Antifa and Black Lives Matter — America’s friend or foe?

The First Amendment protects Americans’ right to peacefully protest; every American supports that right. Two groups that the mainstream media claim are peacefully protesting are Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Anti-fascist (Antifa).

Antifa means anti-fascist which is made up of diverse groups that plan to achieve their motive through non-violent and violent direct action.

BLM started after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The movement advocates non-violent civil disobedience with over 30 chapters in the United States.

Liberals have a knack for selecting innocent names we all agree with. Planned Parenthood sounds innocent but has more to do with killing babies than the name. Black Lives Matter, of course Black lives matter, but if you say all lives matter you are racist. Antifa, of course we are against fascism, but Antifa, as we see it acting in America, is fascism.

Hawk Newsome is a New York BLM leader. June 9, he told the Daily Mail that BLM is training a military arm to “lead war on police.” Newsome claims to have former Special Forces officers’ training and is advising BLM on how to challenge law enforcement. Newsome claims these groups are patterned after the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam.

Patrisse Cullors was one of the 2013 founders and said on the June 2020 CNN Jake Tapper show that a primary goal is to separate black voters from Trump to get Trump out of office. In a 2015 video, Cullors claimed that she and fellow organizers are proteges of Eric Mann, a former Weather Underground 1960s domestic terror organization member.

Cullors claims that BLM organizers have spent years absorbing Marxist-Leninist ideology. “Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” she said, referring to BLM co-founder Alicia Garza, “we actually do have a Marxist ideology.”

BLM is not just a military training to wage war on police; it’s a political organization. June 2020, BLM made the rounds to several small Wisconsin communities to include Shawano. BLM marched in Shawano in June to promote the fact that they were peaceful, but I believe this was just a publicity stunt. We see BLM in action around the country and in Northeast Wisconsin.

One of the co-founders of BLM, Alicia Garza, claims that Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, is an inspiration and hero; Assata Shakur is a convicted cop killer with a $1 million FBI reward and a wanted domestic terrorist, per the Washington Examiner and Jerry Dunleavy. Susan Rosenberg is a member of the finance board of directors and was suspected of helping Shakur escape prison.

According to several sources, one being Stephen Loiaconi, ABC 6 DC, contributions to BLM go through a front group called ActBlue Charities. Portions of all contributions to BLM are funneled to Democratic and progressive groups, but the fundraising group (ActBlue) takes a percentage of all contributions. Major corporations are scrambling to donate millions.

According to a poll by Monmouth University revealed by Campus Reform, Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia told Todd Starnes on June 3 the poll shows that 58% of college-educated people believe rioting is justified. Is this an example of the breakdown of our education system? College-educated liberals have told me they support Antifa because the group is anti-fascist, and these liberals believe Trump is fascist.

Antifa set up CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) which changed to CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest) on six blocks in Seattle. Antifa is against our form of government and is anti-capitalist. Janine Phakdeetham of The Sun quoted Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan that the CHOP zone saw a 525% increase in violent crime over the same time last year to include murders and rapes.

I have said for some time that Antifa is the equivalent of the 1930s Nazi Brown Shirts, and what is scary is they receive support from Democrats and the media. Austin, Texas, has an Antifa group known as the Red Guard. The Red Guard is self-described as an autonomous Marxist-Leninist-Maoist group. The Red Guard Facebook page posted, “The war is not coming — it is here and now!”

Who remembers April and May 2020 when residents of Michigan went to the capitol at Lansing and openly carried weapons? The media and Democrats, to a person, was outraged at these Michiganders’ outright show of force. We have seen Antifa occupy CHOPS and CHAZ, and rioting and looting across the United States. Antifa always carries weapons and frequently Communist flags. Do you ever see any outrage from the media, national or local Democrats?

Antifa and BLM rioters have injured or killed 711 police since the Floyd murder, according to the True North wire as of June 10. Portland has had rioting and looting every night since the Floyd murder

Antifa and BLM both want to defund police. If you have a candidate who supports either BLM or Antifa, know that they want to defund your police. Democratic governors and mayors hate President Trump so much that we see them marching with Antifa and BLM as these politicians physically and verbally support rioters, looters and arsonists.

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” — John Adams

Richard W. Kucksdorf is a retired U.S. Army colonel residing in Bonduel. Kucksdorf has other writings on his website, “Observations From Flyover Country,” at rwkucksdorf.com.