Why is ANTIFA so white? They seem to have a diversity problem…but then again, Hitler’s Brown Shirts, and Mussolini’s Black Shirts were all-white too. The whole Anifa thing seems like a grotesque mixed metaphor–they dress like fascists, they wear masks like fascists, they act and attempt to intimidate like fascists, but, they are anti-fascists? So, they’re against themselves? And who are they fighting? All twenty white supremacist nerds? Don’t we all hate Illinois Nazis?
When you think about it, aren’t Antifa and Unite the Right kind of the same thing? A bunch of white, entitled, stupid losers with signs…except Anifa is more violent, and likes to burn and smash stuff, while occasionally beating up a member of the press.
My grandfather is a 96 yr old German. When seeing Antifa videos, he shakes his head and says; “We didnt think it could happen in Germany either. These people (Antifa) act and sound like the NAZI party’s Sturmabteilung. Stop them now or you’ll regret it.”pic.twitter.com/AK5ESYUFtF
— Landon Simms (@simms_landon) August 13, 2018
As Vox’s German Lopez wrote, “The argument for antifa activists is that the current crop of right-wing protesters — which are partly but not entirely made up of neo-Nazis, KKK members, and other white supremacists and nationalists — are so extreme that they must be stopped swiftly and even violently.”
This weekend in Charlottesville and DC, though, it wasn’t neo-Nazis and white supremacists the antifa attacked. It was police who were there to help keep the peace among all the demonstrators and journalists who were there to cover the events.
How that factors into antifa’s ideology is anyone’s guess.
Last weekend in Berkeley, Calif., a group of neo-communist antifa — “anti-fascist” — thugs attacked peaceful protesters at a “No to Marxism in America” rally, wielding sticks and pepper spray, and beating people with homemade shields that read (I kid you not) “No Hate.” The Post reports how one peaceful protester “was attacked by five black-clad antifa members, each windmilling kicks and punches into a man desperately trying to protect himself.” Members of the Berkeley College Republicans were then stalked by antifa goons who followed them to a gas station and demanded they “get the [expletive] out” of their car, warning, “We are real hungry for supremacists and there is more of us.”
The organizer of the anti-Marxism protest is not a white supremacist. Amber Cummings is a self-described “transsexual female who embraces diversity” and had announced on Facebook that “any racist groups like the KKK [and] Neo Nazis . . . are not welcome.” The protest was needed, Cummings said, because “Berkeley is a ground zero for the Marxist Movement.”
As if to prove Cummings’s point, the antifa movement responded with jackboots and clubs — because their definition of “fascist” includes not just neo-Nazis but also anyone who opposes their totalitarian worldview.
Granted, these morons are hilarious and marginally entertaining, but at the end of the day, all is lost…it’s just hopeless. Comedian Ron White sums it up:
Antifa is closely working with BLM, and will be spreading its,……….ironically, ……fascist ideology by any means possible.
Extremist organizations are very flexible with their affiliations when it comes to their goals.
During the Civil rights movement, the KKK had no trouble working with Malcolm X, and agreed to not interfere with black separatist marches and protests. This was because their goals were the same.
What is of great interest is who is funding these left wing extremists, and why they feel compelled to cover their faces? It appears it may be because they are the same people being shipped around the country as a rent a mob.
If they keep up their destructive behavior.they will awaken the sleeping giant. Normal , well armed Americans who will not tolerate this fascist behavior.
The quiet couple that has voted for the Democrats for the last 50 years no matter who they ran as a candidate are no different than these ‘left wing extremist’…
They both will vote for the same candidate on election day. That makes them equally as dangerous to our Judaeo Christian principles and our constitution.
VOX.com had an article recently entitled “Antifa clashes with police and journalists in Charlottesville and DC – Antifa says it fights fascists and neo-Nazis. But this weekend, members attacked cops and journalists” by Jennifer Williams on Aug, 12, 2018, where she provided us with this following concerning these “Antifa,” who I believe are the paramilitary forces of the Democrat party, to wit:
Thousands of people held multiple rallies across the city (Washington, D.C.) to celebrate diversity and push back against the hateful views the white nationalists espouse.
But a few left-wing “antifa” (short for “anti-fascist”) counterprotesters did engage in violence, throwing eggs and water bottles and shooting fireworks at police officers and some journalists who were covering the demonstrations.
Demonstrators also clashed with journalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, during an event marking the one-year anniversary of the killing of Heather Heyer by a Unite the Right participant at the first rally.
NBC News’s Cal Perry posted video of protesters shoving their hands into his camera, trying to cover the lens and asking him to stop filming:
A bit later, Perry posted another video of a protester shouting, “F*** you, snitch-ass news bitch!”
“F*** you!” and aggressively swatting away Perry’s camera:
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/12/17681986/antifa-leftist-violence-clashes-protests-charlottesville-dc-unite-the-right
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With that language, one must wonder about who their parents are, or were, and what kind of upbringing they had.
Where were they educated?
Who were their teachers?
And what were their values?
Getting back to the VOX.com article:
This is not the first time antifa protesters have been violent.
In August 2017, about 100 anarchists and antifa members assaulted far-right demonstrators who were marching peacefully in Berkeley, California, with pepper spray, water bottles, and direct physical assault.
As Vox’s German Lopez wrote at the time, “The argument for antifa activists is that the current crop of right-wing protesters — which are partly but not entirely made up of neo-Nazis, KKK members, and other white supremacists and nationalists — are so extreme that they must be stopped swiftly and even violently.”
Lopez continued:
Antifa supporters worry that if these groups’ views aren’t completely robbed of any kind of platform, they could gain legitimacy — and take advantage of democratic ideals like free speech to, ironically, promote their undemocratic messages.
Violence is one way to get them off the stage.
What this view misses is the backlash that may come from political violence: that such violence can reinforce right-wing views about the left.
As Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown University and editor of Dissent magazine, told me earlier this year, “[N]on-leftists often see [the left] as a disruptive, lawless force.”
“Violence tends to confirm that view.”
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Wise words, those, and so true.
But perhaps more to the point is the RealClearPolitics article “CNN’s Chris Cuomo Defends Antifa: Attacks On Police, Journalists ‘Not Equal’ To Fighting Bigots” posted by Ian Schwartz on August 14, 2018, as follows:
CNN’s Chris Cuomo argued Monday night Antifa protesters are wrong to hit people, police, and reporters, “but fighting hate is right” and in a clash between hate and those who oppose it, “those who oppose it are on the side of right.”
Cuomo said “all punches are not equal morally” when it comes to bigots.
“People who show up to fight against bigots are not to be judged the same as the bigots, even if they do resort to the same petty violence,” Cuomo said.
“Fighting against hate matters,” he added.
“I argue to you tonight, all punches are not equal morally,” he said.
“In the eyes of the law, yes.”
‘But in the eyes of good and evil, here’s the argument: if you’re a punk that comes to start trouble in a mask and hurt people, you’re not about any virtuous cause.”
“You’re just somebody who’s going to be held to the standard of doing something wrong.”
“But when someone comes to call out bigots and it gets hot, even physical, are they equally wrong as the bigot they are fighting?”
“I argue, no.”
“Fighting against hate matters,” Cuomo concluded.
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There is some moral authority put on the Antifa violence by CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who happens to be the brother to New York state governor and progressive Democrat Young Andy Cuomo, who is the prospective Democrat candidate for president in 2020.
“Punch the **** out of some right winger for God and country and you will be on the side of righteousness in America!”
As to the antifas that CNN’s Chris Cuomo is so enamoured of, we learn more about them in the New York Times article “‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right” by Thomas Fuller, Alan Feuer and Serge F. Kovaleski on Aug. 17, 2017, as follows:
Sabaté is an adherent of a controversial force on the left known as antifa.
The term, a contraction of the word “anti-fascist,” describes the loose affiliation of radical activists who have surfaced in recent months at events around the country and have openly scuffled with white supremacists, right-wing extremists and, in some cases, ordinary supporters of President Trump.
Energized in part by Mr. Trump’s election, they have sparred with their conservative opponents at political rallies and college campus speaking engagements, arguing that one crucial way to combat the far right is to confront its supporters on the streets.
Unlike most of the counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville and elsewhere, members of antifa have shown no qualms about using their fists, sticks or canisters of pepper spray to meet an array of right-wing antagonists whom they call a fascist threat to American democracy.
As explained this week by a dozen adherents of the movement, the ascendant new right in the country requires a physical response.
“People are starting to understand that neo-Nazis don’t care if you’re quiet, you’re peaceful,” said Emily Rose Nauert, a 20-year-old antifa member who became a symbol of the movement in April when a white nationalist leader punched her in the face during a melee near the University of California, Berkeley.
“You need violence in order to protect nonviolence,” Ms. Nauert added.
“That’s what’s very obviously necessary right now.”
“It’s full-on war, basically.”
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Like in VEET NAM, where we had to destroy villages to save villages, or fornicating in the name of chastity.
The NYT article further stated as follows with respect to the political nature of the antifas:
Antifa adherents — some armed with sticks and masked in bandannas — played a visible role in the running street battles in Charlottesville, but it is impossible to know how many people count themselves as members of the movement.
Its followers acknowledge it is secretive, without official leaders and organized into autonomous local cells.
In the fight against the far right, antifa has allied itself at times with local clergy, members of the Black Lives Matter movement and grass-roots social-justice activists.
It has also supported niche groups like Black Bloc fighters, who scrapped with right-wing forces in Berkeley this year, and By Any Means Necessary, a coalition formed more than two decades ago to protest California’s ban on affirmative action for universities.
George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia who counts himself as both an antifa follower and a scholar of the movement, said it did not have a single origin story.
The group has antecedents in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, where its early followers traded shots with Nazis in the 1930s and fought against Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts.
Its more recent history has roots in the straight-edge punk rock music scene, the anti-globalization protests of the 1990s and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The closest thing antifa may have to a guiding principle is that ideologies it identifies as fascistic or based on a belief in genetic inferiority cannot be reasoned with and must be physically resisted.
Its adherents express disdain for mainstream liberal politics, seeing it as inadequately muscular, and tend to fight the right through what they call “direct actions” rather than relying on government authorities.
“When you look at this grave and dangerous threat — and the violence it has already caused — is it more dangerous to do nothing and tolerate it, or should we confront it?” Frank Sabaté said.
“Their existence itself is violent and dangerous, so I don’t think using force or violence to oppose them is unethical.”
In the days after the violent events in Charlottesville, some antifa members responded with an angry call to arms, saying they could not back down from what they described as the “aggressors” on the right, even if it meant an escalation into gunfights.
“I hope we never get there,” said a 29-year-old antifa anarchist from California who goes by the pseudonym Tony Hooligan.
“But we are willing to get there.”
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So that is some background on the antifas that CNN’s Chris Cuomo has become a vocal champion of.
I for one have been wondering where the paramilitary Anti-fa thugs have gone, who pulled their leash to get them to come to heel, and when could we expect them back, and as is made clear in an article by NPR entitled “Police Declare A Riot After Far-Right And Antifa Groups Clash In Portland, Ore.” by Chris Benderev on July 1, 2018, we no longer have to wait for them to make their next appearance to stifle speech they don’t like with violence, to wit:
What began in downtown Portland, Ore., on Saturday as a permitted march by the far-right group Patriot Prayer was quickly declared a riot and halted by police after altercations with anti-fascist counterprotesters escalated, with reports of projectiles causing several injuries.
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One can assume from the fact that it was a “permitted” march that those people had the right to be where they were when they were attacked by the paramilitary Anti-fa thugs who intended to use violence to stifle speech they don’t like, as we see from the following from that same article, to wit:
Around 6 p.m. local time, Patriot Prayer initiated its permitted march, working its way along Third Avenue.
But projectiles quickly began flying.
Before Saturday, Eugene Antifa, a far-left group, posted on Facebook its intention to stymie groups like Patriot Prayer.
“It is very important that antifascists keep up the pressure so that we can stop them once and for all,” it wrote.
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Stop them for once and for all?
That sounds like these Anti-fa thugs intend to wage unconditional warfare against those whose speech the Anti-fa thugs do not like, which takes us to an article in the INDEPENDENT entitled “Antifa attack conservative blogger Andy Ngo amid violence at Portland Proud Boys protest – Police arrest three suspects after eight people injured and three taken to hospital in protest violence” by Lizzie Dearden Security Correspondent @lizziedearden on 30 JUNE 2019, where it was reported as follows:
A conservative writer has been attacked by antifascists amid violence at clashing demonstrations in Portland.
Andy Ngo was surrounded and beaten by protesters wearing black with their faces concealed, while being covered in a milkshake, eggs and spray on Saturday.
Disorder broke out when a group of antifascist protesters left their designated area and marched towards the Proud Boys rally, repeatedly trying to get around police blockades.
One banner read “f*** Nazis and fascists”, while some protesters waved a banner for the Satanic Portland Antifascists and chanted: “Not hate, no fear, Proud Boys are not welcome here.”
Footage showed scuffles between opposing protesters, while several antifascists were wearing face coverings or helmets, and carrying homemade shields, bats and weapons.
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The Anti-fa thugs sound very much like fervent Hillary Clinton supporters out thumping some members of Hillary’s “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES” for the Queen Mum with “THUMP A DEPLORABLE FOR HILLARY” as their marching song.
Which in turn takes us to an article in the THE NATIONAL REVIEW entitled “Thuggery Comes to Portland” by Jim Geraghty on July 1, 2019 9:56 AM, for this following observation on the times we are now in, with these Anti-fa thugs very much resembling the Hitler Youth back when, to wit:
How frightened are Portland institutions of Antifa, the most fascist bunch of self-proclaimed anti-fascists you’ll ever see?
This morning, the Oregonian, the biggest and most important newspaper in the state, describes an assault on Andy Ngo at one of their rallies: “Oregonian/OregonLive reporter caught the attack on video, though the video doesn’t show what precipitated the attack.”
The implication, of course, is that somehow Andy Ngo provoked the crowd of angry masked men into punching him, kicking him, throwing objects at him, and dousing him with some sort of liquid.
This is a parody of journalistic objectivity: “We don’t want to take sides between the person who’s being punched and kicked and the group of people doing the punching and kicking.”
There’s a sad, fearful, defensive undercurrent to the Oregonian’s coverage.
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Like the Hitler Youth, and the Red Guard of Chairman Mao, these Anti-fa thugs are using violence as a political tool to shape the world the way they want it to be, which takes us back to that article as follows:
The Oregonian chose the headline, “Portland mayor, police come under fire after right-wing writer attacked at protest” — a classic of the “conservatives pounce” genre.
But the story they’re reporting is “gang of masked assailants beat man in park as police watch.”
Or perhaps that sort of thing is starting to happen so often in Portland that it no longer qualifies as news.
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As was the case with Anti-fa thug violence in Berkeley, California, the police on Portland were more or less spectators to the Anti-fa violence, as we see further from the National Review article, to wit:
Ted Cruz and Richard Grenell are calling upon federal law enforcement to step in, contending that the mayor and Portland police refuse to enforce the law.
The Oregonian report insists there’s no evidence of this, but there’s a repeated pattern of gangs at the Antifa rallies getting violent and no one getting arrested.
In December, our Kevin Williamson wrote a cover story about how the black-masked violent thugs of Antifa periodically take over the streets of Portland:
“All cops are bastards!”
And these absolutely are their streets, as the two neutered Portland cops following them dutifully around make clear.
The goons and thugs occasionally take a moment to amuse themselves by messing with the cops, screaming obscenities at them or committing flagrant but relatively minor violations of the law in front of them, daring them to do anything about it.
The cops trudge and trundle on, calm as monks, pretending not to notice as the hoodlums pound on passing cars, block intersections, and menace bystanders.
At the most public of public spaces in Portland, Pioneer Courthouse Square — “Portland’s living room,” they call it — the goons encounter a little bit of counterprotest, not from sad incel Proud Boys or the Klan or simply from other pissant neo-fascists wearing slightly different-color shirts — but from a young black man who intuits, not inaccurately, that this is mainly a bunch of rich-white-kid play-acting by little runts who make pretty good thugs when confronted with people in wheelchairs or little old ladies — more on that in a second — but who are basically chickensh** poseurs who are Down for the Cause only to the extent that it doesn’t stand between them and a soy latte and an MFA.
He says as much, at higher volume than probably is really necessary — and the weaselly little munchkin blackshirts who had just a second before insisted that all cops are bastards! and boasted of their control of the streets turn immediately to the police for help.
And the police, damn their eyes, help: They evict an actual peaceable protester, if a loud one, from the public square — in order to make room for mask-wearing, law-breaking, little-old-lady-assaulting hooligans.
A police vehicle cruises down the street a respectful distance behind the mob.
The purported lawmen inside announce over the loudspeakers that they are there to assure this rabble of miscreants that they are there to help the mob “exercise your First Amendment rights safely,” so please stay on the sidewalk and obey the traffic laws.
Naturally, the mob responds to this by immediately stepping off the sidewalk and violating the traffic laws.
Not that there’s any need to — they just want to remind themselves, and the police, that they can.
Whose streets?
That’s pretty clear.
In Portlandia, the mayor of Portland is played by Kyle MacLachlan (of Twin Peaks) as a goofy and generally earnest middle-aged municipal careerist trying to be cool.
In real life, Portland’s mayor is Ted Wheeler, a sniveling little runt of a bureaucrat who professes to be “appalled” at the political violence that is now commonplace on the streets of Portland but complains that he is effectively unable to do anything about it.
When Antifa thugs attacked a march held by Patriot Prayer, a local right-wing group, police reported seeing people brandishing guns, clubs, knives, and pepper spray.
They made no arrests.
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And a new season of Anti-fa thug violence begins!