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Antifa Violently Attacks Man Holding American Flag - Except He's A Bernie Supporter
| the American flag that set them off was held by 38-year-old cook Paul Welch, a Bernie Sanders supporter who was moving among the crowd of counter-protesters opposing a right-wing rally held at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
"I didn't come as a part of any one group," Welch said in an interview with The Oregon Live. "I was just protesting outsiders coming here for their tacitly fascist event."
| ronically, Welch was trying to show people that Porland liberals are patriotic: "I had felt like showing that a liberal, free Portland — or any major city, really — is much more American and much more numerous and strong than any of these interloping groups," he said.
A "slightly progressive leftist" by his telling, Welch is a registered Democrat in Oregon, voting records show.
| He cast his ballot for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary and Hillary Clinton in the general election, he said.
The 38-year-old line cook is also no stranger to street protests in Portland. He said he attended the Women's March held during the weekend of Donald Trump's inauguration.
This summer, Welch, who works six days a week at a catering company, stopped by the Occupy ICE encampment on his days off to bring protesters water, toilet paper and sunblock,
| he said. -Oregon Live
Welch told Oregon Live that he's no fan of Trump or his policies, nor of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, whose Portland rallies Welth believes are intended to inflame the city's liberal residents - calling them "just offensive." He says that his decision to counter-protest with an American flag was to "take back" a symbol used more often by conservatives.
| "The right and certainly a lot of smaller groups like Patriot Prayer might rush to things like the flag and try to take it up as, 'This is our symbol exclusively,'" he said. "Part of my thinking was to take it back."
Instead, the only thing Welch took back was a solid blow to the back of his head.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-21/antifa-violently-attacks-man-holding-american-flag-except-hes-bernie-supporter
| Antifa: giving liberals a bad name since 2016
| Irony.
| Maybe a false flag action? You got the joke? "False Flag" *LOL*
But it's more than a joke. Just look what happned in italy during cold war: The NATO supported right-extremists to do terror acts disguised as communists/anarchists.
Another thing: you know why this incident is so popular now? Because it's very unique, that such a thing happens. Also there is no central Organisation called "the Antifa". It's an acronym that describes "antifascist action" which can be done by EVERYONE.
| So either something about this incident is foul, or this action was done by unusual/unexpected stupid "antifascists". Because most antifascist actions are reasonable. Or at least more reasonable than fascist actions, like you know the "NSU" (germany), "Breivik" (norway) or some american douchbags, like the car-terrorist or those right-winged shooters.
| Antifa isn't comprised of democrat liberals, so this isn't ironic
| >Zerohedge
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| Antifa idiots bonk some passerby on the head by mistake.
Fascist idiots kill innocents purposefully because they don't like their looks.
| Antifa is basically one huge angry mob with clusters of organized units that pretend they have control when it's convenient for them.
Whether it's a false flag or not is irrelevant, since it's not even an organized grouping with clear membership requirements that can be held accountable for its actions, but a loosely-gathered collection of people who coordinate all their plans through the internet and then operate within the crowd of normies holding protest signs.
>>400055
| >>401386
Fascist sympathizer spotted.
Apparently you don't give a fuck about homeless people, gay people, poor people or inmigrants getting stabbed or beaten to death or disability just for shits and giggles.
| antifools
| Ah I see news reporter "Tyler durden" is on the case.
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| During a protest against fascism in Oregon earlier this month, Black-clad members of Portland's Antifa cell saw a man holding an American flag and proceeded to beat the shit out of him.
Soon a group of black-clad anti-fascist protesters, also known as antifa, demanded he lose the flag, calling it a fascist symbol. Welch refused, and a tug-of-war ensued. -Oregon Live
And while Antifa violence is nothing new,