So last night I wrote about the crazies who are practicing to be the next Lee Harvey Oswald.
In a related vein, Antifa has been in the news a few times lately. The first major headline a few months ago was that a group of Antifa who attacked ICE in Texas were successfully prosecuted and sentenced to serious prison time.
Then this week up in Minnesota about a dozen more were arrested for both obstruction of law enforcement but also threats of violence against officers.
So, what we’re seeing is the Trump administration’s decision to brand Antifa a domestic terrorism organization and prosecute its members as co-conspirators is bearing fruit. If one member has a gun or a knife but the rest of the gang funnel victims his way, he’ll get the lion’s share of the sentence, but they all get to enjoy a part of the jail term. Nice!
But the latest fun news item came from James O’Keefe. You remember that intrepid undercover reporter from his hilarious expose on Anthony Wiener and his wiener. But also, for the work he did exposing ACORN as an NGO scam. But in his most interesting new work his organization managed to crack into a New Jersey Antifa group called NJ BURN. They got access to the Signal chat group used by this Antifa cell and managed to identify a large number of the Antifa members. They were a mix of the usual students and dirtbags but also professors, computer scientists and even politicians.
Well, that’s got to feel like a kick in the head for these guys. When law enforcement and the general public know that you’ve been supporting Antifa and a whole year of your communications including information on tactics and resources have been exposed, that can’t be helpful for a terrorist organization. And it’s also kind of embarrassing to get outsmarted by a tiny media company that doesn’t have the resources or scope of the FBI or the Justice Department.
Anyway, my takeaway is that these guys are going to start feeling a lot more heat than they used to and the less radical members with actual lives may decide that going to prison for a few years is more of a commitment than a computer programmer cares to invest into social justice. But the real breakthrough has been identifying the NGOs that have been supporting the “activists” who wander from city to city acting as the shock troops for these operations. These organizations pay the rent, food bills, gas, transportation, legal fees and medical costs for the protestors and probably various supplies that they use in their riots.
I hope that in the near future we’ll hear of additional prosecutions and eventually this should put a real damper on the anti-ICE movement and if done correctly might eventually depopulate Portland, Oregon. But seriously, I once again have to give Trump high marks for working his Justice Department through the maze of left-wing allies that have protected Antifa up till now and prevented these disgusting people from being locked away where they belong, in prison.
