Politico: FBI, Homeland Security call Antifa "domestic terrorists"

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If they're terrorizing people, they're engaging in terrorism. Antifa does just that.

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I half-support the move, but:

a. They should also warn about white-supremacist terrorism, since we are inevitably likely to see more clashes between antifa and neo-nazis that cause chaos among decent citizens.

b. anti-fa is too vague of a term (they are not as centralized as the Weather Underground)

Actually labeling Antifa a terror "group" is objectively retarded. But the warning was appropriate.

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I half-support the move, but:

a. They should also warn about white-supremacist terrorism, since we are inevitably likely to see more clashes between antifa and neo-nazis that cause chaos among decent citizens.

b. anti-fa is too vague of a term (they are not as centralized as the Weather Underground)

Yeah, I agree. I'd rather the authorities just confront them instead of letting them run amok. Also I hope fellow progressives stop romanticizing these anarchist tools. They may hate Trump too but seriously, antifa is just a snazzy rebrand by Black Bloc. They don't share liberal values.

They're actually reenforcing Trump's position from what I can tell.

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Awesome. Drop them down an elevator shaft.

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That's better than the Nasotollah!

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The FBI also considered the civil rights movement to be dangerous as well, let's not forget

The civil rights movement didn't use Bull Connor's playbook.

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Antifa are basically radical fringe-left thugs.  The real thing to note here is that most on the mainstream left want nothing to do with these whackos.  What I like is how Antifa tweets things like "Those on the left who call us patriots, step the f*** away" (accompanied by a picture of an American flag burning) even as they rail against the very concept of freedom of speech.  Nutjobs with no sense of irony are always fun.  

I wonder how many of those rushing to their defense are aware that the group's ideological and strategic bible refers to the first amendment as "a secondary concern" and argues that concepts such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press should be selectively applied depending upon a group or individual's political beliefs and more specifically whether or not said beliefs align with those of Antifa.  In other words, even if you're a diehard Berniecrat (or hell, even think Sanders was too conservative) who believes we need to become a truly Socialist economy with largely nationalized industries...but publicly state that you oppose political violence against those you disagree with, Antifa's ideology would dictate that you be denied freedom of speech and attacked just as violently as someone like Richard Spencer.  

If these guys weren't just incompetent clowns who are largely all talk and no action types, I'd say it was only a matter of time until they ended up killing someone.

Why don't antifa ever attack or disrupt liberal speakers or rallies then?

They do? A lot of victims of antifa violence have been other counter protesters. Look at what happened to the old woman with the American flag in Boston - she was attending the counter-protest and they attacked her for having a flag.

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Name one person killed by antifa.

Name one person killed by Ahmad Rahimi? This isn't the body count olympics.

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How is Dead0man "calling me out" when he espouses the exact same position I have?