Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months, law enforcement official says

The Washington Times ^ | June 3, 2020 | Bill Gertz

[kevcol]

Activists of the far-left Antifa movement began planning to foment a nationwide anti-government insurgency as early as November as the U.S. presidential campaign season kicked off in earnest, according to a law enforcement official with access to intelligence behind the shadowy group.
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“Their Marxist ideology seeks not only to influence elections in the short term but to destroy the use of elections as the determining factor in political legitimacy.”

Added Joe Myers, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and counterinsurgency expert, “President Trump’s election and revitalization of America are a threat to Antifa’s nihilist goals.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

From the article:

Kenneth deGraffenreid, who was deputy national counterintelligence executive during the George W. Bush administration, said the FBI has not been engaged in effective domestic counterintelligence for years.
“The FBI has not had a meaningful domestic counterintelligence capability for many years,” Mr. deGraffenreid said. “They’ve been distracted or politically corrupted.”

Re the last sentence: Any votes as to which of those is likely?

[kevao]

Why didn’t Chris Wray’s FBI pick up on this? Isn’t that their job? Domestic security, counter terrorism?

Oh, wait. They were all too busy trying to overthrow the President of the United States.

Wray should be fired immediately!

[Jim Robinson]

Bump!

[timestax]

[Cobra64]

Ummm... if we knew this, then why didn’t the FBI do something about it before it broke out into a National fuster-cluck.

Imagine these clowns in Cheyenne Mountain?

“Sir, North Korea just launched 23 ICBMs towards the USA.”

“That’s okay son, let’s assess the damage after they detonate.”

[Gene Eric]

>> Why didn’t Chris Wray’s FBI pick up on this

Same for 9-11

[MayflowerMadam]

“Antifa movement began planning to foment a nationwide anti-government insurgency as early as November”

If true, then WTF do we have a Homeland Security Department? What the hell have they been doing instead of monitoring people they know are anti-American terrorists?

I expect their high-level meetings involve long discussions about whether or not shoes should be removed before TSA critters take over at airport security. And how much privacy Americans should forfeit in exchange for being safe. Forget about keeping America safe.

Thanks, GWB — for NOTHING, you asshole!

[MagillaX]

The deep state is afraid President Trump will federalize the National Guard. And so that is exactly what President Trump should do.

Then they should be placed to protect federal buildings, sites and the locals in the area especially minority areas.

President Trump needs to go in a talk softly and carry a big stick mode and deliver action to these people. He is not gong to be able to out tweet or out speak them.

All the leaders need to be found and rounded up fast and then the guard needs to leave as quickly as they came.

If he waits they will continue these protests for months gaining sympathy through the media outlets continued propaganda

[Fedora]

One of the precedents: The 1971 May Day Protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. These began on May Day of that year, continued with similar intensity into the morning of May 3rd, then rapidly diminished through several following days. Members of the Nixon administration would come to view the events as damaging, because the government's response led to mass arrests and were perceived as violating citizens' civil rights. . .By the middle of 1970 many leaders of the anti war movement had come to believe that tactics of massive, non-violent political protests that had been used previously would not end the war, and that more aggressive actions were needed. Rennie Davis and Jerry Coffin of the War Resisters League began planning the actions; later in 1970 Michael Lerner joined their number.[2] The May Day tribe[3] was formed. It was made up of Yippies and others among the more militant members of the anti-war movement. It was decided that small groups of protesters would block major intersections and bridges in the capital. . .The U.S. government put into effect Operation Garden Plot, a plan it had developed during the 1960s to combat major civil disorders. While protesters listened to music, planned their actions or slept, 10,000 federal troops were quickly moved to various locations in the Washington, D.C. area. At one point, so many soldiers and Marines were being moved into the area from bases along the East Coast that troop transports were landing at the rate of one every three minutes at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, about 15 miles east of the White House. Among these troops were 4,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. Troops from the Marine Barracks lined both sides of the 14th St bridge. These troops were to back up the 5,100 officers of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 2,000 members of the D.C. National Guard and federal agents that were already in place.[5] Every monument, park and traffic circle in the nation's capital had troops protecting its perimeters. Paratroopers and Marines deployed via helicopter to the grounds of the Washington Monument. Protesters announced that because the government had not stopped the Vietnam War they would stop the government[3] and told troops, many of whom were of similar age, that their goal was to prevent the troops from being sent to Vietnam. In response troops were rotated frequently. While the troops were in place and thousands held in reserve, the police clashed with members of the May Day tribe. The Yippies engaged in hit and run tactics throughout the city, trying to disrupt traffic and cause chaos in the streets. Politicians were harassed by protesters. . .While the troops secured the major intersections and bridges, the police roamed through the city making massive arrest sweeps and used tear gas. They arrested anyone who looked like a demonstrator, including construction workers who had come out to support the government. By 8 am 7,000 protesters had been arrested. The city's prisons did not have the capacity to handle that many people thus several emergency detention centers were setup including the Washington Coliseum and another one surrounded by an 8-foot-high (2.4 m) fence was set up next to RFK Stadium. No food, water, or sanitary facilities were made available by authorities but sympathetic local residents brought supplies.[6] Skirmishes between protesters and police occurred up until about mid-day. In Georgetown, the police herded the protesters and onlookers through the streets to the Georgetown University campus. The police then engaged in a back and forth with the protesters outside the university's main gate on O Street, lobbing tear gas over the gate each time they pushed the crowd back. Other forms of gas were used including pepper based and one that induced vomiting. Police helicopters also dropped tear gas on the university's lower athletic field where protesters had camped the night before. Numerous people were severely injured and treated by volunteers on campus. By afternoon the police had suppressed the disruption efforts and the protesters had mainly dispersed.[7] Smaller protests continued resulting in the arrests of several thousand more, bringing the total to 12,614 people, making this the largest mass arrest in U.S. history . . .Conspiracy charges against May Day tribe leaders were dismissed. Out of the 12,000 demonstrators arrested most were released without charges and 79 were eventually convicted.[9] The ACLU pursued a class action suit brought by thousands of detained protesters and ultimately the US Congress, recognizing the illegal nature of the arrests, agreed to pay a settlement to those arrested, making them some of the only citizens in US history to receive financial compensation for violation of the constitutional right of free assembly.[10] Richard Helms, who was Central Intelligence Agency director at the time, said "It was obviously viewed by everybody in the administration, particularly with all the arrests and the howling about civil rights and human rights and all the rest of it...as a very damaging kind of event. I don't think there was any doubt about that.": 1971 May Day protests

[PGR88]

America’s NSA captures all communications. Once ANTIFA phones and computers are identified, software mapping the nodes of the network work within seconds.

Surely if every movement of the Trump campaign can be tracked, then ANTIFA can as well, can’t it?

Or, are our Intelligence Agencies the controllers of ANTIFA?

[realcleanguy]

Antifa people on line are hilarious to debate. They honestly believe everyone in the world is a Fascist and they are the only people in the world that can defeat them. Imagine being so narrow minded and foolish to think you, a bunch of skinny little kids who are all White Privileged, mostly living at home with their parents at 25, have these vision of grandeur that they are this driving force that has the only truth to life. They are so delusional. They actually believe that regular Americans who are blue collar workers, are all fascists because they fly a flag, or they have a job, or they drive a car, or they have a savings account. Delusional people

[grey_whiskers]

Or, are our Intelligence Agencies the controllers of ANTIFA?

Duh.

[UnwashedPeasant]

The Left had the gasoline ready, and they were waiting for any little thing to spark it.

[indthkr]

ANTIFA bump for later.....

[The Toll]

Yea but Roger Stone once had a white Russian at a party. Raid him!!!

[LibWhacker]

RICO!

[Lurker]

No shit....

L

[virgil]

Start with that sack of dried bones, Pelosi.

[Phil DiBasquette]

They had it ready for RNC, DNC, Election Day,
The day after, Inauguration Day...

If ordinary folks can see videos, see antifa thuggery,
so can local PD and government

The truth is that many cities are in cahoots
but need to be prosecuted as Federal crimes
so the little antichrists don’t get let out

[campaignPete R-CT]

Think about the IRA.

ANTIFA is here to stay. Long-term