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Petition urging terror label for Antifa gets enough signatures for White House response
Fox News ^ | August 21, 2017 | Fox News

Posted on 08/21/2017 3:01:52 PM PDT by familyop

Trump’s criticism of violence on the “alt-left” was seen as a swipe at groups like Antifa, whose “anti-facist” members have been known to clash with groups ranging from Trump supporters to white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Trump was hammered for seeming to equate Charlottesville counter-protesters with neo-Nazis – but in the days since, Antifa’s tactics at other rallies have been the subject of numerous media reports.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: antifa; communism; confederate; dsj02; terrorism; terrorists; trump
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This article is a different Fox News article from the one I posted earlier. No hits from running the title search here. This article was linked from the front page as differentiated from the earlier one from Fox "Insider."
1 posted on 08/21/2017 3:01:52 PM PDT by familyop
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Sign it, and pass the news about the Petition to other major news companies (most important)!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/formally-recognize-antifa-terrorist-organization-0


2 posted on 08/21/2017 3:02:51 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Squantos

“207,486 signed”

Let’s push it up to over 1.3 million. Nearly all of the signatories joined the Petition over the past two days. We should easily be able to get the rest during the next 25 days.


3 posted on 08/21/2017 3:06:21 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

Nah, they seem like great people to me -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KiNWJ8FiYg&t=

They’re not terrorists, but anti- hate fighters. What a bunch of great kids. If they were terrorists, I’m sure I would have seen these videos on the mainstream media news programs.


4 posted on 08/21/2017 3:07:32 PM PDT by Nicojones
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To: familyop

You got one more just now...


5 posted on 08/21/2017 3:07:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: familyop

And their supporters and leaders are advocating for violence. Which might mean anything from simple assault to worse.


6 posted on 08/21/2017 3:09:57 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: familyop

Me too.


7 posted on 08/21/2017 3:10:11 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Nicojones

Anti hate who are for physical violence.


8 posted on 08/21/2017 3:11:37 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: DoughtyOne; moovova

Thank you!


9 posted on 08/21/2017 3:18:16 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

My pleasure. I will say I enjoyed signing the Soros one more, earlier today.


10 posted on 08/21/2017 3:34:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: familyop

I am in sent to all friends.


11 posted on 08/21/2017 3:41:52 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump)
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To: DoughtyOne

Could you please post a link for the Soros one?


12 posted on 08/21/2017 3:41:53 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Mmogamer

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3579274/posts


13 posted on 08/21/2017 5:09:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: dhs12345
Here is a list of some of Antifa's supporters...

Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Paul Ryan, Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ben Sasse, Ed Gillespie, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Cory Gardner, Sen. Jerry Moran, John Kasich, Rep. Ed Royce, Rep. Leonard Lance, Yeb Bush, Rep. Will Hurd, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Senator Todd Young, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ...

14 posted on 08/21/2017 5:16:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: familyop
Signed and sent.

Also overdue...

15 posted on 08/21/2017 5:18:16 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: Nicojones
Nah, they seem like great people to me -

Give me a break.
Those are not the masked, armed thugs I've seen in all the other videos!

16 posted on 08/21/2017 5:21:30 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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It’s been a long time since my last view of a WorldNetDaily article. Please, give Joseph a click to show appreciation for publishing this. He’ll see the extra web traffic.

200,000 Americans call on Trump to ‘recognize Antifa as terror organization’
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/180000-americans-call-on-trump-to-recognize-antifa-as-terror-organization/


17 posted on 08/21/2017 5:26:50 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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There’s also The Daily Caller.

Classify Antifa As Terrorist Petition Hits Go
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/20/white-house-petition-to-recognize-antifa-as-a-terrorist-organization-hits-100k-signatures/


18 posted on 08/21/2017 5:29:22 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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And Arutz Sheva (Israel National News). Give ‘em a click without adblocker for a moment to thank them.

Petition declaring Antifa a terror group gets 100,000 signatures
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234261

...and Breitbart.

White House Petition Calls on Trump to Officially Recognize ‘Antifa’ as a Terrorist Organization
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/19/white-house-petition-calls-on-trump-to-officially-recognize-antifa-as-a-terrorist-organization/

...and thanks to Independent Journal Review!

Petition to Recognize Antifa as Terrorist Organization Gets Tens of Thousands of Signatures
http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/08/952214-petition-recognize-antifa-terrorist-organization-gets-tens-thousands-signatures/


19 posted on 08/21/2017 5:35:00 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

What’s going on here? There seems to be some confusion and fake (false) version of this intended petition out here


20 posted on 08/21/2017 5:37:31 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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