PHOENIX — Heavily-armed white supremacists of the US Border Guard, who stalk migrants on the Arizona border with AK-47s, showed up at the Occupy Phoenix movement on Saturday, according to the Phoenix Class War Council.
The Phoenix Class War Council said, “Today at the first mass general assembly of the Occupy Phoenix Movement, neo-Nazi members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) showed up, armed and in their ‘Arizona Border Guard’ militia fatigues, to counter protest. Sporting assault rifles, they posed flanked by dozens of cops. Recognizing key NSM organizers in their midst, several people confronted them and set about informing the generally ignorant crowd that before them stood actual fascists, armed to the teeth.”
Several of the heavily-armed “Border Guards,” were at the camp late Saturday night at Hance Park, and were no comfort to Native Americans and others in the movement.
The online Downtown Devil reported at 10 pm, “At least three members of the Arizona Border Guard are still present with sidearms and one has donned a gas mask and a ballistic helmet.”
The US Border Guard made a statement about being there. ”The U.S. Border Guard deployed an urban combat trained security squad to the Occupy Phoenix rally today as armed peace keepers and legal observers. Border Rangers who patrol the border took a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens by exercising our right to keep and bear arms. Phoenix Police units were on scene also keeping the peace. Our founding fathers and founding mothers knew full well that the 2nd Amendment is what protects all our other amendments from tyranny. The U.S.B.G. protected the rights of all parties involved.”
The Phoenix Class War Council said the reaction to the armed white supremacists, was predictable at the gathering.
The Phoenix Class War Council said, “This attitude towards the NSM scum played out, quite predictably, along racial lines, with whites being the only ones to express attitudes of tolerance towards them. This points to the continuing importance of addressing racism and the continual appeal and relevance of racial privileges within the movement. Indeed, we can expand this argument to the whole attitude of the bulk of the white movement towards the police. Experiencing policing in quite different ways than people of color in general, white middle class liberals mistake their own experience for that of others, and routinely attack anyone who questions the alleged 99 percent status of the police, or points out their quite obvious tendencies towards violent action, as violent themselves. To question the violence of the police is to be violent, according to this backwards analysis.
“The presence of an armed fascist street-level opposition to our movement, in the form of the National Socialist Movement and it’s ‘Arizona Border Guard’ front group, is one major reason to reject dogmatic pacifism and poorly thought-out nonviolence. Instead, what we heard from protesters speaking during the general assembly were declarations of the most naive nonviolence imaginable. Arizona is a right wing state and the forces of reaction are huge and easily overwhelming if they want to be,” the Phoenix Class War Council said.
“Occupy Phoenix organizers should not kid themselves about their numbers or power. This movement clearly has capability to attract large numbers, as evidenced by the several thousand that showed up today for the general assembly and will march later to set up camp at Margaret T. Hance park.
Immediately upon our arrival at the Occupy Phoenix protest we were approached and confronted by hateful people that called us “White Supremacists”. Without a doubt, they were the ones openly promoting hatred, not us. Despite only one National Socialist Movement member (myself) being present at Occupy Phoenix, the antifascists managed to inflate that number to 8-9 persons. This made me think of our motto, “Where the NSM goes, the NSM grows.”
J.T. Ready and the US Border Guard are not a racial group, nor part of one. Politics and religion are always checked at the door. In fact, the USBG welcomes people from ALL backgrounds and are engaged in search and rescue/anti-drug smuggling activities in the Arizona desert. How is that hate or racist?
Oddly, the A.N.P. (American Nazi Party) has issued a statement supporting these “occupy” protests around the country. I thought that might have been a bit hasty on their part. Based on my personal experience at this event, giving them public support is something I wouldn’t do at this time. However, I do see these liberals as the ones that are blindly supporting flawed government policies.
When these liberal policies fail, (and they will) people go out in mass and protest them. The politicians that support and institute these policies knew from the beginning they were doomed to fail, yet still went forward with them. This appears to all be part of a larger sinister plan to bring down our country and deprive us of our freedoms, along with the fruits of our labor. The globalists and elites want a bigger piece of the pie.
