In my previous article, I described the history and activities of Antifa. There is no question that its presence is found in almost all of the recent riots around the country. The question is how is Antifa able to be involved more or less everywhere, and how have they been able to commit violence without significant punishment.
The Antifas in the USA are not highly centralized, and this is consistent with their counterparts in Europe. Nevertheless, using advances in the internet, Antifas can rapidly communicate, organize and mobilize to attack a chosen target. (All of this can be done within hours and is similar to the flash mobs that sprung up seemingly out of nowhere.)
The Antifas have allied themselves with a variety of grievance groups. Black Lives Matter was present at the recent Charlottesville riot, but Antifa has also coordinated locally with leftist student groups on various campuses, anti-Trump operatives of the Democrat Party, and almost any group that has some type of complaint about the laws and the Constitution of the USA. In every instance, antifa is part of the violent center of what otherwise might be just a noisy peaceable assembly.
The most dangerous part of the antifa situation is that the Democrat Party leadership has and continues to hide, excuse and even laud the behavior of the antifas. While the Republican leadership vigorously and consistently condemns the neo-Nazis and the KKK, the Democrat leadership consistently changes the conversation on antifa violence. (Apparently, the alt-left can do no wrong and, if it does, well the alt-right is worse.) It appears that antifa is essential to the functioning of the Democrat Party.
There will be more protests, and antifa will be there to ensure that violence occurs and is staged in such a way that the media does not put its behavior in a negative light. Add to this politicized policing and the deliberate distortions by public officials on the left, and future injury, death, and destruction are certain. It is absolutely essential that American citizens continuously call out this calumny on the part of Democrats if we want to reestablish a semblance of a civil and lawful society.
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Icing on the cake of non-equivalence. From the LA Times:
A tweet from the account of the far-right activist who organized the Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” rally insulted the protester who was killed at the event, saying late Friday night that her death was “payback time.”
“Heather Heyer was a fat, disgusting Communist,” stated the tweet on an account belonging to Jason Kessler. “Communists have killed 94 million. Looks like it was payback time.”
The tweet linked to a story on neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer that also insulted Heyer in crude terms and appeared to take glee in her death.
Cuckservatives will bow and scrape before them as always.
And get called racists anyway. 🙂
Are we agreed we should oppose facism in all its forms, at every turn, and with every appropriate means?
Many gave all in our history towards just this end. Do we dishonor them standing idly as Nazis march?
Aren’t we all antifa? Most especially so conservatives?
No, we aren’t all antifa. They are a violent socialist/communist totalitarian group that hates everything America stands for. I can both condemn both the neo-Nazis and the antifa as anti-American.
I would remind you that we didn’t just fight WW2. We fought the communists in Korea and Vietnam. We fight for our freedoms and against the totalitarian forces in the world whether they be neo-Nazi, antifa, violent Islam, or any other force that betrays the nation and its citizenry. Western Europe may have forgotten that at its peril. I have not.
I add that the way ntirety of the Cold War was fought against the USSR, the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics.
I suspect you would say the DEMOCRATIC Republic of Korea is both a democracy and run by Democrats.
BTW, could you explain that thing about anitfa? About how they hate everything America stands for? I thought America stood for confronting Nazis and gave half a million lives in doing so, but your read is somehow different.
And how do you know how antifa is run? Are you antifa? Do you know someone who is?
You seem to think antifa was there only to confront neo-nazis. If you bother to look at their violent activities around the USA, confronting neo-nazis in Charlottesville was a convenient excuse for riot. How do you explain the anti-trump riots on Inauguration Day. There weren’t any neo-nazis there. How about the riots at Berkeley. There weren’t any neo-nazis there. How about the attacks on republicans in San Jose and Chicago. There weren’t any neo-nazis there. I could on and on but my point is simple. Antifa is a destructive anti-American totalitarian socialist/communist entity that engages in violence to achieve that end. They will work with anyone who cooperates with those destructive ideas including the members of the Democrat Party that are similarly motivated.
Look up black bloc.
Antifa went to Charlottesville not on its own accord, but to confront Nazis. It was Nazis who called a march. The good woman who died never heard of antifa.
Even your pithy ending reveals your stupidity: I known what black bloc is from reading, and that wasn’t at all in evidence in Charlottesville — it was a rainbow of color. So what does that say about your theories?
Warmac9999, you discredit every good conservative. Mitt Romney properly places 100% of the blame on the Nazis. You, sir, are a fool.
Your first sentence makes a whole bunch of assumption about motivation. The antifas go where they can create violence without consequence – and the neo-nazis, a bunch of evil fools, provided the perfect opportunity.
To deny that antifa was there is to deny the truth of their existence and intentions. As seen in Charlottesville, that had deadly consequences and all involved in actual rioting rather than shouting share the blame. As in Kent state, it was the innocent who suffered most from such a confrontation.
I place 100% of the blame on those who riot and I certainly don’t take my cue from Romney who is no conservative. As far as being a fool – in times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act and, thus, quite foolish.
You are the one who said black bloc tactics are their signature. I simply observed there were no black bloc tactics in evidence, no sea of black clothing, etc. I do not deny antifa was in attendance — your screwy logic leads us there.
Further, the young woman killed was not antifa, nor were most in attendance antifa. The marchers were at least 90% Nazis, KKK and similar ideologies.
Of course antifa was there. Nazis called a march. Sadly, you’re self-immolating conservative thought. We need adversarial ideas but we’re headed to a decade or more with them discredited by association with idiots.
How I found this place (TBE). I asked around amongst Republican leaders about where there is a group of thinkers that are emblematic of the Republican problems in Virginia. Oh, that’s easy they said: The Bull Elephant is full of fools who are the Jesse Jacksons of the Republican Party.
I came to see for myself and it turns out that sadly they were right!
If you didn’t see a contingent in all-black, it’s only because you weren’t looking (or didn’t want to see).
You asked, “Aren’t we all Antifa” made my jaw drop. Clearly you consider yourself a member or you could not have asked that question. Antifa’s stated goals are absurd, such as the oxymoronic statement, “Peace through violence.”. They claim that they will go wherever the right goes and will “confront them with violence.”.
Antifa also partners with hate groups, but “that’s okay” because their hatred is directed towards different groups. It doesn’t matter whether you hate blacks or whites – hate on the basis of race is still racism.
They have also vowed to fight not just Nazis, but also the police, ICE, and many more. Defeating capitalism and destroying the US government are part of their stated goals.
Antifa wants anarchy (their words, not mine). No one who loves the US is Antifa. They are as much an enemy to the US as the Nazis are. Actually, more so. The Nazis wanted to March around a statue and get their picture in the newspapers. They are hate-filled but not a danger to our society. Antifa, however, has vowed to destroy the US, “by any means necessary.”
I wouldn’t be bragging about my membership in Antifa if I were you.
How much coffee did you drink this morning? I am anti-facist. I hope you are, too.
The rest of your claims are just that: Empty, unevidenced claims. Source for the quotes? Evidence they speak for an organized group? Where comes the funds?
Have there been any charges leveled by law enforcement against them? In Charlottesville, did these people kill or maim anyone? Why do the pictures show them unarmed against armed marchers? Why was the woman killed not a part of any organized antifa group? If even a tenth of what you wrote had basis in fact it would be evidence in a courtroom — please provide the citation to support your claims.
I’ve had enough coffee to stay awake. If you’re offering, I’ll take another cup, thank you. Black, please.
It should be clear from my original comment that I am opposed to fascism. If not, I will state it clearly: fascism is evil and I fully condemn all aspects of it, in no uncertain terms. But despising fascism does not blind me to evil elsewhere.
I have no idea if the woman killed was part of Antifa, and I did not make such a claim. I hope you aren’t attempting to put words in my mouth because I will not tolerate that.
I don’t believe she was singled out by the driver. He appears to be trying to kill or maim as many “counter protestors” as possible without aiming for anyone in particular. I say that based on video, for I can’t get inside the driver’s head. I do know, from his statement that he is an evil little Nazi who deserves the death sentence for his terrorist attacks.
In Charlottesville, yes they were armed with sticks, club’s, brass knuckles and mace. Why do you now claim that pictures show them unarmed? A moment ago you claimed that they were not in black Bloc. Wouldn’t that make them unidentifiable? Perhaps the picture you are now referring to was of someone other than Antifa. Antifa was far from the only group among the so-called “counter protestors.”
Have there ever been arrests of Antifa? Yes. Portland to name just one. In Charlottesville, I don’t believe so. There was little interference by the police and very few arrests. Same in Durham. The police stood by and watched (and videotaped) while the statue was destroyed but made no attempt to stop the violence.
My resources come from the ability to use the internet since I first became aware of the group at least a decade ago. Currently, you can find several cnn.com articles that are surprisingly good. Checking out an Antifa website is also illuminating. It is very easy to become educated about Antifa. Take an hour from your day to read multiple sources.
Who funds them? Not surprisingly, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute. The fact that Soros has a hand in this should come as no surprise to anyone.
Soros is an American-Jew driven out of Hungary by Nazis. No surprise he opposes facism. No way he would fund an attack on the US and his investments, which is what you and others suggest. Arms=guns, unarmed as in without guns. Not in black bloc, which to my reading says uniformity in large numbers. This group was a sea of color. The woman killed was not antifa, like most just in opposition to Hate. In Durham there were many arrests based on the video. I take many hours to research, your so-called “facts” are lacking.
No one is putting words in your mouth but you will tolerate my speech just as I tolerate speech from Nazis. Disagree with it if you will, but you said I was part of antifa when rhetorically I’ve made clear we are all anti-facists and should support anyone who stands up to facism. Romney is correct: 100% their fault.
The more he comments, the more he reveals himself as antifa. He has already admitted he is not a Republican.
Antifa’s recent activity can also be attributed to the rise of the post modernists across college campuses. Post modernists are neo-Marxists and their ideology meshes perfectly with antifa. If we want to stop antifa, we need to stop subsidizing the post modernists. We are literally allowing our children to be indoctrinated into this ideology. Colleges such as VT have mandated that professors include post modernist instruction in their classes in order to be promoted/receive tenure and also require students to complete “diversity” training in order to enroll in classes.
https://www.nas.org/articles/diversity_and_inclusion_litmus_tests_for_tenure
This site does a great job at documenting this madness:
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/
Diversity and inclusiveness are opposite sides of the same totalitarian coin. Somebody has to judge and you can bet it won’t be a white male as prior victim of oppression credentials have to be established. Very tragic for the future of VT.
But but but – according to the RTD they don’t exist!
According to CNN and MSNBC they not only exist but are doing God’s work.
It’s amazing that all of a sudden everyone is an expert on Antifa, a group that has for years worked to stop conservative speakers from giving talks on college campuses. Nobody cared before, but now all of a sudden Antifa experts are crawling out of the woodwork.
Antifa has been in this country since the 1990s but has been more or less out of sight, a curiosity really. Over the past decade, Obama and the MSM gave them a lot of cover with a lot of excuses about combating bigotry. With Trump as President they have exploded, literally, onto the landscape with very high levels of violence almost every where from DC to Berkeley and everything in between.
It always takes time for people to wake up to things like this but awake they are and more than a bit concerned. The antifa cobra is now fully out of the Democrat basket, and they will strike anywhere regardless of circumstances – they burned a bust of Lincoln and attacked a peace memorial. The defaced the Lee statue at Duke. It is really going to be hard to keep up with them until the police and security apparatus of the USA puts them down.
With one small exception, I agree. Antifa has been present in the US before 1990. They began here in the late 1980’s and protested against Reagan on several occasions.
Seven things you should know about Antifa, http://www.dailywire.com/news/19717/7-things-you-need-know-about-antifa-michael-qazvini#
Thanks, until this all happened I just thought they were a bunch of college students and unemployed college grads.
I still like Mike ‘ s story he said “pot heads”.
I have to agree. Can we not let the both sides conduct self removal from the gene pool and let them meet at Manassas battlefield.
The core group of Antifa members are usually older than college age and jump from one place to another (Occupy, Ferguson, Baltimore, Portland, Charlottesville, and anyplace else they can find differing opinions). They are joined in each place by locals, some of which are college age.
The core group cannot be otherwise employed (who can take off to spend months “occupying” or run from city to city as needed?). Someone must be paying them and covering their expenses. With a little research, a familiar name emerged’. George Soros. Surprised? Neither was I.
I checked: Do the names Ben & Jerry emerge, too? What other corporations? Ford Foundation?
Who could be surprised Soros would fight Nazis? They drove him out of his homeland. He was a Hungarian Jew. He despises Nazis and fascists. Makes total sense.
As I asked, who disagrees? Who is pro-fascist?
You really need to,read an honest bio of Soros. You have quite a romantic view of a very evil individual.
I think he is greedy and self-interested. How romantic is that? I simply note his self-interested motives (fighting Nazis who ran him, a Jew, out of his native Hungary) are conveniently anti-fascist, which matches my interests. Foxhole politics. We both hate the same people: Fascists.
This is from a 60 minute interview in 1998. He was a kid when he did this but in 1998 he was more than a wealthy adult. You judge whether this is evil or just self-interest:
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors.
SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many, years. Was it difficult?
SOROS: No, not at all. Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.
KROFT: No feelings of guilt?
SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute power.
Did you miss the part about how he was 14yo and instructed by his father to engage in this ruse to hide from the Nazis who were persecuting Jews like him in his native Hungary. Obviously, the correct ruse to throw them off. I am sure my 14yo son would do what I told him, especially if the goal was to spare his life and ensure our family line survived. It is absolutely sick that you seek to tear this man down. What purpose does it serve? He fights Nazis for obvious good reasons. We should all welcome his assistance, just as we should all condemn you personally for defending them.
Every good conservative blames the Nazis for the march and its events. Listen to Romney.
It’s bringing down Trump at long last. He will resign or be forced from the scene by wiser hands who’ve had enough and that cannot come soon enough for good Republicans and conservatives who rightly fear where this headed.
Thank you, Jeanine Martin. You’ve contributed to this in your own way.