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Antifa expands its hit list as political violence escalates
The Washington Times ^ | Thursday, November 8, 2018 | S.A. Miller

Posted on 11/08/2018 7:38:41 PM PST by Texas Fossil

When a mob of left-wing Antifa activists descended Wednesday night on Fox News personality Tucker Carlson’s D.C. home, it signaled a new phase in the political violence and angry confrontations that now are targeting the news media.

Political violence has been rising in the U.S. since 2012, according to the Global Terrorism Database. Increasingly aggressive activists have pushed political confrontation to the limit since 2016, accosting Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials in restaurants and in the halls of Congress. And now they’re going after conservative journalists at their homes.

Tucker Carlson, we will fight. We know where you sleep at night!” the activists allied with Antifa chanted outside Mr. Carlson’s home.

Antifa is short of anti-fascist, though the group has anarchist leanings and targets anyone perceived as not in step with a far-left agenda.

“Here’s the problem. I have four children,” Mr. Carlson, whose wife was home alone during the disturbance, told Fox News. “I never thought twice about leaving them home alone, but this is the reaction because this group doesn’t like my TV show.”

On Capitol Hill, the overheated political debate has lawmakers increasingly working under a threat of violence.

Capitol police say they saw a surge in protective details assigned to lawmakers earlier in the fall, when senators were facing hallway protests during the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

Security details were assigned to at least two Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee, Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

Security details typically are assigned only to members of leadership.

Senators have mostly been away from Washington since the Kavanaugh confirmation, and it’s not clear whether enhanced security will still be the norm.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; axisofevil; blm; expanded; fbi; hit; list; organizedcrime; thugculture
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To: Texas Fossil

Sounds like a target-rich environment. My only concern would be buckshot for dispersion or slugs for penetration.


61 posted on 11/08/2018 8:23:50 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (Don't like my guns? Molon labe.)
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To: dfwgator

As one of the 25 million that they want to kill, I would like to say that a great many of us are prepared to defend ourselves with fatal consequences to attackers. Of course they’ll be successful in some cases, but a great number of them will end up in body bags. And like all bullies they’re cowards. And once they see a couple of their buddies’ bodies I suspect they’ll lose their own enthusiasm. Many of us have already seen our friends killed and won’t give up easily


62 posted on 11/08/2018 8:24:01 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Texas Fossil

Call the cops
Tag them with skunk spray or the stuff Israel uses


63 posted on 11/08/2018 8:26:33 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Lazamataz
Yep!Get ready! Because here they come! The only thing that is going to stop them is hot lead and cold steel. They are too doped up to be able to listen to reason. And to add insult to injury, they lack the intelligence to form individual thoughts. They are like a friend who was at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea said about the Chinese: They were so hopped up when they attacked that the machine guns would cut them in half and they would still keep coming. Their upper body would be on the ground and their legs would keep running forward.
64 posted on 11/08/2018 8:30:15 PM PST by sport
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To: Karliner
A couple will get shot 💀 dead That will be the end of that nonsense
65 posted on 11/08/2018 8:30:27 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Truthoverpower

Spray them with ninhydrin. It takes several days minimum for the purple skin to wear off


66 posted on 11/08/2018 8:30:45 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Jim Noble

I’m just not as smart as you are.

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67 posted on 11/08/2018 8:33:28 PM PST by Mears
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To: Karl Spooner

I would not hold my breath until someone was arrested in reference to your post.


68 posted on 11/08/2018 8:34:45 PM PST by sport
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To: bigbob
This needs to stop, but I can’t see how it will without bloodshed. And then they will be martyrs.


Yes it needs to stop, but it is being ignored. Liberal areas do not enforce laws against liberal mobs. Had it been dealt with early on, it would not be happening today. It is actually encouraged by liberal politicians.

Do you really thing anything will be done in this case? It is currently being "investigated", but police do not feel emboldened enough to make an arrest.

69 posted on 11/08/2018 8:51:54 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: sport

Seems to be a pattern alright. I’m more surprised that Trump doesn’t seem to care about it. I recall when people were getting ambushed after leaving his campaign rallies and he was always boasting that “the safest place to be is a Trump rally” all the time. He just seems to be a little out of sync on this issue.


70 posted on 11/08/2018 8:58:15 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: McGavin999
"Wray is useless, he should have people infiltrate these groups and round them up.

He won't, because he would probably be rounding up people who work for the DOJ as their day-jobs.
71 posted on 11/08/2018 8:59:05 PM PST by indthkr
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To: Texas Fossil

Too bad Tucker’s wife didn’t answer the door with a shotgun.


72 posted on 11/08/2018 9:09:50 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Texas Fossil

And why weren’t the terrorists arrested?


73 posted on 11/08/2018 9:10:21 PM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: lightman

You omitted five letters- SOROS.


74 posted on 11/08/2018 9:12:24 PM PST by matthew fuller (The left loves islam because they both hate the USA. Remember 91101 and 91112.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Antifa is now officially considered a terrorist organization by the Feds and the US military. They are cruising into a place where they are going to find themselves in really deep Kim chi.


75 posted on 11/08/2018 9:13:34 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ladyjane
We had our elected representatives threatened in the halls of congress and nothing happened to them. We had thugs disrupting senate hearings and nothing happened to them.

As long as our law enforcement refuses to enforce this will continue and will escalate.


It is obvious that law enforcement will refuse to enforce the laws. Why would anyone think they will enforce the law this time, next time, or any time? Law enforcement is not permitted by its civilian leadership to enforce the laws. They can only "investigate", and endlessly investigate.
76 posted on 11/08/2018 9:16:31 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Mears
Washington,DC HAS a law against the wearing of masks————they could have been arrested by the local cops at Tucker’s,and as far as I know,NONE were arrested.


Apparently, the view arresting the Antifa thugs lie arresting their own foot soldiers.
77 posted on 11/08/2018 9:18:00 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: DarthVader

Good. Some of them really deserve it.

They have taken on a global footprint. There were some who went to Syria to fight with the SDF. My friends there shook their heads when they showed up with Guy Fawks masks and the black outfit. The told me they had no sense of presence there. That they were going to get others hurt. I don’t think they really fit in there in a real war.


78 posted on 11/08/2018 9:21:57 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Reno89519

Possibly they will be soon.


79 posted on 11/08/2018 9:22:42 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

I have to restrain myself from losing hope. I am coming to the uncomfortable conclusion that “United” States no longer defines our national identity, perhaps permanently. This is most worrisome. We’ve always been a nation of roiling political debate - that’s what sparked the Great Experiment of America, obviously. We even survived an internecine shooting war. But I believe we have now reached an event horizon for which most Americans are wholly unprepared. Leftists and fascists are gaining influence. Constitutionalism is losing ground. The battle lines are gaining definition. If this continues unabated, without a course reversal, peaceful coexistence will no longer be possible - leaving only devolution and un-society. Approaching us is a Jeffersonian moment at which the “tree of liberty must be watered, wiith the blood of tyrants and patriots.”


80 posted on 11/08/2018 9:22:47 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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