A big group of round 100 individuals or so, reportedly of the white supremacist group The Patriot Front, marched via the guts of downtown early Saturday afternoon.
A name got here in at round 12:30 p.m. or thereabouts, which introduced {that a} group had gone as much as a rental truck parked within the space of the Haymarket MBTA station and off-loaded quite a lot of shields and flags, lots of which had been U.S. flags, with at the least one flown upside-down and plenty of displaying simply the 13 stars in a circle for the unique U.S. colonies, in addition to flags that includes totally different designs.
“If you truly wish for safety, you will have it. But you can take nothing else with you,” a member of the group mentioned via a bullhorn sooner or later throughout the demonstration amongst shouts from onlookers. “Not your home, not your family, not your liberty. There you will be alone with your safety in a rotted world.”
The group decamped at round 1:30 p.m. at Back Bay Station, based on a Herald photographer on the bottom, the place they then packed their supplies again right into a rental truck and left on the T.
Photos from the scene present that many, if not most, of the group are wearing matching khaki pants and navy or dark-colored polo shirts and wore bandanas or a like masking over their decrease faces and are carrying sun shades and ball caps.
As of 1:14 p.m., that they had marched down Commonwealth Avenue and turned towards Dartmouth Street towards Boylston earlier than stopping within the space of the Boston Public Library, based on a Herald photographer on the bottom.
It was on the library the place flyers had been discovered saying the group — or at the least a part of the group — as belonging to The Patriot Front, a gaggle described as a white nationalist or white supremacist group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Since 2019, Patriot Front has been responsible for the vast majority of white supremacist propaganda distributed in the United States,” the ADL wrote in its profile of the group. “One of the United States’ most visible white supremacist groups, Patriot Front participates in localized ‘flash demonstrations’ across the nation.”
The flyer depicts an octopus with one eye a Democratic Party donkey and the opposite a Republican Party elephant swallowing or engulfing a top level view of the continental United States below the headline “Two Parties, One Tyranny.”
“The party system murdered the American Republic and replaced it with a fake democracy ruled by lobbyists, bankers, and unelected bureaucrats,” the flyer says partly. “The true rulers of the State never receive any votes. Elections are now only mass illusions of popular sovereignty.”
It is unclear what particularly the group is trying to protest in Boston.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”