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
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