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Judi Lynn

(160,526 posts)
Mon May 1, 2017, 01:00 PM May 2017

Man charged with harassment over removal of Trump protesters

Source: Associated Press


The Associated Press Updated 11:44 am, Monday, May 1, 2017


PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky have served a criminal summons to a white nationalist group leader accused of harassing protesters at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Louisville last year, according to a city official.

Pikeville City Manager Donovan Blackburn said Monday that a city police officer served the summons to Matthew Heimbach on Saturday after he marched with white nationalist groups in the eastern Kentucky city. The summons accuses Heimbach of harassment without injury and orders him to appear in Jefferson District Court.

Heimbach told The Associated Press he believes the case is the product of a "huge social media campaign" by "anti-fascists" and "far-left activists."

"This is a completely politically motivated charge," he said. "I believe 110 percent that I followed all laws. I acted reasonably."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-charged-with-harassment-over-removal-of-Trump-11111684.php



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Matthew Heimbach, in the middle.

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Man charged with harassment over removal of Trump protesters (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2017 OP
Couldn't Get Dates to Prom Stallion May 2017 #1
So apparently we have gotten to the point d_r May 2017 #2
That stood out to me as well LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #4
What are those black and gold armbands? Control-Z May 2017 #3
Neither did I. After seeing your question, I started looking for the symbol: Judi Lynn May 2017 #5
It's a chaos symbol cut in half They_Live May 2017 #6
Thanks for the info. n/t Judi Lynn May 2017 #7

d_r

(6,907 posts)
2. So apparently we have gotten to the point
Mon May 1, 2017, 01:27 PM
May 2017

Where someone can say out loud that they are being picked on by "anti-fascists."

As mind blowing as that is maybe it it is a good thing and we have come forward some since the little rock 9 and the Selma to Montgomery March ET Al. Now they admit they are fascists.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
4. That stood out to me as well
Mon May 1, 2017, 01:46 PM
May 2017

I 've also heard them refer to them as "anitifas". I can see why they'd use that, because you could demonize a group easier if their name does not define it enough and can be used more to mean "the enemy" that way, especially to young more ignorant recruits.

But its curious that the wingnuts cannot even get their slogans in line. We've heard them in other situations call US fascists! I don't even think they understand what the word means.

Judi Lynn

(160,526 posts)
5. Neither did I. After seeing your question, I started looking for the symbol:
Mon May 1, 2017, 02:25 PM
May 2017

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MATTHEW HEIMBACH

Considered by many to be the face of a new generation of white nationalists, Matthew Heimbach founded a campus chapter of Youth for Western Civilization at Towson University in Maryland and later started the White Student Union there. He also has been a member of the neo-Confederate League of the South. Since graduating in the spring of 2013, he has entrenched himself further in the white nationalist movement and become a regular speaker on the radical-right lecture circuit.


About Matthew Heimbach

Following his graduation in the spring of 2013, Towson’s WSU was folded into the Traditionalist Youth Network, a new white nationalist organization cloaking itself in “traditionalism” that was founded by Heimbach and his father-in-law, Matthew Parrott. In late 2014, Heimbach also assumed a leadership role in the neo-Confederate League of the South as the hate group’s training director.

In His Own Words:
“No longer will the homosexual, Muslim, and black supremacist groups be allowed to hijack our campus. … Youth for Western Civilization is preparing to take our campus back, all we need is the help of people like you to make it happen.” – Youth for Western Civilization blog, January 2012

“To be able to get everyone behind the idea [that] the purpose of our movement shouldn’t be about reforming America, shouldn’t be about trying to make the system better and less unfair towards us, it’s about flipping the table over. It’s about going to temple and saying that this is a violation of God’s law and creating a new homeland for whites around the entire world.”
– Traditionalist Youth Hour with Matthew Parrott, July 10, 2013

“We shouldn’t give up California just yet. Because it truly is beautiful in terms of weather, but it’s full of Mexicans and that’s sort of a problem.”
– Traditionalist Youth Hour with Matthew Parrott, July 10, 2013

“This is our home and our kith and kin. Borders matter, identity matters, blood matters, libertarians and their capitalism can move to Somalia if they want to live without rules, in the West we must have standards and enforce them. The ‘freedom’ for other races to move freely into white nations is nonexistent. Stay in your own nations, we don’t want you here.”
– “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 2013

“Those who promote miscegenation, usury, or any other forms of racial suicide should be sent to re-education centers, not tolerated.”
– “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 2013

More:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/matthew-heimbach

These cheesy lard-asses need to get out of their parents' basements, and actually get jobs. They seem a little incomplete if all they have to look forward to is being white, and wanting to be worshiped for their whiteness by everyone else. They don't seem to realize SANE white people look down upon them, too.

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