{"id":9495,"date":"2020-10-30T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2020-10-31T21:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T01:28:18","slug":"chicagoland-alt-right-militias-explore-pro-2nd-amendment-orgs-we-the-people-iiiers-igot-patriot-front-illinois-proud-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/chicagoland-alt-right-militias-explore-pro-2nd-amendment-orgs-we-the-people-iiiers-igot-patriot-front-illinois-proud-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicagoland Alt-Right Militias: Explore pro-2nd Amendment orgs \u201cWe The People\u201d III%ers, IGOT, Patriot Front Illinois, & Proud Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let us now look inside the crew that is comprised some of the lowest scum on earth!<\/strong> This is a long one!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Anne Frank Army<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illinois Gun Owners Together (IGOT)<\/a> is a gun owners rights club with a presence on Facebook, whose members-only group is a hotbed of far-right and fascist militia thought and activity. The group is founded and led by Carl Arriaza,<\/a> who is a temperamental and reactionary gun nut who uses his platform to recruit people for antagonistic operations against protest movements in the Chicago area<\/a>. Other members have been using IGOT as a recruiting ground for local militias, including Patriot Front Illinois, the We The People (WTP) III% Militia, and also the Proud Boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most members of their private facebook group of 9000+ people use the platform to shit-post vile anti-Semitism, racism, sexist, trans and homophobia. But they also glamorize and muse openly about inflicting deadly violence on the \u2018radical left\u2019 protesters in general, but also individuals they specify and target as enemies, people they have photographed at protests. IGOT has even gone as far as stake out houses and attend Black Lives Matter protests armed with \u201cthe hundo,\u201d a small gun to hassle protesters, starting a fight that ended up getting two comrades arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IGOT and their consortium are a fucked up coalition and it gets worse when you look at some of the people in it, especially people like Carl and his stooges who worship Kyle Rittenhouse and hold vigils outside where he\u2019s incarcerated in Lake County, IL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rittenhouse Connection<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In September, IGOT organized a 2A \u201cSelf Defense is Not a Crime\u201d rally  in support of their hero, Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed Anthony Huber, and Joseph Rosenbaum, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz with an AR-15 rifle that he brought to a Black Lives Matter protest. Kyle joined an ad-hoc militia at the protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin:<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rally was held outside the Robert W. Depke Juvenile Complex Center<\/a> where Kyle has been held in Illinois, awaiting extradition to Kenosha where he has been indicted on murder charges. Their event was livestreamed by IGOT TV,<\/a> and the attendants were a grab-bag of deplorables personally moved by Kyle\u2019s actions, members of the Chicagoland Back the Blue, Proud Boys, and WTP III% Militia movements. Three IGOT members in attendance of particular interest are Jimmy Bolf of Patriot Front Illinois, Shawn Canning of the Illinois WTP III% militia, and Allen Skillicorn (R) of the IL House of Representatives, all of whom are friends of Carl and actively support the proto-fascist activities of IGOT. (For those unfamiliar with the term \u201cproto-fascist,\u201d check out this Time overview<\/a> and do note the similarities between then and now)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IL State Representative Allen Skillicorn<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Allen Skillicorn is the incumbent running for Illinois State Representative in the 66th district<\/a>. Not only is Allen personal friends with Carl, but he has also been praised publicly in the group for helping reinstate the IGOT Facebook group, after the group was taken down for promoting hate speech and racism in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is Skillicorn at IGOT\u2019s #FreeKyle rally with Carl outside his jail, awkwardly playing the same lil\u2019 siren as this yet unnamed AR Chud, all stills taken from the IGOT livestream.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here, Rep Skillicorn is uplifted as a valued friend and honored member of IGOT, and also who somehow pulled some strings to re-establish their facebook group, which was deplatformed for racism in 2019<\/a>. Further, they already have an additional IGOT backup facebook group of 600+ inner circle members if and when the current group gets inevitably de-platformed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seems like there\u2019s some quid pro quo happening here, as Carl and Co are doing some campaigning in exchange for their private facebook group being re-activated, taking orders from Rep Skillicorn. All of which is interesting as, per the Northwest Herald, Skillicorn has already been in hot water for voting ethics violations.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep Skillicorn was also very excited for the Kyle Rittenhouse rally planned by IGOT, both of which he is an enthusiastic supporter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above Rep Skillicorn gives advice about how to get around open-carry and concealed-carry laws for no-gun zones and protests to the over 9000 members of the IGOT Facebook group. The fact that a state representative is giving advice to help militias get organized against lock-down orders, protest gun laws, and intimidate activists is terrifying. We have seen emboldened militias in Madison, Kenosha, Lansing, Louisville, at Black Lives Matter rallies, and most recently when the grand jury did not indict Breonna Taylor\u2019s murderers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rep Skillicorn is up for re-election in November, so if voting is your thing and you live in the 66th District (which covers McHenry County) do consider voting him out if only to watch him cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCreepy\u201d Carl Anthony Arriaza, of Mt Prospect, IL<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n