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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, armed with bats and guns, a group of men showed up to defeat Antifa in Klamath Falls Oregon?
But there was no Antifa folks to be found? Got to wonder how this looks for Trump when he says take back your country?
I heard this story on a local RW radio station in Oregon on Monday. The announcers said that the Antifa people where afraid to show up! Well Duh, I would believe they were smarter than the armed thugs!
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)They'll crow about scaring away a group that was never coming there!
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)But, it's so predictable that I pretty much couldn't lose by suggesting it.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)Perhaps not there but I read that somewhere a MAGAT group accosted a black family in a van in a Walmart parking lot that was just trying to go camping.
Putin is busting his sides laughing at America.......
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)After all in this day and age, everything gets photographed on a smartphone. Where are the pictures from the people that originated the rumor? Don't they have cellphones?
If there's busloads of antifa driving all around the state, someone is bound to have pictures!.... ......
KY
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)who followed buses that were taking mostly elderly churchgoers to vote and back home again -- sure they were part of a giant Democratic, or Soros, whatever, conspiracy to steal the election. Exciting work, and they're off again, this time with a more worthy nonexistent enemy!
Last week, Humboldt County Sheriff Honsal responded to a question from the Outpost regarding the widely mocked antifa bus rumors by saying they werent just rumors. Sheriff Honsal says the buses were real: Militant antifa protesters packed into mass transit and hit the road, bent on mayhem. Or if the buses werent real then the reports of the buses definitely were. One or the other the buses or the reports was verified by law enforcement.
Honsal is not the only rural county sheriff concerned about this alleged threat. As protests over police brutality spread across the country last week, tensions were amplified by social media reports claiming that bus-loads of armed, highly organized antifa protesters were roaming the highways in search of rural communities upon which to wreak havoc.
Residents raised the alarm in Payette County, Idaho; Toms River, NJ, Sioux Falls, SD, and elsewhere, including Curry County, Ore., just to our north, where Sheriff John Ward took to Facebook to report rumors of 3 buss [sic] loads of ANTIFA protesters headed their way. Without asking, he wrote, I am sure we have a lot of local boys too with guns who will protect our citizens and their property. (The sheriff later insisted this was not a call to arms.)
In all of these cases, including here in Humboldt, the buses never materialized. Many of the rumors were traced to bogus social media accounts, such as the one below, which came from a Twitter account claiming to represent ANTIFA America. It turned out to be the work of white nationalist group Identity Evropa.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2020/jun/8/sheriff-honsal-standing-antifa-bus-reports-despite/