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Antifascists Arrested, Charged With Murder and Looting
cks175 51 Reviews 272 reads
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Police captured an active duty Air Force sergeant who ambushed sheriff deputies in Santa Cruz, California, killing one.  Local news reports show the suspect had anti police, anti white postings on his social media. He’s also being investigated for possible ties to the shooting death of a federal officer in Oakland.

Down in Austin, Texas, the FBI arrested three ANTIFA members for the looting of a Target store.  Not the sharpest tools in the shed, one of them broadcast the looting on Facebook Live.
Related Link: FBI Arrests Antifa Members; KSAT TV

inicky4617 reads

1) He's active-duty military.
2) Presumably he's black
So why isn't he BLM? Why IS he Antifa?
As for Austin, you write Antifa "members." But you can't be a member of an organization that doesn't exist. There is no actual group using Antifa in its name. Antifa is only a term used to describe groups of loosely-associated anarchists.
I don't like Antifa people but they aren't an organization.

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cks17511 reads

The FBI described the arrested Austin suspects as members of Anitfa.  It’s not an asymmetric organization, but it is an organization. This is mentioned in the link provided in the OP.

Local press covering the Santa Cruz area incident described the libertarian/anti fascist sentiments he posted on social media.  There was no mention of him having BLM sympathies. Link provided below.

Related Link: Suspect Expressed Anti-Police And Anti-Fascist Sympathies

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GaGambler13 reads

Yesterday was a one off event that I don't care to repeat, but let me just say "some" posters here seem to love being wrong about virtually everything.

 
For the record, the two men in Austin were also white, but the girl with them appears to be black.

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cks1757 reads

Based on the name, Carillo, and his appearance, I assumed he was a white Hispanic.

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Jinx_The_Cat18 reads

It’s a movement that espouses anti fascist and anti racist and anti capitalism through direct action that is expressed by a very large majority as peaceful demonstrations.  Being anti Trump alone is enough to be called Antifa by the right wing nut jobs who keep crying about how mean we are to his royal giz stain.  

Sure there extremists in every movement that take direct action too far and engage in violence.   But that is like saying all hippies are violent extremists because of the actions of the Weather Underground which was about five people.  

What funny about this story is that with all the looting at that Target, the take was only $20,000?  Thats a lot of cheap ass merchandise.  

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cks17522 reads

They are an organization that espouses violent tactics. Not a hierarchical organization, but an organization none the less.

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Jinx_The_Cat15 reads

Just because you keep repeating it doesn’t make it true.  But supposing you are right, you got an address for the headquarters?  Do you know the names of their board of directors?   C’mon, even your KKK has those.  

They are as much an organization as are the hippies.  

That said there are a few Local organizations formed with the intent to espouse Antifa and take direct action against racism. Some even call themselves Antifa.  But to say The Antifa movement as a whole is some type of international cohesive organization is just plain silly.  And wrong.  

That’s what is so scary about Antifa the right extremists who seek to further white power and oppressive forms of capitalism - they don’t know what the fuck it is or even how to identify it.  So go ahead and keep calling it something it is clearly not.  Stay scared snowflake.  We are in your house.

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JackDunphy13 reads

"Organization?"  It's a vague word to begin with. So saying it is clearly not an organization is silly. There is nothing "clear" about it.

 
What is troubling, however, is that you seem to admire them.

 
Is that an accurate take Jinx?

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Jinx_The_Cat12 reads

It is a thing of beauty.  Do I support anti racism  and anti fascism?  Do I support balanced wealth distribution in a constitutional democracy and oppose oppressive capitalistic policies?   Do I want to scare rich Karen’s and Trumpanzees our of theIr already shit stained diapers?

I’m a fucking hippy you moron. What the fuck do you think?
The revolution will not be televised  mother fucker.

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JackDunphy11 reads

And I'll watch the revolution because all the fucking sports are shut down.

 
But I hope I cant watch out from my front porch. lol

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cks17512 reads

You are correct that there is no hierarchical National Antifa.  But the local organizations, like you acknowledge, do exist. That’s the opinion of the FBI, who said the suspects were Antifa members.  

I think where you and I disagree is the nature of their goals.  I believe they are anti-state anarchists, and if I read you correctly, you believe they exist to oppose racists and oppressive capitalists.

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