Antifa- Nov. 4th

Will the so-called "Antifa apocalypse" come with a bang or a whimper?

A series of anti-government, leftist rallies set to descend on major cities nationwide Saturday is drawing the attention of local officials, who, like the organizers themselves, fear the events could be hijacked by violent masked anarchists.

The left-wing "Refuse Fascism" group is using Nov. 4 as its kickoff for demonstrations in nearly two dozen U.S. cities, protests it says will continue "day after day and night after night ─ not stopping ─ until our DEMAND is met."

The "DEMAND" is the removal of President Trump and Vice President Pence.

The gatherings are being described as a kind of "Antifa apocalypse" on right-wing media, according to The Washington Post. Several sites are expressing particular alarm about the loosely-defined left-leaning group, which preaches a version of ferocious anti-government chaos that often uses "domestic terrorist violence," according to a recent FBI report.

NOV. 4 - Take to the streets & public squares: TRUMP/PENCE MUST GO! In #Atlanta: L5P, Nov. 4, 6pm. https://t.co/UrtPtCGymm #Nov4ItBegins pic.twitter.com/ExTht6RKaJ

— Refuse Fascism ATL (@refusefascatl) October 24, 2017
Among the 20 cities where rallies are set to occur are Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.

The anarchist group, whose name comes from term "anti-fascist," made news earlier this week for allegedly harassing a female reporter at Columbia University and for seven arrests at California State University, Fullerton, amid reports of head-punching and pepper-spraying.

“You cannot try to ‘wait things out’,” a Refuse Fascism call to action reads. “Those who lived through Nazi Germany and sat on the sidelines, looking on as Hitler demonized, criminalized, and eventually rounded up one group after another, became shameful collaborators with monstrous crimes.”

Tapping into movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Women’s March, Refuse Fascism said it hopes to protest non-stop, 24/7 “until this regime is driven from power.”

The organization is engaged with a broad coalition of groups, including the Revolutionary Communist Party — but says they are committed to a nonviolence stance.

Zee told The Washington Post his organization does “uphold the legal right to self-defense,” but that they "don’t initiate violence" and they "oppose violence."

Previous instances of antifa violence have, however, been justified as "self-defense."

"Fascism cannot be defeated by speech," Darmouth Prof. Mark Bray said in August.

I hate how the car next to me began throwing water at the guy! You are the problem if you act like this!! #Nov4itbegins pic.twitter.com/rBcQS0RHl4

— Mary Rosales (@RosalesMary12) September 27, 2017
Some of Refuse Fascism's literature and visuals are also drawing scrutiny for their use of violent images.

As we face the coming tide of violence that Antifa are fomenting. Its important to see their salinskyite tactics for what they are. pic.twitter.com/qznBi4NgNf

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) October 10, 2017
Refuse Fascism ATL's poster asks Atlanta demonstrators to bring “pots and pans” with an image of a pole poked through Trump’s severed head, drawn as a pig's with flies buzzing around it.

Chicago’s invite includes an image of a rope pulling down a Trump statue, which is already cut in half.

“Show this damn Trump and Pence regime that they do not rule over us,” one organizer said in a video posted on Facebook. “Let us stand together, come together, and fight this regime on November fourth.”

“’This Nightmare Must End’ captures how millions of people feel right now…where you may face persecution or even death,” said Andy Zee, a member of the advisory board of Refuse Fascism, according to the Revolutionary Communist website.

Zee called for a “ferocious struggle” because “normal forms of petition (like protest as usual) DO NOT APPLY with Trump.” Recently, several members shut down a Los Angeles highway with “Nov. 4 It Begins” signs in a show of “non-violent civil disobedience.”

Zee cites the pamphlet "The Coming Civil War," by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party and architect of the new synthesis of communism, to point out why the group demands “the whole regime must go.”

Avakian brands Pence the political leader of “Christian fascism,” a “fascism wrapped in the Bible taken literally and the American flag, saturated with racism, misogyny, and xenophobia,” which he compares to the “kind of Islamic fundamentalism that is tearing up the Mideast.”

Zee also says news organizations such as CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post “must go all out” to “hound the enemy: the regime, Congress, administrators from agencies such as ICE, the Border Patrol, and more.”

Zee said the group has the necessary “people” ─ and “anger” ─ to remove the “cruel and brutal future” of the Trump administration on Nov. 4.
Antifa apocalypse? Anarchist group's plan to overthrow Trump 'regime' starts Saturday

 

I have to think Zee's brains are wholly contained in his scrotum, or parts posterior to it. I'll go so far as to think he really does NOT know what fascism is, or was.

 

Antifa protesters are set to take to the streets in cities throughout the nation this weekend to demand that the Trump administration be overthrown. The kickoff of the leftist “revolution” has some Americans wondering whether the mass protests could turn violent. Meanwhile, mainstream media is setting the tone to ensure that any violence is blamed on the right.

The group Refuse Fascism began hyping the protests earlier this year, asking supporters to take to the streets on Nov. 4 and continue protesting until Trump and his administration is dismantled.

From its website:

RefuseFascism.org is a movement of people coming from diverse perspectives, united in our recognition that the Trump/Pence Regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity and the planet and that it is our responsibility to drive them from power. This means working and organizing with all our creativity and determination toward November 4 when many thousands of people will fill the streets of cities and towns, beginning a struggle that continues day after day and night after night, eventually involving millions of people, demanding: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

Because of the group’s use of language suggesting that it wants American leftists to organize a revolution to overthrow the administration and its insistence that it won’t back down until its demands are met, many Americans have begun questioning just how far the protesters are willing to go. And, while Refuse Fascism itself hasn’t called for violence, at least a few people claiming association with Antifa have taken to social media to call for violence.

This week, Refuse Fascism took out a full page ad in The New York Times to drum up support for the event.

With what looks like a massive national protest with revolutionary ambitions on the horizon, some alternative media outlets on the right have begun warning readers that an army of leftists is planning a violent revolt against the Trump government.

That caught the attention of mainstream media, which is now reporting that right wingers with violent intentions are likely to show up at protests to start fights with the Antifa protesters.

Here’s one example, via Newsweek:

Members of Refuse Fascism, the nascent protest group behind Saturday’s rallies, have expressed concerns to Newsweek that the bizarre readings of the November 4 protests by those on the right could lead to real-life violence, like what transpired in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, when anti-racist activist Heather Heyer was allegedly murdered by a white supremacist. In Austin, Texas, for example, local militias have threatened to show up to combat the antifa supersoldiers they believe are coming, according to social media posts and the accounts of Texas-based activists. To reiterate what has already been reported in Newsweek: Antifa (short for “antifascist”) is more of a style of protest targeting far-right groups than an outfit with any organizational hierarchy, according to academics and activists. Not only does “antifa” lack the capability or funding to breed supersoldiers, there is no organizational structure in place to order such a thing in the first place.

Andy Zee, a member of the advisory board for Refuse Fascism, said it was a mistake to portray the spiraling fake news stories about Saturday’s protests as a joke.

“It’s very dangerous and harmful to take these people as a joke,” Zee told Newsweek, noting the way the Reichstag fire, a false-flag operation blamed on leftists, was exploited by Nazi Germany to accelerate a fascist regime. “You have to take this stuff seriously because some of them really believe it.”

In other words, the narrative is set.

The massive Antifa event isn’t a threat by itself– but the false flag events provocateurs secretly backed by shady factions within the political and intelligence establishments certainly should be a matter of concern.

Powder Keg America: Should we expect violence from Antifa's planned mass street protests? - Personal Liberty®

 

All quiet on the faux news fronts.