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"The moment we got here, they started throwing rocks," says Joe Allen, one of the right-wing protesters who descended on the college Thursday to challenge what they see as its leftist ideology. They were met by a large number of the masked, black-clad counterprotesters. Allen says the Antifa have been harassing Trump supporters since Election Day.
"That night we went to downtown Portland to see what everything was like, and we got stuck on the bridge because [the Antifa were] stopping all traffic, hitting cars, jumping on cars, asking people, 'Who did you vote for?' "Comment
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Different poster responding. Newsweek doesn't do polls.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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"This is a dangerous game; people are going to die. No one's died yet, but it's just a matter of time," says J.J. McNabb, an expert on political extremism at George Washington University.
McNabb says white supremacists and neo-Nazis are widely condemned — and deservedly — for their violent tendencies. But she says the Antifa shouldn't get a pass on their violence just because they oppose white supremacists.
"These guys are odious, [but] attack them with words. Don't come in with sticks and nails in them," she says.Comment
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I think it just means your 🥜 ter values and and attitudes are very common. Otherwise it might be.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Dartmouth College lecturer and “historian of human rights,” Mark Bray, has refashioned himself as America’s foremost Antifa apologist. In his book and in places like the Washington Post, he’s argued that “physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective.” The Nation’s Natasha Lennard has similarly praised this organization’s “militant left-wing and anarchist politics,” and mocked its critics as “civility-fetishizing” liberals who “cling to institutions.” Nor is Antifa alone in this campaign. A Mother Jones profile of the many left-of-center grassroots groups whose resistance “sometimes goes beyond nonviolent protest—including picking up arms” is anything but condemnatory. Given this preamble, it’s hardly a surprise to see how the arbiters of national political discourse responded to the recent Antifa-led gang assault on the journalist Andy Ngo.
Ngo has dedicated himself to chronicling Antifa’s increasingly menacing activities, particularly in his home city of Portland, Oregon. He’s videotaped Antifa mobs beating people bloody, capturing control of city blocks and attacking passing motorists, and vandalizing property—all without police interference. This weekend, Ngo himself became the target of Antifa violence. A crowd of demonstrators, clad in black and with their faces covered, were seen taking turns throwing objects at Ngo, beating him about the head, and spraying caustic substances in his face. The reporter was hospitalized with head trauma, one of several victims of this mob’s bloodlust.
The violence against Ngo received nationwide coverage… on Twitter. When it was discussed at more length in the press, it was subjected to the kind of deconstruction that robs these violent episodes of their urgency. National Review’s Jim Geraghty observed the Oregonian take pains to avoid ruling out the possibility that Ngo’s assailants were provoked to the point of savage violence. Huffington Post reporter Christopher Mathias and briefly retained New York University journalism lecturer Talia Levin mocked the assault as insufficiently bloody. Countless reporters and institutions, including the Associated Press, questioned Ngo’s journalistic credentials—a non sequitur that serves no higher purpose than tacitly legitimizing the attack on him.Comment
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In August of 2016, as the American press was consumed by the theoretical prospect of mass violence meted out by Donald Trump’s supporters, the observable phenomenon of anti-Trump mob violence was going all but unnoticed. Both the spontaneous and organized forms of “anti-fascist action” had become a common feature of the political landscape on the activist fringes by August of that election year. The fever hadn’t broken by October, when a Republican Party office in North Carolina was firebombed, nor did it abate by inauguration day, when over 200 people were arrested in connection with a nationwide spasm of rioting and property destruction. The far left’s urge to engage in political violence was on display in Berkeley, California, in 2017, where two scheduled pro-Trump rallies ended in bloodshed. The far left’s violent impulses were seen last year, when Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s California offices were attacked and burglarized, a gunman shot up a GOP satellite office in Florida, and a New York City Republican union hall was vandalized.Comment
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Let's also remember that CNN/the Des Moines pulled their poll the night before the Iowa caucuses. As CNN reported it the issue had to do with a poll taker who left Pete Buttigieg’s name off the list of candidates in an interview with at least one voter. One voter and they pull the plug on the poll??? I'd sure like to see how those polls were going before they were pulled.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Then at the beginning of June, Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz was hit by a milkshake.
Weeks earlier, The New Republic ran an article by Matt Ford with the headline, “Why Milkshaking Works,” and the summary, “The far right fears nothing more than public humiliation.” The article was shared approvingly by former Media Matters for America staffer turned Vox journalist Carlos Maza. Maza added, “Milkshake them all. Humiliate them at every turn. Make them dread public organizing.”
Vice and Eater attempted to take a humorous angle to the topic of humiliating their opposition, while the Atlantic attempted to downplay the seriousness of milkshakings writing, “Let’s not go turning milkshakes into boiling coffee, let alone Molotovs. Sometimes a milkshake is just a milkshake.” Similarly, The Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty wrote that he laughed when his political opponents were hit with milkshakes: “chucking a milkshake is not political violence at all; it is political theatre, of a kind shared down the ages and across countries.”Comment
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On July 13, self-proclaimed “antifa” supporter Willem Van Spronsen attacked an Immigration and Customs (ICE) facility in Tacoma, Washington. Armed with a rifle and “incendiary devices,” Van Spronsen reportedly threw flares at cars parked in the lot of the Northwest Detention Center. Van Spronsen’s manifesto details his political motivations.
Two weeks before Van Spronsen’s attack, Shaun King—a writer for the Intercept and well-known Black Lives Matter activist–tweeted of the alleged “concentration camps” on the border: “We should liberate them NOW – by any means necessary.”Comment
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Many radical left wing groups today have ideologies that are founded in socialism, anarchism, or communism: all aspects of Marx’s teachings in some way. Left wing groups are different from most other types of terrorist organizations in the sense that their ideology does not surround religion, or involve religion to any extent for that matter. Jihadist groups have ideologies founded in radical Islam, and many right wing organizations have some association with Christianity.
The left wing terrorist groups are often a reflection of the current political climate, meaning, a group of people generally becomes unhappy with the political culture of their country (deeming it too right wing or fascist) and they call for the whole of society to rise up and stop it. The rising up of all of society is very important for the left. Not only does it show its historical roots in Marxism, but it also does not ‘discriminate’ as some groups may. The only requirement for joining their movement is willingness to follow their left wing ideology or to hold their political values.Comment
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January 2017
At least 217 violent protesters were arrested in Washington D.C. on President Trump's inauguration day.
Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine appeared on MSNBC calling for members of his party to "fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box.”
Four Chicago gangstas were charged with hate crimes for kidnapping and beating a mentally disabled white student and live streaming video on Facebook forcing the victim to repeat anti-Trump taunts.
Madonna, a person with the economic resources to pose a viable threat, publicly stated, "I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House." The Secret Service decided to investigate her due to her threat. She claimed the comment was a metaphor.
Pro-Trump demonstrator knocked out at protest.
A Trump supporter was attacked after putting out a fire started by anti-Trump protesters.
When Trump protesters encountered a driver with a pro-Trump flag on his car, they surrounded the vehicle, ripped off and began burning the flag, and pounded the car. They also punctured on the tires.Comment
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February 2017
It was reported in early February 2017 that 12,000 tweets had called for Trump's assassination since his inauguration.
California GOP Rep. Tom McClintock had to be escorted to his car after a town hall because of angry protesters. The tires of at least four vehicles were slashed.
Protestors knocked a 71-year-old female staffer for California GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher unconscious during a protest outside the representative's office.
Milo Yiannopoulos speech at the University of California-Berkeley was canceled after rioters set the campus on fire and threw rocks through windows. Milo tweeted that one of his supporters wearing a Trump hat was thrown to the ground and kickedComment
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March 2017
Unindicted Obamagate co-conspirator Loretta ***** calls for blood and death in the streets.
Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine's son, Linwood Kaine, was charged with “fleeing police on foot, concealing his identity in a public place, and obstructing legal process,” after a masked group he was with threw smoke bombs into a pro-Trump rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Masked protesters at Middlebury College rushed AEI scholar and political scientist Charles Murray and professor Allison Stanger, pushing and shoving Murray and grabbing Stranger by her hair and twisting her neck as they were leaving a campus building. Stranger suffered a concussion. Protesters then surrounded the car they got into, rocking it back and forth and jumping on the hoodComment
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April 2017
Fears of violent protests shut down Ann Coulter’s UC Berkeley speech. Campus police had gathered intel on protesters who were planning to commit violence.
David Horowitz's speech at UC Berkeley canceled over threats and fear of riot.
A parade in Portland, Ore., was canceled after threats of violence were made against a Republican organization.Comment
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