{"id":328742,"date":"2026-07-08T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328742"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:37:43","slug":"the-real-point-of-the-patriot-front-psy-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328742","title":{"rendered":"The Real Point of the \u201cPatriot Front\u201d Psy-Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian July 7, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Over the Fourth of July weekend, Washington DC found itself beset by the \u201cPatriot Front\u201d, about 400 guys in matching outfits, with white balaclavas covering their faces and waving flags about.<\/p>\n<p>The (relatively small) gathering walked about a bit, did some marching, waved some flags\u2026and scared the press to death!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The group marched away from Union Station, carrying various flags, including Confederate flags. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xo0WDH2B9O\">pic.twitter.com\/Xo0WDH2B9O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mitchell Miller (@mmillerwtop) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mmillerwtop\/status\/2073399572118790463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not real, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The running joke has already become they are barely-disguised federal agents indulging in some rather lame propaganda, even as some members of rightwing defend both their realness and their aims.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they do community projects and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, they are not real. Even if they\u2019re not literally all FBI agents \u2013 which we can\u2019t actually rule out \u2013 they are a psy-op to some extent or another.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at them. And you <em>can<\/em> just look at them, do you know why? Because they\u2019re <em>all over the press and social media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This picture in particular has \u201cgone viral\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/patriotic-front-on-train-reuters-650x424-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-328743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/patriotic-front-on-train-reuters-650x424-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"424\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/patriotic-front-on-train-reuters-650x424-1.png 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/patriotic-front-on-train-reuters-650x424-1-480x313.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 650px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Several similarly themed <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jsparkblog\/status\/2073571233992474842\">\u201clone ethnic minority surrounded by faceless Nazis\u201d<\/a> pictures all sprang up at once, which is suspicious in and of itself, but this is the one that really stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Both the bots and people who don\u2019t realise they\u2019ve become bots are promoting it all over the place.<em> \u201cIt should win a Pulitzer prize\u201d<\/em> they say. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/07\/06\/defining-image-of-the-era-of-american-history-july-4-patriot-front-photo-goes-viral\">\u201cThis photo will define our age.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Renee-x-post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-328747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Renee-x-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"850\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Renee-x-post.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Renee-x-post-480x628.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 650px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This kind of coverage, this kind of engineered viral content, is the hallmark of the psy-op, and it shows what Patriot Front (and groups like them) are really for:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creating the illusory threat of <\/strong><em><strong>potential<\/strong><\/em><strong> fascism on the fringes to distract from very <\/strong><em><strong>real<\/strong><\/em><strong> fascism already in the very centre of power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou see those guys? In the khakis waving flags about? They\u2019re Nazis. That\u2019s what fascism is, waving flags and doing wrong think.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUs, the people who spy on you, lock you in your house, track your movements, restrict your speech and indoctrinate your kids, we\u2019re not fascists. In fact, we\u2019re protecting you from the meanie fascists and their heinous flag-waving ways.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the point of displays like the Patriot Front.<\/p>\n<p>They transform fascism from policy into paraphernalia. Fascism becomes a combination of outfit and accoutrements, rather than authoritarian politics.<\/p>\n<p>With the implied corollary that, as long as you\u2019re not wearing the outfit or waving the flag, you\u2019re not actually fascist.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the <a href=\"https:\/\/ij.org\/dozens-of-innocent-motorists-have-been-pulled-over-detained-at-gunpoint-or-jailed-due-to-ai-license-plate-camera-errors\/\">Flock cameras spread<\/a>, digital ID looms, and <a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/06\/10\/political-satirist-cj-hopkins-facing-criminal-prosecution\/\">authors are imprisoned<\/a> for criticizing the regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2026\/07\/06\/the-real-point-of-the-patriot-front-psy-op\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press has gone to town over a few hundred marchers in Washington on the July 4th weekend. What did this &#8220;fascist&#8221; display signify, asked the media? As Kit Knightly explains, it was probably a psy-op intended to create the illusion of a \u201cfascist\u201d threat on the fringes. To distract attention from the real threat at the very centre of power.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":328745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328748,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328742\/revisions\/328748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}