Clueless Antifa violence confuses the left

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A man named Ken Farr provided me with an interesting analogy regarding what appears to be taking place in the U.S.A. 

He compared the nation's hatred of President Trump, the rioting that we see with the ideology-less Antifa and other intolerant leftist mobs, and the general malaise of our country, to a forest fire.

In order to have growth in the forest, fire must destroy the trees, which, in Farr's analogy, are symbols of the past. Once the trees are destroyed, they are eventually replaced with seedlings that slowly sprout and grow stronger trees and a more verdant forest.

Therefore, using this line of thinking, our country will grow stronger and freer  only after we suffer the 'slings and arrows' imposed upon us by the hatred we witness today, to wit, Antifa violence.

An example of Antifa's mindless violence happened in Berkeley, Calif. Approximately 100 black-clad terrorists (called 'activists' by the leftist media) carrying homemade shields and clubs descended on the town over the weekend and attacked a small group of protesters. 

Antifa often attacks smaller groups or women because they fight like baby kangaroos.

The left-wing terrorists kicked and punched demonstrators who had fallen in the street. They swung batons at others still standing and threatened to destroy cameras of anyone documenting their violence.

Antifa, short for Anti-fascist, have increasingly made their violent presence known at counter-protests and progressive demonstrations. They have attacked alt-right groups and violated the First Amendment of other speakers and appear to have no actual ideology other than the idea that if they don't approve of what you're saying, they will attack you.

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The irony, of course, is that such behavior is fascism. And now the left is questioning whether Antifa is causing more harm than good, which begs the question: name one good thing Antifa has done.

The violence of Antifa plays into the hands of white supremacist groups such as the neo-Nazis and the KKK.

In spite of Antifa tracing its roots back to militant anti-fascists in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the current members are mostly comprised of radical anarchists who focus more on physically fighting far-right ideology than pushing forth pro-left policies. 

Again, the ideology of Antifa is non-existent other than to fight anyone whose ideas they don't approve of. 

The left was generally mute over Antifa violence, as witnessed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which they only criticized the alt-right white nationalists, neo-Nazis and KKK, then went after Trump for being too slow to criticize the alt-right. 

Instead, President Trump rightly criticized both sides, although he should have immediately gone after the white supremacists and singled them out along with Antifa.

Since Trump's election, Antifa has become more active. They were quite possibly to blame for most of the destruction in Washington D.C. on Inauguration Day.

The anarchist group also clashed with police and right-wing activists in cities across the country, and even went to the G-20 summit site in Hamburg this year. 

In February this year, about 150 masked and black-clad Antifa anarchists rampaged through Berkeley and caused $100,000 worth of damage and forced the University of California to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right scumcrumpet.

The forest is burning and the seedlings have appeared: in addition to conservative lawmakers and far-right activists, who are targeted by Antifa, some mainstream politicians and even some editorial boards of large leftist newspapers, are beginning to harshly criticize Antifa for promoting violence. Some politicians are even calling for the group to be labeled a 'terrorist organization'.

Normally a poster girl for senile dementia, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement on Tuesday that Antifa's violent attacks in Berkeley "deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted."

The Los Angeles Times editorial board called Antifa "traitors to the thousands of peaceful demonstrators who gathered in Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Park to counter a 'No to Marxism in America' rally" and they even called the group's actions "thuggery, not activism."

So on a bright note, Antifa is causing the left to be honest.

Regarding Pelosi's statement, Antifa posted a response saying that the congresswoman has a lower approval than Trump and added that they don't care what she thinks.

In spite of the condemnation of the movement in the wake of Sunday's violence, the anarchists still have numerous anarchist cheerleaders in academia.

Mark Bray, a visiting professor at Dartmouth University, defended Antifa's use of violence during many TV interviews. 

"I think that a lot of people recognize that, when pushed, self-defense is a legitimate response to white supremacy and neo-Nazi violence." Bray is the author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook." 

He has not suffered property loss or physical assault for his ideas by anyone on the right.

Cornel West, a Communist and Harvard University professor claimed that "If it hadn't been for the antifascists protecting us from the neo-fascists, we would have been crushed like cockroaches."

But there is no evidence the neo-Nazis or KKK actually initiated the violence--there are some witnesses who say that Antifa started it. And Cornel West hates America.




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Militant leftist arrested for violence in 2016 Sacramento scuffle

The militant leftist fascist Yvette Felarca was finally arrested earlier in the week on charges stemming from a violent altercation last year between white nationalist groups and counter-protesters.

Felarca, whose real name is Yvonne Capistrano Felarca, according to public record, has been identified as the leader of the fascist group By Any Means Necessary. They actually believe they are 'anti-fascist' and use fascist methods to shut people up.

Felarca, 47, was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Tuesday on charges of inciting and participating in a riot, and assault likely to causes great bodily injury, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday.

The charges against the fascist come after an 8-month investigation.

Felarca is among several fascists arrested this week in connection to the wild fighting that broke out at the state Capitol in June 2016. 

Over 300 counter-protesters (aka bullies) confronted about 30 members of the Traditionalist Worker Party, which has been called a white nationalist group.

Felarca is a middle school teacher in Berkeley. She was captured on video hitting a member of TWP, calling him a Nazi then punching him in the stomach repeatedly while shouting for him to "get the f**k off our streets."

It was later learned that the streets weren't 'theirs' anymore than they were anyone else's. They turned out to be public streets and Felarca was violating the assault victim's constitutional rights given to all Americans under the First Amendment.

The DA's office said many of the counter-protester-fascists wore masks, making it difficult to bring charges--including in connection with numerous stabbings and an assault on a Sacramento TV station's news crew. Fourteen people had stab wounds, cuts and bruises, with two of the injured surviving critical stab wounds. 

The following day, an anonymous threatening letter was sent to Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School where Felarca indoctrinates students with her leftist ideology and she was put on administrative leave. She returned 6 weeks later.

Felarca has been a prominent fascist at several other events involving the Occupy movement and recently between Trump supporters and other conservative leaders.

She was also among the violent protesters at Milo Yiannopoulos' appearance at UC Berkeley earlier this year. 

Porfirio Paz and Michael Williams, both fascist protesters were arrest as well.

The DA's office rejected dozens of lesser charges such as illegal assembly and possession of illegal signs and banners.

"Our role is to investigate the incident and make recommendations to the district attorney's office," highway patrol spokeswoman Fran Clader said Wednesday. "Ultimately it's up to the district attorney's office to determine who should be arrested and face charges."

Personally, I would charge anyone who violated anyone's Constitutional rights.

Period.


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Michigan lawmakers want to suspend or expel students who infringe on First Amendment

Perhaps the U.S. Constitution still counts for some people, particularly those of us who believe in freedom of speech. It's one thing to have a different opinion than another person, and it's okay to express that opinion, but it isn't okay to suppress the speech of that person either by rioting or in some way preventing that person from speaking, as happened to Ann Coulter at Berkeley recently.

In Michigan, students who repeatedly infringe on free speech on campus may face a year suspension and possibly expulsion if a new law introduced in the statehouse passes.

The law is known as Campus Free Speech Act and comes on the heels of recent events, particularly the aforementioned Coulter speech at the University of California at Berkeley. It was scheduled for late April, but was canceled due to 'safety concerns.'

The lead sponsor of the legislation is Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R-MI). He said that he hopes the legislation would prevent "shout-down vetoes" of controversial campus speakers in Michigan.

"You have a right to express your concern with [a speaker], but you don't have the right to shut them down during the actual speech . . . It's time we look at people who are prohibiting free speech rights, not trying to use that right," the Senator told Heat Street. 

The Campus Free Speech Act would permit those who are silenced to take civil action against those who kept them from speaking.

If, as in Ann Coulter's case, a  speaker was already invited to speak on campus or group facility and then disinvited, "they'd have some mechanism to regain that financial loss," Colbeck explained.

The legislation would apply to 15 universities and 28 community colleges in Michigan, including the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where not only Ann Coulter attended, but so did Madonna, Gerald Ford and Jack Kevorkian.

Go Wolverines!

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Berkeley students threaten to sue over Ann Coulter's right to speak

Students at the University of California at Berkeley are threatening to sue the school if they do not find the time and a proper venue for conservative commentator, Ann Coulter, to speak next week. 

All I can say is that it's about time.

Harmeet Dhillon (who doesn't sound at all like a privileged white guy) represents the Berkeley College Republicans. She wrote in a letter, sent Friday to UC Berkeley's Interim Vice Chancellor Stephen Sutton and chief attorney Christopher Patti, that if Coulter isn't allowed to give a speech on campus April 27th, she will file a lawsuit in federal court because the university is in violation of the student's constitutional right to free speech.

"It is a sad day indeed when the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, is morphing before our eyes into the cemetery of free speech on college campuses," she wrote.

According to school officials (aka fascists) told the Berkeley College Republicans on Tuesday and Bridge USA, a nonpartisan group which coordinated the event, that Coulter's speech was being cancelled due to security concerns.

Security concerns has become the liberal veto of conservative speech.

Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks (aka Comrade Dirks) said the police have "very specific intelligence regarding threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker," her audience and protesters if the event goes ahead next Thursday.

Whatever happened to: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it?"

School fascists offered the afternoon on May 2nd, when they can provide an "appropriate, protectable venue" because school is out that week--there are no classes at Berkeley the week of May 2nd. That week is known as Dead Week--a time when students are studying for final exams.

Coulter spoke on "Hannity" Thursday and said that "You cannot impose arbitrary and harassing restrictions on the exercise of a constitutional right. None of this has to do with security."

In the past, it seems quite probable that campus officials in schools across the country are telling campus police to 'stand down.' This past February, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at Berkeley but rioters smashed windows, set fires and shut him down.

Just last week, the Berkeley College Republicans said threats of violence forced the cancellation of a speech by David Horowitz, another conservative writer. 

Charles Murray's speech appearance at Middlebury also saw riots in March and Heather Mac Donald, who wrote The War on Cops, was to speak at Claremont McKenna College but protesters blocked the door of the venue. She streamed the speech online in spite of that.

We have become a divided nation, thanks in large part to the last administration, race baiters and far-left fascists who refuse to allow free speech to exist. These aren't merely snowflakes, they are socialists whose strings are pulled by people such as George Soros.

And it looks like it's going to have to get far worse before it gets better.


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Berkeley Muslims Attempt to Take Away Bill Maher's 1st Amendment Rights

Bill Maher is an equal opportunity atheist, but liberals love him. Unless he's bashing Islam, the religion of peace and tolerance. 

There is a petition being circulated on the liberal campus of Berkeley for the school to disinvite Maher from being their 2014 commencement speaker. According to MSNBC, the petition has thousands of signatures, and every one of them is signed by a leftist bigot or intolerant Muslim bigot.

It's obvious that the left is fine when Maher speaks out against Christianity or the Jewish faith, but when he dares to speak out about Islam, well, that's a pig of a different color.

The attempt to disinvite Maher as speaker is just another example of what fascists we are seeing on the left. We even see it in the administration, and that's frightening.

But the laughable issue in all this commotion around campus is that Maher is proving his point to the letter: leftists and Muslims are intolerant. It reminds me of the sign held overhead by an angry Muslim: "Behead those who say Islam is violent."

And since when is Islam a race?

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