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An intelligence report produced for law-enforcement agencies ahead of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally suggested that left-wing demonstrators were terrorists and as responsible for street violence as white nationalists. According to The Guardian, the May 2017 report was produced by the Regional Organized Crime Information Centerone of six federally funded Regional Intelligence Sharing System (RISS) Centers in the U.S. The report frames political street violence in America as an equal battle between an alliance between anarchists and communists to confront and defeat fascists and white supremacists by whatever means necessary and anti-antifa, a loose collection of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Ku Klux Klanners, white identity groups, and a group called the alt-right. The report reproduces a description by Republican National Committee member Shawn Steel claiming the anti-fascists are terrorists. Michael German, a former FBI agent and far-right specialist, said: What it seems to do is completely whitewash the history of white-supremacist violence in this country.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-intel-report-suggested-leftwing-protesters-were-terrorists
Chin music
(23,002 posts)So anyone disgusted w the alt right and who counter-protests....are antifa and terrorists? How convenient. I recall a large contingent of out of town gun nuts at that rally that were all strapped up w combat gear and assault rifles too. Perfectly normal folks I suppose.
unblock
(52,208 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)God forbid anyone get upset by a quarter mile long line of tiki torch carrying alt righters chanting nazi type slogans.
"Blood and Soli" :"Jews will not replace us!" One guy shooting a gun at protestors near the park...within 30 feet of uniformed police, that didnt even flinch, and a lady that was murdered by a craven individual w a car who had butt hurt feelings. Just a peaceful protest by the alt right. Nothing that would warrant a ratcheting up of anger by normal people counter-protesting an obvious scar on the country. And when fire is fought w fire, rational Americans livid about whats going on....are antifa etc. I told you guys "it was coming".
grannyokie
(95 posts)So what are they saying? People should have just mind their own business. Let it be? They were marching down the streets with tiki torches like some new aged KKK. That's horseshit. Don't start nothin' won't be nothin'. First stop was at a Church if I remember right and proceeded to terrorize the people in it.
Terrorize get it! Chin that's just plain horse shit. You're right. Unreal indeed. I'm so sick and tired of people trying to defend the indefensible. They like their guns. It's for intimidation. Oh so many things to wonder. What if they were all black men with guns and tiki torches? They would have rushed to Washington and implemented some kind of gun control. Like the 90s when the Black Panthers were visible to the public. They did ban assault weapons with bipartisan support with barely a whimper of protest. Stayed that way for ten years until it died it's natural death. Bush refused to continue the ban. The NRA owns the Republican brain. They use it as a tool to remain in power. Our newly elected Governor posed with a rifle on his lap for his political campaign. Hee Haw this State could use an enima.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)If they think labeling outraged Americans as Antifa is going to stop equal push back...theyre wrong.
It was Andrew Gilliam of Florida. Mayor of Tallahassee
Not sure if I spelled either one correctly. A tornado's coming my friend with many microbursts.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)"Hide the sun until you pray." analogous to the gop of today.
grannyokie
(95 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Radical white supremacist terrorism.
Radical white supremacist terrorism.
Radical white supremacist terrorism.
Radical white supremacist terrorism.
Radical white supremacist terrorism.
Why is it so hard for them to say it?
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)"We're finally on our own"
...4 dead in O-HI-O.
grannyokie
(95 posts)Music is my medicine
They're not hiding and boy are they out there.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)And by the way, this is why a lot of these protesters wear masks. In addition to facing retaliation from the right, they know that law enforcement is no friend to them.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)Same old Hoover - Cointelpro bullshit.