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https://www.yahoo.com/news/portland-prepares-wing-anti-fascist-rallies-050723320.html
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, is bracing for what could be another round of violent clashes between a right-wing group and self-described anti-fascist counterprotesters who have pledged to keep Patriot Prayer and other affiliated groups out of this ultra-liberal city.
A rally organized Saturday by Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson was expected to be the third to roil Portland this summer. Two previous events ended in bloody fistfights and riots, and one counterprotester was sent to the hospital with a skull fracture.
This time, Gibson changed the venue from a federal plaza outside U.S. District Court to a waterfront park so some of his Oregon supporters can carry concealed weapons as they demonstrate. Chartered buses will bring participants from Vancouver, Washington — where Gibson lives — to downtown Portland with armed security on board.
The Portland Police Bureau said Friday that protesters should expect to see a significant police presence including bomb-sniffing dogs and checkpoints where weapon screenings will occur.
Gibson's insistence on bringing his right-wing supporters repeatedly to this blue city has crystallized a debate about the limits of free speech in an era of stark political division. Patriot Prayer also has held rallies in many other cities around the U.S. West, including Berkeley, California, that have drawn violent reactions.
But the Portland events have taken on outsized significance after a Patriot Prayer sympathizer was charged with fatally stabbing two men who came to the defense of two young black women — one in a hijab — whom the attacker was accused of harassing on a light-rail train in May 2017.
A coalition of community organizations and a group representing more than 50 tribes warned of the potential for even greater violence than previous rallies if participants carry guns. It called on officials to denounce what it called "the racist and sexist violence of Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys" and protect the city.
Portland police say they will be checking for weapons to ensure anyone who is armed has an Oregon concealed handgun license.
Gibson, who is running a long-shot campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, said in a live video on Facebook earlier this week that he won't stop bringing his followers to Portland until they can express their right-wing views without interference.
"I refuse to do what Portland wants me to do because what Portland wants me to do is to shut up and never show up again. So yeah, I refuse to do that, but I will not stop going in, and I will not stop pushing, and I will not stop marching until the people of Portland realize that and realize that their methods do not work," he said.
Self-described anti-fascists — or "antifa" — have been organizing anonymously online to confront Patriot Prayer and an affiliated group, the Proud Boys, in the streets.
A broader counterprotest organized by a coalition of labor unions, immigrant rights groups and artists also will gather at City Hall before the Patriot Prayer rally. Organizers say that while Patriot Prayer denies being a white supremacist group, it affiliates itself with known white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazi gangs.
"Patriot Prayer is continuing to commit violence in our city, and their events are becoming more and more violent," said Effie Baum of Pop Mob, a coalition of community groups organizing the counterdemonstration. "Leaving them a small group to attack in the streets is only going to allow them to perpetuate their violence."
Dueling protests a month ago ended with Portland police declaring a riot and arresting four people. A similar Patriot Prayer event on June 4 devolved into fistfights and assaults by both sides as police struggled to keep the groups apart.
The man charged in last year's light-rail stabbing deaths, Jeremy Christian, was filmed making the Nazi salute at a Patriot Prayer rally a month before the killings.
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.
In the aftermath, Gibson organized a pro-President Donald Trump free speech rally that attracted thousands from both sides to downtown Portland. The ensuing chaos shut down much of the city's core and police arrested more than a dozen people amid widespread fighting.
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More leftist tactics (lie and falsely accuse racist, white supremacy).
Leftist lying jackals.... Video clearly shows its the leftist attacking conservatives, then spinning truth claiming they were attacked. It is your side badbob that hates, lies, is violent, but finally conservatives are fighting back.
Here is a link to full story and links to video...
http://www.westernjournal.com/ct/antifa-punks-baton-is-no-match-for-patriot-prayer-guys-self-defense-training/If Democrats really want to fight it out in the streets, they’re going to have to get better at it than this.
Yet another turnout by a progressive mob brought violence to the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, when a Patriot Prayer group’s permitted march and “freedom rally” was attacked by so-called “antifa” thugs hurling bottles and brawling in the streets, according to CBS News.
But as at least one video from the fighting makes clear, the Patriot Prayer side wasn’t turning the other cheek.
In a short video posted to YouTube Saturday, a masked antifa foot soldier is shown attacking one of the Patriot Prayer supporters with a baton. Check it out here.
Let’s just say the baton didn’t do the antifa thug much good when it was ripped out of his hand. It did even less when the guy he attacked put a fist in his face, fast enough and hard enough to stretch him out on the street
As gratifying as it might be to watch one of these leftist stormtroopers having to be carried off by his comrades, there’s something truly horrible happening in a country where an attack like this can come off and it gets little or extremely slanted coverage in the national media.
At NPR – home of exactly the kind of liberals who have no problem using their taxpayer-subsidized jobs to shade the truth for the American public – the coverage explicitly admitted that the Patriot Prayer group had a legal permit for its demonstration, yet failed to make clear how that put the “antifa” thugs clearly in the wrong.
CBS reported the permit too, but noted it was revoked “after the two groups began to clash” — like it was a baseball game called on account of unavoidable rain.
NPR calls Patriot Prayer a “far-right group.” The Oregon antifa thugs call Patriot Prayer white supremacists.
Will the media ever call out the "antifa" thugs for the fascists they are?
Yes No
To Patriot Prayer supporters, both are wrong. Its leaders, including Joey Gibson, a Japanese-American who is a contender for the United States Senate in neighboring Washington state, say it’s a Christian group getting physically attacked for exercising its First Amendment rights.
(For anyone keeping score at home, even the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group so radical it will accuse just about any organization of racism for little to no reason, doesn’t consider the group or Gibson to be white supremacist, according to Fox News.)
But the important thing is that in the United States of America, it doesn’t matter what politics a group espouses, it has the right to express them in accordance with local laws that are intended to make sure lives and property are protected while freedom of expression is guaranteed.
In other words, Patriot Prayer had a right to hold a rally and obtained a permit from the local government to do it in a time, place and manner where the public safety would not be compromised. On Saturday, they gathered to do it.
That’s the way it’s supposed to work.
The way it’s not supposed to work — though it will be tough to find any mention of it in mainstream news accounts so far – is that thugs screaming “racism” clearly felt free to physically attack the Patriot Prayer members.
The way it’s not supposed to work is the mainstream media took a whole “boys will be boys” stance on what it essentially textbook fascist behavior by the alleged anti-fascists.
Since the beginning of the Trump presidency, progressives, Democrats and other congenital liars had been warning ominously of a growing “fascism” in the country, and mainstream media – like the comic-book slogan of The Washington Post – have been making noises about how “democracy dies in darkness.”
But the reality, as usual, is almost the exact polar opposite of the liberal spin. The fascists threatening American freedoms are not in the Trump White House or in the Republican majorities in the House and Senate, they’re in the cadres of thugs in America’s most liberal cities, trying to literally beat their political opponents into submission.
Fortunately, it’s a good chance that a lot of them are about as inept as the baton boy in this video who took one on the chin from someone who actually knows how to use his fists.
If Democrats had any sense of decency, respect for the country, or even a rudimentary understanding of the freedoms afforded to Americans by the Constitution, they wouldn’t attack legally permitted expressions like the one Patriot Prayer staged this weekend in Portlan