ANTIFA Invokes "Rights" for Itself It Would Deny To Everyone Who Disagrees With Them - Granite Grok

ANTIFA Invokes “Rights” for Itself It Would Deny To Everyone Who Disagrees With Them

Diversity Speech policeProgressive arguments for campaign finance reform (see also, the false getting money out of politics narrative) have nothing to do with transparency or money. They are about exposing donor lists to intimidation by left-wing thugs to suppress donations, and the speech they would afford political opponents.

Alternately or should I say Alt-Lefternately, Antifa, one of the Progressives thug armies hides its identity while actively suppressing speech Democrats (coincidentally) oppose. They attack people, destroy property, and use intimidation to suppress actual speech. Some GOP lawmakers have proposed legislation to amp up the penalties for those who actually commit certain crimes while “masked.”

Antifa is not happy.

In response,

Carmichael Monaco, a member of the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, a New York City-based activist group, said.

“In the current political climate, antifascists who speak out against fascism, racism, xenophobia, etc. are routinely harassed, threatened, and attacked by the far right, often supported by the police, who are notably exempted here. Families and friends of antifascists also become targets of far right violence. The wearing of a mask is an act of self-defense often necessary to ensure one’s right to free speech.”

Their response, naturally, was to go “ballistic, targeting conservatives with smears and threats.”

Antifa has a nearly 100-year history of violence against anyone who is not as socialist as they are including National Socialists. They are, as Dalrymple notes (quoted here) just another flavor of totalitarian.

The freedom that many people desire is the freedom to limit other people’s freedom, which they find much more gratifying than the mere expression of their own opinion, which has at most the effect of throwing a pebble into a pond, causing a ripple that soon disappears and is forgotten. Surely I am more important than that, and my opinion deserves to dictate to others?

Why does Antifa get to remain anonymous in the course of intimidation and violence but regular citizens can’t stay anonymous donors to protect their ‘speech’ from thugs like Antifa or the Gaystapo, or Black Lives Matter, or the collection of anti-globalist brick-tossing left-wingers who have been breaking and burning since at least the 1960’s?

Because they are totalitarians. They are using “Free Speech” – because America is one of the few places on earth to both have it and protect it – to end free speech so that the only speech left standing will be their speech. The best way to do that, apparently, is to claim that masking affords them some degree of self-defense which is laughable seeing as a right to self-defense affords all other rights, at least one of which is expressions Antifa hides it collectivist face to suppress.

One group brings a microphone and Antifa brings a bat. Okay, we can debate whether bringing a bat to someone else’s public expression of speech (dressed like a dime-store ninja) is itself protected speech but the police asking you to leave it behind (especially when you were not invited) is not an act of violence against you nor is their detaining your bat (or you and your badass masked self) in the name of public safety should you decline to part with it or vacate the area.

Since the police have not consistently demonstrated an ability to dissuade Antifa thugs from violence it follows that neither has their conspicuous absence. The common denominator here being Antifa using force (or the threat of it) to stop speech Democrats (coincidentally) oppose.

To that end, or more accurately to try and put an end to that, the office of the bill’s Sponsor (Rep. Dan Donovan R- NY) told The Federalist Papers that their unmasking bill, HR 6054,

 “expands upon long-standing civil rights statutes to make it a crime to deprive someone of Constitutionally-guaranteed protections while masked or disguised. Americans have the natural right to speak and protest freely; it is not a right to throw Molotov cocktails and beat people while hiding behind a mask.”

I’ll add that there is no right to throw Molotov cocktails and beat people without a mask. I’ll also add that all law is force just after the fact.

Antifa likes to work before the fact and to that end could show up masked, with signs (held with or without ax handles), peacefully expressing an alternate view.

They could also stage a counter-protest “across the street” dressed as angry purple-haired vaginas.

What they can’t do is use threats or violence to stop other’s from speaking which is not only what they are there to do, but it is a tactic advocated by the Democrats who (coincidentally) oppose the speech suppressed by these threats of violence.

Tactics used in California when Mr. Obama’s IRS (coincidentally) released the donor list supporting the resolution to make marriage between one man and one woman to militant activists that opposed the measure. “Activists” who went after the jobs, lives, and families of everyday American’s.

The point was to send a message to everyone else. You think you can hide but we will find you and terrorize you.

It is a masking/unmasking contradiction that is not (coincidentally) a coincidence.

Nor is the left’s lack of response to any act of bullying, threats, or violence against women, blacks, gays, trans, or anyone who is not behind their movement, masked or not. That’s how they roll – your ass if you don’t do what they say.

But to hear the Grand Dragon Keagle Comrade Anarchist Terror Leader of yet another left-wing intimidation group invoke his anonymity as self-defense to protect their right to free speech while they are assembled to silence the speech of others is ridiculous.

It suggests that “masking” in all its forms is “an act of self-defense often necessary to ensure one’s right to free speech.”  So the left is going to abandon their so-called fight for transparency in campaign finance? Not a chance.

Pass all the laws you want. They are nothing more than an expression an “institution” that socialists like Antifa the groups behind intimidating Trump administrators in public, and the open-borders folks looking to dismantle ICE, seek to destroy.

All of whom (coincidentally) vote Democrat.

 

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