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Posted on 01/31/2021 7:21:19 PM PST by george76
New book fights popular narrative on radical leftists..
Andy Ngo fell to the concrete, bleeding from his ear. Vessels in his brain had burst, doctors later told him, and blood pooled on his brain. Ngo, a journalist, had been attacked by members of Antifa while covering one of the "antifascist" group’s demonstrations in Portland in 2019.
"No hate, no fear," Ngo recalled the group shouting around him.
The Portland native learned early on, however, that hate and fear are bedrocks of this radical movement. Ngo began covering Antifa for the Portland State Vanguard, where he went to graduate school, taking on what he called the "dissident beat."
"Colleagues were never fond of the stories I was interested in telling," Ngo told the Washington Free Beacon. "[But] I continued on that path of always being on the dissident beat, covering Antifa, and stuck with it. The gap between local and national press on reporting was so wide, that I had to step in and do it."
In his new book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, Ngo details the violent rise of this organized but "amorphous" group in the United States.
"Antifa is an ideology. It’s amorphous—that is difficult for the average person to understand," Ngo told the Free Beacon. "There’s another whole structure to Antifa that includes working in the legal, democratic system by systematically mainstreaming tenets of the ideology. The fact that they are decentralized and anonymously organized gives them deniability."
That deniability goes "all the way up" to Democratic politicians who "don’t believe there is really any true organizational element" to the group. To take one example, Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, called Antifa a "myth" when he was asked about the group's contribution to months of violent riots in Portland last summer.
Likewise, the media over the last four years have offered little in the way of opposition, as detractors were smeared as pro-fascist or labeled racist or bigoted.
"Nobody wants to be vocally [critical] of a movement claiming to be antifascist," said Ngo. "Those who do, myself and other journalists included, get smeared—in my case nearly killed—so they can have control over the narrative."
The Associated Press, New York Times, and other outlets not only denied that members of Antifa committed violence last summer, but also molded the narrative into one of positivity and peace. In his book, Ngo points to an example from the Daily Beast, which published a story last summer that claimed businesses in Seattle "loved" the "CHAZ/CHOP" autonomous zone—a six-block stretch of the downtown area that rioters occupied for weeks. But in the zone, six people were shot—two fatally—and others reported being assaulted and raped.
How did it come to this? Antifascist movements began under the Weimar Republic as an offshoot of the German Communist Party called Antifascist Action. It spread across Europe—notably, to the United Kingdom. There, it blended with British "punk subculture" and developed an anarchist flavor distinct from its pro-communist German counterparts. This newer strain of antifascism was then exported to the United States.
By the end of 2016, following the election of Donald Trump, local, centralized chapters of Antifa were proliferating. In addition to educating members in critical race and gender theory, firearms usage, and creating anonymous online personas, these hubs act in unison with unaffiliated bands of "black-bloc" misfits during their planned protests and violent attacks.
Antifa intimidates opponents with threats of violence and harassment, ranging from doxxing to death threats to actual physical violence, as in Ngo's case. The group is responsible for attacks on police officers and the deaths of fellow protesters and civilians—including several during last summer’s wave of riots and protests.
Antifa justifies the violence as "self-defense."
"The word ‘violence’ is being systematically remade to conform to their worldview," Ngo writes in Unmasked. "Looting and arson aren’t violence, they argue. And yet physical violence directed at their opponents is also not violence but rather ‘self-defense.’"
Ngo began writing the book (which comes out Feb. 2) in 2019 with plans to publish in 2020. He pushed back the deadline, however, after Antifa and Black Lives Matter protests ignited in May, following the death of George Floyd. Ngo said he witnessed the two organizations—bound by Marxism and a disdain for the American criminal justice system—blend into one entity.
"There are different agendas, but enough overlap that they have really merged into the same entity," Ngo told the Free Beacon. "There’s cooperation, from what I can see, and an ideological cross-pollination from both sides."
As it evolves, Ngo will continue tracking Antifa and its mission to upend America and its institutions. For him, it’s personal: His parents came to the United States in 1979 after fleeing from communist prison camps in Vietnam.
"As much as this book is about antifa," Ngo's final lines in Unmasked read, "it’s also a letter of gratitude to the nation that welcomed my parents, penniless refugees from the socialist republic of Vietnam, to become equal citizens."
Andy is a true patriot.
Andy has a lot of guts.
The current VP worked to get bail together for these domestic terrorists.
Andy deserves every accolade and recognition for his work. He’s doing real journalism in the face of Antifa violence committed against him and Antifa threats against him - this is the kind of journalism leftists once claimed to admire, now they try to suppress it.
You should have seen the expression on the manager's face when she looked it up and realized what I was asking for......HA! Priceless!
I'll go back Tuesday. (Yes, I know B&N is liberal, but they're not Amazon.)
We should all buy Andy Ngo’s book to learn and to support him. I already pre-ordered it.
Bkmk
Sheesh! Where is the FBI?
The justice department and fbi refused to go after these scum, even when they were burning federal property. But, now they are going to harrass, threaten, prosecute... Trump supporters who haven’t even done anything.
Get the book. Get two. It’s that important.
Well, to be fair, they didn’t exactly make their plans a secret.
This election cycle is just the enemy thinking that they have won their final victory, and that now it’s just a matter of mopping up the last pockets of deplorables, the last remnants of the culture that created the constitution, and the concept of ordered liberty that undergirds it.
They now occupy all of the institutions: the academe, the media (both entertainment and news), the permanent bureaucratic state, and the leadership of both national parties. You should expect that the full power of the state will be directed against anyone who isn’t vocally in support of the new order. Their current plan is to intimidate, and defeat us in detail, using every weapon at their disposal: the financial system, their social media mobs, and the legal system.
Defend yourself from a mob trying to burn down your house? You’ll be charged with assault, not the mob (viz the McClosky’s in St. Luis). It’s not necessary to convict, merely to bankrupt you with your defense.
I admire Andy’s guts, but it’s a little late in the day to hope that simply shining a light on the Marxist scum who have taken charge of the nation will have any effect.
I will likely buy his book, but I sure wish he, or someone would do an investigation on the antifa attack on Congress. I know it was they who led the entry because I watched it on RSBN closely because I was expecting them to do just what they did. I saw a cop open the doors and let them in. Those who were breaking windows below were being dragged off the window by patriots and I could hear the good guys screaming “they’re antifa, they’re antifa!” The woman who was killed may have been part of them since no one is checking her background (that I know of). Face recognition to ID the first people inside should give enough to do background checks. I don’t know, it’s just infuriation to have so many of our patriots who made the effort to show our president that we love him and are behind him. It was on mob, no riot, not even a protest. Thanks to all who were able to make that effort.
#9. Re “Where is the FBI”? Have you checked your local swamp lately? Just call out for Dir. Wray and see if you get an answer from its’ depths.
He is an actual “fearless journalist”, unlike the MSM, who are nothing of the sort.
Public deniability, maybe. Many Rat politicians know perfectly well what Antifa is, and they approve of it.
Jerry Waddler is a lying sack of you-know-what.
Just ordered! I pray for Andy’s safety and admire his commitment to reporting.
Buy through alibris.com. it is an international consortium of book shops. Ai solely purchase books thru them. Prices roughly equivalent to Amazon. Pay less for books and more for shipping.
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