An appearance by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes at the Metropolitan Club, while theatric in performing an homage to the 1960 assassination of a Japanese socialist, had associated post-event violence where isolated anti-event demonstrators were attacked by a larger group of pro-Trump / Proud Boy supporters. Injuries were sustained and there’s video evidence.
One assumes that the NYPD intelligence unit knows about Gavin McInnes and the NYC activities of his Masturbationsabteilung. A severe head injury was sustained and the NYPD report makes no mention of Proud Boys. But the cops did seem to arrest the victims of the attack in early reports. This is a pattern of how such attacks occur, away from the event venue, when police presence is diminished. Fog of street war.
Apparently McInnes, by performing a Japanese assassination skit, harbors Yukio Mishima fantasies, considering the Proud Boys functions like a “Shield Society”. We’ll know when Gavin gets passed over for a Nobel Prize in Literature, because there’s always a Kawabata around to score the hardware, or maybe Gavin will settle for the apotheosis of god-emperor Lord Dampnut. One assumes the US Secret Service is also paying attention to such RW assassination fantasy.
A mob of pro-Trump right wing extremists appear to have beaten a small group of protesters in the streets of Manhattan on Friday night, following an appearance at the Metropolitan Republican Club by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.
The Proud Boys—described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a leading "recruiting ground for white nationalists and anti-Semites"—have a history of street violence, and were involved in several fights with antifascists during a McInnes appearance at NYU last year (A member of the group attacked two reporters, including this one). Following that event, McInnes told a right-wing radio host, "I cannot recommend violence enough. It is a really effective way to solve problems."
This week, McInnes promised that, during his Metropolitan Club appearance, he'd re-enact the "inspiring moment" a Japanese socialist was killed. He was escorted into the clubhouse by police on Friday, apparently carrying a Samurai sword.
Asked prior to the event whether the Metropolitan Club had any misgivings about providing a platform to someone like McInnes, board chairman Ian Reilly told Gothamist, "He is part of the right. We promote people and ideas of all kinds from the right. We're open to different views. We would never invite anyone who would incite violence."
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McInnes billed the event as an anniversary celebration to lionize a Japanese ultranationalist who assassinated the head of the Japanese Socialist Party with a sword on Oct. 12, 1960.
McInnes wrote on Instagram this week that he would be “re-enacting this inspiring moment at the Metropolitan Club.”
A video posted on Twitter by Fox News shows McInnes waving a sword outside the event. Fox News misleadingly implied in its tweet that “antifa” — or anti-fascists — had been responsible for the sword and the violence.
On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of the Tatenokai, under pretext, visited the commandant of the Ichigaya Camp, the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.[18] Inside, they barricaded the office and tied the commandant to his chair. With a prepared manifesto and a banner listing their demands, Mishima stepped onto the balcony to address the soldiers gathered below. His speech was intended to inspire a coup d'état to restore the power of the emperor. He succeeded only in irritating the soldiers, and was mocked and jeered. He finished his planned speech after a few minutes, returned to the commandant's office and performed seppuku. The assisting kaishakunin duty at the end of this ritual (to decapitate Mishima) had been assigned to Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita, who was unable to properly perform the task. After several failed attempts at severing Mishima's head, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to behead Mishima. Morita then knelt and stabbed himself in the abdomen and Koga again performed the kaishakunin duty. This coup is called "Mishima jiken" (三島事件, "Mishima Incident") in Japan.
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