Antifa activities in Dem-run cities are what an insurrection actually looks like

American Thinker ^ | 4 Oct, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

[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.

[Vaduz]

Team members Antifa activities are the front for the democrats they are trying to raise the party from the dead zone fail ensues.

[virgil]

Wasn’t Antifa declared a terrorist organization? Where’s Bondi?

[SunkenCiv]

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[GenXPolymath]

Bro..Italy and France would like to join the chat. Oh yeah and Oxford too.

https://oxfordlawschool.com/History.html

[maro]

I should amend that to “in North America.” Lawyers became lawyers in the colonies back then by studying and working with practicing lawyers.

[wardaddy]

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