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The video, which has been doing the rounds on Twitter for the past few days, shows the Antifa protester picking a fight with a woman at a crosswalk. "Why are you trying to block me? I'm f**king trying to walk here," he tells the woman, who is wearing a USA t-shirt and an NYPD hat.
When he continues with the abuse, the woman dares him to "try something, bitch." In response, he says he "wasn't like her husband" and therefore wasn't going to punch her.
She quickly informed the man that her husband died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, pointing to her NYPD hat. The man apparently took that as an invitation to go on a belligerent rant about the New York Police Department, saying they "sodomized immigrants with their bully sticks."
"Your husband should rot in the grave," he concluded, before running away at full speed when confronted by the woman's rather muscular and imposing son.
Twitter users are more than a little angry over the matter, with people from both sides of the aisle chiming in to condemn the "coward."
Some are on a campaign to try to find out who the person is, and publicize his name.
Another took aim at Portland, calling the liberal city a "pit of intolerance and bullying fascists."
Others said that while Antifa claims to be "anti-fascist," they are just the opposite.
Meanwhile, some conservatives took a moment to point out that such people are why "common sense people" vote Republican.
The video appears to have been filmed on October 13, when the right-wing Patriot Prayer group took to Portland to rally for the ouster of the city's mayor. Mass brawls between conservatives and Antifa protesters later ensued, prompting police to intervene and deploy pepper spray.
Reader Comments
I just finished reading that Sebastian Haffner book 'Defying Hitler'. Ugh. I was thinking: I can't imagine how much worse it could have been if the Germans had fluoridated water, smartphones and soy milk. Until... I saw that crowd of zombies coming back from that Anti-Brexit demonstration in London today. Jeezus. What kind of person in what kind of insane state of insane non-being is it that marches against democracy?
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What is needed is for the great diaspora of Palestinian refugees, from where ever they camp, to rise up and present themselves in direct confrontation, at the borders of their rightful Homelands; this is where they should be, this is where they cannot be ignored, this is where they cannot be suffocated, either by the Jewish occupier forces or the gutless Palestinian Authority acting as policeman for them. This is the confrontation that will attract the World of Public Opinion and demand for resolution, this is the confrontation that would force action from the security council, even individual National Governments. Look again at what happened when the great flow of Middle Eastern migrants and displaced Peoples converged into Europe; they could not be stopped. This principle would work for the Palestinian Diaspora too. As it is they are "out of sight and out of mind" to the World, do they want their homes and entitlements restored or not? if the answer is yes, and it obviously is, yes, then they must follow these recommendations. They must take up the reins of their own destiny, they must clear their eyes and minds of all false and misleading advice designed to stop them from doing exactly what they must. All the pain travail and slaughter suffered thus far, all the deceitful support, all pretend peace negotiations, all these have resulted in nothing but the destruction of the Palestinian Peoples and loss of their homelands. I say they must "Rise" now and take ownership of their rightful legal entitlements because as we speak "they" are making plans that will mean "Oblivion" for the Palestinian Peoples and the Nation, of their rightful homeland Palestine. Regards, Thomas.
P.S. QUOTE; "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban.; ALL OTHER ALTERNATIVES HAVE LONG BEEN EXHAUSTED, NOW IT IS WRITTEN.