Trump to designate antifa a 'major terrorist organization'

[Valletta]

"Antifa is terrible," the president said. "These aren't protests, these are crimes that they're doing. They're throwing bricks at cars of the ICE and Border Patrol. … They're professional agitators. … They should be put in jail. What they're doing to this country is really subversive."

Trump to designate antifa a 'major terrorist organization'

President Donald Trump designated antifa a terrorist organization via Truth Social, recommending investigations into those funding the left-wing activist movement.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Oompa Loompa]

It is about time! They, and others like them, both on the left and the right, needs to be dismantled like the KKK in the 1980s.

 

[Nithavela]

Surprised that it took so long.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

I'll believe he's serious only if he treats them the same as the Venezuelan narco terrorists.

 

[Valletta]

I'll believe he's serious only if he treats them the same as the Venezuelan narco terrorists.

They don't often travel in boats, and I'd bet they will avoid the water from now on.

 

[Gene2memE]

From 2018:

"The White House addressed an August 2017 petition seeking to declare as a terrorist organization “AntiFa,” a loose collection of self-proclaimed anti-fascist activists whose occasionally violent protests earned national headlines last year. The White House said Trump opposes violence and that federal law provides no “mechanism for formally designating domestic terrorist organizations.”

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The Trump administration is beginning to address a backlog of petitions signed by Americans on the White House website.

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From 2020:

"President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will designate antifa as a terrorist organization after Democratic and Republican officials pointed to extremist groups and out of town demonstrators as responsible for violent episodes at protests in major cities across the country."

Trump says he will designate antifa a terrorist organization as GOP points fingers at extremists

The move comes after violent protests across the country over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.

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Congressional Research Service (2020):

While the FBI has confirmed that antifa and other extremists are subjects of ongoing domestic terrorism investigations, it declines to designate any organization a "domestic terrorist organization." Doing so may infringe on First Amendment-protected free speech—belonging to an ideological group in and of itself is not a crime in the United States. Further, as previously stated, antifa is a decentralized movement, and law enforcement designation of antifa as a singular group may prove to be difficult.

US Supreme Court (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE v. ALABAMA EX REL. PATTERSON, ATTORNEY
GENERAL, 1958)

"It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the "liberty" assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which embraces freedom of speech."

 

[GoldenBoy89]

They don't often travel in boats, and I'd bet they will avoid the water from now on.

Nah, I'll believe it when antifa punks at college protests are being treated just like ISIS. Otherwise it's all bluster.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

Nah, I'll believe it when antifa punks at college protests are being treated just like ISIS. Otherwise it's all bluster.

Will you believe it if he signs an executive order?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Will you believe it if he signs an executive order?

No, I need to see the Navy shelling Berkeley.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

No, I need to see the Navy shelling Berkeley.

What about FBI raids instead?

 

[Gene2memE]

Will you believe it if he signs an executive order?

That's not a law.

What law would allow the designation of antifa as a 'domestic terrorist organisation'?

And, what law that would allow such a designation under diagnostic criteria which would also not result in say, the Proud Boys, or the Three Percenters, or Patriot Prayer, or the Boogaloo Boys, or the Oath Keepers, or Resist Marxism as domestic terrorist organisations?

 

[Oompa Loompa]

That's not a law.

When did that stop Trump?

 

[Servus]

What about FBI raids instead?

The big bad masked boogeymen in unmarked vans, ready to kidnap members of antifa, to never be heard from again.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

What about FBI raids instead?

Raids? That’s for car wash employees and day laborers, not international terrorist organizations. Are you guys even serious about this? It doesn’t seem like it.

 

[JosephZ]

If Trump were serious about combating domestic terrorism and political violence in this country, he would also go after groups like the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Movement, Three Percenters, and Oath Keepers, which have been far more violent than Antifa in recent years.

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[seeking.IAM]

The U.S. is in deep trouble if being against fascism becomes a crime.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

Raids? That’s for car wash employees and day laborers, not international terrorist organizations. Are you guys even serious about this? It doesn’t seem like it.

Well, I guess you will never believe it then. Some would call that just plain denial.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

If Trump were serious about combating domestic terrorism and political violence in this country, he would also go after groups like the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Movement, Three Percenters, and Oath Keepers, which have been far more violent than Antifa in recent years.

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Other than street brawls with ANTIFA, can you provide any examples of the Proud Boys attacking political figures?

 

[Oompa Loompa]

The U.S. is in deep trouble if being against fascism becomes a crime.

Well, seeing how ANTIFA are the actual fascist, I think all is good.

 

[durangodawood]

Is antifa even an "organization"? Seems more like an ideology.