Posted on 08/31/2017 3:16:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In January, on the evening of President Trump’s inauguration, a band of bandanna-wearing vandals raced along South Street, shattering the windows of two banks and a dozen storefronts.
“They came by and had masks on,” recalled Tanya Italia, manager of a high-end furniture store. “They just smashed the window with a hammer. It was just a day of vandalism. I don’t think of them as real protesters.”
The next month, an evening protest march along Broad Street turned ugly at Temple University. Some anti-Trump demonstrators tossed latex gloves filled with dye at Philadelphia police and campus officers, the university said.
In May, police said up to 50 masked and black-clad men and women sprinted through a changing section of North Philadelphia, smashing windows in renovated buildings and more expensive cars and throwing Christmas ornaments filled with paint. They carried a banner that read: “Gentrification is death and revolt is life.”
These outbursts reflect the Philadelphia presence of antifa and its allies, a shadowy collection of extreme left-wing activists who, in their most controversial manifestations, have embraced property damage and street brawling as legitimate forms of protest. Their advocates insist that the group acts primarily as a defensive force, but also say a growing threat of homegrown fascism justifies an aggressive punch or the outright silencing of hateful speech.
While the group has been a simmering, if tiny, political factor for some years now, Trump gave it a massive boost when he decried antifa’s role in the violent protest in Charlottesville, Va., two weekends ago....
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
With the help of the lying media and the Democrats. But they are losing ground.
Watching a video the other day, one of the antifa feminazis used the term ‘by any means necessary’. Which happens to be another violent group. I bet they’re secretly married.
Kill ‘em all. Let God sort them out.
Unfortunately, we would die holding our breath before this Justice Department actually acted justly with these groups, and those who are behind them financially.
Team Trump needs to get an estimate on cost of the property damage, injuries, and even deaths these groups have caused, and how many there are involved in these organizations nation wide! All anti-American axis organizations need to be called out by name!
Then, during a special national news conference, these factual numbers, and the official creeds of these organizations, calling for the end of our constitutional republic, need to be proclaimed, and then immediately declared as the true domestic terrorist organizations they are.
Then send in the feds and all local law enforcement to take them down!!
In the real world, bashing heads in with bats, shooting people, and destroying property IS NOT free speech!
And funding this ongoing violence is not free speech either!
Is Antifa the resistance Hillary is so proudly funding?
These antifa thugs could be trouble. Think the black panthers blocking access to voting machines back in 2012.
Suck it up Philly,you gave the wink and nod to these a-holes,as long as they break sh*t up and scurry back to UPenn,Drexel and Temple. Let the left eat the left. The damage they cause from Antifa,BLM and other fanatics weakens them severely. Hard working people of all colors and stripes have had enough.
Well said. If the people of Philly can watch them run down the street breaking windows thus destroying people’s property, and then not call then protesters, then they deserve each other. And for years I thought it was the city of brotherly love. Guess I was wrong as I never thought they’d take it this far to the point of self destruction.
If I was an insurance company, and no police report was filed and being investigated due to this limited thinking, I wouldn’t give them a dime as they, obviously, made no effort to prevent or stop the situation. Doctor heal thyself.
rwood
It should be legal to open fire on anyone wearing a mask during a riot.
Yup. Seriously. Why aren’t these thugs classified as domestic terrorists?
I wonder how many of them can make cloverleaves at 100 yards.
We will be fighting them here in St. Louis in the next few days...
Well, we will be standing in a line getting hit with urine, spit, and rocks and again doing nothing because of political correctness...
I would caution everyone, that there will come a point in time when what remains of red blooded American Manhood will have had enough of these Shlumps. He will not come to the streets to protest. He will come, without
the faigelish screeching of the Nazi Left. He will clean the streets, and set things right. His name is “Bubba”.
The new BLM. Bubba Likes Machineguns...
Low energy Jeff deserves the boot.
What a disappointment
As far as I’m concerned, until they start having the hammer come down on them, they may as well be winning.
Philadelphia 2017 is Munich 1930.
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