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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 09:55 AM Apr 2019

Intelligence Report Suggested Left-Wing Charlottesville Protesters Were 'Terrorists'


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 Center—one 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
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Intelligence Report Suggested Left-Wing Charlottesville Protesters Were 'Terrorists' (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2019 OP
Unreal. Chin music Apr 2019 #1
apparently anyone who objects is also an anarchist or a communist as well. unblock Apr 2019 #2
Laying the ground work for crushing protestors. Chin music Apr 2019 #3
Unreal indeed grannyokie Apr 2019 #4
Was it you who said.."A hit dog's gonna howl"? Chin music Apr 2019 #5
Howdy grannyokie Apr 2019 #6
Nice rhtymn line! I added it to my wish list. Chin music Apr 2019 #7
It's very symbolic grannyokie Apr 2019 #14
Radical white supremacist terrorism. Initech Apr 2019 #8
Virginia students terrorist? That's what trump calls them? rockfordfile Apr 2019 #9
"Tin soldiers and Nixon Coming." Chin music Apr 2019 #10
Love Crosby, Stills, Nash and young grannyokie Apr 2019 #13
Anybody surprised? Downtown Hound Apr 2019 #11
K&R Solly Mack Apr 2019 #12

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
1. Unreal.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:04 AM
Apr 2019

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.

Chin music

(23,002 posts)
3. Laying the ground work for crushing protestors.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:23 AM
Apr 2019

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)
4. Unreal indeed
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:34 AM
Apr 2019

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)
5. Was it you who said.."A hit dog's gonna howl"?
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:36 AM
Apr 2019

If they think labeling outraged Americans as Antifa is going to stop equal push back...theyre wrong.

 

grannyokie

(95 posts)
6. Howdy
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:43 AM
Apr 2019

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.


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Chin music

(23,002 posts)
7. Nice rhtymn line! I added it to my wish list.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:53 AM
Apr 2019

"Hide the sun until you pray." analogous to the gop of today.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
8. Radical white supremacist terrorism.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:03 AM
Apr 2019

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?

 

grannyokie

(95 posts)
13. Love Crosby, Stills, Nash and young
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:56 AM
Apr 2019

Music is my medicine

They're not hiding and boy are they out there.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
11. Anybody surprised?
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:47 AM
Apr 2019

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.

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