A fellow student of the Art of Violence sent me the following, and it’s something we all should think about and reflect on... When crazy ideology and feelings inspired by it are strong enough to send chronic geeks and dweebs into gyms, improvised tactics classes, yet our vaunted individualism and responsibility, outwardly advertised toughness and discipline, commitment to become “harder to kill”, often remain little more than words, with many serious quality classes on extremely relevant topics struggling to reach “half full” mark... Is it us who should be laughing at them? Or the other way around? Think about this. And express your thoughts. Or... just go and train. Is Antifa a current threat? Not particularly above the level of Street Brawling in most cases, although they have a pretty good set of TTP's for Riots and Protests and they manage the aftermath and media way better than their counterparts on the Right ever have. But Antifa is growing, morphing, and continuing to evolve. They have sincerity and a sense of passionate purpose that's leading them to pursue training and refinement of what they already do and also to try out new tactics on the regular. It's easy to mock the kids below who carved up old garbage drums and got color coordinated with their friends, all to show up and risk jail time in the name of a cause they believe with. Measure that against how hard it is to fill a tactical anything class or weekly training opportunities to keep skills sharp with good, qualified, and committed men. An instructor friend of mine has heard the same excuses so many times (busy, injury, age, family scheduling conflict, job, money, etc) that he's actually started amassing a text file with cut and paste responses so he doesn't have to type the same thing over and over again. Take a minute to think about that, I'll wait. In the last two or three years I've seen stuff like the Haymaker Gym, Redneck Revolt, HBLGC, and the NBP gain a lot of traction...and while they're not mainstream Antifa (and in a lot of cases they're easy to mock as well) they are a (small) selection of the fringe groups who're gaining recruits and political capital off of stuff like this. These guys aren't supermen.....but they should be watched by anyone with an interest in peeking around the next corner and being proactive with their training and planning for what comes next.
Antifa is definitely a threat..like Move On and Occupy and BLM they have been a goon squad with plausible deniability for the DNC and the left but more and more I think they are off the leash and worse, they believe their own rhetoric and their ideology justifies their violence as 'self defense', they remind me of Hitler's brown shirts and Mussolini's black shirt thugs. The MSM doesn't really cover their actions but independents do , so you you have to poke around.Personally , I expect their violence to escalate , even if Soros stops funding their leaders ..on their own they are more of marxist/ anarchist revolutionary movement
How long should the united states public tolerate the violence, intimidation, and suppression efforts carried out by antifa members and similar organization before they are both morally and legally correct in responding in like form against them? Must someone actually be murdered by an antifa organization member before the organization is reclassified as a terrorist organization?
Neo-Nazis and the KKK have been murdering people for more than a century and yet they were never declared a terrorist group.
You all — and I include Antifa in this — are a bunch of lunatics. While you fringe nutters act like the End of Days is coming, the rest of us will be getting on with living our lives.
Technically the end of days has been coming since the beginning of days. Once something has started, the end always inevitably follows.
They rlook like geeks trying to look cool and there's no fantasy characters or Star Trek convention for them to go to. Seriously. cutting 55 gal plastic drums to make shields, which do nothing but limit their mobility and assure anyone can just shove them down? No one can take them seriously. Ron, can't we both agree they just look ridiculous and have no clue what they are doing or why - other than think they look really cool when they really just look ridiculous?
Getting on living your lives as sheeple, blinding yourself to what's happening all around you. Sorry, but that's the plain truth of it. The Republic is on its last legs; maybe even beyond saving. Sooner or later, the collapse will become inevitable... and people like you will be caught with your head in the sand.
You can repeat it all you want, and I won't tell you to do anything different. Live your life as you choose; that is your right. But be prepared for the consequences of your own decisions.
You folks are missing it. These punks aren't trying to be cool (that's way beyond their ability), they are hiding their identity. These cowards are a bad bunch but they're only bad in a bunch.
