Soeren Kern posted his “A Brief History of Antifa: Part I”
at the Gatestone
Institute on June 12. I cross posted it on my Blog on June 13 (adding a
photo of a fed-up person kicking an Antifa person in the groin political toon
that upset some social platforms). Here is the cross post of Part Two.
After I read this I formed an opinion that has been brewing
on the inside of me for some time. TO BE CLEAR – My opinion is NOT at all
formulated by the author (Soeren Kern) of this exposé – at least not in
this article. After reading – ESPECIALLY the Antifa in their own words
portion – It might be time for some local activism with your NRA or 2nd
Amendment Clubs, BECAUSE it is becoming clear local government controlled by
the Democratic Party do NOT care about
YOUR Life, Liberty or Personal Property. Again ESPECIALLY, if you are a Christian,
Conservative and American believing in America’s heritage and exceptionalism.
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A Brief History of Antifa: Part II
Antifa in the United States
By Soeren Kern
June 23, 2020 at 5:00 am
· "The only long-term solution to the fascist menace is to
undermine its pillars of strength in society grounded not only in white
supremacy but also in ableism, heteronormativity, patriarchy, nationalism,
transphobia, class rule, and many others." — Mark Bray, "Antifa:
The Anti-Fascist Handbook," 2017.
· "They're coming from other cities. That cost money. They
didn't do this on their own. Somebody's paying for this.... What Antifa is
doing is they're basically hijacking the black community as their army. They
instigate, they antagonize, they get these young black men and women to go out
there and do stupid things, and then they disappear off into the sunset."
— Bernard Kerik, former commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
· The coordinated violence raises questions about how Antifa is
financed. The Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) is an organizing group that
serves as a fiscal sponsor to numerous radical left-wing initiatives, according
to Influence Watch, a research group that collects data on advocacy
organizations, foundations and donors.... The Open Society Foundations, Tides
Foundation, Arca Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation, and
the Brightwater Fund have all made contributions to AFGJ, according to
Influence Watch.
·
One of the groups funded
by AFGJ is called Refuse Fascism ... an offshoot of the Radical Communist Party
(RCP).... The group's slogan states: "This System Cannot Be Reformed, It
Must Be Overthrown!"
[Gatestone] Editor’s note: This is Part II of a series on
the history of the global Antifa movement. Part I described Antifa and
explored the ideological origins of the group. Part II examines the history,
tactics and goals of the movement in the United States.
Antifa in the United States
is highly networked, well-funded and has a clear ideological agenda: to
subvert, often with extreme violence, the American political system, with the
ultimate aim of replacing capitalism with communism. Pictured: An Antifa
demonstration on November 16, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump recently announced
that the American government would designate Antifa — a militant
"anti-fascist" movement — as a terrorist organization due to the
violence that erupted at George Floyd protests across the United States.
The Code of Federal Regulations (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85) defines
terrorism as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or
property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any
segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."
American media outlets sympathetic to Antifa have jumped to
its defense. They argue that the group cannot be classified as a terrorist
organization because, they claim, it is a vaguely-defined protest movement that
lacks a centralized structure.
As the following report shows, Antifa is, in fact, highly
networked, well-funded and has a clear ideological agenda: to subvert, often
with extreme violence, the American political system, with the ultimate aim of
replacing capitalism with communism. In the United States, Antifa's immediate aim is to remove President Trump
from office.
Gatestone Institute has identified Antifa groups in all 50
U.S. states, with the possible exception of West Virginia. Some states, including
California, Texas and Washington, appear to have dozens of sub-regional Antifa
organizations.
It is difficult precisely to determine the size of the
Antifa movement in the United States. The so-called "Anti-Fascists of Reddit,"
the "premier anti-fascist community" on the social media platform
Reddit, has approximately 60,000 members. The oldest Antifa group in America,
the Portland, Oregon-based "Rose City Antifa," has more
than 30,000 Twitter followers and 20,000 Facebook followers, not all of whom
are necessarily supporters. "It's
Going Down," a media platform for anarchists,
anti-fascists and autonomous anti-capitalists, has 85,000 Twitter followers and
30,000 Facebook followers.
Germany, which has roughly one-quarter of the population of
the United States, is home to 33,000 extreme leftists, of whom 9,000 are believed
to be extremely dangerous, according to
the domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV).
Violent left-wing agitators are predominantly male, between 21 and 24 years of
age, usually unemployed, and, according to
BfV, 92% still live with their parents. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most
Antifa members in the United States have a similar socio-economic profile.
In America, national Antifa groups, including "Torch
Antifa Network," "Refuse Fascism" and "World Can't
Wait" are being financed — often generously, as shown below — by
individual donors as well as by large philanthropic organizations, including the
Open Society Foundations founded by George Soros.
To evade detection by law enforcement, Antifa groups in the
United States often use encrypted social media platforms, such as Signal and
Telegram Messenger, to communicate and coordinate their activities, sometimes
across state lines. Not surprisingly, the U.S. Department of Justice is
currently investigating
individuals linked to Antifa as a step to unmasking the broader organization.
Historical Origins of American Antifa
In the United States, Antifa's ideology, tactics and goals,
far from being novel, are borrowed almost entirely from
Antifa groups in Europe, where so-called anti-fascist groups, in one form or
another, have been active, almost without interruption, for a century.
As in Europe, the aims and objectives of the American Antifa
movement can be traced back to a single, overarching century-long ideological
war against the "fascist ideals" of capitalism and Christianity,
which the Antifa movement wants to replace with a "revolutionary
socialist alternative."
The first so-called anti-fascist group in the United States
was the American League Against War and Fascism, established in 1933 by the
Communist Party USA. The League, which claimed to oppose fascism in Europe, was
actually dedicated to
subverting and overthrowing the U.S. government.
In testimony to the U.S. Congress in 1953, CPUSA leader
Manning Johnson revealed that
the American party had been instructed by the Communist International in the
1930s to set up the American League Against War and Fascism:
"as a cover to attack our
government, our social system, our leaders... used as a cover to attack our
law-enforcement agencies and to build up mass hate against them... used as a
cover to undermine national security... used as a cover to defend Communists, the
sworn enemies of our great heritage... used as a cover for preparing millions
of people ideologically and organizationally for the overthrow of the United
States Government."
A precursor to the modern Antifa movement was the Black
Panthers, a revolutionary political organization established in October 1966 by
Marxist college students in Oakland, California. The group advocated the
use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government.
Historian Robyn C. Spencer noted that
Black Panther leaders were deeply influenced by "The United Front of the
Working Class Against Fascism," a report by
Georgi Dimitroff delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist
International in July and August 1935:
"By 1969, the Panthers began
to use fascism as a theoretical framework to critique the U.S. political
economy. They defined fascism as 'the power of finance capital' which 'manifests
itself not only as banks, trusts and monopolies but also as the human property
of FINANCE CAPITAL — the avaricious businessman, the demagogic politician, and
the racist pig cop.'"
In July 1969, the Black Panthers organized an
"anti-fascist" conference called "United Front Against
Fascism," attended by
nearly 5,000 activists:
"The Panthers hoped to create
a 'national force' with a 'common revolutionary ideology and political program
which answers the basic desires and needs of all people in fascist, capitalist,
racist America.'"
The last day of the conference was devoted to a detailed
plan by the Black Panthers to decentralize police forces nationwide. Spencer wrote:
"They proposed amending city
charters to establish autonomous community-based police departments for every
city which would be accountable to local neighborhood police control councils
comprised of 15 elected community members. They launched the National
Committees to Combat Fascism (NCCF), a multiracial nationwide network, to
organize for community control of the police."
In 1970, members of the Black Panthers created a terrorist
group called the Black Liberation Army, whose stated goal
was to "weaken the enemy capitalist state."
BLA member Assata Shakur described the
group's organizational structure, which is similar to the one used by today's
Antifa movement:
"The Black Liberation Army was
not a centralized, organized group with a common leadership and chain of
command. Instead there were various organizations and collectives working
together out of various cities, and in some larger cities there were often
several groups working independently of each other."
Other ideological anchors of the modern Antifa movement in
the United States include a left-wing terrorist group known as the Weather
Underground Organization, the American equivalent to Germany's Red Army
Faction. The Weather Underground, responsible
for bombings and
riots throughout the 1970s, sought to achieve "the destruction of
U.S. imperialism and form a classless communist world."
Former FBI Counterterrorism Director Terry Turchie has noted the
similarities between Black Lives Matter today and the Black Panther Party and
Weather Underground groups of the 1960s and 1970s:
"The Black Panther Party was a
Marxist Maoist Leninist organization and that came from Huey Newton, one of the
co-founders, who said we're standing for nothing more than the total
transformation of the United States government.
"He went on to explain that
they wanted to take the tension that already existed in black communities and
exacerbate it where they can. To take those situations where there is a
tinderbox and light the country on fire.
"Today we're seeing the third
revolution and they think they can make this happen. The only thing that is
different are the names of the groups."
American Antifa
The roots of the modern Antifa movement in the United States
can be traced back to the 1980s, with the establishment of Anti-Racist Action,
a network of anarchist punk rock aficionados dedicated to fist-fighting
neo-Nazi skinheads.
Mark Bray, author of "The Antifa Handbook,"
explained:
"In many cases, the North
American modern Antifa movement grew up as a way to defend the punk scene from
the neo-Nazi skinhead movement, and the founders of the original Anti-Racist
Action network in North America were anti-racist skinheads. The
fascist/anti-fascist struggle was essentially a fight for control of the punk
scene during the 1980s, and that was true across of much of north America and
in parts of Europe in this era.
"There's a huge overlap
between radical left politics and the punk scene, and there's a stereotype
about dirty anarchists and punks, which is an oversimplification but grounded
in a certain amount of truth."
Anti-Racist Action was inspired by
Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), a militant anti-fascist group founded in Britain in
the late 1970s. The American group shared the British group's penchant for violently attacking
political opponents. ARA was eventually renamed the Torch Network, which currently
brings together nine militant Antifa groups.
In November 1999, mobs of masked anarchists, predecessors to
today's Antifa movement, laid waste to downtown Seattle,
Washington, during violent demonstrations that disrupted a ministerial
conference of the World Trade Organization. The Seattle WTO protests birthed the
anti-globalization movement.
In April 2001, an estimated 50,000 anti-capitalists gathered in
Quebec to oppose the Third Summit of the Americas, a meeting of North and South
American leaders who were negotiating a deal to create a free trade area that
would encompass the Western Hemisphere.
In February 2003, hundreds of thousands of anti-war
protesters demonstrated against the Iraq War.
After the war went ahead anyway, some parts of the so-called progressive movement
became more radicalized and birthed the current Antifa movement.
The Rose City Antifa (RCA), founded in Portland, Oregon, in
2007, is the oldest American group to use "Antifa" in its name.
Antifa is derived from a group called Antifaschistische
Aktion, founded in May 1932 by Stalinist leaders of the Communist Party of
Germany. Antifa's logo, with two flags representing anarchism (black flag) and
communism (red flag), are derived from the German Antifa movement.
The American Antifa movement gained momentum in 2016, after
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described Socialist, lost the Democratic
Party's nomination to Hillary Clinton. Grassroots supporters of Sanders vowed to
continue his "political revolution" to establish socialism in
America.
Meanwhile, immigration became a new flashpoint in American
politics after Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to reduce illegal migration.
In June 2016, protestors violently attacked
supporters of Donald Trump outside a rally in San Jose, California. In January
2017, hundreds of Antifa rioters tried to disrupt
President Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC.
In February 2017, Antifa rioters employing so-called black bloc
tactics — they wear black clothing, masks or other face-concealing items so
that they cannot be identified by police — shut down a
speech by Milos Yiannopoulos, a far-right activist who was slated to speak at
the University of California at Berkeley, the birthplace of the 1964 Free
Speech Movement. Antifa radicals claimed that
Yiannopoulos was planning to "out" undocumented students at Berkeley
for the purpose of having them arrested. Masked Antifa vandals armed with
Molotov cocktails, bricks and a host of other makeshift weapons fought police
and caused more
than $100,000 in property damage.
In June 2018, Republican Representative Dan Donovan of New
York introduced
Bill HR 6054 — "Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018" — that calls for prison
sentences of up to 15 years for anyone who, while wearing a mask or disguise,
"injures, oppresses, threatens, or intimidates" someone else who is
exercising any right or privilege guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. The
bill remains stalled in
the House of Representatives.
In July 2019, Antifa radical Willem Van Spronsen attempted to
firebomb the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in
Tacoma, Washington. He was killed in a confrontation with police.
That same month, U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy introduced a
resolution that would label Antifa a "domestic terrorist
organization." The resolution stated:
"Whereas members of Antifa,
because they believe that free speech is equivalent to violence, have used
threats of violence in the pursuit of suppressing opposing political
ideologies; Whereas Antifa represents opposition to the democratic ideals of
peaceful assembly and free speech for all; Whereas members of Antifa have
physically assaulted journalists and other individuals during protests and
riots in Berkeley, California;
"Now, therefore, be it
resolved, that the Senate ... calls for the groups and organizations across the
country who act under the banner of Antifa to be designated as domestic
terrorist organizations."
"Antifa are terrorists, violent masked bullies who
'fight fascism' with actual fascism, protected by Liberal privilege," said Cassidy.
"Bullies get their way until someone says no. Elected officials must have
courage, not cowardice, to prevent terror."
Antifa Exploits Death of George Floyd
Antifa radicals increasingly are using incendiary events
such as the death of George Floyd in Minnesota as springboards to achieve their
broader aims, one of which includes removing President Trump
from office.
Veteran national security correspondent Bill Gertz recently reported that
the Antifa movement began planning to foment a nationwide anti-government
insurgency as early as November 2019, when the U.S. presidential campaign
season kicked off in earnest. Former National Security Council staff member
Rich Higgins said:
"Antifa's actions represent a
hard break with the long tradition of a peaceful political process in the
United States. Their Marxist ideology seeks not only to influence elections in
the short term but to destroy the use of elections as the determining factor in
political legitimacy.
"Antifa's goal is nothing less
than fomenting revolution, civil war and silencing America's anti-communists.
Their labeling of Trump supporters and patriots as Nazis and racists is
standard fare for left-wing communist groups.
"Antifa is currently
functioning as the command and control of the riots, which are themselves the
overt utilization of targeted violence against targets such as stores —
capitalism; monuments — history; and churches — God."
Joe Myers, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and
counterinsurgency expert, added:
"President Trump's election
and revitalization of America are a threat to Antifa's nihilist goals. They are
fomenting this violence to create havoc, despair and to target the Trump
campaign for defeat in 2020. It is employing organized violence for political
ends: destruction of the constitutional order."
New York's top terrorism officer, Deputy Commissioner for
Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller, explained why
the George Floyd protests in New York City became so violent and destructive:
"No. 1, before the protests
began, organizers of certain anarchist groups set out to raise bail money and
people who would be responsible to be raising bail money, they set out to
recruit medics and medical teams with gear to deploy in anticipation of violent
interactions with police.
"They prepared to commit
property damage and directed people who were following them that this should be
done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by
corporate entities.
"And they developed a complex
network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different
directions of where police were and where police were not for purposes of being
able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit
acts of vandalism including the torching of police vehicles and Molotov
cocktails where they thought officers would not be.
"We believe that a significant
amount of people who came here from out of the area, who have come here as well
as the advance preparation, having advance scouts, the use of encrypted
information, having resupply routes for things such as gasoline and accelerants
as well as rocks and bottles, the raising of bail, the placing of medics. Taken
together, this is a strong indicator that they planned to act with disorder,
property damage, violence, and violent encounters with police before the first
demonstration and/or before the first arrest."
In an interview with The Epoch Times, Bernard B.
Kerik, former police commissioner of the New York City Police Department, said that
Antifa "100 percent exploited" the George Floyd protests:
"It's in 40 different states
and 60 cities; it would be impossible for somebody outside of Antifa to fund
this. It's a radical, leftist, socialist attempt at revolution.
"They're coming from other
cities. That cost money. They didn't do this on their own. Somebody's paying
for this.
"What Antifa is doing is
they're basically hijacking the black community as their army. They instigate,
they antagonize, they get these young black men and women to go out there and
do stupid things, and then they disappear off into the sunset."
After photos appeared to show protesters with military-grade
communications radios and earpieces, Kerik noted:
"They have to be talking to somebody at a central command center with a
repeater. Where do those radios go to?"
Across the country, in Bellevue, Washington, which was also
hit by looting and violence, Police Chief Steve Mylett confirmed
that the people responsible were organized, from out of town, and being paid:
"There are groups paying these
looters money to come in and they're getting paid by the broken window. This is
something totally different we are dealing with that we have never seen as a
profession before. We did have officers that were in different areas that were
chasing these groups. When we make contact, they just disperse."
Antifa Financing
The coordinated violence raises questions about how Antifa
is financed. The Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) is an organizing group that
serves as a fiscal sponsor to numerous radical left-wing initiatives, according to
Influence Watch, a research group that collects data on advocacy organizations,
foundations and donors.
AFGJ, which describes itself as "anti-capitalist"
and opposed to
the principles of liberal democracy, provides "fiscal sponsorship" to
groups advocating numerous foreign and domestic far-left and extreme-left
causes, including eliminating
the State of Israel.
The Tucson, Arizona-based AFGJ, and people associated with
it, have advocated for
socialist and communist authoritarian regimes, including in Cuba, Nicaragua and
Venezuela. In the 2000s, AFGJ was involved in anti-globalization
demonstrations. In the 2010s, AFGJ was a financial sponsor
of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
AFGJ has received substantial funding from organizations
often claiming to be the mainstream of the center-left. The Open Society
Foundations, Tides Foundation, Arca Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Public
Welfare Foundation, the Ben & Jerry Foundation and the Brightwater Fund
have all made contributions to AFGJ, according to
Influence Watch.
One of the groups funded by AFGJ is called Refuse Fascism, a radical left-wing
organization devoted to promoting nationwide action to remove from office
President Donald Trump, and all officials associated with his administration,
on the grounds that they constitute a "fascist regime." The group has
been present at many Antifa radical-left demonstrations, also according to Influence Watch. The
group is an offshoot of the Radical Communist Party (RCP).
In July 2017, the RCP bragged that
it took part in violent riots against the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. The
RCP has argued that
capitalism is synonymous with fascism and that the election of President Trump would
lead the U.S. government to "bludgeon and eliminate whole groups of
people."
In June 2020, Refuse Fascism took advantage of the death of
George Floyd to raise money for a "National Revolution Tour"
evidently aimed at subverting the U.S. government. The group's slogan states:
"This System Cannot Be Reformed, It Must Be Overthrown!"
Antifa's "Utopia"
Meanwhile, in Seattle, Washington, Antifa radicals,
protesters from Black Lives Matter, and members of the anti-capitalist John
Brown Gun Club seized control of the East Precinct neighborhood and established
a six-square-block "autonomous zone" called the Capitol Hill
Autonomous Zone, "CHAZ," recently renamed
"CHOP," the Capitol Hill Organized (or Occupied) Protest. A cardboard
sign at the barricades declares:
"You are now leaving the USA." The group issued a list
of 30 demands, including the "abolition" of the Seattle Police
Department and court system.
"Rapes, robberies and all sorts of violent acts have
been occurring in the area and we're not able to get to them," said Seattle Police Chief Carmen
Best. Several people have been wounded or killed.
Christopher F. Rufo, a contributing editor of City
Journal, observed:
"The Capitol Hill Autonomous
Zone has set a dangerous precedent: armed left-wing activists have asserted
their dominance of the streets and established an alternative political
authority over a large section of a neighborhood. They have claimed de facto
police power over thousands of residents and dozens of businesses — completely
outside of the democratic process. In a matter of days, Antifa-affiliated
paramilitaries have created a hardened border, established a rudimentary form
of government based on principles of intersectional representation, and forcibly
removed unfriendly media from the territory.
"The Capitol Hill Autonomous
Zone is an occupation and taking of hostages: none of the neighborhood's
residents voted for Antifa as their representative government. Rather than
enforce the law, Seattle's progressive political class capitulated to the mob
and will likely make massive concessions over the next few months. This will
embolden the Antifa coalition — and further undermine the rule of law in
American cities."
Antifa in its Own Words
The American Antifa movement's long-term objectives are
identical to those of the Antifa movement in Europe: replacing capitalism with
a communist utopia. Mark Bray, one of the most vocal apologists for Antifa in
the United States and author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," explained:
"The only long-term solution
to the fascist menace is to undermine its pillars of strength in society
grounded not only in white supremacy but also in ableism, heteronormativity,
patriarchy, nationalism, transphobia, class rule, and many others. This
long-term goal points to the tensions that exist in defining anti-fascism,
because at a certain point destroying fascism is really about promoting a
revolutionary socialist alternative."
Nikkita Oliver, former mayoral candidate of Seattle,
Washington, added:
"We need to align ourselves
with the global struggle that acknowledges that the United States plays a role
in racialized capitalism. Racialized capitalism is built upon patriarchy, white
supremacy, and classism."
Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter
movement, confirmed
that the immediate goal is to remove President Trump from office:
"Trump not only needs to not
be in office in November, but he should resign now. Trump needs to be out of
office. He is not fit for office. And so, what we are going to push for is a
move to get Trump out. While we're also going to continue to push and pressure
Joe Biden around his policies and relationship to policing and criminalization.
That's going to be important. But our goal is to get Trump out."
Rose City Antifa tweeted:
"As antifascists we know that
our fight is not just against organized fascism, but also against the
capitalist state, and the police that protect it. Another world is
possible!"
Seattle Antifascists added:
"This is the revolution, this
is our time and we will make no excuses for the terror."
A group called PNW Youth Liberation Front, Antifa's youth
organization, tweeted:
"The only way to win a world without
police, prisons, borders, etc. is to destroy the oppressive systems which we
are currently caught in. We must continue the fight against the state,
imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and so on if we ever want
to be free."
A pamphlet distributed in the Seattle "Autonomous
Zone" stated:
"The idea that the working
class can control our own lives, without states, governments or borders, is
also called anarchism. But how do we get from our current capitalist society to
a future anarchist-communist one? .... In order to destroy the current order,
there will need to be a revolution, a time of great upheaval."
A poster in the Seattle "Autonomous Zone" stated:
"Oh, you thought I just wanted
to defund the police? This whole system needs to go."
One of the leaders of the Seattle "Autonomous
Zone" said:
"Every single day that I show
up here I'm not here to peacefully protest. I'm here to disrupt until my
demands are met. You cannot rebuild until you break it all the way down.
Respond to the demands of the people or prepare to be met with any means
necessary. By any means necessary. It's not a slogan or even a warning. I'm
letting people know what comes next."
A group called the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement,
which has nearly 15,000 Twitter followers, called for an
insurrection:
"Revolutionary greetings from
the insurrection sweeping throughout the occupied territories of the so-called
United States of America.
"As the history of this
miserable nation repeats itself once again, what has become clearly evident is
that black people have been and will continue to be the only revolutionary force
that is capable of toppling the oppressive status quo.
"Everywhere the pigs [a
derogatory term for
police] have lost their will to fight. Their eyes, which only yesterday were
windows to empty hatred and contempt, now display stultifying self-doubt and
cowardice. For once, their behavior portrays their weakness as every step they
take back is marked by hesitation.
"Together, if we keep pushing,
this land of chattel slavery, indigenous genocide, and foreign imperial
aggression can finally be wiped out so that it will only be remembered as one
of the more ugly chapters in human history."
An Antifa radical from Maryland tweeted:
"This isn't protest. This is
rebellion. When rebellion gets organized we get revolution. We are seeing the
beginnings of that and it's glorious."
An Antifa agitator from New York comments on
the American flag:
"That sh*t is a f**king cloth
with colors on it. It doesn't live or breathe and is nothing but a
representation. Any Black, Latinx, or Native person looking at that thing being
respected, should be offended at that flag that represents genocide, rape,
slavery, and colonization."
An Antifa media platform, "It's Going Down," wrote:
"Looting is an effective means
of wealth redistribution."
An Antifa activist from North Carolina on free speech:
"The idea that freedom of
speech is the most important thing that we can protect can only be held by
someone who thinks that life is analogous to a debate hall. In my opinion, 'no
platforming' fascists often infringes (sic) upon their speech, but this
infringement is justified for its role in the political struggle against
fascism."
Torch Antifa Network, in response to
President Trump's announced plans to designate Antifa as a terrorist group:
"Antifa will be designating
the United States of America as a terrorist organization."
Soeren
Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based
Gatestone Institute.
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