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The white supremacists did not
blink at violently plowing right through clergy, all of us dressed in
full clerical garb. White supremacy is violence. I didn’t see any
racial justice protesters with weapons; as for antifa, anything they
brought I would only categorize as community defense tools and nothing
more. Pretty much everyone I talk to agrees—including most clergy. My
strong stance is that the weapon is and was white supremacy, and the
white supremacists intentionally brought weapons to instigate violence.... What the counter-protesters Trump despises were actually doing in Charlottesville last weekend.
The yin/yang re: Antifa goes on. Here is a positive view.
Left/liberals are calling for MLK type peaceful protests. Given the armed right wing militants and the fact that police and military are mostly sympathetic to the right, the left has little room to roam. I'm still not taking sides - yet.
Yes, What About the “Alt-Left”?
What the counter-protesters Trump despises were actually doing in Charlottesville last weekend.
We continue our series dealing with elements of Antifa - which is not an organized block. It might make sense to some to support beating up Nazi sympathizers but I worry when it extends to whatever some people choose to define as "hate" speech. What if being critical of Antifa methods gets classified that way and suddenly leftists who are critical find themselves under attack as "liberal" free speechers?
Peter Farruggio, my old colleague (1969-70 at PS 16K and in the first caucus I was part of, Another View in District 14) feels Nazis need to be challenged and sent this email:
Peter Farruggio: I reject the argument that such "violence" from the left only makes the nazis look sympathetic, or is bad publicity. Let the mainstream presstitutes babble on about the "extremist left." Their audiences are not the important target. It's everyday people who are in danger of fascist violence and police state terror who need to see how to confront these punks. And of course, the punks themselves must see their fellow bullies getting defeated and demoralized. I'll stand with Woody Allen on how to deal with nazis:
Dealing with nazis, according to Woody Allen (Manhattan)
Woody Allen: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Ya know? I read it in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, ya know, get some bricks and baseball bats, and really explain things to 'em.
Victor Truro: There was this devastating satirical piece on that on the op-ed page of the Times – devastating.
Allen: Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point of it.
Helen Hanft: Oh, but really biting satire is always better than physical force.
Allen: No, physical force is always better with Nazis.
Here's the clip:
There's also a story floating around about Jewish gangster Meir Lansky having a crew show up with baseball bats to disrupt a Nazi bund rallies in the late 1930s.
Peter continues:
OK,
so it was a bad day for the extremist right in the Bay Area
this weekend. The fascists punked out and canceled their
planned "rally" yesterday in SF, in the face of massive
anti-nazi demos. Today, a handful of them showed up in
Berkeley and got their butts kicked. Too bad it had to be the
adventurist anarchists who did the butt kicking, instead of
the organized working class; but at least they sent the
message "Don't come back here, cowards!" (It's the anarchists'
stupid window-breaking that brings bad publicity, and that's
probably the work of police state provocateurs)
So, I am ambivalent and an showing my libertarian tendencies.
I don't totally disagree with the liberal "presstitutes" in the New Yorker, with which I also have some sympathy.
the images out of Berkeley—outnumbered right-wing protesters being pepper-sprayed by counter-demonstrators, one person lying on the ground while a black-clad group punched his face and torso—will be held up by many on the right as evidence that Trump was correct about the blame falling on “many sides.”... the clear dictate of common sense is that no one should be in the business of providing this President with matches.... The New Yorker, The Antifa Protests Are Helping Donald Trump
Below is the full piece which claims the right is being handed a loaded gun.
The Antifa Protests Are Helping Donald Trump | The New Yorker
At a rally
at Madison Square Garden in New York on 20 February 1939, a crowd of
20,000 listened to Kuhn attacking President Franklin D Roosevelt,
referring to him as “Frank D Rosenfeld” and calling his New Deal a “Jew
Deal”.
The gathering ended in violent clashes between protesters and
participants. Similar riots took place on the west coast.
Obsessed with fantasies about a Jewish-Communist world conspiracy and
fears about an African American corruption of American culture, its
followers promoted racism, extreme nationalism, violence and the ideal
of an aggressive masculinity. They competed against various other
militant fringe groups, from the Khaki Shirt movement, which aimed to
build a paramilitary force of army veterans to stage a coup, to the
paramilitary Black Legion, feared for its assassinations, bombings and
acts of arson.... America in the 1930s
It has never been more important to acknowledge the history of fascism and neo-fascism in America
Through the lens of history is how I look at all current - and future events - which we can predict to some extent by studying past tendencies - ie - look at the root of WWI - not just from the political maelstrom - but from the view of how the populace was manipulated into nationalism. Once we got in the repression was intense for those who opposed it.
Now, if you look at the 30s in this country we can see how much support Hitler had in this country and especially in England - which was why Churchill was so hated until is was almost too late.
Check out the video of the over 20,000 Hitler supporter in Madison Square Garden here in good old NYC in 1939.
If you missed the recently rebroadcast of The Roosevelts on PBS, go check it out to see what went on. Message to Jews nowadays who disparage Roosevelt as an anti-semite because he didn't sanction Jewish refugees. In that environment it was impossible.
The antifa of those days were involved in battling the fascists.
Note the links to things like - 1947 anti-fascist video made by US military to teach citizens how to avoid falling for people like Trump is relevant again.
