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imanamerican63

(13,795 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 06:25 AM Jun 2020

So, 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!

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So, armed with bats and guns, a group of men showed up to defeat Antifa in Klamath Falls Oregon? (Original Post) imanamerican63 Jun 2020 OP
They'll Claim Victory ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #1
That is literally what they did! obamanut2012 Jun 2020 #3
I Did Not Know That! ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #7
Pity any poor shit driving a van or camper in the area. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2020 #4
Someone is Putin them on Clash City Rocker Jun 2020 #2
You should call that RW radio station and ask them if they have pictures. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2020 #5
Those sinister buses again! Like those conspiracist election "monitors" Hortensis Jun 2020 #6

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,491 posts)
4. Pity any poor shit driving a van or camper in the area.
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 07:02 AM
Jun 2020

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.......

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,491 posts)
5. You should call that RW radio station and ask them if they have pictures.
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 07:11 AM
Jun 2020

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)
6. Those sinister buses again! Like those conspiracist election "monitors"
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 07:15 AM
Jun 2020

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!

Sheriff Honsal Stands By ‘Antifa Bus’ Reports Despite Evidence That It Was All a Hoax

Last week, Humboldt County Sheriff Honsal responded to a question from the Outpost regarding the widely mocked antifa bus rumors by saying they weren’t 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 weren’t 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/



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