The Threat from the Left

John Sexton at HotAir has a story on Antifa which is alarming for a couple of reasons. First, is the level of violence Antifa is prepared to use against anyone they call a "Nazi" which could be anyone they don't like. Second is that they seem determined to sow chaos in our cities, and third is the fact that the national media seem completely uninterested in investigating this group of left-wing extremists.

Steven Crowder, a late night talk host and political humorist, infiltrated the group and managed to get this video. Since the video may be hard to follow Sexton's summary may be helpful. He writes:

As you’ll see in this clip, Crowder’s producer, Jared, put on a disguise and met with members of Antifa who installed an app on his phone to allow them to communicate. The protest plan, according to the organizer, was “plain clothes and hard tactics.” That meant not dressing in black or wearing masks, which had been banned by police, but preparing for violence.

At a subsequent meeting, one member of the group discusses the guns he has in his trunk. Another member hands Jared an ice pick. Jared immediately makes an excuse and takes the footage [to] local police who have already been monitoring the situation. Crowder ends the clip by focusing on the media's [disinterested response].

The media's response, at least the response of the national media, is pretty pathetic. You can bet that were this a bunch of white nationalists they'd pay a fortune to get their hands on Crowder's video, but the media progressives simply aren't interested in anything that makes anyone on the left look evil.

According to a piece on Crowder and his video at Infowars - a site with a dubious reputation, to be sure, but they link to Antifa sites from which they quote in their article - Antifa is planning to “gather [on November 4] in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country” in the hope of building momentum for civil unrest that leads to nothing less than domestic regime change.

“Our protest must grow day after day and night after night—thousands becoming hundreds of thousands, and then millions—determined to act to put a stop to the grave danger that the Trump/Pence Regime poses to the world by demanding that this whole regime be removed from power,” states a call to action on the RefuseFascism website.

A longer screed posted on the Revolutionary Communist website makes it clear that Antifa is not prepared to wait for electoral change from Democrats, and will engage in a “ferocious struggle,” based on plans outlined in a book written by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which is called The Coming Civil War.

At some point perhaps liberals will wake up to the extremist wolves in their midst who've attempted up until now to present themselves to the public as innocent sheep just trying to prevent a fascist take-over of America. Perhaps if liberals start to condemn it instead of defending it it'll wither away. Let's hope no lives are lost before that happens.