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demmiblue

(36,898 posts)
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:18 PM Jun 2017

Hate Watch (SPLC) is live blogging the March Against Sharia. These people are insane.

In 28 cities around the country, Act for America, an anti-Muslim hate group is organizing a series of events called “March Against Sharia.”

“We, at ACT for America, are committed to protecting women and children from Sharia Law and its impact on Muslim women and children including honor killing and Female Genital Mutilation,” ACT’s website reads. “We must ensure that every woman and child enjoy the protection afforded by the U.S. Constitution.”

ACT’s protests are attracting a host of anti-government and far-right extremists, who have publically stated that they plan on attending today’s events. ACT has already had to cancel its Batesville, Arkansas rally after the SPLC revealed that neo-Nazi Billy Roper was the main organizer.

Antifa groups are set to counter-protest in a number of cities, increasing the potential for violence, but civil rights groups and other local activists also have planned a number of positive events to counter ACT’s hate.

Hatewatch will be running a constantly updated live-blog below, monitoring and reporting on the rallies taking place in 19 states. The proceedings will also be documented on Hatewatch’s Twitter account where we will be using the hashtag #counterACThate.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/10/live-blog-act-america%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cmarch-against-sharia%E2%80%9D-rallies-1

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Hate Watch (SPLC) is live blogging the March Against Sharia. These people are insane. (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 2017 OP
... demmiblue Jun 2017 #1
I see in the first picture 5 of them are flashing the white power sign . Just in case someone did lunasun Jun 2017 #4
I am disgusted by the gun/military fetish, but flashing that symbol... demmiblue Jun 2017 #9
Yes thank you SPLC HATEwatch . lunasun Jun 2017 #13
These people are not patriots. They are armed hate mongerers. Initech Jun 2017 #7
I see in the 1st pic they are all sporting their gang sign MagickMuffin Jun 2017 #8
That looks uncannily like the Illinois Nazi scene in "Blues Brothers." WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2017 #19
Those rallies would be a great place to release Zika mosquitoes. kimbutgar Jun 2017 #2
was going to say onethatcares Jun 2017 #5
Good point! kimbutgar Jun 2017 #6
Because this is so important now lunasun Jun 2017 #3
In a sane world we would not even allow these guys to have paintball guns. justhanginon Jun 2017 #10
Why don't these wannabe Rambos actually go out and join the Army? Initech Jun 2017 #11
OMIGOD NO! Those people shoot back for real. That's too skeery! justhanginon Jun 2017 #14
Does anyone know the total attendance over all the rallies in the 28 cities? SwissTony Jun 2017 #12
Agent Mike, I hope you are getting pictures of these domestic terrorists. roamer65 Jun 2017 #15
Their Portland rally was moved to Seattle. From the Portland reporting on the other hate rally suffragette Jun 2017 #16
are these people under siege or crazy? ....mmm.....i'll go with the latter spanone Jun 2017 #17
Exactly - "racists looking for a fight" Portland media shows that clearly. suffragette Jun 2017 #18

demmiblue

(36,898 posts)
1. ...
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:21 PM
Jun 2017

ATLANTA — At the "March Against Sharia" in Atlanta, Alt-Right figures mingled with a number of heavily armed members of the anti-government group III% Security Force. The leader of that coalition is Chris Hill, a former Marine who lives in Georgia and was also in attendance at the ACT rally. Hill is another example of the injection of anti-Muslim hatred into the Patriot movement, of which the “Three Percent” movement is a part. (That phrase refers to the claim, which most historians of the period dispute, that only 3% of American gun owners, the real patriots, actually fought British colonial troops.)

Last year, Hill led the Georgia chapter of his coalition in an armed demonstration against the construction of a mosque near Atlanta, with one protester wearing a T-shirt marked with “Islam is of the Devil.” In September, he said of the proposed mosque, “Right over there this is going to be a future ISIS training group. This is where you’re going to see terrorism taking hold in Newton County.” County commissioners cancelled a meeting on the mosque the same month, after viewing “uncivil threats” on a video made by Hill.

Georgia State Senator Michael Williams (below, center in white dress shirt) also attended the ACT event and posed for photos with Hill and his crew. Attendees sporting t-shirts with the Infowars logo, the website of anti-government conspiracy theories Alex Jones, were also spotted at the ACT rally.








lunasun

(21,646 posts)
4. I see in the first picture 5 of them are flashing the white power sign . Just in case someone did
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:59 PM
Jun 2017

not already know what this is really all about . The state senator will reply he didn't know what it meant of course
if anyone bothers to point it out to him

demmiblue

(36,898 posts)
9. I am disgusted by the gun/military fetish, but flashing that symbol...
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:24 PM
Jun 2017


The alt right even brought it to Washington, but they denied it of course.

MagickMuffin

(15,958 posts)
8. I see in the 1st pic they are all sporting their gang sign
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:10 PM
Jun 2017

Hoo-boy, these extremist infiltrate the religious institutions no matter the religion.

Creepy, for sure!

kimbutgar

(21,210 posts)
2. Those rallies would be a great place to release Zika mosquitoes.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:27 PM
Jun 2017

Then have them say they don't need government healthcare.

By the looks of some of them they look like they need to go on diets.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
3. Because this is so important now
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:54 PM
Jun 2017

Not
But organizing against and demonizing people of non Christian faith is important to these paranoid hater types

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
10. In a sane world we would not even allow these guys to have paintball guns.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:31 PM
Jun 2017

Somebody should set off a firecracker behind them and watch the ensuing chaos. They look like the minor league of the Oaf Keepers that went and bought out an army surplus store somewhere and hung it all on themselves like hateful, bigoted walking white power Xmas trees.

Initech

(100,104 posts)
11. Why don't these wannabe Rambos actually go out and join the Army?
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:34 PM
Jun 2017

Then they can actually be Rambos. They can use their precious killing machines.

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
14. OMIGOD NO! Those people shoot back for real. That's too skeery!
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:49 PM
Jun 2017

They prefer trying the intimidation shtick. Most people shun them not out of fear but because they think, rightfully, that parading around with their guns make them look like idiots.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
12. Does anyone know the total attendance over all the rallies in the 28 cities?
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 02:37 PM
Jun 2017

I suspect the bullets attending outnumbered the protesters. (I'm excluding the police).

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
15. Agent Mike, I hope you are getting pictures of these domestic terrorists.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 03:10 PM
Jun 2017

They are prime suspects for investigation after any attacks.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
16. Their Portland rally was moved to Seattle. From the Portland reporting on the other hate rally
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 03:12 PM
Jun 2017

They just had there, a lot of these guys are traveling up and down the west coast for these rallies and a large factor for them is confronting and physically fighting people who oppose the, so much so that maybe they should be called 'hate rumbles' instead of rallies.

Just watched some live coverage online on a local station in Seattle. One guy was standing at the police line and trying to provoke the counter demonstrators while filming himself on his iphone.

The protestors far outnumber the hatemongers.

spanone

(135,885 posts)
17. are these people under siege or crazy? ....mmm.....i'll go with the latter
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 03:17 PM
Jun 2017

sounds like a bunch of racists looking for a fight

that website is pretty wacky....'the NRA of national security' ???

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
18. Exactly - "racists looking for a fight" Portland media shows that clearly.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 03:32 PM
Jun 2017

From the recent June hate rally there. Toese was one of the two who 'assisted' Portland police in arresting a counter protestor.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/rallies-expected-to-draw-huge-crowds-following-max-stabbings/

The investigation was initiated in part by photos OPB documented that show two private citizens assisting officers in detaining and arresting a counter-protester.

One of those people — identified as Vancouver, Washington, resident Tusitala “Tiny” Toese — grabbed the protester and threw him to the ground. According to Willamette Week, Toese has physically assaulted protesters before.




From May, Toese beating up a protestor, then bragging on social media about planning to do it again at next "event."


http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/05/23/white-supremacists-are-brawling-with-masked-leftists-in-the-portland-streets-homeland-security-is-watching/

People from each side began screaming insults at each other as a circle of observers live-streamed the confrontations. Within minutes, Gibson's friend, Tiny Toese, the 20-year-old American Samoan, flattened an antifa protester half his size with a punch to the face, while the kid had his arms crossed defensively.

~~~
Toese also expressed eagerness for the next big brawl—evidently the June 4 rally starring Kyle Chapman.

"We got another event that's coming up," he went on. "You guys will see us there. That event is on my birthday. So I guess I'm going to be celebrating my birthday kicking some antifa ass."

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