Where has this idea of "affiliates" come from? They don't call themselves affiliates; there's no central organization that calls them affiliates. Their website explains "Rose City Antifa (RCA) was founded in Portland, Oregon in October of 2007. RCA was formed after a coalition of local people and organizations formed the 'Ad-Hoc Coalition Against Racism and Fascism' in order to shut down a neo-Nazi skinhead festival called Hammerfest. RCA continues the work of that Ad-Hoc Coalition and countless others who have worked to oppose racial prejudice, bigotry and fascism in our communities in Portland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest more broadly." It's local. "Antifa" is a description of their guiding philosophy; if you find "Conservatives" in the title of several American groups, that does not show there is a "Conservative Organization" or "Conservative Party" that links them all.
So you admit that antifa tries to shut down people's free speech?
I call them all affiliates since they mostly all share the same political ideology, same goals, dress the same, use the same tactics, have the same political agendas. and use the same iconography. I've seen many antifa Twitter accounts following each other, and they have while they don't have a centralized leader, they do have central points of communication.
One of them is the website It's Going Down. They even have a section on forming antifa groups - [quotel=https://itsgoingdown.org/forming-an-antifa-group-a-manual/]Forming An Antifa Group: A Manual[/quote].
I call them affiliates because if you read their organizational handbook, they refer to themselves as Affinity Groups."
Even USA Today referred to the as "affiliated groups."
What is antifa and what does the movement want?Antifa – short for "anti-fascist" – is the name for loosely affiliated, left-leaning, anti-racist groups that monitor and track the activities of local neo-Nazis. The movement has no unified structure or national leadership but has emerged in the form of local bodies nationwide, particularly on the West Coast.
Some of the groups, such as the 13-year-old Rose City Antifa in Portland, Oregon,the oldest in the U.S., are particularly well-organized and active online and on Facebook, while its members are individually anonymous.
So who cares if they don't have a known leadership. They operate as strictly anonymous so there is no way that any of us could know if they have a leadership or not. They do have a foundation of sorts that collects money called THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FASCIST DEFENCE FUND. If law enforcement can find out who runs this fund, they will likely find the group's leadership.
The people who donate to their defense funds are aiding and abetting terrorists. You stop the supply of their money then their operations dry up.
Antifa by their own definition is a terrorist organization. If you read their literature and visit their websites, you will see them carrying out assaults, gang stalking, digital harassment, advocating the use or makeshift weapons and even guns against their political adversaries and on and on. They even call for threatening event organizers right on their website in the about section. They are quite open about all of this and I leared quite a bit just reading their book on forming a group.
They have to adhere to strict anonymity because their are involved in illegal activity. The probably are involved in drug dealing or other illicit activities to help fund their operations.
Investigative journalist Laura Logan did a good segment about them last week. I think the reason more journalists won't investigate antifa is because they are fellow travelers with them, are inbedded within in their anonymous leadership or have previously been threatened by them. Even Logan's piece on FOX is cursory and vague.
I have no evidence of this, but I suspect that they may be involved with foreign intelligence. Maybe a proxy of Israel or some other foreign organization. I do remember reading that some antifa were fighting in Syria along side the Kurds.
I cannot see what is "bizarre" about the articles you link. As for "imaginary nazis posing as antifa", I don't think they have been directlt blamed for the riots, but they aren't imaginary:
I've read many articles that individuals linked to white supremacist groups, specifically Identity Evropa for some reason, were behind the Twitter account posing as antifa. I don't think that there would be any way that you could prove that outside of tracking the IP address of someone who at one point made a Twitter account under as Identity Evropa and then as a fake antifa account.
But even that wouldn't make sense because 1. I think Identity Evropa is banned from Twitter so if they tried to make another account because if they did it, Twitter would immediate block the new account. If Identity Evropa tried to use a vpn to bypass the account ban, then I don't know how Twitter figured out it was Identity Evropa.
So anyway, it's just a baseless claim. Maybe it was them or maybe it wasn't, with no evidence evidence outside of "according to a Twitter spokesperson
that and similar bullshit has succeeded in stirring up the more gullible into harassing innocent people:
Yeah well, was Was anyone hurt though? Better to have been safe than sorry considering how many senseless riots were going on, unless you specifically don't want people in their communities to have the sense to protect themselves.
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