Posted on 08/17/2017 9:38:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
OAKLAND, Calif. — Last weekend, when a 27-year-old bike messenger showed up at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., he came ready for battle. He joined a human chain that stretched in front of Emancipation Park and linked his arms with others, blocking waves of white supremacists — some of them in full Nazi regalia — from entering.
“As soon as they got close,” said the young man, who declined to give his real name and goes by Frank Sabaté after the famous Spanish anarchist, “they started swinging clubs, fists, shields. I’m not embarrassed to say that we were not shy in defending ourselves.”
Sabaté is an adherent of a controversial force on the left known as antifa. The term, a contraction of the word “anti-fascist,” describes the loose affiliation of radical activists who have surfaced in recent months at events around the country and have openly scuffled with white supremacists, right-wing extremists and, in some cases, ordinary supporters of President Trump. Energized in part by Mr. Trump’s election, they have sparred with their conservative opponents at political rallies and college campus speaking engagements, arguing that one crucial way to combat the far right is to confront its supporters on the streets.
Unlike most of the counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville and elsewhere, members of antifa have shown no qualms about using their fists, sticks or canisters of pepper spray to meet an array of right-wing antagonists whom they call a fascist threat to American democracy. As explained this week by a dozen adherents of the movement, the ascendant new right in the country requires a physical response....
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Yes this is not funny it’s maddening. and it’s all justified because they are fighting the “FAR RIGHT” oooo spooky music. Screw you NYT, they are physically attacking anyone not towing your garbage outdated Marxist crap.
Don’t worry though, they’ll come after good old liberals eventually like they did with the one lib professor in Cali.
Skinnyfat beta males who still live with their parents and can barely use the dingy “weapons” they bring. I mean for the love of God they fight in skinny jeans and $750 leather jackets!
and then what? they’ll be held as heroes for trying to fight ‘FAR RIGHT EVIL’ and be victims?
There is nothing left of the old extreme left that is extreme to them anymore. That’s how they could even consider someone like Sanders.
Our side has been stationed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, the Fulda Gap, Vietnam, aboard ship, and many other places. We’ve been to Ranger School, Urban Warfare Training, Jungle School, ParaRescue camp, jump school, intelligence training, BUDS, Desert Warfare training, marksmanship training and boot camp. They’ve listened to communist professors and community organizers.
They may be held up as heroes by their supporters but they won’t be showing up for round two.
Democrats are America’s Islam. Antifa is their ISIS.
The Democrat rallying cries are “Terrorism for liberty!” and “Erase American History!”
They are ready to fight and kill anyone who is not left of Lenin. Soros goons. Your tax dollars help create these idiots in the government school system. Will conservatives withdraw from that system? NOPE
Ok, guess I’m naive but aren’t there laws against instigating violence? How are they allowed to broadcast violent intentions with zero consequences?
True. Besides they are part of the reason along with BLM antics oh, and MURDER that propelled DJT into the WH to begin with. Polls released, even one that over sampled dems by 10 percent, show the majority of Americans do not support removing monuments and statues. These violent thugs are working against a lot of people and the dems are tied to them now. As Bannon said I hope they keep talking all the race stuff. He knows it’ll be the end of the dems for a long time as a party.
He gets the frustration in the rest of the country with these animals. The dems support radical Islam and ANTIFA. What a party huh?
I think they’ve officially hit rock bottom.
NYT pleasuring itself in light of Antifa’s growing violence.
Because it’s okay to commit violence against people labeled NAZI even if they’re peacefully protesting the removal of a statue.
Ask Rubio.
>> They’re getting very decent pay to do all this.
That source must be identified, suspended, and prosecuted.
I wonder how they’d react to me release of 100k bees.
I imagine I’d be the only person remaining in that park.
Left, right, Nazi, cop, will all beat feet
they’ll be weeping because these thugs are going to get slaughtered one day by the dozens and then what? It’ll be Trumps fault even though the left has encouraged their violence.
There is nothing lose about them. They are a well organized criminal entity that fights the right, the far right the medium right and the slightly right. Any right that shows its face is attacked.
When we respond, it must not be against antifa alone, but we must take care of the media, hollywood and soros himself as well. We need a full-spectrum hyperwar against their side.
Funny, the leader of Unite the Right supported Occupy.
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