Antifa: need to know

[Benton]

(08-16-2017, 08:33 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: As I understood, it was a collection of 3 separate groups.  Don't even know why they would have the Nazi's approved for a protest permit, in the first place.

Freedom of speech.

Back 10-12 years ago we had the Klan march in the town I worked in. Tiny place, less than 8k people who aren't incarcerated (we've got the only max security prison in the state plus a medium which accounts for a quarter of our population). Only about 200-300 black people. Caught a lot of folks off guard. I found out after the march it wasn't even about Klan stuff, turns out one of their Klansmen (19 year old kid) had gotten busted for drugs. Some of the older guys showed up and threatened jailers to let him out so he wouldn't get fired from his job. The cops and courts knew it (the press and general public didn't at the time), but they still had to let them rally.


As far as the groups in the Charlotte incident, it's my understanding they collaborated prior to the event. That will likely lead to all the groups getting lumped in together.