Never said they were peaceful, just not a mob.
No. They were just walking around until they were confronted and were outnumbered. Bad things happen in those situations.
You are delusional, son.
My underline. Am I the only one who read that and immediately started worrying about a spate of attacks on the anniversary this weekend, especially if the midterms go against the Republicans? 
The Brownshirts were the SA, a military component of the Nazi party. Just because Hitler got played into breaking ties with Rohm and had the SA replaced by people he thought he could trust more (Himmler and his SS) doesn’t make them some “private” organization that was not part of the Nazi party.
Being “outnumbered” by counterprotestors doesn’t justify the neo-Nazis initiating physical assaults on those counterprotestors.
And DeAndre Harris trying to knock away (with a flashlight) a pole that a neo-Nazi demonstrator was using to try to spear one of his fellow counterprotestors doesn’t justify several neo-Nazis brutally beating up Harris all by his lonesome in a parking garage.
That is not just “bad things happening”, in your mealy-mouthed phrase. That is a neo-Nazi mob making a violent attack on an isolated unarmed man who was no threat to them and certainly wasn’t “outnumbering” them.
They were outnumbered??
So fucking what?? I’m outnumbered every day when I walk down the street. Were they temporarily outnumbered by people with signs that hurt their feelings, who were probably also yelling things that hurt their feelings? You seem to be saying that’s an excuse to start beating people up.
There are laws against that, and at least one of the thugs whose conduct you’re excusing (“they were confronted and were outnumbered. Bad things happen in those situations” sure sounds like ‘excusing’ to me) has been convicted, thank goodness.
If you think you can accurately call an entire side an initiator, your hubris knows no bounds.
Yes it is very unfortunate that people participate in these brawls. There are probably many who deserve punishment but were not convicted because it is difficult to accurately ascribe blame in a situation like that. Thankfully you two goons weren’t the judge, jury and executioner. You would have served Robespierre admirably.
:dubious: You seem to be strategically ignoring the incident of the mob of several neo-Nazis brutally beating up Harris in a parking garage.
It’s even more “unfortunate” when a mob of violent demonstrators gangs up on a single counterprotestor in a prolonged and brutal beating.
There is video of the gang-beating of Harris.
Or wearing swastikas and seig heiling eachother.
Except for Native Americans (forcibly moved to reservations), Japanese people (WW2 internment camps), and now refugee children. I wonder who is next.
Maybe he is one of them. Ever think of that??
Those individuals should be held accountable. Unfortunately, the courts are monopolized by the state.
Yeah, it was a real mistake to allow “the state” to get involved with our judicial system.
No, he is well above the level of intelligence required to allow such a ridiculous idea enter his head. He also probably exhibits the spatial skills of a homo sapien and does not both breath through and drool from his mouth.
Yes I’m a violent Nazi except I favor non-violence and the dissolving of the central government and its monopoly on violence, do not identify as a member of any race and deny resort to race-based policy of any kind, and admire the Jewish People who have served as a paragon for social cohesion in the face of state violence not to mention their stellar entertainment provision.
Man, you’re a weird fucking dude.
IKR? I’m going to enjoy meeting him.
‘participate in’.
Some people ‘participated’ by spearing and beating other people with poles. Others ‘participated’ by being speared and beaten.
And some choose their words to paint a picture of neither side being particularly at fault.
As Kimstu has reminded you, there is video, which certainly makes the task a lot easier.
I bet I can speak for** Kimstu** as well as myself when I say the idea that either of us would have wanted such a role is ridiculous. Fortunately, this country still has a functioning legal system with judges, juries, and jails, which are all going about their duties, having convicted at least one of the ‘participants’ already.
Thomas Hobbes would like a word with you.
I dunno. Here in Chicagoland the Mob tends Dem.
Oh, you meant something else.
{{{CRUCIAL}}} four-day recovery of this thread to point out that Sabbath-era RJD would have had a word or two about this whole mob thing.