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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlt-right hopes to organize street-fighting goon squad: Is it more than macho posturing?
Alt-right hopes to organize street-fighting goon squad: Is it more than macho posturing?Far-right fanboys are trying to organize street gangs and the most effective way to fight back may be mockery
Amanda Marcotte Tuesday, May 2, 2017 09:00 AM CST
Kyle Chapman, known to his fans on the alt-right as Based Stickman for beating a leftist protester with a wooden stick at an early March pro-Trump protest in Berkeley, California, wants people to think hes tough. In late April, Chapman went on Facebook to announce his creation of a new group of right-wing street fighters, called the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (FOAK), dedicated to defense and confrontation in the streets. You could almost hear the chest-thumping right through the computer screen.
This organization is for those that possess the Warrior Spirit, Chapman wrote. The weak or timid need not apply.
A few days after that, the Proud Boys network, a group that Vice co-founder and former Fox News contributor Gavin McInnes calls a pro-West fraternal organization, posted a notice about the formation of FOAK and a call for strong minded men who are comfortable in fisticuffs to join, I reached out to Chapman in hopes of seeing his warrior spirit for myself. Alas, I came away disappointed.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/alt-right-hopes-to-organize-street-fighting-goon-squad-is-it-more-than-macho-posturing/
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Alt-right hopes to organize street-fighting goon squad: Is it more than macho posturing? (Original Post)
workinclasszero
May 2017
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samnsara
(17,665 posts)1. soon they will all be in jail...
...and if charged with a felony, no more voting rights.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. I hope so
That's where these criminal scum belong no doubt.
Volaris
(10,281 posts)3. Heh no more legal gunz, either.
Please proceed, Governor.
Initech
(100,149 posts)4. One can only hope!
Fewer Trump voters in this country is definitely a good thing! Go ahead, try it, Proud Boys!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)6. I googled the dicks picture, here is one that popped up...
Think he will learn anything in prison?
demmiblue
(36,920 posts)8. That is Edward Norton from American History X. n/t
snooper2
(30,151 posts)10. I'm aware LOL
found it funny that picture was associated with his name
demmiblue
(36,920 posts)12. I suspected, but you never know lately. Lol! n/t
TNLib
(1,819 posts)5. They're just devolving back to being a gang of criminals like they use to be back in the 80's and 90
They used to be called skin heads/neo nazis and were nothing but a bunch of criminal thugs pulling off drug deals and robberies.
That's where the alt right movement is headed.
demmiblue
(36,920 posts)7. .
MagickMuffin
(15,981 posts)9. K&R Off to the Greatest
What's the term so endearing to the republicons, oh yeah: THUGS
I often wonder what causes this type of human behavior. I still haven't figured it out!!!
dembotoz
(16,866 posts)11. if their goal is to provoke we need to be careful