Antifa to be Declared a Terrorist Organization (Finally!)

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It's about time.

Antifa = Mao's Red Guard = Hilter's Sturmabteilung = Democrats' Ku Klux Klan = Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge

Didn't realize they weren't already.

For starters this is a pretty transparent attempt to distract from Trump's own failings on coronavirus and race relations.

More importantly it's a flagrant abuse of power. Only fascists believe that antifascists are terrorists. Has antifa killed anyone? Has antifa committed or planned any acts of terror? No.

Not only is antifa not a terrorist organisation, it's not an organisation at all. It's an ideology which 95% of Americans identify with to one extent or another.

This is full mask-off fascism from Trump. It's a breach of Americans' constitutional right to oppose the government. It's disgusting and it's evil and it's corrupt. It isn't going to stop Trump from losing the election and it isn't going to keep him out of prison.

Fortunately, the justice system in America does not allow the President to label an ideology as "terrorist", nor does it allow him to formally label domestic organisations as terrorist.

This is nothing more or less than an attempt to distract from the issues at hand and fire up the 5% of Americans who support fascism.

Conservatives are fine with an America where Antifa is labelled terrorists and not the Klan.
Antifa also isn't even an organization really. It's a loose association of people of various left-of-center ideologies without any central leadership.
The Klan on the other hand is very organized and has infiltrated both the police and the courts in this country. Ask anyone from the south who isn't white. The head judge from where my housemate moved in Texas was a Grand Dragon in the Klan. He had a sign outside his home saying so. Everyone there knew this. They either are white and don't care or are not white and know they cannot do anything about it. What are they going to do? Go to the police? Don't make me laugh. Police officer is the career of choice for the white supremacist. It's the best position if you want to kill black people without consequence. And judge is the best position to make sure those men do not face justice.
The white conservative sees no problem with any of that though. Because the Klan's violence does not threaten him or his property.

Antifa uses terrorist tactics. They are terrorist organization. That's the truth.

Again, there isn't really such thing as "antifa". This isn't an organisation with leaders, this is an extremely loose coalition of anyone opposed to fascism. While some active antifascists hold extreme views like anti-capitalism, holding extreme views does not make you a terrorist. Most active antifascists are just ordinary Americans who don't hold any extreme views.

It seems like you're being very cavalier with words when you compare ordinary Americans to al-Qaeda and ISIS. Have Antifa hijacked any planes? Blown up any trains? Held any public beheadings? It's completely disrespectful to the victims of terrorism to say that ordinary Americans holding peaceful protests are the same as ISIS.

The United States has a serious ongoing problem with white supremacist terrorism. Trump has not recognised any white supremacist groups as terrorist organisations. I think that under present US law that is right as the president cannot recognise domestic groups as terrorists. But now he's claiming that a bunch of harmless ordinary Americans are terrorists just because they oppose him? This is fascism, plain and simple.

Terrorist groups have always had apologists. The Nazis had apologists ("it's just a political party"), the Maoists had apologists ("it's necessary to advance progress"), the Klan had apologists ("it's just ethnic solidarity") — and in the same way, the Antifa terrorists have their apologists today.

Anarchy is the same as terror--but when a government goes evil, then that evil element is also terror. The three cops who didn't choke George Floyd are as part of his death as the one who did, but the cops in Flint who joined a *peaceful* protest (no looting that Ive heard of yet) are probably doing a great job upholding public peace by that action there.

Yes, I think Antifa being labeled terrorists is a good thing. Now we can please start on anyone else who seeks to hold power through intimidation, socialists or republicans alike. I don't care if it's Antifa or the cops. Same difference in this case. There is no "good side" but there are good individuals, though for the last few weeks there sure aren't many of the good ones making the news.

Double standard