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planning has been going on since at least August, and the chatter on social media would indicate that antifa, the loosely connected group of anarchists, communists and other splinter groups angry at the outcome of last year’s presidential election, has something big planned for Saturday, Nov. 4.
Depending on where you choose to get your information, one can find descriptions for what is planned that vary from an attempt to spark civil war, to a massive outbreak of peaceful protests filled with well-behaved hippies holding signs signifying their common hatred of America’s 45th president. They will “drive him out,” they say, and he “must go,” because they have “had enough” and “this nightmare must end.”
But beyond the angry statements the group organizing the protests gives very little detail on how this grand exit of the Trump administration might play out.
The organizer of the so-called “antifa” protests for Nov. 4 is RefuseFascism.org.
So what does the organizer itself say about how protesters should conduct themselves?
We searched their website and while we could find no outright calls for violence. But it seems fair to point out that the group makes no concerted effort on its website to emphasis peaceful rallies. In the absence of an explicit call for peaceful marches, is it not reasonable to assume that some people could interpret phrases like “drive them out of power” as a call to violence?
The group’s Nov. 4 protest page explaining its “methods” says nothing about peace or striving to remain peaceful.
Click on the Nov. 4 “PLEDGE” page at RefuseFascism.org and it is loaded with angry rants about how the “Trump/Pence regime must go,” and there are many accusations, but again, no mention of remaining peaceful in the attempt to drive this regime from power.
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2017/11/antifaposter.jpg
The pledge card that protesters are asked to sign is a call to “action.” Pledge members are given two options: One says “I personally endorse the Call for November 4” and the other says “My organization endorses the Call to Action for November 4.”
Again, no detailed explanation of what this call to action requires and no explicit declaration that violence will not be tolerated.
If such a declaration is somewhere, hiding in small print, we could not find it, and that was after spending a good amount of time on the website. We did find lots of angry words meant to stir up hatred, spark division, and call for some vague “action.”
http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/11/will-antifa-spark-civil-war-this-weekend-in-america/
planning has been going on since at least August, and the chatter on social media would indicate that antifa, the loosely connected group of anarchists, communists and other splinter groups angry at the outcome of last year’s presidential election, has something big planned for Saturday, Nov. 4.
Depending on where you choose to get your information, one can find descriptions for what is planned that vary from an attempt to spark civil war, to a massive outbreak of peaceful protests filled with well-behaved hippies holding signs signifying their common hatred of America’s 45th president. They will “drive him out,” they say, and he “must go,” because they have “had enough” and “this nightmare must end.”
But beyond the angry statements the group organizing the protests gives very little detail on how this grand exit of the Trump administration might play out.
The organizer of the so-called “antifa” protests for Nov. 4 is RefuseFascism.org.
So what does the organizer itself say about how protesters should conduct themselves?
We searched their website and while we could find no outright calls for violence. But it seems fair to point out that the group makes no concerted effort on its website to emphasis peaceful rallies. In the absence of an explicit call for peaceful marches, is it not reasonable to assume that some people could interpret phrases like “drive them out of power” as a call to violence?
The group’s Nov. 4 protest page explaining its “methods” says nothing about peace or striving to remain peaceful.
Click on the Nov. 4 “PLEDGE” page at RefuseFascism.org and it is loaded with angry rants about how the “Trump/Pence regime must go,” and there are many accusations, but again, no mention of remaining peaceful in the attempt to drive this regime from power.
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2017/11/antifaposter.jpg
Again, no detailed explanation of what this call to action requires and no explicit declaration that violence will not be tolerated.
If such a declaration is somewhere, hiding in small print, we could not find it, and that was after spending a good amount of time on the website. We did find lots of angry words meant to stir up hatred, spark division, and call for some vague “action.”
http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/11/will-antifa-spark-civil-war-this-weekend-in-america/
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