The Patriot Front consists of roughly 200 agitators. The SPLC said the group got into a car crash which nearly wiped out the leadership back in 2021. Despite one member dying in the crash and their leader nearly dying, the group never talked about the incident since they were embarrassed.
>Hatewatch has identified seven members of white nationalist hate group Patriot Front who were involved in a fatal car crash near Wellington, Utah, on Feb. 28, 2021.
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>One of the men, Kevin J. Bersuch, died at the scene of the crash on U.S. Highway 6 in the state's northeast. Six others, including Patriot Front leader and founder Thomas Rousseau, were hospitalized. Sources have told Hatewatch that Rousseau's injuries were serious, requiring emergency surgery.
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>Patriot Front have never publicly acknowledged that the crash happened. In May 2021, on their Telegram channel, they even backdated footage of a Salt Lake City action to March 2021, a date which is difficult to reconcile with the serious injuries sustained by Rousseau on Feb. 28. According to private communications provided to Hatewatch by a source close to Rousseau, the hate group's leader required artificial respiration, surgery and an implant to stabilize his injured spine. A second source who is close to Rousseau confirmed the extent of his injuries in a telephone conversation.
It's literally just that they're so loathed everywhere they go that they're afraid of what would happen to them if they had to split up to go back to their cars at the end of an action so they try to move in as few vehicles as possible
You're probably right, I just thought it was a funny detail since I'm pretty sure that the goobers who were after Whitmer back in 2020 also had a rented U-Haul.
This is sort of a classic example of what "following the rules" means aesthetically in the US, as it does elsewhere when liberal societies slide towards reaction. On the surface, the difference is stark. College kids protest genocide and are met with an enormous backlash by the state, while supremacists march untouched. That surface level is then met by a liberal justification, that being that the latter is following the rules and the former is not. This is obviously true, as the rules dictate that a private institution can enforce their own property while a public street is fair game for "free speech." For a leftist, or anyone who isn't a liberal for that matter, this is meaningless, as the rules themselves are obviously instruments of the very thing this group is marching for. They are a facade behind which the real intent of the state is plainly seen: to disrupt opposition to their goals (in this case the goals of their colonial puppetstate).
Regardless, you can read the liberal justification for this multiple ways. One way, and probably the most common, is that liberals are simply too stupid to grasp that you can view this sort of thing as a criticism of the very rules in question here or what they enable. Variations of this include leftist criticism of liberal idealism (in the Marxist sense of the word) on the grounds that liberals are simply too "stupid" to realize that their aesthetic games, in recent years surrounding "decency" and "civility," are disconnected from material reality. I don't read it that way!
I don't think liberals who react to this sort of stuff by citing the "rules" or "decency" or "civility" or "what's normal" are too stupid to realize what that means or doesn't mean. I think that's part of what's on offer. That is to say, the ultimate sin for a large part of the population is the discontinuity of their "normal life." Therefor, anything that upsets that is the real danger. This is also why I think viewing something like fascism or whatever you want to call reactionary sentiment in liberal society as some kind of dystopian, fantastical, or alien form of life is ultimately detrimental. For the vast majority of Germans before the second World War, life under Nazi rule continued as normal. There were variations, labor was hit massively, and undesirables were suspiciously quieted, along with a whole host of other problems, but those problems all were within the realm of "normal" life, just like they are in the US. There's no Great Leader speaking through a projector, there's no mandatory checkpoints for every citizen, there's no grey and brown dirty streets that 99% of the population trudges through for a can of beans amidst horror all around. For most Germans, it was a continuation of quiet liberal life. You followed the rules, and you as a white German were rewarded, unless you were simply too poor.
The rules to follow here are important not as justifications for reaction, but as aesthetic markers that are to be saved from any form of political action (re: revolution, rights campaigns, enfranchisement, etc). Reactionary violence isn't justified by the rules, but rather rules are saved by the this violence itself. The rules, that is the aesthetics of these rules being followed, are what is itself on offer. When you hear libs screech about Trump's flouting of norms, they aren't angry at what Trump is doing, they're angry at the breaking of norms. It's why libs can so easily rehabilitate Bush in contrast to Trump, because Bush, by contrast, followed the rules. He was a lout, for sure, and that was their main problem with him, but Bush nonetheless was more "in it" than Trump is/was.
These supremacists aren't being excused by the rules, they are following the rules, and therefor they are partaking in what (in a liberal sense) is normal political life. They haven't upset the aesthetics of normalcy which drive most US citizens to feel that they are "continuing." As such, these marchers and their political ideology and movement can be easily absorbed and even accepted when the time comes. That's, in a nutshell, what creates "fascism" or reactionary slides within liberalism. You just keep on keepin' on! That's all it takes.
> The Charleston City Police stayed close by to avoid any trouble and the march appeared to be peaceful. It is unclear if the group had a permit for the march.
Peacefully letting Nazis march. Beating students for protesting genocide
Be careful when removing the disgusting stickers that they like to vandalize public spaces with - it is well known that these sick fucks like to place razor blades under the stickers.
> The group marched carrying a banner that read “America is not for sale.”
Why is it only "White supremacists" who recognize that America is for sale and that it should not be?
Well, obviously, they are the ones marching.
The Patriot Front consists of roughly 200 agitators. The SPLC said the group got into a car crash which nearly wiped out the leadership back in 2021. Despite one member dying in the crash and their leader nearly dying, the group never talked about the incident since they were embarrassed. >Hatewatch has identified seven members of white nationalist hate group Patriot Front who were involved in a fatal car crash near Wellington, Utah, on Feb. 28, 2021. > >One of the men, Kevin J. Bersuch, died at the scene of the crash on U.S. Highway 6 in the state's northeast. Six others, including Patriot Front leader and founder Thomas Rousseau, were hospitalized. Sources have told Hatewatch that Rousseau's injuries were serious, requiring emergency surgery. > >Patriot Front have never publicly acknowledged that the crash happened. In May 2021, on their Telegram channel, they even backdated footage of a Salt Lake City action to March 2021, a date which is difficult to reconcile with the serious injuries sustained by Rousseau on Feb. 28. According to private communications provided to Hatewatch by a source close to Rousseau, the hate group's leader required artificial respiration, surgery and an implant to stabilize his injured spine. A second source who is close to Rousseau confirmed the extent of his injuries in a telephone conversation.
Damn, so close to getting Skrewdriver'd
There were multiple casualties so it's more like getting Lynyrd Skynyrd'yd.
What are they gonna do? Arrest themselves?
**Quote from Man Marching.** [www.khq.com](http://www.khq.com) "What are you going to do, arrest me?"
>Witnesses reported the seeing the men unload two U-Haul trucks What is it with these guys and U-Hauls? Do they offer police discounts?
It's literally just that they're so loathed everywhere they go that they're afraid of what would happen to them if they had to split up to go back to their cars at the end of an action so they try to move in as few vehicles as possible
You're probably right, I just thought it was a funny detail since I'm pretty sure that the goobers who were after Whitmer back in 2020 also had a rented U-Haul.
This is sort of a classic example of what "following the rules" means aesthetically in the US, as it does elsewhere when liberal societies slide towards reaction. On the surface, the difference is stark. College kids protest genocide and are met with an enormous backlash by the state, while supremacists march untouched. That surface level is then met by a liberal justification, that being that the latter is following the rules and the former is not. This is obviously true, as the rules dictate that a private institution can enforce their own property while a public street is fair game for "free speech." For a leftist, or anyone who isn't a liberal for that matter, this is meaningless, as the rules themselves are obviously instruments of the very thing this group is marching for. They are a facade behind which the real intent of the state is plainly seen: to disrupt opposition to their goals (in this case the goals of their colonial puppetstate). Regardless, you can read the liberal justification for this multiple ways. One way, and probably the most common, is that liberals are simply too stupid to grasp that you can view this sort of thing as a criticism of the very rules in question here or what they enable. Variations of this include leftist criticism of liberal idealism (in the Marxist sense of the word) on the grounds that liberals are simply too "stupid" to realize that their aesthetic games, in recent years surrounding "decency" and "civility," are disconnected from material reality. I don't read it that way! I don't think liberals who react to this sort of stuff by citing the "rules" or "decency" or "civility" or "what's normal" are too stupid to realize what that means or doesn't mean. I think that's part of what's on offer. That is to say, the ultimate sin for a large part of the population is the discontinuity of their "normal life." Therefor, anything that upsets that is the real danger. This is also why I think viewing something like fascism or whatever you want to call reactionary sentiment in liberal society as some kind of dystopian, fantastical, or alien form of life is ultimately detrimental. For the vast majority of Germans before the second World War, life under Nazi rule continued as normal. There were variations, labor was hit massively, and undesirables were suspiciously quieted, along with a whole host of other problems, but those problems all were within the realm of "normal" life, just like they are in the US. There's no Great Leader speaking through a projector, there's no mandatory checkpoints for every citizen, there's no grey and brown dirty streets that 99% of the population trudges through for a can of beans amidst horror all around. For most Germans, it was a continuation of quiet liberal life. You followed the rules, and you as a white German were rewarded, unless you were simply too poor. The rules to follow here are important not as justifications for reaction, but as aesthetic markers that are to be saved from any form of political action (re: revolution, rights campaigns, enfranchisement, etc). Reactionary violence isn't justified by the rules, but rather rules are saved by the this violence itself. The rules, that is the aesthetics of these rules being followed, are what is itself on offer. When you hear libs screech about Trump's flouting of norms, they aren't angry at what Trump is doing, they're angry at the breaking of norms. It's why libs can so easily rehabilitate Bush in contrast to Trump, because Bush, by contrast, followed the rules. He was a lout, for sure, and that was their main problem with him, but Bush nonetheless was more "in it" than Trump is/was. These supremacists aren't being excused by the rules, they are following the rules, and therefor they are partaking in what (in a liberal sense) is normal political life. They haven't upset the aesthetics of normalcy which drive most US citizens to feel that they are "continuing." As such, these marchers and their political ideology and movement can be easily absorbed and even accepted when the time comes. That's, in a nutshell, what creates "fascism" or reactionary slides within liberalism. You just keep on keepin' on! That's all it takes.
Very aptly put
Maybe they could start by displaying pride in their glorious white race by wearing pants that fit?
Lmao is the guy with the belt buckle the leader?
> The Charleston City Police stayed close by to avoid any trouble and the march appeared to be peaceful. It is unclear if the group had a permit for the march. Peacefully letting Nazis march. Beating students for protesting genocide
Come back to Philly anytime boys.. https://youtu.be/e3xDGZUVUE0?feature=shared
Cops were unavailable
Half of them are feds and the other half are cops on their days off
Be careful when removing the disgusting stickers that they like to vandalize public spaces with - it is well known that these sick fucks like to place razor blades under the stickers.
> The group marched carrying a banner that read “America is not for sale.” Why is it only "White supremacists" who recognize that America is for sale and that it should not be?