A few days ago I posted about the irony of Antifa claiming they were “true Americans”. When John Schussler then asked, “What looting, bombings, or beatings are you referring to?”, I was shocked. I thought everyone was up to speed on those activities. Apparently, there are some information bubbles that sufficiently insulate people from reality.
The data is so overwhelming that I can’t imagine the legacy media does not know the truth. They are blatantly lying if they say Antifa is peaceful or does not exist as an organization. The people who believe the lies are, at best, willfully ignorance.
Here are some of the evidence links I found:
- First Antifa terrorism charges filed in Texas
- Unmasked (book by Andy Ngo)
- Antifa Defense Fund
- Advocating harassment and violence
- Travis County DA: Three members of ANTIFA arrested for looting Austin Target store | FOX 7 Austin
- Antifa launch ambush firebomb attack on Atlanta police – Andy Ngo
- Multiple police officers injured in violent Portland riot at ICE facility | Fox News
- District of Oregon | Four Defendants Charged with Assaulting Federal Law Enforcement Officers, Other Offenses During Protests Near Local ICE Office | United States Department of Justice
- Multiple police officers injured in violent Portland riot at ICE facility | Fox News
- Andy Ngo, May 2019 | X
I highly recommend Andy Ngo’s book, Unmasked.
See also what Jonathon Turley has to say about them.
Turley has also written a book on them which I was not aware of until today.
I gave the listed links above to Copilot and asked for a blog post with citations supporting my assertion. This is the result:
Documented Criminal Acts Attributed to Antifa: A Summary of Reported Incidents
In recent years, Antifa-affiliated individuals and cells have been implicated in a range of criminal activities across the United States, including looting, bombings, assaults, and attacks on law enforcement. While Antifa is not a centralized organization, its decentralized networks and ideological cohesion have led to coordinated actions that, in several cases, escalated into violence. Below is a summary of documented incidents drawn from news reports, federal indictments, and investigative journalism.
1. Firebomb Ambush on Police in Atlanta
On March 5, 2023, a group of masked Antifa militants launched a coordinated ambush on police officers at the construction site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. According to journalist Andy Ngo, the attackers used explosives, firebombs, and rocks, injuring officers and setting construction equipment ablaze. The incident was widely reported and documented with video evidence on social media platforms.
2. Looting in Austin, Texas
Three individuals identified as Antifa members were arrested for looting a Target store in Austin during a protest. The Travis County District Attorney’s office confirmed their affiliation and charged them with burglary and theft. Fox 7 Austin reported that the suspects were part of a broader protest that devolved into property destruction and theft.
3. Attack on ICE Facility in Texas
In a federal indictment unsealed in 2023, the Department of Justice charged two men affiliated with a North Texas Antifa cell for attacking an ICE facility. The indictment alleges that the men used incendiary devices and coordinated the attack as part of a broader anti-government agenda. The case underscores the federal government’s concern over violent extremism linked to Antifa ideology.
4. Assaults on Federal Officers in Portland
During the height of the 2020 protests in Portland, Oregon, four individuals were charged with assaulting federal law enforcement officers. The Justice Department detailed how the defendants used projectiles, including explosives and rocks, to breach federal property and injure officers. These incidents were part of a series of nightly confrontations that often involved self-identified Antifa participants.
5. Explosives and Riots at ICE Building in Portland
Fox News reported that rioters breached an ICE building in Portland using explosives and rocks, injuring officers and causing significant property damage. The report noted that many of the participants wore Antifa insignia and coordinated their actions through encrypted messaging platforms.
6. Investigative Reporting and Firsthand Documentation
Independent journalists such as Andy Ngo and Wiretap Media have extensively documented Antifa-related violence through firsthand footage, interviews, and social media posts. Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy compiles years of investigative work, detailing incidents of beatings, arson, and organized attacks on government institutions.
Conclusion
While Antifa is often described as a loosely organized movement, the documented incidents above suggest that its adherents have, in multiple cases, engaged in coordinated criminal violence. These actions have targeted law enforcement, government facilities, and private property, often under the guise of protest. The evidence presented here underscores the need for continued scrutiny and legal accountability for violent extremism, regardless of political affiliation.
Sources
- Antifa Launch Ambush Firebomb Attack on Atlanta Police
- Travis County DA: Three Members of Antifa Arrested for Looting Austin Target Store
- DOJ: North Texas Antifa Cell Attacked ICE Facility
- Four Defendants Charged with Assaulting Federal Law Enforcement Officers
- Officers Injured as Portland Rioters Breach ICE Building
- Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
I was referring specifically to activities since Trump came back into office, since now apparently anyone against fascism is “the enemy within.” I’m well aware that there have been “black bloc” dipshits running around in the past calling themselves antifa and doing bad stuff…I live in Seattle…they’ve done it here (though their biggest contributions were probably during the WTO protests, and then after George Floyd). So I don’t argue either that Antifa doesn’t exist or that people acting under that banner have done the things you mention in the past.
But that said, I’ve seen no reports of looting, and only a few reports of violent confrontations in the past year (shall we argue about how many of those are provoked by ICE?). And most of the articles you cite are from 2020, which yes, had more antifa activity. But the Portland “breach” of the ICE facility wasn’t antifa, even according to Fox, it was just anti-ICE protesters.
Or does everyone who protests ICE now get a free Antifa membership card? We just had another big No Kings day, are those soccer moms all Antifa now too?
Folks on the right get irritated when they get lumped in with fascists and Nazis. Turning around and doing the same to folks on the left with Antifa is just as lazy.
Lazy? Did you actually just use that word?
Lazy is thinking the government is going to do everything for you.
But your right, they ain’t anitifa. Their f-ing communist. Pure and simple.
(Shall we argue about how many of those are provoked by ICE?).
Provoked by ICE? Really? So removing the greatest threat to our society, and the biggest drain on our economy by a government agency acting under lawful orders to do so. On a criminal class. Is caucus belle to commit violence? OK. Sure you want to go there?
Anitifa is a small group of drugged-out communist morons. They couldn’t fight their way out of downtown Portland.
Was everybody in the BLM riots card carrying BLM’ers?
Both and all others are just bought and paid for useless idiots.
And when their money drys up, so will they.
Wake me up when Trump starts treating anitifa like Biden’s auto-pen did to J6 trespassers, and grandma’s praying at satanic child sacrifice centers. (And baby parts warehouse.)
“But that said, I’ve seen no reports of looting, and only a few reports of violent confrontations in the past year.”
So what? I haven’t seen or heard “white supremist” having done anything in 20+ years.
But that don’t stop you’all from calling just about every white person on the planet a card carrying nazi.
You lazy? Or just paid by the word like Miles said?
There is no such thing as an organization named Antifa?
They have uniforms like this guy.
They all have common tactics, along with people obviously in command and control positions complete with frequency hopping comms, websites, and other coordination.
Read this post over at my place, and tell me that there is no organization here.
https://areaocho.com/antifa-intel-report/
It’s like my neighbor a while back who said “what left-wing violence in the 20th century?” He was serious. Things like communist gulags and pogroms were not “left-wing violence,” they were “authoritarian violence.” Basically his operational definitions were that anything violent was bad and right-wing or “authoritarian,” and everything good happening was “progressive” and “from the left.” He defined the source according to the goodness or badness. It was bizarro-world.
It’s like the people who say whites are violent and you need to watch out around them, when you can easily find videos of random black-on-other violence for pretty much any day of the week, and black-on-white violent crime stats are FAR higher than the reverse, but anything resembling white-on-black violence and the vids make national news because they are do rare (but they are usually presented as if they were the norm). Black man murders white woman and me media is silent; same media reporting the “peaceful” Antifa riots and assaults.
Almost everyone/thing the news points to is generally just a distraction.
Vox Day laid out the real problem facing our nation the other day perfectly.
“Mass immigration is an economic disaster as well as a societal disaster. There are only three solutions: mass repatriations, mass violence and ethnic cleansings, and total societal collapse. And no amount of magic-wording, word-spelling, and name-calling is going to create a viable fourth option.
The mass importation of foreigners is almost unprecedented in history. And extreme policies such as we have suffered will inevitably result in extreme consequences.
And anyone helping bring those people in or maintain their presence here is a criminal. (8USC, 1324). And a traitor to the United States.
Period.
Full stop.
End of story.
I knew, before I clicked into this Comment thread, that John-boy would be in here with some No True Scotsman malarkey. Not even a good argument, just some “Nuh-uh! I’m a good person and evidence to the contrary can’t exist!”
OK, let’s be fair to John: there’s no single organization called Antifa, except for the many that are. Antifa is more of an idea, like terrorism, a overall tactic for committing political violence and having reasonable doubt in front of a jury.
I’ve got an Global War On Terror Service Medal for military service in defeating an idea. Precedent has been established.
And I knew, making my comment, that the replies would include folks discourteously referring to me as “Johnny” or “John-boy” or “dirty commie” because that seems to be the first instinct for many folks here. Not that I care about being called names, but it’s more an unfortunate pattern in the level of respect shown in these conversations. (When, in any of my comments, have I directly accused anyone here of being a fascist? Go ahead, take your time. I’ll wait.)
And of course then there’s the inevitable straw man. I didn’t say anything about evidence to the contrary not existing, When i asked the question of Joe, “What lootings, bombings, or beatings are you referring to” it wasn’t a rhetorical question, I was genuinely looking to understand what he was referring to since it didn’t match my experience. Maybe there’s evidence of those being common over the past 9 months, but I’ve not seeing evidence of that, and the references in his posts are several years old. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, but Joe’s post does further sharpen the point by noting that timing matters: things have happened in the past that aren’t happening now, so in making assertions about the actions of Antifa one should be specific. I could have been more specific as well, point taken.
I have a Chinese-room-like model of your posting behavior. I have no need of an understanding of your internal thought processes, ephemeral soul, education, what media you have recently consumed, opinions past, present or future.
The melange of all the things you think are complex going on inside your head nevertheless result in an output that is in no way, shape or form, surprising. First, I can predict from the content of Joe’s post, whether you will post. Second, given the details of Joe’s post, I can already foresee the tenor of your own posting. Thirdly, when you are inevitably rebuked, I can see the shape of your responses.
Your existence, relative to this blog, can be replaced with a unsophisticated shell script. No need to pull in Perl; overkill for the requirements.
As insults go, I do appreciate the illustration. It is at least a step above the consistently pedestrian “dirty commie.”
As for predictability, yes, I’m well aware of that. I don’t view my contributions as likely to change anybody’s mind, but do think having a somewhat consistent reminder that there’s a world outside the bubble represented here is worthwhile. YMMV.
Funny thought, though, on your shell script suggestion: Maybe I should just have Copilot read all my past replies and compose my new ones for me. It seems to be all the rage, and would certainly maintain consistency. They say a large percentage of content on the Internet is now composed by AI anyway, so….
Hey… save yourself a lot of time.
a) I type fast. b) As MT Head has pointed out, I’m paid by the word. So….