I watched a 1 hour "Protest Warrior" video last night

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Downloaded from their website. It was the one where they "crash" the Republican convention protests last year (all 25 of them).

A few comments:

They are all angry young men, itching to fight them "turrists". Why not enlist where they can use machine guns and kill Muslims, and do it legally!

I found their tactics of intimidation similar to that of Red Guards in Mao's China and Hitler's Youth.

They pretend like they are interested in civil debate, but I found all of their "interviews" to be a sham, full of cursing, threats and loaded language. They made Bill O'Reilly look like a mild-mannered journalist. Michael Moore is confrontational in his interviews, these people bordered on violent in their interviews.

Yes, there was a scuffle where some of the Protest Warriors were attacked at one of the protests. But they seemed to be trying to provoke the protesters--most of whom would not describe themselves as pacifists--and the Protest Warrior crowd should know that if they are going to come into a city where over 75% of the people hate this Administration, then, well, these things will happen.

[Stirk]

1. Protest Warriors. Finally! A hate group for doughy white guys in khakis.

This is not your parents' hate group! Protest Warriors!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. These "Protest Warriors" do this deliberately to provoke other protestors

They try to get the other protestors to "throw the first punch" so they can get them arrested. Their whole board is dedicated to intimidation tactics that border on assault, but don't cross the line.

Also, they claim that "they've already served their time in the military" and that we should all just shut up because they say so.

I went to their site once. Once.