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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes
Internal memo from head of DHS I&A formally changing the blame for Portland violence from "Violent Opportunists" (VO) to Antifa.
Glossary:
FIR=field intelligence report
OSIR=open source intelligence report
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes
Understand this document as responsive to POTUS pressure to "designate" Antifa as a terrorist organization.
7:09 AM · Jul 26, 2020
This is dated yesterday. It's indicative that there's a new push to label any opposition as "Antifa".
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)This whole missive sounds like someone writing it after the fact from their hotel room. We're paying him to do this?
What a joke.
Have they ever determined how many "members" ANTIFA has? Do they know what it stands for? I think most of us are against Facists, so over half of the U.S. are members?
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)...being Baseball Cards is like having pictures and stats on people they are collecting....
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 26, 2020, 08:21 AM - Edit history (1)
and Fascism. So yes, I guess we're antifa, as we should be.
KPN
(15,650 posts)the words we have overwhelming intelligence NOT! Cant get much more moronic than this.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)I am Antifa.
captain queeg
(10,242 posts)And words will mean something again. Its like govt scientists not be allowed to use the words global warming or climate change. And they can just throw antifa out since its meaningless in their vernacular. Or Antifa is defined as a specific, real organization.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Antifa does not exist
Cha
(297,655 posts)Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)Being labeled as part of terrorist group, and not merely a protester gives the government certain options under the Patriot Act that would not otherwise be available. They are labeling random protesters as Antifa not only because it gives Trump as easy name to scare people about during an election year.
Notice Barr and Trump are quiet about the actual arrests of alt-right domestic terrorist group members like the boogaloos.
https://www.aclu.org/other/how-usa-patriot-act-redefines-domestic-terrorism