Posted on 08/30/2020 6:23:31 PM PDT by bitt
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf offered a harsh evaluation of the anarchist group Antifa Wednesday, declaring that in certain capacities, the left-wing group “absolutely” meets the standards worthy of condemnation as a “domestic terrorist group.”
“I think what we see with them individually targeting law enforcement, individually targeting certain officials for certain reasons, that is the definition of domestic terrorism,” Wolf told The Federalist, going on to explain, however, that the group’s decentralized nature makes it difficult for law enforcement to offer effective surveillance and widespread prosecution.
“The issue with Antifa,” Wolf explained, “it’s not just one singular group. It’s a loosely knit organization that’s very hard to define, very hard to define who’s a part of it.”
Wolf pointed to the FBI conducting several ongoing investigations into the group to greater understand its underpinnings. That could benefit law enforcement agencies nationwide grappling with intensifying violence as major U.S. cities suffer under a historic moment of civil unrest.
While Wolf, who was officially nominated Tuesday to fill the post he currently serves in an “acting” capacity, characterized Antifa as a domestic terrorist group in some cases, the DHS’s mission lies primarily with protecting federal agents and property. That includes Portland, where rioters held a federal courthouse under siege in skirmishes between militant anarchists firing mortar-style fireworks and the police defending government buildings. In July alone, Wolf told congressional lawmakers earlier this month, more than 100 federal law enforcement agents sustained 277 injuries in Portland, nearly half of which were eye injuries from lasers that can cause permanent blindness.
As the nation sees the beginning of a second wave of violent protests terrorizing its major cities in Kenosha and Minneapolis this week, Portland demonstrators surpassed their 90th day of consecutive domestic attacks Tuesday, three months after the death of
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“...Wray who’s never been willing to say a bad word about BLM/Antifa. If somebody really doesn’t want to do something he always figures out excuses about why he can’t....”
That’s because Wray is loyal to the Soros/obama shadow government...the enemy.
He’s a fricken’ disgrace and should be let go asap.
“condemnation”? How about a sternly written letter to really show them? /s
“Wolf pointed to the FBI conducting several ongoing investigations into the group to greater understand its underpinnings.”
I don’t see why this would be a particularly difficult investigation.
I have to admit, I have zero confidence in Christopher Wray and his FBI. The FBI couldn’t even determine a motive for the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Gee, has he tried checking out Andy Ngo’s twitter feed?
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Best damn reporter on the Antifa terrorists. He’s doing what reporters use to do in the past. Actual on the ground investigative reporting!
Atifa homegrown al Qaeda
Well, whatever you do don’t do anything ahout it.
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It seems law enforcement is paralyzed. Weapons in full display, threatening Senators, Governors telling President to stay away. Hillary, Obama on full assault. The most powerful man in the world is powerless. He either can’t or won’t stop the revolution. I think he is playing politics while Dem controlled parts of country is burning and in chaos. If he doesn’t arrest and imprison the revolutionaries very soon USA is done! Just my opinion.
Just arrest them all!
One HAS to wonder what is taking so long to declare antifa a domestic terrorist group?
GITTERDONE!
Declare Antifa and the KKK domestic terrorist groups at the same time. Watch the left tie themselves in knots defending Antifa.
Finally. Those new eyeglasses did the trick.
All this time what were they waiting for, an Antifa bomb blowing up a building with people inside?
Terrorists!
so does BLM and their common sponsor, SorozNazi
It is time for President Trump to sign an Executive Order that Antifa is a Terrorist group and will be dealt with the same as a foreign Terrorist organization. He can start with Gitmo!
FINALLY!
“The issue with Antifa,” Wolf explained, “it’s not just one singular group. It’s a loosely knit organization that’s very hard to define, very hard to define who’s a part of it.”
Pure bs.
They have a flag
They have a leader
They have a lawyer firm on retainer.
They have a bail donation website
They have been an “entity” since 30’s Nazi Germany
I even found a pic of them ,with same flag except German words not English, FROM 1930’s Germany.
They have medics, logistics, footsoldiers and command structure
What more you need to figure this out ?
A listing on the stock exchange ?
A business license ?
Yes this would be nice if they would do something major
Not to mention thousands of IP Addresses organising riots and violence. He’s right it’s just way to hard.
Much easier to send a guy out to make friends with mentally slow kids in the country, talk about making bombs, then lock up the White Nationalists for 30 years.
BLM was founded by three Marxist lesbians and has been violent and leftist since its inception. Antifa is an evolution of the German/European
“black bloc” anarchist movement, and has been hyper-violent since its beginning. Black doesn’t refer to skin color, but to the anarchists’ favorite color (black, usually paired with red to represent Communism).
I think that the BLM people originally thought they were using Antifa, but Antifa has definitely taken over. The BLM people are nasty, they exploit ghetto blacks by using them as shock troops, and there’s nothing good about them; but Antifa is all these things...and stark raving mad. I doubt that there’s a sane one among them.
When the French Revolution broke out, all the patients were released from the mental hospital...and fit in just fine with the revolutionaries. In other words, insanity is the new normal.
The Antifa/BLM domestic terrorists are unlawful enemy combatants and should be dealt with as such.
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