Federal Arrests Show No Sign that Antifa Plotted Protests

[SummerMadness]

Federal Arrests Show No Sign that Antifa Plotted Protests

Inciting a riot. Hurling a Molotov cocktail. Plotting to sow destruction. Those are some of the most serious charges brought by federal prosecutors against demonstrators at protests across the country in recent weeks.

But despite cries from President Trump and others in his administration, none of those charged with serious federal crimes amid the unrest have been linked so far to the loose collective of anti-fascist activists known as antifa.

A review of the arrests of dozens of people on federal charges reveals no known effort by antifa to perpetrate a coordinated campaign of violence. Some criminal complaints described vague, anti-government political leanings among suspects, but the majority of the violent acts that have taken place at protests have been attributed by federal prosecutors to individuals with no affiliation to any particular group.

I look forward to removing this dishonorable and lying regime in November.

 

[Dave G.]

Suffice it to say someone is lying in all this. Pallets of bricks weren't growing in the city streets and robots directing the fools to throw them. That's on video, pretty hard to deny. Don't forget we have drones and advanced techniques to identify people. A lie involved ? Sure but just who is lying is the question.

 

[Albion]

The claim carefully uses the words "plotted" and "plotting," en route to exonerating Antifa from its actions.

But Antifa doesn't normally plan (or plot) its riots. It takes advantage of opportunities that come their way and are judged ripe for being used.

 

[Chesterton]

Federal Arrests Show No Sign that Antifa Plotted Protests


I look forward to removing this dishonorable and lying regime in November.

Just earlier today you and I and others were discussing the questionable nature of BLM, and now here you are defending the fascists antifa. That's not a good look.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Just earlier today you and I and others were discussing the questionable nature of BLM, and now here you are defending the fascists antifa. That's not a good look.

I am confused I thought Antifa was anti fascist. Are you saying they are fascist?

 

[SummerMadness]

Just earlier today you and I and others were discussing the questionable nature of BLM, and now here you are defending the fascists antifa. That's not a good look.

Sure... Where does my post defend anyone?

 

[JustSomeBloke]

I look forward to removing this dishonorable and lying regime in November.

If you think the lack of accountability is bad now, just wait until the police have either been disbanded and defunded, or decided to tactically withdraw from entire neighboorhoods, and your paramilitary anarcho-communist friends are running the entire show, using assault rifles to ensure compliance with their rules.

 

[SummerMadness]

If you think the lack of accountability is bad now, just wait until the police have either been disbanded and defunded, or decided to tactically withdraw from entire neighboorhoods, and your paramilitary anarcho-communist friends are running the entire show, using assault rifles to ensure compliance with their rules.

Yes, it's either let the police continue as they are currently run, where abuse is rife or there will be no police officers. Sure, it's a simple binary choice...

 

[grasping the after wind]

I am confused I thought Antifa was anti fascist. Are you saying they are fascist?

They claim to be anti fascist while acting like fascist typically act. They cannot find enough actual fascist to violently attack so they violently attack whoever is handy.

 

[Chesterton]

I am confused I thought Antifa was anti fascist. Are you saying they are fascist?

They think and behave exactly as the European fascists of the 1920's through '40's did. They even try to dress like them.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

They claim to be anti fascist while acting like fascist typically act. They cannot find enough actual fascist to violently attack so they violently attack whoever is handy.

Who have they attacked?

 

[Chesterton]

Sure... Where does my post defend anyone?

You found this newsworthy, which it doesn't seem to be to me. Newspapers usually report things that happen, not things that don't happen. You must have been pleased with it or something.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

They think and behave exactly as the European fascists of the 1920's through '40's did. They even try to dress like them.

So they are a European concept?

 

[grasping the after wind]

Who have they attacked?

Any number of diverse people. Andy Ngo comes to mind off the top of my head. Most of the people they have attacked are not that famous so I don't know their names.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Any number of diverse people. Andy Ngo comes to mind off the top of my head. Most of the people they have attacked are not that famous so I don't know their names.

Do you have links to any news stories about them attacking someone?

 

[Albion]

Do you have links to any news stories about them attacking someone?

Here's the first of many that I came to when I entered this into a search engine. You can easily find others on your own.

Four Reasons Why Antifa Deserves to Be Called a Terrorist Organization

 

[grasping the after wind]

Do you have links to any news stories about them attacking someone?

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Here's the first of many that I came to when I entered this into a search engine. You can easily find others on your own.

Four Reasons Why Antifa Deserves to Be Called a Terrorist Organization

Thanks. I googled Andy Ngo.

 

[SummerMadness]

You found this newsworthy, which it doesn't seem to be to me. Newspapers usually report things that happen, not things that don't happen. You must have been pleased with it or something.

It's newsworthy because the president and the attorney general claim the protests were organized by antifa. That claim is false, and their continued claim that it is antifa is a lie. That's not promoting antifa, it is demonstrating the lies put out by the current regime.

 

[SummerMadness]

Here's the first of many that I came to when I entered this into a search engine. You can easily find others on your own.

Four Reasons Why Antifa Deserves to Be Called a Terrorist Organization

This topic is not about classifying antifa, it is about arrests made in protests demonstrating that antifa are not the instigator of riots as the president and attorney general have argued.