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So they have quit even pretending to be sane.
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Pile this on top of the recent NRA ad that is essentially a call-to-arms for a 21st Century civil war in America, and we're looking at a group of insane gun nuts being primed to unleash a good deal of chaos, death, and injury on the general population. This needs to be stopped ASAP. These assholes are a significant threat to everyone.
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So the MCGOP says it has "no money" to hire legitimate private security contractors and wants to use a bunch of guys who like to cosplay with guns and ammo. OK, great. But aren't they worried about what could happen if one of these "ammosexuals" gets a bit hot under the collar and wounds or kills someone while providing security? Aren't they worried about liability?
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"The volunteers are afraid of going to Portland street fairs and Portland events because of what happened to them,"

'What happened to them' being that some of the Oath Keeper's friends in Patriot Prayer sent an anonymous letter to threaten themselves to claim victim-hood, misunderstanding that Antifa would never deign to send a missive to public entities, since, you know, they don't beleive public institutions are legitimate.
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So is this douchbags hiring assholes or assholes hiring douchbags?
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This is going to end badly for the GOP. When you allow crazy people to handle security and allow them to interact with radicals on the otherside someone is going to be seriously hurt or killed. Then the GOP will be held responsible for the entire mess.
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["I don't understand how it's a whole hell of a lot different than rich people hiring private security guards," explained Buchal about the volunteer militias. "I don't understand why it's so different."]

It's "different" because there are laws that apply to private security firms: staff background checks for certain kinds of convictions, liability insurance requirements, and so on:

http://www.oregon.gov/DPSST/PS/Pages/ind…

as Buchal should well know.
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Hello everyone. I'm Athena Brown
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Annnnnnnnd that's what happens when you accidentally hit enter, and it doesn't let you go back and edit your comments.

Anyway, I'm House District Captain for HD 45 of the Republican Party. If anyone wants to continue this discussion, please do feel free to email me at athena.k.brown@gmail.com. I wanted to help answer some concerns.

First, we have been getting threatened with violence on a routine and ongoing basis by Antifa. Many of you may recall that the rose parade was canceled in May due to threats emailed to the organizers. We often have elderly members, and minors attend our events and rallies, and we want everyone to remain safe. If Antifa threatens us again, or decides to smash and destroy personal property, the idea is that having our security nearby will deter acts of violence against us. That's all we intend from having private security.

We have absolutely no intention on bringing harm to anyone. Again, our only concern is protection *FROM* violence. Not to cause violence.

I would like to go ahead and answer a few concerns already posted.

>> So the MCGOP says it has "no money" to hire legitimate private security contractors

^^^ This is not accurate. We have money. We do not want to spend a fortune on a massive private security firm. We'd prefer having local members of our community become state certified and help protect and work with the people they personally know.

>> OK, great. But aren't they worried about what could happen if one of these "ammosexuals" gets a bit hot under the collar

^^^ The exact same thing could be said about any police officer. This is why we're insisting on state certification, which means training in how to act as security.

>> It's "different" because there are laws that apply to private security firms: staff background checks for certain kinds of convictions, liability insurance requirements, and so on

^^^ It's my understanding that this is part of the process for becoming state certified. This is a highly organized effort that we're engaging in.

If we have no need for security, then our security will just stand around and do nothing, and not harm anyone. We've been inviting the 3%ers and Oath Keepers to events for a while. They've never once stopped the other side from coming over and talking to us, expressing their views, or engaging in civil discussion.

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Thank you for engaging Ms. Brown. Are you aware the pres of Oath Keepers, Rhoads, was disbarred, and allegedly uses the membership dues as a personal piggy bank? More often than not, the wannabe cops have a less than honorable background.
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Why do they quote a democratic fund raising outfit like the Souther Poverty Law Center to define anyone? Do they really think it's an impartial assessment?
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How is this a surprise? When the Left courts and treats as a leader one such as Greg McKelvey who feels it's not his job as activist leader to "...censor anyone else's activism" this is the natural drift. If you didn't see this coming by early December 2016, you weren't paying attention in early November 2016 and you still aren't. The Right is figuring out the game by talking of peace while courting and providing space for violence. Fuck both of your houses.

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