White Nationalist Frightened by Glitter Bomb

Tough guy Sahady

The organizers of a planned “Straight Pride” parade in Boston called 911 yesterday to report a threat mailed to their office. Three members, including Parade organizer Samson Racioppi and Super Happy Fun America vice president Mark Sahady, received packages that contained what they thought was a "suspicious substance."

Super Happy Fun America, is a Boston-based group that claims straight people are an “oppressed majority" and are organizing a "Straight Pride" parade in late August.  Many of the group's organizers, including Sahady, have numerous ties to violent white nationalist and other far-right groups. 

Sahady oversees the Massachusetts chapter of a far-right organization called Resist Marxism, and it has been the driving force for a number far-right events in the New England area. Its founder, alt-right street-brawling figure Kyle Chapman, was a scheduled speaker at an Aug. 19, 2017, “free speech rally” in Boston that was notable for attracting 30-40,000 counterprotesters and only a tiny handful of participants.


Sahady also organized a second free-speech rally that drew tiny crowds in November 2017, as well as a gun-rights counterprotest in Boston in March 2018 that was dwarfed by the concurrent March For Our Lives protest by students demanding gun control the same day in Boston.


That spring, Sahady traveled to Portland, Oregon, to participate in a “rally” organized by the far-right street-brawling outfit Patriot Prayer. That event, which was dominated by the presence of a large contingent of members of the hate group Proud Boys, became exceptionally violent. Portland Police wound up declaring it a riot, revoking Patriot Prayer’s permit, and closing the protests down.


Most recently, Sahady led his Resist Marxism group, along with members of American Guard, in an attack January 19 on participants in the Boston Women’s March.


As with Patriot Prayer, Resist Marxism doesn’t have members—its leaders just organize events, and anyone who wants to join them is welcome as long as they are pro-Donald Trump and hate antifascists. This means—like Patriot Prayer, Proud Boys, and all the other street-fighting groups—that their ranks are frequently thick with neo-Nazis and white nationalists, as well as other stripes of far-right extremism, including “QAnon” conspiracy theory fanatics.

As the 911 responders analyzed the threat to Super Happy Fun America, Sahady maintained that he was a “victim” of “violence" and said, “My neighbors are now probably pretty irritated with me,” adding “I wouldn’t wish this for anyone.”

After a full analysis, the hazmat team reported that the suspicious envelopes actually contained glitter.  Way to go, tough guys.