Posted on 08/26/2021 2:33:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In Donald Trump’s presidency, the Antifa movement achieved a mythical status, portrayed by the former president and his supporters as terrorists. One Antifa activist’s journey, from college honors student to on-the-ground combatant, offers rare insight into this far-left movement and its motivations.
Nicole Armbruster, 37, poised for a run in a park this spring, donned an Ironman hat from her triathlon days, black running shorts and gray Brooks running shoes. She reached over to restrain her dog Azuri, a muscular Catahoula hound with pale eyes, so it wouldn’t chase a squirrel.
You wouldn’t know it, but Armbruster, 5'5" and under 130 pounds, is a militant activist in the far-left Antifa movement. She has clashed on the streets with the rightwing Proud Boys extremist group, with the alt-right movement and with police.
Her arrest record – in Washington, DC, Arizona, Virginia, Minnesota and Florida – dates to 2003, for charges of unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, violating the Riot Act and assaulting far-right leaders and a police officer. Most of her prior charges were dismissed by judges or prosecutors; she faces three pending cases.
“We are prepared to put our bodies on the line in the event of police or fascist or racist violence,” she said. “And it’s really, like, a duty to humanity to do that, right?”
Militant Antifa activists rarely speak publicly. Some have been hostile to journalists, shoving them, shining laser pointers at cameras and using umbrellas to thwart videography.
Armbruster agreed to talk with Reuters after conferring with family and her lawyer, and said she was willing to discuss anything except her ongoing criminal charges in Washington, DC.
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She needs a right hook resulting in a concussion and a broken jaw.
That’ll learn her.
I believe she is single and has no children....
As far as income, I don't believe she has a job. Maybe that's why she's hanging out with that old guy...
Since she comes from a wealthy family maybe she's a trust fund baby?
They use words like ‘fascist’ BUT THEY CLEARLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN
She probably also has the wits to commit her acts in cities run by democrats where she knows she'll get cover.
Unlike our side, which seems to have learned its tactics from General Custer.
How nice, romanticizing scumbag communists.
100% correct. And that restraint is fading by the day, as indicated by recent clashes on the West Coast.
I stopped supporting the green Hitler youth girls years ago. Now the Homo scouts are in the same class.
“… 73 domestic far-right terror plots…” = FBI entrapment.
Antifa are not warriors. They’re punks who get their butts kicked.
“ I’d be curious to know:…
1. How she manages to support herself and her family with a full-time job while traveling to all of these demonstrations / riots.
2. How her “hubby” and children feel about this.”
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She has no family. She’s barren. She “travels” with a 70-year old guy.
No they are winning. They are paid and in this neck of the woods they are educated trained and run operations regionally and nationally.
These are your future killers
Our operating instructions
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
So she and the rest don't need a job to do what she does. She's a full-time agitator, continuously brainwashed and kept ready until the left needs some astroturf "grassroots" agitating.
She's an example of what happens when the government cracks down on cults. It doesn't solve anything, it just disperses the problem from the compound to the streets and makes it everyone else's problem.
Too many people just want to see the country burn and fall. They might not like it when the time comes though. When the USD falls and is no longer the world's currency, it's going to be way worse than the Great Depression. She may end up having to eat her dog so she doesn't starve.
She is one of Stalin’s “useful idiots”.
Maybe one day she will end up like Rachel Corrie.
Dammit, now I’ve got a craving for pancakes.
future cat farmer...
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