Far-Right Proud Boys Reeling After Arrests and Scrutiny

This lot aren’t political, there hooligans who will use any excuse for a mass brawl. Reminds me of the football hooligan culture that took hold in the UK during the 80s/90s

This is the junior Aryan Brotherhood except for the fact that they walk the streets. People beware, it was organizations like that helped Hitler and the Nazi party come to power. Only the Buffoon in Chief would made the statements that he did after Charlottesville. Put them in jail where they belong for a long time. They love to fight, in jail they will have plenty of opportunity to do so especially if the jail is full of Bloods and Crips, lets see how tough they really are.

It's interesting how McInnes claims not to be racist, and then immeadiately launches into using several racial slurs. Groups like these, and their leaders, claim not to be hate groups, yet their actions directly prove that they are. These groups claim minorities dont deserve to have any rights, especially any that they should have to abide by. Nothing makes more clear the mentality of these groups than their vocal support for Alex Fields, the convicted killer of Heather Hyers. Numerous alt-right/nationalist groups, including Proud Boys, loudly condemned Fields conviction. Every action of these groups prove that they are indeed hate groups.

Makes me long for the days when a bunch of jocky Irish lads just wanted to do bar fights with no pretense of a "message".

What are these so-called "boys" have to be so proud about? They are nothing more than street hooligans led by the trim-bearded McIness who always look neat and well-groomed, much the same way the "black shirts" did during the Nazi's rise to power. They were Hitler's henchmen who pummeled Jews and other targets into submission, softening them up for the final death blow to come. "Blut und Boden" was the slogan used by the Nazi-like proud boys --"some very fine people," as our ignorant president referred to them as -- during their terrifying, torchlit march through the streets of Charlottesville.

What I find curious is that an organization called the Metropolitan Republic Club decided to welcome the Proud Boys to a gathering at their building. A cursory reading of the internet would have informed these club members of the racist and divisive beliefs of the Proud Boys. This invitation seems more questionable than the violence that the Proud Boys precipitated outside. Maybe we need to learn more about the Metropolitan Republican Club. Do they have any official ties to the New York Republican Party?

Time for these 'boys' to grow up, take responsibility for their disappointing lives, and stop blaming others for their bad luck and failings.

They just need to rebrand themselves as Antifa and do the exact same thing with impunity.

Heather Heyer was the person killed at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Yes, sure, it's just a fun group that enjoys bashing people in the head. Loads of fun.

Today's KKK has a modern marketing department. The well-groomed spokespeople for today's version of white supremacy rely on dog whistles and sanitized language to bolster recruitment and deflect scrutiny for what is otherwise the same old agenda.

No one "started it", no matter who the video says threw the first blow. Both of these groups are violent, and that's okay. Our press wouldn't have any stories to write if not for the mobs that they deliberately created in order to have something to write about. The average person in America is so non-violent, peaceful, civil, tolerant and educated that the mainstream news media has to go to great lengths to find anti-white extremists, feminazi bigots, white supremacist neo-nazi offshoots, Starbucks-stomping black-clad ninja wannabes and other tiny minorities and increase their numbers, because if not for them, the News would have to report that things are actually going pretty damn well and that's not a story. If these people weren't rioting in the streets, they'd be working for the New York Times - and some of them are. Meanwhile the actual philosophical groups that pose the greatest ideological challenges to America are blacklisted from press coverage. The Greens and the Libertarians and other 'outside' ideologies outgrew ANTIFA and Proud Boys 10-to-1 in 2018. Yet that doesn't make CNN. Doesn't make MSNBC. Doesn't make Fox News or the NY Times, that this is the age of the Independent. Let's be real here, the sooner both of these groups stomp each other - and the New York Times - the sooner our society moves towards a truly freethinking worldview and a truly independent free press not owned by the corporate slavemasters and the donor class. Let them fight.

Look at these people, look at their faces...there's no pride. There's nothing at all in their faces except anger, menace. How does it happen that person becomes so reduced, their humanity so diminished that they dissolve their own being into bludgeons. Ugly and scary for sure, but from a safety of distance (at least) these guys are sad stuff. Just look at them.

The article does explain which group, the “proud boys” or the hard-left “antifa” start the fights. Weird.

Far right racists like the unctious Coulter, Ingraham, Limbaugh (and Trump himself) are trying to rebrand hate and bigotry as "idealogical diversity" Colleges even feel compelled to allow haters a platform. Let's not kid ourselves- hate is hate. Intolerance is intolerance. Ignorance is ignorance. Let's continue to call out the so-called Proud Boys, KKK, and most of The Low-Information Base for what they are. No more sugar coating.

I think the town of Wunsiedel in Germany has the right idea when dealing with these groups. When the neo nazis show up and march there, the residents and local businesses donate money to anti hate groups for every step these neo nazis take. The residents cheer them on gleefully.

Arrest all of these criminals. Throw away the key.

Many of the proud boy’s gripes against minority groups are similar to what Hitler said about Jews and gypsies after WW1 to rile the defeated Germans.

This group claims to be more culturally and genetically advanced than others, and yet they not only resort to, but revel in, the most primitive form of engagement: violence. Is this contradiction lost on them?

Let us emphasize that these people were in NYC at the invitation of a local republican club. Just ponder for a moment the type of organization that thinks Gavin McInnes is possessed of ideas that deserve to be heard and given respectability and considered soberly and picked through to find a reason to proclaim that “you can’t dent some of this makes sense!” They just can’t resist. The GOP can’t denounce it outright. They are compelled to defend these people and I don’t even think they all fully understand why. It’s happening on an emotional level.

I wonder how many of those MEN (as their ages denote) still live with Mom.

Can we stop with the overwrought hysterics, please? The "left-wing" protesters wore masks and circled around to confront the Proud Boys members. Even if they did not throw the first punch, they were clearly not innocent bystanders (it says a lot they refuse to cooperate with police). And so what if MicInnes said Spencer seemed "perfectly reasonable in converaton"? NYT included this quote with the implication that McInnes is therefore racist, but that seems like an unfair assumption. And this group has been banned from social media? They're a bunch of insecure boys who have grown into men - are they really deserving of censorship? The overreactions from the left to these people only pour fuel on the fire.

Open letter to "proud boys": There were a lot of really intelligent white men throughout history. Isaac Newton, J. S. Bach, Stephen Hawking, Dickens, Locke, Descarte, etc, etc, etc. But you, "proud boys", aren't them. In fact, you're mostly a bunch of insecure dummies. You think your white complexion somehow means you have an intellectual gift in common with the aforementioned geniuses. But you don't. You're simply frustrated little white men, frustrated by your lack of power, your inability to get a date, your inability to do much of anything, really. You're jealous of women who in at least half of the cases, are more intelligent than you, and of racial minorities who are advancing faster than you. You've been surpassed by minorities in sports, intellectual pursuits, and in many cases wealth, and it's eating you up inside. My advice to you- quit associating with racists. Go back to school and work really hard on something, until you've actually accomplished it, instead of claiming the work of dead white geniuses as your own. Above all, try to be kinder, not only to women and minorities, but to yourselves. There's only one life, so you should stop wasting it by following clods like Gavin McInnes, and try to accomplish something important on your own.

"“This whole idea of white nationalists and white supremacy is a crock,” he added. “Such people don’t exist.”" Uh...no. They are real, and they very much exist. Any comment to the contrary is the bigliest of fake news. But these sorts of comments made by many others besides McInnes, is easily swallowed by those white males who are too young to know the history, or rather refer to not know the history. Which IMO, and experience is more the case. Too many white males these days, be they Trumplodites, or the types portrayed here are bereft of any real historical knowledge, that involves factual and rigorous study and intellectual honesty.Instead they rely on the rants from various blog-posts and RW/Alt-right pod-casters to makeup their education. You'd be hard pressed to meet any of these regular members or hangers-on who has ever read anything contrary to their too often hardened beliefs. How many have read anything by MalcolmX? Baldwin? Instead relying on the propaganda of their faux messiahs as the whole of their education. Deplorables. Yes, they are...deplorable in beliefs, and more so in their lack of self-respect, that they NEED messiahs and prophets of rage in their lives. Fall so easily for sugar coated dreck...deplorable!

“This whole idea of white nationalists and white supremacy is a crock,” he added. “Such people don’t exist.” "What water?" said the fish. "I don't see no water!" But what a fish does when you take it out of water is pretty much what we've seen from white supremacists after the United States elected its first African American president.

“The victims...refuse to cooperate...” with the prosecution of their own assault???? WHAT?!? Taxpayers are funding the protesters defense and the protesters won’t help in their own defense. For crying out loud. So it’s just for the thrill of it all on both sides.......why am I so surprised.....

Good Job New York prosecutors. This is odd: "One challenge facing prosecutors is that the victims of the attack have refused to cooperate with the authorities, which means the case will rely heavily on videos from security cameras and onlookers." I'm not surprised because I believe all these hate-anger-fear-violence operatives are paid by the same Robber Barons to cause trouble around the world. Think about the Women' March, the Scientist's march, Black Lives Matter and all the other grassroots demonstrations taking place. They are non-violent. Tens of Millions of people turn out and carry signs with no violence. It's only when groups like white supremacist and anti-fascist groups show up that things get violent. WE THE PEOPLE - average people who want relative peace and social/financial equity in OUR lives - must continue to show up and not let the media give OUR demonstrations to the hate-anger-fear-violence boys and girls.

Proud haters is more like it.

The free-lance videographer is Sandi Bachom. Her work deserves proper citation.

Unfortunately, Southern Poverty Law Center designations are meaningless. They used to be principled, but now they label anything right wing as a hate group. The NYT needs to stop quoting them as an authoritative source, otherwise the NYT just loses credibility with its reporting.

Since when is protesting Nazis and white supremacy considered "leftist"? In my opinion, protesters should be considered considered patriotic Americans.

How come you never see Far-Left wing leaders arrested??

The only thing to consider is who is funding these losers? Surley someone is financing them. Who?

When your leader encourages and accepts violence, these scared ignorant "boys" come out of the woodwork.

No doubt some of the “good people” in Trump’s America. R a c I s t s.

If you voted for Trump, these are your bedfellows. If you think you're not tainted by them, you're delusional.

I came across Mr. McInnis while Youtube surfing without knowing about these events or connections. Jawdroppingly misogynist! Overt hatred and sense of male superiority. Don't let the door hit ya............

I will contest the Proud Boys assertion that they “aren’t going anywhere.” They will *always* be going somewhere, because members of civilized society have seen their kind before and don’t want them. We will always be chasing them, pushing them back into the shadows, or trying to convince them to abandon their hatred and lies and return to civility. They will never rest as long as true citizens of this country reject their ideology as false and dangerous.

what's with the "x's" on the rainbow neckerchief donned by the clapping go-pro guy behind mcinnes?

The question facing those claiming to be 'liberal': will you convict these thugs OR remain silent believing they are only young men on their learning curve to a more fulfilling life?

The Florida Republican party has direct ties to the Proud Boys, who helped them suppress the vote in November. (Also, it is not reported enough how the police stand by and prevent peaceful protesters from defending themselves, sometimes arresting the protesters and sending off the violent perps with a warning.) "Anti-fascists were stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally. Then police tried to charge them "Revealed: California has not prosecuted anyone for the stabbings, but sought hundreds of charges against counter-protesters" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/05/antifa-charges-california-activists-stabbing

This so reminds me of the Nazi Brow Shirts. But it's not suprising considering out POTUS seems to encourage violence, and division. Hopefully 2019 will bring us some much needed relief from this debacle of this supposed Presidency...