Posted on 08/15/2017 8:20:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump drew widespread criticism on Saturday when he said that there was violence on "many sides" in Charlottesville and initially neglected to explicitly censure the white supremacists who organised the rally.
On Monday, he bowed to pressure to castigate the KKK, white supremacists and neo-nazis.
But many conservatives say blame should be shared by Antifa, a loosely affiliated group of far-left protesters.
Critics argue the media tends to excuse violence by Antifa militants just because they are fighting white supremacists and their odious ideology.
The social causes of Antifa (short for anti-fascist or Anti-Fascist action) are easily identifiable as left-leaning.
Most members oppose all forms of racism and sexism, and strongly oppose what they see as the nationalist, anti-immigration and anti-Muslim policies.
Antifa is anti-government and anti-capitalist, and their methodologies are often perceived as more closely aligned with anarchists than the mainstream left.
Antifa does not shy away from militant protest methods, including the destruction of property and sometimes physical violence.
Antifa members around the world comprise a patchwork of groups, though the most active appear to be based in the US, the UK (under the name Anti-Fascist Action) and Germany (Antifaschistische Aktion).
The German movement was founded in 1932 to provide a militant far-left group to counter the fast-rising Nazi party.
They were disbanded in 1933 after Hitler took control of parliament and resurrected in the 1980s as a response to neo-Nazism after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
‘Loosely affiliated’??? I beg to differ. I am sure they are all on Soros payroll.......this needs to be investigated by the DOJ. NOW!
Trump is usually right, his both/all sides comment will also prove correct.
Antifa is a fascist political group that is the terrorist arm of the Democrat party.
I think Trump was actually mistaken about Charlottesville. The violence was all on the Soros/Antifa side. the “white nationalists” were all Soros paid actors and possibly a few dupes from the local environs.
I read there were 40-50 “white nationalists” and over 1,000 antifa anarchists.
It is utterly ridiculous that this is not designated as a domestic terror group.
The designation should be today and the arrests should be tomorrow.
KTA
“antifa anarchists”
I prefer to call them ‘antifa-ggots’ as that seems to really upset them.
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Sooner or later, a threshold will be reached.
I hope that the ensuing weeping and knashing of bones of antifa will be televised.
Yep...This was a “false flag” operation to make Trump and Trump supporters look bad...
The death of the woman was unintended by the planners, but they think it now is an added benefit...
The funny thing about the faction of the right at Berkeley was that they easily tolerated a visibly detectable tranny in their ranks while that same tranny was viciously ridiculed by AntiFa.
Yeah I’m serious this huge tranny was fighting right alongside Based Stickman and none of them showed any problem with it.
And The blue hair clan on the other side hated this person’s guts..!
It WAS BOTH sides. In fact you could argue the kid was not of criminal intent mindset, but you can’t argue that violent Antifa thugs were.
Interesting isn’t how blm, which was organized in a political election year, can go out and Constitutionally “protest” which eggs on black racists to kill and assault law enforcement. But when others peacefully protest, THEY are the “instigators” and should be condemned and not permitted to express First Amendment rights
Average Leftist snowflakes, the REAL fascists, probably doesn't get a dime of that Soros-International ANSWER (North Korea) money. They're out there to pick a fight, so they can pretend they're Che Guevara. They're in it for the thrill, and those who think they're going to go away after a while are kidding themselves. The Leftist Commie pu**ies are in it for the long haul. They want a civil war, and they're not going to stop until they get one. Conservative snowflakes are in denial, and it's going to get people killed.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Uh, no, BBC. They have no problem discriminating against white [race] males [sex]....
Expel ALL college students affiliated with AntiFa.
This is the problem. We're letting white supremacists carry our water instead of we rank and file patriots hitting the streets ourselves. That's why the Tea Party was so effective at first...it was our neighbors in the streets, on the evening news, with a message that most Americans responded to. Then we got scared when the Leftist MSM started calling us racists, and we ran away and hid.
Now we're gonna run and hide again, because we don't want to be called racist...and instead of fighting that label, we'll just pu** out like we always do. By sitting on our a**es, pounding away on the keyboard, and doing nothing but blow hot air, we've let the KKK become the vanguard of the patriot movement, at least in the eyes of the Leftists, the MSM, and the know nothing Sheeple, watching Charlie Rose for their information.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The Soros paid Army ,,,,,,
The BBC has a reputation for being liberal, but their description of Antifa is more honest than what we hear from the US liberal media. At least the BBC story acknowledges the group’s violent nature and calls them militants. Most US media sources reserve those descriptions for right-wing groups, while left-wing terrorists like antifa and BLM are “activists.”
ANTIFA Members are now portrayed as Victims.
Their actions in using Violence to shut down Free Speech are hidden by the DNC Media.
It isn’t even an “ends justifies the means” situation, they are allowed to get away with anything and they have Democrat Politicians praising them and Republican Politicians deflecting their actions by focusing on the People that ANTIFA attacks as the reason for the violence.
The Police are impotent, purposely so. The Criminals have become the ones the Police are tasked to protect with the blessing of the local Democrat Politicians.
We are living in a Twilight Zone Episode and the twist at the end of the story won’t fix anything.
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