Dozens of White Supremacist Patriot Front Members March Through Boston
Source: daily beast
Published Jul. 02, 2022 5:55PM ET
About 100 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front paraded through downtown Boston on Saturday, with several of them holding riot shields. Photos from the Boston Herald show members of the group unloading their infamous U-Haul and several counterprotesters confronting them as they marched along with a Reclaim America banner. The white supremacist group made national headlines in June when several members were busted by police on their way to an Idaho Pride parade. Local authorities were quick to make their opinion about the group known on Saturday. To the white supremacists who ran through downtown today: When we march, we dont hide our faces, Mayor Michelle Wu tweeted. Your hate is as cowardly as it is disgusting, and it goes against all that Boston stands for.
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MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)going down to the harbor to scoop out the tea in support of 'their country'.........
LonePirate
(13,417 posts)AllTooEasy
(1,260 posts)As an Afro-American, I would expect this in DC, Chicago, Philly, NYC...but Boston! I'm shocked. Shocked I tell ya!!!
Danmel
(4,913 posts)I too am Shocked!
Sarcasm noted.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,000 posts)Deuce
(959 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)I was an intern at WCVB in the '70s...bussing big-time white racist reaction. Louise Day Hicks who was the s.Boston councilperson was very racist, and very vocal.
Eugene
(61,874 posts)In recent years the far right did the "Boston Free Speech Rally" along with a "Straight Pride" rally.
They usually attract more reporters than marchers. However, counter-protesters show up in overwhelming numbers.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts).... they threatened to because they were being denied a permit to rally in a park.
https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)ACLU decided to stop defending Nazis after Charlottesville violence in 2017
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)5 years in Boston and always wary when around s.Boston...an Ethiopian student got on the wrong line, I think the red line. Ended up in s. Boston and ended up murdered. Not shocked at all and I know you were being sarcastically aware...Boston back in the day had problems with murderous racists. This was almost 50 years ago since I attended university. Still, a problem I see. Not surprised. d.trump has really put American racism and racists on front street for the whole world to see. They are not slithering around in the sewers anymore.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)They do this in my city (DC) but always very secretly because they don't want protestors. They were arrested in Idaho recently.
AverageOldGuy
(1,523 posts)Trump's goons wear khaki trousers and masks.
No difference between them. None at all.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)IcyPeas
(21,862 posts)This was posted in one of the above links. The audio goes in and out. He calls them nazis and other taunts. He says something about them not being able get laid.
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EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Edit: Seen protecting off duty colleagues
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)good that they are being called out as Nazis. Make Nazis the bad guys again.
msongs
(67,395 posts)Sparky 1
(400 posts)If anyone recognizes any of them or knows who they were, I hope their faces show up in the paper and online.
Rebl2
(13,496 posts)so afraid to show their faces? You would think they would be proud to do so.
icymist
(15,888 posts)https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/02/white-supremacist-group-the-patriot-front-reportedly-marching-through-boston/
A scanner call came in at around 12:30 p.m. announcing that a group had gone up to a rental truck parked in the area of the Haymarket MBTA station and off-loaded a number of shields and flags. Many were U.S. flags, with at least one flown upside-down and many showing just the 13 stars in a circle for the original U.S. colonies, as well as flags featuring different designs.
Many flags also had a stylized version of the symbol that represented Benito Mussolinis National Fascist Party.
NJCher
(35,660 posts)that they spent any time whatsoever at the Old State House.
speak easy
(9,242 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)Don't these idiots work for a living? Seems they have an awful lot of time on their hands. Who is their welfare donor(s)?
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Work is for suckers. They think like Trump!
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)attend rallies?
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)We know who was funding that, but his well seems to be running dry.
Not to worry Trump is a announcing another run in 2 weeks!
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)So brave they hide their faces so no one will know who they are.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)Those boys need to own their shit.
Wearing masks and not calling themselves fascists, while they appropriate their symbols, makes them look like the fragile, gutless punks they are.
Patriot Front flag
Partito Nazionale Fascista flag
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 4, 2022, 03:18 PM - Edit history (1)
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)That image should give anyone who has ever watched YouTuber Steve1989 eat expired C-rations from the Korean War using one of these things to open the cans a smile...and a cringe.
Jamesm9164
(542 posts)This is all I have to go on but would not be surprised to see O'Keefe in the credits. To me, all bullshit. Why? I do not know.
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)She has the cutest dark brown wool you ever saw on a ewe.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)
march through Boston.
Real tough guys, hiding their faces.
Jamesm9164
(542 posts)These folks are real and dangerous - do not think otherwise. But, the response to the "threat" was beyond the capability of Idaho "law" folks. Not to mention their own sympathies.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Seriously these are not close to SS soldiers. These little shits couldn't handle a fight and likely would shit their khakis and run away back to mommas basement
Jamesm9164
(542 posts)with the ever evolving situation or just typing shit.
Jamesm9164
(542 posts)necessarily all comments. Also too, rooting for Ukraine and doing what I can.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)The quotes around Patriot Front are because they are NOT patriots. Get it?
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Jamesm9164
(542 posts)Jamesm9164
(542 posts)ever had to support such a claim of "patriotism".
Jamesm9164
(542 posts)Please post the bullshit emoji or whatever they are called after you have posted something meaningful.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)Complete with their stupid Drumpf golfing attire uniforms. Another day, another terrorist threat upon this country - from so-called Americans.
I see the only thing they've learned from the mass arrested in Idaho last month is to do it again - this time with even more incels descending upon a city to raise hell and create terror. Ohhh, and to get help from the cops as well, because as we saw, the cops were more interested in protecting their pet Nazis than protecting innocent people.
We dodged a bullet when those 31 incels got arrested last month. That said, how many of them decided to invade Boston? You'd have to imagine more than a few so-called "freedom fighters" didn't think twice about heading down to Boston to riot and assault people. Why not? They don't think the laws apply to them, and considering they got assists from the cops, it's easy to see how they'd think that.
No doubt they were going to do this to that Pride festival last month. No doubt they are going to do this again. And the next time, we could wind up with people getting killed - like what happened in Charlottesville.
When the hell does something get done to stop this shit? How many more are going to get hurt? How many are going to wind up killed?
Welcome to the Divided States of Terrorism. Thanks so much, Drumpf.
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)parade in the 60's. ANY group should have protection, no mater how odious.
Now that doesn't justify why leftist groups don't get protection.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)These people aren't showing up to Idaho or Boston, or to gay bars and drag queen story time, to "protest." They are showing up to attack innocent people.
Something's very the fuck wrong when alt-right terrorists can get police protection to riot and "kick some ass," while the rest of us aren't even be safe walking down the street. It sure looks like the cops should've been protecting someone else yesterday:
And yeah. I'm beyond tired of thugs getting protection while we get told "You're on your own!"
3auld6phart
(1,046 posts)the lad in the pink tank top didnt nail that
yellow bellied bastard in his honker hard
Make the scum bleed hard in that rag he
has on his maggoty face.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Cops are more interested in beating up unarmed peaceful leftist groups than protecting them from RW violence.
Brenda
(1,050 posts)on the Reclaim flag? Looks like the Supremes and Repugnants have unleashed the hounds.
But really what a bunch of cowards - covering their faces and they chose a tourist area to march to get the least resistance!
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)They are banning:
Abortion
Birth control
EPA
Voting rights
Gun control laws
Minorities
Books
Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. wiki
Call it what it is.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)We ran them out of town.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/philadelphia-bystanders-ran-patriot-front-out-town-it-won-t-ncna1273283
This needs to happen everywhere these cowards show up.
Traildogbob
(8,725 posts)Should come wash the shit off the streets with powerful 5 inch hoses. With those masks it would be like water boarding their Nazi asses. Im sure lots of WWII veterans families would approve.
Marthe48
(16,945 posts)It is ridiculous in this country that we have such useless people concerned that they are being replaced.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Sounds like the Reump crowds lately. Hundreds of thousands marched against the Roe ruling and still are.
I heard this little bit on Ali this morning.
Remember The Ladies, written by Abigail Adams.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abigail-adams-urges-husband-to-remember-the-ladies
ShazzieB
(16,379 posts)Riot shields!
What a pretentious pack of pestiferous poopheads.
Bayard
(22,062 posts)"The morons are coming! The morons are coming!"
dchill
(38,474 posts)Some gunz would have supplied all the courage they do obviously lacked.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)insurrection, I wonder just how many people that they would have shot, had tRUMP given the order to break into Congress? I suspect that it would have been a bloodbath. rump deserves a life long prison sentence, w/ no communications allowed w/ the outside world. He is a danger to us all.
Martin68
(22,794 posts)their jobs.
purr-rat beauty
(543 posts)Quanto Magnus
(895 posts)been in white hoods, not white hats.....