{"id":9904,"date":"2021-02-04T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:50:06","slug":"proud-boys-s-t-where-do-we-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/proud-boys-s-t-where-do-we-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud Boys: S–t, Where Do We Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every day since Jan. 6 has been just another day of bad news for this crew. If the Proud Boys are talked about at all by the end of this year, it will be not as some force to be reckoned with but as a cautionary tale, and they have their antics that day to thank!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

When then-Presidential Candidate Joe Biden namechecked the neo-fascist Proud Boys in last year’s first presidential debate to challenge Donald Trump to renounce White supremacists \u2013 a challenge Trump famously failed by responding with, \u201cProud Boys, stand back and stand by\u201d \u2013 it also served notice that should Biden become president he was obligated to cause the violent organization more than a few problems. The Proud Boys didn\u2019t make their situation any better with a series of violence vandalism and stabbings following back-to-back \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rallies<\/a> organized by the dark money group Women for America First<\/a>. But then the insurrection of Jan. 6 found them right in the crosshairs, and to date they have seen more arrests of their members than any other right wing organization that was represented that day. The weeks since that day might prove to be the beginning of the end of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist political gang founded by Vice Magazine founder Gavin McInnes in 2016 that paints itself as a drinking club but is best known for its political violence in the defense of fascism and what they call \u201cWestern chauvinism\u201d. On Wednesday, Canada declared the so-called \u201cdrinking club\u201d a terrorist organization<\/a>, along with neo-Nazi groups such as Atomwaffen Division, The Base and the Russian Imperial Movement, a Russian nationalist group with members linked to other paramilitary neo-Nazi groups globally. It remains to be seen if this designation weighs on the McInnes\u2019 status as a Canadian national residing in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the arrestees is Proud Boy officer Joe Biggs, known for making violent threats online towards antifa, but hardly seen engaging in any physical confrontations. He was arrested on Inauguration Day<\/a> as Biden took the oath of the office Biggs and countless Trump supporters failed miserably to prevent him from taking.  Proud Boy Chairman Henry \u201cEnrique\u201d Tarrio was arrested days before the rally and ordered to stay away from Washington, DC after he was arrested and charged not only for his role in burning a Black Lives Matter banner he and other Proud Boys stole from a church, but also for possessing two firearm magazines that were illegal in the District, and especially illegal for him to possess at all given his felony criminal record. Tarrio\u2019s problems were about to get worse however when it was reported a week after Biggs\u2019 arrest that years ago he worked as a \u201cprolific\u201d federal informant<\/a>, assisting the FBI on some cases. While none of them seem to be related to his political activities, the fallout was coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday a hammer fell on Tarrio, and a rather curious one. Texas Attorney Jason Van Dyke, who owns the Proud Boys trademark and is the registered agent for Proud Boys, LLC, sent Tarrio a letter saying that he is no longer allowed to use the trademark, citing mishandling of their merchandise website and \u201cpermitting or failing to regulate\u201d anything associated with the Proud Boys that promote National Socialism, and engaging in a rally on Dec. 8 that resulted in the destruction of private property in a place of worship. The burning of the stolen Black Lives Matter banner took place on Dec. 12, and as a result the Metropolitan AME Church, one of the churches affected, filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Tarrio and the Proud Boys, naming him and Van Dyke in particular who is on public records as the Registered Agent of Proud Boys International, LLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So …Van Dyke is still involved? REALLY????? 🤔 pic.twitter.com\/bKKv2BoLJA<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Seitan Worshipper Staying Home 🦠🦠 (@TheLibertyLamp) February 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>