agenda by making sure that people can have guns and high-capacity magazines for them, that they don’t have to pay too much in taxes, and that they don’t get free college or free health care? Wouldn’t Jesus, if he was real, want people to have free healthcare? He never charged any of the people he is purported to have healed.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">To be fair, this is exactly what I believed when I was a Christian. Before I went to war, I heard it said there are no atheists in foxholes, yet I became an atheist in part because <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I was in a foxhole (technically a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle—same difference).<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“What is that you and Patriot Prayer want for the country, Joey? I know you have a message to spread, but what is the point of it? What is the desired outcome?”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Gibson paused for a second, deep in thought. “I guess, in the beginning I was just protesting all of the political correctness and the hate that the SJWs were spewing around the country. This was before Antifa even came into the picture. When I first started carrying my Trump flag, people I didn’t even know started flipping me off and stuff— in my own hometown. That’s when I decided to get it on camera so that people could see the truth and so the country would know that the hate from liberals and SJWs is real. I mean, a lot of these so-called social justice issues just exists inside people’s minds anyway. They’re not real.”<div id="attachment_21555" class="wp-caption alignright" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center; float: right; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; width: 310px;"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21555" class="size-medium wp-image-21555" src="https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_4-300x189.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="189" srcset="https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_4-300x189.jpg 300w, https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_4-768x484.jpg 768w, https://4d6ab1ae1m81qn73x25fcrb1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nichols_4.jpg 866w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 200, 204); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;" /><p id="caption-attachment-21555" class="wp-caption-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.1; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Demonstrators at the Patriot Prayer Freedom Rally in Seattle, Washington, on August 13, 2017, donned military-style uniforms adorned with patches that read: “Peacekeepers Joint Task Force.” (Wikipedia Commons)</div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“What about racism?” I asked. “You’re half Japanese. Have you ever experienced any kind of racism or discrimination before?”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“No,” he said assertively, “Not once.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Maybe you’re just really lucky,” I said.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Well, there was one time,” he said. “I was coming out of this cowboy bar and I was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with the hood up and these guys thought I was black. So they started calling me [the n-word] and stuff. But besides that, no.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Good thing it’s all in our heads then. I asked him to tell me more about his faith and the role it played in all of this.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Well, for me, it’s really about building a culture that stops looking at each other and starts looking above. I believe in God and in the Bible, and Jesus, and Satan. And I believe that there are evil forces manifesting themselves within humans to take over this country.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">As a former Christian missionary and ordained Calvary Chapel pastor, I once believed the same. I thought we Christians were in a battle for the literal soul of our country. Our main enemy in this battle was Satan, but as the old priests will tell you, the devil takes many forms. Presently, many Christians believe that the devil is taking the form of the liberals, the left, and the so-called SJWs. Right-wing author and Fox News contributor Ann Coulter broached this subject in her book, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Damaging America, when she compared liberals to the mob that asked Pilate to release Barabbas and kill Jesus instead.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Imagine thinking that the people who opposed your political views were actually being used by Satan. How would that affect how you treated them? How far would you go to stop them? How would you portray them?<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Hitler’s propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, said: “Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying and demonizing the targets of hatred.” Presently, we are at a point where liberals are often portrayed as evil idiots with stupid beliefs in things like equality, fighting systemic racism, and treating LGBTQ people like human beings. What if evangelicals ever actually take such suppositions seriously? The earth is filled with the blood of those who religions once called evil.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Gibson often decries the violence of the left. He says that Antifa is a “gang” that “just wants to kill people.” He believes that evil is manifesting itself in fellow Americans who don’t share his beliefs. So when he and his Patriot Prayer supporters say that “evil hates us and hates our freedoms,” they’re giving themselves license to discount, demean, and even harm the opposition.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Or as Gibson puts it, it’s really about “building a culture that stops looking at each other and starts looking above.”</div><div class="text" style="margin: 0px 2.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><aside style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><small style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Published in <a href="https://thehumanist.com/magazine/january-february-2019" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted transparent; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">January / February 2019 Humanist</a></aside></div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/07/04/patriot-prayer-is-building-a-violent-movement-in-portland_partner/">https://www.salon.com/2019/07/04/patriot-prayer-is-building-a-violent-movement-in-portland_partner/</a></div><div>
</div><div><article style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.9em;">The leader of Patriot Prayer, a radical right-wing group with followers ranging from Trump supporters to white nationalists, Joey Gibson’s persona has become a focal point for communities tired of violent right-wing rallies in public parks. He has been <a href="https://rosecityantifa.org/tags/joey-gibson/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">labeled a fascist</a>, not only by the angry left but by newspapers and academics alike. Still, even this blurs his brand.Over the past 18 months, Patriot Prayer has amassed crowds up and down the West Coast. While faith, family and traditional values are mentioned in Gibson’s speeches, his focus has been infiltrating liberal cities and holding far-right demonstrations to antagonize the left.The group’s most recent convergence on June 3 in Portland, Oregon, was intended to send off his bodyguard and fellow Patriot Prayer organizer Tusitala “Tiny” Toese. A 21-year-old Samoan Vancouver resident, Toese got involved in Patriot Prayer by lingering around the edges of the militia movement, and was planning on heading back to <a href="http://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/06/03/portland-police-allow-political-brawlers-to-lob-rocks-and-aluminum-cans-at-each-other-and-tell-one-side-to-skip-town/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">Samoa</a>. He had become the group’s de facto front-man, often picking fights with protesters on camera. He was <a href="http://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2017/08/06/huge-alt-right-brawler-called-tiny-faces-criminal-charge-tonight-after-portland-ruckus/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">arrested on August 6, 2017, for instance</a>, after confronting anti-fascist activists in Portland’s historic Waterfront Park. Since then, he has joined the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">Proud Boys</a>, the street gang labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">hate group</a> with ties to white supremacist organizations across the US.Without a statement of purpose or any planned speeches, Gibson’s supporters — which included members of Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys — showed up ready to fight from the moment they entered the park. Their anger was pointed directly at the several hundred anti-fascist protesters quartered across the street at another length of the park, broken up by a surprisingly small line of police in riot gear.The <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/antifa-patriot-prayer-groups-in-portland-oregon-clash-during-dueling-protests/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">confrontations started almost immediately</a> as both Proud Boys and anti-fascist protesters were left bloodied by brutal confrontations. Once Gibson arrived, co-organizer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/patriot-prayer-proud-boys-antifa-fights-brawls-portland" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">Toese led a series of short marches</a> lasting only a few blocks and returning, each time walking directly into counter-protesters, resulting in vicious melees.They would corner counter-protesters, often out of sight of the police, and brutally attack. Pepper spray was being deployed at regular intervals, tossed back and forth from protesters on both sides. The Proud Boys, with Toese as their enigmatic leader, were barely able to keep it together as frantic outbursts, infighting and spontaneous attacks colored by homophobic slurs occurred in a continuous string of conflict. A series of “fire and brimstone” street preachers were calling counter-protesters “faggots” and cornering stragglers for gang-style attacks.After the fourth march through the streets, the police finally intervened, telling Toese he and his group would be arrested if they did not leave. Toese then announced the “women and children” would be escorted to their cars by Proud Boys, but as their numbers thinned, they became visibly frightened about what could come next. “Why the fuck are we still here?” screamed one Proud Boy as they loaded a few people onto a bus. “We need to get the fuck out of here, they are going to outnumber us.”Hundreds of counter-protesters then descended on them as they ran for cover in a local festival, hoping police would protect them. In the end, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/portland-antifa-and-patriot-prayer-counter-protests-erupts-violence-four-956140" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">four people were led away in handcuffs</a>, two from each side, though additional arrests could come after more video footage is released in the coming days.During all of this, Gibson spent his time in the back, mostly talking into his cellphone livestream. While he would laugh and egg on his battle mates, he would then jump onto YouTube and talk about how he was here “for love.” No politics were on the agenda that day, no talk of the issues Gibson had set his “campaign” on, nor what he insisted Patriot Prayer stood for. Instead, the event was centered entirely on a street brawl with the “left,” the perfect way to send off Toese back to Samoa.Patriot Prayer joins the “alt-right” in 2017 clashesWhen Gibson’s public displays of Trumpian conservatism in Portland’s urban core first arrived in 2016 and 2017, his cause was taken up largely by militia cohorts in the Oath Keepers and the “III%ers,” still riding high from the Bundy family occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Southeastern Oregon.Over the next year and a half after becoming a public force, Patriot Prayer began inviting others in the far right to join in their public events — the kind of call white nationalists are always primed for. Open white supremacy is generally unpopular in the US. To gain a connection to the mass culture, white supremacists require a crossover point, a group of people close enough to their ideas and built into the larger conservative social framework to help move them onto a public stage.As a career “house flipper,” Gibson had done pretty well for himself, and Trump seemed to speak his language. While his early public rallies in 2016 seemed geared at responding to what he saw as unfair treatment of Trump conservatives, the tone shifted quickly to “standing his ground” against opposition.While Patriot Prayer billed its politics as moderate Trumpian populism with a broadly Protestant flavor, it mattered little to the community surrounding Gibson. His persona has always had an “aw shucks” approach to conservative principles, opting to speak in vague platitudes about love and community. It was the company he kept, and his stubborn defense of them, that inspired such a virulent backlash from activists in June 2017 during a so-called “free speech” rally. Gibson served as the face that a distinct sector of the white nationalist right could support.Identity Evropa, the white nationalist fraternal group that had been organizing at nearby universities, immediately descended, with local organizer Jacob Lott leading the charge. Organizations like the national socialist Traditionalist Worker Party, True Cascadia and a slew of actual neo-Nazi skinheads famous from the heyday of violence in the 1980s and ’90s began to buddy up. Next, the militia movement joined in, brandishing semi-automatics and Soros conspiracy theories, bolstering the perception of Gibson’s crew as a fighting force. Then the Proud Boys joined in the mix, seemingly more for the conflict than the conservatism.While a large Trump contingent drew Gibson toward the Oregon GOP, he refused to disassociate himself from the large “alt-right” contingent that had started joining his events. Instead, he acted as a de facto organizer, providing them a platform and access to his conservative following. Gibson was, for all practical purposes, their most effective tool for growth. His own politics mattered little as his movement has functioned as a Trojan horse for actual white nationalism, facilitating its growth and expansion.The most famous of his followers, however, has been Jeremy Christian, <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/12/accused_killer_jeremy_christia.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">who was accused of murdering two people on public transit as they were attempting to de-escalate his Islamophobic attack on two women</a>. Only days after the stabbings, Gibson decided to hold another one of his “free speech” rallies, almost identical to the one that Christian had attended months earlier.His <a href="https://antifascistnews.net/2018/02/04/unions-against-fascism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">rally in Portland on June 4, 2017, was beset on all sides</a>: Rose City Antifa and militants to the South, a labor cadre to the East and a massive show from progressive-left organizations to the West. Inside, however, it was a collage of combat fatigues and “Pepe” flags set against helmets and capes.Local “alt-right” celebrities like “<a href="https://www.avclub.com/let-s-check-in-on-neo-nazi-troll-baked-alaska-who-is-h-1822089517" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">Baked Alaska</a>” used the rally as an opportunity to livestream as he spoke into the camera for hours, a popular pastime on their side of the barricades. <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/fraternal-order-alt-knights-foak" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">Based Stickman Kyle Chapman</a> was an honorary guest. I caught up with a member of the Traditionalist Worker Party who told me he was far too busy to speak to me since he had left his “White Genocide” banner unattended around the block.Organizations like Rose City Antifa and the Pacific Northwest Antifascist Workers Collective had put out a series of images of local neo-Nazis from the National Socialist Movement and skinhead gangs they thought would be in attendance — a prescient action, as faces known primarily in mugshots walked unassumingly through the crowd.[FACEBK DE-PLAT?]While Gibson and his crew antagonized and periodically picked fights with their neighbors, it was obvious that stepping out of their park was not an option.Patriot Prayer returns to Portland after turbulent yearAlmost exactly one year later, Gibson has again brought a contingent back into the Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, though this time, a much smaller one. He had provided a laundry list of reasons for the rally: freedom of speech, supporting Trump, standing up for gun rights, fighting communism. When Truthout asked Gibson on Sunday, June 3, why he and his supporters were there, all he could say was that it was a “freedom march.” It wasn’t surprising that Patriot Prayer again set up their own rally after <a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/06/08/20446918/what-we-got-wrong-about-last-weekends-violent-rallies" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">finding out about a protest against police violence</a> earlier in the day, since they are known for taking left-wing events and using them as provocative moments to steal the limelight.Over the last year, Gibson has done his best to stay relevant. He took his act on the road, <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Patriot-Prayer-March-Rally-Berkeley-447975573.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">going to Berkeley</a> just weeks after the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally while the national wound was still fresh. He was met by a massive organized contingent of local unions and community organizations that overwhelmed his presence in the park. He continued on, making it up to places like Vancouver, Washington and Spokane, Washington, while antagonizing locals and watching his core followers shrink. At the University of Washington, Gibson was <a href="https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/05/21/26387417/uw-police-detained-joey-gibson-and-other-far-right-activists-for-possessing-guns-on-campus" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">detained</a> when his apparent Patriot Prayer friends were brandishing firearms.His string of high-profile media spectacles led him to his <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/05/21/joey-gibsons-far-right-senate-candidacy-creates-dilemma-republicans" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">filing as a Republican senatorial candidate</a> in Washington, where he even had a brief moment as a possible front-runner until GOP politician Susan Hutchison was established as the leader in the race.Yet interviews on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and <a href="http://katu.com/news/local/local-gop-chair-considers-using-militia-for-future-events" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">hints at collaboration from the regional GOP and the militia movement</a> have led to nothing. When he arrived late to his own rally this June, his crowd was both smaller and angrier than before. The Proud Boys lined the wall of aggressive attendees, dominating the new lineup of supporters. The militia movement, the beltway GOP types and the Trump-supporting students were largely gone. Instead, the Proud Boys appeared to be the largest demographic.What’s next for Patriot Prayer?Gibson can’t stop because he has nothing left: <a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/06/30/19131519/local-alt-right-activist-joey-gibson-says-he-quit-his-job-after-antifa-pressure" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">His career is in tatters</a>, his reputation is haunted and his world has become the mundane and shrinking suburbs of Portland. Without such public brawls, how could he possibly drum up clicks on YouTube with long-winded speeches about fiat currency?This is why Gibson keeps his public politics center-right, even supporting same-sex marriage despite his alliance with homophobic screaming street preachers. After the melee with counter-protesters earlier this month, Gibson was invited on air by conservative talk radio host Lars Larson to <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thelarslarsonshow/joey-gibson-tell-us-about-the-violence-between-patriot-prayer-and-antifa-last-weekend-in-portland" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">pin the blame</a> for the events back on the rest of the community and the police, while simultaneously promising to “rethink” his current strategy.White nationalists around the country immediately came to Gibson’s defense, with “The Daily Shoah” showing its support for Patriot Prayer on a June 6 podcast. Program co-host Jayoh, <a href="https://antifascistnews.net/2017/04/03/meet-the-exterminationist-wing-of-the-alt-right-who-is-open-about-wanting-to-kill-jews-and-non-whites/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">who publicly makes comments in support of the mass genocide of Black people</a>, said he was going to be reaching out to Gibson directly to show support.While Patriot Prayer rally attendance has shrunk dramatically, the Proud Boys have grown exponentially and their willingness to engage in violence, both with and without purpose, mirrors the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/20120625/racist-skinheads-understanding-threat" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">ugly attacks</a> of the Hammerskins throughout the 1990s or Volksfront in the 2000s. Moreover, while the Proud Boys maintain a multi-ethnic membership roll, their “Western chauvinist” rhetoric and hard-right stances have made them the new crossover point from reactionary conservatism to full-blown, street-fighting fascism. Gibson, in the meantime, seems fine with this, unable to differentiate between one type of high-profile follower and the next.More recently, he has focused on <a href="https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/patriot-prayer-tries-to-bring-their-message-of-hate-to-planned-parenthood-in-olympia-leave-humiliated-and-in-tears/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">protesting abortion clinics</a>, leading him to a Planned Parenthood location on June 9. There, counter-protesters met him on all sides as less than two-dozen supporters stood behind police barricades, yelling back at counter-protesters about the “unborn.”Shortly after the dust settled from the recent June 3 action, Gibson announced Patriot Prayer would be returning to the plaza on June 30 to again “stand their ground.” Meanwhile, Rose City Antifa has unveiled a series of articles doxing each local member of the Proud Boys and calling for supporters to put pressure on their employers to fire them.What happens when Patriot Prayer loses all connection to mainstream party politics, is stripped of its broader followership and doubles down on acts of violence? That might be when Patriot Prayer’s Jeremy Christian will again show his face. If that happens, Gibson will be well shielded, livestreaming to a small audience on Facebook and denying all culpability. We would expect nothing less.Copyright © Truthout. Reprinted with <a href="mailto:editor@truthout.org" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent;">permission</a>.</article> <section class="writer-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2em; padding: 0px 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1em;">SHANE BURLEY</h3></section></div><div>
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</div><div>Revealed: pro-Trump activists plotted violence ahead of Portland rallies</div><div>Patriots Coalition members suggested political assassinations and said ‘laws will be broken, people will get hurt’, leaked chats show</div><div>
</div><div>[pix Far-right organizers clashed with counter-protesters at the Justice Center in Portland, Oregon, 22 August.</div><div>
</div><div>Jason Wilson and Robert Evans</div><div>@jason_a_w</div><div>
</div><div>Wed 23 Sep 2020 </div><div>
</div><div>Leaked chat logs show Portland-area pro-Trump activists planning and training for violence, sourcing arms and ammunition and even suggesting political assassinations ahead of a series of contentious rallies in the Oregon city, including one scheduled for this weekend.</div><div>
</div><div>The chats on the GroupMe app, shared with the Guardian by the antifascist group Eugene Antifa, show conversations between Oregon members of the Patriots Coalition growing more extreme as they discuss armed confrontations with leftwing Portland activists, and consume a steady diet of online disinformation about protests and wildfires.</div><div>
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</div><div>[Facebook removes Patriot Prayer pages in bid to halt 'violent social militias'</div><div>Read more]</div><div>
</div><div>At times, rightwing activists discuss acts of violence at recent, contentious protests, which in some cases they were recorded carrying out. At one point, David Willis, a felon currently being sued for his alleged role in an earlier episode of political violence, joins a discussion about the use of paintballs.</div><div>
</div><div>Where other members had previously suggested freezing the paintballs for maximum damage, Willis wrote: “They make glass breaker balls that are rubber coated metal. They also have pepper balls but they are about 3 dollars a ball. Don’t freeze paintballs it makes them wildly inaccurate” [sic.]</div><div>
</div><div>Willis did not immediately respond to voice and text messages sent to his listed cellphone number.</div><div>
</div><div>Another prolific poster is Mark Melchi, a 41-year-old Dallas, Oregon-based car restorer who claims to have served as a captain in the US army.</div><div>
</div><div>Melchi has been recorded leading an armed pro-Trump militia, “1776 2.0” into downtown confrontations in Portland, including on 22 August. At several points in the chat he proposes violence in advance of those confrontations, and appears to confess to prior acts committed in the company of his paramilitary group.</div><div>
</div><div>[Rightwing demonstrators chase a Black Lives Matter protester after a pro-Trump caravan rally at the Oregon state capitol on 7 September 2020 in Salem.]</div><div>
</div><div>In advance of the 22 August protest, Melchi wrote: “It’s going to be bloody and most likely shooting, they’re definitely armed… so let’s make sure we have an organized direction of movement and direction of clearing or other Patriots will be caught in the possible cross fire. When shit hits the fan.”</div><div>
</div><div>He advised other members to ignore weapons statutes, writing, “I saw someone say bats, mace, and stun guns are illegal downtown. If you’re going to play by the books tomorrow night, we already lost. We are here to make a change, laws will be broken, people will get hurt… It’s lawlessness downtown, and people need to be prepared for bad things.”</div><div>
</div><div>Following these comments, several rightwing demonstrators were recorded using gas and bats on 22 August, where Melchi and his militia were also present.</div><div>
</div><div>In other remarks ahead of the day, Melchi draws on what he claims is his group’s history of traveling to multiple states to engage in violence at protests.</div><div>
</div><div>“My Group 1776 2.0. Has been fighting Antifa in Seattle, Portland, for months”, Melchi writes, adding “this won’t be a simple fist fight. People will get shot, stabbed and beat.”</div><div>
</div><div>He also claims police cooperation in interstate violence, writing “Yes, going after them at night is the solution… Like we do in other states, tactical ambushes at night while backing up the police are key. You get the leaders and the violent ones and the police are happy to shut their mouths and cameras.”</div><div>
</div><div>Melchi nevertheless recommends that members disguise themselves to avoid the consequences of homicide.</div><div>
</div><div>“We must be ready to defend with lethal response… Suggest wearing mask and nothing to identify you on Camera…to prevent any future prosecution.”</div><div>
</div><div>[We are here to make a change, laws will be broken, people will get hurt</div><div>Mark Melchi]</div><div>
</div><div>In response to detailed questions about these contributions, Melchi responded with an email that falsely suggested his comments might have been photoshopped, and concluded with direct threats.</div><div>
</div><div>Melchi wrote: “I suggest you don’t threaten combat veterans sweetheart, might get a little uncomfortable for ya big guy!”</div><div>
</div><div>Melchi’s sentiments in the chat logs were in keeping with fantasies of, and plans for, violence, which are constantly discussed by group members.</div><div>
</div><div>Although some members are connected with extremist groups or militias, on the whole they describe themselves as “patriots”, and they express no clear ideology beyond a hatred of the left, and a preparedness to use violence. The shared allegiances expressed in the group are mostly to the police, the United States and Donald Trump, a person whom some say they are prepared to kill for.</div><div>
</div><div>Ahead of 22 August, a user “Paige” says “I’m waiting for the presidential go to start open firing”.</div><div>
</div><div>Melchi, the militia leader, responds, “Well Saturday may be that go lol”.</div><div>
</div><div>Alex Newhouse, the digital research lead at the Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute, said of the group that “the main mechanism that makes these communities so dangerous is the incessant desensitization to the idea of political violence”.</div><div>
</div><div>Newhouse said that the ideas expressed in the group were entrenched in “extreme nationalism – that a few strong men with guns can together take out an evil that is at once imagined as an existential threat, and pathetically weak”. Newhouse added that the group’s discussions “fit within a broader trend of rightwing extremists becoming more accelerationist over time”.</div><div>
</div><div>[Rightwing and leftwing protesters battle with mace, paint balls and rocks near Justice Center in downtown Portland Saturday, 22 August 2020.]</div><div>
</div><div>The chatlogs became fractious at the peak of Oregon’s recent wildfire emergency. While some members said they had gone to rural areas to “hunt” imagined antifa arsonists, others became concerned about the dangers.</div><div>
</div><div>As early as 9 September, the baseless idea that the fires were a coordinated arson attack was treated as settled fact, with Melchi writing: “People have officially died from these Antifa Fires. I’d shoot them on site” [sic], and another user, Dub, responding: “Yes sir if I see them they are getting dropped where they stand.”</div><div>
</div><div>When adverse consequences of vigilantism became evident, leadership attempted to bring the group back under control. After a member of the group reported that an associate had been arrested in Lane county for “holding [someone] at gunpoint”, the group’s administrator, who used the user name Patriot Coalition, wrote “STOP HOLDING PEOPLE AT GUN POINT- STOP PULLING YOUR WEAPONS… VIDEO- TAKE PICTURES AND CALL 911.”</div><div>
</div><div>Mary McCord is the legal director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law School, which on Wednesday released a series of fact sheets on anti-paramilitary laws in all 50 states.</div><div>
</div><div>Given details of the content of the chats, McCord said that “this is the kind of thing that might allow authorities to take action”, and that members of the group may “already be in violation of Oregon’s anti-paramilitary laws”.</div><div>
</div><div>The group also talked about coordinating at the rally with the Proud Boys, an extreme rightwing group. One user, identified as Bravo91 and a part of the group’s leadership, spoke of phone calls with the Proud Boys.</div><div>
</div><div>Along with antifascist demonstrators, Democratic politicians are also the target of violent fantasies in the chats. In particular, Portland’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, is demonized and nominated as a possible target for assassination by the group.</div><div>
</div><div>On 24 August, a user identified as “Trent-Medford” writes, “Fuck wheeler… guess what soon as we are done with these punks. He’s next freakin coward !!!!!!”</div><div>
</div><div>User T Durden went further. In response to news that an alleged arsonist had been released on bail, and without encountering disagreement, they wrote: “Maybe we need to start taking care of the justice ourselves!”, adding, “Start with justice on our DA and then move on to the governor. Maybe by the time we get to the first judge, they will have changed their tunes.”</div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">stand down" --> stand back and stand by  --> new logo  sir we're ready to deal w/ antifa b/c x won't? chris picolini says calls to arms/violence DN</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/watch-fox-news-host-grills-trump-spokesman-on-his-proud-boys-remark-and-tells-her-theyre-celebrating-it/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/watch-fox-news-host-grills-trump-spokesman-on-his-proud-boys-remark-and-tells-her-theyre-celebrating-it/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/expert-on-the-radical-right-warns-that-vigilantes-are-preparing-to-launch-a-coup">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/expert-on-the-radical-right-warns-that-vigilantes-are-preparing-to-launch-a-coup</a></div><div>
</div><div>in the Age of Trump, Portland, Oregon, is no longer just another city. Now it is a symbol and almost a <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/18/democratic-insider-simon-rosenberg-trump-is-being-coached-by-putin-to-seize-power/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Rorschach test for the country’s deep and explosive political divides</a>.</div>For Trumpists, Republicans and members of the far right, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/31/biden-blames-trump-encouraging-violence-after-man-linked-to-right-wing-group-killed-in-portland/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Portland is all that is wrong</a> with “the Left” and “Liberals,” a chaotic nightmare zone where Black Lives Matter, antifa and other “enemies” are running amok while they attack “patriotism” and “real American values.”To TrumpWorld, Portland and other Democratic-led big cities (which of course is virtually all of them) are hives of scum and villainy, overrun by criminals and “rioters,” which must be <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/20/vladimir-putins-prize-pupil-is-almost-ready-trumps-final-exam-in-authoritarian-rule/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">conquered by Trump’s enforcers</a><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/28/what-the-kenosha-shooter-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-america/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"> and armed vigilante supporters</a>.Trump’s “law and order” politics, and its inherent racism and violence, are believed by many to be his path back to the White House. In this view, Portland and other “Democrat cities” and communities are <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/03/trump-wanted-a-portland-style-war-in-chicago--in-a-second-term-hell-do-it/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">targets of opportunity for the Trump regime</a>.writing at Washington Monthly, <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/30/white-supremacists-are-invading-american-cities-to-incite-a-civil-war/" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">David Atkins explains</a> Trump’s mindset:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none !important;">He sees the violence as politically beneficial, a useful cudgel against Democratic nominee Joe Biden — even though the violence is happening while Trump himself is president, not Biden.Trump’s election theme is that Americans won’t be safe in a Biden presidency. The opposite is true. Americans won’t be safe as long as a white supremacist president is leading a movement of bigots to incite a civil war, and attempting to ensure that the majority of Americans with cosmopolitan, egalitarian values remain politically disenfranchised and under the thumb of those who fear and despise them.</blockquote>Trump’s campaign of racial authoritarianism and stochastic terrorism, as well as overt threats of “law and order,” resulted in a group of his supporters driving into Portland last weekend, armed with mace and paintball guns, to seek out confrontations with Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist protesters. During one such encounter, a member of the right-wing militia group Patriot Prayer, Aaron Danielson, was shot and killed. On Thursday night, the apparent shooter, Michael Reinoehl, was himself shot and killed by U.S. marshals in Olympia, Washington.Despite this lamentable violence — for which Trump and the right must bear ultimate responsibility — for progressives and other people of conscience Portland is a symbol of resistance and hope. As part of the nationwide people’s uprising sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters have been outside the Portland federal courthouse for more than 100 days.The protests were largely peaceful until <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/24/trumps-stormtroopers-crush-liberty-on-the-streets-of-portland_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump and acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf deployed federal police forces to the city in July</a>. Their presence, as designed, escalated the tension and led to increasing levels of property damage and incidents of violence.Previewing Trump’s plan for other parts of the nation, these federal shock troops made journalists and reporters a special focus of their violence. They also kidnapped protesters and other “enemies” of Donald Trump’s regime off the street as though they were operating in a banana republic.Much of the mainstream American news media’s coverage of the recent events in Portland lacks meaningful context. <a href="https://medium.com/@45thabsurdist/the-feds-are-coming-to-your-city-the-parachutes-will-follow-dc6d42fdbccd" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Writing at Medium, a Portland press collective describes one such example of this “parachute journalism”</a>:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none !important;">One night last week, during one of the smaller demonstrations, a tall white man in a clean ballistic helmet and brand-new plate carrier emblazoned with “PRESS” strolled through the crowd in front of the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. He stopped by a gaggle of other journalists, most out-of-towners. “I’ve only been around for the last week,” he said, “but the protests in Portland feel a lot more performative than the ones I’ve seen in other cities. Less genuine.” A local journalist mentioned having been present for over 50 nights of the protests, starting in early June. “Yeah, I can only speak for what I’ve seen this week,” said Clean Helmet. “I’m flying back to DC tomorrow.” … Clean Helmet was on the ground in Portland, by his own description, for less than a week. This means that he was present for approximately 1/10th of Portland’s BLM protests, thus far. I’m sure he got some great footage.The Parachutes (as we have come to know them) come with money, and zero community connections. Their goal is the clip that can make the nightly news. They want a story that will dominate the news cycle. They do not know what is happening in Portland, and they do not care. They are coming to a city with a vibrant, scrappy community of street-level journalists. By and large, they do not want the context that those journalists can provide. And soon they will come to a city near you. When the Feds and the Parachutes come to your town, you’ll want everyone to understand the context there, too. And they are coming. Clean Helmet is already back in DC, and on to the next assignment.</blockquote>The important context which “the Parachutes” usually omit includes the way Portland is depicted as a liberal oasis in America’s popular imagination. In reality, Portland is a very race and class-segregated city. As historian and activist <a href="https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/skin-summer-2013/a-hidden-history/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Walidah Imarisha</a> and others have richly documented, the Oregon territory passed laws in 1844 explicitly excluding Black people from the region under punishment of whippings and other violence. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/07/when-portland-banned-blacks-oregons-shameful-history-as-an-all-white-state/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The state of Oregon formally included white supremacy in its constitution, explicitly banning nonwhites</a>.To this day, Oregon remains a redoubt of white supremacy, where white supremacists and other right-wing extremists have a large presence in the state and surrounding region. Portland itself has a long and ongoing history of right-wing violence.Alexander Reid Ross is a doctoral fellow at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right. His most recent book is “Against the Fascist Creep.” <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-vigilantes-kenosha_n_5f4822bcc5b6cf66b2b5103e" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Ross has also completed new research which documents more than 500 incidents</a> in which white vigilantes and other right-wing extremists have confronted Black Lives Matter protests. This includes hundreds of acts of intimidation and other threats as well as dozens of examples in which right-wing extremists have assaulted or attacked Black Lives Matter protesters.In this conversation Ross shares his firsthand experiences with the recent George Floyd protests in Portland. He also provides some context for those events and the police and federal response. Ross also details the long history of right-wing paramilitaries and political street gangs in Portland and their relationship with local police and other law enforcement.Reid warns that Portland, the right-wing vigilante killings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the hundreds of other attacks by right-wing extremists on Black Lives Matter protesters is just a preview of the massive violence that Donald Trump and his movement may unleash before and after Election Day — perhaps including the arrest or imprisonment of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/23/ruth-ben-ghiat-on-trump-and-the-bitter-american-truth-we-do-not-have-a-real-democracy/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">prominent Democrats, journalists, and others deemed to be enemies of the state</a>.Q: After almost four years of Trump and his regime’s authoritarian, neofascist behavior, some voices in the mainstream American news media now use that correct and appropriate language to describe the reality of the situation. Why was there so much fear and denial about the obvious? Even when they use the correct terminology, the coverage is largely superficial and avoids serious discussion of the dire implications.You must also take into account that many so-called left-leaning voices have also been interfering with bringing that truth to light. There were writers at the Guardian, for example, who were trying to sound the alarm about the dangers of right-wing extremism and fascism in America, but they were derided by their peers across the political spectrum.I also believe that publications such as the Washington Post and the New York Times saw themselves as being aloof from questions of the mob and political violence in America. There is a tendency among elite voices to want to say that, “We’re above political violence here in America and we resolve our differences through conversation. Therefore, let’s give everyone a hearing and let’s debate these issues, regardless of how extreme they may be. That is what a democratic country should act like.”In a sense, they put their faith completely in some abstract idea of “democracy” instead of taking the temperature of what is really happening on the ground.You live in Portland. How is your experience different from the narrative being offered by the mainstream American news media and other outside observers?We in Portland have been dealing with right-wing extremists and police abuse for a long time. Portland has experience with the likes of right-wing extremist groups such as Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys. This is not new to us.I would go out to protests and see how the political violence is not a result of the breakdown in the monopoly of violence held by the police. The political violence was a result of the Proud Boys and the police effectively acting as two different elements of the same side. It wasn’t that the police had lost the monopoly of violence. It was the police were shooting us in order to allow the Proud Boys to march through the city without proper permits.Most mainstream news media coverage of the protests which have taken place here in Portland, recently and before, totally fail to acknowledge or even fathom the police involvement in the rise of the far right in this community. That failure has cascaded to the point that we are now at a point where the press is painting the current crisis as some type of grudge match between the feds and the anarchists. In fact, the protest movement is a very diverse group of people — especially by Portland standards — who are coming out night after night and making extraordinarily clear demands and being absolutely brutalized in the streets every night.What too many reporters in many cases are trying to do is figure out how to resolve the situation, rather than understanding it and properly explaining to the public what is really happening and the context for it.  By doing so, too many reporters are creating false equivalencies regarding the various forces at play here in Portland.What does Portland exemplify, in terms of the protests and the Trump’s regime’s reaction?It is an example of Donald Trump attempting to rise to the level of a right-wing political strongman. Donald Trump is using classic authoritarian tactics that one does not often see in a healthy democracy. Donald Trump is deliberately undermining the Constitution by using federal law to circumvent local governments’ control over their police forces.Trump and William Barr’s de facto secret police are literally disappearing people off the streets of Portland and in other parts of the country where the Democratic Party is in power. How do you explain what is happening to people who do not live in those communities? Who are not being targeted by Trump and his henchmen?The specific federal forces involved are BORTAC — the Border Patrol Tactical Unit — and the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and others, under the coordination of the Department of Homeland Security. BORTAC have been in Portland shooting at people and launching tear gas. BORTAC is not trained for crowd or riot control. They are trained to engage in raids against migrants and to separate children from their mothers. That is what BORTAC does. They pride themselves on being the most militarized branch and group of the U.S. law enforcement community. BORTAC members are extreme Trump supporters. What is happening in Portland and other parts of the country is the border closing in on the citizens of the United States.<article style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">BORTAC is loyal to Donald Trump and that’s why he is using them. He’s not using them because they’re the most skilled and adept at riot and crowd control management. That also explains why there are so many incidents of people being shot in the face and otherwise abused here in Portland and other places where BORTAC and other such forces are being deployed by the Trump administration.They don’t know what they’re doing at all.BORTAC is being used because Trump feels that they are his most loyal forces. That is fully in keeping with the tactics of authoritarian leaders who cultivate secret police whose main function is to serve as the government leader’s private force, one that operates outside of any restraints such as internal review.The [former] Chilean dictatorship is explicitly supported by Trump’s own supporters, who wear T-shirts that say, “Right-wing death squad” and “Pinochet did nothing wrong.” The American mainstream news media is far too charitable with its narrative that “Trump is playing to his base.”During the recent protests in Portland, were there moments where you feared that the federal forces were going to start shooting the crowd with lethal rounds?The fear is very real and it’s constant. The federal forces have assault rifles. They are loaded with live rounds. There are protesters who were throwing fireworks and things of that sort at the courthouse. What if one of the feds has an itchy trigger finger? What if a firework explodes and they then open fire on an entire group of unarmed people?Trump and their defenders and other apologists will just say, “Well, these poor agents have been overworked for 60 days and look at all the things that have been thrown at them” and so on and so forth. We know what the narrative will be. All a person can do when protesting is to act accordingly and stay focused.You have been documenting what are now almost 500 attacks, acts of intimidation, vehicular assaults, shootings and other threats by Trump supporters and other members of the right against Black Lives Matter protests. What do we know?I have never seen this amount of anti-left vigilantism from the right. During the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, the Tea Party was huge, and they mobilized with events all over the country. There were also armed protests in opposition to Obamacare. But those right-wing protesters were not coming out to confront and intimidate a much smaller group of anti-racists. Of course, those anti-Obama Tea Party and anti-health-care type protesters were extremely racist and a breath away from being fascists, but there was not that same energy and menace that we are seeing today.The idea of these right-wing protesters and militia types being “anti-government” — again, a narrative circulated by the mainstream American news media — is very uncritical, a total misnomer. They are really pro-government. They are entirely in favor of the United States government as controlled by Donald Trump. Their claim to be “libertarians” is a joke.Those right-wing militias and others sympathetic to them are arming in opposition to Democrats, liberals and progressives.Right-wing extremists and other terrorists, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis, are also coordinating at times with the police.  They actually say that they are at the protests to “protect the police.” Think about that claim: They are “anti-government” vigilantes who promise that they are trying to protect the police. In essence, these right-wing militias and the like are American citizens who believe it is their role not to become police, but to guard the police. Such a claim is ludicrous. It is a paramilitary force. These right-wing forces are coordinating and positioning themselves to be able to launch a coup against American democracy and the Democratic Party, if the latter gains control of the presidency and government.The closest parallel with what we are seeing with Trump’s movement would be the “massive resistance” by white people against racial integration in the South during the civil rights movement. I am of the opinion that the United States has not seen such a mobilization of violent, far-right forces to this extent since the 1960s.Recently, a Trumpist and right-wing militia supporter traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin and involved himself in the protests there. He apparently shot three people, killing two of them. He crossed state lines illegally with a weapon he was not allowed to own. He was only a teenager, and was radicalized online into right-wing extremism. He is now being valorized by the right-wing media machine. Trump has defended this young man as a hero who was fighting against “criminals” and “looters.” This apparent killer now has hundreds of thousands of dollars pledged to his defense.Trump has defended Kyle Rittenhouse with the claim he was firing in “self-defense.” In essence, Donald Trump supports the right-wing vigilante movement, which represents the disintegration of the rule of law.We are witnessing an erosion of democratic norms in this country by Republicans. They accept breaking the law as being viable if it supports “traditional values” — meaning racism. As a practical matter, Donald Trump is spearheading the movement of the Republican Party into a full-on violent racist organization that encourages vigilantism.In terms of engaging in the worst type of “both-sides-ism” and false equivalencies that helped Trump win and now keep power, the American mainstream news media is now advancing a “mutual combat” narrative in its coverage of Trump’s supporters and the violence in Portland last weekend. How does that narrative contradict what really happened in Portland?The “mutual combat” framing is inane, legally a non-starter, and obviously supportive of the aggressive party, which is typically the Trump supporters. Their strategy is to provoke fights and then call for “law and order” intervention from a corrupt president.Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson has not been leading protests in Portland for a long time. He is a marginal figure, but the American news media has suddenly selected him and lifted him up for no apparent reason other than that he participated in an aggressive and bellicose Trump “caravan” last week during which right-wing vigilantes tried to run people over with their trucks, shot protesters and bystanders with paintball guns, and used pepper spray to attack people.Should Black Lives Matter, antifascist and other human rights and social justice supporters stop protesting in order to deny Trump’s supporters and other right-wing hooligans a narrative that could hurt Joe Biden nd the the Democrats? In essence, should they make a tactical withdrawal to deny Trump a strategic victory, because of how events will likely be distorted by the media to his advantage?I will not say what protesters should or shouldn’t do. I do not think what they choose to do or not do will matter much. What is significant is that the far right will deepen its insurgency against the left the more that Donald Trump falters and as he continues demanding “law and order.”The left would be remiss to engage them on this level. The left is not in the streets to spark a civil war or escalate violent encounters to the point of breaking civil society into protracted sectarian warfare. The left is in the streets to make life better for ordinary people, and to present a version of the future that would be better and more prosperous for everyone. The more the left maintains its sanity against overwhelming odds, the more the right’s paranoia and hysteria will marginalize it in American society. This will create new spaces for progressive causes and movements.What do you want to warn the American people about? What do you think happens next?</article></div></div><div>
</div><div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/the-far-right-wants-to-make-its-shared-fantasy-of-violent-civil-war-a-reality/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/the-far-right-wants-to-make-its-shared-fantasy-of-violent-civil-war-a-reality/</a></div><div>
</div><div>david n kos</div><div>
</div><div>The Age of Conspiracy Theories in which we are now immured has produced a kind of bastard offspring: the Shared Violent Fantasy. Exhibit A is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921786/--Boogaloo-civil-war-talk-takes-on-a-life-of-its-own-as-far-right-extremists-coalesce" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the “Boogaloo,”</a> the far-right’s ironic name for <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/25/1837424/-The-American-Right-hankers-for-a-civil-war-a-history-in-four-videos" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the long-sought “second civil war”</a> they believe is on the verge of erupting in the United States—and in which the ongoing novel-coronavirus pandemic has become a virtual petri dish for cultivating the fear of societal collapse essential to their worldview.</div><div>
</div>Like many conspiracy theories, and all such fantasies, the “Boogaloo” has a powerful tendency to produce real-life violence from people who absorb the underlying paranoid values and believe in them fervently. <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/boogaloo-boy-arrested-texarkana-swenson" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">A recent incident in Texas</a> in which a self-proclaimed “Boogaloo Boi” set out to murder a police officer in order to help spark the civil war underscores the extent to which the believers are likely eventually to attempt manifesting their fantasies—which can entail violence not just against authorities, but sometimes even their unsuspecting neighbors.Aaron Swenson is a 36-year-old Texarkana man who frequented “Boogaloo”-related Facebook pages with some frequency, sharing their frequently violent memes and indulging the usual violent rhetoric in the comments. Eventually, he reached a point where he decided to act on it.<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/boogaloo-facebook-pages-coronavirus-militia-group-extremists_n_5ea3072bc5b6d376358eba98" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The world of “Boogaloo”</a> on social media—particularly on Facebook, where over 125 such pages reside—is riddled with references, both direct and obscure, to their eagerness to begin a civil war by shooting law-enforcement who attempt to enforce gun-control measures, or for that matter any other measures that attract the ire of the far right. Recently, these have come to include COVID-19 lockdown and social-distancing measures.The universe it occupies resides in a bubble of conspiracy theories and “constitutionalist” fantasies, but with a distinctly alt-right edge. Irony abounds everywhere:adherents wear Hawaiian shirts as a reference to “the boog,” or the “Big Igloo” (<a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the “Boogaloo” flag</a> features an igloo and a palm tree). Their memes reference “Pepe the frog,” white-nationalist OK signals, and the common shared belief that nefarious communists are plotting to confiscate their guns and enslave them in concentration camps. This fantasy is the justification for their announced intention to begin shooting their fellow citizens, especially those who work for the federal government or police.On the night of April 11, Aaron Swenson began livestreaming from his pickup truck, telling his audience that he was out hunting a police officer—anyone would do, he wasn’t particular—to shoot and kill, all in order to start the “Boogaloo.” He told them he was seeking a lone cop to “ambush and execute.”People began calling the Texarkana Police Department, which promptly found the page and figured out both where Swenson was located and what kind of vehicle he was driving. Upon locating him, he fled a squad of police cars at high speed, eventually grinding to a halt well after his tires were flattened by a spike strip. “He was wearing an armored plate carrier type vest when we arrested him, and officers found several loaded weapons inside his truck,” the police department’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/texarkanapolice/posts/2831460176909180?tn=-R" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Facebook post reported</a>.At his own Facebook account, Swenson liked more than a dozen pages that mention boogaloo in their names, as a report from <a href="https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/extremists-are-using-facebook-to-organize-for-civil-war-amid-coronavirus" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Tech Transparency Project</a> (TTP) on the “Boogaloo” phenomenon described. It also noted that “some users leaving comments on the profile on the night of the attempted attack endorsed the targeting of police officers, while others suggested calling 911 in response to the live broadcast.” The two videos were active on the Facebook page at the time of the report, having amassed over 1,500 and 3,400 views, respectively; however, they have since been removed by Facebook.Swenson <a href="https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/texarkana/story/2020/apr/13/man-nabbed-after-alleged-threat-kill-police-officer/824101/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">has been charged</a> with making terrorist threats against an officer, evading with a vehicle and illegal possession of a weapon.He is not the first such “Boogaloo” enthusiast intent on making the shared fantasy into a violent reality. In January, three would-be terrorists from the neo-Nazi organization The Base were <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911985/-FBI-nabs-Canadian-neo-Nazi-reservist-two-others-preparing-for-violence-at-Virginia-Boogaloo" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">arrested by the FBI</a>, charged with plotting to wreak havoc with their weapons at a planned anti-gun-control march in Richmond, Virginia, around which <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/16/1911814/-As-the-far-right-prepares-for-a-Boogaloo-Virginia-governor-declares-emergency" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“Boogaloo” rhetoric</a> was already rife.A few days later, three more “Boogaloo”-loving members of The Base were arrested in Georgia for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/us/fbi-alleged-extremist-group-arrests-georgia-virginia/index.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">plotting to assassinate</a> a local antifascist couple, as well as overthrow the local county government.At <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/21/1913086/-Not-over-Gun-rally-in-Richmond-was-just-the-first-salvo-in-the-battle-over-what-s-constitutional" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Richmond rally</a>, the “Boogaloo” was a major theme—flags, signs, and social-media posts from the event all referenced and celebrated it—that continued even afterward during the debate in Virginia over its gun-control laws.And just as <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/23/1930417/-White-nationalists-looking-to-weaponize-coronavirus-pandemic-both-literally-and-figuratively" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the white-nationalist</a>, conspiracist and <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkewgv/experts-say-neo-nazi-accelerationists-discuss-taking-advantage-of-coronavirus-crisis" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“accelerationist” right</a> has sought multiple means to exploit the novel-coronavirus pandemic, the “Boogaloo” theme has become a louder topic of discussion on far-right telegram channels. The lockdown measures instituted by governors around the nation in response to the virus have particularly provided ample evidence for the conspiracists—in their minds, at least—of their long-running contention that “globalists” are seeking ways to enslave the world.Signs referencing the “Boogaloo” have popped up at a number of the far-right-led protests against the lockdown measures. <a href="https://twitter.com/dburghart/status/1253416727368445952" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">One marcher</a> at the “ReOpen” rally in Topeka, Kansas, on April 23 carried a large black “Big Igloo” flag.There has also been a certain amount of somewhat predictable crossover between the “Boogaloo” element and the far-right conspiracists of the Trump-loving QAnon world, some of whom have also been <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/3/1933811/-Coronavirus-conspiracy-theorists-are-too-nuts-even-for-a-zombie-apocalypse-movie-scenario" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">acting out violently</a> during the pandemic—notably the locomotive engineer who attempted to ram the USNS Mercy with a train engine.According to <a href="https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/qanon-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-travis-view-interview" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">QAnon expert Travis View</a>, the “Boogaloo” has become the preferred fallback position for people swept up in “The Storm” theories, believing that one day soon there will be mass arrests of leading liberal and media figures for their roles in a global child-trafficking ring, and increasingly disappointed at its failure to materialize.“If that change doesn’t come, some of the followers have made reference to what they call Plan Z,” View says. “If the whole Q operation fails, then Plan Z is sort of equivalent to what the far-right extremists call the ‘Boogaloo.’ Which is civil war, basically.”The COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened the interest in a civil war. The TTP report found that most of the 125 Facebook groups devoted to the “boogaloo”—some 60%—were created in the very recent past (within three months), just as the states began declaring lockdowns and social-distancing measures. Perhaps more worryingly, “they have attracted tens of thousands of members in the last 30 days.”<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;">In several private boogaloo Facebook groups that TTP was able to access, members discussed tactical strategies, combat medicine, and various types of weapons, including how to develop explosives and the merits of using flame throwers. Some members appeared to take inspiration from President Donald Trump’s recent tweets calling on people to “liberate” states where governors have imposed stay-at-home orders.</blockquote>Despite these findings, TTP notes, Facebook has been slow to remove these pages. One of the most prominent—Thicc Boog Line, which specializes in selling branded “Boogaloo”-themed gear and clothing—attracts thousands of readers. It has recently been pitching messages to its readers emphasizing the opportunity to wreak “boojahideen” havoc during the time of a pandemic.These findings resonate with <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/25/1921786/--Boogaloo-civil-war-talk-takes-on-a-life-of-its-own-as-far-right-extremists-coalesce" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a similar report</a> issued in February by <a href="https://ncri.io/reports/cyber-swarming-memetic-warfare-and-viral-insurgency-how-domestic-militants-organize-on-memes-to-incite-violent-insurrection-and-terror-against-government-and-law-enforcement/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Network Contagion Research Institute,</a> warning that “domestic militants” are organizing around memes to “incite violent insurrection and terror against government and law enforcement.”<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: none !important;">The boogaloo, a joke for some, acts as a violent meme that circulates instructions for a distributed, viral insurgency for others. The topic network for boogaloo describes a coherent, multi-component and detailed conspiracy to launch an inevitable, violent, sudden, and apocalyptic war across the homeland. The conspiracy, replete with suggestions to stockpile ammunition, may itself set the stage for massive real-world violence and sensitize enthusiasts to mobilize in mass for confrontations or charged political events.</blockquote>Daniel E. Stevens, executive director of Campaign for Accountability, the umbrella organization under which TTP operates, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/boogaloo-facebook-pages-coronavirus-militia-group-extremists_n_5ea3072bc5b6d376358eba98" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">told Christopher Mathias of HuffPost</a> in a statement that “Facebook’s failure to stop their platform from being used as an organizing tool for extremists is completely unacceptable.”“There is nothing subtle about how these extremist groups are using Facebook’s platform to advance their cause,” Stevens said. “Boogaloo proponents are not simply discussing ideas or political views; they are directly advocating for violent action and tactically planning how to defeat government entities.”“Boogaloo” enthusiasts indeed have detailed plans for how to achieve their goals, both militarily and through propaganda, as <a href="https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/extremists-are-using-facebook-to-organize-for-civil-war-amid-coronavirus" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the TTP report details</a>. However, government and law enforcement are not the only targets that “Boogaloo” memes discuss. A subcurrent in a number of the violent fantasies that they express in their memes is the idea of committing home-invasion robberies targeting their relatively hapless and untrained neighbors as a means of thriving during the civil war—or a pandemic.Another featured a photo of an angry Joaquin Phoenix in Joker with the script: “When you dispatch the normie with ease to raid their stash because they stocked up on TP and not ammunition”—with a subscript across the bottom reading: “You get what you fucking deserve.”One popular meme among Facebook “Boogaloo” followers was one that showed a SWAT-style armed raid team in military gear massing outside a door, with the script: “Me and my boys going for a grocery run at my asshole neighbor’s house.” Another features a grid of graphics demonstrating military hand signals during a raid, all of which are interpreted in the language of a home invasion: “Shoot that dog.” “Cover up the evidence.” “I found cocaine. It’s pretty good.” “Wrong house. Let’s boogie!”These ideas are not particularly new among the more openly cynical participants in far-right conspiracism and survivalism. Indeed, they were openly elucidated back in 2014 by a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/01/21/doomsday-prepper-arrested-gun-charges-washington-state" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“Patriot” movement survivalist named Tyler Smith</a>, who was featured on an episode of National Geographic’s TV series Doomsday Preppers boasting about his plans to invade the homes of his neighbors—particularly those who might also be preppers, since they would make better targets.One of the more commonly shared of these memes actually makes fun of other “preppers,” particularly those who are suddenly new to the business amid the pandemic. It shows a “Virgin Prepper” who is “always scared, can’t sleep at night,” and “has no fun,” then contrasts him with an obviously fun-loving “Chad Raider” who “Takes your good shit and burns all the rest so no one else can have it,” and is seen holding up a bag marked “All Your Shit.” He’s also “not scared of death or coronavirus.”[vid]“We’re not in it to stockpile,” he proclaimed in a segment that was used to promote the show. “We’re in it to take what you have, and there’s nothing you can do to stop us. We are your worst nightmare, and we are coming.”He told the show’s producers that he only had a few months’ supplies for his family because he intended to aggressively assault his neighbors and steal their food and weapons caches.“All your shiny ARs, your high-powered .308 rifles, your 50,000 rounds of ammo, are all going to be ours,” he said on the show.<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/01/21/doomsday-prepper-arrested-gun-charges-washington-state" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Smith was arrested</a> by the sheriff of Pierce County, Washington, where he resided at the time, shortly after his appearance on national TV, because he wielded multiple guns on camera in the segment, and he was already a felon (on a sexual-behavior-with-a-minor charge) forbidden from owning weapons. He spent a couple more years in prison for that, but was back on the streets by late 2016.He was most recently spotted marching in Portland with Patriot Prayer—the far-right street-brawling group led by Joey Gibson of Vancouver, Washington—at one of its 2017 demonstrations. Gibson, as it happens, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/far-right-coronavirus-protests-restrictions" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">has been active</a> in the anti-coronavirus-lockdown protests, traveling to Seattle and Olympia for protests.<a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/extremists-involved-in-nationwide-protests-against-coronavirus-restrictions" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Those protests</a>, of course<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/21/1939036/-Anti-lockdown-protesters-are-just-the-authoritarian-footsoldiers-Trump-ordered" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">, featured plenty of “Patriots”</a> wearing Hawaiian shirts underneath their body armor—a signal for what the “boojahideen” like to call “the Big Luau.” The chief organizer of the “Boogaloo” motif in Olympia was Matt Marshall, the leader of the III Percent of Washington, a “Patriot” militia group based in Eatonville, Washington, and <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/11/1910065/-Far-right-Patriots-lining-up-to-defend-Matt-Shea-their-man-in-the-Washington-Legislature" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a close ally of both Gibson</a> and <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/21/1880476/-Unfit-for-office-Spokane-area-officials-want-Matt-Shea-removed-from-his-legislative-seat" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">state Rep. Matt Shea</a>, the far-right legislator whose plan for a post-breakdown society called for the execution of all non-believers.These violent fantasies keep mounting in number and vehemence. The question increasingly is what spark will inspire them to attempt to make them manifest.<div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/31/what-we-know-about-patriot-prayer">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/31/what-we-know-about-patriot-prayer</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><div class="field field-name-field-long-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; float: left; margin-right: 24.6094px; width: 865.891px; margin-left: 89.0469px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even " style="box-sizing: inherit;">On Sunday morning, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-trump-rally-shooting.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; background: transparent;">reported</a> that a man wearing a hat branded with the insignia of Patriot Prayer was shot and killed in Portland.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: left; margin-right: 0px; width: 865.891px; margin-left: 89.0469px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even " style="box-sizing: inherit;">Patriot Prayer is a far-right group active in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past three years, the group has hosted and promoted rallies in progressive cities like Portland, frequently engaging in violence against their political opponents. Patriot Prayer rallies regularly include the Proud Boys, a hate group, and various antigovernment extremist groups. In 2018, the FBI <a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-fbi-proud-boys-clarifies-statement/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">included</a> the Washington-Oregon Proud Boys during a presentation to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office on “domestically inspired acts of violence.” The FBI <a href="https://www.opb.org/news/article/fbi-proud-boys-extremist-group-white-nationalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">advised</a>, “Proud Boys members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington,” a report from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office stated.Joey Gibson, the leader of Patriot Prayer, lives in Vancouver, Washington and has <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/07/25/another-charlottesville-threats-violence-loom-over-upcoming-portland-proud-boys-patriot" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">called Portland</a> “disgusting” and filled with “so much darkness.” He has instructed members and supporters to be armed at rallies, saying, “Everyone should be carrying around guns at all times, especially people in our situation.”One associate of Patriot Prayer, Reggie Axtell, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/25/proud-boy-threatens-portland-mayor-im-coming-you" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">threatened</a> Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, and another, Skylor Jernigan, has made explicit threats against Portland antifascists. “You’re gonna be getting knives put into your throat. You’re going to be getting bullets put into your head if you don’t stop this shit with us,” Jernigan said.Read our past coverage of Patriot Prayer:<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/25/proud-boy-threatens-portland-mayor-im-coming-you" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; background: transparent;">Proud Boy Threatens Portland Mayor: “I’m Coming For You”</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/07/25/another-charlottesville-threats-violence-loom-over-upcoming-portland-proud-boys-patriot" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; background: transparent;">Another Charlottesville? Threats of violence loom over upcoming Portland Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer rally</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/26/police-intervened-stop-proud-boy-becoming-violent-free-alex-jones-event-austin" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; background: transparent;">Police intervened to stop a Proud Boy from becoming violent at a 'Free Alex Jones' event in Austin</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/15/patriot-prayer-again-brings-violence-portland-flash-march-downtown-rounding-out-weekend-far" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; background: transparent;">Patriot Prayer again brings violence to Portland with 'flash march' downtown, rounding out a weekend of far-right violence</a></h3></div></div></div></div><div></div><div>splc:  https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/31/what-we-know-about-patriot-prayer</div><div>
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patriot Prayer is a far-right group based in Vancouver, Washington, a suburban city in the Portland metropolitan area.[1][2][3] The group has organized rallies in support of Donald Trump[4] and far-right protests in predominantly liberal areas, which have been met with large numbers of counter-protesters.[5][6] White nationalists as well as far-right groups, such as Proud Boys[7] have attended the rallies organized by Patriot Prayer, sparking controversy and violence.[8][9][10]Patriot Prayer describes itself as advocating in favor of free speech,[11] and opposing big government.[12][13] An infiltrator into Patriot Prayer said that the group had only around 15 core members in 2019.[14]
Overview2 Activities2.1 Portland2.2 Seattle area2.3 San Francisco Bay area3 Relationship with the Portland police4 References5 External linksOverviewPatriot Prayer was founded in 2016[3] by Joey Gibson.[15] Gibson says he became an activist after seeing a brawl start between supporters of the Trump presidency and counter protesters.[16] Patriot Prayer is a far-right group,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23] part of the right-wing of American politics.[24] It has held rallies in areas known for their liberal politics.[25][26] It has also been described as anti-government.[27][28][29][30] The San Jose Mercury News describes Patriot Prayer as a "right-wing group ... [whose] events ... have attracted white supremacists and ended up in violent confrontations among demonstrators on both sides".[3] In 2017, Gibson described himself as Conservative libertarian.[31]
According to BBC News, Patriot Prayer have been connected to the alt-right as well as other far-right groups.[25] Gibson denies this, saying the group is neither white nationalist nor alt-right and that they support "freedom, love and peace".[32] The group's stated aim is support of the First Amendment, free speech and to "liberate the conservatives on the West Coast".[16]
The Seattle Times and The Washington Post have described Patriot Prayer as a "pro-Trump group".[33][34] According to The Weekly Standard, "[i]n the early days, his [Gibson's] rallies had overtly pro-Trump themes. These days, mentions of Trump have mostly been scrubbed from his own rhetoric, as he knows even invoking the name can be alienating."[35]
Patriot Prayer has made allegations against the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) calling the group a "Muslim extremist organization". Its supporters have made threats online against CAIR, prompting an investigation by authorities.[36][37][38] Patriot Prayer has a history of harassing and assaulting Abolish ICE and other leftist activists.[39][40][41]
David Neiwert, writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center blog Hatewatch, described Patriot Prayer as "trolling" the Pacific Northwest with the intention of provoking a response from far-left anti-fascists.[42] Neiwert noted that Gibson denounced white supremacists and neo-Nazis during an August 13, 2017 rally in Seattle the day after the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, and described that Gibson explained in subsequent interviews that he aims to "actively exclude" white supremacist groups.[42] During the August 13 rally in Seattle such groups had no obvious presence; however, a week earlier at another rally in Portland, Oregon, which was led by Gibson, members of Identity Evropa were in attendance.[43] The SPLC describes them as "violent extremists" on their website.[44]
ActivitiesPrior to the violence at the Unite the Right Rally in Charlotteville, Patriot Prayer's rallies featured "right-wing nationalists".[45][46] Since Charlottesville, the group has tried to distance themselves from the alt-right.[47][48]
PortlandOn April 2, 2017, approximately 300 people of both, supporters and opposition of President Donald Trump exchanged words during a pro-Trump rally at Vancouver's Esther Short Park on Sunday afternoon, near Portland, but the exchange was relatively peaceful.[49] Security for the Patriot Prayer rally, "Rally for Trump and Freedom" was provided by the 3 Percenters (often spelled III%).[50][51]
Following the cancellation of a Rose Festival event due to threats of violence against the Multnomah County Republican Party who were to take part in the rally, allegedly from anti-fascist groups,[52] Gibson organized a "March for Free Speech" to occur on April 29, 2017.[53] Gibson told The Guardian: "We are going to continue with our rally. There is no way that we will stop. It is even more important that we come out with a strong message of love."[54] There were an estimated 60 counter protesters and police said there had been three arrests.[55] Jeremy Joseph Christian, who was later arrested for the fatal stabbing of two men in an apparently racially-motivated attack, was seen at the march yelling racial slurs.[56] Gibson denounced Christian's actions and said he ejected Christian from the April 2, 2017, event due to his "bizarre behavior".[54]
On May 11 and 13, 2017, Patriot Prayer organized the attendance of a dozen "antifa watchers" at a protest at a south-east Portland grocery liquidator. Interviewed by The Oregonian, Gibson said the group were there to watch the protest and report any property damage, and that he attended "to start conversations".[57]

Trump Free Speech Rally" on June 4, 2017A June 4, 2017 "Trump Free Speech Rally" in downtown Portland[56] attracted a large counter-protest and 14 people were arrested, after Portland's mayor Ted Wheeler unsuccessfully sought to have the event's permit revoked.[58][59][11] According to The Washington Post, this rally provided "a vivid illustration of the city's divisions".[58] The rally caused controversy as it was scheduled one week after the stabbings by Jeremy Christian. The mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler had requested that federal authorities revoke the permit saying he was concerned over increasing tensions in the city due to the stabbings. The General Services Administration denied the request, stating that the permit had been lawfully obtained weeks beforehand.[60] 
The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union's legal director, Mat Dos Santos, said it was unconstitutional of Wheeler to attempt to prevent the demonstration based on the political and personal viewpoints of those who organized the event.[61] Gibson cancelled the event citing safety concerns.[62]
By the end of the month, Patriot Prayer gathered for their "Freedom March" on June 30, 2017, at the Portland Waterfront near the annual Blues Festival, and were met by counter-protesters. The often heated exchanges of the dueling rallies ended with minimal violence and no reports of arrests.[63][64][65] The rally occurred in the midst of a national debate on the First Amendment, one which has seen violent clashes between right-wing and left-wing groups over appearances by contentious public figures, often in liberal cities such as Portland.[59] The atmosphere in Portland had also become tense after Christian's recent arrest for the train attack.[66][67][68]
On August 6, 2017, it was much smaller crowds for their "Freedom March" at Salmon Street Springs, Portland, but it followed the well-established pattern with a few arrests of counter protesters and a lot of shouting and chants from both the Patriot Prayer group and counter protesters.[69][70]
Patriot Prayer planned an event for San Francisco in late August 2017; CBS reported the city called in its entire police force for the date in anticipation of unrest similar to previous Patriot Prayer rallies in Seattle and Portland.[71] Mayor Ed Lee condemned the event, saying, "The shameful, anti-American trend of hate-filled extremist rallies will unfortunately be allowed to continue this weekend in our city." and "“San Francisco does not welcome outside agitators whose messages of hate have the sole purpose of inciting violence." [72] The original rally was set to take place at Crissy Field, which is not under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco city government, instead administered by the National Park Service, who granted Patriot Prayer the permit to march.[73] 
Patriot Prayer ended up cancelling their event when they saw that they had attracted thousands of counter-protesters, opting instead to hold a press conference at Alamo Square. In response to the last minute move to a location deep within San Francisco, the city ended up fencing off the entire park, closing it to the public to prevent violence, which led to Gibson cancelling that event as well..[74] Gibson then said that Patriot Prayer members would instead be attending an anti-Marxist rally in nearby Berkeley, but also called that event off as well.[75] The counter-protest was entirely peaceful, with protesters opting to hold a large dance party instead of a violent confrontation, and there was only one arrest for public intoxication.[76] [77]
For the September 10, 2017, Portland, "Peaceful Portland Freedom March", Joey Gibson asked followers take a new non-violent approach though not all appeared willing to go along[78] and the counter-protests also appeared to be settling on a number of different measures depending on the organization.[79][80][81] Patriot Prayer announced additional changes, including the collection of charitable relief for the victims of the Eagle Creek fire in the Columbia River Gorge, and a name change for a rally to "Peaceful Vancouver Freedom March".[82] The small rallies drew large counter-protest crowds in both Portland and Vancouver with several arrests and the detention of the driver of a pickup that sped through a crowd of counter-protesters, no injuries were reported.[10][83] Among those drawn to the rallies were the militia-style Three Percenters, and the Proud Boys, a white nationalist group.[84][9][10]
On June 3, 2018, Patriot Prayer and anti-fascists again fought in parks in downtown Portland. Police arrested four people for disorderly conduct.[85] Participants threw rocks, bottles, ball bearings, and fireworks at each other.[86] The Portland Mercury reported that Patriot Prayer organized the rally as a counter-protest to another leftist rally led by the Empower Portland Alliance and the Direct Action Alliance. This earlier rally was intended to protest police violence and to commemorate the anniversary of an incident a year earlier when Portland police detained 200 people for several hours. In response to Patriot Prayer's plans to counter-protest this earlier rally, local antifa groups organized a counter-protest of Patriot Prayer, calling this third rally "Call to Resist Patriot Prayer Bringing Nazis to Portland."[87] Pepper spray was used by a Multnomah County sheriff's deputy and by demonstrators. Police report that although there were several people who were evaluated medically at the parks, no one was transported to the hospital.
On June 30, 2018, a Patriot Prayer rally that consisted of 150 supporters clashed with anti-fascists protesters who had been waiting for them at a barricaded street. Police observed “assaults, criminal behavior, and projectiles being thrown". Reports suggest that the counter-protesters initiated the violence when they began assaulting the Patriot Prayer supporters with thrown projectiles.[88] Subsequently, the permit to march through downtown Portland was revoked, and the police declared the Patriot Prayer rally a riot. The police fired non-lethal ammunition towards the counter-protestors and 9 people in all were arrested.[89][90]
A rally called the "Gibson for Senate Freedom March", including members of both Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys, was held in Portland on August 4, 2018, along Tom McCall Waterfront Park.[91] It attracted counter-protestors, both from a coalition of labor unions, immigrant rights advocates, and other groups, and from organized antifa ("anti-fascist") activists. Hundreds of riot-geared policeman, from both the Portland Police and the Oregon State Police attempted to keep the two groups apart, using rubber bullets and flashbangs when protestors refused to move. 
At one point, the police forces came under attack from rocks and bottles. Police reported that they confiscated weapons including fireworks, long sticks, baseball bats, pepper spray and home-made shields. There were injuries, and arrests were made, but the police characterized the event as a "civil disturbance" and not a "riot". The event also featured people wearing T-shirts saying "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong" with an image of people dropped from a helicopter and "RWDS" (Right-Wing Death Squad) both of which were also spotted in Charlottesville.[92][93][94][95][96][97]
In October 2018, the Portland police announced that it had found members of the organization carrying loaded firearms on the roof of a parking garage overlooking the site of the August protest; the people carrying them had concealed carry permits. The police confiscated the weapons and made the people leave the roof.[98]
On November 17, 2018, an offshoot of Patriot Prayer scheduled a Him Too rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, and was met with counter protestors.[99][100][101]
Rose City Antifa has organized opposition to Patriot Prayer rallies in Portland.[54]
In January 2019, Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson, Proud Boy Tusitala "Tiny" Toese and former Proud Boy Russell Schultz intitiated a campaign to tear off the bandanas of anti-fascist (antifa) demonstrators and taking pictures of their faces. The announcement of the campaign came shortly after an altercation that took place when Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys members attempted and failed to invade a chapter meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America. The groups clashed with anti-fascist activists nearby after being denied entry to the meeting, and claimed to be attacked.[102][103][104]
In August 2019, Gibson, along with five other Patriot Prayer affiliates[105] were arrested for his actions in connection with a riot that took place in Portland on May 1. During the riot, which took place outside Cider Riot, Patriot Prayer member Ian Kramer beat Cider Riot patron Heather Clark unconscious and broke her vertebrae.[106][107][108][109] A Navy veteran referred to as "Ben", who had infiltrated Patriot Prayer and took videos of the violence at their rallies, was expected to testify at Gibson's trial.[14]
Seattle areaOn May 1, 2017, Patriot Prayer counter-protested at Seattle's May Day parade with their "Stand Against Communism" rally. The events were mostly peaceful with arrests of counter protesters.[110]
On June 15, 2017, Patriot Prayer members held a rally at Evergreen State College, timed to coincide with one by the Evergreen Anti-Fascist Community Defense Network.[111] The former promoted solidarity with Bret Weinstein, whose critical comments about an event for racial awareness had ignited campus protests.[112]
On August 13, 2017, the group held the "Freedom Rally Seattle" at Westlake Park with a large police presence to keep thousands of counter-protesters away. The concurrent events came one day after the death and injuries in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and tensions were high with arrests of counter protesters made by police.[113][114][115][116]
On February 10, 2018, Patriot Prayer was invited by the University of Washington College Republicans to speak at their "Freedom Rally" in Red Square. Several groups organized counter-protests, leading to skirmishes. Five people were arrested.[117]
San Francisco Bay areaA rally which was to be held at Crissy Field in San Francisco on August 26, 2017 was cancelled by Gibson.[118][119] In response to allegations by Nancy Pelosi that the event was intended to be a "white supremacist rally",[120] Gibson said: "For those of you who believe we are seriously going to throw a white nationalist supremacist rally in San Francisco, it's time for logic." In a video posted to his Facebook page. Gibson said: "We have a black speaker, two Hispanic speakers, we've got an Asian, a brown speaker right here (referring to himself) – we got a transsexual, and we aren't talking about race." Mayor Ed Lee had also condemned the event, saying: "The shameful, anti-American trend of hate-filled extremist rallies will unfortunately be allowed to continue this weekend in our city. [...] San Francisco does not welcome outside agitators whose messages of hate have the sole purpose of inciting violence." Police Chief Bill Scott and Board of Supervisors President London Breed had written a letter expressing outrage over the National Park Service's decision to allow the rally.[121][122] Security for the event was to be handled by the Oath Keepers.[123]
On August 26, 2017, news of a planned Patriot Prayer press conference in San Francisco's Alamo Square Park drew over 1000 counter-protesters to the neighborhood. The group, which had already canceled a planned rally at Crissy Field due to alleged safety concerns, held the press conference in Pacifica instead.[119][124] The hastily organized press conference had not gotten a permit for the event, leading to the city fencing off Alamo Square, barring entry to the public.[125] Prior to the event, the group's leader, Joey Gibson, denounced white supremacists before an August 2017 rally, saying "Don't show up, you're not welcome."[126] Group organizers arrived at Crissy Field later that afternoon to talk with counter-protesters.[127] Counter-protests across the city that weekend were peaceful, with most counter-protesters opting to hold a large dance party instead of a violent confrontation, and there was only one arrest for public intoxication. [128]
After cancelling the August 26 event at Alamo Square, Gibson then said that Patriot Prayer members would instead be attending an anti-Marxist rally in nearby Berkeley, but also called that event off as well. [129]
A September 26, 2017 Patriot Prayer demonstration near Sproul Plaza resulted in violence between the group and left-wing activists, including By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). The demonstration continued in a march to People's Park, where Kyle "Stickman" Chapman, a self-described American nationalist[130] claimed there was "a war on whites" and a "battle for Berkeley". Police made three arrests, including Yvette Felarca.[131]
Relationship with the Portland policeThe Guardian reported that Lt. Niiya told Gibson in December 2017 that the police would not execute a warrant for the arrest of Toese. In a text, Niiya wrote "Just make sure he doesn’t do anything which may draw our attention. ... If he still has the warrant in the system (I don’t run you guys so I don’t personally know) the officers could arrest him. I don’t see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason." He also indicated that police officers had ignored previous arrest warrants for Toese.[132]
In February 2019, Willamette Week reported that Portland police lieutenant Jeff Niiya kept in close touch with Gibson, passing on to him intelligence about the anti-fascist movement in the city. He also advised Gibson on how a Patriot Prayer member could avoid being arrested.[133] On February 21, a public "listening session" convened by the Portland Police Bureau consisted in large part of strong criticism of the bureau.[132]
On March 1, 2019, The Guardian reported that it had obtained video which showed Portland police officers approaching Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson at a June 3, 2018 rally, and telling him that even though Niiya had probable cause to arrest several members of the group, they could avoid being arrested by leaving. The officers informed Gibson of who would be arrested (Tusitala "Tiny" Toese and another man), and told him that they had already arrested members of "the other side". Five days after the rally, Toese and Donovan Flippo – a member of Proud Boys – allegedly attacked a man in Portland. They were later indicted for the incident by a grand jury. The Portland Police Bureau did not comment on the video because their investigation on the relationship between Niiya and Patriot Prayer is ongoing.[132]
Portland's Independent Police Review investigated Niiya and cleared him in September 2019; determining that he was gathering information on the groups and trying to defuse potential clashes with his advice.[134]
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Internal documents reportedly suggest federal law enforcement officials with the Department of Homeland Security were directed to maintain a publicly sympathetic stance regarding Kyle Rittenhouse — the 17-year-old facing murder charges for the fatal shootings of protesters in Kenosha, Wisc.
In preparation for questions from the media regarding the highly publicized shootings, DHS officials were advised to focus on focus on Rittenhouse's initial efforts, according to NBC News. The document, which included multiple talking points regarding the case, advised officials to suggest Rittenhouse "took his rifle to the scene of the rioting to help defend small business owners."
A different set of talking points distributed to officials also discussed the media's depiction of the group, Patriot Prayer. While the media is said to have labeled the group as "racist" following their clash with protesters amid civil unrest in Portland, Ore., DHS officials were reportedly told to dismiss the claims.
It remains unclear whether or not the directives came from the White House but President Donald Trump has shown support for Rittenhouse and law enforcement.
Now, multiple former Homeland Security officials have expressed concern about the handling of internal affairs at the government agency. Peter Boogaard, who served as a spokesperson for Homeland Security under the Obama administration, condemned the reports.
"It is as unprecedented as it is wrong," Boogaard said.
Elizabeth Neumann, who served as DHS's assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy in the Trump administration, also pointed out one important suggestion that did not appear to be highlighted in the internal talking points.
"What strikes me about the talking points is that they didn't call for calm among the public," Neumann said. "Even in the early hours after the incident, it was known private militias had self-deployed. …They seemed more interested in Rittenhouse's reputation than calling for calm and actual law and order."
The latest regarding Kyle Rittenhouse follows multiple reports about the staggering number of donations he has received through fundraising efforts sphere headed by a Christian crowdfunding website. According to Rittenhouse's lawyer, the Christian has received more than $1 million in donations from more than 11,000 donors.

As of Monday night, a total of $605,550 had been donated to the FightBack Foundation for Rittenhouse's legal fund. Another $534,000 had also been donated to Rittenhouse through the Christian fundraising platform GiveSendGo. However, all funds will ultimately be transferred to the FightBack Foundation.
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in the Age of Trump, Portland, Oregon, is no longer just another city. Now it is a symbol and almost a Rorschach test for the country’s deep and explosive political divides.For Trumpists, Republicans and members of the far right, Portland is all that is wrong with “the Left” and “Liberals,” a chaotic nightmare zone where Black Lives Matter, antifa and other “enemies” are running amok while they attack “patriotism” and “real American values.”
To TrumpWorld, Portland and other Democratic-led big cities (which of course is virtually all of them) are hives of scum and villainy, overrun by criminals and “rioters,” which must be conquered by Trump’s enforcers and armed vigilante supporters.
Trump’s “law and order” politics, and its inherent racism and violence, are believed by many to be his path back to the White House. In this view, Portland and other “Democrat cities” and communities are targets of opportunity for the Trump regime.
writing at Washington Monthly, David Atkins explains Trump’s mindset:
He sees the violence as politically beneficial, a useful cudgel against Democratic nominee Joe Biden — even though the violence is happening while Trump himself is president, not Biden.
Trump’s election theme is that Americans won’t be safe in a Biden presidency. The opposite is true. Americans won’t be safe as long as a white supremacist president is leading a movement of bigots to incite a civil war, and attempting to ensure that the majority of Americans with cosmopolitan, egalitarian values remain politically disenfranchised and under the thumb of those who fear and despise them.
Trump’s campaign of racial authoritarianism and stochastic terrorism, as well as overt threats of “law and order,” resulted in a group of his supporters driving into Portland last weekend, armed with mace and paintball guns, to seek out confrontations with Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist protesters. During one such encounter, a member of the right-wing militia group Patriot Prayer, Aaron Danielson, was shot and killed. On Thursday night, the apparent shooter, Michael Reinoehl, was himself shot and killed by U.S. marshals in Olympia, Washington.
Despite this lamentable violence — for which Trump and the right must bear ultimate responsibility — for progressives and other people of conscience Portland is a symbol of resistance and hope. As part of the nationwide people’s uprising sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protesters have been outside the Portland federal courthouse for more than 100 days.
The protests were largely peaceful until Trump and acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf deployed federal police forces to the city in July. Their presence, as designed, escalated the tension and led to increasing levels of property damage and incidents of violence.
Previewing Trump’s plan for other parts of the nation, these federal shock troops made journalists and reporters a special focus of their violence. They also kidnapped protesters and other “enemies” of Donald Trump’s regime off the street as though they were operating in a banana republic.
Much of the mainstream American news media’s coverage of the recent events in Portland lacks meaningful context. Writing at Medium, a Portland press collective describes one such example of this “parachute journalism”:
One night last week, during one of the smaller demonstrations, a tall white man in a clean ballistic helmet and brand-new plate carrier emblazoned with “PRESS” strolled through the crowd in front of the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon. He stopped by a gaggle of other journalists, most out-of-towners. “I’ve only been around for the last week,” he said, “but the protests in Portland feel a lot more performative than the ones I’ve seen in other cities. Less genuine.” A local journalist mentioned having been present for over 50 nights of the protests, starting in early June. “Yeah, I can only speak for what I’ve seen this week,” said Clean Helmet. “I’m flying back to DC tomorrow.” … Clean Helmet was on the ground in Portland, by his own description, for less than a week. This means that he was present for approximately 1/10th of Portland’s BLM protests, thus far. I’m sure he got some great footage.
The Parachutes (as we have come to know them) come with money, and zero community connections. Their goal is the clip that can make the nightly news. They want a story that will dominate the news cycle. They do not know what is happening in Portland, and they do not care. They are coming to a city with a vibrant, scrappy community of street-level journalists. By and large, they do not want the context that those journalists can provide. And soon they will come to a city near you. When the Feds and the Parachutes come to your town, you’ll want everyone to understand the context there, too. And they are coming. Clean Helmet is already back in DC, and on to the next assignment.
The important context which “the Parachutes” usually omit includes the way Portland is depicted as a liberal oasis in America’s popular imagination. In reality, Portland is a very race and class-segregated city. As historian and activist Walidah Imarisha and others have richly documented, the Oregon territory passed laws in 1844 explicitly excluding Black people from the region under punishment of whippings and other violence. The state of Oregon formally included white supremacy in its constitution, explicitly banning nonwhites.
To this day, Oregon remains a redoubt of white supremacy, where white supremacists and other right-wing extremists have a large presence in the state and surrounding region. Portland itself has a long and ongoing history of right-wing violence.
Alexander Reid Ross is a doctoral fellow at the Center for Analysis of the Radical Right. His most recent book is “Against the Fascist Creep.” Ross has also completed new research which documents more than 500 incidents in which white vigilantes and other right-wing extremists have confronted Black Lives Matter protests. This includes hundreds of acts of intimidation and other threats as well as dozens of examples in which right-wing extremists have assaulted or attacked Black Lives Matter protesters.
In this conversation Ross shares his firsthand experiences with the recent George Floyd protests in Portland. He also provides some context for those events and the police and federal response. Ross also details the long history of right-wing paramilitaries and political street gangs in Portland and their relationship with local police and other law enforcement.
Reid warns that Portland, the right-wing vigilante killings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the hundreds of other attacks by right-wing extremists on Black Lives Matter protesters is just a preview of the massive violence that Donald Trump and his movement may unleash before and after Election Day — perhaps including the arrest or imprisonment of prominent Democrats, journalists, and others deemed to be enemies of the state.
Q: After almost four years of Trump and his regime’s authoritarian, neofascist behavior, some voices in the mainstream American news media now use that correct and appropriate language to describe the reality of the situation. Why was there so much fear and denial about the obvious? Even when they use the correct terminology, the coverage is largely superficial and avoids serious discussion of the dire implications.
You must also take into account that many so-called left-leaning voices have also been interfering with bringing that truth to light. There were writers at the Guardian, for example, who were trying to sound the alarm about the dangers of right-wing extremism and fascism in America, but they were derided by their peers across the political spectrum.
I also believe that publications such as the Washington Post and the New York Times saw themselves as being aloof from questions of the mob and political violence in America. There is a tendency among elite voices to want to say that, “We’re above political violence here in America and we resolve our differences through conversation. Therefore, let’s give everyone a hearing and let’s debate these issues, regardless of how extreme they may be. That is what a democratic country should act like.”
In a sense, they put their faith completely in some abstract idea of “democracy” instead of taking the temperature of what is really happening on the ground.
You live in Portland. How is your experience different from the narrative being offered by the mainstream American news media and other outside observers?
We in Portland have been dealing with right-wing extremists and police abuse for a long time. Portland has experience with the likes of right-wing extremist groups such as Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys. This is not new to us.
I would go out to protests and see how the political violence is not a result of the breakdown in the monopoly of violence held by the police. The political violence was a result of the Proud Boys and the police effectively acting as two different elements of the same side. It wasn’t that the police had lost the monopoly of violence. It was the police were shooting us in order to allow the Proud Boys to march through the city without proper permits.
Most mainstream news media coverage of the protests which have taken place here in Portland, recently and before, totally fail to acknowledge or even fathom the police involvement in the rise of the far right in this community. That failure has cascaded to the point that we are now at a point where the press is painting the current crisis as some type of grudge match between the feds and the anarchists. In fact, the protest movement is a very diverse group of people — especially by Portland standards — who are coming out night after night and making extraordinarily clear demands and being absolutely brutalized in the streets every night.
What too many reporters in many cases are trying to do is figure out how to resolve the situation, rather than understanding it and properly explaining to the public what is really happening and the context for it.  By doing so, too many reporters are creating false equivalencies regarding the various forces at play here in Portland.
What does Portland exemplify, in terms of the protests and the Trump’s regime’s reaction?
It is an example of Donald Trump attempting to rise to the level of a right-wing political strongman. Donald Trump is using classic authoritarian tactics that one does not often see in a healthy democracy. Donald Trump is deliberately undermining the Constitution by using federal law to circumvent local governments’ control over their police forces.
Trump and William Barr’s de facto secret police are literally disappearing people off the streets of Portland and in other parts of the country where the Democratic Party is in power. How do you explain what is happening to people who do not live in those communities? Who are not being targeted by Trump and his henchmen?
The specific federal forces involved are BORTAC — the Border Patrol Tactical Unit — and the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and others, under the coordination of the Department of Homeland Security. BORTAC have been in Portland shooting at people and launching tear gas. BORTAC is not trained for crowd or riot control. They are trained to engage in raids against migrants and to separate children from their mothers. That is what BORTAC does. They pride themselves on being the most militarized branch and group of the U.S. law enforcement community. BORTAC members are extreme Trump supporters. What is happening in Portland and other parts of the country is the border closing in on the citizens of the United States.
BORTAC is loyal to Donald Trump and that’s why he is using them. He’s not using them because they’re the most skilled and adept at riot and crowd control management. That also explains why there are so many incidents of people being shot in the face and otherwise abused here in Portland and other places where BORTAC and other such forces are being deployed by the Trump administration.They don’t know what they’re doing at all.BORTAC is being used because Trump feels that they are his most loyal forces. That is fully in keeping with the tactics of authoritarian leaders who cultivate secret police whose main function is to serve as the government leader’s private force, one that operates outside of any restraints such as internal review.
The [former] Chilean dictatorship is explicitly supported by Trump’s own supporters, who wear T-shirts that say, “Right-wing death squad” and “Pinochet did nothing wrong.” The American mainstream news media is far too charitable with its narrative that “Trump is playing to his base.”
During the recent protests in Portland, were there moments where you feared that the federal forces were going to start shooting the crowd with lethal rounds?
The fear is very real and it’s constant. The federal forces have assault rifles. They are loaded with live rounds. There are protesters who were throwing fireworks and things of that sort at the courthouse. What if one of the feds has an itchy trigger finger? What if a firework explodes and they then open fire on an entire group of unarmed people?
Trump and their defenders and other apologists will just say, “Well, these poor agents have been overworked for 60 days and look at all the things that have been thrown at them” and so on and so forth. We know what the narrative will be. All a person can do when protesting is to act accordingly and stay focused.
You have been documenting what are now almost 500 attacks, acts of intimidation, vehicular assaults, shootings and other threats by Trump supporters and other members of the right against Black Lives Matter protests. What do we know?
I have never seen this amount of anti-left vigilantism from the right. During the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, the Tea Party was huge, and they mobilized with events all over the country. There were also armed protests in opposition to Obamacare. But those right-wing protesters were not coming out to confront and intimidate a much smaller group of anti-racists. Of course, those anti-Obama Tea Party and anti-health-care type protesters were extremely racist and a breath away from being fascists, but there was not that same energy and menace that we are seeing today.
The idea of these right-wing protesters and militia types being “anti-government” — again, a narrative circulated by the mainstream American news media — is very uncritical, a total misnomer. They are really pro-government. They are entirely in favor of the United States government as controlled by Donald Trump. Their claim to be “libertarians” is a joke.
Those right-wing militias and others sympathetic to them are arming in opposition to Democrats, liberals and progressives.
Right-wing extremists and other terrorists, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis, are also coordinating at times with the police.  
They actually say that they are at the protests to “protect the police.” Think about that claim: They are “anti-government” vigilantes who promise that they are trying to protect the police. In essence, these right-wing militias and the like are American citizens who believe it is their role not to become police, but to guard the police. Such a claim is ludicrous. It is a paramilitary force. These right-wing forces are coordinating and positioning themselves to be able to launch a coup against American democracy and the Democratic Party, if the latter gains control of the presidency and government.
The closest parallel with what we are seeing with Trump’s movement would be the “massive resistance” by white people against racial integration in the South during the civil rights movement. I am of the opinion that the United States has not seen such a mobilization of violent, far-right forces to this extent since the 1960s.
Recently, a Trumpist and right-wing militia supporter traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin and involved himself in the protests there. He apparently shot three people, killing two of them. He crossed state lines illegally with a weapon he was not allowed to own. He was only a teenager, and was radicalized online into right-wing extremism. He is now being valorized by the right-wing media machine. Trump has defended this young man as a hero who was fighting against “criminals” and “looters.” This apparent killer now has hundreds of thousands of dollars pledged to his defense.
Trump has defended Kyle Rittenhouse with the claim he was firing in “self-defense.” In essence, Donald Trump supports the right-wing vigilante movement, which represents the disintegration of the rule of law.
We are witnessing an erosion of democratic norms in this country by Republicans. They accept breaking the law as being viable if it supports “traditional values” — meaning racism. As a practical matter, Donald Trump is spearheading the movement of the Republican Party into a full-on violent racist organization that encourages vigilantism.
In terms of engaging in the worst type of “both-sides-ism” and false equivalencies that helped Trump win and now keep power, the American mainstream news media is now advancing a “mutual combat” narrative in its coverage of Trump’s supporters and the violence in Portland last weekend. How does that narrative contradict what really happened in Portland?
The “mutual combat” framing is inane, legally a non-starter, and obviously supportive of the aggressive party, which is typically the Trump supporters. Their strategy is to provoke fights and then call for “law and order” intervention from a corrupt president.
Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson has not been leading protests in Portland for a long time. He is a marginal figure, but the American news media has suddenly selected him and lifted him up for no apparent reason other than that he participated in an aggressive and bellicose Trump “caravan” last week during which right-wing vigilantes tried to run people over with their trucks, shot protesters and bystanders with paintball guns, and used pepper spray to attack people.
Should Black Lives Matter, antifascist and other human rights and social justice supporters stop protesting in order to deny Trump’s supporters and other right-wing hooligans a narrative that could hurt Joe Biden nd the the Democrats? In essence, should they make a tactical withdrawal to deny Trump a strategic victory, because of how events will likely be distorted by the media to his advantage?
I will not say what protesters should or shouldn’t do. I do not think what they choose to do or not do will matter much. What is significant is that the far right will deepen its insurgency against the left the more that Donald Trump falters and as he continues demanding “law and order.”
The left would be remiss to engage them on this level. The left is not in the streets to spark a civil war or escalate violent encounters to the point of breaking civil society into protracted sectarian warfare. The left is in the streets to make life better for ordinary people, and to present a version of the future that would be better and more prosperous for everyone. The more the left maintains its sanity against overwhelming odds, the more the right’s paranoia and hysteria will marginalize it in American society. This will create new spaces for progressive causes and movements.
What do you want to warn the American people about? What do you think happens next?
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Trump’s most fanatical right-wing followers are going ballistic over impeachment — and talking of ‘civil war’
Written by David Neiwert / Daily Kos December 27, 2019
The most fanatical right-wing followers of Donald Trump have been warning for some time that any attempt to impeach the man in the Oval Office would result in a second American civil war that will produce large amounts of bloodshed as they rise up with their weapons caches and begin murdering liberals.
Now that he actually has been impeached, they’re going even more ballistic.
“He’s not gonna be removed. He’s not gonna be removed. He’s not gonna be removed,” one attendee at Trump rally told a CBS reporter. When the reporter asked, “Do you feel confident in that?” he responded, “My .357 Magnum is comfortable with that. End of story.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert—who has talked up civil war on several previous occasions—went ballistic on the floor of the House last week, warning that impeachment meant the end of America: “This is a travesty. We’re in big trouble,” Gohmert huffed, adding, “Now it’s lowered even further, the bar. [Impeachment] will be used for political battles and this country’s end is now in sight. I hope I don’t live to see it. This is an outrage.”
Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins was even more unhinged in his similar rant last week: “They fear the true will of we the people. They are deep established D.C. They fear, they call this Republican map flyover country. They call us deplorables. They fear our faith, they fear our strength, they fear our unity, they fear our vote, and they fear our president. We will never surrender our nation to career establishment D.C. politicians and bureaucrats. Our republic shall survive this threat from within. American patriots shall prevail.”
The real action, however, has been on social media, where Facebook and Twitter posts eagerly anticipating the violent uprising to preserve Trump’s presidency have been as common as dirt.
Ex-Navy SEAL Jonathan Gilliam, for instance, used Gohmert’s comments as a springboard on Twitter for open discussion of a shooting civil war in which conservatives begin killing liberals for attempting to remove Trump: “Like so many, I see exactly what he sees. Therefor [sic] it is time we begin considering the possibility of civil war.”
“I am counting down the days until the vigilantes take to the streets. I dread the inevitable conflict that is coming but will do whatever I can I can to support the fight against the Left,” one commenter replied. Another answered: “lol it would be a short Civil War II.  The vast majority of the peace officers, military personnel, and gritty hard-working 2nd Amendment loving Americans are on our side.  The snowflakes have no idea about the sleeping bear they are about to awaken.”
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A fairly typical response among far-right extremists has been to pledge utter fealty to Trump, even unto death. Rene Hollan, a Monroe, Wash., man who is a regular participant in events organized by Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys in the Pacific Northwest, posted a screed (later removed by Facebook) vowing that he would even detonate a nuclear bomb in a major liberal city:
As a naturalized U.S. citizen who swore the Oath of Allegiance, if President Trump orders me to drive a truck with a nuke into a city with Facebook offices or an illegal sanctuary city, and detonate it, killing myself, everyone in the city, and rendering it a sheet of glass, it would be my honor to comply.
Another Northwest far-right figure, “documentarian” Brandon Farley—long a player in the Portland-area “patriot” scene—invited neo-Nazis to start killing his critics: “Hey Atomwaffen, will you please take note of this and act accordingly?” he tweeted.
Farley3.pngA couple of days later, Farley discovered that his name came up in Twitter searches for Atomwaffen, and expressed his confusion.
Social scientist Caroline Orr collected a large cache of these kinds of comments on Twitter, noting, “It’s easy to laugh at the keyboard warriors in the mix, but there are definitely extremists using this opportunity to try to bring about social and political upheaval by issuing calls for violence.”
“Lock N Load, PATRIOTS, the demonrats just told us what they want for Christmas: #CivilWar2,” wrote one. “Let’s make the demon rats live on the streets of their own districts!”
“ALERT!! If the Democrats impeach OUR PRESIDENT WE NEED TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR,” tweeted another. “America as we have known it will be gone and the squad will be in charge of us. I shiver thinking of it. A civil war will be the only way to get America back as we remember it.”
Of course, it’s always worth remembering that this talking point has been deliberately promoted by Russian intelligence agencies as part of their campaign to undermine American democracy. A Justice Department affidavit released in 2018 noted that the “civil war” meme is being directly encouraged by Internet Research Agency, the Russian-financed disinformation agency that purchased 3,500 ads on Facebook during the 2016 campaign with the intent of undermining American political consensus. The affidavit describes directions given to IRA’s writers.
Forcefully support Michael Savage’s point of view with competence and honesty. Savage made it clear that any attempt to remove Trump is a direct path to a civil war in the United States. Name those who oppose the president and those who impede his efforts to implement his pre-election promises. Focus on the fact that the Anti-Trump Republicans: a) drag their feet with regard to financing the construction of the border wall; b) are not lowering taxes; c) slander Trump and harm his reputation (bring up McCain); d) do not want to cancel Obamacare; e) are not in a hurry to adopt laws that oppose the refugees coming from Middle Eastern countries entering this country. Summarize that in case Republicans will not stop acting as traitors, they will bring upon themselves forces of civil retribution during the 2018 elections.
Over at Trump-friendly Russia Today, op-ed writer Robert Bridge bolstered the civil war talk with a piece headlined “Democrats’ push to impeach Trump is just the latest chapter of US Civil War 2.0,” in which he concluded, “What is happening now in Washington DC between the Republicans and Democrats is just mere dress rehearsal for far more disasters down the road. I just hope the costumes don’t end up being blue and gray, once again.”
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Far-right ‘journalist’ Andy Ngo exposed as right-wing troll
Written by Igor Derysh / Salon August 28, 2019
Andy Ngo, the right-wing journalist and provocateur who was embraced by mainstream Republicans and covered favorably in mainstream media after he was attacked by antifa activists during a street fight in Portland, Oregon, may suddenly be persona non grata among conservatives. Nearly all mentions of Ngo were scrubbed from the upscale right-wing publication Quillette after a newly-released video showed him acting friendly with members of Patriot Prayer, a far-right hate group that has repeatedly sought out fights with leftists.
Ngo, who has used selectively edited videos to paint antifa as a violent, criminal group was hit with punches and milkshakes during a clash between antifa activists and members of the Proud Boys, an organization labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Many on the right rallied around Ngo after that altercation, and spread false rumors that the milkshakes thrown at him and others had contained quick-dry cement. Ngo used his newfound fame to boost his profile, appearing on Fox News and other cable news outlets and embracing his victimhood.
Just weeks later, however, a video surfaced on Twitter showing Ngo pal around with the Proud Boys-adjacent group Patriot Prayer.
The video shows Ngo laughing as the group plans a violent attack on antifa members at a Portland bar in May. The video surfaced as part of a lawsuit brought by the bar, accusing Patriot Prayer members of causing a riot.
The Portland Mercury reports that Patriot Prayer members targeted antifa while they were celebrating a day of peaceful May Day celebrations. The lawsuit brought by the bar owners alleges that Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson and six others trespassed onto the property with the aim of engaging in violence.
The video of Ngo laughing as the group plans their attack, wrote Portland Mercury news editor Alex Zielinski, “is the clearest evidence I’ve seen supporting the claim that [Patriot Prayer] & leader Joy Gibson were intent on instigating a fight that afternoon.”
Alex Zielinski?@alex_zee This clip, shot right before Patriot Prayer arrived at Cider Riot on May Day, is the clearest evidence I've seen supporting the claim that PP & leader Joey Gibson were intent on instigating a fight that afternoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awN9J88j4mA&feature=youtu.be …
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The video shows members discuss their weapons and making preparations for the attack. Ngo is present the entire time and can be seen laughing at certain points.
“There’s no way he couldn’t know the group was planning on instigating violence,” Zielinski wrote.
In Ngo’s coverage of the violence, however, videos of the attack were selectively edited to remove violence by Patriot Prayer members. His tweets entirely blamed antifa for the violence.

Respectable Lawyer@RespectableLaw · Aug 23, 2019Replying to @RespectableLawAnd of course, Andy also posted misleading footage after the attack. He shows a woman aggressively approaching Patriot Prayer members in hysterics, and then a Patriot Prayer member hits her with some kind of club.https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1125811724932632576 …
Andy Ngo?@MrAndyNgoReplying to @katemshepherdHere is the moment that woman charged in to fight and got knocked out. Notice the masked person who went in the direction of the camera man with a blade or pick. I saw numerous patrons on the bar’s property with weapons ready. pic.twitter.com/exCiimM4cp
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Respectable Lawyer@RespectableLawBut as @imminentbulb pointed out, a full video shows the woman was attacked immediately prior to the start of Andy’s clip. If you listen to Andy’s clip, you can even hear one Patriot Prayer member frantically apologizing for the attack on her.https://twitter.com/imminentbulb/status/1125818772793618432 …
^,,@imminentbulbReplying to @imminentbulb and 2 othersHere's what happened immediately before the footage Andy is pushing. Deme Cooper, thirsty to carry out further #PatriotPrayer violence, returned to blatantly assault that person. She responded briefly in self defense, then Ian Kramer struck her after she had turned around.
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“As more people send me clips, it becomes clear that Andy’s work is plagued by these dishonest edits,” wrote a Twitter user who has posted numerous videos discrediting Ngo’s tweets. “For example, in this clip, he edited out some goons stomping a man’s head, and did it with a sloppy looking jump-cut in his own clip.”
Respectable Lawyer@RespectableLaw · Aug 23, 2019Replying to @RespectableLawThis is the same woman who Andy had filmed and identified to his followers. She was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken neck. Andy also published her name while she was in the hospital.
Respectable Lawyer@RespectableLawAs more people send me clips, it becomes clear that Andy’s work is plagued by these dishonest edits. For example, in this clip, he edited out some goons stomping a man’s head, and did it with a sloppy looking jump-cut in his own clip.https://twitter.com/leftkist/status/1163913780197113856 …
Grifts Gone Wild@leftkistFor your Andy Ngo list @RespectableLaw 
Andy crudely edited out footage of Patriot Prayer associates Tiny Toese and Igor Ponomarev pummeling someone on the ground on 10/13/18.
Footage from @itsmikebivins shows what he cut.
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376 people are talking about thisQuillette, where Ngo worked as a photo editor until Monday, announced after the video surfaced that Ngo was leaving his job at the site. Ngo’s name was scrubbed from the site, The Daily Beast reported.
Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann told The Daily Beast that Ngo left the site weeks earlier but the move was not publicized until Monday.
“Andy actually moved on from Quillette a few weeks ago because he is undertaking bigger & better projects, we just hadn’t updated the website and he hadn’t updated his Twitter bio until today,” she told the Daily Beast. “I haven’t seen the video,” she added.
Lehmann also said that Ngo had been on a “break” from a “brain injury” he suffered at the Portland rally.
Ngo, however, did not remove Quillette from his Twitter bio until Monday, noted National Observer reporter Caroline Orr, the same day that the Patriot Prayer video was released.
Meanwhile, Ngo’s crowdfunding campaign has raised nearly $195,000 since the Portland attack, which was even cited in a letter sent by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to the Justice Department.
Cruz cited the Ngo incident to demand that the FBI investigate Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and prosecute antifa members under the RICO statute. Cruz’s call was amplified by President Trump to his 63 million followers on Twitter.
“At least give Andy Ngo credit,” wrote HuffPost reporter Luke O’Brien, for “lifting $200k off some of the dumbest people alive. Right-wing writers staked their reputations on this guy. Ted Cruz based an anti-anti-fascist congressional resolution on Ngo.”
=819The leader of a large right-wing militia group told followers to skip a planned rally in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, saying that organizers hadn’t properly kept white nationalists away from the event and that attendees could face legal consequences.

In a statement on his group’s website, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes said he owed it to his membership to disavow the so-called “End Domestic Terrorism” rally, where attendees will demand that anti-fascists, or “antifa,” be labeled a terrorist group.
“We do not believe the organizers are taking the steps necessary to ensure that white nationalist and suspected white nationalist groups and individuals will be excluded,” he wrote.
Rhodes expressed concern that threats of violence from the right could put attendees at legal risk.
Citing the work of anarchist news website It’s Going Down, Rhodes pointed to the archived posts the site has collected that show prominent far-right figures, including the event’s organizers, seemingly threatening violence.
Rhodes said that statements that can be “construed as expressing an intent to come to Portland to seek out Antifa and engage them in street fights” or “worse” could “potentially expose all attendees to possible prosecution using both an Oregon state ‘rioting’ statute and a federal rioting statute.”
Joe Biggs, an event organizer and former InfoWars host who frequently posts threatening messages and memes online, claimed in a recent Facebook post flagged by The Oregonian that the FBI had asked him to “tone down” the rhetoric about the event.
“Everyone in law enforcement is on edge after these last two shootings,” he wrote, presumably referring to the shooting massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, recently.
The Portland Police Bureau said in a statement earlier this month, “Based on publicly-available information, the Bureau is concerned events on August 17 may involve persons interested in participating in criminal activity.”
Messaging for Saturday’s rally has focused on the assault of right-wing commentator Andy Ngo in Portland in late June. Video from the last time the right-wing “Proud Boys” gang rallied in Portland appeared to show counterprotesters — clad in black with their faces covered, a uniform of some — attacking Ngo and pouring milkshakes on him. The footage spread like wildfire on the right and was touted by conservatives as supposed evidence of the left’s terrorism problem, and used as fodder for Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) resolution calling antifascists a domestic terrorist organization.
But Portland has seen multiple violent confrontations in recent years between extreme right-wing groups, including outright hate groups, and anti-fascists.
Rhodes’ note to Oath Keepers membership came on the same day the leader of the ultranationalist group Patriot Prayer, Joey Gibson, was reportedly charged with felony rioting over a brawl at a Portland cidery on May Day. (Gibson’s attorney denied wrongdoing.) The group’s leader is one of several people charged recently in relation to the incident.
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 NEW FAR-RIGHTWhy Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist GroupsPatriot Prayer’s leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. Is the future of hate multicultural?
Arun Gupta09.04.18 4:54 AM ET
Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastPORTLAND, Oregon—Outfitted in a flak jacket and fighting gloves, Enrique Tarrio was one of dozens of black, Latino, and Asian men who marched alongside white supremacists in Portland on Aug. 4.
Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, is president of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, who call themselves “Western chauvinists,” and “regularly spout white-nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Last month, prior to the Patriot Prayer rally he attended in Portland, Tarrio was pictured with other far-right activists making a hand sign that started as a hoax but has become an in-joke. Last year, Tarrio said traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Unite the Right rally that ended with a neo-Nazi allegedly killing an anti-fascist protester. (The Proud Boys said any members who went to the event were kicked out.)
Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, is president of the Miami chapter of the Proud Boys, who call themselves “Western chauvinists,” and “regularly spout white-nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Last month, prior to the Patriot Prayer rally he attended in Portland, Tarrio was pictured with other far-right activists making a hand sign that started as a hoax but has become an in-joke. Last year, Tarrio said traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Unite the Right rally that ended with a neo-Nazi allegedly killing an anti-fascist protester. (The Proud Boys said any members who went to the event were kicked out.)
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Arun "295 Revenue Streams" Gupta@arunindy Patriot Prayer + Proud Boys in Vancouver night b4 Aug 4 Portland rally many fear will end in violence. Tusitala "Tiny" Toese and others make an apparent "White Power" hand gesture. T-shirts read, "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong."
Tarrio and other people of color at the far-right rallies claim institutional racism no longer exists in America. In their view, blacks are to blame for any lingering inequality because they are dependent on welfare, lack strong leadership, and believe Democrats who tell them “You’re always going to be broke. You’re not going to make it in society because of institutional racism,” as one mixed-race man put it.
If racism doesn’t exist, I ask Tarrio, how would he explain the disproportionate killing of young black men by police? “Hip-hop culture,” he says. It “glorifies that lifestyle… of selling drugs, shooting up.” Because of that, “Obviously you’re going to have higher crime rates. Obviously you’re going to have more police presence and more confrontations.” (Police kill black males aged 15 to 34 at nine times the rate of the general population.)
Elysa Sanchez, who is black and Puerto Rican, attended the “Liberty or Death Rally Against Left-Wing Violence” in Seattle on Aug. 18, joining about 20 militiamen open-carrying handguns and semi-automatic rifles.
Sanchez says, “If black people are committing more murders, more robberies, more thefts, more violent crime, that’s why you would see more black men having encounters with the police.”
Also in Seattle, Franky Price, who said he is  “black and white,”wore a T-shirt reading, “It’s okay to be white.”
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They are among nearly a dozen black, Latino, and Asian participants at far-right rallies on the West Coast interviewed by The Daily Beast recently. They represent the new face of the far right that some scholars term “multiracial white supremacy.”
The Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, which overlap, embrace an America-first nationalism that is less pro-white than it is anti-Muslim, anti-illegal immigrant, and anti-Black Lives Matter. “Proud Boys is multi-racial fraternity with thousands of members worldwide,” a lawyer for the group’s leader, Gavin McInnis, said in a statement. “The only requirements for membership are that a person must be biologically male and believe that the West is the best.”
Daniel Martinez HoSang, associate professor at Yale University, co-author of the forthcoming Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, says “Multiculturalism has become a norm in society” and has spread from corporations and consumer culture to conservatism and the far-right.
Indeed, Patriot Prayer’s leader is Joey Gibson, who is half-Japanese and claims Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a hero. But his agenda is the opposite of King’s. Gibson’s rallies have attracted neo-Confederates and neo-Nazis.
His right-hand man is Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, a 345-pound Samoan American who calls himself “a brown brother for Donald Trump” and is notorious for brawling. By bringing diversity to what is at heart a white-supremacist movement, people of color give it legitimacy to challenge state power and commit violence against their enemies.
David Neiwert, author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, says, “The ranks of people of color who show up to these right-wing events are totally dominated by males.” He says the alt-right targets white males between the ages of 15 and 30 with a message of male resentment, which ends up attracting black, Latino, and Asian men as well.
Neiwert says many young men of color in the far-right grew up on conservative traditions common in minority communities. Their journey to the far-right has been enabled by the ease of recruitment in the internet age and the endorsement of extremism by Trump.
Entry points to the far-right include male-dominated video-game culture, the anti-feminist gamergate, troll havens on 4chan and 8chan, and the conspiracism that flourishes on websites like Infowars. Libertarianism is another gateway.
“A lot of these young guys,” Neiwert says, “especially from the software world, who are being sucked into white nationalism, start out being worked up about Ayn Rand in high school.”
Andrew Zhao, 25, a software engineer, says his parents, physicists who emigrated from mainland China, “are Trump fans.” He found out about the Seattle rally from Reddit and Facebook and said, “We need more patriotism. A lot of liberals don’t like America.”
“A lot of these young guys, especially from the software world, who are being sucked into white nationalism, start out being worked up about Ayn Rand in high school.”— David Neiwert
Daniel HoSang says some people of color are drawn to the far-right because they “identify with the military, with nationalism, with patriotism, with conservatism.”
Wearing a Proud Boys hat, David Nopal, 23, came to the Seattle rally alone, like others. Nopal, whose parents crossed illegally from Mexico, said, “I’m very patriotic. The U.S. isn’t perfect, but we are a hell of a lot better than other countries.”
Sanchez comes from a military family. “They all love America. It’s a big part of the reason I’m a patriot.”
Similarly, Tarrio attributes his anti-socialist politics to his grandfather’s experience in Cuba under Fidel Castro.
They proudly identify as “American” without modifiers. In their America they’ve never experienced racism. They eagerly talk politics, but evidence of their America is scant beyond the internet. Institutional racism has been ended by affirmative action, “black privilege,” and equal protection under the law. Any remaining black inequality is caused by social welfare and liberal policies. In any case, it was Democrats who started the Klan.
People of color within the far-right play a role that “excuses white racism and bears witness to the failure of people of color,” HoSang says, adding that they make “white supremacy a more durable force.”
HoSang said the far-right is trying to broaden its appeal from a whites-only movement in a multiracial America, so it is “laying claim to the ideas of anti-racism, racial uplift, and civil-rights progress.”
HoSang says, “It’s hard for people to wrap their head around how Dr. King and civil-rights language are being used to legitimate positions approaching fascism and violence to restore hierarchy and order. But they are.”
Editor's Note: This story has been updated with a statement from the Proud Boys and to clarify that the group formally opposed the Charlottesville march.
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When far-right groups like the Proud Boys or Patriot Prayer get into street brawls, they have a go-to rationalization: It was self-defense. The argument is that fringe right-wingers are out there peacefully protesting or attending speeches, and that the violence that often seems to erupt afterward is merely a reaction to leftist provocation."Antifa terrorists attacked us, not the other way around," argues a typical post at the Proud Boys Facebook page, after members of the group were filmed beating up anti-fascist protesters after Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes gave a speech at New York's Metropolitan Republican Club.
Conservative media has picked up this talking point and has aggressively defended and promoted far-right groups — who have also gotten into street fights in Portland, Oregon, and Providence, Rhode Island, in the past month — painting them as victims who only engage in violence as a last resort to defend themselves.
On her Fox News show, Laura Ingraham interviewed Joey Gibson, the head of Patriot Prayer, who denied "any intention to get violent" and said the violence in Portland was purely self-defense.
Sean Hannity, on his own Fox News show, put the blame on for these outbreaks of violence on Democratic rhetoric he considers rude, even though none of the figures or incidents he mentioned were anywhere near these events. He explained what happened last week this way: "A bunch of anarchists go to the New York GOP club, Republican club, whatever it happens to be, and they’re committing vandalism, anarchist signs that they’re putting up, etc., and then there’s a confrontation on the street there."


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On Sunday morning, the New York Times reported that a man wearing a hat branded with the insignia of Patriot Prayer was shot and killed in Portland.
Patriot Prayer is a far-right group active in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past three years, the group has hosted and promoted rallies in progressive cities like Portland, frequently engaging in violence against their political opponents. Patriot Prayer rallies regularly include the Proud Boys, a hate group, and various antigovernment extremist groups. In2018, the FBI included the Washington-Oregon Proud Boys during a presentation to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office on “domestically inspired acts of violence.” The FBI advised, “Proud Boys members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington,” a report from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office stated.
Joey Gibson, the leader of Patriot Prayer, lives in Vancouver, Washington and has called Portland “disgusting” and filled with “so much darkness.” He has instructed members and supporters to be armed at rallies, saying, “Everyone should be carrying around guns at all times, especially people in our situation.”
One associate of Patriot Prayer, Reggie Axtell, threatened Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, and another, Skylor Jernigan, has made explicit threats against Portland antifascists. “You’re gonna be getting knives put into your throat. You’re going to be getting bullets put into your head if you don’t stop this shit with us,” Jernigan said.
Read our past coverage of Patriot Prayer:
Proud Boy Threatens Portland Mayor: “I’m Coming For You”Another Charlottesville? Threats of violence loom over upcoming Portland Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer rallyPolice intervened to stop a Proud Boy from becoming violent at a 'Free Alex Jones' event in AustinPatriot Prayer again brings violence to Portland with 'flash march' downtown, rounding out a weekend of far-right violence</div>