Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement [From CNN!

On the morning of Donald Trump's inauguration, Keval Bhatt...joined protesters dressed completely in black, some with their faces covered by masks -- a tactic known as "black bloc" that aims to unify demonstrators' efforts and hide their identities. And with them, Bhatt got arrested...He was rounded up with more than 200 other people...A federal indictment charges individuals in the group with starting fires, property destruction and physical violence..

Antifa activists...operate without any centralized leadership...many are millennials and many live on society's fringes... And their methods are often violent. Antifa leaders admit they're willing to physically attack anyone who employs violence against them or who condones racism -- as long as force is used in the name of eradicating hatred...

Large numbers of Antifa activists first appeared in the United States at anti-World Trade Organization protests in 1999 in Seattle, and then more recently during the Occupy Wall Street movement..Earlier this year, Antifa activists were among those who smashed windows and set fires during protests at the University of California, Berkeley,...

over the past year, Antifa members have been involved in clashes across the country and the world, including in Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Alabama and Nebraska, and at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany...

Bhatt went in Charlottesville,.."We were marching down one of the streets, and energy was ecstatic," Bhatt said. "We were marching and chanting and engaged in this huge act of solidarity...

Antifa is impossible to track...In speaking to Antifa leaders across the country, CNN found very few who would take off their masks. Indeed, it took months to track down members willing to share their stories....

"There are people who were energized by Bernie (Sanders) that now are anarchists," said an organizer of the website It's Going Down,

excerpt from an over 3,000 word article , which I am surprised is still up, considering the source and the indictment of antifa.

More also provided by https://www.boston25news.com/news/unmasking-the-leftist-antifa-movement/595525839/ and https://www.abc57.com/news/unmasking-the-leftist-antifa-movement The organizer of It's Going Down said his website traffic has grown from a few hundred daily hits to between 10,000 and 40,000 hits on its best days. "There's a crisis among the left," he said. "And they're looking for alternatives outside of party structures. The anarchist movement is one that's working outside structures. ... People are excited about that."..

For almost three decades, Scott Crow was part of the Antifa movement..."People put on the masks so that we can all become anonymous, right? And then, therefore, we are able to move more freely and do what we need to do, whether it is illegal or not," he said...

"Even though it only takes one person to break a window, it doesn't matter because the bloc moves together," said a 26-year-old named Maura..

Antifa activists often don't hesitate to destroy property, which many see as the incarnation of unfair wealth distribution...Windows don't have -- they're not persons. And even when they are persons, the people we fight back against, they are evil. They are the living embodiment, they are the second coming of Hitler."..

Nearly seven months after Trump's election, police in Portland, Oregon, geared up for the 10th protest since Election Day pitting the alt-right and "hard left."... police caught whispers that Antifa members were planning to push past police into the alt-right rally square...."We did seize a large number of weapons or things that could be used as weapons," Simpson said. "Everything from knives to brass knuckles to poles and sticks and bricks and bottles and road flares and chains. One hundred percent, they came geared up to fight if it would be allowed."..

With no central leader, Antifa adherents have found each other in local communities. They communicate and recruit largely through social media. Their protests are organized via Facebook....

like other Antifa groups across the country, the Portland sect gets the most attention when violence explodes at its rallies. And for that, its members don't apologize. "You have to put your body in the way," the group's leader said, "and you have to make it speak in the language that they understand. And sometimes that is violence."

The article is either inadequately researched or deliberately deceptive: Antifa and BLM have leaders, structure, organization and funding.

It is led by the same branch of career revolutionaries that brought us the pro-NVA "peace" movement during the Vietnam War: The Communist Party USA, the Socialist Worker's Party, and the International Workers of the World (anarchists).

The FBI used to be mildly interested in discovering who was in charge, who was getting the money, where the safe houses/communications networks were - and who was trying to kill people - but today's FBI is more allied with them to actually investigate them.

We're on our own.

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