White nationalists plot Election Day show of force
Source: Politico
Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll-watchers across all 50 states. His partners at the alt-right website the Right Stuff are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand out liquor and marijuana in the citys ghetto on Election Day to induce residents to stay home. The National Socialist Movement, various factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the white nationalist American Freedom Party all are deploying members to watch polls, either informally or, they say, through the Trump campaign.
The Oath Keepers, a group of former law enforcement and military members that often shows up in public heavily armed, is advising members to go undercover and conduct intelligence-gathering at polling places, and Donald Trump ally Roger Stone is organizing his own exit polling, aiming to monitor thousands of precincts across the country.
Energized by Trumps candidacy and alarmed by his warnings of a rigged election, white nationalist, alt-right and militia movement groups are planning to come out in full force on Tuesday, creating the potential for conflict at the close of an already turbulent campaign season.
The possibility of violence on or around Election Day is very real, said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Donald Trump has been telling his supporters for weeks and weeks and weeks now that they are about to have the election stolen from them by evil forces on behalf of the elites.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/suppress-black-vote-trump-campaign-230616
sarae
(3,284 posts)uawchild
(2,208 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)what this election has come to. 3rd world.
allan01
(1,950 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)You mother fucker! I hate your guts!!!
George II
(67,782 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)Possession and the law you know!
nykym
(3,063 posts)to distribute as in sell bigger offense.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)arithia
(455 posts)as well as Harrisburg and several other minority heavy cities in the state that "poll watchers" are threatening to harass. If simply caught with it, they likely wont get into too much trouble. Hopefully an enterprising minority plainclothes cop wanders past one of these schmucks when they are trying to distribute.
I somehow doubt the bigot brigade will make sure the recipients of the booze are 21, either.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)McHale's Navy is there for support
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)TonyPDX
(962 posts)They do enjoy parading around with their guns, though.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Beartracks
(12,809 posts)... they plan to rig it themselves.
"Duh, we had to rig the election in order to save it."
Scary, undemocratic people.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)it shows what they feel (thus, are) guilty of, but "project" unconsciously on others.
Each. Single. Time.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2016/11/02/scott-michael-greene-convicted-combative-2014-encounters/93157528/
lark
(23,097 posts)He totally seems like a natural for Drumpf and I'd bet money this hate filled jerk a supporter of the orange racist jerk. Yes, I'm stereotyping, but you know if he was brown skinned they'd be pushing how that person is a supporter of Hillary's. The RW media bias is astounding.
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)Trump's Brownshirt thugs and our "news media" in the same camp
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Hillary is likely to win. But....there is something very very wrong about 40 or so percent of this nation. And the dark underbelly, the alt right Neo Nazi types, are a powder keg, they are mentally defective.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)They are 40% of registered voters. Over 50% of Americans don't register to vote.
If everyone actually voted, it would marginalize these people. That's why r's are so against insta-registration, DMV auto registration, etc.
While it's great that Obamas post-presidency is going to include working on gerrymandering, it would be good to include getting all Americans to vote and making voting easier, not harder.
vi5
(13,305 posts)What can he do out of office?!?!?! And why couldn't he have maybe touched on that and mentioned it while he was in office?
That's right. Wouldn't want to hurt his "bipartisan" bonafides that served him so well in congress and the media.
TonyPDX
(962 posts)A wiser move would be to crawl back into the sewer, since we now know exactly who and where they are.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)If you see something, say something.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,571 posts)But for these wing nuts I'd make an exception.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Vote by mail, put it in a secrecy envelope, and put it in a drop box.
It makes voter intimidation a lot more difficult.