Big F’in Newsflash: Mainstream Media Only Told Some of the Toledo Riot Story
We haven’t had this many calls and emails to the Clamor office since Bush was declared the winner of the election. This time it was because national news across the country showed a violent uprising in North Toledo after a planned rally by a visiting Nazi group was cancelled. The rally was cancelled after counter protestors showed up in full force to voice their disdain for the outside agitators. What most of you saw on the news was the lowest common denominator soundbite nonsense of some thugs looting and burning a bar — the situation was and is much more complex than your trusted FOX news source is letting on, and we’d like to direct your attention now and in the future to a couple resources where the rest of the story is being parsed. Check out Clamor contributor Michael Brooks’s blog for some photos and commentary that shed a little more light on the situation. Keep checking back with us for more updates.
October 18th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
Democracy Now! interviewed local minister Mansour Bey (and one of the founders behind Erase The Hate) on today’s show. Check out the segment here
October 18th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Nothing about this story makes sense. Perhaps it can be attributed to the chaos of the situation, but I doubt it.
Prior to the event the someone posted a note on the Michigan IMC about it, and it got replies from a Kahanist black propagandist (Kahanists are basically Jewish Nazis that believe Jews won’t be safe unless the entire Arab world population is controlled or destroyed) posing as an anti-Zionist suggesting that we join arms with the neo-Nazi’s since we both oppose Israel’s policy.
Then, at the scene, the Nazis were chased off (good!) but then the black gangs started a riot and the anti-Nazis incited violence?
And then, FUX news and other news reported how “The Nazis made the anti-Nazis look stupid.”
Thus garnering headlines everywhere, about the Nazis right to protest and the anti-Nazis being a bunch of militant fascists.
How convenient for the Nazis. How also convenient for the Zionists, who depend on real anti-Semitism to label critics of Israel as “anti-Semites.”
The whole madness of the situation reeks of a “false flag operation.”
A South Park episode a few years ago had a story where local rednecks Jimbo and Ned found themselves on the side of the Nazis, concerning their support of the racist South Park flag (”for the sake of our history”). Jimbo realized that the town would never agree with anything the Nazis would, so he went undercover and told the Nazis they should OPPOSE their true goals and thus convince the town to vote in FAVOR of their agenda. The very definition of a false flag operation, on television.
Frankly, I don’t the Toledo episode was even worth writing about–fuck the Nazis and any media they attract–but I believe there was a prearranged spin on the story to confuse people and humiliate the anti-war movement.
And let me also say, no matter what some idiot hate group has to say about things, nothing excuses the Israeli oppression of Palestinian peoples, or the Israeli lobbying/bribery/blackmail in America for the invasion of Iraq, Iran, & Syria.
Regardless of who’s on whom’s side, all racist agendas are working for the same general cause (war) and most originate from the same location (the neo-globalist banks).
October 19th, 2005 at 9:48 am
I was’t there, I don’t know the who/why/how of that day, but just judging from the video and articles, and the relative calm and concern that has replaced the chaos, I’d have to say that people were excited, running wild in the streets, feeling free and letting it all out on a sunny autumn day. I don’t mean to minimize the pain that some people may have experienced, but let’s face it - a race riot this is not, a riot this is not, gang-violence it is not, maybe a protest at best.
these nazi morons didn’t win anything, everyone sees these dolts for who they are - losers.
let’s get passed the hype. it was about blowing off some steam that anyone living in the confusion of the 21st century feels.
there’s goodness to be had in discussing the tensions and how to releive them constructively.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:46 pm
two posts back: what does any of this have to do with Israel or Zionism? A lot of obsessive anti-Israel folks do this. it dulutes your argument and makes you sound a bit daft to draw those issues into evey fray.
November 15th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
Toledo Race Riots blog