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originally posted by: DanteGaland
ANTIFA isn't an organization. It's a set of beliefs/principles.
There aren't ANTIFA "meetings". There isn't ANTIFA HQ. There isn't an ANTIFA newsletter. There aren't official ANTIFA "spokespeople" giving interviews.
It's an adjective used to DESCRIBE someone claiming to be anti-fascist. It's not a POLITICAL PARTY. It's not a "grass roots organization".
Is being racist a grass roots organization? No.
But the alt-right and conservatives have made a boogeyman out of them.
Please, point me to ANTIFA HQ. Show me an organizational chart.
Even Occupy was more organized and a REAL "organization".
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originally posted by: Konduit
originally posted by: Dfairlite
ANTIFA showed up with bottles of cement, balloons with urine, tear gas, and smoke bombs. I wonder who planned and bankrolled that?
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There's also rumors of ANTIFA planning to carry HIV infected syringes to protests.
ANTIFA isn't an organization. It's a set of beliefs/principles.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
ANTIFA isn't an organization. It's a set of beliefs/principles.
There aren't ANTIFA "meetings". There isn't ANTIFA HQ. There isn't an ANTIFA newsletter. There aren't official ANTIFA "spokespeople" giving interviews.
It's an adjective used to DESCRIBE someone claiming to be anti-fascist. It's not a POLITICAL PARTY. It's not a "grass roots organization".
Is being racist a grass roots organization? No.
But the alt-right and conservatives have made a boogeyman out of them.
Please, point me to ANTIFA HQ. Show me an organizational chart.
Even Occupy was more organized and a REAL "organization".
SMH...
originally posted by: Dfairlite
Disclaimer: All videos posted have bad language.
Here is the full footage of the "counter protest." If you go to 51:30 you can see the setup. The police forced UTR to leave, but not after ANTIFA, instead they forced UTR to filter through a crowd of people that hate them. I'm not talking about having to go through them to get to their cars, but to even exit the venue. The UTR people get beaten with bats, pepper sprayed, and otherwise assaulted. This all wreaks of a setup.
ANTIFA showed up with bottles of cement, balloons with urine, tear gas, and smoke bombs. I wonder who planned and bankrolled that?
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Next, here's the Dem governor (mcauliff) refusing to denounce the violence of ANTIFA.
(Sorry, couldn't find a youtube vid, you'll have to visit the website to see the video)
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Then there's the fact that the police were called off (I wonder who did that):
Then there were BLM folks harassing the hell out of the UTR attendees.
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And finally, the guy who "rammed his car into a crowd" 'for terrorism' may have actually just been trying to escape ANTIFA thugs. Here's a video showing his car getting hit with a flag pole as he drove down the road, before he took off into the crowd.
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And here's why I'm comfortable saying the Dems wanted the violence: Literally as soon as the dust began to settle and the victims started being counted, what happens? Another dem governor comes out and says he wants to remove civil war statues.
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Now, don't take this as a defense of the violence of one side and not the other. I condemn all of the violence on display. Neither side was innocent here. UTR definitely reacted to the violence with violence. Neo Nazi's and the KKK are just as scummy as the fascists that make up ANTIFA and BLM. But just like BLM does with their rallies, not all of the people who showed up to UTR were Naz's/KKK members. There's a reason they used the name 'unite the right' for their rally. They needed other people there because their numbers are small.
This whole thing is a divide and conquer tactic and it's just such an interesting coincidence that this all happened on George Soros' birthday (Aug 12, 1930). It's a setup, people. Condemn the violence on both sides and they (TPTB) lose.
ETA: Oh and the whole tiki torches thing is a george soros thing. He funded the same thing (neo nazi's with tiki torches) in 2014 in kiev.
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originally posted by: ChesterJohn
a reply to: Dfairlite
I believe it because it was the Anti-fa that sprayed the confederate flag waving crowd first.
I had two friends there who are neither Nazis or skin heads or white supremacists, they are conservative republicans who were drawn by the unite the right call. They had no idea there would be Nazis or KKK there. They distanced themselves from the main group and left the way the police instructed them to leave when the Anti-fa started spraying people with pepper spray. That's what provoked the other side to violence in defense.
My question is why was not BLM who was there according to my friends and the Anti-fa called out for their violence?
I am sure the BLM guys didn't just have cans of hairspray in their pocket for styling, they were using it to shoot fire at the other side. The BLM and Anti-fa are the ones who came loaded for bear. the stick with screws many of us saw was actually taken from the counter protesters not from the nazi and white supremacists.
They started the violence and when some nazi loving schizophrenic rams his car into the lot of them only the white supremacist are named and said to start the violence.
“I went out to voice my opinion. To have my freedom of speech. Just like the racist Nazis who took over my town,” Long said in an interview with The Root.
But what started out as a peaceful protest eventually turned violent. And Long says the cops stood around and did nothing.
“At first it was peaceful protest,” Long said softly as he spoke. “Until someone pointed a gun at my head. Then the same person pointed it at my foot and shot the ground.”
Long said the only weapon he had was a can of spray paint that a white supremacist threw at him earlier, so he took a lighter to the spray paint and turned it into a flame thrower. And a photographer snapped the photo.
But inside of every photograph there’s an untold story. If you look closely at Long’s picture, there’s an elderly white man standing in between Long and his friend. The unknown man was part of the counterprotests too, but was afraid, and Long and his friends were trying to protect him. Even though, Long says, those who were paid to protect the residents of Charlottesville were doing just the opposite.