BINGO!
3 years ago the term "Alt-right" didn't even exist. it is a fiction of the liberal media's agenda, .... Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
BINGO!Are you defending those toothless terrorists In Charlottesville, LLephantMan?
These intellectually challenged parrots on here use that made up headliner bullshit and all of a sudden they think they're intellectually superior ... so they continue the ridiculing ...
Gruber is STILL LAUGHING HIS ASS OFF AT THEM ...!!!!
Now EVERYONE KNOWS why they want to disarm Conservatives! Originally Posted by LexusLover
Are you defending those toothless terrorists In Charlottesville, LLephantMan?what terrorists? you mean the legal peaceful protestors or one psycho?
Sure seems you are.
QUit deflecting and denounce the alt-right.
Or forever wear it as a mark ... on many sides. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
Exactly who is the alt-left you're talking about? Name them and I'll comment.
Meanwhile, I condemn you, WWE, you ignorant hillbilly.
Here it is in language that makes sense to you and all you froggies.
I Condemn the bigotry in the strongest terms of many sides, many sides. It has no place in America. Sad. Bad. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Antifa.pdfAntifa: America’s New
Brown Shirts
By John Perazzo
A few days before the January 20, 2017
inauguration of President Donald J. Trump,
James O’Keefe’s investigative journalism
organization, Project Veritas, released
undercover video footage exposing a group
of hard-left, self-described “anarchists,”
“anti-capitalists,” and “anti-fascists” who –
in an effort to undermine Trump’s election
and strike back at the “Nazis” they said
had sent him to the White House – were
plotting to disrupt the inaugural festivities
with a massive protest dubbed “DisruptJ20.”
The conspirators planned to create a series
of “clusterf**k blockades” throughout the
capital; shut down the Washington, DC Metro
lines by chaining the trains to other physical
structures; inject nauseating butyric acid into
the vent shafts of the National Press Club;
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and physically assault Trump backers
with well-placed, debilitating punches to
the throat.
Only some of these actions
materialized on inauguration day, but
Washington was a scene of chaos, as
well organized rioters dressed entirely
in black, their faces covered with black
masks and scarves, staged a host of
violent and destructive actions. As one of
them subsequently told The Washington
Post, the violence “was purposeful in
its symbolism” – meaning, for instance,
that “vandalism at a Starbucks shop and
a Bank of America branch were executed
as attacks on capitalism and corporate
greed.” By the time the disturbances
were over, some 231 people had been
arrested.
Approximately two weeks later, on
February 1, 2017, these figures in black
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disturbed the peace again, violently
shutting down a scheduled talk at UC
Berkeley by gay conservative Milo
Yiannopoulos, who was slated to call
for an end to the “sanctuary campus”
policies that have long shielded illegalalien
students at universities from
federal immigration authorities. Several
hundred of the radical protesters,
swimming in a sea of more conventional
demonstrators, turned the Berkeley
campus into a war zone. Hurling rocks
and Molotov cocktails, they shattered
the windows of the student union center
where Yiannopoulos had been expected
to speak; they did $100,000 worth of
damage to a construction site where a
new student dormitory was being built;
and they violently attacked bystanders,
three of whom had to be hospitalized.
Then, on April 15, 2017, violent
riots broke out once more during a
pro-free-speech rally held by Trump
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supporters in Berkeley. Waving the red
flag of communism and the black flag
of anarchy and carrying a variety of
weapons ranging from brass knuckles to
stun guns and knives, the masked rioters,
calling themselves the “Black Bloc” for
the black hoodies and masks they wore,
waded into the crowd. Police made 21
arrests. Eleven people were sent to the
hospital.
Welcome to “Antifa” (the name is
a shortened version of “anti-fascist”),
the hard left shock troops fomenting
a new civil war in America. It is the
political version of a flash mob, with
no centralized leadership or structure,
but with a clear ideology. The website
of a New York-based Antifa chapter,
one of several that have recently
sprung up across the country, states:
“Antifa combines radical left-wing and
anarchist politics, revulsion at racists,
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sexists, homophobes, anti-Semites, and
Islamophobes, with the international
anti-fascist culture of taking the streets
and physically confronting white
supremacy.”
Antifa has been present in chaotic
demonstrations from Minneapolis to
New Orleans, a violent vanguard hunting
down conservative “fascists”. While
they dress in black, members of Antifa,
with their masks and their taste for
violent intimidation, resemble nothing
so much as the Brown Shirts who paved
the way for Hitler in Germany. Seeking
to transform protest to street fighting,
members of Antifa may hide their
identity, but they are, say those who
have closely watched the rapid rise of
the group, the new and frightening face
of radical leftism in America.
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Background
While America was getting its first
glimpse of Antifa, Europeans were well
acquainted with the movement.
On April 22, 2017, hordes of
black-garbed protesters in Cologne,
Germany tried to shut down a political
convention held by Alternative for
Germany, a political party opposing the
mass influx of migrants from war-torn,
terrorism-infested nations. Over one
thousand German Antifa evaded police
to smash windows, vandalize cars, and
start multiple fires, while hurling smoke
bombs at officers who tried to control
them.
The following day, activists
rioted in Paris when they (mistakenly)
thought that Marine Le Pen, a critic
of Islamism and an advocate of strict
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border controls, was leading former
Socialist Party member Emmanuel
Macron, who supported an open-door
policy for immigrants and refugees from
Muslim countries, in the first round of
the French presidential election. And
a few days after that, violent radicals
– many donning black garments,
hoods, and masks – disrupted May Day
marches in cities all across Europe.
The roots of today’s Antifa can be
traced back to 1980s Germany, where
its members adopted the name of the
communist paramilitary groups that had
battled the Nazis in street-fighting half-acentury
earlier. The longtime Industrial
Workers of the World’s General Defense
Committee organizer Kieran Knutson
explains that at that time, disaffected
young leftists who claimed to be antiracists
formed a network to fight
for the rights of squatters and other
“victims of capitalism.” With the fall of
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communism, the movement languished
until recently when it caught fire, in
part, as a result of the growing antiglobalization
movement. Knutson says
that “the several thousand veterans of
this movement are still out there.” Indeed
there are active Antifa cells in a number
of nations across the globe, most notably
Canada, Germany, the Netherlands,
Norway, Sweden, France, and now, with
the election of Donald Trump, especially
in the U.S.
America’s Antifa has bloomed
in large part because mainstream media
outlets have refrained from inquiring
into how radical and revolutionary its
objectives and practices are, instead
seeing it as an alliance of “idealists” who
differ from other progressives only in the
fact that they are “in a hurry.” The Los
Angeles Times accepted Antifa’s basic
premise when it published a piece calling
it an “anti-fascist movement,” as did the
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New York Daily News when it referred
to Antifa as an “anti-fascist collective.”
Other publications have
applauded Antifa for functioning as
the spearpoint of anti-Trumpism. For
example, an April 2017 Esquiremagazine
article lauded the movement’s “antifascist”
vigilantes for crashing pro-Trump
demonstrations where a “significant …
presence” of “white supremacist, altright,
anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi groups
… intersect with the president’s broader
support base.” A January 2017 piece in
The Nation celebrated Antifa activists as
kindred spirits to those who had fought
the Klu Klux Klan and organized slave
revolts. And the Southern Poverty Law
Center, an organization that routinely
likens conservatives to racists and
fascists, reports that Antifa activists
bravely “confront neo-Nazis and racist
skinheads in the street.”
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Oddly, it is a leftist organization,
Occupy.com, that has been most critical
and most realistic in its analysis of
Antifa, which it rightly sees as making
the work of a “real” progressive harder:
“Through their wanton destruction and
rioting, as well as unbridled enthusiasm
for vandalism and violence, Antifa and
their black bloc tactics are in many ways
an outright gift to those who advocate for
a police state…. Awash in 20th century
Marxist doctrine, the presence of Antifa,
and the left’s tolerance of them within
their ranks, stands as a rejection of the
civil enlightenment values liberals and
progressives once stood for, and a slow
embrace of the authoritarian orthodoxy
which throughout the 20th century so
often gave the left its bad name to begin
with.”
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It Takes One To Know One
Accepting Antifa’s description of
itself, the press has not bothered to inquire
into the nature of the “fascism” the group
claims to fight. In fact, its target is really
nothing more or than conservatism,
which it labels as “fascism” in an abuse
of language almost as brazen as the left’s
brazen seizure of “liberal” to define its
nature and agenda. Under the heading
“What Is Fascism?” on the website of
Refuse Fascism, an organization closely
affiliated with the Antifa movement,
there is no definition of the term, but
rather the claim that President Trump
is “the Fascist in Chief,” and that he
and his “fascist regime” have poisoned
America’s political atmosphere with their
“fascist government and worldview.”
In his 2007 book Liberal Fascism,
author Jonah Goldberg might have had
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Antifa in mind when he observed that
“fascist” has evolved into a one-size-fitsall
smear that is essentially the equivalent
of “heretic,” a term “branding an
individual worthy of excommunication
from the body politic.” As Goldberg
elaborates, “calling … conservatives
fascists is simply what right-thinking,
sophisticated people do.” But now
Antifa doesn’t merely call conservatives
“fascists,” it applies this label as an
excuse to attack them.
Notwithstanding its ceaseless
denunciations of “fascism,” members
of the Antifa movement themselves
routinely exhibit the type of brutal,
intolerant, totalitarian mindset that is
typically associated with fascism. When
they participate in street demonstrations,
they employ the aforementioned tactic
they call “black bloc,” whereby they
dress entirely in black and cover their
faces with black masks or scarves, so
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as to make it nearly impossible for
victims, witnesses, or law-enforcement
personnel to identify who committed an
act of vandalism, arson, theft, or assault.
As the Antifa website CrimethInc
explains, “when everyone in a group
looks the same, it is difficult for the
police or others to tell who did what.”
Black bloc tactics, according to the
Green Mountain Anarchist Collective’s
“Black Bloc Papers,” are founded on
the premise that “private property—and
capitalism, by extension—is intrinsically
violent and repressive and cannot be
reformed or mitigated.” Lamenting “all
the violence committed in the name of
private property rights,” this document
charges that “corporate private property”
in particular “is itself infinitely more
violent than any action taken against
it.” By this logic, the destruction of a
storefront window can be redefined as
creating “a vent to let some fresh air into
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the oppressive atmosphere of a retail
outlet.”
Another key organizing tactic
of Antifa/black bloc demonstrators is
known as “the stop light method,” where
the various actors are assigned different
color designations: Red, Yellow, and
Green. These colors indicate the types of
activities in which they are prepared to
engage. “Reds” are those people who are
willing to break the law and risk arrest.
(As the Los Angeles Times reports, these
agitators typically “keep their faces
covered with bandannas” and “attach
themselves to peaceful protests” before
they eventually “break out and start
shattering windows and attacking cars.”)
“Yellows” do not engage in violence or
illegality, but pledge to help the criminal
Reds hide in their midst and thereby
keep them from being apprehended
by the police. “Greens” are generally
not involved in any tactical planning
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or risky behavior, but they contribute
to the cause by providing additional
foot soldiers that swell the presence of
the Antifa. National Review’s David
French explains: “The rioters break
people and destroy things, then melt
back into a crowd that often quickly
and purposefully closes behind them.
They’re typically cheered wildly … and
often treated as heroes by the rest of the
mob.”
The stop light method is
supplemented by a practice that Antifa
calls “swarming,” whereby Yellows
surround the victim of a crime (like
vandalism, theft, or assault) committed
by Reds, so as to block his or her view
of the perpetrators. The Yellows further
distract the victim by screaming and by
holding placards up in front of his or
her face, to help give the attackers more
time to flee and blend into the crowd.
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As investigative journalist Jason Kessler
explains, “The effect [of swarming] is to
create an immediate feeling of confusion
and disorientation in the victim.”
Yet another Antifa technique
is “deplatforming” – i.e., depriving
conservatives (“fascists”) of a speaking
platform, by drowning them out with
bullhorns, airhorns, and group chants, or
shutting down their events with “human
walls” that block anyone from attending.
Antifa also encourages and
practices “doxxing,” the use of cyber
attacks to first ascertain the Internet
identity of an opponent, and to then
access and make public his or her
valuable personal data. Some of those
digitally hounded by Antifa members
have been forced virtually to seek new
identities.
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CampusReform.org has written that
the Facebook page of a South Carolina
group called Upstate Antifa “is replete
with endorsements of political violence
and property destruction in the name
of fighting ‘fascism’.” Upstate Antifa
has also promoted violence via posters
bearing slogans like: “Fighting fascism
is a social duty, not an antisocial crime,”
and “Fascism is not to be debated. It is
to be smashed.” Such incitements to use
violence are taught and encouraged, in
part, through pro-Antifa publications
like Repress This, The Invention of the
White Race, Our Enemies in Blue, and
Whatever You Do, Don’t Talk to the
Police.
Funding
Because Antifa is a decentralized
movement consisting of many loosely
affiliated groups as well as individuals
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acting on a freelance basis, it is difficult
to trace the sources of its funding.
Whatever money the movement may
receive from charitable foundations or
high-profile financiers ultimately makes
its way to Antifa by way of an indirect,
circuitous path. This is because few
philanthropies or big-name funders want
to risk tarnishing their own reputations
by openly supporting hordes of violent
radicals. As Jason Kessler writes in
GotNews.com: “It’s instructive to show
how money from globalist billionaires
like George Soros and Tom Steyer
trickle down to the Antifa foot soldiers
in many major demonstrations. Soros
and Steyer donate to Media Matters, a
left-wing group that operated Hillary
Clinton’s notorious online propaganda
arm Correct the Record. Media Matters
in turn funds [Antifa-affiliated] groups
like ANSWER.... This is typical of the
way [the] top-down, billionaire-funderto-terrorist-foot-soldier
hierarchy works,
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with several degrees of separation and
plausible deniability.”
One organization that can be
definitively identified as a funder of the
Antifa movement is the Alliance For
Global Justice (AGJ), which serves as
the fiscal sponsor of Refuse Fascism, a
constituent organization of the movement.
Bankrolled by left-wing philanthropies
like George Soros’s Open Society
Institute and the Tides Foundation, AGJ
is a self-described “anti-capitalist,”
“anti-imperialist,” tax-exempt charity
whose mission is to train young
activists to build a “unified grassroots
movement” capable of creating “a
socially, ecologically and economically
just world” that offers “alternatives” to
the “domination of governments, global
financial institutions, and multinational
corporations which denigrate the world’s
peoples and devastate ecosystems.” By
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AGJ’s reckoning, it is government’s
duty to satisfy “the right of people to
shelter, sufficient food, medical care,
education, employment, [and] leisure,”
and to dismantle societal “structures
that distribute wealth in ways that deny
anyone those basic rights.” Also central
to AGJ’s worldview is the belief that
“group rights [are] equal to or superior
to the rights of individuals articulated by
18th Century European men.”
Fiercely opposed to the
“militarization” of the U.S.-Mexico
border, AGJ has been particularly
outspoken on the issue of illegal
immigration—opposition to which is,
according to Antifa, one of the key
elements of the American fascism
that must be violently confronted.
“The borderlands,” says the Alliance,
“like most of this continent, is primarily
a site of displacement and genocide
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of indigenous people” dating back
to the 1840s, when “the U.S. nation
state [took] half of México’s land
by military force.” It is logical that
it would back a street fighting force
ready to act on these principles.
Conclusion
The foot soldiers of the Antifa
movement function as a specialoperations
unit of the modern
Communist Left. Antifa’s propensity
for violence makes its mere threat to
show up for an event—as in the case
of Ann Coulter’s scheduled April 27,
2017 speech at Berkeley—grounds for
cancelling it. Thus, the movement has
become the most extreme threat against
free speech, particularly on college
campuses, in America.
Utterly rejecting any notion of
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a free and open exchange of ideas,
Antifa views anyone who holds a
political perspective contrary to its
hardcore radical view of America as a
contaminated society, as The Enemy
that must be crushed by any means
necessary. Antifa is thus a real-time
confirmation of the dangerously fraternal
relationship between fascism and
communism noted by Jonah Goldberg
and other observers. “Fascism, properly
understood,” Goldberg points out, “is not
a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead,
it is, and always has been, a phenomenon
of the left. This fact … is obscured in our
time by the equally mistaken belief that
fascism and communism are opposites.
In reality, they are closely related,
historical competitors for the same
constituents, seeking to dominate and
control the same social space.…”
So it is for Antifa: neo-communists
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who are at the same time fascist antifascists.
Understanding this apparent
paradox-and combatting the agenda of a
movement willing to engage in civil war
against those it regards as “deplorable”
-is an increasingly urgent requirement
for American politics in the near future.
Exactly who is the alt-left you're talking about? Name them and I'll comment.Didn't Trump say the same thing? Or don't you understand what "ALL" means? Stupid fucking pig.
Meanwhile, I condemn you, WWE, you ignorant hillbilly.
Here it is in language that makes sense to you and all you froggies.
I Condemn the bigotry in the strongest terms of many sides, many sides. It has no place in America. Sad. Bad. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."And you can think and feel what you want. However, people thoughts and feelings are often invalid.
- Voltaire
Originally Posted by lustylad