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Berkeley Mayor Calls for AntiFa to be Classified as Crime Gang After Clashes at Weekend Protest
Newsweek ^ | Aug, 29, 2017 | Berkeley Mayor Calls for AntiFa to be Classified as Crime Gang After Clashes at Weekend Protest

Posted on 08/29/2017 9:06:12 AM PDT by Hadean

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To: Hadean
When the Dems take this stance, you know that they no longer want Antifa as the face of the Dem Party. It has nothing to do with their behavior. It is all a political calculation. Their internal polls must show that Antifa is hated by the general public.

Who would have thunk it. Masked men dressed in black armed with clubs, pepper spray, and feces attacking peaceful demonstrators exercising their right of free speech are not the defenders of freedom and liberty.

61 posted on 08/29/2017 10:03:58 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Hadean
One faction of the Left doesn't typically turn on another, more militant faction unless its own power is threatened, and then it's often too late, as the Mensheviks found out to their sorrow at the hands of their "friends" the Bolsheviks. Antifa is not a "gang" in the sense of a collective organization centered around illegal profit, nor is it unorganized in the least. It is a well-funded terrorist organization along the lines of Hamas or Hezbollah. Weapons have begun to appear. Intimidation has turned into physical assault. This is a classical progression.

It should be apparent to Hizzoner by now that he isn't in control of the thing just because he is empowered to turn a blind eye. And when he still asks - at least he isn't telling them anymore - speakers who might ruffle the beast's feathers to stay away, he's nowhere near any meaningful resistance to it, it's only surrender under a thin cloak of the law. He's a mayor whose streets are ruled by a mob, whether he colludes with it or not.

The Red Army Faction existed for decades organized along similar lines, and it was not until its source of outside funding, East Germany, dried up that it was finally brought to heel. That approach is needed here. This would have been a band of kerchief-wearing brats throwing a tantrum were it not heavily funded and stirred up by outside agencies with revolutionary aims. The hand needs to come down on the NGOs behind this violence, and there's a problem there, because those are, at the management level, inextricably linked with both Deep State within the government and the Democrat party. That tooth is going to resist being pulled, and if necessary, by violence.

62 posted on 08/29/2017 10:04:01 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Da Coyote; robroys woman

A mayor of the state’s most idiotic collection of politicians actually got his one-celled brain to realize what even the most uneducated person already knows?


see post 2


63 posted on 08/29/2017 10:08:30 AM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: Hadean

The mayor called for non violent protesters to “take a stand.”
Yet, there is a complete absence of evidence that the so called non violent protesters do not support ANTIFA.
In fact, Berkely march organizers asked allies in the ANTIFA movement to “play a defensive role” in the rally.

The “non violent” protesters and ANTIFA are a two headed serpent.


64 posted on 08/29/2017 10:08:58 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Billthedrill
I'm afraid you've gotten to the foundation of it, Bill.

Antifa are the American Bolsheviks.

65 posted on 08/29/2017 10:17:07 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Hadean

Terrorist Gang


66 posted on 08/29/2017 10:17:49 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Hadean

Mayor Arrequin needs to be classified as a criminal for his support of antifa and for his orders to the Berkeley PD to stand down.


67 posted on 08/29/2017 10:20:12 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Hadean

this sounds like a MAJOR MAJOR BIG TIME sea-change!

Traditionally, Bezerkeley Oakland and San Francisco politicians have not only shielded but actually incited or encouraged left-wing commie or nazi-type mobs like “antiFa” (sic!) to take over the streets and riot.

Indeed, normal peaceable citizens try to avoid even driving through those cities (you never know when a mob like antiFa or BLM or CPUSA or AmericanNazis will actually block the road and surround your car and start attacking you, break your windows and grab you and pull you out of your car and beat you up and leave you bleeding on the pavement)

or something like that. you never know.. the mayors of both Bezerkeley and Oakland have permitted left wing mob riots to block major traffic arterials and accost drivers in their cars...several times in just the last couple years. You’re sick and on way to hospital emergency? Tough Sh*t!


68 posted on 08/29/2017 10:25:16 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: little jeremiah

How do I put this delicately. I’ve learned the hard way..and am still learning... that in making internet comments you never really know who the hell you are talking to until its too late. Now its your turn to learn.

Actually, having had a career in the DOJ Office of the Inspector General I do know how long audits and investigations take from an inside perspective. They take too long. Bureucraic inertia and lack of zeal is what my beef is. I’m just not seeing a sense of urgency by the DOJ for addressing outrageous criminality. Verstehen?


69 posted on 08/29/2017 10:30:50 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Hadean

Make it against the law to appear in public wearing any type of face mask - even if you’re robbing a bank - not allowed to cover your face!!!!


70 posted on 08/29/2017 10:38:44 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Hadean

isn’t this the same communist bedwetting slime ball that not too long ago not only told his police to stand down but praised antifa


71 posted on 08/29/2017 10:44:32 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Maybe if we tell him there are illegals there with weed.

I mean it’s not really a stretch is it?


72 posted on 08/29/2017 10:50:07 AM PDT by techworker
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To: little jeremiah

One hopes...


73 posted on 08/29/2017 11:25:33 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough.)
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To: Billthedrill
The Red Army Faction existed for decades organized along similar lines, and it was not until its source of outside funding, East Germany, dried up that it was finally brought to heel. That approach is needed here. This would have been a band of kerchief-wearing brats throwing a tantrum were it not heavily funded and stirred up by outside agencies with revolutionary aims. The hand needs to come down on the NGOs behind this violence, and there's a problem there, because those are, at the management level, inextricably linked with both Deep State within the government and the Democrat party. That tooth is going to resist being pulled, and if necessary, by violence.

Bingo. Antifa is sort of like the Red Army Faction, after having been placed in cryogenic sleep for twenty years, then revived west of the Atlantic. Go look at the "Anarcho-Communism" Facebook page; it spouts all the same anti-Imperialism drivel.

AFAIK, the Baader-Meinhof/RAF gang never penetrated the West German government to the extent that we have apparently been compromised. This is going to get very, very ugly.

74 posted on 08/29/2017 11:33:31 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

A ‘gang’? “Enemy Combatant’ would be closer to the truth.


75 posted on 08/29/2017 11:57:27 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Bonemaker

I realize you’re a big dog and I am nobody.

But even this nobody realizes that good investigators do not make public what they are doing until they are finished. Also the new head of the FBI Wray, and AG Sessions, are still dealing with huge numbers of people in the FBI/DoJ who are untrustworthy and from what I read, not on board fully, shall we say.

So, carry on, big dog, with your putdowns of AG Sessions and demands for instant gratification.


76 posted on 08/29/2017 12:03:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: RightInTheMain

I remember Trump saying that.

Too bad more people don’t read Wictor, and fewer trusting any of the effluvia dribbling from the media. Too many on FR believe the media. I wonder how many are actual trolls, and how many are just for some reason choosing to be clueless and naive.


77 posted on 08/29/2017 12:05:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Hadean

Desperate to throw one label under the bus to protect the Alt-Left


78 posted on 08/29/2017 12:10:11 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: little jeremiah

Nah, not a big dog just a foot soldier. I’m patient - no other choice. We will see how it turns out.


79 posted on 08/29/2017 1:14:05 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: little jeremiah

However they get to denouncing them is good for us. thanks


80 posted on 08/29/2017 2:27:02 PM PDT by easternsky
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