Petition To Label Antifa A "Terrorist Organization" Reaches Critical Milestone

[Swordsmyth]

A petition calling for the White House to officially brand the Antifa movement as a terrorist organization has reached the threshold of signatures necessary to compel the Trump administration to reply, according to the Washington Times. The petition received its 100,000th signature around 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday. Though it had 30 days to reach that goal, the petition did so in less than a week.
The petition contends that Antifa deserves the terrorist designation because of its “violent actions” in cities like Berkeley, Calif, and Charlottesville, Va., as well as its “influence” in the killings of police officers.

The full text of the petition is below:

“Terrorism is defined as “the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims”. This definition is the same definition used to declare ISIS and other groups, as terrorist organizations.

AntiFa has earned this title due to its violent actions in multiple cities and their influence in the killings of multiple police officers throughout the United States.

It is time for the pentagon to be consistent in its actions – and just as they rightfully declared ISIS a terror group, they must declare AntiFa a terror group – on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety.”
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If the petition is successful, Antifa would differ from other terror groups in one unique respect: Antifa isn’t an organization, so much as a blanket term for far-left protesters known for their violent battles with right-wing groups, as the Washington Times explains.

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...orist-organization-reaches-critical-milestone

 

[otherone]

“Terrorism is defined as “the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims”.

 

[Schifference]

Give the left what they want. Call them by name for what they are.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Bad move...bad fucking move.

 

[donnay]

We need a petition for more Americans to exercise their 2nd amendment right.

These cowards are in places where people are the weakest and law enforcement is the most corrupt.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Did they skip over labeling them a "hate group" and go straight to "terrorists"? Considering how loosely they throw around the term terrorist, the term is becoming meaningless.

 

[acptulsa]

Did they skip over labeling them a "hate group" and go straight to "terrorists"? Considering how loosely they throw around the term terrorist, the term is becoming meaningless.

'Hate group' is even worse. Conservatives are a hate group because many Democrats aren't white, while liberals can hate conservatives with impunity because many of them are white. And, of course, racism is a one way street, which is why black separatists and white separatists want the exact same thing, but one is far left and the other is far right.

I don't know what the media is trying to accomplish with this insanity. But they had better get it accomplished fast, because they're quickly making a total joke of themselves.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

It is time for the pentagon to be consistent in its actions

I didn't know that the Pentagon was the official labeling organization of the US.

Seem like that would infer a military solution.

 

[Raginfridus]

But reaper killings aren't terrorism, just our government playing God.

 

[acptulsa]

But reaper killings aren't terrorism, just our government playing God.

The terrorists v. the shock'n'aweists.

Can't tell the good guys without a program.

 

[dannno]

If anybody deserves the label, it's Antifa.

The terrorists in the Middle East at least can say they are an insurgency against an occupying army or they are doing it in self defense or something..

Antifa's excuse is they are fighting an imaginary enemy who wants to do imaginary things.

 

[liveandletlive]

disagreeing with a liberal doesnt make you a nazi. leftists unhinged

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Retarded drama is not only found in the movie theaters.

 

[Raginfridus]

The terrorists v. the shock'n'aweists.

Can't tell the good guys without a program.

I would be worried and unhappy w/o regular access to programing.


The American people need a Captain Midnight.

 

[acptulsa]

disagreeing with a liberal doesnt make you a nazi. leftists unhinged

If they win back a majority in Congress next year, watch them try to pass Godwin's Law.

 

[Ender]

Bad move...bad $#@!ing move.

Yep.

Who's next?

 

[Anti Federalist]

'Hate group' is even worse. Conservatives are a hate group because many Democrats aren't white, while liberals can hate conservatives with impunity because many of them are white. And, of course, racism is a one way street, which is why black separatists and white separatists want the exact same thing, but one is far left and the other is far right.

I don't know what the media is trying to accomplish with this insanity. But they had better get it accomplished fast, because they're quickly making a total joke of themselves.

Apple Inc just gave the Soviet Poverty Lie Center a million dollars.

A million more dollars to list groups like RPF and LvM Institute and LRC "hate groups".

 

[Anti Federalist]

Yep.

Who's next?

Us, as soon as the regime changes.

 

[Ender]

Us, as soon as the regime changes.

Don't forget churches that believe that marriage is between a man & a woman.

 

[acptulsa]

Us, as soon as the regime changes.

Just as a person can move a piece of furniture too heavy to lift across the floor by 'walking' it, moving one side at a time, so this childish partisanship gets us to insist on having totalitarian measures we would never put up with if they were simply imposed upon us.

We always think we need it to protect us from our crazy neighbors, but it always gets used on us in turn.