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Politico: DHS Classified Antifa's Activities As Acts Of Domestic Terrorism Last Year
townhall.com ^ | Sep 01, 2017

Posted on 09/01/2017 5:21:38 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.

Previously unreported documents disclose that by April 2016, authorities believed that “anarchist extremists” were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of “the capitalist system,” racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI.

After President Donald Trump’s election in November, the antifa activists locked onto another target — his supporters

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifaterrorists; dhsantifa; domesticterrorists

1 posted on 09/01/2017 5:21:38 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

For those organizations funding Antifa, will they be in legal jeopardy by providing funding?

Can these funds be seized?


2 posted on 09/01/2017 5:24:00 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Helicondelta

Yeah, I guess the press didn’t get that memo either.


3 posted on 09/01/2017 5:29:47 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ptsal

Now wait a minute, Romney said these were noble people protesting prejudice and Trump should apologize for saying bad things about them.


4 posted on 09/01/2017 5:32:50 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ptsal
Doubt it. The left hates the right so bad they probably secretly cheer in their hearts when they pull their crap. They're just plain evil, and the young are being conditioned to believe communism is a good system and the violence to bring it about worth it, end justifies the means.
5 posted on 09/01/2017 5:34:11 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Helicondelta
The Patriot Prayer organizer, the guy whom AntiFa beat the sh*t out of --did you know he's not even white..?

He's freaking Japanese-American.

It seems it's getting easier and easier to be a White Surpemacist, eh..?

6 posted on 09/01/2017 5:37:06 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Helicondelta

Here’s where they wrap the Polo Shirt NAZI up in a burrito, steal his phone, kick his *ss, basically:

https://youtu.be/m1vTNNU14uI?t=40


7 posted on 09/01/2017 5:42:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gibsonguy

After multiple statements came out this week from various news outlets and politicians ADMITTING they know how rotten antifa is, when is Donald Trump going to receive his apology? He is owed one BIG TIME!!!! And he should be demanding one....People like to hype his tweets, here’s his chance to let those scum know that their beloved media was forced to admit their lies...No doubt all of a sudden, no one will want to report on his tweets...Put them to the test.


8 posted on 09/01/2017 5:42:38 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Robert DeLong

“Yeah, I guess the press didn’t get that memo either.”

Neither did the dimoKKKRATS.


9 posted on 09/01/2017 5:49:14 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: gaijin

Yep. He’s Japanese-American and three of the planned speakers are black. Yet Pelosi lyingly calls them a group of white supremacists leading directly to the attack on them by Antifa which the police did nothing to stop. Sure sounds like a lawsuit to me!


10 posted on 09/01/2017 6:19:55 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Helicondelta

A terrorist designation for over a year and not one indictment from the FBI.

Is the Antifa group that sophisticated or is the FBI that incompetent?

Or is the FBI that politicized?

I am going with the last one.

How hard would it be to take down Antifa and its funders if you wanted to?


11 posted on 09/01/2017 6:29:09 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: gaijin
Believe in traditional marriage and heterosexuality? You're a a homophobe.

The Constitution...a fascist.

Equality of all races?...Racist.

MAGA...Fascist.

You get the picture.

12 posted on 09/01/2017 7:17:15 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Parley Baer
Well Nancy Pelosi finally did condemned them, but she is on her way out because she is becoming out of touch with her party. Not because she isn't with them in lockstep, she has been deemed a liability to the party, LOL.
13 posted on 09/01/2017 7:18:41 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: gibsonguy

If it is a terrorist outfit why not shut the $$$$ transfers off?

Where is Jeff Sessions?


14 posted on 09/01/2017 9:08:11 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: ptsal

A major case against the financiers and organizers of Antifa is being constructed. The money won’t be stopped until the indictments are ready. Plan on seeing some big names arrested.


15 posted on 09/01/2017 9:16:53 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: gaijin

Kind of looks like me. Only 30 years younger. Never could get the beard working though. LOL


16 posted on 09/01/2017 10:13:09 PM PDT by printhead (I need a new tagline. Happy days are here again.)
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