Friday, August 25, 2017

Do these tactics seem familiar?


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These uniformed rowdies, not content with keeping order at Nazi meetings, soon took to breaking up those of other parties.  Once in 1921, Hitler personally led his storm troopers in an attack on a meeting which was to be addressed by a Bavarian federalist by the name of Ballerstedt, who received a beating.  For this, Hitler was sentenced to three months in jail, one of which he served.  This was his first experience in jail, and he emerged from it somewhat of a martyr and more popular than ever. "It's all right" Hitler boasted to the police.  "We got what we wanted.  Ballerstedt did not speak."  As Hitler had told an audience three months before --- "The National Socialists Movement will in the future ruthlessly prevent--if necessary by force --- all meetings or lectures that are likely to distract the minds of our fellow countrymen."--- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer, p. 70
When the so-called Antifa movement wants to prevent others from peaceably assembling, and protesting the removal of Confederate statues, why does it not occur to them that they are acting more like Nazis than the neo-Nazis are?


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