Trick wrote:oragami_itto wrote:Trick wrote:It doesn’t sound very well planned/organized. Sometimes when media reports about the far righters its reported that they are trained military style, also some here on the board say they(far right) train GJJ/MMA stuff.......But when the fighting begins, it’s just sticks and bricks...Sounds as the “gårda krig”(block wars) we used to have as kids..
Well anyway, hope they all stick to kids fighting and not escalate it
You mean like somebody getting killed? That ship has already sailed. Fascists killed Heather Hayer.
I don’t follow this too closely. My comment was on the quoted scenario you posted.
But I do understand gang violence in USA has been violent for a long time, involving many ethnic groupings....And as I follow Swedish news from my little safe haven..US gang(ster) style violence now has a boom in the quiet little Sweden too, sad indeed.
What happened with Heather Hayer was, at the Charlottesville "unite the right" rally, as counterprotestors were leaving the primary scene and everything was dying down. One of the fascists turned down a road he didn't even have to travel on to get out of the area, pulled right up to a group of protesters, and when they didn't get out of his way, he backed up about a hundred feet or so and slammed on the gas, crashing into a crowd of people. He would have kept going but there were other cars in the way that stopped him.
We're lucky only one died.
And what was the response from our right wing politicians? To pass laws making it legal to run over protesters.
Seriously. They did that.
Now extrapolating out, people in those hats spouting those views have stabbed, shot, and beaten people while Antifa was handing out water and putting themselves between the fascists and the innocents.
Antifa in the US does not have a body count. The fascists do.