Trump to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, wants FBI to pursue members

Antifa scored a HUGE tactical victory with all this. They kicked the collective asses of multiple big city mayors and some governors as well. They burned, vandalized, and looted their cities. They kicked the shit out of their police. They attacked and terrorized innocent civilians. They hijacked peaceful protests. And as of now, they escaped relatively unscathed.

Now that they are being designated a terrorist organization, their victory should be short lived as they should lose the war. The question is, who is going to take them down? Special Ops would make quick work of them but using the military against domestic terrorists should be a no-no. Unfortunately, the task may fall to the FBI since they are still around. Given their role in Obamagate, can they be trusted to do the job? If they do get the task, they’ll need someone at the helm who knows how to take on street thugs as opposed to a bureaucrat whose main goal is to cover for the abuses of his comrades. That means Wray needs to go and someone like Sheriff Clarke needs to be put in there.

I am disappointed that this took so long. They should have been designated a domestic terrorist organization during the 2016 campaign.

@another vet:

They kicked the collective asses of multiple big city mayors and some governors as well.

All Democrats. Not too difficult. They all expect a federal bailout to restore their communities.

The FBI had a degenerate leadership during the Obama regime. Even now, they try to cover up and protect their reputation but I have no doubt they will go after ANTIFA vigorously. They can seek out and confiscate their finances, they can discover their leaders and arrest them. Hopefully, mayors and governors who coddle, aid and abet them can be held accountable for their crimes as well.

I would assume ANTIFA is already infiltrated with agents.

Antifa is funded by the OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION.https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/open-society-institute-announces-small-donor-development-and-diversification-grant
Money from George Soros (and sons) goes to the top Antifa organizers who, in turn mete it out to minions (useful idiots) both wearers of the Antifa “uniform” as well as rabble on the scene at the time who help out for money.
There’s no actual membership rolls or dues, to be sure.
We have seen several videos of Antifa uniform wearing men handing out money (bet your bottom dollar it isn’t their personal money!) to blacks during these protests.
When the “peaceful” protests morph into arson and looting Antifa is behind it, getting it started.
The “broken window” theory is true.
Antifa knows this.
They go around breaking windows so later the opportunists in the rabble can easily loot.
Blacks, during the Ferguson riots complained to Antifa because the white leaders got big paychecks but they got no pay.
How quick you forget.

June 1, 2020 – Trump briefly taken to underground bunker during Friday’s White House protests

As protesters gathered outside the White House Friday night in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump was briefly taken to the underground bunker for a period of time, according to a White House official and a law enforcement source.

The President was there for a little under an hour before being brought upstairs.
A law enforcement source and another source familiar with the matter tell CNN that first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, were also taken to the bunker.
The law enforcement source familiar with protocol said that if authorities moved Trump, they would move all protectees, meaning Melania and Barron.

The second source told CNN that “if the condition at the White House is elevated to RED and the President is moved” to the Emergency Operations Center “Melania Trump, Barron Trump and any other first family members would be moved as well.”

Late Sunday night, the White House cautioned staffers who must go to work on Monday to hide their passes until they reach a Secret Service entry point and to hide them as they leave, according to an email which was viewed by CNN.
The email repeated mandates for maximum telework status and said there is still an “elevated security posture” due to the protests.

Trump praised the Secret Service the next day for its handling of the protests outside the White House Friday night in the wake of George Floyd’s death last week in Minneapolis.

The New York Times first reported Trump was taken to the presidential bunker.
On Saturday, only hours after the protests outside the White House had ended, Trump declared himself safe as he lashed out at the city’s Democratic mayor and raised the prospect of his supporters gathering in place that night in what would amount to a counter protest…

The writing on the wall says “This is not normal.” It certainly isn’t normal in America.

@kitt, #8:

What isnt normal is Mayors allowing rioting without arrests.

Who told you there weren’t arrests? Trump? There were over 480 protest-related arrests over the weekend in Minneapolis alone.

George Soros isn’t your problem. Your problem is a number of observant, articulate, life-long conservatives, such as George Will:

June 1, 2020 – Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers.

Will was also a life-long republican—until 2016.

Idiots frequently roll on the floor laughing. TRUMP IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE. Neither are his policies, his agenda, or their long-term consequences. He just makes occasional conservative noises.

Yet I didn’t vote for the incompetent in the White House…

Trump cannot lawfully deploy active duty U.S. military troops for law enforcement purposes anywhere inside the United States other than the District of Columbia, without the request first having been officially made by the governor of the state to which they’re being sent.

Does he know that? Does he care? He just had peaceful protesters driven away with teargas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets, so that he could walk down the street and pose for photographs in front of a church holding up a bible.

We need a president, and we’ve got a reality television producer.

@Greg:

Trump cannot lawfully deploy active duty U.S. military troops for law enforcement purposes anywhere inside the United States other than the District of Columbia, without the request first having been officially made by the governor of the state to which they’re being sent.

Wow!!! Apparently Eisenhower didn’t know that when he sent 1,000 troops from the 101st to Little Rock, Arkansas.

Gassing peaceful demonstrators to clear the way for a photo op. Very nice.

Donald Trump says ‘I am your law and order president,’ orders ‘heavily-armed soldiers’ to D.C. and threatens to deploy military nationwide – then has protesters tear-gassed outside White House so he can walk to a fire-damaged church and brandish a Bible

Nice photos, too. There’s son-in-law Bat Boy in the crowd, accompanied by the missus.

@Greg: Nice peaceful protestors vandalizing a church. If told to disperse and had they peacefully complied, tear gas and rubber bullets would not have been used. You see you are not fooling anyone commie boy.
Peacefully throwing Molotov cocktails and injuring 50 Secret Service agents.

@retire05, #20:

Federal troops escorted the Little Rock Nine into their high school, you idiot.

Escorting them wasn’t law enforcement, All Knowing One. It falls under the heading of crowd control, which federal troops can be called upon to do without invoking The Insurrection Act of 1807, and without violation of The Posse Comitatus Act or any other federal law.

@Greg: Did they follow requests to clear an area? Obviously not. Combative behavior will be met with combative enforcement.

@Greg:

ANTIFA is just a label for a loose affiliation of activists sharing anti-fascist attitudes.

ANTIFA is anti-fascist like the DPKR is a democratic republic. ANIFA IS fascist. The emulate the Nazi Brownshirts. They are well funded (Soros) and well organized.

The writing on the wall says “This is not normal.” It certainly isn’t normal in America.

Right. Democrats and their ANTIFA thugs are anti-American. But, we’ve been saying this for some time.

Yet I didn’t vote for the incompetent in the White House…

Yeah you did. But he’s gone now. Then you voted for a lying corrupt criminal that sold US uranium to Russians.

Gassing peaceful demonstrators to clear the way for a photo op. Very nice.

They weren’t peaceful. I watched it.

@retire05:

You can never admit it when you’re wrong, even though you provide yourself with endless occasions for practice. You also don’t grasp the fact that insults are meaningless when the person they’re directed at realizes that they come from a fool.

@Randy: It’s not just the celebs, the MSM and demokrats are also in on it. The dems have been talking resistance and have been out to undo the election from day one. The evidence is simply too overwhelming to deny. They have staged and supported a coup, first with Russiagate, then their bogus impeachment, and then using the Coronavirus to shut down the economy and get their radical left wing agenda implemented, including voter fraud initiatives, in order to gain unrestricted power and transform the country into a Marxist one. The MSM and dems are covering for Antifa who has publicly stated for some time their goal is to topple the government and turn the country Communist. They are allies. Perhaps this is the next phase in their effort to topple POTUS. The coup has now gone from cold to hot. It’s time to realize this has become the next stage of a Marxist insurgency with Antifa being the street soldiers (their Red Army), Soros providing the financing, the dems providing political cover and giving them the street venue to enact their violence, and the MSM providing their propaganda support.

Right now the violence is centered on Blue areas. Their excuse is it’s to combat racism but that is a lie because it’s blacks and their businesses who are bearing the brunt of the violence. The dem mayors and governors hog tied the hands of the police allowing them to become punching bags. Should these demokrats let their violence spread to Red areas, then it will no longer be a law enforcement issue.

@another vet:

Perhaps this is the next phase in their effort to topple POTUS. The coup has now gone from cold to hot.

I don’t know if this is a phase or a last resort. This desperate resort to fascist violence runs the risk of making Trump exceedingly popular.

Trump has, finally, outmaneuvered their coup by releasing the TRUTH (why it took so long, I don’t know. Perhaps to expose the lies near the election). There is no racial component in the George Floyd murder. The reaction is far out of proportion to the crime. The outrage and violence is totally manufactured. For what purpose? I think we know.

@another vet: They aren’t finished either, but if Trump follows through, any future Biden donations to them will be illegal. Their funding is toast. And they can be prosecuted across state lines, which can’t be done right now. That’s why they do the travel thing rather than burn their own cities.

@Meremortal: And they are cowards. I like watching them all scurry away every time the police line makes a shoulder-fake at them.

@Greg: I wonder, what was the racial component of Floyd’s death?

It’s pretty easy to imitate ANTIFA’s spread and inciting of violence; they;ve been doing it for a long time, with the Democrat’s blessings.

@Deplorable Me, #37:

Anyone concerned about the fate of American should be as worried about the Boogaloo Bois as about ANTIFA, but there hasn’t been a peep from Team Trump about those guys, nor about anyone similar. Why aren’t they a designated as a terrorist group? Why aren’t the Anarchists, which include bad actors on both the right and the left? Not even the damn Ku Klux Klan has been designated as a terrorist group. Why ANTIFA? Because that’s politically useful to the posturing jackanape in the White House.

Do you know how many armed radical statewide militia groups there are? They’re not really there with the intention of protecting the rule of law and social order. They all have some fantasy of establishing their own view of the rule of law and social order. They figure if they aren’t getting their own way, our constitutional system must have been compromised by their political enemies.

I wonder, what was the racial component of Floyd’s death?

I suppose we might start with an observation that he was black, and that he’s now dead, and that we’ve never seen anything like that play out in the case of a non-resisting, white arrestee. How many times have we seen something similar with a black citizen?

@Greg:

I suppose we might start with an observation that he was black, and that he’s now dead, and that we’ve never seen anything like that play out in the case of a non-resisting, white arrestee.

Two words for you Comrade Greggie: JUSTINE DAMOND

Where were the protests then?

George Floyd was no Boy Scout:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8366533/George-Floyd-moved-Minneapolis-start-new-life-released-prison-Texas.html

Where are the protests for David Dorn?

@Greg:

Devaluing a victim is typical of right-wing ass hats. You won’t hear this so much from traditional conservative Americans.

I never devalued anyone. Pointing out that like Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, George Floyd was no Boy Scout does not devalue his life. And you wouldn’t know a “traditional” conservative if they bit you in your ass.

If someone is a black male, the odds are very much against him for avoiding run-ins with the legal system and incarceration from the start;

Really? And you know that how? Because that is what you have been programed to know?

if he falls into that trap, it then becomes even harder to find a responsible place in the world afterward.

Well, having responsible parents would be a good start to avoid that “trap.” Or maybe having decent schools in low income areas in cities run by Democrats would be a start.

Ignoring that obvious reality entirely, however, the fact that someone doesn’t measure up to your sudden interest in Boy Scout standards doesn’t justify a psycho cop slowly murdering him on the street.

I don’t justify the actions of the cop, but I noticed you never said ONE DAMN WORD ABOUT JUSTINE DAMOND OR DAVID DORN. Why? Does they not fit with your agenda? It’s pretty hard to argue that white cops just kill blacks when a black cop kills an unarmed white woman in her pajamas.

So I suggest you stuff this bogus argument up your rear end, where your brain might consider it further. Perhaps there will come a moment of miraculous insight.

Projecting again, Comrade Greggie?

Admit it, Comrade Greggie, the Democrats want to keep blacks on Uncle Sam’s plantation. It means votes for them as they continue to promise much and deliver nothing. Pure “battered spouse” syndrome.

In the last week, 21 blacks have been murdered in Chicago. TWENTY-ONE. Where are the protests honoring them?

@retire05, #43:

I never devalued anyone. Pointing out that like Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, George Floyd was no Boy Scout does not devalue his life.

Sorry, but I understand the motives for such statements perfectly well. They’re entirely obvious. The ONLY reason you or anyone brings into the discussion any negative bits of George Floyd’s personal history that you can dredge up is to try to shift some of the blame to the victim.

If that’s not so, what is the reason? It evidently isn’t about providing general information about the man. You don’t seem to take an equal interest in enumerating any of his positive points.

Really? And you know that how?

Because of statistics, Ducky. They paint a clear and unambiguous picture of a racially biased society that creates an oppressed minority, and then blames that minority for the inevitable negative consequences of the oppression. The fact that countless exceptional people manage to rise above that and succeed in spite of it doesn’t change the fact that there was something they had to rise above and succeed in spite of.

Well, having responsible parents…

…guarantees nothing. Nor does having irresponsible parents. That’s just trying to keep all the blame close to home.

I don’t justify the actions of the cop, but I noticed you never said ONE DAMN WORD ABOUT JUSTINE DAMOND OR DAVID DORN.

Because their unfortunate deaths were entirely different situations. Capt. Dorn was likely murdered by a common criminal who came out of the woodwork to rob a pawnshop under the cover of a civil disturbance. Justine Damond’s shooting was a tragic error on the part of a police office, who nevertheless was held responsible and sentenced to over 12 years in prison. Neither homicide bears any resemblance to the George Floyd incident. There’s no indication racial bias played a part in either—unless you want to focus on Noor’s ethnicity as a possible factor in his trial and sentencing. On that, I have no opinion.

Projecting again, Comrade Greggie?

Nope. Not at all.

Pointing out your obvious b.s. to anyone who might have missed it isn’t about trying to convince you of anything, but you’re not really expected to figure that out. Like Trump, you can’t get outside the bounds of yourself far enough to get a clear look at anything.

Retired U.S Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, on June 3, 2020:

I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.

When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.

We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “battlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.

James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.

Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.

Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.

We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Park. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.

Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.