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‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right
The New York Times ^ | August 17, 2017 | Thomas Fuller, Alan Feuer and Serge F. Kovaleski

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
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Cheerleading much?
1 posted on 08/17/2017 9:38:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right

That would be us...if they say so.

2 posted on 08/17/2017 9:41:14 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Media justification of far left thuggery.


3 posted on 08/17/2017 9:42:44 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Papers that support the racist, violent Alt-left must be shutdown.


4 posted on 08/17/2017 9:42:51 PM PDT by JohnyBoy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Antifa is a club-wielding facist brownshirt organization.


5 posted on 08/17/2017 9:43:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

They have no idea the sh*t storm they’re about to unleash. We don’t, for the most part, live in our mom’s basement, work at Starbucks and sit around playing Xbox.


6 posted on 08/17/2017 9:43:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

and by “Far Right”, they mean everyone that isn’t far left.


7 posted on 08/17/2017 9:43:38 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They will instantly pivot to “victim”.


8 posted on 08/17/2017 9:45:06 PM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government.)
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I wonder if those losers who respond to the craigslist ads for protestors realize which side they are being paid to pretend to be on.

Wouldn't that suck? You look forward to being paid 25 dollars an hour to be a protestor and then when you get there, you're told, "Okay, put on this regalia and head down to the park. We'll have your paycheck ready for you to pick up if...oop, upp....I mean WHEN you get back."

9 posted on 08/17/2017 9:45:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NYT proving that there was, indeed, a lot of violence coming from their side.


10 posted on 08/17/2017 9:46:12 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They either don’t see the contradiction in self described ‘anarchists’ standing for ‘American democracy’ ... or think no one else does.


11 posted on 08/17/2017 9:46:20 PM PDT by piasa
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https://twitter.com/YoungDems4Trump/status/827053702099906560

FU New York Times - take your hate and shove it up your a—. There are real people getting hurt and killed by these leftists.


12 posted on 08/17/2017 9:46:31 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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They’re getting very decent pay to do all this.

There’s no conviction. It’s a job, and they are plenty willing to destroy the U.S. for a buck.

Take Soros and his corporations down, and this stops dead in it’s tracks.

None of these folks are going to travel if not paid to do it. They have no income.

Mom may let them stay in the basement and let them use the WiFi, but there’s no way she’ll pay for airfare and $25 per hour for them to protest and destroy stuff.


13 posted on 08/17/2017 9:46:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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“Antifa” is just the current branding of the same anarchist thugs responsible for the riots at the 2000 Democrat convention in Los Angeles , the 1999 riots in Seattle, and pre-palnned chaos of “Occupy Wall Street.”

They are the “progressive” movement’s storm-troopers and have been for going on 20 years now.


14 posted on 08/17/2017 9:47:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Finally, violence the media can get behind.


15 posted on 08/17/2017 9:48:05 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H27Ul9ZsHk

THESE are the people the Times are behind


16 posted on 08/17/2017 9:48:33 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: RC one

Although national socialists are far left in their philosophy too. So they also mean those that are not international socialists hell-bent on state atheism.


17 posted on 08/17/2017 9:48:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FAR RIGHT?
LMAO

Sure. They attack ANYONE conservative or Republican. You can’t keep demonizing people to justify violence and remain credible.
Everyone with working internet sees their thuggery and criminal activity. I guess shutting down freedom of speech you disagree with by using violence is okay with the NYT.

Nobody is afraid of these punks. When met with push back in Berkeley the ran and retreated. They’re p***ies cowards.


18 posted on 08/17/2017 9:50:10 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: DoughtyOne

>They’re getting very decent pay to do all this.

>There’s no conviction. It’s a job, and they are plenty willing to destroy the U.S. for a buck.

These guys have really good gear now. Watching the vid some of them had full police riot suits that made them pretty much invulnerable to most weapons less than firearms, brand new. Soros is sparing no expense.

This is the war in the streets we’ve been expecting.


19 posted on 08/17/2017 9:50:29 PM PDT by JohnyBoy
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If you have a ‘ far Left ‘ you are going to have a ‘far Right’. One has to balance the other . You simply cannot have one without the other . Ready ? Let’s roll . Stock up on popcorn and baseball bats


20 posted on 08/17/2017 9:50:38 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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