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werdna

(1,043 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 01:48 AM Wednesday

Beware! Like the Monkees, they may be coming to your town!

Unlike the Monkees, however, they're not "just tryin' to be friendly.

Article: Class offers to help ‘flush out’ people ‘hostile to liberty’ in Portage County
"The Portage County Republican Party is promoting an all-day “Into Action” class on June 21, which is being marketed to people who wish to “identify individuals and organizations hostile to liberty.” "
https://theportager.com/class-offers-to-help-flush-out-people-hostile-to-liberty-in-portage-county/

Article: Event targeting 'organizations hostile to liberty' and pledging to 'flush them out raises concerns in Portage County
"The 'Into Action class,' hosted by an organization called the Allied Special Intelligence Group, was previously promoted by the Portage County GOP."
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/portage-county/planned-class-portage-county-pledges-train-communities-identify-individuals-organizations-hostile-to-liberty/95-5254fcca-730d-4c96-9436-ce0a3176ad2

The ASIG web link: https://asig2.com/

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Beware! Like the Monkees, they may be coming to your town! (Original Post) werdna Wednesday OP
Sounds a bit like canetoad Wednesday #1
An organization hostile to liberty DFW Wednesday #2
Hey, hey, we're the Stazi... JHB Wednesday #3
Luckily the comments section is totally negative at this time. Boomerproud Wednesday #4
Fascists have no shame. Emile Wednesday #5
Instructors, the ad says, will be military combat veterans with special ops experience, former law enforcement personnel Celerity Wednesday #6

DFW

(58,109 posts)
2. An organization hostile to liberty
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:16 AM
Wednesday

That sounds like a perfectly accurate description of the Portage County Republican Party.

JHB

(37,698 posts)
3. Hey, hey, we're the Stazi...
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:26 AM
Wednesday

...people say we Nazi around.
And we're so busy pinging,
any snitch to put you down.


Boomerproud

(8,795 posts)
4. Luckily the comments section is totally negative at this time.
Wed May 28, 2025, 04:50 AM
Wednesday

I have very deep roots in Portage county and this disturbs me deeply. I hope this is a bust, but in today's world I can't count on that.

Celerity

(50,032 posts)
6. Instructors, the ad says, will be military combat veterans with special ops experience, former law enforcement personnel
Wed May 28, 2025, 05:51 AM
Wednesday
elected officials and intelligence professionals with special skills.

Allied Special Intelligence Group’s website promises instructors versed in “how to legally and lawfully delay, disrupt, dismantle and remove Communists/Marxists and terrorists from our communities in order to restore and protect our Constitutional Republic.”


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