What strikes me immediately is that they’re being organized by people who have been caught on film, rather unambiguously, assaulting people.
I mean the police were more than happy to arrest and charge 230 people on inauguration day with felony rioting for the actions of 4 identified vandals but they can’t pursue assault charges on the most open and closed case that could possibly be served on their desk?
A new fight-club “fraternity” of young white, pro-Trump men is being formed, its organizers claim, to defend free-speech rights by “Alt-Right” leaders and engage in street fighting.
Kyle Chapman, a California activist arrested earlier this month in a clash in Berkeley between anti-fascist protesters and pro-Trump demonstrators, announced this week he is forming the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights (cleverly called “FOAK).
Chapman, who uses the Internet meme “Based Stick Man,” says his new militant, highly-masculine group will be the “tactical defensive arm” of the Proud Boys, another group that shows up at pro-Trump rallies looking to rumble with counter-protesters.
“We don’t fear the fight. We are the fight,” Chapman said in a recent social media post announcing FOAK’s formation.
“I’m proud to announce that my newly created Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights will be partnering with Proud Boys,” Chapman said, with the “full-approval” of its founder, Gavin McInnes.
McInnes is a co-founder of Vice (although he and the magazine severed ties 10 years ago) and more recently has been a frequent guest on FOX News and a contributor for the racist site VDARE where he denigrated Muslims and called Asian Americans “slopes” and “riceballs.”
Now described as a “neo-masculine reactionary,” McInnes calls his Proud Boys a “pro-West fraternal organization.”
Others describe it as the military arm of the Alt-Right.
I’m sure law enforcement is on the case with just as much enthusiasm as the antifa crackdown, right? [Edit April 28, 2017: Scratch that. Those same defendants have all had an additional 7 felonies added to their charges. All 210 of them. Just a reminder–they connected 4 people to the actual acts of vandalism.]
-Shiv
More likely, the police are recruiting from their ranks.
A new fight-club “fraternity” … the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights (cleverly called “FOAK[“]).
Probably pronounced “volk”.
And obviously lacking the first rule of F Club. Thanks for the warning, fools.
Slight tangent, but still related — what does “based” mean in this context?
Oh, to be 30 years younger.
The me that was back then would have enjoyed being in the black bloc.
WMDKitty… @ # 3: … what does “based” mean …
I think the neofascisti have their own twist, but start here.
Pierce R. Butler
Thank you.
It… still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but I guess it may be one of those things I just don’t “get”.
Funny how the parties actually instigating the violence are never arrested, innit?