“Antifa” is the name of a loosely organized group of fascist brownshirt types – dressed in black , with hoodies and masks – who attempt to terrorize political conservatives into submission.
I mention this as a reminder to people who have been following these desperate losers over the past months – especially in Berkeley, California, where they have been heavily involved in turning what used to be the home of Free Speech movement into the tomb it is today.
I also mention it in case a few folks from what we laughingly call mainstream media are reading my blog. It appears they need the heads-up, because they have provided almost no coverage about “antifa” over this time…and what little they have provided has often been sympathetic to their cause.
This brings us to the excellent article by Edmund Kozak, of lifezettenews.com, which does exactly what mainstream media are not doing and talks not only about what antifa is and what it is doing, but why it, by definition, is a terrorist organization.
A few excerpts for you:
On April 15, a pro-Trump, pro-free-speech rally at University of California, Berkeley, descended into violent mayhem after radical far-leftists — members of the organization Antifa — began to attack the peacefully assembled crowd.
Antifa was formed originally in Germany in the 1980s, its members taking the name of the communist paramilitary groups that engaged the Nazis in street-fighting in the 1930s. It now has active cells across the world, including in Germany, the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Czechia, and France.
“Anyone who tries to hold any sort of right-wing event literally gets beat up by militant communists in the street,” said independent journalist Lauren Southern, who was present at one of the pro-Trump Berkeley rallies, in a video taken immediately following the violence.
Harrowing video footage taken by Southern’s crew showed Antifa street fighters throwing bricks and M-80 explosives into the crowd, as well as assaulting Trump supporters. Other footage released by someone present at the event showed one Antifa thug hit a Trump supporter over the head with a bicycle chain and lock.
The Department of State, through U.S. Code Title 22, Chapter 38, defines terrorism as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.”
Antifa increasingly could plausibly fit that definition.
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations 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.”
Antifa could also reasonably meet those conditions.
The U.S. Department of Defense defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of violence or threat of violence to instill fear and coerce governments or societies” and notes that terrorism “is often motivated by religious, political, or other ideological beliefs and committed in the pursuit of goals that are usually political.”
Yes, Antifa fits that definition, too.
There you have it.
And the reaction of most of our media? “Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along”.
Maybe “move on, move on” is more accurately descriptive.
Maybe “move on, move on” is more accurately descriptive.
Even More accurately “We support you!”