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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by JustZ@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
 

Comment on Headline: I don't know if swarm is the right word, I think that implies they entered the home? I guess a group of insects is a swarm whether it's inside or out. They had their Nazi party in the street, and the governor's home is protected at all times by state police.

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Dozens of Neo-Nazis demonstrated outside the home of Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Saturday night, in an intimidating display of hate. Members of the group NSC-131 — which seeks to create a white-only ethnostate in New England — marched Saturday night through the Boston suburb of Arlington, uniformed in khakis, black jackets, face masks, and baseball caps.

The NSC-131 members moved under cover of darkness, co-opting the progressive activist chant, “Whose streets? Our streets!” The neo-Nazis then lined up on the sidewalk across the street from the Healey’s home, which was protected by state troopers. The group’s members lit red traffic flares, and held these aloft with stiff arm Hitler salutes. They unfurled a banner reading: “WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.”

The action by NSC-131 was an in-the-streets response to civil rights charges brought against the group by the state late last year. A 26-page complaint was lodged by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell (D) in December. Campbell denounced the group’s efforts to “target and terrorize people across Massachusetts and interfere with their rights,” and insisted the state of Massachusetts is dedicated to “holding this neo-Nazi group and its leaders accountable.”

That legal complaint hits NSC-131 for actions that “unlawfully target and disrupt LGBTQ+ events,” including drag queen story hours; “unlawfully target immigrants based on race and national origin,” including by trespassing at hotels where asylum seekers have been offered temporary housing; “unlawfully attack members of the public,” with frequent brawling at NSC-131 marches; and for numerous efforts to “disrupt public peace and safety.”

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Maura Healy was an aggressive lawyer for a long time before she was governor. I'm sure the AG is no exception.

Interesting that they think they are the ones not going anywhere in the state where America drew its first breath of liberty. Fuck Nazis.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 149 points 9 months ago (4 children)

They didn't "Swarm" anything, they threatened the lady governor en masse under the cover of darkness like the pussies they usually are, maintaining that thin veneer of legality so that the governor can't go after them.

Now the Nazi punks are acting like they're the KKK to a sitting governor, time to start curb stomping some Nazis kids, before they come to curbstomp the rest of us.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nazis should be on everyone's fuck-up-on-sight list.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A bunch of them showed up at her home. Swarm is a perfectly apt word to use.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 93 points 9 months ago (25 children)

We are being entirely too polite to these assholes. Our grandfathers would be ashamed of us.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 51 points 9 months ago (4 children)

My grandfather voted for brexit because he hates immigrants so idk

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

Family can be a real crapshoot.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Lol. The UK sent millions of poor immigrants to the US for like 300 years. Getting a few back shouldn't be that big of a deal.

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[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

With 40% of the population supporting these rancid fascist fucknuggets there's no meaningful way to deplatform them and they know it. They need fear beaten back into them.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The phrasing "New England governor" is a little strange. Like, we know where Massachusetts is, how about some specificity.

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 15 points 9 months ago

Ya reads a bit goofy. Like referring to the Whitehouse as home of Earth President.

[–] Jordan117@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I reckon it's a combination of clickbait and an old-school J-school aversion to putting long words in headlines (though you'd typically see "Mass. Governor" in that case).

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I like how they went with "New England Governor" so you'd have to click on the article to find out exactly WHICH governor from New England. Like the world's most mundane clickbait lol

Also, swarm does not imply they entered her home. Swarm means "to surround".

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

New England is one state, right?

Yeah, agreed. These clickbaity titles aren’t just sensationalist anymore, they’re flat wrong.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

The neo-Nazi group has, nonetheless, attempted to make inroads with the MAGA crowd by coopting the issues animating the GOP base, declaring that “it is Nazism … to oppose Drag Queen Story Hour and Critical Race Theory.” 

I mean... feels weird to agree on something.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Remember kids: the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi

It is perfectly legal to punch a Nazi for being a Nazi.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, it’s not legal to punch a Nazi just for being a Nazi. However, it is always moral to punch a Nazi for being a Nazi. Just know that if you choose to do the moral thing, the nazis with badges will likely arrest you for it.

What I’m saying is that if you’re going to be arrested anyways, you might as well make it worth it and get in more than just one punch.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If we're discussing optimal punches to punishment ratio then you have to stop once they're on the ground and definitely don't kick them, because that would upgrade the charges to Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

If you really want to get away with punching Nazis then these Nazis are known to brawl at marches and events, so just instigate a bit without making physical contact and they'll be the first to initiate touch, then you can turn them black and blue and red for you. Because self defence warrants a hell of a lot.

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[–] m13@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We need to make it legal for citizens to shoot Nazis on site.

Or are we just going to let the police give them escorts everywhere they go and wait until they put the rest of us in death camps?

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 9 months ago

Ok, prove who is and isn't a nazi.

Saying anyone who holds a different opinion than you is a nazi opens up to people calling you a nazi and shooting you.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

Oh no, President Trump has decreed that the LGBT cult are child abusing Nazis, and thus that anyone putting out LGBT propaganda in the presence of children can be shot on sight.

Due process is good, actually. Or at the least, certainly better than the alternative.

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[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The group’s members lit red traffic flares, and held these aloft with stiff arm Hitler salutes.

I always wonder why doing the Nazi-Salute is legal in the USA. I mean, so many Soldiers gave their Lives to put an End to fascism and this paired with the pride Americans have for their Soldiers is just baffling.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

To extend that answer a bit, the Constitution have a strong element of distrust in the government as an institution, which in historical context makes sense given that it arose from a revolt against a literal monarchy.

It's basically a fear of allowing the government to define what kind of speech is so objectionable that it can be suppressed with state force. Because if the government does have that power, what's stopping a future Trump administration from defining, expressing support for trans children, as supremely offensive to the natural order and thus criminal?

Sure, you can hope that you have strong courts that would block that, but ultimately, the institutional American view is that it's generally safer for the government to not have the power at all rather than simply trust that it won't be abused.

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

The American constitution forbids the Government from banning it. It has in it one of the strongest protections for free speech and among the most liberal definitions of "speech" in the world.

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

NSC-131 leaders posted video of the encounter outside the governor’s home on Telegram, a social network favored by many extremists, along with a message declaring that the point of the protest was “to show the world that lawfare will not intimidate New England Nationalists,” as well as to whine about what the hate group terms a “migrant invasion.”

Lawfare ?

Are they comparing laws to warfare ?

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

The rule of law is absolute. They know this. Their dream is to attack laws that uphold rights by posing the laws as a form of weapon used against them, whereas what they really want to do is change the laws to take away rights.

So to them, giving rights to brown, black, Jewish, Muslim and LGBTQ+ people is tantamount to warfare against them - because only white, heteronormative Christians should have rights in their eyes.

Ethno-nationalism 101. Attack the laws, to take away the rights, to allow atrocities under the law - also known as FUCKING NAZIS.

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because Covid, of course. Not that all Fascist are too afraid to do stunts like this without proper disguise. No sir. Just Covid. /s

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We should be curb-stomping these nazi shitcunts. They need to be made to cower in fear.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 9 months ago

Why in the fuck would they put New England Governor instead of - ah fuck to get you to click huh

This system sucks

[–] BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Deploy the National Guard, its treason no?

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

At this point it seems like mostly theatrics, but Massachusetts does not fuck around with civil rights. I guess they thought they were in Alabama or something.

[–] in4aPenny@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

"What are we gonna do, do what the commies did and kill Nazis? Commies are the enemy of the state, capitalism, and everything American. The enemy of our enemy is our friend!"

  • Americans and the leaders they vote for
[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that's too bad. It'd have been fucking hilarious if they'd actually unlawfully entered her house and she'd exercised her 2A right to mow them down with an assault rifle with a high-cap magazine. I mean, if anyone is justified to exercise those rights, it'd be the target of a neo-Nazi mob, but the funny would be in the irony.

And, before you pile on me about how traumatic it'd be for her, or whatever else, I'm joking. It would not really be funny. Although, I am generally a proponant of doing unto others as they would do unto you. Never hit a pacifist; never refrain from hitting a Nazi.

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