this is what Donald Trump stands for so what else can we expect. not much
different than Hitler coming to power in Germany blaming everyone else for
the faults of the world!
Chuck
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From: S. Kashdan
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Subject: [blind-democracy] White nationalists involved in physical
altercation with protesters at Trump rally
White nationalists involved in physical altercation with protesters at Trump
rally
Bill Morlin
Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2, 2016
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/03/02/white-nationalists-involved-physical-altercation-protesters-trump-rally
Matthew Heimbach, supporters, engage in pushing and shouting match with
African American counter-protesters at Super Tuesday Trump rally
White nationalists and racists are not only boldly showing support for
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but at a Super Tuesday rally
in Louisville, Kentucky they actually got involved in physical violence with
counter-protesters.
At the center of the pushing- and yelling-match was Matthew Heimbach,
founder of the Traditionalist Youth Network and its companion white
nationalist organization, the Traditionalist Workers Party.
He calls himself “chairman of the only true Third Position Party in the
United States that is fighting for Faith, family and folk.”
Heimbach, fired a few weeks ago by the State of Indiana as a child
protective services case worker, now
apparently has time on his hands to devote to supporting political
candidates, including Trump.
At Tuesday’s Trump rally, the youthful white nationalist from Indiana and
some of his supporters engaged in a free-for-all shoving and shouting match
with counter-protesters, some reportedly affiliated with the Black Lives
Matter
movement.
“Honestly, I had planned to merely attend [the Trump rally] as an idle
spectator, but the protesters were as hostile as anything I’ve seen at
actual [white] nationalist events,” Heimbach said in writing about the
incident.
When Trump began speaking, Heimbach said he couldn’t stand by quietly when
BLM counter-protesters “started screaming and chanting.”
“The entire point of the BLM’s tactics is to push people until they push
back,” Heimbach claimed.
“They’ve actually convinced themselves that these rank-and-file Trump
supporters and even Trump himself are synonymous with the Klan, or at least
with outright nationalists like myself,” Heimbach said.
“We responded to their chants with chants of our own to attempt to drown
them out and did so successfully several times,” Heimbach said. “But they
ratcheted up their aggression.”
That’s when he and other pro-Trump supporters got involved in the “heated
moment” with counter-protesters captured on videos now making the rounds
online.
“One [video clip] features yours truly helping the crowd drive out one of
the women who had been pushing, shoving, barking, and screaming at the
attendees for the better part of an hour,” Heimbach said.
Not only did Heimbach and his white nationalist friends help push African
American protesters out of the rally crowd, they also grabbed some of their
anti-Trump signs. They took trophy photos of their “booty” and posted it to
the
Traditional Youth account: “Behold our booty of anti-#Trump2016 swag from
today's #louisville rally...” Tweet from the TYN account.
Heimbach now modestly says he’ll avoid any future Trump rallies “to ensure
that I don’t become a distraction,” he said.
“It won’t be me next time, but White Americans are getting fed up and they’re
learning that they must either push back or be pushed down,” Heimbach said.