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Tinley Park brawl between white supremacists, 'anti-racists'
FOX Chicago News ^ | May 20, 2012 | Mike Flannery

Posted on 05/20/2012 2:21:41 PM PDT by Pelham

Edited on 05/20/2012 5:33:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

FIRST ON FOX: It now appears that a vicious brawl at a south suburban restaurant on Saturday involved hammer-wielding "anti-fascists" attacking a group of self-professed "white nationalists."

The attack occurred at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, according to Tinley Park police. Ten were injured, with three taken to local hospitals. Among innocent bystanders terrified by the bizarre explosion of violence were several dozen women there for a wedding shower.

Sources tell Fox Chicago News that at least one of the white nationalists was a fugitive wanted on as many as seven different warrants.

After the attack, several injured white supremacists fled immediately, declining medical treatment. Tinley Park Police said they detained five of the suspected attackers, who apparently call themselves members of the "South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action." Police and Cook County prosecutors said criminal charges could be filed Sunday.

The white supremacists had apparently posted on one or more of their websites that they planned to have lunch at the Ashford House restaurant, 7959 W. 159th St, Tinley Park. Their internet postings refer to a "5th Annual White Nationalist Economic Summit." Not clear is whether they chose this weekend and this suburban Chicago location as some sort of response to the NATO Summit in Chicago.

Excerpt, read more at MyFoxChicago


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifascists; gangattack; hoodies; mobattack; skinhead; whitenationalists
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This is like something out of interwar Germany. A Weimar flash-mob.

In this case the hoodie-uniformed leftist storm troopers hammered out a decisive win over their skinhead targets.

But as Larry Auster warns at his website, what if this isn't a one-off incident, and instead is the beginning of something new in leftwing activism?

This time they chose a target few will have sympathy with. But the left has a lot of people that they hate and the next time it could be a far more conventional group. A jihad against all who oppose them.

1 posted on 05/20/2012 2:21:55 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: Kenny Bunk; wardaddy; Travis McGee

ping!


2 posted on 05/20/2012 2:23:19 PM PDT by Pelham (Obammunism, the slow acting poison.)
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To: Pelham

“This is like something out of interwar Germany. A Weimar flash-mob. “

This is a set-up. We should be asking what behind-the-scenes group orchestrated this. Or what government agency.


3 posted on 05/20/2012 2:26:53 PM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: Pelham

I guess any victim of gang violence will be accused of being white supremecists these days


4 posted on 05/20/2012 2:27:02 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Pelham

So.. When will these leftist maggots go and attack members of the black panthers, and la raza members?


5 posted on 05/20/2012 2:29:40 PM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: Pelham

One article I read said after the mob beat up the other group they hit other people at random


6 posted on 05/20/2012 2:30:25 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Pelham
But as Larry Auster warns at his website, what if this isn't a one-off incident, and instead is the beginning of something new in leftwing activism?

When in modern history haven't leftists resorted to violence as a political tool?

7 posted on 05/20/2012 2:31:40 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: dljordan

8 posted on 05/20/2012 2:31:48 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: yank in the UK

“So.. When will these leftist maggots go and attack members of the black panthers, and la raza members?”

They won’t, since they see them as fellow travelers.


9 posted on 05/20/2012 2:33:15 PM PDT by Pelham (Obammunism, the slow acting poison.)
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To: Pelham
Sounds like those passive, nonviolent, OWS Anarchists literally stamping stomping out 1st Amendment practitioner's right to free speech & assembly.

Watch out TEA Party.

10 posted on 05/20/2012 2:34:07 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Pelham
I'm White and I'm proud!

11 posted on 05/20/2012 2:35:25 PM PDT by I see my hands (If you say what you think then no one will like you.)
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To: Pelham
This is like something out of interwar Germany. A Weimar flash-mob.

Nice. This is also how the anarchists, A.K.A. 'Los Pistoleros' in Spain got the ball rolling for the Spanish Civil War in '38. And of course that was the bloody dress rehearsal for WW Deuce. Way to go Chi-town!!!

12 posted on 05/20/2012 2:38:11 PM PDT by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: I see my hands

I’m anti-anti-racist.


13 posted on 05/20/2012 2:38:30 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Pelham

Reads as if the anti-fascists are suffering from Freudian projectionism. In simpler terms, they be the fascists.


14 posted on 05/20/2012 2:38:30 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: dljordan

“This is a set-up. We should be asking what behind-the-scenes group orchestrated this. Or what government agency.”

$10 says the criminal White Hut and corrupt Dept of INJustice sanctioned/will also ignore it.


15 posted on 05/20/2012 2:39:14 PM PDT by carriage_hill (All liberals & most demoncraps think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: dljordan
This is a set-up.

This whole Chicago circus seems like a setup to me. False flags everywhere.

16 posted on 05/20/2012 2:40:41 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: dljordan

Well it did happen in Chicago...


17 posted on 05/20/2012 2:43:05 PM PDT by Pelham (Obammunism, the slow acting poison.)
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To: Pelham

Hmmm, interesting choice of weapons...baseball bats, hammers, and nunchucks.

I vote for “hammer” as the best weapon in this instance...especially a ball peen hammer...or even better, a lead dead-blow hammer.


18 posted on 05/20/2012 2:46:20 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: Revolting cat!

Has anybody else noticed that only white people attend Anti Fascist rallies?
Seems to me that black people just don’t give a crap.


19 posted on 05/20/2012 2:47:52 PM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: justa-hairyape
A group of people that call themselves antifascist attack another group of people because of their personal beliefs... Oh the irony
20 posted on 05/20/2012 2:51:10 PM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: Calusa
Nice. This is also how the anarchists, A.K.A. 'Los Pistoleros' in Spain got the ball rolling for the Spanish Civil War in '36. And of course that was the bloody dress rehearsal for WW Deuce. Way to go Chi-town!!!

If they keep on doing this sort of stuff and rightist groups begin to respond in kind, the lefties will find themselves outgunned--after all, for the most part, lefties don't hunt, go to gun shows, collect firearms or join the military.

Incidentally, when the Spanish Right finally responded to violent leftist provocations such as assassinations and church burnings, the leftists found themselves outgunned, and they lost the war.

21 posted on 05/20/2012 2:51:10 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Nah. They ain’t smart enough.


22 posted on 05/20/2012 2:52:31 PM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: Pelham

There were over a dozen attackers and five were arrested.

Seems to me that names and photos of the arrestees should be released to help identify the ones who got away.


23 posted on 05/20/2012 2:53:38 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Pelham

I’m thinking that they need to try this down in Greensboro, NC, and see how it turns out.


24 posted on 05/20/2012 2:54:02 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Pelham
The Stormfronters made a big mistake having their gathering in non-CCW Illinois southwest of Chicago, and putting it up on their website. What were they thinking?

If they were smarter, they would have held it north of Chicago, and not made it plain that it was just north of the CCW-friendly WI border. Given any party crashers a big surprise.

That said, these "anti-fascist" types hate FReepers and TEA party members more than they hate Stormfronters (because we are actually having success rolling back the Left). This may be a foreshadow of things to come as we get closer to November. Stay safe. Avoid gatherings where you cannot be armed.

25 posted on 05/20/2012 2:54:25 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: Pelham

A good way to minimize the chance of disruptions like this is for each patriotic organization to give each member a password to the part of its website that gives the time, date and location of each of its meetings. Also each member might find a physical problem that required him to carry a heavy cane.


26 posted on 05/20/2012 2:55:23 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: justa-hairyape

This whole Chicago circus seems like a setup to me. False flags everywhere.

Yep, why would they host the NATO conference in a place where you KNOW that there’s going to be protests? The propaganda isn’t working as well as it used to, so expect something more radical in the future.


27 posted on 05/20/2012 2:59:08 PM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: yank in the UK
A group of people that call themselves antifascist attack another group of people because of their personal beliefs... Oh the irony

Only if you if you ignore the Left's control of language. The tactics used by the "anti-fascists" were by any sensible definition fascistic tactics, but since WWII, the Left has convinced the public that racism = fascism. Of course, this is because one particular branch of fascism, German fascism, included racism. Italian fascism wasn't racist. Stalinist fascism wasn't considered racist. But that doesn't matter. Fascism has come to mean any opponent of the Left.


28 posted on 05/20/2012 3:01:24 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: Pelham

Interesting turn of events, too bad the reporter is an idiot. I’ll bet both groups are left-wing radical fasicsts.

The left in Germany hd many battles against each other to sort out which group would gain and hold power.

We are seeing the early stages of this in America, actually we saw this forst in the Texas Cacuses in 2008 between Obama and Hillery forces when Obamas people would not let Hilleery’s people vote.


29 posted on 05/20/2012 3:08:03 PM PDT by stockpirate (Romney, Ann Coulter & our ruling republican elites, are Big Government socialists, Grand Ole Sociali)
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To: Pelham
Note how the tone of the article is highly critical of the "skinheads," "neo-Nazis," and "white supremacists," and details their cowardice, criminal records, etc., but fails to indict their attackers. From what I can tell, the only offense of which the victims were guilty was having lunch ...

But since they're white and the assailants were ... not ... it's okay. Let's see how it's reported when -- not IF -- the retaliation occurs.

30 posted on 05/20/2012 3:14:39 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: I see my hands

Watch yo’ mouth, Boy!


31 posted on 05/20/2012 3:24:03 PM PDT by BilLies (330,000 northern Union Whites died between 1861-65 to free the slaves. Memorial Day.)
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To: IronJack

“But since they’re white and the assailants were ... not ... it’s okay.”

Actually the report is that everyone involved is white, attackers and victims alike.


32 posted on 05/20/2012 3:27:41 PM PDT by Pelham (Obammunism, the slow acting poison.)
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To: skeeter

When clearly outnumbered.


33 posted on 05/20/2012 3:35:41 PM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: Pelham

To think for years the propaganda being fed to us is these neo-Nazis/skinheads/fascists were the ones who are violent.


34 posted on 05/20/2012 3:36:16 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: PapaBear3625

“The Stormfronters made a big mistake having their gathering in non-CCW Illinois southwest of Chicago, and putting it up on their website. What were they thinking?”

Let’s stop and think a minute here. A bunch of anti-facist, multi-pierced, metrosexuals have attacked a bunch of neo-nazi skinheads? These weren’t your usual hand-wringing, hippie types now were they? This thing was bought and paid for street theater.


35 posted on 05/20/2012 3:37:57 PM PDT by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: Pelham

Yeah, I caught that further down in the article. Not sure what the beef here was then. I don’t buy this “anti-fascist” crap. There’s more here than meets the eye.


36 posted on 05/20/2012 3:46:00 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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Actually the report is that everyone involved is white, attackers and victims alike.

I suspect too many 'black mob on white' stories have been leaking out despite the media's attempts to cover them up. So someone decided that there needed to be an all white mob style attack, preferably involving skinheads, for 'balance.'

37 posted on 05/20/2012 4:05:07 PM PDT by sportutegrl (How dare those racist skinheads have lunch! /s)
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To: All

I hate Illinois nazis..


38 posted on 05/20/2012 4:05:07 PM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: libstripper

Stormfront is not a patriotic organization. It’s hard to pick the bad guys out of this article.


39 posted on 05/20/2012 4:14:24 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: stockpirate

“in the Texas Cacuses in 2008 between Obama and Hillery forces when Obamas people would not let Hilleery’s people vote.”

I don’t remember reading about that. How did they prevent them from voting?


40 posted on 05/20/2012 4:18:51 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Pelham
leftist Nazis fighting leftist OWS

Strange, but not as big a concern as the one sided race war that is going on.

I don't see a big difference with the confuse anarchist of the skinheads and the confused anarchist of the OWS. For all we know, some of the attackers may be skinheads.

I will loosely follow this story, just because we probably don't have all the information, yet.

41 posted on 05/20/2012 4:29:45 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Melas
It’s hard to pick the bad guys out of this article.

I don't think it is so hard.

The ones who broke the law are the bad guys.

See how that works? How hard was that?

42 posted on 05/20/2012 4:29:54 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Fiji Hill

The group that was attacked are also leftist’s or lefties as you called them. Fascism is leftist!


43 posted on 05/20/2012 4:42:19 PM PDT by stockpirate (Romney, Ann Coulter & our ruling republican elites, are Big Government socialists, Grand Ole Sociali)
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To: dsc

Do some reserch, they [revented them from voting by not letting them enter if they said they were for Clinton. She was livid about it.


44 posted on 05/20/2012 4:47:45 PM PDT by stockpirate (Romney, Ann Coulter & our ruling republican elites, are Big Government socialists, Grand Ole Sociali)
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To: Pelham

This tactic is nothing new for the anti-racist crowd vs the racist skinheads, but usually they don’t do it in so public a place. Neither side will call the cops, so if there if it hadn’t been for the people in the restaurant, this would never have made the news.


45 posted on 05/20/2012 5:17:38 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Agreed investigations need to be done this is way to efficient an attack entirely to well planned & executed to be your typical leftist action.

To precise by far, they knew where there targets were at exactly , the attackers massed precisely all in ‘uniform’ at the same time like a precise well drilled team & were talking about 20+ individuals .

If it was a leftist run operation you would have folks showing up in everything from Che T-shirts to clown suits.


46 posted on 05/20/2012 5:17:38 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: dljordan

Nah, it’s not a set-up. Punk rockers and non-racist skinheads always form “anti-racist” groups to fight racist skinheads in their areas. In their view, the racist skinheads, who wear the same kinds of fashion, give a bad name to the non-racist ones, so they feud with them wherever they find them. It’s been going on for over 30 years, so it’s not some new leftie tactic. They do all collaborate with the various commie/socialist/anarchist groups though.


47 posted on 05/20/2012 5:22:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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I assume that since they’re white, this will be in my local paper in the morning. As it should be... Some journalists out there needs to come up with a standard - something along the lines of a style book rule - and cover crimes in the SAME WAY - not one way for blacks and one way for whites. But one consistent way.


48 posted on 05/20/2012 5:24:27 PM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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To: Nebr FAL owner

They knew where they were, and who the targets were because the nazis were stupid enough to post their info on websites and social networking, not thinking that the anti-racists monitor them. Trust me, this is no new development or tactics for the anti-racists.

It looks more organized than typical leftie tactics because anti-racist groups are not run by college slacker lefties or fat union lefties, they are run by anti-racist skinheads and punk rockers who hone street fighting to an art form.


49 posted on 05/20/2012 5:24:59 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Agreed this is a set up the only question is who is in charge & planning this particular operation. It sure aint the usual lefty misfit crowd that can barely count past 10 without removing there shoes & socks.


50 posted on 05/20/2012 5:26:12 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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