BATTLE IN THE STREETS?
LEFTIST AGITATORS VOW TO STOP PRO-TRUMP 'SCUM' 'Spirit
of America' rallies targeted by 'crazed fanatics' who 'will never stop',
3/1/17, WND
Following weeks of street protests
by the left, Americans are holding rallies
to support the new commander in chief, but
leftist agitators are vowing to disrupt the patriotic events. The “Spirit of America Rallies,” which have been taking place around the country since
February, will culminate this weekend, with most scheduled for Saturday, March
4, including one
in Washington, D.C. at LayFayette Square, beginning at 1 p.m. But they won’t be the only ones on the streets, as
self-styled “antifa” have vowed to disrupt some of the protests, sparking fears
of conflict.
One group of such leftists has
already announced its
own gathering at the same location. The
group “Smash Racism DC” bragged about its street protests during the
inauguration and against President Trump’s travel ban. It suggested this latest
effort would fit the same pattern.
Pro-Trump organizers of the
Washington, D.C., event blamed “complaints from leftists” for some Facebook pages designed
to promote the rally being taken down. “Antifa,” short for “anti-fascists,”
have become a prominent part of the left-wing street protests that have swept
the country since President Trump’s inauguration.
The loosely organized network
organizes protests and occasional physical attacks against those it considers
“racist” or “fascist.” During the riots
that accompanied President Trump’s inauguration, Richard Spencer, a figurehead of the
so-called “alt-right” movement, was
sucker-punched by a masked protester in an attack widely celebrated by the
mainstream media.
Such “antifa” groups tend to have an
expansive definition of who they consider “racist” or “fascist.” “Antifa”
attacked attendees of the “Deploraball” inaugural celebration for Trump
supporters, several
of whom were assaulted outside the event by masked attackers and called “Nazi
scum.”
“Antifa” also led violent
protests against former Breitbart
Editor Milo Yiannopoulos after he was scheduled to speak at the University of
California Berkeley. “Antifa” are promising to shut
down another demonstration in Berkeley scheduled for March 4.
Socialist groups on college campuses
are also organizing “fight clubs” to learn how to “bash the fash,” prompting
talk among some conservatives about forming self-defense groups.
Reports of “antifa” groups
organizing on campus using veiled threats of violence has
some students worried for their own safety. A
group organizing at Clemson University has already announced
its intention to oppose a pro-Trump rally in
Greer, South Carolina, with the goal of refusing “to give this scum a
platform.”
Matthew Vadum, an expert on
left-wing organizing, senior vice president at the Capital Research Center and
author of “Subversion,
Inc.,” finds it remarkable how many
journalists worry about the supposed “extremism” of Trump supporters but
largely approve of violence in the name of “anti-fascism.”
“They are regarded by much of the
media as well-intentioned if overzealous social justice warriors whose actions
are noble and whose motives are pure,” he told WND. “That’s why you never see
many investigations of them. Why investigate the good guys? A lot of old-time
liberals are appalled by their violence, but what they do is fine by most of
their progressive cousins. The Nation and Mother Jones blow kisses at them all
the time.”
In January, author Natasha Lennard
wrote a puff
piece for the Nation praising “antifa” and
describing President Trump’s inauguration as “a ceremony affirming and buoying
fascism.”
Wes Enzinna penned
a similar article for Mother Jones the
same month, chronicling the group’s violent history but ending with criticism
of President Trump, whose “presidency is already promising to turn back the
clock on American progress in multiple ways, with women’s rights, racial
justice and environmental protects under siege.”
Vadum said “antifa” should only be
called anti-fascists in an ironic sense, given their proclivity to street
violence.
“Most of them are communists or
radical anarchists, which in American politics is virtually the same thing,” he
said. “They are nihilistic thugs who want to destroy everything that is good in
America. They’re a leftist counterpart to skinheads and neo-Nazis. They call
themselves anti-fascists but they use fascistic tactics against their targets.
Just as Hitler’s Sturmabteilung, or
SA, beat up and terrorized political opponents, ‘antifa’ assaulted Trump
supporters and Republicans when they shut down Milo Yiannopoulos’ recent speech
at UC Berkeley. These people are crazed fanatics and they will never stop.”
He jokingly cited UrbanDictonary’s
definition of “antifa,” which mocks the group’s pretense to be “rebelling against the
establishment, whilst upholding all of its ultra-politically correct views” and
its “opposition to racism by whites” but unwillingness to stand up against
anti-white racism.
Vadum warned that fringe groups such
as “antifa” define “fascism” and “racism” so broadly as to include just about
“everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders as fascists,” making conflict with
conservatives practically inevitable.
“As things escalate in the future,
the street gangs now springing up could very well morph into militias or
perhaps even death squads,” he warned. “Who knows how far things could go?”
Vadum called for the Department of
Justice to crack down on the group to protect all Americans’ right to free
speech, especially if there is violence this weekend.
“These ‘antifa’ cannot be reasoned
with,” he said. “These people should be prosecuted under racketeering statutes.
They are a cancer. They need to be wiped off the map. Until they are,
conservatives and other patriotic Americans who may be targeted need to be
prepared to defend themselves physically because the left, in its determination
to drive President Trump from office, is going to make things even crazier than
they are right now in the country.
“They are domestic terrorists. They
are not legitimate actors in the democratic process. They have no right to
exist.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/battle-in-the-streets-leftist-agitators-vow-to-stop-pro-trump-scum/
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