'Antifa' violence in Berkeley becomes problem for left-wing activist community

LA Times ^ | Aug, 29, 2017 | Paige St. John and James Queally

[Incorrigible]

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[Responsibility2nd]

Earlier thread....

Antifa’s war cry, “No Trump, no wall, no USA at all!”. Victory for Antifa would be the destruction of society.

So some leftists are starting to think they’ve gone too far?

Nonsense. Not far enough. Keep going you leftist morons. Let Mad Maxine and Antifa be your heroes. Let of all America see you Democrats for what you really are....

Mentally deranged fascists.

[AndyTheBear]

Antifa was the offspring of falsely blaming violence by leftists at Trump rallies on Trump supporters....and calling the little thugs “patriots” and “demonstrators”.

[FreeReign]

The thugs are being paid and protected from the police by Leftist office holders. In short it is a conspiracy to violate the free speech constitutional rights of peaceful demonstrators. Sessions must arrest the thugs when they attack protesters, violate their civil rights and indict thos who pay and protect them.

Not a word from Sessions.

[MrEdd]

Little late on that one.

It was a known Communist strong arm in the late seventies and we sometimes got intel on them when I was in a Marine S2 shop back in the early eighties.

So the proper wording is that Antifa is STILL a terrorist organization.

Who’da thunk it?

[Steve_Seattle]

“This is food for the adversary,” said sociologist Todd Gitlin, a founder of Students for a Democratic Society, which organized the first national protests against the Vietnam War. He pointed out that violent acts committed by a few will almost always hijack the narrative of the entire protest, and that it is happening now should be no surprise."

1. Todd, where have you been for the last twenty years? The Battle for Seattle, radical Muslims, OWS, BLM, Antifa, unions, and other leftist groups have been smashing heads, destroying property, taking over buildings, shutting down freeways, and suppressing free speech all this time, and now the left is acting as if what happened in Berkeley the other day is something new.

2. But you and the media have no problem blaming entire groups for the actions of a few right-wingers ("anyone who votes Republican is a Nazi and white-supremacist"), EVEN WHEN THE CRIME WAS NOT COMMITTED BY A RIGHT-WINGER (Gabby Gifrfords shooting).

[FreeReign]

For two whole weeks the militant mob media beat down on Trump (and his supporters) claiming that he was a supporter of white supremacists and neo-nazis for saying that not every in Charlotteville was a bad person (i.e. not a white supremacist or neo-nazi). And he extended that to the Left (basically that they were not all militant (Communists) either).

Yup.

[pgkdan]

So he has no problem with the violent suppression of dissent, just the PR impact.

That's exactly how I read it too.

[pepsionice]

Someone should start a rumor that Antifa was created and sponsored by the Trump campaign to keep Trump in the headlines for the whole eight-year period...every single day.

[Sasparilla]

...some bearing pastel-painted riot shields that read “no hate (except ours).”

[pgkdan]

Shouldn't this guy be in an old folks home by now?................

You'd think he'd have grown up by now, wouldn't you?

[pgkdan]

The only people criticizing Trump for his equating the violence of the two sides are those that want to deliberately ignore the violence of the leftists.

Yeah, people like Rex Tillerson.

[MGG]

I just shared a video on FB of ANTIFA assaulting a Disabled Vet in a wheelchair.

[ealgeone]

The Left cannot help themselves.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Too bad we don’t have an Attorney General to go after these violent anarchists.

[freedumb2003]

>>AntiFA call police “fascists” on their website. They call Bush a “fascist” on their website.<<

I have been saying (and doing) that the name “antifa” should always be preceded by “the ironically-named.”

[Paladin2]

I call them AntifaHitlers.

[Maverick68]

Any human-being with a measurable IQ and the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time are perfectly capable of condemning Nazis AND Communists at the same time.
Apparently the Left do not qualify.

[Sasparilla]

...march organizers asked allies in the antifa movement to “play a defensive role” in the rally...

Proof that ANTIFA has replaced the KKK as the paramilitary arm of liberalism and the democrat party.

[al_c]

“becomes” a problem? It’s been a problem ... they’ve just chosen to ignore it.