By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER
On Sunday, President Trump took aim at Antifa, which apparently has driven the violent side of the protests ripping through America’s Democrat-run cities. With full-throated support from Attorney General Barr, Trump is designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. This is an extremely important announcement because Antifa is more than just a terrorist group. It is, in fact, the paramilitary arm of the Democrat Party.
As is often the case, Trump made his consequential announcement via Twitter:
@realDonaldTrump
The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
John Solomon provides some context:
National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that the rioting in most cities was being instigated by outsiders aligned with Antifa.
“The reports we’re receiving is that this is Antifa. They’re crossing state lines,” O’Brien said. “And we’ve seen this happen before. We saw it in Portland. We saw it in Seattle. We saw it in Berkeley. So, look, we’ll keep our eyes open for anyone else that wants to take advantage of the situation, whether it’s domestic or foreign.
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Some of the group’s tactics include throwing bricks, crowbars, metal chains, water bottles, and balloons filled with urine and feces, according to the Anti- Defamation League.
This is Antifa:
(Twitter has since suspended the account.)
This is also Antifa, attacking Andy Ng, a citizen journalist, in Portland last year. Ng sustained a brain bleed because of the attack:
Many people believe that George Soros is funding Antifa and pulling its strings. While he may be funding the organization, its radical ties put it squarely within the new Democrat party. Indeed, the moment New York Mayor Bill deBlasio’s son heard about Trump’s announcement, he proudly declared fealty to the group:
Jeremiah Ellison@jeremiah4north
I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA
Unless someone can prove to me ANTIFA is behind the burning of black and immigrant owned businesses in my ward, I’ll keep focusing on stopping the white power terrorist THE ARE ACTUALLY ATTACKING US! https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1267129644228247552 …
@realDonaldTrump
The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
Antifa claims to be Anti-Fascist, so people think it’s a good organization. It’s not.
When fascism appeared in the 1930s, its biggest enemy was communism. This was not because fascism and communism were antithetical ideologies. It was because they were sister totalitarian ideologies, both arising out of socialism, with both competing for the same voters. The Antifa of the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, therefore, wasn’t a peaceful democratic movement seeking to stand against all forms of totalitarian socialism; it was, instead, a violent communist group engaged in bloody internecine warfare with Hitler’s fascists.
Lest you have any doubt that today’s Antifa is the direct descendant of the violent communist group in Hitler’s Germany, just compare the logos. Here’s the original Antifa logo:
And here’s the American Antifa logo:
For those who say that Antifa is obviously communist, so it has nothing to do with the Democrat Party, think again. Over the past few years, Antifa has been operating freely in Democrat-run cities such as Berkeley and Portland, attacking anything or anybody they think is conservative. In those cities, the mayors have explicitly told their police forces to stand down. This means that the mayors are treating treat Antifa as a Democrat paramilitary organization that uses violence to suspend citizens’ First Amendment rights to free speech.
The easiest way to think about Antifa is to view it as the 21st-century version of the Ku Klux Klan. Back in the day, the KKK was the Democrat party’s terrorist arm. Now it’s Antifa, which is the Democrat Party’s brownshirts. In the media and in the halls of Congress, Democrats talk the language of politics while on the streets their black-clad, masked girls and boys smash heads.
Kurt Schlichter argues compellingly that, if Bill Barr is able to put pressure on Antifa (as he has promised to do) Barr can end that vile organization’s existence. Just as importantly, prosecuting Antifa will force Democrat politicians out into the open, as they defend their street fighters:
Memo to @realDonaldTrump:
The pressure point for the Antifa terrorists is federal law-enforcement.
Federal law criminalizes their use of interstate organizational activities.
If the FBI balks, Wray must be fired
Fed LE is not under the control of leftist DAs, police chiefs & mayors. For too long you had Democrat cities pulling back police & releasing rioters immediately w/o serious charges.
By reviewing arrest records, the FBI can determine potential candidates for federal charges. And @realDonaldTrump can score huge political victories by highlighting Democrat politicians who obstruct his prosecutions.
People will not tolerate covering for rioters who may have committed federal crimes.
Make the Dems side with the thugs or alienate their base. What Antifa fears is federal prosecution.
When the first of these little trust fund sissies figures out he’s not walking out of his cell after 20 minutes with a $50 fine but looking at five years in Leavenworth on a Fed rap, he’ll squeal on his comrades. This is an opportunity to destroy Antifa root and branch, and to eliminate the armed wing of the Democrat party. Forever
They miscalculated and overstepped – America is absolutely against them and this is the time for @realDonaldTrump to strike a fatal blow against them.
Trump’s decision to turn federal law enforcement on Antifa is a disaster for Democrats. No wonder Susan Rice is already trying to blame the Russians for the riots. Expect to see a lot more deflecting from Democrats in the coming months.
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Blog: Who is recruiting, moving and paying the professional anarcho-rioters?
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The death by cop of George Floyd in Minneapolis was grotesque, a clearer example of police brutality that has otherwise rarely been filmed for all to see. Even if, as has been reported, Floyd did not die of asphyxiation or strangulation as it appeared, his death was without a doubt caused by that officer’s cruel and unnecessary action and the inaction of his fellow officers who stood by and watched. That officer has been charged with third degree murder and the other officers have been fired. Judicial due process will ensue, both state and federal. In the meantime, that the people of Minneapolis have turned out to protest is understandable.
What is not comprehensible is the destructive actions of so many. Is it really the citizens of Minneapolis who have set the city on fire, burning down small businesses as well as the police precinct building, libraries, etc.? Who are those masked men in black with secret-service quality ear-pieces, military grade gas masks and backpacks full of Molotov cocktails? They are very likely professional rioters, recruited, transported and paid by the likes of some George Soros front group or other anonymous Cloward-Piven devotees who share Soros’ hatred of America and want to see this nation bought to its knees. Panic over the virus was waning. These orchestrated riots across the country are the next ploy. Someone is organizing this madness. Someone is supplying the most lethal rioters with all the accoutrements of conflagration and moving them into place to all the affected cities. That all costs a great deal of money. Antifa owes its funding to Soros as do the more violent branches of Black Lives Matter. These players seem strangely secure that they will not be arrested or that if they are, they will be quickly released.
These upheavals seem to occur only in Democrat-run cities: Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles. It is easy to see why after seeing the mayor of Minneapolis called back the police and National Guard giving the vandals free rein to destroy his city. His concern was that they be masked so as not to spread the virus! The leadership of Baltimore did the same in 2015; “Let them have their space” said then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings. The riots in Ferguson in 2014 were exacerbated by President Obama and Eric Holder, who, as was their habit, immediately blamed the police which had the effect of giving permission to angry citizens to act out in the most destructive ways. Rioters in that city also burned the businesses owned and operated by their neighbors. They burned the markets they regularly patronized. The rent-a-mobs get the action going and the suddenly mindless residents join in to destroy their own community.
What is happening all over America these past several nights is not about George Floyd. The rioters are using his death to embark on rampages, to loot small and large businesses alike. These are not protests. What we are seeing is mass thievery under color of protest. Chances are if the looters in Los Angeles were asked “who was George Floyd,” they would not have a clue nor would they care. Democrat-run cities have long valued “social justice” (different standards for different groups) and identity politics over lawfulness and basic values. This is what you get when deviancy has been defined down so egregiously that we have citizens behaving like animals. The looting in Los Angeles, all filmed from above, continues unabated and without police presence. Businesses that have been shuttered for two and a half months are now being completely destroyed, their merchandise looted. Where is Mayor Eric Garcetti? Making sure no one walks on dry sand.
No matter how much the media loves to fan the flames, indicting America as a racist nation and blaming Trump for every single thing they can, these riots have nothing to do with race beyond it being a convenient excuse for criminal behavior. Those rioting, setting things on fire, smashing store windows and looting businesses are black, white, and Hispanic; they are a conglomeration of races, but are all thugs without a shred of decency.
Perhaps the people pulling the strings of these riots think this level of anarchy will be blamed on President Trump but it is more likely that it will ensure his re-election. These things do not happen in Republican-run cities. They happen in cities whose leaders are actually racist but fear being labeled as such so they step back and reveal their own bigotry of low expectations. It’s tragic for their cities and for their citizens from whom they instinctively expect criminal behavior. George Soros is most likely funding much of the chaos and is delighted by what he sees. Now we are all seeing the consequences of the tyranny of political correctness, that amorphous decree that common sense has been outlawed and nihilism is the order of the day.
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@ Michael S:
Trump needs to fire Esper and bring in the military to restore order. I’m a lifelong New Yorker, I live here, it feels like a war zone with nobody in charge, and that’s what I want.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Hi, Sebastien.
““The NYPD is losing the City of New York and we have no leadership in the City of New York,” Mullins said.
“His officers have been pelted with bricks, rocks and Molotov cocktails and their vehicles have been set alight. They have been run over by speeding cars, bashed by looters and forced to run from one incident to another without being allowed to deploy anti-riot apparatus, such as pepper-ball guns and mounted horses.
“For all that, de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo still criticize the NYPD for using excessive force and refuse to call out the National Guard.
“And even with the superhuman effort of the NYPD, as fast as they arrest looters and rioters, the revolving door of Cuomo’s new no-bail laws has suspects back on the streets.
“Our hands are being tied,” said Mullins. “We are being told to stand down. This is the far left’s version of ‘broken windows’ … We have a city that’s being destroyed. The public that lives there is in fear for their lives.”
— https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/lefty-pols-have-put-cops-everywhere-in-peril-devine/
The article seems to imply that the revolving door is still spinning.
@ Reader:
Hi, Reader. The system of appointing Supreme Court justices is not “rigged” in an underhanded way; it’s all up front, in the Constitution. In fact, ALL our leaders are chosen in a “rigged” way, if you must — “rigged” so that no one person ends up with unlimited power. That’s why reality TV star Donald Trump is held in check by Ben & Jerry’s favorite Nancy Pelosi, etc. It’s also why we have survived over 230 years as a republic, whereas no other republic has survived nearly as long; and because of this long reign of stability, we have been able to grow and prosper beyond other nations.
@ Reader:
I can’t tell what’s going on from watching these videos. It’s pure exposition. The narrator is telling is how to interpret the images. These “protesters” have no business being on the street, even if they are really peaceful protestors. a) They are obviously the sea in which the rioters swim and b) if the lockdown isn’t a hoax, they are endangering all of us and c) blocking traffic, especially in such numbers and ignoring police instructions is not peacefully assembling to pettition for redress. It’s not Constitutionally protected behavior. It’s civil disobedience at best, and that means they are supposed to go along with getting arrested. They need to go home or face the consequences.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I am not defending terrorists, I hate terrorists, I just can’t wrap my mind around how that building in the video so neatly and quickly dropped, and how all the US security services slept through an hour (I think) long flight of the 4 highjacked large airplanes, and a few other things but my mind is limited.
Here is some interesting info about the policemen’s alleged participation in the riots:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/agent-provocateurs-police-protests-country-caught-destroying-property/5714916
@ Michael S:
The no bail policy had immediate catastrophic results and there was an outcry and demand to repeal it. I’m not sure if it was repealed or modified. It would appear so, unless the fine print was that it didn’t apply to violent felonies. I don’t know.
@ Reader:
I remember. I’m in New York. Those ridiculous conspiracy theories blaming the US government were debunked. You are basically defending terrorists and saying that we are the bad guys. And, clearly, America is and has always been under attack. If we don’t fight the enemy abroad, we will be fighting him here. Now, we are fighting a global enemy in the streets of America. Or we need to be. Time to bring in the military and crush this thing or if not, what do you suggest? America is burning. Should we just hold hands and sing Kumbaya, beating our selves over the head for our imaginary racism while the Soros funded and Obama directed hooligans of the red/green/globalist coalition massacre us and destroy our economy? And, if you google it, you’ll find a Mondo Weiss article attacking us for the Haggadah in the same way. It applies just as well.
@ Michael S:
I apologize, I guess I’ve been just too stupid to think that the Justices of the Supreme Court are not supposed to be MERELY political appointees (as you insist) but are supposed to be independently thinking law experts.
I didn’t know that the process has always been rigged (according to your interpretation) and that it’s perfectly OK.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
“under continuous attack? The 9/11 massacre” Look for a video of those buildings neatly falling down into their footprint (going rhythmically pop-pop) within seconds (if these videos are still on YouTube).
Very enlightening, you won’t need any other info.
No one has the capacity or even the desire to “continuously attack the US, the freest country in the world” which specializes in bombing other countries into democracy and free market for these countries own good.
The US has 900 military bases and 400 bio weapons labs around the world. There are 200 American military installations (including bases) in Germany alone.
The US has never signed a treaty or stayed in one which didn’t benefit it.
And just because the Founders imagined themselves as New Israel doesn’t mean they were, the Haggadah still applies only to Jews.
@ Michael S:Apropos of nothing: Some years ago, after frustrating experiences trying to teach or co-teach violin classes in public schools and low rent music schools, and even some private lessons — The kids never practiced — in public schools, they couldn’t even take the instruments home – and so, every lesson was, basically, the first lesson, since they didn’t retain much and progress has to be incremental — each level builds on the last, as in math and science — I came up with an idea for a satirical teeshirt for music teachers. One one side, it would say, “Sisyphus Rocks!” and on the other, “Rock on Sisyphus!”
@ Reader:
Where do you think the Founding fathers got the “City on a Hill” concept from? They were Hebraist Christians who thought they were founding the new Jerusalem. And, haven’t we been under continuous attack? The 9/11 massacre was carried out when we thought we were at peace and had our guard down.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
From what I have been reading on the Web, New York has a revolving-door “no bail” policy. Washington, DC has also been immediately releasing all rioters.
“In Greek mythology Sisyphus or Sisyphos (/?s?s?f?s/; Ancient Greek: ??????? Sísuphos) was the king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity.”
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
This “Sisyphian task” seems to have been undeservedly appointed to our men in uniform.