“We’re not interested in having any racist groups there, and if we find them, we’re going to remove them from the event,” Rehl said. Yet Zach Rehl, who runs the group, insisted in an interview with that this would not be a Proud Boys-style mob scene. And that’s the subtext of pretty much every adjective mentioned in the event invitation. The group denies being a militia, however striking the resemblance, and is rabidly pro-gun, aggressively xenophobic, and inherently nationalist in sentiment. Is it?Įagle-eyed readers will likely have alarm bells ringing in their heads right about now: The Anti-Defamation League identifies the Three Percenters as “an anti-government extremist movement” who draw their name from an obscure statistic about the percentage of colonist participation in Revolutionary War combat.
‘We the People’ sure sounds like a white nationalist rally. With newly released FBI data showing a spike in hate crimes for the third year running, a president who openly calls himself a nationalist, and a brutal right-wing muscle flex barely in the rearview, news of another large-scale Trump march in another major city feels ominous at best. We will let them know that their violent tactics will not keep us down or scare us away! The Silent Majority must make a stand now!!! This is our time!! This is our day.” We need to be louder, we need to be stronger. “Too many times our voices are drowned out by the voices on the left. It is far beyond time to make a stand and let our voices be heard,” the event description continues. “We the people have been silenced for too long. Specifically, the event, to be held in Philly’s Independence Visitor Center, welcomes “all Patriots, Militia, 3%, constitution loving Americans, pro good cop, pro ICE, pro law and order, pro life, pro American value, pro gun and anti illegal immigration,” according to the Facebook event page (and throughout).
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Organizers of Saturday’s “We the People” rally insist the event has nothing to do with McInnes’ Proud Boys-a neo-conservative group that promotes “western chauvinism” and nationalist rhetoric, even if it ostensibly disavows alt-right associations-but says it’s simply an opportunity for President Donald Trump’s supporters to exercise their right to free speech. One month after a visit from far-right extremist Gavin McInnes turned violent in New York City, another right-wing group has planned a controversial demonstration in Philadelphia.
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