Patriot Prayer organizer Joey Gibson at an August 6 rally.
Patriot Prayer organizer Joey Gibson at an August 6 rally. Doug Brown

The right-wing organizer of this year’s various Patriot Prayer rallies, Joey Gibson, has called for a surprise rally tomorrow at 2 pm at Portland’s Terry Schrunk Plaza—probably not coincidentally at the same time as the Portland Marathon which runs right past Terry Schrunk Plaza. This last minute decision to rally will undoubtedly cause more stress on the Portland Police who will now be forced to split their focus between the marathon and the rally.

In the following lengthy, and frankly, pretty uninteresting video, Gibson unsuccessfully tries to portray himself and members of the Patriot Prayer outfit as just good Christians who have no intention of bringing “darkness” to Portland… even though they regularly attract white supremacists and self-identifying neo-Nazis.

These rallies tend to instigate trouble, and the Patriot Prayer people are always severely outnumbered by Portland protesters—which may be another reason for their decision to sneak in a rally with very little notice. For more information on how the organization and protesters will react to one another, check out our previous coverage here, here, here, and here. As usual, we’ll be covering the rally and protest, so follow us on Twitter.

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Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

5 replies on “Patriot Prayer Group Planning Surprise Rally Sunday During Portland Marathon”

  1. A bunch of uneducated beta males with nothing better to do with their time.

    Check out the episode entitled “Street Fight: A New Wave of Political Violence” from the podcast Reveal. The host Al Letson recently interviewed these idiots (and other right-wing idiots) and their “arguments” fall apart under the simplest scrutiny.

    Only the simpleminded feed off negative attention… and these idiots love negative attention!

  2. Well, personally I think they should hold the protests and the marathon at the same time so that they can cut down on traffic disruptions.

  3. I find it pretty fucking common in debating anyone on more or less Trump’s Side of any discussion that if you even sort of try to get them to be specific, they just crumble. They aren’t just people that lack the courage of their convictions, they can’t even talk about things they ostensibly believe.
    And that’s why I believe we need to stop acting like their beliefs are in any way important, because they don’t have any.

  4. but RB its not about beliefs. its not a science problem. a living breathing human is not a theorem. you’re working from this enlightenment/liberal (in the old sense) idea of human nature that has no basis in reality. that is why you will always fail and why everyone will fail and the species has at most 500 more years

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