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

[Helsinkian]

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/antifa-charlottesville-violence-fbi-242235

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

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

[Virginiá]

I wonder if Trump will bring back color-coded terrorism alerts for Antifa attacks

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Sounds right.

[Sirius_]

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

I guess you can't really argue with that...

[Santander]

Sounds right.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Hopefully this isn't just posturing and actually indicates that more will be done to counter Antifa's crimes. I saw recently that Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin also called for Antifa to be named a crime gang, which under California state law would impose stiffer penalties for criminal acts committed under the umbrella of Antifa.

[Devout Centrist]

Hmm..I haven't seen the Phoenix chapter engage in violence. Blanket classification is a bad thing.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Blanket classification is a bad thing.

Both sides do it. 

[publicunofficial]

Reminder that AntiFa are just as bad as Neo Nazi's only if your only complaint with Neo Nazi's is that they're too rowdy.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

But not Neo-Nazis and the Alt-Right? Priorities...

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Hey, Trump administration, your fascism is showing.

[Reaganfan]

Awesome. Drop them down an elevator shaft.

[Deblano]

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)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

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.

[DavidB.]

Sounds right.

[KingSweden]

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.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

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.

[TheSaint250]

Hey, Trump administration, your fascism is showing.

This happened under Obama.

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[KingSweden]

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.

They help him politically on the margins, at least, if only as a diversion from his inability to properly condemn Nazis/KKK. I mean this sh**t has always gone on in Berkeley and other big West Coast cities but in the Age of Trump it all gets amplified

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Awesome. Drop them down an elevator shaft.

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That's better than the Nasotollah!

[JA]

Awesome. Drop them down an elevator shaft.

[JA]

Hey, Trump administration, your fascism is showing.

This happened under Obama.

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You (not you specifically, TheSaint) have to be a real dumbass to think it's only the government under leadership of Republicans that's trash.

[KingSweden]

Awesome. Drop them down an elevator shaft.

Ah bad MemriTV translation memes! Love those

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My position on Antifa is that the tankie and anarchist ones are HP, but the liberal and social democratic ones are FF. I guess I'll grant FF status to the ones slightly to the left of that/DSA types, as long as they are not of the "Stand with Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution against US imperialism/Support Russia's struggle against NATO imperialism in Ukraine!" types.