Posted on 08/18/2019 9:39:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CNN steers softball interview carefully to give violent Antifa a new voice August 18, 2019 | Tom Tillison | Print Article SHARE1.2KTWEET14EMAIL
(Screenshot from YouTube) Leave it to CNN to give voice to violent Antifa thugs in the wake of Saturday’s clash with right-wing protesters.
The so called “anti-fascist” group embraces fascist tactics as they all but have the run of Portland streets, claiming to be preventing the very behavior they display in a city that has become ground zero for confrontations with those on the right who say they are taking a stand for free speech — that they proclaim support for President Trump adds kerosene to a raging fire.
CNN reporter Sara Sidner interviewed two masked members of the left-wing mob, who identified themselves as members of the Youth Liberation Front. The riot helmet one of them is wearing features the communist hammer and sickle, which speaks volumes on the ideology they speak of.
The reporter sets the tone by noting that Antifa is “standing up against these far right groups,” before tip-toeing around just how violent the group is.
“They come here so you will come out, and so that violence will erupt,” Sidner said. “They have been clear about that. Sometimes violence does erupt, do you agree that Antifa is sometimes violent, as is some of the folks on the right?”
“Certainly, there is violence in Antifa, because our goal is to stop fascism by any means,” the male protester said. “But we’re not being aggressive, I don’t think. I think it’s mostly being defensive, like when a Proud Boy tries to come hit us we’ll fight back.”
“We’re not here to start fights or rabble-rouse,” he added. “We’re just here to block the Proud Boys from unfurling their banners and spreading their ideas and potentially...
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CNN also deserves the “terrorist organization” designation.
Wait until PDJT declares ANTIFA A TERRORIST GROUP.
Antifa
Not anti facist
They are anti first amendment.
And for them, the ends justify the means
Just who put together the antifa "community" in the first place, and who organizes the organizers from behind-the-scenes?
Money (one can guess this one), communications, recruiting training, objectives?
Have any of the Dem contenders for the Dem nom said anything negative about the antifa gangsters?
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Separately, and on an entirely different topic, what has Bill Ayers been up to these days?
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If you're against Trump, you're probably a pedophile.
Does anyone think the majority of CNN ‘viewers’ even noticed the report?
After all they were rushing past the monitors to catch their flights.
CNN reporter Sara Sidner interviewed two masked members
Shades of “The Mao Tse-Tung Hour” in the movie “Network”.
CNN = The Onion
Anti First Amendment. Correct. We should spell it antiFA
Never thought of that. That should put you in the running for winning the internet.
Some takes from antifa supporter eric ward at this link for yesterday’s activities in portlandia:
https://twitter.com/BulldogShadow
No better than a street gang.
Channel 7 in Boston was definitely sympathetic to Antifa this morning. I changed the channel. It’s difficult to watch the local news these days. I did watch the Gutfeld and Watters shows on FoxNews last night, though.
“And for them, the ends justify the means”
Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals) at his finest and, by the way, that is the same playbook most Democrats espouse these days.
Antifa needs to sober up and stop believing their own lies. If they cross the line into real terrorism, and I feel they already have, their leadership deserves indictment and arrest, and the organization will require dissolution. Of course they will go “underground”, and if they succeed in deadly violence, they will deserve that status, literally and permanently.
Antifa = Obama’s army
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” Obama said. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
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