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Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
No. of Recommendations: 1
...now that they're designated as a terror group in the US and hopefully soon to follow in the Netherlands:
https://americanmind.org/memo/how-to-dismantle-far...The biggest initial problem the Trump Administration faces in confronting the radical Left is a refusal by the national security, federal law enforcement, and intelligence apparatuses to even recognize whom the president has identified as a threat.
Currently, the U.S. government refers to domestic terrorist threats in only the broadest possible categories, such as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist (REMVE), Anti-Government/Anti-Authority Violent Extremist (AGAAVE), Animal Rights/Environmentalist Violent Extremist (AREVE), and Abortion-Related Violent Extremist (ARVE). In every case, these categories are deliberately constructed to appear content-neutral, which allows the bureaucracy to appear even-handed while selectively emphasizing preferred political targets and ignoring others.
So, for example, while REMVE theoretically includes both white and black supremacist groups, in practice the USG spends its efforts targeting groups that are perceived as white supremacist and underemphasizes black supremacist groups. Similarly, while the bureaucracy might claim to target Antifa and similar radical Left actors under the AGAAVE category, in practice it has emphasized investigating parents at school board meetings, J6ers, Catholic church attendees, and the like.
While federal law enforcement devoted 12 informants to the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case (which collapsed at trial over questions of how much of the plot was inspired by the government itself), all evidence suggests it completely neglected to investigate the John Brown Gun Clubs, which have conducted numerous armed Antifa attacks on federal officers in multiple places around the country.
The president must direct the creation of the Far-Left Violent Extremist category and implement its immediate use across all departments and agencies. While the actual name is up for debate, it must explicitly include “anti-fascist” (Antifa), anarchist, autonomous Marxist, socialist, Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, and Communist extremists, and ensure that these distinctions are accurately and correctly defined.
Such an approach is not radical—in fact it is used by American allies abroad. The German Ministry of the Interior’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution defines Far-Left Extremism in precisely this way and meticulously categorizes each sub-category every year in reports that are openly available to the public.
A Far-Left Extremist category should also include individuals, groups, networks, and movements based on these ideologies that utilize single-issue activism on topics like animal/environmentalist extremism and abortion as cover for their efforts. Often these apparently single-issue organizations are used as a recruiting tool to activate individuals who may be interested in a specific political topic and bring them further into a movement whose true objective is revolution. This simple tactic alone shows the uselessness of the present set of federal categorizations.
For too long the government, media, and academia have minimized the extensive threat posed by Far-Left Extremism, treating it as merely examples of single-issue activism. But cases like the BLM riots, Defend Atlanta Forest, Jane’s Revenge, and the Palestinian campus encampments have all demonstrated that for Far-Left Extremists, changing names and logos before taking action on behalf of a changing cause is standard operating procedure. By siloing these cases in different categories, federal law enforcement fails to document—and fails to understand—the danger posed by the far-left at the strategic level. Under the last administration, despite the billions of dollars of damage caused by the Floyd riots the narrative had to be that the sole source of political violence in the United States was from "right wing extremists". Naturally they had to cook the books to arrive at the "data" they cited (that's another post for another day) to support the narrative.
Antifa enjoys broad support across several states, is well funded, and has proverbial friends in high places. Like this one:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ellison-antifa-b...
No. of Recommendations: 3
Anarchist and autonomist Marxist networks dominate what are considered “anti-fascist” or Antifa activities. These include direct action and violent direct action such as sabotage, vandalism, doxxing, and preplanned violence, which encompasses both rioting and terrorism. They label all of American society, both mainstream conservatism and liberalism and all our public, constitutional institutions, as fascist.
Anarchist and autonomous Marxist groups are typically funded by direct crowdsourced funding, mutual aid, and local community-based fundraising. (This is taken from Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin’s theory of organizing, which is used by anarchist/socialist groups to describe how voluntary organizing provides unofficial quasi-governmental services.) In some cases, Antifa groups have fundraised by engaging in illegal activities, including the sale of drugs and prostitution. Senior members of the network may serve as protest training consultants or union organizers as part of their “day jobs.”
DataRepublican notes separately how they're able to use taxpayer money (especially in blue cities) to help fund their efforts.
No. of Recommendations: 7
The biggest initial problem the Trump Administration faces in confronting the radical Left is a refusal by the national security, federal law enforcement, and intelligence apparatuses to even recognize whom the president has identified as a threat.
Hmmm. "Antifa" is short for "anti-fascist". The Administration regards them as a threat. Ergo....
No. of Recommendations: 2
How did "Antifa" make the cut, but not "BLM"? We are only allowed one boogyman at a time?
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 2
The biggest initial problem the Trump Administration faces in confronting the radical Left is a refusal by the national security, federal law enforcement, and intelligence apparatuses to even recognize whom the president has identified as a threat.
Hence, the formation of his own Brown Shirts, by EO, three weeks ago.
STeve
No. of Recommendations: 0
How did "Antifa" make the cut, but not "BLM"?
Spankee followers have no clue what "Antifa" is, so when told to hate it, they do.
Spankee followers know what "BM" is, so they do it all the time (follow their stink). They figure the "L" is for Loose, so Spankee followers leave a brown trail *everywhere*.
No. of Recommendations: 14
How did "Antifa" make the cut,
A diffuse group of autonomous anarchists?
That’s easy. They’r like a Rorshach test. The government can apply the label to anyone.
And they will.
The more they apply it, the more people get dragged out of bed in the middle of the night.
And the more people dragged away, the more MAGA screams,
“See! We told you! Antifa is everywhere!”
No. of Recommendations: 2
“See! We told you! Antifa is everywhere!”
You didn't read the article, didn't read my other post, and don't live anywhere they operate.
Meanwhile, they do in fact have an organization and a money trail. Which hopefully...Pam Bondi rolls up.
The fact that the democrats have a paramilitary org running around hurting people that hasn't been stomped into the Earth already is a testimony to how ineffective the FBI can be when it wants to be.
No. of Recommendations: 5
The more they apply it, the more people get dragged out of bed in the middle of the night.
And the more people dragged away, the more MAGA screams,
Does anybody have any idea what'ss become of people tossed out of Trump's deportation planes that touch down in Uganda or wherever they actually 'deplane' the people they kidnap?
Do we know they aren't just jettisoning the people over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
No. of Recommendations: 5
Does anybody have any idea what'ss become of people tossed out of Trump's deportation planes that touch down in Uganda or wherever they actually 'deplane' the people they kidnap?
Do we know they aren't just jettisoning the people over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
Don’t know about that, but……
1800 people were reportedly held in Alligator Alcatraz.
Then it was shut down, and only 600 people are accounted for.
What happened to the other 1200?
