T. Belman. Eric Hoffer called it in his classic, The True Believer. Such a person sees himself as nothing and the cause, everything. This article inspired me to ask a number of very talented writers to write an article about Antifa: what it is and where it came from and why the Democrats support it. Obviously such an article would draw parrallels between it and the brownshirts and blackshirts of history. These groups go to any lengths to shut down ideas and groups that they hate and consider themselves virtuous for doing so. That is, the ends justify the means. If anyone else is up to the challenge, kindly advise.
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai, NEWSPUNCH
The founder of domestic terrorist organization Antifa has admitted that George Soros helped turn them into terrorists “more dangerous than ISIS.”
Shayne Hunter, the founder of Antifa Australia, says he quit the radical far-left group after 4 years after he realised that “Soros was using us to start a civil war in every country in the world”.
In an interview with News.com.au, Shayne describes his experience:
I got radicalised in Sydney. I was originally concerned about Western intervention in Syria. Radical left wing people dominated rallies and I started to associate with them more. My so-called ‘normal’ friends drifted away.
We would hang out at an anarchist library in Sydney. Here a bunch of people on the dole gather enough money to rent out the space and run a bookshop. It’s like extremist networking.
I came to believe that war was a symptom of bigger systems at play in society and they were the real enemy, like white supremacy and patriarchy. Antifa believe these systems need to be smashed through a process of ‘de-platforming’ to save the world. People who don’t necessarily agree on everything are united to attack their common enemy — anyone in the right wing of politics.
This micro-society became my life for four years.
They believe historically their roots were fighting Nazi oppression. They run a website which is updated every couple of weeks with a hit list of right wing names. They believe if these people are allowed to speak, society will suffer. So, they must be pushed back.
There is no mission statement, rather, it’s a dangerous rhetoric. There are a lot of very damaged people who are drawn to it.
Lots of activists came from Sydney University. They invited me along to some of their lectures. When I was organising the ‘Reclaim Australia’ rally and pushing Antifa into Brisbane, we delegated roles out across the gathering. Someone would print pamphlets that got our propaganda out there. Someone else would look after social media and online, we all gathered people to come.
I read that Antifa in the US is training people to shoot and punch. It’s the same here. Antifa in Sydney are doing martial arts to, as they would put it, ‘fight the Nazis’. It’s a paramilitary mindset.
It’s more dangerous than ISIS.
I was ideologically possessed for four years. I would speak louder on public transport so people could hear me speak, hoping they would hear my message.
The radical left of Antifa presents itself as being about compassion and empathy; it’s a Trojan horse. All conversations are about entitlement and rights, not responsibility. When these people talk about freedom, they really mean freedom from responsibility.
Often the people who are drawn to this cult don’t have a strong identity outside it. I’m not a psychologist but, like ISIS, it gives people a sense of belonging to something and having purpose.
A ‘social justice warrior’ cringe video appeared on my social media feed. I didn’t watch it at first. A couple of weeks later it popped up again so I pressed play. It was like seeing the entire cult through an outside lens. It woke me up. I realised that everything I had started to believe was wrong.
You don’t know humiliation until you’ve left a cult; I wasted four years of my life.
I cut ties over time. I’m still in contact with some ex-cult members but I don’t see anyone who’s still active.
In my 20-something generation, social media plays the role of a 24/7 preacher — like a pocket preacher. Each day you’re being validated by the echo chamber on your phone.
Antifa would say there is nothing good about Australian society. Their minds project that belief, and everything is filtered through this ideology.
Without doubt it’s a huge and growing threat to Australian society. It’s a miserable mindset. When I got out of it and stopped feeling oppressed, I finally felt like I could take control of my life. That’s what I intend to do now.”
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
RE: the Big LIe. This is what Hitler did, in practice, but everybody says he openly advocated it in Mein Kampf when he didn’t advocate it, he accused the Jews, collectively, of doing this! He would have had be pretty stupid to openly admit to be being disengenuous. He became wealthy, after taking power, when he required every hotel room to have a copy of this book to replace the usual bible. Ordinary people were expected to read this!
@ Ted Belman: While everyone lies occasionally, most of us only lie about small matters, when telling the truth would be inconvenient for us. For example, the businessman who instructs his secretary to telll a troublesome client in the waiting room that he will be tied up in meetings all day, and therefore can’t see him, when this is not true. As Hitler explains in Mein Kampf, most ordinary people only tell little lies. Thus when a politician, like himself, tells a big lie, they are inclined to believe him. In my opinion, the two lies that I mentioned in my last comment are big lies, as defined by Hitler, who was an expert about this kind of thing. Someone who tells a big lie should never be trusted.
He lied when he claimed that the dead wood from houses absorbs oxegyn and releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In reality, only living vegetation can absorb carbon dioxide and release oxegyn into the atmosphere. Dead would is inert as far as carbon dioxide is concerned. He also lied when he claimed that you can drink unlimited amounts of a certain widely used insecticide (Roundup) without being harmed. Actually, the manufacturer specifically warns people on every cannister that it sells that drinking the stuff is toxic and could cause serious harm to your health. In my opinion, these are big lies.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Everybody lies to some extent. The question is did he lie avout the data he relied on to reject man made climate change.
You keep calling him a liar but never said what he lied about.
The interviewee offers no evidence that Soros is funding antifa in Australia. Although it would not surprise me if that were the case. In fact, I have not seen any evidence that Soros is funding antifa in the United States, although it would surprise me in the least if that was the case, given that his views are similar to those of Antifa leaders. Still, I am a stickler for evidence and solid, proven facts, and I would like to see them in this case.
There is strong evidence that Soros and his business associates are funding J-Street, even though he tried to deny it, as did J-Street.
@ linda goudsmit: Patrick Moore is a habitual, serial liar. So much so that he is an embarrassment rather than an asset to the climate-change-denial movement. Responsible climate-change deniers, of whom there are some, should avoid him like the plague if they want to make any converts to their views.
This article is reminiscent of the self-awakening of Canadian environmentalist Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace. Moore left Greenpeace when he understood the foundational principles of protecting the environment had been radicalized to promote the hoax of “global warming” and then “climate change.” Moore realized the organization was being used to promote the climate narrative which is a globalist humanitarian hoax designed to redistribute the wealth of industrialized nations to non-industrialized nations. The climate narrative is political science NOT atmospheric science. So it is with Shayne Hunter. There is hope for freedom and the sovereignty of nations as more and more young people understand they are being exploited in the grand globalist power grab to internationalize the world and impose one world government. These young people are participating in their own destruction – they are the useful idiots of the “revolution” that will bring a catastrophic return to the feudal system of the globalist few ruling the world’s enslaved population. It is a return to serfdom on a global scale. BUYER BEWARE!