Right-wingers whine about their beatdown at the inauguration

We covered about twenty feet before a group of five anarchist-punks came over to us, and demanded our exit. Their exact words were "Fascists out!," but it was not until later that the irony of that demand became apparent to us.

This is a recurring theme -- that somehow anarchists are guilty of violating liberal statist principles of "free speech" when giving the heave-ho to right-wing instigators.

When we refused to acquiesce to their unreasonable demand -- we had a Constitutional right to be there, as well as permission from the DAWN head organizer --

-- neither of which are recognized as legimitate authorities by anarchists --

they continued with the name-calling and cursing, making a show of trying to intimidate us. As we stood there - the anarchists demanding our immediate exit and we refusing to comply - a crowd of anarchists began to gather around us. As I noticed this, I immediately told Jesse to watch his back, and told my ProtestWarriors to get closer together. I remembered the RNC, and was not looking foward to a repeat of the violence there.

But that's exactly what he got!

Our interaction with the anarchists quickly worsened; they began grabbing at our signs, and attempting to rip them out of our hands. We held on tight, and told them to lay off. As they began shoving us, a man who identified himself as a "DAWN marshal" ran over and stepped in between our two groups. "You can not do that here!" he shouted at the anarchists. "This is a peaceful rally!"

Funny, I don't remember signing any "peaceful rally" contracts before being allowed into the Washington DC city limits?

When they directed their vitriol at the DAWN marshal - actually shoving him and threatening him with further violence - he whirled around and began berating us. "You're instigating!" he told us. "You have to leave!" I attempted to placate him, explaining that we were there with permission from the organizer, but he was beyond reason. He was unable to do anything but call the ProtestWarriors "instigators." As we watched him struggle to restrain the anarchists, we were momentarily dumbfounded. Here was a man who had not only witnessed the violence of the anarchists, but was currently subjected to it - and yet he was blaming us for what was clearly unprovoked intimidation. We wondered at the moral relativism that must be at work in this man's brain, enabling him to blame the victim for the crime.

As silly as the peace-cop was, he saw right through the Protest Warriors. Of course they were instigating! What they were counting on was a bunch of gasps and indignation from liberals. They were not counting on encountering us.

When it became obvious that the DAWN marshal was not going to take ProtestWarrior's side in the matter, I decided to ignore him and told my ProtestWarriors to stay where they were. "We're not going anywhere," I told both the marshal and the anarchists. Things then began to get tense; a heavy-set black man in a trench coat patted his left lapel, muttering something about a pipe. When he saw that we weren't leaving, he made a grab for one of our signs. I stepped in to get between him and the ProtestWarrior, and was tripped by one of the anarchists. At that moment, all hell broke loose.

The minute I hit the ground, all hell broke loose. As I struggled to get up in the slippery snow, two anarchists began kicking me in the back; ProtestWarriors were being shoved and punched all around me. The DAWN marshal struggled to stop the anarchists' assault. When I finally got to my feet, I went over to the marshal, telling the ProtestWarriors to stop everything and not touch a single person; with the anarchists cursing at us, and my ProtestWarriors yelling back, we nearly had a riot on our hands. The marshal told us to leave, and this time I complied. We had came, we had caught the Leftists on tape, and we had made our point. There was no sense in endangering our bodies or lives by staying any longer.

This confrontation, along with some black bloc footage, is included on the video featured at the Protest Warrior site.

As we left, we continued to be harassed by the anarchists; it seemed that our exit was not enough to satiate their bloodlust. They shoved us, cursed at us, and grabbed at our signs. I asked one of the anarchists what more they wanted from us; we were already leaving. He responded with a tone of cold hatred, "We want you to move faster, Nazi." I was dumbfounded - they were forceably marching us out their rally, and had the audacity (or the stupidity) to call us Nazis. "Mach shnell, Juden, eh?" I muttered. As the rest of the ProtestWarriors exited the park, and Jesse and I backed out of the park (there was no way we were turning our backs on such criminals), I asked one of the anarchists why he covered his face; his response belied their entire purpose and function at the DAWN rally: "So we can f*** you up and get away with it."

This is the most amusing part of the whole thing -- the idea that fascists, nationalists and their ilk should not be resisted with physical force. By this twisted logic, seen so often on the right, anyone who takes action against fascists is actually a fascist; anyone who takes action against racism is a racist; anyone who takes action against sexism is a sexist; and so on and so forth. You see it in the response to "outing" tactics used by BlogActive.com and any mention whatsoever of the public sexual preferences of various relatives of right-wingers: anyone who takes action against homophobia is a homophobe.

The Protest Warriors are, and will always be, nothing more than an amusing sideshow and incidental target for us at large actions. Source