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Antifa Terrorism—The Coming Civil War | |
2019-08-10 | |
If you’ve been keeping track of corporate press storytelling, this is what you know: On July 13, 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen stormed an ICE detention centre in Tacoma. He was armed and eventually fatally shot after throwing what authorities called “incendiary devices” at an immigration detention center in Washington state, trying to set a commercial-size propane tank on fire. And that’s where the story ends. But did you know the dead firebombing terrorist, who had ICE agents in his crosshairs, was an avowed member of Antifa’s militant left wing gun club? Did you even know Antifa has a gun club? Didn’t think so. As recently profiled in The New Republic, “Antifa is arming itself.” In their profile of a rise in gun culture among the radical left the publication notes “Many leftists and even some liberals are beginning to reconsider their feelings about firearms, joining a loose amalgamation of gun groups, from John Brown Gun Clubs (which take their name from the abolitionist) to the Pink Pistols (an LGBTQ group), Liberal Gun Club, and Socialist Rifle Association. Some of these organizations are moderate and traditionalist, others radical and revolutionary. But all share one implicit goal: to normalize firearms ownership and training among liberals. Some of their members hope such efforts will at least make Republicans think twice...” [Antifa Is Arming Itself Against a Trump Crackdown | Will leftist pro-gun groups deter political violence or inflame it? by Corey Pein July 2, 2019] The piece, which points to the fact terrorist Van Spronsen’s Antifa gun club started some four months after Donald Trump’s election, sinisterly hints at, dare I say it, assassination of America’s beloved President. “Assassination to remove tyrants is just, not murder,” The New Republic states. | |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#13 Re #8, and speaking of not-so-great war movies, I couldn't help picturing Goodman and Jean-Whatsit rooting out the Kraut sniper in Monuments Men. |
Posted by: Jash Omager6238 2019-08-10 22:12 |
#12 Dayton shooter was affiliated with one of the armed Antifa groups and was actually interviewed while participating in one of their counter protests. Could be why the FBI has been.... "unable to unlock" his cellie. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-08-10 15:32 |
#11 I wouldn't get to comolacent, the Dayton shooter was affiliated with one of the armed Antifa groups and was actually interviewed while participating in one of their counter protests. |
Posted by: Rex Mundi 2019-08-10 15:28 |
#10 Ruprecht nailed it. I'd add that they're also likely to follow the 1970s examples of their European predecessors, Roter Morgen and the Red Brigades, and start targeting judges and political figures, maybe some military. |
Posted by: Lex 2019-08-10 12:09 |
#9 I'm far less afraid of Antifa gun club than I am of an Antifa bomb club. If they follow the Weatherman's footsteps they could do a lot of damage and cause a lot of confusion. |
Posted by: ruprecht 2019-08-10 12:00 |
#8 Yeah, yeah, go out to the local range and learn to fire a gun. Run up against veterans who've been trained in fire, maneuver, cover, concealment, small unit tactics with urban warfare, you'll just be a speed bump. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-08-10 09:14 |
#7 These people are no joke and they will be killing people for wearing red hats and supporting our President We may have recently seen evidence of that. The "civil war" appears to have already begun. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-08-10 08:22 |
#6 This is going to get very ugly and we all need to practice situational and spatial awareness and practice self defense These people are no joke and they will be killing people for wearing red hats and supporting our President |
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-08-10 08:19 |
#5 If they do start a civil war, I can't wait til the first Antifa prisoners whine about the Geneva convention before becoming lamppost fruit. |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-08-10 03:47 |
#4 Assassination to remove tyrants is just What's with the sudden Lefty adoption of highfalutin classical Greek allusions? When did they get all Patrick Henry-ish and start flinging rhetorical tropes about tyrants and such? Or are they channeling their inner John WIlkes Booth? Come to think of it, maybe this is getting serious. Where are these leftist pro-gun groups, exactly? |
Posted by: Lex 2019-08-10 03:38 |
#3 And the fun part will be the battlefield souvenirs, though one or two airsoft guns is certainly enough for anyone... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-08-10 03:32 |
#2 Sort of like killing Bambi. If Bambi was rabid... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-08-10 03:30 |
#1 Canary, coal mine... |
Posted by: Lex 2019-08-10 02:18 |