GOP Trying To Criminalize Dissent? Ted Cruz-Sponsored Resolution Uses 'Antifa' And 'Left-Wing Activists' Interchangeably

[Victorian Gray]

It's pretty easy:

stop with the fascism and there is no apparent need for antifa to exist.

It's truly amazing the fear some seem to have of the folks who *don't* like gas chambers and ovens.

 

[JSt0rm]

And Democrats who hold an American flag, ICE, anyone wearing pro-Trump apparel, gay Vietnamese men who silently record their activities, the police, white men, and more.

Research their activities beyond what Huffpo, Vox, etc. say about them.

red scare 2.0?

 

[soundforbjt]

Laura Ingraham was pushing this hard on her show Monday. Of course nothing was mentioned about the groups on the "right side" that commit violence.

 

[nakedfrog]

Is Antifa actually an "organization"?

 

[child of wonder]

Is Antifa actually an "organization"?

Enough that they have a handbook.

Here's a link to the book: https://libcom.org/library/antifa-anti-fascist-handbook

Here's the author tweeting fun nuggets:



And here's MN Attorney General and former Deputy Chair of the DNC Keith Ellison holding it up.

 

[hal2kilo]

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-criminalizing-dissent-antifa-ted-cruz-1450285



Trying to silence any left-wing dissent, All hail Trump ! Anyone who disagrees is a terrorist.

Edit: Fixed Newsweek's title to reflect accuracy.

So white nationalists still aren't really a terrorist problem.

 

[nakedfrog]

Enough that they have a handbook.

Here's a link to the book: https://libcom.org/library/antifa-anti-fascist-handbook

Here's the author tweeting fun nuggets:

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And here's MN Attorney General and former Deputy Chair of the DNC Keith Ellison holding it up.

Enough that someone cashed in by publishing a book? That doesn't really do it for me.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Here's the actual text.

https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/news...z-antifa-is-a-domestic-terrorist-organization



And the actual House document. This is a Simple Resolution not a Senate bill. Besides, there's no domestic terrorism designation system in place. The Patriot Act created a definition for domestic terror but the examples cited in the resolution would not put it in that category. White supremacist groups could fall under the Patriot Act.
https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/KAT19105.pdf


https://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/leg_laws_acts.htm


I think we have a NothingBurgerKingDollarTaco here.

Hey that Burger King taco is pretty good other than the shell being a bit thick.

 

[nakedfrog]

Hey that Burger King taco is pretty good other than the shell being a bit thick.

Oh, are the tacos back again? I thought they disappeared like a decade ago.

 

[Lanyap]

Hey that Burger King taco is pretty good other than the shell being a bit thick.

The ones I got at my closest BK were craptastic. Maybe I'll try another BK.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

The ones I got at my closest BK were craptastic. Maybe I'll try another BK.

Mine was well constructed and didn’t fall apart. Shell was way to thick however it was crunchy and didn’t fall apart.
Not the best but for one dollar it was good.

 

[thraashman]

Enough that they have a handbook.

Here's a link to the book: https://libcom.org/library/antifa-anti-fascist-handbook

Here's the author tweeting fun nuggets:

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And here's MN Attorney General and former Deputy Chair of the DNC Keith Ellison holding it up.

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A quick Google will show you that's a case-study/history book on the antifa movement from the 1920's through present day.

 

[Jhhnn]

So white nationalists still aren't really a terrorist problem.

Not if you're white. Just don't let on that you might be a libruhl. I bought a MAGA hat at the Goodwill Outlet store for like 50 cents & I'm keeping it in case I need camouflage. I'm not buying a nazi armband unless it becomes absolutely necessary.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Is Antifa actually an "organization"?

No.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Enough that they have a handbook.

Here's a link to the book: https://libcom.org/library/antifa-anti-fascist-handbook

Here's the author tweeting fun nuggets:

View attachment 8780

And here's MN Attorney General and former Deputy Chair of the DNC Keith Ellison holding it up.

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Chump.

"Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is a 2017 book by historian Mark Bray on the history of anti-fascist movements since the 1920s and 1930s and its contemporary resurgence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:_The_Anti-Fascist_Handbook

 

[brycejones]

Chump.

"Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is a 2017 book by historian Mark Bray on the history of anti-fascist movements since the 1920s and 1930s and its contemporary resurgence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:_The_Anti-Fascist_Handbook

Lol

 

[nakedfrog]

Are you implying he oughtn't judge a book by its cover?

 

[child of wonder]

Chump.

"Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is a 2017 book by historian Mark Bray on the history of anti-fascist movements since the 1920s and 1930s and its contemporary resurgence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:_The_Anti-Fascist_Handbook

Not needing my own links I've read, here are links from your link. The author makes it pretty clear that the book is to also serve as a blueprint to combat modern day Fascists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...angering-many-faculty/?utm_term=.5003d5f73039

His new book, “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” traces the history of antifa to the 1920s and offers a road map for putting the movement’s principles into practice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tradictions-of-antifa/?utm_term=.52962ef9681a

Antifa tactics include “no platforming,” i.e., denying their targets the opportunity to speak out in public; obstructing their events and defacing their propaganda; and, when antifa activists deem it necessary, deploying violence to deter them. In this setting, the First Amendment is a second-order concern. “In my opinion, ‘no platforming’ fascists often infringes upon their speech,” Bray admits, “but this infringement is justified for its role in the political struggle against fascism.” He simultaneously minimizes and affirms violence as a tool — calling it “a small though vital sliver of anti-fascist activity” but asking: “Do we need to wait until the swastikas are unfurled from government buildings before we defend ourselves?”

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-intimate-history-of-antifa

Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of Antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present—a project that he calls “history, politics, and theory on the run.” Antifa activists don’t often speak to the media, but Bray is a former Occupy Wall Street organizer and an avowed leftist; he has intimate access to his subjects, if not much critical distance from them. Especially in later chapters of the book, that access helps him to provide an unusually informed account of how Antifa members conceptualize their disruptive and sometimes violent methods.

For Bray and his subjects, the horror of this history and the threat of its return demands that citizens, in the absence of state suppression of Fascism, take action themselves. Bray notes that state-based protections failed in Italy and Germany, where Fascists were able to take over governments through legal rather than revolutionary means—much as the alt-right frames its activities as a defense of free speech, Fascists were able to spread their ideology under the aegis of liberal tolerance.

 

[Jhhnn]

Not needing my own links I've read, here are links from your link. The author makes it pretty clear that the book is to also serve as a blueprint to combat modern day Fascists.

It's remarkable how you can quote an article & not derive deeper meaning as to what's going on.

For Bray and his subjects, the horror of this history and the threat of its return demands that citizens, in the absence of state suppression of Fascism, take action themselves. Bray notes that state-based protections failed in Italy and Germany, where Fascists were able to take over governments through legal rather than revolutionary means—much as the alt-right frames its activities as a defense of free speech, Fascists were able to spread their ideology under the aegis of liberal tolerance.

We currently have a President who panders to white supremacists, who are fascist by nature. They were fascists before the word "fascist" was even invented. Trump summoned them from under their rocks & told 'em to party. It's merely the truth.

If the Govt won't suppress fascism then the People will find ways to do the best they can on their own, including all the loosely affiliated Antifa groups in this country.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Not needing my own links I've read, here are links from your link. The author makes it pretty clear that the book is to also serve as a blueprint to combat modern day Fascists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...angering-many-faculty/?utm_term=.5003d5f73039



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tradictions-of-antifa/?utm_term=.52962ef9681a



https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-intimate-history-of-antifa

Chump.

 

[blackangst1]

GOP 2020 platform:

Antifa is coming for your flags.

Socalists are coming for your Social Security and Medicare.

Communists are coming for the national anthem.

Leftist Nazis are coming for your plastic straws.

Trans people are coming to abort your living children.

Non-Whites are going to make you live under MS-13.

Democrat platform 2020:

orange man bad

 

[umbrella39]

Republican platform 2020:

orange man bad we don't give a shit as long as brown people...

History will not be kind to those who have openly supported him, especially on the Internet, which never forgets...

It's like every week his handlers pull another one liner from a hat, one that gets more and more offensive every week, and run with it.

This week: Go Back To Where You Came From...

What will it be next week...

 

[Jhhnn]

Democrat platform 2020:

orange man bad

You haven't noticed that Trump is a national disgrace?

 

[blackangst1]

You haven't noticed that Trump is a national disgrace?

Every POTUS election for the last 5 or 6 is essentially the same. The Dems remind us what bad things their opponents have done (or will do) and the GOP tells everyone how bad the Democrats are. Nevermind they dont talk about HOW they will do what they parade. There hasnt been a POTUS in all my voting years I personally found overwhelmingly great. Its always been pick the best of the worst.

 

[UNCjigga]

Isn’t it just poetic how Chris Wray sat down with Senate Judiciary today and said...

Most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve white supremacy

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ority-of-domestic-terrorism-arrests-this-year

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the agency has made about 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to white supremacy.

”I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence, but it does include other things as well,”

—
Where’s Antifa?