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Revealed: The Radical Left Wing Connections and Ideas of the ‘Anti-Racist’ Protesters Who Attacked a Chicago Restaurant

Yesterday, we told you the story of how a group of radical protesters decided to invade a meeting of white supremacists at a local restaurant and assault the participants. It’s not often that a story is morally ambiguous because both sides come off as undesirable, but in this case, it’s tough to see any other angle.

However, to the White Supremacists’ credit, they at least didn’t throw enough punches to get arrested and charged with felony mob action, aggravated battery and criminal damage to property, as the protesters in this case were. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that five of the protesters have been charged with precisely that:

Five Indiana men have been charged with felony mob action, aggravated battery and criminal damage to property for their roles in an attack Saturday on a group dining at a Tinley Park restaurant, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State’s Attorney said Monday morning.

Bails ranging from $175,000 to $250,000 were set for the five men at the Bridgeview courthouse.

Charged were John Tucker, 26, of Martinsville, Ind.; Cody Sutherlin, 23, of Bloomington, Ind.; Dylan Sutherlin, 20, and Jason Sutherlin, 33, both of Gosport, Ind.; and Alex Stuck, 22, of Bloomington, Ind., Cook County State’s Attorney spokeswoman Sally Daly said.

All three men are facing bail of at least $150,000.

As in any case like this, the question of just who the criminals are is coming into play. We at the Blaze have done some digging and uncovered some alarming information about at least one of the men involved, as well as about the organization that has claimed responsibility for their actions. We‘ve also been able to put two of the men’s names to faces, thanks to the magic of Facebook:

Jason Sutherlin, One of the Attackers Charged in Chicago Restaurant Assault, Had Connections to Occupy Wall Street

Dylan Sutherlin, sporting a black bandana

 

Jason Sutherlin, One of the Attackers Charged in Chicago Restaurant Assault, Had Connections to Occupy Wall Street

Cody Sutherlin

However, it’s the third of the Sutherlin brothers, Jason, who may have the most interesting history. While Mr. Sutherlin’s face has proven elusive, Favstar.fm has linked someone named Jason Sutherlin from Bloomington, Indiana, to a Twitter account named 812Gorilla. According to Favstar.fm, this is one of 812Gorilla’s top Tweets:

Jason Sutherlin, One of the Attackers Charged in Chicago Restaurant Assault, Had Connections to Occupy Wall StreetSo if this is the same Jason Sutherlin, then along with being a homespun anti-racist vigilante, Mr. Sutherlin is also affiliated with Occupy Bloomington (which the hashtag Occupybtown signifies). Lovely.

However, given the identity of the group that was responsible for the attack’s own past, Occupy Bloomington might be one of the more savory connections to have. You may recall we told you yesterday that Anti-Racist Action, or ARA, had claimed credit for the attack. With a name like Anti-Racist Action, you might expect the group to at least be well-intentioned, right?

…Well, not exactly. The National Website of ARA has several sections on its “About” section detailing precisely what its members believe. Much of the material there is troubling. Greatest hits follow (with emphasis added):

Most anti-racist groups focus all their efforts on creating new laws or getting the police to respond to racism. But the cops uphold white supremacy and the status quo; they attack us and everyone that resists oppression. This means that police are not likely to get involved with fighting racist and fascists until they have hurt or killed someone. We think that that’s too late and that any anti-racist group that doesn’t organize an effective opposition to racist and fascists before they hurt people is not doing their job.[...]

Fascism is an ultra-nationalist ideology that mobilizes around and glorifies a national or perceived racial identity, valuing this identity above all other interests (for example gender or class). Fascism is marked by its hostility towards  reason and human solidarity, by its dehumanization and scapegoating of marginalized or oppressed groups, by its use of violence or threats of violence to impose its views on others, and by its rejection of  supposedly “effeminate” or “soft” values in favor of “manliness.” Anti-Semitism and racism are primary facets of National Socialism and most other varieties of fascism. Fascism aims at a militarized society, and organizes along military or quasi-military lines, usually with an authoritarian structure revolving around a single, charismatic leader. Fascist groups may have the facade of an efficient and dynamic organization, but in reality, power structures are arbitrary and ruthless. Fascists use anti-elitist rhetoric to appeal to the “common man,” coupled with internal elitism and willingness to accept support from existing elites. Fascism glorifies a mythologized past as justification for its present ideological stances, and as a basis for future organization of society.

And then there is this highly interesting take on the “free speech” rights of so-called fascists:

  • ARA does not use the state to prevent anyone’s free speech. The right to free speech restricts the state from censoring ideas, it does not stop the public from opposing hateful ideas.
  • The fact that people dislike what bigots have to say and want to make that known is not prohibited by the concept of free speech. If bigots actively go out of their way to tell people that 90% of the world’s population should be enslaved or that the best thing they can do is kill someone because of their skin color, religion, ethnic background, immigration status, sexual orientation, disability, etc., they can’t use “free speech” to silence opposition.
  • Anti-racists and antifascists have an obligation to deny a platform to bigots so that they can’t spread their message and recruit. Concert venues, meeting halls, radio programs, and the like make choices about who to host on a regular basis. These choices have a very real impact on bigoted ideas taking root in one’s community.
  • Responding to bigoted speech is important. We believe in being proactive when it comes to fascist violence, which means confronting fascist organizing before they have a chance to put their ideas into action, and taking fascist threats seriously.

Got all that? We hope so. Your not being beaten to a pulp may depend on it.

Now, granted, some of this may sound okay on paper. The problem is that based on how we’ve seen an actual chapter of ARA behave, everything written here has to be read with an understanding that an undercurrent of potential violence is involved. This is especially the case on the “Theory” section of the website, which includes articles supporting the abolition of the prison system. How that abolition would be accomplished is, presumably, though some combination of agitation and violence.

Does this really accomplish anything regarding the abolition of racism? Or is it just cover for hoodlums to cause social chaos? Decide for yourself.

 

Comments (51)

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  • Individualism
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:32pm

    Stormfront blog confirms there white supremacists and folks attacked were members of it and talking about the attack, stormfront is a skinhead white supremacist site

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    • White Rabbit Lady
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:52pm

      Africa for the Africans; Asia for the Asians, White countries for everybody?

      No one is flooding African countries with millions of non-Africans, and giving them Affirmative Action, special rights, privileges and free health-care.

      No one is flooding Asian countries with millions of non-Asians, and giving them Affirmative Action, special rights, privileges and free health-care.

      Only White countries are being forced to do this; White traitors are supporting it, White children are suffering from it. It is GENOCIDE.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKlaetiZMUo

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    • britlynz
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:59pm

      @White Rabbit Lady…. Please don’t mistake the general disapproval here of this supposed Anti-Racist group for a wholesale by in of your own racist screed and disgusting video link.

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    • midnightvelvet
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 1:31am

      @ Britlynz

      I’m not defending stormfront, but please tell me where white rabbit lady is wrong.

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:15am

      Even skinheads have freedom of speech and to PEACEABLY assemble. It looks like these ARA are vigilantes/anarchists and if you disagree with them it makes you a target of violence. Haters who hate haters-WTF?

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  • buyamerican
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:18pm

    Maybe the ARA should go talk to the New Black Panthers http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-black-panther-field-marshal-whites-should-be-thankful-were-not-hanging-crackers-by-nooses-yet-yet-yet/

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:13pm

    Is this what happened to Indiana… the Unions turned the State to Blue & Socialist?

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    • chingachgook
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 10:12pm

      you have to read what was happening with the unions from their inception. The communist have either controlled them or had a direct influence. Read Bella Dodd’s book Schools of Darkness. It is really enlightening. I am sure there are other books and articles out there that will support this view. I am not anti-union but you must know who is controlling your union before you support these dangerous people.

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    • Byrdi
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:37am

      No. Indiana has just become a right to work state. It is mostly a conservative state because the republicans have kept the state solvent while still meeting the needs of those in need. Bloomington is where Indiana University is located and unfortunately institutions of higher education seems to be a breeding house for radicalism.

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  • OlderCowGirl
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:54pm

    I was really confused reading this article. I had trouble wrapping my mind around anything they believe….it seems they (ARA) hate people who hate people. Excuse me?? Are these folks Oxy-Morons? Why don’t they focus their hateful energy onto child molesters, rapists, slave traders, people who torture, abortionists (and the pregnant mothers), people who torture animals, GMO food creators, government nazi’s who terrorize small farmers, etc. There’s a lot of evil out there. It seems silly to target someone for their hate-thoughts. Why not go after (or hate) the people who actually perform unimaginable pain on humans and animals???

    These guys look white…but they hate the anti-racist (against racism)? So are these white guys REALLY sticking up for other races?? It seems to me these ARA folks are showing their own racial bias and just need to be mean. Pick a cause…even if it’s stupid. Is “being rich or an elitist” a race now? There are several folks that are rich…of every race. I live in an area of rich Native American Indians. Should I hate those Indians because they are “Indians” or because they are “rich”? I’m confused about racism. Do we have a choice about our skin pigmentation?

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    • toto
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 4:50pm

      If one is a conservative, you believe that your place in society is one that you have created or earned and that if you desire another level, you educate yourself and work for it. Liberals want everything handed to them, and if they decide it is their right, they are entitled to have what ever it is that you have. The are bad apples in every race and economic level. The sad thing is that liberals want to train people how to be more dependent on government and how to demand it as their right. As Beck says, “It isn’t going to end well.”

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  • doomytram
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:51pm

    The Chicago Flash Mobs got caught up in a food desert where pop tarts, cokes, and rubbers were the only things available to steal..

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  • Metallicat
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:47pm

    I think these guys arent in it to combat racism,but homophobes. I bet one of the Sutherlin brothers or all are gay, and the other two are their significant others. I think the towns they live in gives it away. the sutherlins are on their way to be the sweethearts of the prison block.

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  • RougeFastFingers
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:35pm

    There is zero proof the victims were a ‘hate group’ and even if they were, these jackasses have no right to beat them and should be jailed to teh maximum that the law allows.

    Enough of this anarchy nonsense, its time to stand up to these radicals, if they want to get violent we need to lock them up.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:31pm

      try looking on stormfront and they admit it on there. they even organized the event and the people that got hurt even talk about their injuries like 8 staples in the head. Stormfront is a white supremacist site full of bigoted skinheads.

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    • weknewbetter
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:19pm

      Stormfront in a White Nationalist site…………..not a skinhead site, nor a supremasist site.
      And at least they are willing to stand up for White rights unlike many here on this site.
      Why is it that White Nationalists are always white supremasists, but other groups and just about protecting their ethnic idenity?

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  • Individualism
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:23pm

    so i guess OWS isn’t racist than, and that is a bad thing?

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:16pm

    These are no more white supremacists than The black business association is the black panthers. Check their site. It is nothing more than a forum with interests such as job skills, Persian claims to be Aryan and European history. They are being attacked simply because they are a diversity group interested in White heritage that is being scrubbed!

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  • 1956
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:04pm

    Figures a couple of dumb a$$es from Bloomington IN would be involved. This place is a liberal cesspool. The guy from Martinsville is probably an outsider who never fit in with any other groups, as were the guys from Gosport. Losers & posers.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:20pm

      Blaze is lazy in their reporting. Go to the ARA website, it shows they plan to commit violence and even has photos of them committing violence. They are organized terrorists who’s expressed purpose is to deny others their 1st amendment rights through violence. They are also anti capitalist and anarchist. They plan to commit more violence on july 31st. Glenn should do an expose on them like he did to Soros.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:56pm

    To show how stupid these people are just look at the Logo with the slingshot.

    She has the wrong eye open for aiming a slingshot right-handed. ; )

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  • falschimjaeger
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:48pm

    I’m sure Shabazz and the NBPP will welcome these guys with open arms.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:46pm

    These radical leftist Bolsheviks number one thing on their brain (in their one track minds) is racism. They wake up in the morning thinking about racism (white racism, not Black Panther type racism) they eat lunch thinking about racism and they go to bed thinking about racism. It’s actually a mental illness. They have OCD and all they can think about is racism. They should be locked up in metal institutions and get shock treatment to help them with their disorder. They worship a pagan god named “Diversity” and that’s all they think about 24/7. Somehow these mentally ill patients are running around on the streets causing trouble instead of being locked up in mental wards where they belong so they can get help.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:07pm

      @SILLYFRESHNESS

      It has been shown that a conservative is one who believes that if you work hard, you will get rewarded, and a liberal is one who believes the system is against them.

      The left takes advantage of this and does everything it can to promote and encourage this victimhood mentality. Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Obama, etc.

      This is why we have affirmative action, the dream act, war on women, industrial/military/prison complex, redistribution of wealth and any other leftist philosophy, catch phrase, or program.

      An honest person judges a man by the content of his character, a racist sees everything through a prism of gender or race.

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  • Jayms
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:36pm

    This seems like a new reality show – Garbage Wars: Hate Group Vs. Hate Group.

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  • justangry
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:36pm

    Are you sure you’re not a Ron Paul supporter deep down?

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  • cemerius
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:34pm

    They can learn ALL they care to, about “race relations” in prison!!!

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:34pm

    Self proclaimed, self Directed Black Shirts Attacking Fascist or anyone they think might be, could be or anyone that doesn’t agree with them.

    Report Post » paperpushermj  
  • allensmithee789
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:31pm

    “I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
    ― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

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  • allensmithee789
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:28pm

    “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the ***** race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the ***** to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
    ― Booker T. Washington “Up From Slavery” A book on how to truly change race relations for the better.

    His Atlanta Exposition speech (no longer taught in schools) is one of the best on race relations ever. “Cast down your bucket” on this website to read it. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/88/

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    • copatriots
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:38pm

      Will do. Thank you very much, ALLEN, for your well-reasoned post.

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  • Inlandmar2
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:25pm

    Rebels without a clue!

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  • Mark0331
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:20pm

    These guys will not feel that tough once they get into the prison system and meet The Brotherhood…..violence breeds violence, and they ALL just signed up for the long haul…enjoy many years of hell and looking over your shoulder…

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:18pm

    Another gang of violent thugs looking for a cause so that they can appear to be legit.

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    • Mark0331
      Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:46pm

      Bullcrap………it looks like 3 of the them, the Sutherlins, went down together…bet you their folks are proud…the only one I feel sorry for is the Pitt Bull in the pictures….

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  • Constructionist
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:16pm

    For consistency’s sake, I would ask that all media personnel refer to the ARA as ‘self-appointed’ anti-racist protesters.

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  • TXPilot
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:16pm

    Sorry, just more “false flag” incitement, brought to you by Fuhrer Barry, the Communist traitors and the global elitists……Why pay attention to what they are doing to our country, when they are so willing to provide others of different races, religions and economic standings for us to concentrate on and hate……

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  • Crazy Times
    Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:15pm

    Excuses to beat people. They are really just another version of what they dislike, call them Inverted Nazis… Nazis who hate Nazis…. GEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

    “Nazis- I hate these guys” – Indiana Jones

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    • Azuresea
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:10pm

      I was thinking the same thing. Using nazi brown shirts tactics against your percieved enemies makes YOU what you say you are against. TALK ABOUT STUPID!
      I carry with a permit and I train at the range every week…call it a HOBBY.
      If this happened in a place I was dining… well, never bring a baseball bat or hammer to a GUN FIGHT.

      YOU threaten MY life and that of MY child, picture yourself with a big hole in the middle of your forehead.

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