Posted on 01/04/2018 10:37:35 AM PST by nickcarraway
“I just found the book that strike fear in the heart of Donald Trump,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Min.), Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, tweeted on Wednesday, and attached his selfie holding up a copy of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” by Mark Bray.
This is worrisome, especially should the anticipated Democratic “wave” materialize in November, 2018. Because, even as reflected through Bray’s book, Antifa in the US are self-appointed gangs on the hunt for their natural enemies—whomever they decide they are—and, like a gang, they have no problem using violence. A senior DNC official must not advocate these tactics.
Bray, a visiting historian at Dartmouth College, whose other book (he’s written dozens) is “Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street,” and whose leftist credentials, academic and actual, are impeccable, is an advocate of doing away with Voltaire’s famous quote that “I may disagree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
His argument should be acceptable to Jews, of all people. Last February, he told WNYC’s Brooke Gladstone that “Anti-fascists fundamentally disagree with that premise. They argue that, given the horrors of Auschwitz and Treblinka, the destruction that Nazis have caused, that fascists, white supremacists should not be granted the right to express their ideas in public, in part because, they argue, had that been done early in the 1920s and the 1930s we may have been able to bypass what ended up happening.”
Following that logic, it is clear why Bray is fascinated by the historic Antifa – Antifaschistische Aktion – in the late 1920s and early 1930s, in a time of rising tensions between Nazis and leftists. But, as Loren Balhorn put it in her “The Lost History of Antifa,” that the contemporary Antifa, which emerged in the 1980s in Germany, “has no practical historical connection to the movement from which it takes its name, but is instead a product of West Germany’s squatter scene.”
Antifa tactics, according to Bray, include denying their targets the opportunity to speak out in public; obstructing their events and defacing their propaganda; and, when antifa activists deem it necessary, deploying violence to deter them. In other words, militant thugs, much like the various alt.right militant thugs.
In addition to his support for anti-free speech thugs, Keith Ellison is problematic in the context of a big Democratic party win in November because of his disturbing support for conspiracy theories about 9/11, and his open affiliation with radical Islam.
On July 8, 2007, Ellison compared then Vice President Dick Cheney to Hitler, suggesting the administration was manipulating the 9/11 attack to fit its political needs. “It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that,” Ellison said. “After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country, Hitler, in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted. The fact is that I’m not saying September 11 was a US plan or anything like that because, you know, that’s how they put you in the nut-ball box — dismiss you.”
Using the pseudonyms “Keith E. Hakim” and “Keith X Ellison,” in the 1990s Keith Ellison defended Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in a series of newspaper columns against charges of anti-Semitism. But during his 2006 campaign, after a Republican blogger outed him as the author of those columns, Ellison wrote a letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota & the Dakotas saying he had never been a member of the Nation of Islam. He denounced the Nation of Islam and Farrakhan, writing, “I wrongly dismissed concerns that they [Farrakhan’s remarks] were anti-Semitic. They were and are anti-Semitic and I should have come to that conclusion earlier than I did.”
He also stated, “Any kind of discrimination and hate are wrong. This has always been my position.”
Perhaps the gentleman from Minnesota should acquaint himself with the openly anti-free speech tactics of his newly discovered movement that “strikes fear in the heart of Donald Trump.”
Keith Ellison with Muslim Brotherhood radical leader Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah in Saudi Arabia / Photo credit: Screenshot Then there was Ellison’s 2008 trip to Saudi Arabia, where, according to several mainstream media outlets, he met with Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, a radical Muslim cleric who publicly endorsed killing US soldiers; and with the president of a bank used to pay the families of suicide bombers living in the Palestinian Authprity.
Other details of Ellison’s Haj (religious pilgrimage) to Saudi Arabia are sketchy, but there are photographs, unearthed discovered by the rightwing Washington Free Beacon, showing that Ellison met with extremists while Hajjing.
In February 2009, Ellison visited Gaza to view firsthand the destruction from the recent conflict, following which he said, “The stories about the children affected me the most. No parent, or anyone who cares for kids, can remain unmoved by what […] I saw here.”
The following day, Ellison and Baird visited the Israeli towns of Sderot and Ashkelon, which were the targets of numerous Qassam rocket attacks, launched from within the Gaza Strip. Perhaps he added a heartfelt note describing his impressions, but we did not find any.
The DNC is actively supporting a terrorist organization in the US.
That’s sedition.
Well, there you have it. The pot calling the kettle Nazi...
This is the left.
I pray there are enough rational Americans who can see these leftists as who they are.
Fascists publishing an anti-Fascist handbook? I guess the left really doesn’t get irony.
What goes around comes around.
Let the buttwipe advocate this if he gets into power.
We will not put up with this muzzie bull any longer.
Exactly!!
He's about 9 steps behind the Administration.
As Kurt Schlichter stated last February:
The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, and the hilarious thing is that this band of withered hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases, and unlovable + unshaven libfeminists don’t even know it.
The Leftist mafia godmaleidentifyingparents pulling the strings of the Marxist Muppets know the score – they are losing. And it’s awesome. Because, finally, the Right has taken Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and shoved it up where #TheResistance don’t shine.
... Trump is clearly willing to use all his powers to beat the living liberalism out of our enemy. Wait, this is where the Fredocons loosen their bow ties and stutter, “Why…we can’t…Professor Wellington Wimpenheimer IV would not approve…it’s so mean…oh, well I never!”
Wake up. Man up. If you ever want to win (and maybe someday even kiss a girl) you need to get real. They hate us, and we either win or we spend the rest of our miserable lives as Boxer the Horse, slaving away to fund the welfare state under the lash of the Left until it decides it’s time to pack us off to the glue factory.
Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. You yelled “Follow me!” and led a movement that had previously been dominated by doofy wonks and bow-tied geeks over the top in a glorious bayonet charge against the paper tiger liberal elite.
For Donald Trump and the revitalized conservative movement, Alinsky's book isn’t some dusty old commie tome - it’s a lifestyle.
Best. Election. EVER.
I laugh every time I hear the Democrat wave BS for 2018 election. Thelma and Louise are driving the Democrat convertible.
I think Rep Ellison may still be living in the past, one where Conservatives were AFRAID to attack a person of color for fear of being called “racist”.
He is playing a Black Privilege card that has expired.
Our President and those of us who support him are no longer afraid to call BS regardless of color.
Antifa will vanish as soon as DOJ starts throwing people in jail.
Assuming DOJ is done with its nap time.
Why any American Jew votes Democrat is beyond me. Of course, one prime characteristic of liberals is that they’re incapable of discerning an actual threat. They only recognize imaginary threats.
Which will never happen.
Tom Perez is reading this and broadly smiling.
“At least it wasn’t me this time, caught saying something stupid!”
“Let the buttwipe advocate this if he gets into power.”
So you believe that he, as a Congressman and Deputy Chair of the DNC is without power?
Sessions is going to be checking out what YOU are smoking!
Democrats supporting domestic terrorism ping.
Fine lets start with the Communist and leftist who have created havoc during the pass hundred years.
Is NOW good for you?(leftist)It is for me!(racks shotgun)
And for round 2, it'd be great to treat his traitor buttboy Obama to a similar beatdown.
Gawd how I loathe these insects !
PERHAPS, after they got air time, and THEN got their heads handed to themselves...
...they crawled back into their hole, to regroup.
I don't think we've seen the last of them, and yes the price of freedom is eternal vigilance....but I think they've been a bit defanged.
I would bet Trump has about as much fear of a spider in a bathtub as he would ANTIFA...give us a break, ANTIFA is a silly clown show cooked by by community organizers
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