In situations like this, concealed carry is just a placebo for being severely phallicly impaired.
These sorts of festivals are JUST what Putin is working toward; riling up both sides.
It’s times like these when I hope there is a swarm of nano drones. That way counter protesters could harass the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayers and make them think God has visited upon them a new plague. I would have gone with a flock of well trained pigeons but then there’s PETA to contend with.
You got it . Exactly what the Russki Facebook posts were doing in the election.
People’s calling themselves “Patriot Prayer” and wearing John 3:16 t-shirts want nothing more than to own the libs, forgetting Jesus was the original liberal.
The concealed carry celebrants will ensure any people with opposing points of view will have to put their lives at risk to express their freedom of speech rights. The point of these rallies is the suppression of speech.
> Christian, who has pleaded not guilty, later told investigators he was not motivated by racism but was drunk and wanted to “do his free speech thing” when he shouted racist and anti-immigrant slurs on the light-trail train before the stabbings.
Right, because free speech is when you don’t want to say anything, but words randomly spill out of your mouth anyway. Then you kill some people.
The thing of it is, until these cities grow some balls and deny these organizations permits, SOMEONE has to push back…
Neither patriotic nor Christian.
But when churches stay silent about violence, racism, and fascism, when they confine themselves to the four walls of their buildings, any wacko can pretend to hold high values while he violates every single one of them.
I kinda wish the antifa folks would stay out of this, because the effect of having them there is to give the would-be murderers an excuse to start firing. Of course even someone holding up a sign will be doing that.
Fortunately, Portland’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, has stated, “We don’t want this here,” and pranksters are organizing a dance party with clowns. The “Unpresidented Marching Band,” a brass band with actual musicians and an actual cloth banner that’s been showing up at all the marches, promises to play. They are a lot of fun, and drown out all shouting for a block around with rousing renditions of “All Right Now” and “Louie, Louie.”
When has staying away and staying silent ever worked in the face of fascism?
I’m a huge free-speech hawk but by any reasonable-person standard this is willful provocation. They’re looking for violence. It’s like the Malheur occupation—they think if they start something, they’ll touch off a huge national uprising of the oppressed Euro-American Christian whatever. I’d deny them a permit in a red hot minute.
When I was a kid I saw a big Nazi rally in a D.C. park. Big phalanx of uniformed idiots around a ratty-looking skinny isane-looking guy on a podium. Maybe five or six puzzled onlookers gawking at them. A few bored cops keeping an eye on things. If it were always like that, how would it hurt? Staying away not because we’re afraid or apathetic, but to let them know how far out of the mainstream they are, and that they’re not holy warriors for the white race. They’re just misfits. I could live with that.
I have deep current connections and a rich family history in Portland. My cousin is deep into Oregon politics as was his mother, and my daughter is currently living there with her boyfriend.
I love the city, but I would be there ARMED as a citizen NOT of the right. We can ignore this kind of crap only so long, clowns will not stop this kind of thing, we learned this in the forties, I’m hoping that all of us have not forgotten the lesson.
You don’t negotiate with Nazis, you eradicate them. Early and relatively peacefully, or later at the cost of much bloodshed.
Choose
But now they have nearly succeeded with their silent coup. Clowns will not help…
You’ll have to define “nearly succeeded” for me. When we have a rally we get a half-million people to show up. If the public supports these freaks I haven’t noticed it.
I’m really not sure that good guy with guns or clubs or knives will help here.
These folks are terrorists, and should be dealt with by the police. (Yeah, I know there are issues with that too.)
I’m guessing this was long before cell phone video, social media, the Internet, and the insane being emboldened by our POTUS. Times have changed. They can’t be ignored anymore.
Up to a point :-). Laughter and witty mockery brings wide support to our side and makes people who don’t think of themselves as “political” comfortable coming out into the open (hardly anyone is in favor of bozos from “The Couv” coming over and making Tom McCall Waterfront Park unsafe for the usual crowd of dads carrying babies, cyclists, and dog-walkers). It’s still a time for clever pranks that will suck the air out from the various black-masked rioters, clashers and rock-throwers who have been hogging the airwaves and feeding “bothsidesism.” This sort of thing: