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Antifa arrests coming, concerns over riots heading to suburbia, government source says
Fox News ^ | 6-2-2020 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 06/02/2020 4:04:51 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Agitators behind the rioting that has paralyzed the country over the past week want to move into more suburban areas, a government intelligence source has told Fox News.

Much of the worry stems from the notion that many in well-armed, suburban, and rural neighborhoods won't hesitate to exercise their Second Amendment rights and elevated anxieties could lead to heavy confrontation.

"Antifa knows this," said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Local and state authorities have to get a grip on this because if it moves to the suburbs, more people will die."

Several analysts pointed to places that have served as something of "testbed" locations – including Madison, Wis., which was ransacked Saturday night, along with quiet pockets of Charleston, S.C.

While it remains murky as to who exactly is behind the ongoing turbulence taking place in dozens of cities nationwide, much of the finger-pointing has been directed toward Antifa, a radical left-wing anti-fascist outfit.

But most officials and analysts have surmised that there a number of players and agendas with regards to the rioting, which has overshadowed the peaceful protests calling out racial inequalities and police brutality directed toward African-Americans.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antifa; atifa
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To: Political Junkie Too

Gorgeous gun porn. +-)


61 posted on 06/02/2020 6:08:37 PM PDT by sciencewriter86
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To: DariusBane

I live in suburbia, close to a major military base. We are Army, Navy, Airforce and Marines current and former. Antifa are welcome to enjoy our hospitality.


You mad a mistake assuming Antifa would grow enough gonads to go near a military base. Just like individuals go to gun-free zones, Antifa is like water, it will flow to the areas of least resistance.


62 posted on 06/02/2020 6:09:23 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: Hurst Mama

I live about 45 minutes from cedar rapids. It has been getting steadily louder down there for the past few nights, for sure

Up in my neck of the woods, same thing

Good iowans are locked and loaded.


63 posted on 06/02/2020 6:14:28 PM PDT by QualityMan ( Mr. President, we have your back.)
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To: DariusBane

Antiva knows where the guns are. They’re not going into neighborhoods where there are a lot of armed families.


64 posted on 06/02/2020 6:15:01 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: NoLibZone

Right after the Durham report comes out any day now and Hillary is behind bars. If there was a perfect time to get rid of Rey and Barr for loosing confidence in then, Trump should fire both of them bow and use the riots for cover. Then round up Soros, freeze all assets, and ship hos terrorist supporting ass to Guantanamo Bay with the other terrorists.


65 posted on 06/02/2020 6:15:54 PM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Vermont Lt
Getting protestors into the suburbs, riot and loot, and then get out is going to be tough. I doubt this is practical as a tactic.

It might be practical if a lib mayor has the police deliver & extract them in paddy wagons.

Remember a few years back when the lib mayors ordered them to stand down and supervise the beatdown of Trump supporters.

66 posted on 06/02/2020 6:19:08 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: NoLibZone

The businesses on our main street are boarded up. There’s supposed to be a, “protest” tonight.

It’s a good thing that I’m on a nocturnal schedule.


67 posted on 06/02/2020 6:19:10 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: fuzzylogic

We were talking with a liberal neighbor this morning, the topic of course being al the recent unrest. There was some looting at our local mall a couple days ago, and she dismissed it as being just some people upset over inequality, and other liberal bromides. She said the answer to all the mayhem is just to sit down with them and encourage them to voice their grievances, and that will start a dialogue which will surely lead to a satisfactory end for all concerned. My wife and I looked at each other and shook our heads, which our neighbor noticed. She then snarkily asked what our solution to the problem was, and I simply told her “We intend to stay alive; we win, they lose.”


68 posted on 06/02/2020 6:25:33 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: zaxtres

Disappointing. Disappointing but true.


69 posted on 06/02/2020 6:32:19 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: sport
I have heard this, or variations of this ever since 2017. When I see it happening I will believe it. Until then it is just so much bullshit. I have been fooled too many times.

Oh, come on. This comes from an unnamed "government source." It must be true!

70 posted on 06/02/2020 6:36:40 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Don’t ch you know it.


71 posted on 06/02/2020 6:47:06 PM PDT by sport
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To: DiogenesLamp

They will get out......The question is will they get out in one piece and still vertical under their own power.


72 posted on 06/02/2020 7:07:17 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: Bernard Marx; Chickensoup

...ok, I hear you. There’s ‘high IQ’ people joining Antifa, agree. They’re evil. The foot soldiers that think it’s a good idea to enter rural homes...are idiots.

The smart ones use the dumb masses.


73 posted on 06/02/2020 7:13:26 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: FLT-bird

That’s bee-yutiful.


74 posted on 06/02/2020 7:26:38 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Excellent.


75 posted on 06/02/2020 7:31:19 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Bernard Marx

Every movement needs cannon fodder.


76 posted on 06/02/2020 7:33:11 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Vermont Lt
As I drove past the “protest” today the little high school girls were getting out of their black Mercedes SUV with their hand made signs. I had to shake my head at their complete detachment to what was going on.

And the moms were on the sidewalk, cheering them on as if it were a soccer game.

That's my point in message 19. These socialist "uprisings" always start out as the children of privilege. The same thing as you describe happened in the French revolution too.

77 posted on 06/02/2020 7:53:20 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Macoozie

I don’t have a backyard


78 posted on 06/02/2020 8:59:15 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Warriors” = one of my favorites to sometimes catch on late night TV, as is “They Live”


79 posted on 06/02/2020 9:53:43 PM PDT by octex
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To: Spirochete

Correct. Mr. Horn in Houston was cleared after he shot someone he’d observed breaking into his neighbor’s house one afternoon. He was on the phone with police and went onto his porch to confront the burglars when they exited the house. They charged at him and he shot.

This happened a few years ago, so my memory is a bit foggy on the details. Pretty sure it was two burglars.


80 posted on 06/02/2020 10:31:31 PM PDT by octex
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