Ever since the idiots in the admin have been trying to make antifa some sort of organization and to do this they need a ‘leader’ to point to if they want their accusations to appear legitimate….so far all they have done is show their ignorance.
This saga began in earnest back in Missouri with the death of a black man and the protests that followed….the government could not believe that the American people could be so audacious as to protest that massive…..so they began to look for a lie to blame for the actions taken and they came upon a little known (at that time) of a group that were already known for their confrontation….the antifa.
Thus the government set about turning this loose group of protesters into this international organization that thrived on confrontation.
Then came the Goon Platoon (ICE) into LA and the protests grew bigger and louder and the government hit upon turning antifa into the excuse for the protests and confrontation.
While trying to build their case they came upon a book written by Mark Bray, the Antifa Handbook, and he became the ‘leader’ of this group. The problem was that the book was a history book of the anti-fascist movement not a how to book….but that did not matter they kept pushing Bray as the ‘leader’ of the group….it got so bad Bray had to take his wife and kids and go overseas to avoid all the hate that the government had generated.
Now the government had to look for a new ‘leader’ that they could blame for all the unrest…..and they finally tagged another individual as the mastermind of antifa….
President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 29-year-old Portland, Oregon resident Chandler Patey as “the leader of Antifa,” according to internal DHS documents leaked to journalist Kenneth Klippenstein. Klippenstein notes that Patey and other “Antifa protestors” identified in the federal documents demonstrate the shoddy reasoning the federal government will use to just to label any protestor as a domestic terrorist.
The DHS decided that Patey leads Antifa, which Trump has designated as a “domestic terrorist organization,” because Patey has been “seen in many videos advocating the principles of [anti-fascism]” and because he allows protestors to use his bathroom and medical supplies to rinse off tear gas inflicted by federal agents at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment facility near his downtown Portland apartment.
While Patey also provides medical equipment and gas mask filters that protestors might need after federal agents attack them for expressing their First Amendment rights, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and other right-wing media commentators have used these as a basis to claim that Patey is running an ominous-sounding “Antifa safehouse.”
In reality, Antifa is a decentralized political ideology with autonomous, local groups but no formal leaders. Antifa activists primarily oppose institutional fascism and racism in government.
So the lies begin again on some poor person that was a face in the crowd.
My biggest bitch is the term ‘domestic terrorist organization’…..organization implies an organized group with a leader, dues, headquarters, etc….antifa has NONE of these….more lies and bullshit from the sub-par mind of the Donny brigade.
STOP! believing the bullshit….these are people that have had enough of racism and the fascist policies of Donny and his group of garden slugs.
You should be worried about the direction and the tactics of this government…..if not then you are NOT a true American.
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People think antifa’s efforts of looting and burning are against fascism and racism ? What a silly notion. What they are for is destroying America. Where’s their $ coming from ?
antifa has never been linked to any looting that is pure Repub BS…..the silly notion is that that Donny and his minions are saving America….does not look like it to me….what money? chuq
Seems you do not recall or never saw their violent destructive des-
truction of summer of 2020 esp WA and OR cities. Made Jan 6 look like a mere sneeze. How do they support themselves for food, hotel, weapons ? Apparently they don’t have jobs so where’s the $ support to which I refer coming from ?
Carl it is crazy of course I saw that but you guys blamed BLM and now it is antifa….this just makes my point it is made up BS. You are making assumptions with not a speck of fact….I still think that a mob trying to overthrow the government is in a category all alone. chuq
I don’t believe that a widespread, disparate, anti-fascist organisation has a single leader. This guy is just being singled out as the ‘patsy’ to take the blame. Much the same as Lee Oswald was.
Best wishes, Pete.
exactly. I have my own complicated theory about Oswald, makes more sense than any of the others.
I agree they are trying to legitimize their claims of an international organization….only a weak mind would believe this BS. chuq
How could the stupid Jan 6 jerks think they could overthrow our government ? Or alter the election ? They all belong in the looney bin not prison.How could anyone think they could do such a thing and why did the woke dems use this nonsense to alarm people of an overthrow attempt that almost succeeded ? I can’t believe anyone could actually attribute the affair as revolution when a dozen states and 1,200 sanctuary cities declaring all federal law null and void not be the alarming crisis and dismissal of federal law authority ? I thought it was a stupid joke. How could Boobin and other dems characterize the matter as the most serious threat to the security of the US since the Civil War ? That’s an absurd characterization. Just loved CNN reporters characterize 2020 as mostly peaceful and buildings burned in the background ! How could 4 years of open borders with no idea of who or what was pouring in not be considered the fearful threat to our security since the Civil War which still echoes today ? We had frat parties in college that were more dramatc than Jan 6. I never accuse BLM of looting and burning for summer of 2020 – only antifa. BLM was just a very successful frad and con game to generare $ for crooks not a true demonstration of racial injustice who got cheated in their worthwhile objections and legitimate concerns of bad police murders. BLM was and remains a noble cause but its crooked leadership is far more dripping of guilt than Jan 6 bozos.
Then you are alone everyone else blames BLM for the riots in Missouri and elsewhere…..antifa was on no one’s radar until Donny pretends they are an organization. You really did not see any threat? The attacks on cops the destruction in the Capital the etc none of that was serious in your mind? Leadership? Your beloved GOP is full of crooks. chuq