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JesuNazis Blighting Tacoma-Seattle Area Since Trump/Pence Victory
MAP KEY: (1)-Vanguard America posters, Bellevue College, Bellevue, 13 March 2017 (2)-Vanguard America posters, statue of Lenin, Seattle, 1 June 2017; (3)-Vanguard America posters, newspaper honor boxes in Seattle, 17 June 2017; (4)-Matthew S. Holland recruits for Vanguard America and harasses customers and security, Kitsap Mall, Silverdale. 9 Sept.2017; (5)-Patriot Front posters, Olympic College, Bremerton, 6.October 2017; (6)-Patriot Front posters, Port Orchard City Hall, Port Orchard, 8 Nov. 2017; (7)-Patriot Front banner hanging, I-90 overpass, Bellevue, 16 Nov. 2017; (8)-Patriot Front posters, Gig Harbor, 17 Nov. 2017; (9)-Patriot Front posters, statue of Lenin, Seattle; 3 Dec. 2017; (10)-Patriot Front posters, University of Washington, Seattle, 4 Dec. 2017; (11)-Patriot Front posters, Gig Harbor 30 Jan. 2018; (12)-Patriot Front posters, Gig Harbor, 08 Feb. 2018; (13)-Patriot Front posters, Tacoma, 19 Feb. 2018. (Map annotations and key by Ryley Knowles)
By Ryley Knowles
AT THE END of February the white Christian nationalist group Patriot Front posted their propaganda in Tacoma, Washington, but this was only the most recent of an ongoing series of incidents in Western Washington that began roughly a year ago -- not long after the Trump/Pence victory brought fascists of all sorts scurrying like roaches from under the proverbial woodwork. Here's a chronology:
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Washington Front, Patriot Front’s Washington-based twitter, was launched on November 2016. The group's Twitter profile contains a link to Patriot Front’s website http://bloodandsoil.com/.
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On 13 March 2017, Vanguard America (the original group that Patriot Front splintered off from) left posters at Bellevue College, Bellevue.
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On 1 June 2017, the statue of Lenin in Seattle was papered with Vanguard America posters.
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On 17 June 2017, Seattle was hit a second time. Vanguard America posters were left in the honor boxes of The Stranger, a liberal Seattle-based alternative newspaper.
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On 9 Sept. 2017 at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, Washington, a 28 year old man named Matthew S. Holland was arrested for harassing a female customer about her “green card” and threatening to kill a security guard. Holland told police he was a white supremacist and recruiting for Vanguard America (misreported in one source as “Vanguard National”). Holland is currently on trial in Kitsap County for two counts of malicious harassment. For more details, go here, here and here.
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By 6 Oct. 2017, Vanguard America had officially changed their name to Patriot Front. The new Patriot Front posters were pasted up around the campus of Olympic College, Bremerton.
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On 8 Nov. 2017, Patriot Front posters were put up in Port Orchard City Hall, in Port Orchard, Washington.
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On 16 Nov. 2017, Patriot Front members hung a banner advertising their website bloodandsoil.com on the I-90 overpass in Bellevue, Washington.
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On 17 Nov. 2017, Patriot Front posters were found in Gig Harbor, Washington.
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On 3 Dec. 2017, Seattle’s statue of Lenin was postered for the second time in 2017, this time with Patriot Front’s new colors.
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On 4 Dec. 2017, Seattle’s University of Washington was hit with Patriot Front posters.
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On 30 Jan. 2018, Patriot Front targeted Gig Harbor again, postering a parking garage.
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On 8 Feb. 2018, Patriot Front hit Gig Harbor a third time. Neither Washington Front nor the Patriot Front boasted on Twitter about this incident, but it was reported and photographed by a concerned Gig Harbor citizen.
Around this same time, due to some unspecified terms-of-use violation, Twitter suspended Patriot Front's account. Patriot Front then deleted their Twitter @FrontPatriot and made a new Twitter @PatriotFront_.
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More on the Looming JesuNazi Threat and the Response of Targeted People
"California police investigating a violent white nationalist event worked with white supremacists in an effort to identify counter-protesters...sought the prosecution of activists with 'anti-racist' beliefs,' court documents show...also (revealing) officers expressing sympathy with white supremacists and trying to protect a neo-Nazi organizer’s identity," (With thanks to TigerLille1)
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"Since Trump took office, Black citizens have been increasingly arming themselves, a practice rooted in the long Black radical tradition of armed self defense and articulated in Robert F. Williams’s Negroes With Guns (Wayne State University Press: 1998)." Comment: here's the real reason so many closeted white-supremacist USians support forcible civilian disarmament. Once again, let us all follow the leadership of our Black comrades.
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The Origin of Neoliberalism as the Newest Brand of Fascism
"In a short span of time in the 1970s, dozens of think tanks were established across the western world and billions of dollars were spent proselytizing the tenets of the Powell Memo in 1971, which galvanized a counter-revolution to the liberal upswing of the Sixties...to eliminate democratic government by downsizing, privatizing, and deregulating it. Proponents of neoliberalism recognize that the state is the last bulwark of protection for the common people against the predations of capital. Remove the state and they’ll be left defenseless."
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How Neoliberalism -- as Intended -- Hastens Capitalism's Transition to Fascism
"...the corporate-owned Democrats have furthered and supported Donald Trump every step of the way...(trying to) act like the “Resistance,” but...trying desperately to prop him up, make him stronger, give him every power a unitary executive can have. See also, "...House Democrats were urged to ignore Medicare for All as a viable solution to the nation’s healthcare woes." Comment: more proof (if indeed any is needed) the Democratic (sic) Party -- in Nazi-like obedience to its Capitalist masters -- has truly become the party of the Big Lie, the role it has played since Obama's "change we can believe in," the biggest, most injurious Big Lie in USian political history.
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"...the FBI uses Geek Squad employees to flag illegal material when people pay Best Buy to repair their computers...potentially circumvent(ing) computer owners' Fourth Amendment rights."
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"With respect to homeownership, unemployment, and incarceration, America has failed to deliver any progress for African Americans over the last five decades." Comment: Capitalism -- another synonym for white supremacy -- in malevolent action.
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Have the Russians Saved Our Species and Our Mother Earth?
"(Putin's) speech must be sending chills and panic through the Pentagon, neocons, intelligence agencies and all those involved in military and foreign policy in the United States...(he revealed that) Russia, while spending ten percent of what the US spends on the military...(has developed) new weapons systems that the US military cannot defend against...(and urged) the United States (to) stop the threats, stop the exceptionalism and get serious about creating a world where people work together for sustainable human development." See also: "...the (Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty defiantly abandoned by the Bush II regime had) introduced a significant degree of stability for 30 years." And this: "Putin has opened the door for the two countries to negotiate...Now it is up to the U.S. to respond." Comment: to repeat what the first report states,"checkmate" indeed, an example of what happens when an aggressively anti-intellectual nation whose national sport is (snore) baseball foolishly declares itself the enemy of a much older, passionately intellectual nation whose national sport is chess. That said, the Russians' apparent resurrection of MAD -- Mutually Assured Destruction -- may force the U.S. to cooperate with the rest of the world rather than nuke and/or pollute us all death. If so, history will no doubt judge it was Mother Russia saved our species and Mother Earth, which most assuredly prompts the psycho-metaphysical question, could the implicit sisterhood of two such mothers be mere coincidence?
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"In talks between top-level South Korean officials and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Monday, North Korea reportedly indicated its readiness to engage in negotiations over denuclearisation and the termination of its nuclear weapons programs." See also: "...a grassroots coalition of more than 200 anti-war organizations and activists sent an open letter (pdf) to President Donald Trump on Thursday calling on his administration to... (cancel) planned U.S.-South Korea military exercises." Comment: I cannot but wonder if these developments anticipate positive consequences from what might be termed "the Putin effect" on the United States.
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"More than seven weeks after a devastating report from the media watch group FAIR, top executives and prime-time anchors at MSNBC still refuse to discuss how the network's obsession with Russia has thrown minimal journalistic standards out the window...continually piling up the dry tinder of hostility toward Russia...(thereby intensifying) the odds of a cataclysmic blowup between the world's two nuclear superpowers." Comment: as the report strongly implies but does not dare say outright, the network is speaking with the vengeful, infinitely malicious tongue of Hillary Clinton, who had she been elected president, would already be attempting to fulfill her apocalyptic, thermonuclear Goldwater Girl fantasy of being the first-ever conqueror of Russia,
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"Mexico’s leftist candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in July, is leading the polls as other candidates face accusations of corruption and voters are fed up with establishment politics."
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Dystopian Miscellany: Horrors on Sea and Land, in Medicine and Family Law
"(Sailors aboard the) USS Ronald Reagan...the American Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose crew pitched in to help victims of the March 11, 2011 Tsunami and earthquake in Japan, then found themselves under the radioactive plume from the stricken coastal nuclear reactors at Fukushima...have come down with unexplained illnesses. Some have died. And many are suing."
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"With the opioid crisis growing ever more dire, what is the significance of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent decision to ban the herb Kratom... a generally safe, cheap and effective alternative (pain killer) in comparison to the treatments offered by the pharmaceutical industry."
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"Insys Therapeutics, a major pharmaceutical company, has spent over $500,000 fueling the opposition to marijuana legalization in the United States...(but) has received preliminary approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration for Syndros, a synthetic marijuana drug."
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"...almost 20 years to the day after President Clinton signed the Adoption and Safe Families Act into law...(which) put America first in the world in the legal destruction of families...the only country in the world that routinely pays people to adopt children whose birth parents want desperately to raise them...and turn thousands of children who will never be adopted into legal orphans, dooming them to remain in foster care until they come of age." See also: "the practice of separating families has now become an unstated, yet critical, part of the Trump administration’s immigration policy."
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"Iowa Senate Republicans on Wednesday advanced what amounts to a total abortion ban—a bill the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa called unconstitutional."
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"Congressional Republicans could further empower Trump official Valerie Huber to...turn the nation's affordable birth control program into a bastion of abstinence."
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HR 620, the ADA Education and Reform Act...will change key provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), shifting the burden of accessibility from businesses to people with disabilities." Comment: another (entirely predictable) expression of Capitalism's genocidal malice toward disabled people.
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"...anthropogenic – really Capitalogenic – climate change (CCC) has clearly emerged as the biggest issue of our or any other time in human history and Donald Trump and the Republican Party have shown themselves to be militantly dedicated to the Greenhouse Gassing-to-death of life on Earth – a crime that promises to surpass all others in the ruling classes’ long rap sheet." Comment: this is no doubt why the Mainstream Media propaganda machine -- the One Percenters' for-profit version of Josef Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda -- consistently downplays the urgency of the threat and the corollary fact the Capitalists are, in every sense of the word, traitors to our species who are profiting obscenely from their betrayal of our Mother Earth.
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"The recent Oxfam scandal duplicates the corruption and abuse replete in (international 'relief') organizations...Look busy, but get as little done as possible. Ensure that donor money keeps pouring in. And continue to prop up a system that ensures that international elites live in colonial style---luxurious homes with large pools on the mountain overlooking the slums of Port-au-Prince---with 'third world' faces as their exotic backdrops. It's colonialism through and through, with the cellophane wrapping of 'relief aid' stamped upon it."
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"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has revealed that there are thousands of still-unreleased government files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Back in December, NARA claimed that only 86 files had yet to be made public."
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"...billionaire West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed into law a bipartisan agreement announced earlier in the day by legislators to end the nine-day strike by teachers and other public school employees across the state...(though the) agreement, which the unions endorsed and are claiming as a victory, is a betrayal of the courageous struggle by 33,000 school workers." See also: "...the deal reached to end the strike... does nothing to address teachers’ central demand—an end to escalating health care costs through the Public Employee Insurance Agency (PEIA) that effectively wipe out any pay raises...(which) will be funded by deep cuts to social programs.
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Why the JesuNazis (and all other Capitalists) Despise Public Education
"To be sure, the story of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas students is a story about the benefits of being a relatively wealthy school district at a moment in which public education is being vivisected without remorse or mercy."
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But at Least There's Some Heartening News from the Soviet of Washington*
"(Seattle) Mayor Jenny Durkan...said “statements and actions that were alleged to be made by (Sound Transit) CEO (Peter Rogoff) raise the issue of racial bias and insensitivity as well as other workplace harassment issues...other board members said they remained confident in his overall leadership and his ability to address the concerns...(but)...Durkan and Seattle City Councilmember Rob Johnson voted against (him).
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"Washington has become the first state to enact a law to enforce net neutrality protections following a federal rollback late last year...(but the action is largely symbolic because) the FCC's vote in December approved a provision that prohibits states from enacting their own net neutrality rules." Comment: the campaign to restore net neutrality is at its core a campaign against Capitalist censorship. Hence, given JesuNazi control of the Supreme Court, Congress and the presidency, the campaign will almost certainly fail, but its magnitude proves beyond argument the extent to which USian "democracy" is among history's biggest Big Lies.
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"(Washington state) Governor Jay Inslee...vetoed a bill that would’ve shielded the emails, text message, calendars and other records of legislators from public scrutiny...(acting in response to) widespread public pressure against the legislation, which lawmakers ramrodded through both (legislative) houses." Comment: rumor has it the vetoed measure was intended to protect legislators against sexual harassment accusations (scroll down to "And If There's a Hereafter..."). Meanwhile Inslee's veto exemplifies the fact that in a very few of the 50 U.S. states, there remain functional elements of democratic process. Thus the question is whether these vestiges will provide the platform for successful anti-Capitalist rebellion before the JesuNazis (aka Republicans) and their Democratic (sic) Party enablers complete their state-level destruction of what they have already obliterated nationally.
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*The name "Soviet of Washington" was hung on the Evergreen State by its high-ranking federal detractors in response to its Harry Bridges and IWW radicalism during the first half of the 20th Century including the general strike in Seattle 6-11 Feb. 1919.
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Useful, Informative Analysis for Medicare Recipients
"New Medicare Rights Analysis: what the recent budget deal means for people on Medicare." Comment: good news and bad news, more of the former than the latter, but the latter including the likelihood of higher prices and fees.
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Relevant History: International Women's Day, Spanish Civil War
"Women at the turn of the 20th century were not only seeking to address gender inequity but social class inequality as well...(International Womens' Day) grew out of the need for better working conditions for women in industrially developing countries who were entering the job market in unprecedented numbers." See also: "...the U.S. government doesn't...recognize (International Women's Day) as an official holiday, unlike 26 nations that include Afghanistan, Cuba, Laos, Russia and Uganda." Comment: lest we forget, IWD is the day the Russian Revolution began, started by the 5000 women of Petrograd's Lesnoy Textile Works, who walked off the job in a wildcat strike to protest the firing of their union organizers.
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"Frances Perkins was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate...the first woman cabinet member in the nation’s history...as Secretary of Labor, she championed many groundbreaking government policies...that helped bring the country out of the Great Depression." Comment: a history well worth reading.
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"Captured or Killed: the Irish Anti-Fascist Fighters at the Aragon Front." Comment: let us learn from their example.
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Book Reviews
"The Trump administration’s assault...is growing more fierce, both in Washington, D.C., and on the streets...Into this maelstrom stepped Victor Narro and his book, Living Peace, Connecting Your Spirituality With Your Work for Justice (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: 2014)...a guide, an inspiration and a reminder that rights organizations’ tough daily tasks have a higher purpose.” Comment: while such a work may be psychologically useful in helping us cope with the stresses relentlessly inflicted by the literally unspeakable horrors of the looming apocalypse, any lingering notion there is a benevolent personal god is proven utterly absurd by the very circumstances that precipitate our trauma. If indeed there is any sort of deity at all, he (or more likely she) has unquestionably turned against humanity. damning us to extinction and reducing our Mother Earth to a bug planet, no doubt in retribution for the planet having dared spawn such an irredeemably murderous, ultimately self-destructive species as ourselves. Significantly, the book is also censored by price: Amazon lists it, a paperback, at $ 37.78 new, $35.25 used – surely one of the most prohibitively expensive paperbacks in publishing history, and yet another smirking message that even such imaginary solace as it might provide is greedily denied us by Neoliberal (i.e., implicitly fascist) Capitalism.
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"Every kid has a childhood story of a creepy old neighbor next door...imagine that that neighbor is Adolf Hitler...Edgar Feuchtwanger...5 years old when he first laid eyes on the future führer...chronicles his 10 years of living across the street from a man who would become the modern definition of evil in his new memoir, Hitler, My Neighbor: Memoirs of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939 (Other Press, New York: 2017)." Comment: Liesl Bradner's review is itself worth reading, especially for its cautionary history of perpetually resurgent U.S. Nazism.
LB/8 March 2018
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