{"id":8458,"date":"2019-07-15T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T18:14:22","slug":"antifa-navy-antifa-infiltrators-tennessee-white-power-conference-met-by-rather-creative-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/antifa-navy-antifa-infiltrators-tennessee-white-power-conference-met-by-rather-creative-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifa Navy, Antifa Infiltrators: Tennessee White Power Conference Met With A Rather Creative Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the day that Andy Ngo made himself the most famous milkshake recipient in Portland, antifa in Tennessee was getting damned creative pissing off the attendees of the latest conference being held at Montgomery Bell Park Inn. Wait until they see that we have pics and vids though!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

BURNS, TN \u2013 Even before any opposition made it to Montgomery\nBell State Park, Rick Tyler, one of the organizers of the Nationalist Solutions\nConference was concerned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTomorrow the leftist contingency will be making their\npresence known in some way, shape or form, he told the attendees that had\narrived. Law enforcement has gotten this system down pat to where they don\u2019t\nlet them get anywhere near us here. In 2017, I believe it was at the AmRen\nevent, they weren\u2019t doing that yet. They weren\u2019t keeping Antifa away from the\nbuilding. They were able to come into the lobby. They were able to press their\nugly faces up against the glass. They succeeded in getting into an altercation\nwith a guy and they rolled down the hill into the water. Created some bad\noptics. So the law enforcement figured out, \u2018OK. We\u2019ve got to keep these people\naway from the hotel.\u2019 And that of course has facilitated the charges against\nthe law enforcement personnel that they are protecting us, protecting the white\nsupremacists, etc. etc.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler went on to urge the assembled to not engage with that \u201cleftist contingency\u201d thereby making the job of the law enforcement to protect them that much harder. And Tyler also saw something else in their protectors. \u201cThe law enforcement guys out there, they\u2019re doing a good job,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, we\u2019ll never know exactly what\u2019s in their hearts and minds but I have a sneaking suspicion that probably a bunch of those guys secretly might approve of us!\u201d As Tyler spoke these words, there were giggles from the audience, the kind of giggles of a shared secret between the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere, antifa were giggling too. Because they had plans for that crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 29, just over a month since the white supremacist publication American Renaissance held its eighth conference at Montgomery Bell State Park, and on the same day as a rally in Portland that made conservative propagandist Andy Ngo infamous for being pelted with milkshakes and silly string there<\/a>, the American Freedom Party and Council of Conservative held its second one in as many years in the same venue, and as a number of speakers and organizations promoted neo-Nazi ideology and hinted at the possibility of a second civil war in the country, many were outside expressing their opposition to the conference and anger at park officials for marginalizing their rights to the public park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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June 28, 2019: Protesters come out against the Nationalist Solutions Conference at Montgomery Bell Park Inn, Burns, TN.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Approximately 75 persons were outside the park that\nafternoon shouting anti-racist chants and playing music such as \u201cLa Bamba\u201d by\nRichie Valens to annoy the approximately 65 that came out to attend the\nNationalist Solutions Conference. They represented several organizations such\nas the Tennessee Anti-Racist Network, Democratic Socialists of America, Dangerous\nIdeas Collective, American Indian Coalition Nashville, Nashville Peace &\nJustice Center, Nashville Direct Action, Mercy Junction Justice & Peace\nCenter, No Exceptions Prison Collective, Harriet Tubman House, Murfressboro\nAntifa and Jam City Antifa. Some also came from out of state, such as the\nKansas City-based Ida B. Wells Coalition, of which One People\u2019s Project is a\nmember organization.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those there also protested the American Renaissance Conference in May when police shut down any effective protest or disruption with a line so far up the road that they were unable to even see the inn, and there was also a fight with police mounted on horseback that resulted in injuries and arrests. At the end of the protest of this conference, they felt this was by far one of the most successful protests against white supremacy at Montgomery Bell State Park, and by far the most successful since militarized police forces began stifling First Amendment expression by antifascist and anti-racist protesters more than a year ago there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this protest, an activist named \u201cCrash\u201d who lives in\nDickson County where the park is located, , and was one of those who fought\nwith police and arrested in May, spoke about his experiences at the park during\nthe AmRen Conference over the past several years.  \u201cSince they started coming here, I\u2019ve been\nhere every year,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of it\u2019s been really, really civil I\u2019ve never\never been arrested or caused any kind of mischief up here. I\u2019m disabled, but\nI\u2019ve always been out here fighting with you guys, but I want to show you\nsomething.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, Crash lifted his shirt to show those\nattending the protest a month-old bruise, more than six inches wide and six\ninches long, that covered parts of his stomach and the side of his body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cIt\u2019s healing now,\nbut it\u2019s kind of grotesque to look at. This is from a month ago. They took a\nbunch of grown law officers, TDOC (Tennessee Department of Corrections) to\nthrow me to the ground. I\u2019m 135 pounds. I\u2019m a little dude. They beat the hell\nout of me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mina Shedd of Middle Tennessee Democratic Socialists of\nAmerica also spoke at the rally: \u201cAs a trans woman, I\u2019m facing down a lot of\nthings,\u201d she said. \u201cThe people at this conference are really at the tip of the\nspear for increasing the amount of fascism in the U.S .They would rather see\npeople like me locked up. They\u2019d probably rather see people like me in gas\nchambers. What\u2019s important is that we get out every single time they do this\nand chase them away — chase them away from private places and from every\nsingle public land, wherever they find quarter and scare them out of it. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shedd also noted how many, of the attendees are not even\nfrom Tennessee let alone Dickson County, while many of those opposing them\nwere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYear over year over year, we can chase them down so that\nthere\u2019s none of them who feel safe meeting,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe should make\nsure that they have no quarter in this state because hardly any of them\nactually live here. All of them are being flown in and bussed in because this\nis the last place, out in the middle of Dickson County in Montgomery Bell,\nwhere they can have this conference where they can plan for people like me to\nbe killed, where they plan for women to be immiserated, they plan for the\nfurther immiseration of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A police barricade on the road into the park directed\nconference-goers toward the inn, and everyone else — park goers and\nprotesters, alike — toward the swimming\/boating area of Lake Acorn. The\nprotesters marched over the hill toward Lake Acorn where only a wooden bridge\nguarded by two park rangers, and a narrow stretch of Lake Acorn separated them\nfrom the white supremacist conference goers inside the inn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antifa remained on the banks of the lake for approximately three hours and blasted \u201cLa Bamba\u201d by Ritchie Valens and other tunes and chanted \u201cKKK come out and play\u201d and \u201cDavid Duke you make me puke,\u201d across the waters. Occasionally, a window or door would open at the back of the inn and conference attendees would come outside to check out what was happening. The protest ended the day with a couple of paddle boats filled with members of what they dubbed the \u201cAntifa Navy\u201d. They took the boats up to the shore of the lake directly behind the inn, chanting \u201cNo Nazis, No KKK, no racist USA.\u201d The antifa flag was flown from one boat while the other unfurled a banner that said \u201cWHITE SUPREMACY KILLS.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The conference inside saw representatives of the Klan, the National Alliance and the website Stormfront attending and distributing literature at the various booths. White Supremacist Richard Spencer was scheduled to speak, but had bowed out prior to the event, and was replaced by Simon Roche, the spokesperson for the South African White Supremacist group Suidlanders, who anticipates and is preparing for a civil war that they believe will be spurred on by what they see is White genocide in the country. Other speakers who were not announced prior to the conference, such as attorney Augustus Invictus, who spoke on his efforts to create a nation wide support program for who he considers political prisoners, and Don Black, the founder and owner of Stormfront. The tone of many of the speeches were about dealing with the opposition they routinely face from antifa to the mainstream, to in many cases the paranoia surrounding the notion that Jews were trying to overrun them, and many of the solutions to dealing with that opposition that some of the speakers provided repeatedly implied a violent one.  Rick Tyler himself began the conference by drawing positive comparisons to the tragic \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville, VA that resulted in the death of counter protester Heather Heyer to that of Frazier Glenn Miller\u2019s rallies and marches in the eighties as the founder and leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which was a paramilitary organization with ties to White Supremacist terrorist organizations such as the Order. \u201cGlenn Miller was holding marches through the Carolina towns, sometime four, five hundred men in camo, all carrying Confederate flags, and hundreds of people from the towns would join the processional, the parade,\u201d he said, describing Miller\u2019s example. \u201cCharlottesville, the torchlit parade, Charlottesville (at) the University of Virginia campus, was the first time I had ever seen anything that remotely approached what Glenn Miller was doing in the Carolinas back in the early eighties. Tyler avoided mentioning that Miller is now on Death Row after he killed three people in a 2014 shooting spree at both a Jewish-run community center and retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas, saying only that his was a story that had \u201ca really bad ending.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n