Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for 'street-level violence'
Source: The Guardian
Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for street-level violence
Document of 23 pages shows the lengths to which the far-right group goes to prepare for potentially violent encounters and exposes the militaristic structure and language it has adopted
Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Mon 19 Sep 2022 07.00 BST
Last modified on Mon 19 Sep 2022 13.57 BST
The document is so dowdy and formal it resembles the annual minutes of a society of tax accountants. Its index lists sections on objectives and rules of engagement and carries an addendum that provides recommendations for hotels and parking.
On the cover, two words give a clue to the notoriety of the group that produced it: MAGA and WARNING. That and the date: 5 January 2021, the day before the US Capitol attack.
What goes unsaid on the cover and is barely mentioned throughout the 23 pages is that this is the work of one of the most violent political gangs in America, the far-right street fighters who Donald Trump told to stand back and stand by: the Proud Boys.
The document, published by the Guardian for the first time, gives a very rare insight into the meticulous planning that goes into events staged by the far-right club.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/19/proud-boys-document-jan-6-violence
No-registration link: https://news.yahoo.com/proud-boys-memo-reveals-meticulous-060034047.html
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Farmer-Rick
(10,202 posts)And yet they still failed.
They have all that Koch, federalist society, Walmart money to support them. And yet they still failed.
There were over 2000 people who made it into the building. About 10,000 showed up for Trump's pep rally. And yet they still failed.
The police and National Guard were pulled back and told to stood-by and they still failed.
Nazis are losers, the proud boys are losers. TFG is a loser. They will always be losers.
TheRealNorth
(9,499 posts)Yet they eventually succeeded in seizing power.
Farmer-Rick
(10,202 posts)We rational and sane people who want to keep America a democracy, need to keep fighting them.
Tetrachloride
(7,865 posts)ultralite001
(894 posts)on January 6th...
You know someone still has a copy... maps and all...
That is all...