DOMESTIC WARFARE

One good way to know about a person or a group is to listen to what they are saying, especially when their words reflect their deepest feelings and commitments, rather than their attempts at winning allies with righteous sounding words.

This is why an article in The Express (October 3, 2020) grabbed my attention. It supplied the actual words of Antifa members expressing their intentions:

— “This is our time and we will make no excuses for the terror.” (Rose City Antifa, Portland).
— “I’m here to disrupt until my demands are met. You cannot rebuild until you break it all the way down … prepare to be met with any means necessary.” (Seattle CHOP leader, June 17, taped by Andy Ngo).
— “Infringement (on freedom of speech) is justified for its role in the political struggle…” (Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook).
— … “how do we get from our current capitalist society to a future anarchist-communist one? … destroy the current order, there will need to be a revolution …” (Seattle Autonomous Zone pamphlet).
— “Oh, you thought I just wanted to defund the police? This whole system needs to go.” (Antifa poster in Seattle).
— “Revolutionary greetings from the insurrection sweeping throughout the occupied territories of the so-called United States of America.” (Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement).
— “We need to align ourselves with the global struggle …,” i.e. a world-wide Communist revolution (Nikkita Oliver, former mayoral candidate of Seattle — Wealth & Poverty Review, June 11, 2020).
— “You are now leaving the USA”-sign displayed at the entrance to the CHOP zone in Seattle.
— BLM leader: “We’ll burn the system down if U.S. won’t give us what we want.” (Newsweek, June 25, 2020).

This article continues with these revealing accounts:

• On July 31, Antifa protesters put a police hat on top of a severed pig’s head, placed these on top of an American flag, and then burned them all. (Andy Ngo, video tweet, 3 a.m.) On Aug. 1 BLM and Antifa activists burned American flags and Bibles on the streets of Portland in front of the federal courthouse. (The New York Post, Aug. 2, 2020) On Sept. 1, a Trump supporter, Aaron Danielson, was murdered in Portland.
• “We got one here. We got a Trumper here,” Antifa members exclaim. Two shots ring out at close range, and a man died. Far from expressing remorse, a black woman with a bullhorn exhorted the crowd. “We can take out our own trash. I’m not sorry a (expletive) fascist died tonight,” she exclaimed, offering no proof as to the victim’s “fascism,” a man she had never met.
• “This system cannot be reformed, it must be overthrown,” they proclaim. (Revolution: The Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA website) They openly declare, “We have the strategic approach … we have the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.”

I feel that these quotations are quite accurate, since they are matched by the many accounts of their actual violence. If so, then we are at war and must resort to the methods of warfare