coverage. the u.s. has a history complicated and heated presidential election what's different this time

is that the biggest political events of the last 4 years is happening amid the coronavirus and precedents of the level of civil unrest sparked by the death of george floyd and the rise of the radical groups on both sides of the political spectrum. right there this is your. say. these groups attract very young members who have taken to the streets may control tasks look like full scale what you see here we're going to say ok what about. this demonstrators are sometimes heavily armed and they are not afraid of violence or law enforcement. if you will of war let it begin with us. or go into trouble across the u.s. over the next week to meet those groups and their leaders to find out how far they're ready to go to fight for what they believe the stupid for this country.

we are in virginia members of a group called the. boys have been around for several years now but the recently came into the media spotlight during the summers and say lockdown and government protests in august several dozen heavily armed men and tactical gear carrying big guns showed up for a rally in her genius capital richmond to be. among the demonstrators were the google borscht who could be identified from their bright wine shirts they were but if their bulletproof vests this became one of their symbol their style if you will it's been reported in the american. that many of the movements and here are preparing for a 2nd civil war. so now we're about to meet one of the most prominent voice of

mike a flamboyant 20 year old former marine from virginia who was at the forefront of an armed protest in this state. how many guns do you have personally yeah. but we probably have over 50 why do you need to have. to have somebody. so exactly what does that mean it's just mean to tell us it means revolution revolution what kind of revolution whatever revolution needs to happen whether it be. a mind revolution or if you know the u.s. keeps going the past at school and. he will still the constitution into its

rightful place as the supreme law of the land in one of the interview talked about the french revolution. basically all the elites just to start everything from scratch. with the way government has gone things and they did a complete reset. and that i think is coming to the united states is a distant thing in your opinion or if it is something that is right around the corner i can't really nail point where. everybody would just rise up and say we're done but we're in the early stages of the revolution as it is you look at the civil unrest across the u.s. we look at groups like mine that are standing and say we're tarred with done with it we're already in the early stages of the revolution. mike was arrested for it openly carrying something that is prohibited in the city

of newburgh new where we are but legal in the state of virginia it was later released and today he's staging a rally in front of the newport news police have water students demonstrate his disagreement with the law that as he sees it takes away his right to bear firearms . wrong thing for them to do if you want to try if you if you want a war let me deal with our. chief of police. this is the city that's become a flashpoint for civil unrest that's probably the most extreme this country has seen since the vietnam era.

severe riots and vandalism brutal street fights tear gas rubber bullets even public burnings the american flags have become regular sites important there are constant fights between the left wing activists in song and quietness of. course a lot of people talk about the divisions in america. that's taking place but. you can see completely out in the open and at its most extreme. portland has a long history of active protests and a long history of an activist culture many of these protests have their origin in

the protests after the 2016 election and then later what we started to see after black i've a matter of b.l.m. movement was a more sustained commitment to being on the street i'm. president truong has repeatedly accused an organization called. the most extreme violence and destruction on or on street violence and vandalism is being led by intifada and other radical left wing groups what is anti thought now the anti-fascists tend to be committed to a couple of basic ideas and the idea that their anti-racist many of them will also refer to themselves and iranian protesters if you went out in the interview people that don't describe themselves and they bash you have a hard time finding out with the leader because it doesn't seem as if there are leaders. are you guys more than teeth or you just regular protesters and

seafood is a ideology it's a belief a lot of people hold but it's not a group i myself my wife and most of us were just protesters why the needs the night with this is for several things one i'm a nice fanatic i love plates and it's also for self-protection self protection week from home a lot of people there's a lot of people that they see me with you know b.l.m. sure or something like that and they don't like each i'm struck by. what is making the upcoming election is i'm heard a lot of things that are on the believe this is the most turbulent in the room right now coming up i'd like to like to hear from you know this. you seem to hear. about. it like it is still pretty much here on. earth

but when you see civil wars how do you picture in this the citizens like him police have to take. against the police against racism. just to be able to live. people talk about the civil war and how they're going to take a firearm so easily this time this is quite disturbing and the way this man with a knife he agreed to take us to one of the portland street protests tonight and we'll see how it goes hopefully no one gets hurt. we're in the lensing the capital of state of michigan and we came here for 2 reasons 1st there is going to be a huge unity rally in front of the city which is about to start and 2nd made the national news recently when several local militia members were arrested for plotting to kidnap the state's governor according to the f.b.i.

and we're ready to storm the state's capital right here and if need be to start a civil war days before the november election so let's find out what's going on here. and what's her name. sure so and why do you need to you know cover your face is that a thing or you just don't want to be disclosed will bit of oh we're here to have a conversation with. militia groups then why do you have to carry a gun. what do you think it was like constitutional right to do so all of these women men whatever they identify as up here have the right to bomb themselves

he point. government. in the american media groups like they usually mean portrayed it is to prevent nationalist or races while it's not exactly true because as you just saw they had an african-american guy on the steps on the late shift stage who was giving a speech and received a really good welcome. what do you think about this story that a legend. of the local government i don't think it was smart i don't think it was good to do so at all but i get one. thing why. well one guy. lost his job you know funding you had to go live in the guy's face what would you how would you feel i could answer that definitely not attempting to kidnap. a local official but there's nothing. that is why you.

think. i need you know 360000000 people. under one central government. by some of those powers. you. just appointed side they just happen that this guy. came up to the police department. armed with an assault. dozens of the boys and guess what nothing. how can you not only they weren't arrested the police department actually provided them with the sound system so they can have this makeshift stage and you

know you can have a demonstration. right michel great you can get your tickets. we're going to say we kept it. well they didn't like we're hoping. why do you want to know in clear lines friday the rest of the day because we're all here and we're all heavily armed where you know side and they know they messed with one of us they're going to mess with all of us the sound what kind of message does it sound to you these people well the message would be if you're alone you won't get your way but if you show up as a group that is organized and have an arm that's way you get out of people the police and government to listen to you. know. hold. this 16 the black community is the

biggest gun purchase in communities in america right now and has been for the last 4 years and the word change that 4 years ago. what's also interesting about that particular rally is that white men with guns have come out together with the members of the local black lives matter community with african-americans and you would think those roads are kind of natural animus but as it turns out it's not when they have a common foe. police or the government might step you want to civil war a lot of us to fully prepare for that.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. baseball helmet that's really good for stop and anything for a. gas mask we went to home depot the other day to get some for us but they were in our new trains l.

they are not selling them since the start of. this rioting and protesting. they say that the protesters use them as a way to avoid the non-lethal that they use at the road. so he literally did it to stop us from having a way to protect our souls from the gas. just to let you know about the environment in the city with come to the portland police associations office to interview members of a local law enforcement community about the on go when protests and riots. as it turns out the office was attacked by demonstrators just a few days ago. blocked off the street with cars ah and then

set fire to the building after a hammer and windows and the front door and these captions on adjacent buildings cops are killers and kill the prostitutes. aren't you guys concerned just about the level of the division and. the anger in getting so much fun all we're trying to do is spread love we're trying to get. we don't want to be better than you we just want to be equal to you. it's been 5 and a half months and nothing worse has happened we haven't bombed any buildings. we have stored in the past wires old holes when or when around it started taking hostage what are you afraid of.

explaining about the long what is it it's covering everything from did so in blood that leaves nothing showing but the eyes that's the exact same part of the look good the police force that's down there where they were there went black from head to toe with body. we're not afraid of. we're not afraid of the people we're supposed to be here to serve us and chrisette us the ones that are . if you pull the boys out of the railway lensing and some of them about us you one of their shooting practice. although them are big got a through z.

and it would be really interesting to see them in a more relaxed informal setting. what do you guys do for a living. i work. but i mean you'll have regular jobs you know. we're just normal people i mean we really we go about our day we go work. for families.

so i know that the gun sales soared in the. right to do so. you know to defend themselves if they if need be. afraid that the country may be. the place to greater civil conflict. around the loucheux civil war i do worry. that we are headed down that. i think it is. it's inevitable. it's have 3 ways. it's. the voice box. you have the ballot box. and unfortunately.

i worry well because of our election and. it's a wait and see approach right now. or. there's going to be more right. now because. either side conceding no matter which candidate wins will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transfer of power. to see what happens. there is no more conversations if the boat will move it you know we do feel concerned for what happens when the talking.

cortland is like a training ground for everything that might go wrong after the presidential election it already has and i'm going turf war between rival political movements and then be a lamb on one side and then you have all sorts of far right of right wing organizations such as proud wars or patriot prayer on the other american mainstream media usually per trey's them as racists or white supremacists so let's find this out. why do you call yourself patriots prayer what does that mean i believe that in order to truly fight for freedom it is you have to be able to have a connection with god or at least it helps you and that great fire heavenly father

we just thank you so much for this beautiful day it's cold but we love it lord we're just so thankful that you've given us this country. and all it really looks like in regular demonstrations and rallies but the only thing is they have armed guards across the area patrolling constantly being on alert. are you game for the rally for you with the security so to speak a little bit of all. a little bit of both make sure you know what those in the mainstream media they usually call you racist or white supremacist what you have to say about that so that's what people say when they don't have any other argument so they can attack what i say they can't attack what i do and so they just go to racist yeah absolutely no issues with african-americans or any other people of color of course not we have tons of them that come to the rallies with us you are an african american and use it for donald trump obviously and this is kind and

usual i would say i'm not really there's a lot of black people that support no. african-americans treat you when they found out that you are on the right side of the political spectrum it's normal to get some of the hardcore like you know him guys that when he has a house negro call you uncle tom what do you think about the movements like to be a lamb and all that kind of thing keep it is a domestic terrorist organization again i was standing in downtown portland. approach them and say what's up buddy why do you keep going on as we pull the stuff . that's kind of one of the local stores here at the rally this guy named philip was punching frodo in the face and lost his teeth.

no never met him before he literally just remember i mean sucker punched me just because he saw that i was going into an event. and i think that donald trump will win and i think i do you know when's he going to burn down a lot of things in murder in killing to beat up a lot of people that's what i expect them to know what's really going to that's just tolerant but. the cauldron this will be done. at this point are willing to settle for biden because we don't have any other alternative but it's going to be the last one he's going to be the last time. a president rather than someone in the goal of not just the b.l.m.

but the goal of the whole country is to change the system. and if the next president doesn't give you your way then one day we bring him down so. upset. and what's going on here this is one of the many chapters for the b.l.m. movement. this was a kind of a get together. spirit. we don't know it was not up i mean really. you know was the i'm such a pleasure to get it was pretty well was their closing line it was something about the revolution. that.

it's revolution. is it. we are going to make this country great for the 1st time says well disciplined. november 3rd come at all. no matter who wins things are going to be. so tense because it's wrong for your leg it's going to be a bar more for worse level where you're going to have a lot more people. it's going to be out here. and at that point i don't believe it's going to be civil. so it's a wrap for tonight. there wasn't much of a protest going on in foreign funds this weekend which is weird. but as many people who we talked to the thing. might be calm before the storm before the election.

you should have a revolution every 20 years the tree of liberty must be stretched from time to time with the blood of patriots and of tartus. and you know it's time for all good men the stand up the tree needs watering.

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what we'll see on the field will be a success. a quote islamist terrorist was behind an assault in vienna at sale thorazine 5 people were killed including the attacker witnesses describe the situation. i saw the particular and running into various passenger restrooms finally burst soul she's very scary she was in the panic and she was sold to shooting. people around you and screaming. the international condemnation of the shootings in the austrian capital france has also been walks recently by a series of family islamist terror attacks but this president expressing solidarity with beata.