“[T]he president on June 7 said he would designate antifa as a terrorist organization. He made the same remarks last year after antifa followers rumbled with the far-right group, the Proud Boys. Antifa has never been accused of killing anyone, unlike the white supremacist hate group Ku Klux Klan, which is not declared a terrorist organization.
“Attorney General William Barr says antifa was responsible for the looting and violence that cities across the U.S. witnessed early on in protests against George Floyd’s murder and police brutality against Black Americans. However, federal court records show out of the 51 people facing federal charges, no one is alleged to have ties to the antifa movement.’
–WBUR Radio, Boston, June 11, 2020.
“[I]t is important to reject attempts to claim equivalence between the antifa and the white supremacist groups they oppose. Antifa reject racism but use unacceptable tactics. White supremacists use even more extreme violence to spread their ideologies of hate, to intimidate ethnic minorities, and undermine democratic norms. Right-wing extremists have been one of the largest and most consistent sources of domestic terror incidents in the United States for many years; they have murdered hundreds of people in this country over the last ten years alone. To date, there have not been any known antifa-related murders.”
—Anti-Defamation League, undated. […So, bottom line, what makes antifa, founded nearly a century ago to warn of the threat of Hitler and Mussolini, any more traitorous (the word of one of our readers) than the skinheads, the KKK, the Nazis, the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Boys, or any other white supremacist group? Yes, it has its bad element; so does law enforcement, the priesthood, education, the military, and any other organization you care to name.]
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Trump, Barr, McConnell and these Republicans are masters at using propaganda. They easily indoctrinate their followers thru their media control and their messages become “truths” laced with fear mongering and hate. They have been very successful….this can be seen by the rubber stamp responses to Tom’s posts from Trump supporters. Always attacks, repeating the tired old Trump lies in his defense…no nation can survive being governed by lies and liars. Are we watching in real time as our democracy gasps for breath…especially in our Senate…?
Ms. Herring, I our founders knew what they were doing when they limited the presidential term to four years. Imagine if it was for six years. Maybe four years should be the limit for the Senate too. Have hope. November is not far away.
“Media control” ? Virtually all of the media leans left which means negative reporting for conservative positions. The “indoctrinated” followers are the smug left who feel their message is the true course. “Democracy gasps for breath” ?
The people trying to remove freedoms are hardly the conservatives. The thought police seem to be all liberals and people who actually believe government know best how to govern your life.
Antifa has never been accused of killing anyone. Now that is brilliant. We have all seen countless videos of them beating up innocent bystanders, protesting any speaker who is not in line with them, vandalizing with impunity. Any rational person would reject them just like the Ku Klux Klan or Black Panthers. There is no place in our society for people like this but I notice liberals are opposed to any criticism of Antifa. And really what could be more fascist than Antifa, as if they were a legitimate group ? Do you really believe they keep membership rolls ?
Robert C. Witt has 48 felony arrests.