Metaphorically drown Hypocrisy Central's leadership and be done with it? — regarding Portland, Proud Boys and The Intercept

29 September 2020

Background

According to Democrats, the United States has a major problem with right wing terrorism.

Indeed, left to their own devices, Democrats would have us believe that most of the violence surrounding Black Lives Matter and Antifa comes from brain-dead bigots, wrapped in "white" skins and masquerading as patriots — rather than more honestly, as the inordinately violent domestic terrorists that they allegedly are.

In that light, one cannot read the following blurb without laughing

Here's a propaganda-deflator from Portland, Oregon:

The city of Portland has refused to grant a permit to the Proud Boys, the far-right group planning a large rally at North Portland’s Delta Park Saturday.

Bureau officials cited coronavirus concerns.

Portland has been home to consistent demonstrations against police violence since police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

Mark Ross, a park bureau spokesperson, said the city had never been asked for a permit for any of these large scale demonstrations.

Had they been asked, they would have said no due to COVID restrictions.

Think about this

Allegedly right wing terrorists (the Proud Boys) lawfully asked for a demonstration permit.

BLM and Antifa did not.

Portland refused the Proud Boys permission. Yet, for months, the City has not done anything especially notable to curb BLM-associated unruliness, arson, attempted murder by arson, and variously random destruction.

Portland's excuse for its obviously unequal treatment of BLM-Antifa versus Proud Boys . . .

. . . is essentially that — BLM and Antifa didn't ask us, so we couldn't say no.

In other words, Portland will let hordes of mostly "white" BLMers and their hangers-on Antifa rabble-rousers all run amuck — but Proud Boys can't have a permit to somewhat peaceably threaten and counter-demonstrate.

Are we still to conclude that the American Right Wing is the problem?

Sure, why not.

Modern America doesn't need facts.

We just make "shit" up, according to our passing moods.

What happened after Portland's permit refusal . . .

. . . hammers home my ultimate point about discriminatory hypocrisy.

Of the unexciting Proud Boys aftermath, The Intercept — following the Establishment's propagandistic, anti-Right party line — wrote that:

The Proud Boys claimed that they would bring legions of dedicated patriots to the city of Portland, Oregon, in a powerful show of strength against their anti-fascist foes, but when the moment of truth came on Saturday, the right-wing gang failed to deliver.

[T]he organization, which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group, drew a modest crowd of angry men and women, whose brief gathering mostly consisted of swilling cheap beer and hard seltzers and assaulting journalists in a park on the edge of town.

What the event lacked in numbers, it made up for in paranoia and talk of persecution.

Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who was charged with two counts of murder after killing two Black Lives Matter protesters and wounding a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, came up often, as did Aaron Jay Danielson, a supporter of the far-right group Patriot Prayer, who was shot and killed by a self-described anti-fascist in Portland last month.

[Michael German . . . former FBI agent said that:]

“Allowing the militants to man armed checkpoints and harass and beat journalists and others without interference reinforces the idea that the police condone these armed out-of-state groups coming into Portland and intimidating, threatening, and assaulting residents.”

Last month, a caravan of amped-up Trump supporters drove into downtown Portland and opened fire on counterprotesters with bear spray, paintballs, and live rounds.

As day turned to night, speculation swirled as to whether the Proud Boys would return to the city in similar fashion — they did not.

And get this

According to Ryan Devereaux and The Intercept, right wingers can be characterized as a "gang . . . . swilling cheap beer and hard seltzers".

(Try saying something similar about a minority group. There'd be hell to pay.)

Notice also that The Intercept had to stoop to the Southern Poverty Law Center's characterization of Proud Boys as a hate group. That casually delivered statement omits the fact that the Center is notorious for calling anyone that it does not like, a hate group.

Further along in his article's drivel-drool, author Devereaux — who was evidently too challenged by Reality to find much actual evidence of the Proud Boys' explosive wrong-doings — implies that (arrested) Kyle Rittenhouse and (murdered) Aaron Danielson were both law-flouting fascist lowlifes, who evidently deserved what happened to them.

None of those implications are true to facts. Many of which are on video.

Last, Devereaux concludes his anti-Right hit piece with "former FBI agent" Michael German's disapproving observations.

Therein, conveniently omitting the far more numerous incidences (also videoed) of Portland's BLM and Antifa assaults, harassments, Molotov-cocktailing — etcetera, etcetera — against police, journalists and passersby.

The Internet piece . . .

. . . is it as egregiously one-sided as Portland's behavior has been?

You bet.

The moral? — True 'Lefty' though I generally am . . .

. . . I am getting a (perhaps foolish) patriotic kick out of seeing parades of America's pickup truck-driving and motorcycle-perched 'conservatives' supporting the concept of an undivided nation.

As for America's contentiously hypocritical Governing Elites — let's figuratively drown them all and be done with it. The Republic, in all its skin colors, would have stronger soil to grow in.

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Metaphorically drown Hypocrisy Central's leadership and be done with it? — regarding Portland, Proud Boys and The Intercept