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The Shadowy Extremist Group Behind the Anti-Trump Riots
Polizette ^ | 04/24/17 | Edmund Kozak

Posted on 04/24/2017 9:06:45 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

On April 15, a pro-Trump, pro-free-speech rally at University of California, Berkeley, descended into violent mayhem after radical far-leftists — members of the organization Antifa — began to attack the peacefully assembled crowd.

Antifa, which stands for “anti-fascist action,” is a network of loosely affiliated far-left anarchist and communist groups that orchestrate violent protests and attacks on populists, conservatives, and anyone else its members deem to be “fascists” or “Nazis.”

“Anyone who tries to hold any sort of right-wing event literally gets beat up by militant communists in the street.”

Antifa was formed originally in Germany in the 1980s, its members taking the name of the communist paramilitary groups that engaged the Nazis in street-fighting in the 1930s. It now has active cells across the world, including in Germany, the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Czechia, and France.

“Anyone who tries to hold any sort of right-wing event literally gets beat up by militant communists in the street,” said independent journalist Lauren Southern, who was present at one of the pro-Trump Berkeley rallies, in a video taken immediately following the violence.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: antifa; berkeley; berkeleyrico; fascistgroup; losalamosrico; resistance; sedition
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And why in hell are these assholes not rounded up?
1 posted on 04/24/2017 9:06:45 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Because the rest of the Antifa rioters - and those who fund them! - work for the NYTimes, LATimes, WashPost, and Obola’s ABCNNBCBS national press corpse.


2 posted on 04/24/2017 9:13:27 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Well they have the right to peaceful assemb........ oh wait, never mind.


3 posted on 04/24/2017 9:13:35 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Of course! Civil War coming to a street near you. No way in hell these damn bastard anarchists are going to prevail!


4 posted on 04/24/2017 9:15:39 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

So “Antifa” is “Procommie” which is actually “Profa”.

The friggin’ Left is so confused they don’t know their own lies from the truth. They are deceived by their own deceptions. They wouldn’t recognize the truth if it ran them over like a freight train.


5 posted on 04/24/2017 9:16:43 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

No, the Chief Provocateur and Enemy in Chief, Obama, is out of power and these enemies will dissipate soon enough. Freedom is on the rise, and slavish totalitarianism is on the wane.


6 posted on 04/24/2017 9:20:15 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
America was ripe for the community oranizer, Barack Obama and with him came the ANTIFA....If anyone is thinking about going back to that kind of governance, remember this:

DEMS UNDER OBAMA

President Trump is doing his best with this humongous government, trying to turn her in the right direction...but with ex-president Obama trying to reenter the picture the job will become even harder with all the fake news and an ex potus pushing for his beloved Socialism/Communism.

GET THE HECK OUT OF THE WAY BARRY, PROTEST SOMEWHERE ELSE OTHER THAN AMERICA!!

7 posted on 04/24/2017 9:21:57 AM PDT by yoe
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Probably has its roots in some post-war KGB op.


8 posted on 04/24/2017 9:22:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Their pensions, federal money involved,
should be seized, and they be prevented from
any government job FOREVER after they
get out of prison.


9 posted on 04/24/2017 9:23:48 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Can you spell George Soros?


10 posted on 04/24/2017 9:24:24 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Since they do not protest, they do riot and assault. USGov should be taking them on every time, with strong police action. They are attempting to deny USAians their constitutional right to assemble and protest.

Huge duh.


11 posted on 04/24/2017 9:24:38 AM PDT by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Democrats may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

In the case of Berkeley, the mayor is an Antifa supporter.

My response to being assaulted by Antifa, with the police standing by doing nothing because the mayor supports Antfia, would be to find out where mayor lives and pay him a little visit along with a friend of the ash or aluminum kind.

People who are cowards only act out, because they don’t think they are going to become mangled.


12 posted on 04/24/2017 9:26:40 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Jim 0216

Communism and Fascism are not opposites. That’s the biggest of the Big Lies the left wants you to believe, because that’s necessary for the narrative that anybody against Communists / Leftists / Democrats must be a Fascist.

Communism and Fascism are both, at their core, only different flavors of totalitarianism. Whether the government “owns” the means of production or declares that the country shall have only one “private sector” producer, or whether deviations from the Official Truth shall be punished with death or with jail or with financial ruin, etc., are details.


13 posted on 04/24/2017 9:32:49 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Right.

As I said, “Antifa” = “Procommie” = “Profa”.

14 posted on 04/24/2017 9:38:39 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: jiggyboy

Repeat this as often as possible. Maybe one day a low information protester will finally get it.


15 posted on 04/24/2017 9:45:28 AM PDT by Apogee
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
its members taking the name of the communist paramilitary groups that engaged the Nazis in street-fighting in the 1930s.

The sequence is backwards. The "anti-fascists" came BEFORE the fascists and Nazis existed.

In the 1920s and 1930s in the Weimar Republic, Communist Party and Social Democratic Party members advocated violence and mass agitation amongst the working class to first stop the Freikorps movements in immediate post-WW I Germany, and not long thereafter, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party. Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote:
[F]ighting squads must be created ... nothing increases the insolence of the fascists so much as 'flabby pacifism' on the part of the workers' organisations ... [It is] political cowardice [to deny that] without organised combat detachments, the most heroic masses will be smashed bit by bit by fascist gangs."[18]
In 1919, there was an attempted Communist takeover of Germany, which was put down by WWI veterans (the Freikorps). Despite their defeat, the Communists continued violence against anti-Communists.

Finally, somebody came along who had people willing to fight in the streets to resist the Communists. The German people took a liking to this guy. Despite his funny-looking mustache.

16 posted on 04/24/2017 9:45:45 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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People who are cowards only act out, because they don’t think they are going to become mangled.

Exactly! They only get away with it because the douche bag leftists politicians allow it. See what happens when a Trump supporter lobs a brick or M-80 at them!


17 posted on 04/24/2017 9:48:01 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: PapaBear3625

organised combat detachments...Nothing will piss of freedom loving Americans more than this garbage.


18 posted on 04/24/2017 9:52:06 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

SorozNazi $$$ and organizing


19 posted on 04/24/2017 10:18:22 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The Department of State, through U.S. Code Title 22, Chapter 38, defines terrorism as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.”

Time for Antiter to form.


20 posted on 04/24/2017 10:40:15 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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