Regarding Stewart Rhodes re-launching the #OathKeepers (Dare I call them Oath Breakers?):
Don't be surprised if we have to fight them again up in DC. They and their Proud Boys and 3%'er friends invaded DC three fucking times culminating at J6, and all three times they assaulted and terrorized random DC residents. One of them was even seen with a "Six Million Wasn't Enough" T-shirt celebrating the Holocaust. This is who supported Trump then, and it's who supports Trump now.
I was in all three of those huge and vicious late 2020/early 2021 battles. The first was Nov 14 2020, opposing the "Million MAGA March." I was wounded that night, I was back in action in time for Dec 12 2020, opposing the March4 Trump. Finally, on J6 itself I was at the defense of Black Lives Matter Plaza itself.
These three battles were quite similar: about 20,000 mainstream Trump supporters backed by about 1,000 of the heavies. A division of low quality troops, a reinforced batallion of more capable troops. We faced this with less than 300 fighters on Nov 14 and it turned into a literal knife fight when we blocked their march on BLM PLaza and they pulled knives. Body armor and shields both saved lives that night. Also note that a cop was stabbed that night by members of the same groups that were also showing the Thin Blue Line flag! Unknown how well their vest performed but they didn't get killed.
Dec 12 was similar, we had about 800 people most of them able to handle themselves in a tough situation, again enemy forces of about 1K heavies and 20K semi-civvies. Unknown if we could have held the line ourselves, as our presence "tripwired" MPD into blocking all access to BLM Plaza except by those who were there first, which was us. Probably the Mayor realized open bloodshed on her watch (remember the knives of Nov 14) would be terrible press for the city. It didn't help that liberals and Dems told people to stay home. This meant the other side's fighters could draw reinforcements from a crowd of 20,000 while we were on our own. Many in DC considered this a defeat as it was MPD that kept the Enemy off the Plaza.
Then came J6: defending the Capitol was not our watch, we laid back to watch the tigers fight on that one. This paid dividends when Qanon types tried to claim J6 was "antifa in disguise" Note that the Proud Boys had stated they would be wearing copies of our "uniform" (black bloc) and not their own! This is perfidy and a war crime in open combat BTW.
On J6 we stayed well away from the Capitol as cops and unbadged fash beat the shit out of each other, with the cops being defeated outright and only the National Guard able to retake the Capitol. Instead, we drew two missions: defend the unhoused camps north of Union Station then in the underpasses, and defend BLM Plaza.
I was in the latter defense which was about a dozen kids from NE plus myself. Dumbass Proud Boys came over from the Capitol late in the day, wandering over mostly in packs of 3-5 and never outnumbering us thinking they'd destroy the artwork with ease. We could have been slaughtered if they had just stopped and gathered 20-30 people bloc'ing up. They never thought of that, so we cleaned their clocks. Those packs of 3-5 fash had to fight all of us at once, someone called it a "self-serve beat down station." One of the fash was knocked out cold.
After about 1/2 hour of this fighting, I got friendly fire pepper spray in one eye. With no medic support I had to withdraw on the other eye to ensure I made it home at all. Remember a whole division's worth of enemies was still in town, and we had no medic support at BLM Plaza!
Sometimes the only easy day is NOT yesterday folks!
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#DC
#antifa