For your answer . . . look no further than Berkeley, California, this past Sunday.
Now IMO, it’s kinda hard to get much farther left than the self-styled “Antifa” without joining the CPUSA. So I’ll take what they do as indicative of the true agenda of the far left.
In Berkeley on Sunday, a peaceful protest by a group of conservatives was assaulted by a group of hooded, masked leftist thugs from the self-styled “Antifa” group. Five were injured.
Here’s a link to video of the event.
During the melee, some of those masked leftist thugs were heard to shout: “Take his camera, take his phone” on seeing a journalist in the crowd. Decide for yourself why a bunch of masked leftist hoodlums might not want anyone taking photos or videos of what they were doing – and why they were wearing masks in the first place.
So where were the police, you might ask? Well, it seems that the police stood down instead of confronting those leftist hooligans – again. Berkeley’s police chief claimed that was a “strategic decision” made to “avoid more violence”. He said that there was “no need for a confrontation over a grass patch.”
Hmm. Sounds more to me like a police department that is simply afraid to do its damn job of keeping the peace – or was perhaps ordered not to. In either case, IMO it amounted to de facto local government support for Antifa’s unlawful mob violence.
But that’s just me. YMMV.
Oh, did I mention that San Francisco’s mayor has publicly sided with those leftist “Antifa” goons? Well, that’s what I’d call it. He’s been reported to have called this example of blatant intimidation through violent action a “victory” over a group “inviting hate” – the latter referring to the peaceful conservative group protesting, not the leftist “Antifa” hoodlums that violently assaulted them.
Apparently for SF Mayor Ed Lee, free speech means “acts of mob violence committed against political enemies by those he supports, while local government stands by and does little or nothing to stop it”. You know, exactly the same thing some Jim Crow governments in the Deep South did during the Civil Rights Era.
Ain’t that just ever so nostalgic and lovely?
Fox News has an article with more details. It’s definitely worth a read.
For some reason, when I hear about stuff like this – violence against a group the local authorities don’t like, designed to intimidate, while those same local authorities turn a blind eye to that violence and tacitly assist same – another term also comes to mind. So does a name.
Now, what was that term, and that name? Wait a minute, maybe they’ll come to me . . . .
Oh, yeah – right. I believe I remember the word and name now.
The word I was trying to remember was “Kristallnacht”. The name? “Medgar Evers.”
“Antifa” is so named because they claim to be “anti-fascist”.
“Anti-fascist”? What a crock.
“Antifa’s” tactics (violent intimidation of political enemies) are no different than those used decades ago by the SA or the Klan. And in some places, they seem to have the same kind of political “top cover”.
They just haven’t gone as far as either the SA or the Klan. Yet.
“Anti-fascist” my ass. “SSDD” is more like it.
For the record: the Klan and other far-right idiots are no better than Antifa; historically, some of those moronic groups have been even worse. But it wasn’t a bunch of far-right thugs that attempted to silence peaceful protest at Berkeley two days ago.
