Bernie Sanders supporter protesting right-wing rally beaten up by Antifa
Fox News reports a registered Democrat and Bernie Sanders fan, while protesting a right-wing rally, was attacked and beaten by militant members of his own movement- because he possessed a “fascist symbol” — an American flag.
The counter-portester, Paul Welch, told The Oregonian/Oregon Live he brought the flag with him when he went to Portland Aug. 4 to oppose a right-wing rally held at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
While the American flag is more commonly associated with the conservative movement, Welch, from Oregon and who voted for Sanders during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, said he wanted to “take it back.”
“The right, and certainly a lot of smaller groups like Patriot Prayer, might rush to things like the flag and try to take it up as, ‘This is our symbol exclusively,’” Welch told The Oregonian/Oregon Live. “Part of my thinking was to take it back.”
Other than some odd looks, Welch said he didn’t encounter any problems when he joined the hundreds of counter-protesters who gathered at City Hall that day. The trouble started when the group began marching toward the park.
He said two people dressed in black and covering their faces approached him and demanded he give them the “fascist symbol” he was carrying. When he refused, the Antifa duo tried to rip the flag from his hands.
Another masked counter-protester then approached Welch and began striking him from behind with an unidentified weapon concealed in black fabric.
Welch, 38, was struck on the back of the head and collapsed to the ground.
“My bones turned to Jell-O and I just went down,” Welch recalled. “I remember thinking there was a very good chance that I could be beaten to death.”
Video of the incident, which has been viewed thousands of times, shows the person with the weapon walking away. But another counter-protester, holding a shield, moves in, stands above Welch and then jabs him with a makeshift weapon.
A group of volunteer street medics rushed to Welch’s aid and took him to an urgent care clinic in the city. Doctors needed four staples to close a 3-inch gash on the back of Welch’s head and he spent at least two days recovering from a concussion.
This is getting out of control. I have no issue with the Welchs of the world peacefully gathering and protesting whatever is bothering them. Eventually those who don a mask and black clothing are going to assault the wrong person.
Category: ANTIFA
I wish to see President Trump come out in support of Oxygen, against cannibalism and then we could watch liberal moonbats stop breathing and eat each other!!!
He, he!
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I can’t wait until one of the anitfucks gets shot in the face and dies.
Mom: “He inn’t do nuffin. Hzz a good boy..”
Countdown in 5..4…3….2…1….
Anyone taking bets.
I’ll put down a sawbuck ($10) that it’s before the end of the midterm elections.
Fingers crossed.
I’m thinking the opposite will happen, ChipNASA. Come the midterm elections or the weeks before, if the antifreaks are out and about, I would bet a thick steak that one of them will be carrying a gun and use it on someone at, or going to, the polls, or just stopped on the street and asked ‘which way do you vote?’
When/if that happens, that will be the end of it for them.
They’re getting nastier and nastier because no one stopping them yet. I think they want an all=out riot in the streets of some city like Seattle or Chicago, or even New York City.
Nothing would surprise me less.
It sure looks to me like they want to stay OUT of States with Concealed Carry Laws when they go pulling their shit!
You think this low i.q. moron is getting the message that he is supporting mentally challenged MORONS? oops, guess he fits right in!
I hope you’re wrong. I’m afraid you aren’t.
There should be a shoot on sight policy already.
WTF was this A Hole dem doing with an American flag which they hate and love to burn. Hmmm, Maybe he was going to burn it but didn;t get the chance.
they’re the ones who claim that burning the American Flag is their “right” but burn a rainbow or Antifa flag in front of them and see how quickly they scream :Hate crime!”, it happened a few years ago in Ohio when a man burned a rainbow flag.
At least we know that the antifas are really about anarchy.
Hitting someone from behind, with something concealed in black fabric – that’s what the bicycle lock guy did in a Berserkley protest last year. Real bravery there, isn’t it? And then someone, some creature with no guts at all, stands over this Bernie supporter and stabs him.
Yes, they really are the cream of the crop of their generation, aren’t they?
Perhaps this incident will change this fellow’s mind about which side of the political fence to sit on.
I’m going to get me a T-shirt with the word ‘MUGWUMP’ printed on it.
“Anarchist” means opposed to all authority/government.
These mooks oppose any government except Communism, which they believe will require Socialism first, then True Communism, under which all government will fade away.
How absolutely moonbat stupid does one have to be to believe -that- horse-hocky?
I read elsewhere that they are “antifa” in the sense of “antipasta”: that which comes before.
Before Facisim.
SA, AF, brownshirts, blackheads.
Different shirt, same mayhem.
Folks, make no mistake. They mean to -rule-, by -terror. They are -not- opposed to firearms, just not -yet- willing to stick their necks out that far.
Yet.
Love how gutsy the antifa assclowns are, attack from behind, wear masks, attack a person while they’re down. Very, Very ballsy let me tell you. Cops need to introduce anybody wearing a mask at a protest to a wood/polycarbonate shampoo followed up by a capcasin eyewash and arrest. Let the cupcakes cool their heels for a while with Bubba, Julio, Thor, and Mr. Tiny in the lock up; bet one or two of those experiences and antifa will suddenly have a problem attracting cupcakes to march, no matter how much Soros is ponying up for them.
I think that’s coming. We may have left the 1960s behind, but that doesn’t mean they’ve been forgotten.
Some cities already have enacted laws/ordinances against the wearing of masks. Greensboro NC comes to mind.
When enforced, it is very effective. Greensboro enforces it.
Greensboro resident here. Our city’s “leadership” isn’t always on the ball, but they got this right.
As an aside, David “Camera” Hogg’s circle jerk tour came by a couple weeks ago, but I’m guessing that hardly anyone showed up because the local news stations didn’t gush over it for a week afterwards.
Was there some years ago to face off with the Shehag. The way your local LE’s handled the rabble was very impressive. The history of the anti-mask sentiments was also impressive as was the determination with which it was enforced in spite of out-of-towners objections.
So let me get this straight, according to the “tolerant left”, white mask=KKK=bad, black mask=antifa=good…. that about sum it up?
Well, i’d like to feel sorry for Mr. Welch, but here’s the thing, he and his side have been supporting, cheering on, and encouraging these pussy antifa types, so when some of the criminal behavior they’ve been encouraging happens to splash back on them, I just can’t seem work up a tear for them… I guess I’m just flat our of fucks to give on this score…
Whats’s that old saying??? “Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas?”…..
Nothing like getting your ass kicked by your “friends” to make you rethink who your friends really are.
Frankly, I’m hoping this changes his mind about his political choices… permanently.
Maybe this will red pill him….but it /is/ Portland, the level of cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I did not see the video but I saw the still shot. I was wondering how many of the brave souls, including those recording the assault, came to his aid. I don’t mean afterwards. I mean during. How many?
Right about the same number of them that are capable of rational and intelligent thought…
Funny how these sniveling snot-spined little shits only want to screech and riot in far-left locales, could it be that they and their organizers realize that they’d likely get shot and beaten to shit the moment they tried their shit in Red State America? People there are too busy working to make an honest living to put up with their antics and would likely enjoy taking them behind the proverbial woodpile for some good old wall to wall counseling!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ARHKb76rcGg
Knockout!
Hahaha! that’s awesome!
That’s a hoot. Antifag should be featured in a film on how not to approach an opponent or attempt to strike him. His lights were out before he crashed. Love the legs. I wonder does he realize how dead he would have been if the guy who took his bar away had decided to use it against him?
Almost as fun to watch as those Antifa fascists getting some behaviour modification by a cop with a paintball gun on full auto with pepper balls, Liveleak & crazyshit (N.S.F.W) are the go to sites for Antifa fascists getting issued some well deserved equal rights, that stuff never gets old and always makes me smile.
Why you so angry?
Why you so angry?
Don’t give in to the Nazis!
Why you so angry?
I love the sight and sound of hippie fascists getting what they deserve…
if you walk down to the corner of wall st and broad street, across from the spot where george washington was sworn in as the first president of the united states you can look on the wall of the original JP Morgan bank building. you can still see most of the pock marks there on the wall on the wall st side of the building from the bomb blast. Thirty people were killed instantly, more than 300 were injured, and eight later died from their injuries.
around noon on september 16th, 1920 the predecessors of Antifa detonated a dynamite filled horse cart right about lunch time. they had filled the cart with TNT and cast iron counterweights. while nobody ever claimed responsibility, evidence pointed to “Reds”—anarchists and communist sympathizers,who wanted to shatter the symbols of American capitalism.
The Secret Service and the FBI interrogated thousands of people and arrested many radicals, but no one was charged with the crime, and the investigation was dropped in 1940.
The Secret Service and the FBI interrogated thousands of people and arrested many radicals, but no one was charged with the crime, and the investigation was dropped in 1940.
Look to see something like this on the west coast, it wont ever happen again in NY. it is easier to get on to a US Military base these days then it is to take a vehicle past the stock exchange. if you are ever visiting wall street, look for the chunks of stone that are missing on the wall, i use to walk past them every night when i was a guard for JPM, and i never failed to call in a car in front of the building.
Well, just for gits and shiggles, this year is the 50th anniversary of the trial of the Chicago Seven, another set of brilliant fellows who wanted to generate anarchy and bring down the USA.
You know, no one is forcing them to stay here.
They can go live in China. It’s still a commie country.
Or they can live in Vietnam, which is also a commie country.
Or even better, Venezuela, which is an imploding dictatorship that requires a valid voter ID card for you to qualify to buy food.
They can leave any time. Make us happy, too.
They can also go enjoy life in Cuba or North Korea as well!
And Mayor Daley, who ordered the cops to kick ass, was a died in the wool Democrat.
When I was new working for Brink’s Armoured in 1970, one of the old timers pointed the building out to me and told me the story while we were working in the Financial district. Right after 9/11, everything changed down there with security up the wazoo, and I would like to have all the EPA Peeps who claimed that their was no hazardous products being emited from the trade center site sent to jail and executed. Working there a couple of days after the tragedy and smelling some of that stuff, I told my fellow workers that these EPA peeps were full of shit.
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
Nope. Antifa will eventually be seen for what they are, Anarchist thugs looking for an excuse to be thugs. What Antifa does is not political protest, it’s violence as a precursor to dictatorship. The left will self immolate, and Antifa will light the match.
IMHO Antifa is little more than a modern version of Hitler’s SA, “Sturmabteilung”, the “Brown Shirts” who threatened and carried out acts of violence toward anyone dissenting with the Nazi agenda and/or dogma. I wonder how much money Soros is bankrolling Antifa with? After all, he WAS a Nazi sympathizer during WWII! Progressive Insurance, it’s owned by Soros.
A P I; Beside being a Jewish Nazi sympathizer, He at the age of 12 ratted out all the peeps that he knew that were Jewish to the Nazis. I also heard about “Progressive” Insurance. I wonder if Flo who does the commercials knows anything about him.
I doubt she cares as long as she’s getting paid, I’ve known a few people like that.
“Eventually those who don a mask and black clothing are going to assault the wrong person.”
They may have already done so. This is at least the second time someone in that bunch of bullies has done something like this. There was the bicycle lock guy, remember?
The junior professor from California- yes, I remember. He got probation for his crime.
probation for assault link
I don’t think that’s what AW1Ed meant, Ex-PH2.
One day, one of the ANTIFA types is going to assault someone who’s carrying concealed (legally or not). And then the individual will defend him/herself using their firearm, resulting in some number of serious injuries and/or deaths.
I hope and pray that never happens. But I fear it will in the not-too-far distant future.
Yup.
It’s only a matter of time.
However, I also hope that it never happens.
Because once it starts, stand by for rapidly escalating civil unrest that could quickly spiral out of control and become very dangerous indeed for everyone in our society.
Someone getting shot already happened at a riot in Seattle for either a Ben Shapiro or a Milo Yinnapolis (I think is was Milo) speech.
Does Paul Welch plan on voting D this fall? I think that’s the real test here. If he wasn’t converted, then he’s a lost cause.
Not to get all pointy-headed about it, but it strikes me that Antifa attracts the kind of sociopath who isn’t pushing a political agenda so much as looking for an excuse to fuck with the rest of us and get away with it.
It’s the same kind of creepiness that makes some dipshit tag a public building with a paint can, or that Tylenol killer asshole who made it so we all now have to put up with those stupid child-proof caps to take a couple of aspirin.
The fact the political left tolerates Antifa also says a lot about the political left. Most of Antifa should probably have been set adrift on an ice floe at birth.
I truly wonder if even one of them has ever legitimately accomplished or earned anything in their lives? I see them as a product of the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality!
That’s exactly who Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez, and Pocahontas resonate with. You’re not responsible for any of your problems, government is the solution, FREE EVERYTHING!
The left feeds off three groups; the young that want to get everything for free without working for it, government leeches who have been indoctrinated that the government will provide no matter how inept or incompetent they are as humans, and the old who have seen everyone game the system and now want their part. The two former are uneducated and ignorant, the latter just plain smart. I used to joke that my retirement plan was to turn 60 and start voting Democrat.
The Left routinely uses sociopathic thugs as their shock troops
These ads thugs the first folks “reeducated” in the camps after the Revolution.
These AntiF*ckers are true believer, middle children, whose parents have lost hope or so drugged up, they’ve given up correcting their misdeed-spawn.
And they ain’t poor, look at their shoes(Columbia, Merrills, etc), the tactical gloves they wear (Oakley, mechanix). This ain’t about money, it ain’t about rights or equality, THESE a-holes just want to watch the world burn. They are LARPing but for realz.
But, they should be feared, they are unhinged.
And to all of you that think this is new, ha! The commie/anarcho morons have been doing this every 20ish years, ebb and flow.
Since the Civil War era, Socialism has been alive and well in America.
1873: International Workingmen’s Association moves their headquarters to New York.
1886: Anarcho/Commies throw dynamite at the police at the Haymarket Massacre.
AND, ever heard of Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer? In 1845 he became a follower of Marx. Went on to serve as a Lieutenant Colonel…IN THE UNION ARMY.
They’ve been here folks.
Preach Roh-Dog. Been here a very long time. Marx was also a very good pen pal with old Abe, helping gather up more cannon fodder from the slums of Europe to send to the States after the drafts riots in NYC. Many a documented case of Europeans coming straight off the boat and marched to the Army of the Potomac. Such a hodge podge that many Union Officers had to speak multiple languages, just to pass on their orders. I, too, would be interested in how this gentleman will vote in the future. This is another reason why I’m usually packing.
We absolutely agree on the true believer status of these nuts, Roh-Dog. And how dangerous they are. They should ever be underestimated. They are well trained, have well thought out exit strategies, and know where to hit for maximum effect.
First rule for any who contemplate engaging with them is to have your guy with the camera begin filming BEFORE you hit them. You ABSOLUTELY must have the other guy’s initiating punch on camera before defending yourself. Without your own documentation, they will use their recording of you returning the punch and swear that you initiated contact. And without rebuttal evidence, they walk and you go to jail.
Been watching them do exactly that for 50 years or so.
Interesting that you should mention the May 4th Haymarket Riot in Chicago.
The weekend “Nation & World” Section of the Trib always has a ‘this day in history’ section.
And on August 19, 1886, eight men were found guilty of murder in connection with the May 4 Haymarket Riot in Chicago. The next day, seven were sentenced to death, and the eighth to 15 years in prison. Of the eight, four were hanged, one committed suicide, and three were pardoned in 1893.
Seems like when you have a true free society, everyone in the world who hates real freedom will do anything they can to put a stop to it.
Ted Wheeler (Mayor of Portland) has turned a blind eye to Anfifa and their associates and allowed them to “do their thing” in the Peoples Republic of Portland:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwibg_qvt__cAhVprVQKHU1zDb0QFjAAegQICRAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wweek.com%2Fnews%2Fcourts%2F2018%2F07%2F30%2Fice-agents-say-portland-mayor-violated-the-u-s-constitution-by-barring-police-from-responding-to-the-feds-calls-for-help%2F&usg=AOvVaw1hO7Pi8SVviLyTgZxpbnvm
BTW – Ted Wheeler is also the Police Bureau Commissioner
Yes. From the ‘Willamette Week’:
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/07/30/ice-agents-say-portland-mayor-violated-the-u-s-constitution-by-barring-police-from-responding-to-the-feds-calls-for-help/
Violation of the 14th Amendment: equal protection under the law.
So how much are these precious migrants costing Portland taxpayers? And how long will it be before Portlanders decide they don’t want to live there any more and take their spending income and tax money with them?
Portland used to be a nice place, or something.
The CEO of Columbia Sportswear was regretting his decision to relocate to downtown PDX because of the homeless problem… including a “laptop donation program”.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2017/11/columbia_sportswear_considers.html
I avoid doing business in the downtown area because of the “third-world shithole” conditions that the “enlightened” have allowed in Portland for the last 40+ years