Why we should fear ANTIFA

[SassyLady]

Roger Simon agrees with me.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/whos-cau...n_3374070.html

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[Gunny]

Roger Simon agrees with me.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/whos-cau...n_3374070.html

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[Gunny]

Simon says pay.

Don't know why that made me laugh

[Kathianne]

When I get home. 10:30 PST
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[Kathianne]

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Here you all go:

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Who’s Causing America’s Nervous Breakdown?




Roger L. Simon
June 2, 2020 Updated: June 2, 2020

Commentary


Don’t think we’re having a nervous breakdown? When can you remember two New York corporate lawyers tossing a Molotov cocktail into a cop car?




Or how about the city executives of Santa Monica, warned via social media that their many trendy shops and upscale restaurants were about to be looted en masse the day after similar actions had already occurred, doing nothing as millions, perhaps billions, of damage was done to one of the wealthiest parts of our country?


That pattern was repeated throughout the land in areas rich and poor as liberal mayors and governors demonstrated what I suppose we could call their “liberalism.”


How far would it go? Would they allow their daughters to be absconded for the good of the cause? It’s hard to know because several of those daughters had already joined Antifa.


As for the media, they’re doing their best to deny what’s happening and blaming Trump when they can’t. What else is new?




The mysteries in all this are who’s behind it and where will it end?


The latter was ironically answered for us by the Ancient Romans who at some point must have stomped their sandals on the ground and declared regarding civilizations that had come before, “Non fiunt.” “It can’t happen here,” in Latin. (I’ll leave it there.)


Police Killings
As for who’s behind it, of course, it’s caused superficially by the murder of George Floyd—whether by asphyxiation or a combination of what we have recently learned are called co-morbidities—is ultimately irrelevant.


But his death is what the shrinks term the “presenting complaint” because the real causes are more complex and much deeper.


Besides, there’s a Big Lie attached to Floyd’s murder at the hands of the police and that lie—call me a racist, if you will—is that such things are a common occurrence. They decidedly are not, as Jason Riley, the African American columnist for the Wall Street Journal, reminded us the other night. In fact, it’s the reverse. It’s quite rare and increasingly so. The facts bear him out.




Last July, Heather Mac Donald wrote in “There Is No Epidemic of Racist Police Shootings”:


“A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demolishes the Democratic narrative regarding race and police shootings, which holds that white officers are engaged in an epidemic of racially biased shootings of black men. It turns out that white officers are no more likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot black civilians. … In fact, if there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians, the study found.”


Oh, no. That can’t be—except, as anyone paying attention knows, for the last decade at least police have spent more time in sensitivity training than in learning how to shoot. “Community Policing” has been the watchword of the day since 1994 (actually considerably before) when the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act established the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).


Perhaps the Minneapolis force needs a refresher course but basically they were victims of the old rotten apples syndrome that, in the grand scheme of things, is always hard to avoid anywhere, although we should try.


Also, as most people interested know, black on black killings outnumber police (black, white, or Hispanic) on black killings somewhere in the vicinity of ten to one. If you’re really interested in the welfare of our black population, why aren’t you paying more attention to that? (There apparently is little profit in it, just as there appears to be little profit in reversing the precipitous decline in the black family.)


Communist Groups


Meanwhile, neat, construction-size stacks of fresh bricks that could only have been expensively trucked in are appearing on street corners and in alleys everywhere close to protest sites, ready to be utilized as darkness falls. (Some disturbing examples are currently available on ZeroHedge.) Who’s paying for that? Is it Antifa? Who’s financing Antifa?


Also available at the same ZeroHedge link is a fascinating video shot by a black woman near LA’s Farmers Market where two white and Asian seeming Antifa operatives are graffitiing “BLM” (Black Lives Matter) on a Starbucks. The black woman tells them they are actually hurting black people by their actions when the Antifa pair start to tell her what’s best for black people. Go figure. Or better, go Marxist.


According to a friend who has been researching a book on the subject, there are several dozen branches of Antifa in this country at various levels of the clandestine. They claim to be anarchist but they work behind the scenes with By Any Means Necessary or BAMN (more or less Trotskyite), Refuse Fascism (formed out of the remnants of the Revolutionary Communist Party and with a Maoist tilt) and a surprising number of other groups of similar ilk, including the Revolutionary Student Front (Austin) and the Democratic Socialists of America.


The latter, once genuinely democratic under its founder Michael Harrington, is, my friend told me, going progressively hardline and anti-democratic (as Antifa has been for a long time) and now has as many as two hundred thousand members.


In all, the numbers for Antifa and Co. on the left completely dwarf those for the dwindling white supremacists, although that’s news to Governor Walz of Minnesota who thinks, or did anyway until he was disabused, that such supremacists are responsible for the violence in his city. (Undoubtedly he wishes they were.)


He and a host of others should get a clue before it’s too late. Maybe it already is.




And it’s just not the reactionary liberals of our culture who need to wise up fast. Many on the right got on their high horse when Trump said he was going to declare Antifa a domestic terror organization, saying that was legally impossible. That was only for foreign groups like ISIS.


Besides the fact that Antifa is global and started in Europe, in this instance at least, so what? Trump’s declaration was a way of dramatizing the imperative that they must be stopped. And indeed they must. His critics vitiated this in their pomposity.


As for where the group gets its money, there are undoubtedly many cutouts. But I have two suggestions to offer up: George Soros and the Chinese Communist Party. There are probably others.

[Kathianne]

Saying right off the bat, I've watch a couple of the videos, I just can't. If I understand the poster correctly, they'll be uploading more as warranted:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/377481/

THAT WAS THE RIOT THAT WAS: Veteran blogger and Instapundit reader Pierre Legrand emailed a massive core dump of video clips of the past several days’ events:

Have tried to post these in DISQUS and it pukes everytime I try. This needs to be posted so we can keep track of it.


Not sure this will work out but I want to post this list of terror attacks before it’s deleted.


Man stomped and stoned for trying to defend a bar from being looted
https://streamable.com/xkcvkk
Destroying store and beating unarmed woman and her husband
https://streamable.com/rvrwil
Beating and stomping guy on the ground Santa Monica
https://streamable.com/x6ue5x
Restaurant manager beaten and stomped for trying to defend his workplace
https://streamable.com/ila4dh
Stopping, beating and stomping a truck driver while protesters yell to kill him
https://streamable.com/8zk9dq
Protesters attack a media member and then pummel him
https://streamable.com/p4i3jb
Chasing guy and kicking him in the face for defending flag in Portland
https://streamable.com/ky6jyh
Police officer beaten on the streets
https://streamable.com/je4ki5
Car runs over a cop
https://streamable.com/q4nat7
Protesters set homeless man’s belongings on fire
https://streamable.com/sdjvfa
Throwing fireworks at the cops
https://streamable.com/7sv4a9
Looting a FedEx truck then looter gets dragged when truck tries to escape
https://streamable.com/n1azx3
Chasing and beating guy with red had
https://streamable.com/rcsmi0
Rioter sets himself on fire while trying to set a building on fire
https://streamable.com/w5wa8l
Fireworks thrown into CNN hq / Police officers
https://streamable.com/7dw6g7
Protester runs over the cops with an SUV
https://streamable.com/ttijvn
Destroying/looting/setting on fire Old Navy
https://streamable.com/oceqqg
Guardhouse in front of WH set on fire
https://streamable.com/vfopia
Dozens of cars destroyed/torched near CNN hq – Atlanta
https://streamable.com/ubjohz
St Louis neighborhood on fire
https://streamable.com/8lnd7v
Building on fire while self-proclaimed Mexicans say fuck white people
https://streamable.com/yvkek4
Destroying police SUV
https://streamable.com/2b7fic
Near a torched car audio speakers propaganda that all crime is legal
https://streamable.com/t76kdn
Destroying/looting bank in Montreal
https://streamable.com/3hwkx2
Pharmacy destroyed/looted in Dallas
https://streamable.com/fl7e5z
The remains of whole neighborhood destroyed
https://streamable.com/dtptr1
Destroying stores – Dallas
https://streamable.com/hn1qng
Destroying police SUV – Austin
https://streamable.com/v8zk1e
Police SUV torched LA
https://streamable.com/61mdlo
Looting target/beating disabled person in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/oyjgbk
Future apartment building destroyed with fire in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/dxmc0w
Looting pharmacy – Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/53nl1p
Destroying business in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/5lm779
More businesses on fire in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/f1zcmy
Ransacked Target Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/b3u92p
Building burning in neighborhood Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/vh5nyu
Boy drove car into a store
https://streamable.com/nrm2pn
Post office looted/destroyed
https://streamable.com/v4vflf
Minneapolis third police precinct set on fire
https://streamable.com/o27w75
More buildings on fire Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/8au2lf
Autoparts Store getting destroyed/looted
https://streamable.com/dum1r8
Autozone on fire
https://streamable.com/vq9hrp
Looting in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/jfor5g
Adults loot with their children
https://streamable.com/m4cr5j
Cars torched – Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/mmk9gr
Looting an ATM in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/ht2oxv
Remains of destroyed/looted Cub Foods
https://streamable.com/qhzlm7
Business and stores on fire in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/jcpdvv
Brenda Lenton’s home and belongings destroyed by a fire – Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/3s9l17
Aftermath of whole neighborhood being set on fire in Minneapolis
https://streamable.com/eat2c0
Nashville city hall set on fire while rioters cheer
https://streamable.com/b3y0ep
Fox reporters chased out with projectiles thrown at them near White House
https://streamable.com/1qzyua
Attacking drivers Tulsa, Okla
https://streamable.com/ixpxh9
Setting St. John’s Church on fire
https://streamable.com/u3y4ch
Destroying/looting stores Montreal
https://streamable.com/92h4rr
Destroying/looting store in Downtown Oakland
https://streamable.com/y9s4x9
Bar destroyed/Trying to loot a safe
https://streamable.com/yzprm5
Stolen Bulldozer in Oakland
https://streamable.com/lhf5ze
Two police SUVs torched in Seattle
https://streamable.com/eketpr
Multiple cars torched in Philadelphia
https://streamable.com/13784m
Ohio Statehouse being destroyed
https://streamable.com/k13b3l
Trying to breach Justice Center/central police precinct Portland
https://streamable.com/avcfq0
Destroying/Looting Justice Center Portland
https://streamable.com/1j6fof
Looting small business in Portland
https://streamable.com/bfs08c
Destroying/looting small business Portland
https://streamable.com/adfxxt
Looting Louis Vuitton store
https://streamable.com/f4ysu9
Driving stolen cars into stores – Portland
https://streamable.com/o1w92j
Destroying Chase Bank – Portland
https://streamable.com/o1wtom
Setting Chase Bank on fire – Portland
https://streamable.com/nanakz
Destroying/Looting Apple Store – Portland
https://streamable.com/2wncgk
Looting in St. Paul
https://streamable.com/6fouwt
Looting Shoe Store
https://streamable.com/60v3xh
Looting apple store
https://streamable.com/1wzq39
Looting North Face store – NYC
https://streamable.com/ux7djn
Nike Store being looted – NYC
https://streamable.com/6sdcb3
Looting in Union Square – NYC
https://streamable.com/jiz3zd
Looting T-mobile store
https://streamable.com/ag5kwc
Shop owner saves store from looters with a firearm
https://streamable.com/5oj1jl
Business owner defends his store from looters with a firearm
https://streamable.com/pmdjkb

To be fair, the AP assures me that none of that looting ever actually happened. And based on today’s NYT and CNN.com homepages, none of the other events captured in the above videos happened, either.

563Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

[Kathianne]

because:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/377421/

TRUMP SHOULD MESS WITH THEM BY DENOUNCING ANTIFA AS A WHITE SUPREMACIST ORGANIZATION, THEN DEMAND THAT DEMOCRATS DENOUNCE IT . . . That ‘White Nationalists Causing George Floyd Riot Chaos’ Talking Point Took Another Devastating Blow.
I know, I know: Never cross the streams!
Related:

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:00 am

[Kathianne]

Obvious?

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/377511/

JUNE 3, 2020


JOEL KOTKIN: Class Politics, Covid, and Riots. “Remarkably, these mayors seem to be largely indifferent to the rise of largely white, anarchist groups, like Antifa, who can be seen in videos committing acts of vandalism and violence, even over the objections of African American protestors.”


If you’re actively supporting, or even just passively enabling, the people who are destroying black neighborhoods, businesses, and jobs, aren’t you supporting white supremacy?



Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:16 am

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[Hot Dogger]

ANTIFA is only a natural reflection of our failed government, culture, and society. Any healthy society would of course immediately reject ANTIFA, but not only is our society sick in too may ways, but our very own government is out to destroy us; therefore, ANTIFA cannot be any worse than the current status quo.

[KarlMarx]

ANTIFA is the Gestapo of the Socialist Party and that is being nice about it

They are thugs and Marxists

They understand only one thing...... force and lots of it

The sooner Trump goes after this Cancer, the better off we will all be...

[KarlMarx]

You know ... reading the posts about China.... the anti war movement in the 60s got its funding from the North Vietnamese Communist Party

[icansayit]

This act by the President now gives the FBI, DOJ, ICE, and even the DOD the power to go after them just as they do...MS-13.

The Dems hate it when the President promises to TAKE OUT their SOROS/DNC paid groups.