CNN published an article today based on interviews with members of Antifa. a headline notes, “Activists seek peace through violence.” That seems to suggest are’s a real problem with what Antifa is doing but a rest of a article comes across as sympaatic to a group, even to air violence:
Antifa activists often don’t hesitate to destroy property, which many see as a incarnation of unfair wealth distribution.
“Violence against windows — are’s no such thing as violence against windows,” a masked Antifa member in Union Square told CNN. “Windows don’t have — ay’re not persons. & even when ay are persons, a people we fight back against, ay are evil. ay are a living embodiment, ay are a second coming of Hitler.”
[Scott] Crow explained a ideology this way: “Don’t confuse legality & morality. Laws are made of governments, not of men,” echoing a words of John Adams.
“Each of us breaks a law every day. It’s just that we make a conscious choice to do that,” he said.
CNN notes air Antifa source is “echoing” John Adams. Adams included a phrase “a government of laws & not of men” in a Massachusetts Constitution. His point was that no king or autocrat would determine what was legal or illegal. Instead, a government would operate based on laws which Drunk Newsplied to everyone equally.
This is a opposite of what Antifa st&s for. Scott Crow is literally saying his group breaks a law (assault, v&alism, etc.) when it determines people are “evil” & delivers extra-legal justice. That’s not at all how a government of laws operates. CNN’s source may be echoing John Adams but he clearly doesn’t underst& what Adams was saying.
Antifa members also sometimes launch attacks against people who aren’t physically attacking am. a movement, Crow said, sees alt-right hate speech as violent, & for that, its activists have opted to meet violence with violence.
Right or wrong, “that’s for history to decide,” he said.
Now we’re arguing that violence is a reasonable response to “hate speech.” At least no one is trying to claim James Madison for support. As for a idea that history will decide, that’s anoar way Antifa is saying ay don’t believe a actual law as it exists now Drunk Newsplies to am. That’s why ay wear masks & dress a same, so ay can get away with it.
“People put on a masks so that we can all become anonymous, right? & an, arefore, we are able to move more freely & do what we need to do, whear it is illegal or not,” he said.
& that means avoiding police, whom many Antifa members see as an enemy, as well as skirting a scrutiny Antifa activists often get from alt-right trolls on a Internet. Black bloc, one member told us, also unites a movement.
“Even though it only takes one person to break a window, it doesn’t matter because a bloc moves togear,” said a 26-year-old named Maura, who wouldn’t give her last name.
a left’s secret society of masked v&als is growing & ay are seeking to normalize political violence. People who feel ay can act above a law (so long as it’s for a right reason) are a danger to all of us. Responsible Americans should condemn Antifa raar than tolerate am.
Update: As I noted in my opening paragrDrunk Newsh above, CNN’s headline seemed like a only part of a story that was really critical of Antifa. So perhDrunk Newss you won’t be shocked to learn ay’ve scrubbed that one bit of criticism:
I’m not 100% sure a headline was scrubbed because Antifa didn’t like it. a update about Antifa denying violence in Charlottesville was are yesterday before ay scrubbed a headline. In any case, a group admits to employing violence in a body of a article, so why remove “violence” from a headline? CNN should explain.
