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talaniman · Aug 20, 2017, 10:00 AM

Some of those antifa radials are a problem no matter what their intentions are. I am unclear as to what the conservatives at the rally in Boston was about though, do you know?

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0...r-voices-heard

The people gathered at the free speech rally organized by the conservative group Patriot Prayer and counter-protesters at City Hall were not involved in those clashes, police said.

This is what is what I found on the rally organizers in Portland,

https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-ne...atriot-prayer/

The white supremacist murderer first appeared at Gibson’s last rally on 82nd avenue. Despite the murders, Joey held his rally anyway. He said that his rally was about love, God, and free speech, but his main speaker brags about beating the left up, and another is an open anti-Semite.
Before the rally, Joey Gibson tried to disavow the Nazis and said he would not allow them in. Despite that assertion, two very prominent neo-Nazi groups were hosted and admitted by Joey Gibson and the Warriors for Freedom LLC. One of the two groups present that Gibson hosted was the Traditionalist Workers Party, who recently held a joint hate rally with the National Socialist Movement in Pikeville, KY.

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Athos · Aug 20, 2017, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by talaniman

Some of those antifa radials are a problem no matter what their intentions are. I am unclear as to what the conservatives at the rally in Boston was about though, do you know?

The "Free Speech" crowd was supporting their right to speak in support of anti-Semiticism, the Klan, and the Nazi philosophy. The other side ("counter-protestors") marched against them. The Nazi/Klan numbers were relatively small (dozens? hundreds?) while the counter group was estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000.

The police kept both sides at a distance and helped the Nazi crowd to leave when the rally was over. The opposing group basically had them surrounded but there was a minimum of conflict and no serious violence and no property damage.

The Police Chief said a third group showed up - dressed in black with "ballistic" jackets (I don't know what they are) and masks. One confiscated jacket concealed a gun. Presumably, this is the extreme antifa people and, in this case, were a very small group that the police effectively countered.