01-10-2021, 09:18 AM
(01-09-2021, 07:40 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-09-2021, 10:31 AM)David Horn Wrote: Not one Antifa person (there are no members, so that will have to do) was identified
The person wanted for the pipe bombings, based on the photo of the suspect, was almost certainly Antifa. He was of course not identified because he was wearing clothing that hid every inch of his skin, so you couldn't even tell what race he was, let alone identifying features. Antifa is good at this.
Trump fans are easily identified because they don't hide their identity.
All that said, the peaceful protests at the Capitol were sufficiently successful that Antifa, which was originally an antiglobalist organization, after all, may switch sides.
Peaceful protests are one thing. People who hijack a peaceful protest to do crime are... well, criminals.
Trump has been good at giving message that mean one (fairly benign even if offensive) thing for one group of allies and something not so benign for the other. If one of those meanings is a call to violence, than that is the point for judgment.
... Extremists often take on the characteristics, real or imagined, that they associate with their enemies. They are known to pose as their enemy and do horrible things. Whoever introduced those pipe bombs into the Capitol -- severe retribution is the appropriate treatment, and I do not care whether he was a Commie or a fascist.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
