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In reply to the discussion: Punching Nazis feels good, but it's a selfish act, not something that leads to victory [View all]ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Back around 2002.
Some idiot nazi passed through town and stopped in a tavern. Must have figured that whatever yokel he had a beer with represented the whole town.
So, his group of illinois nazis ("I hate illinois nazi's" decide to stage a march in our town.
City blocks off the main downtown street, just north of the other main street (Small town of around 6000)
The counter-demonstration, which outnumbered these losers about 20 to one, (20 of them and 400 locals), involved simply walking in a circle back and forth in the north crosswalk. Nobody driving by could see them. Nobody on the other side of the street could hear them or see them.
The other thing the counters did (which included me) was to walk from corner to corner where the losers were handing out leaflets. Our job was to accept them, not say a word, and crumple them up and toss them into the street. About 60 of us did that, taking turns for an hour or so. All their Kinko's money ended up in balls of paper.
At the end, some high school kids went into the street while the cops held traffic and picked up all the paper and put it into paper bags, donated by one of the grocery stores, and put it into recycling bins.
All that said, most of the adults involved were prepared to fight fire with fire. But, when their little party got ruined, and they were outnumbered 20 to 1, they turned tail.
We never heard from those losers again.
BTW: Deceased DU'er NNNOLHHI, (Don) came west from where he lived to participate. That's how we met.