I came across this press release at the site that is hosting the Max Riekse interview.
July 19, 2011
Contact: William D. Johnson, Chairman
American Third Position Political Party
Tel: (561) 351-4424
Email: [email protected]
Web site: American3P.org
American Third Position Demands More Action Against “Flash Mobs”
Vicious Mob Assaults Targeting White Americans Must Cease
Social media technology is being used to plan and organize “flash mobs” and “flash robs” by groups of young teenagers.
In Chicago, four violent assaults and robberies occurred in Chicago’s upscale area of Streeterville. One white man was dragged into the street and beaten by a group of 15 to 20 teenage males after a baseball was thrown so hard at his head that his motor-scooter helmet was knocked off. Another man was robbed of his cell phone and camera after being knocked off his bike and punched by a group of teenage males. Three teenagers were recently arrested due to their alleged involvement with these strings of flash mob robberies, four of which occurred within a 10-minute span.
On July 4, a large mob of minority youths in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago targeted a man who was subsequently hospitalized with multiple stab wounds.
In Akron, Ohio, construction worker Marty Marshall and his family were attacked by 30 to 50 minority teens, who shouted ”This is our world” and ”This is a black world” as they confronted Marshall and his family of six. The assault, in which Marshall suffered extensive head injuries from repeated kicks and punches to his skull, has not yet been ruled a hate crime by Akron police. In a letter to the FBI, Mayor Don Plusquellic asked the federal agency’s local office to help determine whether any civil-rights violations or hate crimes occurred during the attack last month on Marty Marshall and his family.
And on June 9, Jesse Andersen, the 35-year-old brother of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, was punched in the face as his iPad and money were stolen by multiple perpetrators.
One week earlier, in Washington, D.C. workers at a retail store in Dupont Circle were caught off guard as a group of about 20 African American teenagers swarmed the store, stopping to look through sizes, taking over $20,000 worth of merchandise and promptly exiting the building.
In Las Vegas in May, 20 teens were caught on camera as they robbed a convenience store and stole about $600 worth of merchandise and the clerk’s cellphone.
We demand that the FBI and the Justice Department take more action against these “flash mob” and “flash rob” criminal attacks committed against white Americans and businesses.
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For more information about this issue, or to schedule an interview with a representative of the American Third Position, please contact (561) 351-4424.
American Third Position • PO Box 5400 • Grand Forks, ND 58206
@5 Thank you for keeping us up to date on these interesting events.
Unlike many readers, I am old enough to remember the 1965-1967 civil disorders, which also started small.
Sooner or later, someone will have a cell phone with video attachment on hand, and we will start seeing sufficient coverage that lets us tell if the racial component is justified as a description, or if it was a particular case. Also, the video coverage will overcome the Chicago Tribune.
Mind you, I will not be surprised that this has already happened several times.
On a different note, I am also old enough to remember where the Tribute coverage came from, namely the local papers iirc in Detroit were reporting the race of the alleged criminals, but only if one race was involved. They were reporting — well, they used different words back then — but not reporting race when the sought-for criminals were white or east Asian.
That’s way harder to defend.
Strange? Here is a member of the press confirming that the press is deliberately not mentioning the race of the immaginary flash mob phenomenon participants.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/chi-race-and-the-flash-mob-attacks-20110608,0,1883170.story
Yeah, those flash mobs are just in the imagination of racists.
http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/184488/57/Police-Investigate-Downtown-Greensboro-Flash-Mob-Beatings
I don’t know to what extent technology is playing a role in this phenomenon, but that it is a phenomenon that is being much discussed by many (although little by the MSM) is clear. Google “violent flash mobs” and see. If you chose to believe that all these people are just a bunch of racist, then you go right along believing that.
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS408&source=hp&q=violent+flash+mobs&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS408&aq=1&aqi=g2g-s1g2&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=fa26eb184f58bc00&biw=1280&bih=825
Just because something is not the way you would like it to be does not make it not so.
Crimes in the street occur everyday/night. The article fails to present any evidence that “flash mobbing” was the tool to create these crimes.
It’s very much the same sort of racism that is used against “Hispanics under the rubric of illegal aliens. And I would be interested if there were inter ethnic groups of teens that have robbed Cacasians?
This seems very selective reporting to build a racist argument.
And what abt groups of kids robbing people of the same thnicity. Not to mention groups of white kids robbing other white people?
Racialism, racism; potatoes, potatoes.
Because of the lack of a Left in the US, I imagine these sorts of racist, crypto-fascist groups will prosper as the economy continues to stall, or decline.
The A3P’s call to federalize the issue is wrongheaded and counterproductive. A federal government that “cracks down” on black flash mobs based on federal civil rights law is going to crack down many times harder at the first sniff of skinhead violence or whatever and the A3P should know that.
I do, however, think that the eerie silence of the press on this issue is noteworthy. Take this explicitly racial attack reported here.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/07/18/2011-07-18_subway_gang_attack_victim_says_he_was_pummeled_because_hes_white__cops_not_sure_.html
Turn the race of the victim and perpetrators around and this would have been a huge national story.
Without supporting the folks who counted up the examples, and recalling that unemployed or elsewise abused (“rousting”) people of any race may eventually choose to riot, it is still the case that technology is bringing changes, should we someday recycle the riots of the 1960s. Indeed, we are perhaps already starting to do so. If we do, law enforcement may be even less effective in the future than it was back then in protecting the lives and property of innocent bystanders.
For the most part the term “flash mob” is associated with the organization of non-violent/non-criminal actions. This is really the first time I’ve seen it used in relation to crimes, which I guess I would file under “mob violence.”
Interesting and meaningful discussion. Glad people are thinking and caring.
Yes, the article is so racist. It is hysterical to write something up as being a particular problem because it is an attack against “white Americans and businesses”. It almost seems to imply that that makes it worse than if it was against other kinds of Americans and businesses.
That said…
I am worried about the attack against “flash mobs”. I think it could be a deeper, strategic, attack by right wing forces (of both major parties, and the elite in general), to stop flash mobs. Flash mobs are an interesting new organizing tool, often used by artists and leftists to create energy and boost morale.
I have seen flash dance mobs, flash peace mobs, flash singing mobs, etc. All, with some tendency to support expression and empowerment of the grassroots.
It would be a shame to call something which is really quite different — small groups of people with criminal intent — by the same name. To indict “flash mobs” and “flash robs” together is a horrible game.
As stated above, robbery is already wrong. We don’t need to add new reasons for the government to arrest us.
I don’t think it is a secret to anyone who is familiar with them that the A3P is a racialist or race conscious party, kind of the US equivalent to the British National Party or the French National Front.
“I took the “your” in comment #1 as most likely referring to the author of the piece, not to you for posting it here.”
Oh. Oops.
Red,
I took the “your” in comment #1 as most likely referring to the author of the piece, not to you for posting it here.
“(Also: your racism is showing.)”
First of all, I shouldn’t dignify your little drive by slur with a response, but I will anyway. I generally post here about the Constitution Party and other right-wing parties. The A3P generally, I would suppose, falls into the category of “other right-wing parties.” Posting a press release from the A3P does not constitute an endorsement.
I was at the Voice of Reason Radio website listening to the Max Rieske interview posted below and was looking around the site to get a feel for it because I was not familiar with it. It does seem to have a racialist/nationalist flavor. I ran across the A3P press release there, and thought it of interest and worthy of passing along to a third party news website audience.
That said, I am vehemently opposed to PC Cultural Marxist thought policing, and do not appreciate your attempt at thought stopping with your sleazy little innuendo.
I have been following the flash mob issue to some degree because it has been discussed on a lot of conservative blogs and one of the writers at my blog has discussed it some. I do think that there has been relative media silence about the issue, and I think this is intentional. Compare the coverage of the flash mobs to the coverage of the Jenna Six and James Byrd death. If there were white flash mobs popping up and beating up black people the news coverage would be 24/7 and the condemnation from all quarters would be deafening, and you know it.
I was preparing to write, before I read your comment, that the flash mobs issue seems more like a local law enforcement issue than a federal one, and that the A3P is being foolish for wanting them to be federally investigated as hate crimes. I suspect the A3P is likely on record as opposed to the idea of a hate crime.
So you will have to find someone else to try to silence with your name calling. I will not be intimidated by it.
Theft and assault are already illegal. Planning it with 20 other people over social media should make it easy to prosecute.
What’s the problem?
(Also: your racism is showing.)