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Antifa activities in Dem-run cities are what an insurrection actually looks like
American Thinker ^ | 4 Oct, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 10/05/2025 5:01:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

For almost five years, Democrats and NeverTrumpers have insisted that events on January 6, 2021, were “an insurrection” justifying the biggest crackdown in federal criminal history. In fact, those events were not an insurrection by any definition. However, the violent Democrat attacks against ICE facilities across America are as close to an insurrection as we’ve seen since the Civil War itself.

The word “insurrection” appears four times in the Constitution. Under Art. 1, sec. 8 (ratified in 1788), Congress has the power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.” At that time, the Founders, many of whom had attended law school in the 1760s, would have been familiar with English common law, which defined an “insurrection” as people deliberately banding together to use violence to oppose lawful authority.

Eighty years later, in 1868, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment on the heels of a four-year-long war that pitted a successionist South against the federal government, leaving 600,000 dead Americans in its wake.

Sections 3 and 4 effectively said that if you held a government office, elected or not, took an oath to defend the Constitution, and then betrayed that oath by fighting for the Confederacy (i.e., engaged in an “insurrection,”) you can’t hold another federal office, elected or not. Additionally, authorized debts for the Union side of the war were valid, but the government wouldn’t back debts incurred for the Confederacy (i.e., the “insurrection”). The point was that Confederates had forfeited their right to hold office and couldn’t come crying to the federal government for their debts.

For the next 150 years, insurrection was a politically obscure term, but it suddenly gained prominence in 2021.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: antifa; domesticenemies; habitualcomplainers; leftism; malcontentsoffr; perpetualcarping; rebellion; violence
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1 posted on 10/05/2025 5:01:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Why aren’t ANTIFA being arrested?


2 posted on 10/05/2025 5:02:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
I thought insurrections look like this ...


3 posted on 10/05/2025 5:08:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That looks absolutely terrifying.


4 posted on 10/05/2025 5:11:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Note: there were no law schools in the 18th century.


5 posted on 10/05/2025 5:16:32 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Let’s all go to the lobby
Let’s all go to the lobby
Let’s all go to the lobby
And get ourselves a treat


6 posted on 10/05/2025 5:19:02 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: maro

Divinity schools.


7 posted on 10/05/2025 5:23:36 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: ClearCase_guy

Apparently that photo slipped through the cracks. Democrats have destroyed all the other evidence of what really occurred on Jan. 6.


8 posted on 10/05/2025 5:26:59 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber; All

“secessionist”, NOT “ successionist”, where is the editor?


9 posted on 10/05/2025 5:28:35 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: MtnClimber


Antifa is holding a training in Philadelphia to teach people about rioting and evading arrest.
10 posted on 10/05/2025 5:40:05 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: notdownwidems

I find it hard to believe that AI is any better than “auto-correct”...


11 posted on 10/05/2025 5:41:54 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

Neither one is much of an insurrection.

Now the Civil War, that was an insurrection. Huge organized armies equipped with a full range of military weapons - and that insurrection was still defeated in the end.


12 posted on 10/05/2025 5:44:21 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: ClearCase_guy

That insurrection was a threat to the Communist Utopia.


13 posted on 10/05/2025 6:04:57 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: proxy_user

At great cost

Terrorism is hard to defeat


14 posted on 10/05/2025 6:06:23 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: MtnClimber

And rarely ever mentioned is the reason for that huge protest.
Americans believed the democrats committed a coup on November 5, 2020.
Subsequent events evidence that they were right.
They are committing treason, sedition and insurrection today.


15 posted on 10/05/2025 6:14:23 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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The activities outside the Federal Building in Portland are without doubt insurrection. The actual involvement of the nebulous Antifa might be in question but the presence of the same individuals night after night after night is not.

Several anti protest individuals have been repeatedly accosted. The failure of the Portland police to act when the action takes plain view is recorded on video. The Portland police are unquestionably complicit in the support of the insurrection.

The mayor of Portland must be detained in a location far removed from Portland and Oregon. There must be no face to face contact with insurrection abetting lawyers. The time for the action against Oregon insurrection leaders is now.


16 posted on 10/05/2025 6:18:22 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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You know, it wouldn’t be difficult to come to the conclusion that some of the people running those “blue cities” are indeed members of the Antifa Terrorist grope. Maybe law enforce should start taking a closer look at these.....Traitors.


17 posted on 10/05/2025 6:20:28 AM PDT by unread (God bless the "REPUBLIC".! And to hell with their democracy...)
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To: MtnClimber

VDH calls the blue state officials enabling Antifa neo confederate nullification insurrectionists. Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act and arrest them all.


18 posted on 10/05/2025 6:33:47 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DeplorablePaul
Prepare yourself for the "Antifa Coalition National Escalation" or ACNE for short.
19 posted on 10/05/2025 6:56:24 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: MtnClimber

The citizens are missing out on a golden opportunity to for the 2nd amendment clause of forming militias and get the job done. No politician or court can overrule what is clearly written in black and white.


20 posted on 10/05/2025 7:20:52 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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