The brutal murder of Israeli Embassy diplomats Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim by a Marxist Hamas-supporter is the latest example of the culmination of academia-spawned progressivism and the left’s tendency to condone violence if the ends justify the means, says Glenn Beck.
Too long have leftists, many of whom are in our government, directly and indirectly applauded criminality. Some of them have even engaged in it themselves. Two judges were recently arrested and charged with allegedly helping illegal immigrants evade the law. The party as a whole is currently fighting tooth and nail to prevent the deportations of illegal immigrants — even the ones with ghastly criminal records.
Earlier this month, three New Jersey representatives and Newark mayor Ras Baraka stormed a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Baraka was arrested and charged with trespassing, and Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) was charged with two counts of assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement.
Back in December, leftists across the country praised Luigi Mangione as a hero for murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Several Democrat lawmakers used his death to advocate for universal health care, suggesting that Thompson’s murder was the result of understandable public outrage over systemic issues in the health care system.
Tesla dealerships and vehicles have gone up in flames. Pregnancy centers and pro-life groups across the country have been ruthlessly attacked. Left-wing riots continue to rage in every major city. Donald Trump was nearly assassinated twice.
Nobody can deny at this point that the left is the party of violence.
But “why would the Democrats be going this way? Why would they be standing up for murderers?” asks Glenn.
After Kamala Harris’ loss, you’d think the party would be trying to get back in the good graces of the American people. Condoning criminality certainly won’t help with that endeavor.
But what if regaining popularity is not the end goal?
“That may not be the plan,” says Glenn. “Revolution and direct action stuff — that's what they're trained to do; it's the highest calling of the left. This isn't about politics; this is about a Marxist worldview that has been baked into the minds of several generations of Americans through our university classrooms.”
“The classroom is where you train students to see everything through [the oppressor vs. the oppressed] lens,” says Glenn, pointing to Paulo Freire’s 1968 book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” which outlines his ideology that classrooms are “battlegrounds for social action” rather than academic learning centers.
“[Freire’s] critical pedagogy is still the dominant theory in teacher education programs today,” which is why universities are “churning out radicals,” he explains.
This oppressor vs. oppressed framework has become “the new morality,” and that’s what’s really fueling Democrats’ engagement in and tolerance for crime.
Glenn believes that widespread BLM-level riots are being plotted across the country right now.
“It’s coming,” he warns, pointing to Governors Safeguarding Democracy — an anti-Trump coalition of Democratic governors led by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Colorado Governor Jared Polis and guided by Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics official and a key figure in Trump’s first impeachment.
This group, Glenn explains, is actively working to oppose President Trump’s immigration policies through a coordinated strategy outlined in a document called "Firewall for Freedom,” which includes model executive orders for governors to block National Guard deployments they don’t approve and to withhold state resources (i.e., time, money, or facilities) from federal immigration enforcement efforts.
In an April speech, Pritzker called for “mass protests,” “mobilization,” and “disruption.”
“These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he said.
“This is what happens when the system turns out activists instead of thinkers — violence is excused as resistance,” and “governors weaponize their authority to defy the will of the American people,” says Glenn.
“This is a coordinated effort to destabilize America rooted in decades of Marxist indoctrination. That's what's happening in America. That's what's coming.”
To hear more of his commentary, watch the clip above.
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After two Israeli diplomats were murdered in Washington, D.C., it couldn’t be more clear that America has a left-wing violence problem, and the left-wing media refuses to acknowledge it.
“You’ve got polls about political violence. Democrats don’t think it’s a good idea. Only Republicans, only people inclined to consume conservative media, are now, I think upwards of 50%, say that if necessary, violence is okay,” host Nicolle Wallace boldly claimed on an MSNBC segment.
“You’ve only got the conduct on one of the two sides,” she added.
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” isn’t having it.
“Okay, all right, let's go back to 2016, the police ambush, Dallas Police Department, the congressional baseball shooting, that was a Bernie bro that carried that one out, the Tacoma ICE facility firebombing in 2019, the Antifa shooting of a Patriot Prayer member in Portland in 2020, the, of course, mostly peaceful BLM riots in 2020 as well,” Gonzales lists.
“Of course, you’ve got Thomas Matthew Crooks who shot and nearly killed Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, who was also an ActBlue donor, Ryan Routh, a Ukraine fanatic and an ActBlue donor, also tried to, of course, ambush and kill Donald Trump just a few months later,” she continues.
But she’s not done.
“May 2025, there was an Antifa arson on the University of Washington — by the way, that’s not even counting all of the pop-up protests, riots across college campuses, Harvard, all of these Ivy League schools, and now we have another case of left-wing violence we can add to the list: the slaying of two Israeli diplomats,” she explains.
The man suspected of killing the Israeli diplomats was captured on video yelling “free Palestine.”
“The left didn’t just ignore the story; many radicals just basically celebrated the murders by showing solidarity on social media,” Gonzales explains, noting that in the comment sections of videos about the shooting, there’s an onslaught of users calling the murderer a “hero” and reciting “free Palestine.”
“America has a left-wing violence problem,” Gonzales concludes, adding, “Of course, they’re going to gaslight you and claim that it’s the GOP, that it’s white supremacy, that it’s all the other things other than what you’re seeing, what you’re watching happen before your very eyes.”
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It might seem as though leftists have had their way without any problem at all since Joe Biden got elected president in 2020. Seems as though the federal government, the legacy media, lawmakers, and Democrats have simply looked the other way while the lawless left took over on the streets and made many people's lives a living hell.
But there have been some brights spots, some glimmers of light and hope while trouble pressed in like a starless night.
'You're being condescending, and if you want to continue, I'll have Port Authority escort you out of the building if you want to play that game with me. Would you like to continue three days before Christmas? I really don't mind.'
The fact is that a number of individuals have courageously taken it upon themselves to stand up to leftist threats, violence, and nonsense in general — and when it seemed that the cards were stacked against them.
How about a lone, white-haired elderly man who got so fed up with unpredictable Black Lives Matter protesters that he emerged from a restaurant in Louisville and pointed a gun at them? Kinda changed the tone of the entire incident. Or how about Trump supporters who ended up singing the national anthem after leftists attacked them following the 2020 election? Or a gutsy woman who dared an armed punk to shoot her during a broad-daylight robbery in Washington, D.C.? Or a lone Guardian Angel refusing to back down as BLM protesters tried to intimidate him?
America is full of stories like this: regular people who have had enough of the left's violence, chaos, and lawlessness. Everyday folks who decided to stand up and say "enough!" It's high time we take back normalcy — and these folks gave us part of the road map.
Let's give them a rousing slow clap:
Video shows a Louisville restaurant patron putting a bit of a scare into Black Lives Matter marchers on the evening of May 1, 2021, as he pointed a handgun at the protesters who were freaking out around sidewalk tables in front of La Chasse. The Courier-Journal reported that the protesters' demonstration coincided with the 147th Kentucky Derby and was in memory of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police the previous year.
Just after 8:30 p.m., the protesters stopped outside the restaurant, and a man watching from the restaurant's patio pulled a gun and pointed it at the marchers amid a confrontation, the paper said.
It's not clear what led to the scary scene, but there are numerous examples of leftist protesters caught on video harassing and terrorizing restaurant patrons at their tables in the name of their causes — such as one infamous clip of a cowardly mob surrounding and chanting at a lone individual in Washington, D.C., in August 2020.
But the armed restaurant patron in Louisville wasn't about to let anything like that happen to him. The white-haired gentleman simply pointed his small handgun at the protesters, who hollered and made gestures — but dared not get anywhere near him.
One of the protesters was heard hollering at the man, "You're not the only one with a gun!" Indeed, a pair of men armed with rifles and handguns who appeared to be acting as security for the protesters were seen facing down the white-haired patron and arguing with him.
The paper said other protesters told the group to keep moving, and a few minutes later several Louisville police cruisers pulled up in front of the restaurant. The Courier-Journal didn't indicate if any arrests were made. The video ends with the white-haired man and another man being led inside the restaurant as the more heavily armed men watch them leave the scene.
On the Saturday after numerous media outlets declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election, a large group of Donald Trump supporters faced off against Antifa militants in Olympia, Washington.
Trump backers lined streets and even gathered on the steps of the state Capitol to wave American and pro-Trump flags and chant "back the blue!" — a pro-police rallying cry. And while chants of "USA! USA! USA!" rang out, black-clad Antifa militants managed several cries of "f*** the USA!" and "f*** America" and stomped on Old Glory. The pro-Trump crowd also told them off with chants of "get a job!" and "f*** Antifa!"
Soon the verbal war of words turned violent, as a brawl ensued between the groups and police responded with a flash-bang and what appeared to be rounds of non-lethal munitions. One witness mentioned that Antifa militants were "attacking two women," and then a man bleeding from his eyebrow — presumably a Trump supporter — confirmed that Antifa attacked him as well. In another clip, two pro-Trump women described the Antifa attack. One said she was punched from behind as a leftist militant tried to steal her pro-Trump flag, and the second woman said a gang of Antifa thugs jumped her.
But soon a distinct sound was heard in the background. It was singing. A bit off-key, a tad ragged — but singing nonetheless. It was the national anthem. That's right. The pro-Trump crowd answered the cowardice and destruction that have become Antifa's trademark with a statement of hard-won freedom and liberty — even for the likes of those who would rather stomp all over it.
A Washington, D.C., woman was caught on surveillance video standing up to an armed would-be robber who demanded her keys Aug. 23, 2022, flatly telling him "No!" and daring him to pull the trigger.
"Shoot me!" she commanded the masked gunman.
He eventually left the scene without firing a shot, and Iris Bond Gill told WTTG-TV all about her harrowing ordeal.
She parked her vehicle just after 3:20 p.m. and was standing on 10th Street NE looking through her purse when the hooded suspect approached her. Clearly startled, Bond Gill screamed at the sight of the armed male, throwing her dark bag and dropping her red purse on the street before putting her hands up. But an instant later, Bond Gill got downright confrontational, hollering "What the f***!" and walking toward the gunman.
She told WTTG the would-be crook called her an expletive, ordered her to turn over her keys, and insisted, "I’ll shoot you." But Bond Gill is heard on the clip defiantly telling the crook, "No!" and adding a challenge while staring him down in the street: "Shoot me!"
Soon the suspect backs up and begins to move away as Bond Gill claps her hands and appears to holler at the gunman. He then moves toward Bond Gill again, points at her, and even raises his gun at her, apparently pretending to shoot as she flinches. But Bond Gill won the standoff, and the crook took off for good.
You can view a video report here about the incident.
"I’ve seen the video, and to be honest, I saw a young man in front of me [like] a lot of young people I’ve worked with over the years," Bond Gill explained to the station, noting she's worked in the education field for a long time. "And in some way, I think I went into almost a chastising mode with him as well."
She added to WTTG that she's not encouraging others to react the way she did, only emphasizing that it was her gut reaction, and she believes in trusting your gut: "You know, it’s really complicated to think about now. I don’t exactly remember, but I know — I knew I was in danger. And so I just threw off my bag and just prepared to be confrontational."
When WTTG asked Bond Gill what she hopes people will take away from her scary encounter, she replied, "We need stronger communities. You see the suspect back away when a car comes, but no one stopped to help or was really able to intervene."
"I think there’s power in community in many ways, and I think one, you know, we can advocate for more lights and more cameras and certainly community policing is a part of that and boots on the ground. But it was actually a camera in someone’s house. And it was a car that drove by, that was not driven by anyone official — but just an individual that sort of scared him off," she explained to the station. "Gone are the days of having older neighbors that sat on the porch all day and watched and waved to you when you got home from work. I think in some ways, trying to think about how to preserve this intergenerational neighborhood is so valuable. We’ve lost so much of that in the city with massive displacement. So I think just having more people around that know each other and that support each other would be really helpful."
Bond Gill also told WTTG she hopes others remember the importance of situational awareness, adding that she was distracted while rummaging through her purse when the suspect approached. D.C. police told the station no arrests have been made.
A Delta Airlines employee went viral over the 2023 Christmas holiday for standing up to a transgender activist who was causing a scene for allegedly having been "misgendered."
The video shows transgender actor Tommy Dorfman — a biological man who identifies as a woman — confronting Delta Air Lines gate agents at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Dec. 23. The video doesn't show what happened prior to the confrontation, but the Delta employees are clearly upset that they can't help other customers because Dorfman is causing a scene. Dorfman's grievance was that employees "intentionally" misgendered him by not using female pronouns to refer to him, a charge one of the employees denied.
When Dorfman reiterated his accusation, the primary gate agent stood his ground: "You're being condescending, and if you want to continue, I'll have Port Authority escort you out of the building if you want to play that game with me. Would you like to continue three days before Christmas? I really don't mind."
"I'm good," Dorfman conceded.
The video originally was uploaded to Dorfman's TikTok account but has since been taken down. In his description of the incident, Dorfman accused the Delta employee of a "human rights violation." He said, according to the Washington Examiner:
When you try to advocate for yourself at @delta and are met with even more transphobia and threats of being arrested at LaGuardia. Tristan, the employee, said he was fine with me posting this. Didn't realize it was condescending to flag a human rights violation after another employee misgendered me incessantly.
The Examiner said Dorfman confirmed on TikTok that Port Authority was dispatched over the incident: "The man actually called Port Authority. Two police officers actually showed up ~10 min later and spoke to me and my partner about the incident."
A lone Guardian Angel was seen on video standing up to multiple Black Lives Matter demonstrators who tried to bully him during BLM's September 2021 protest of Carmine's restaurant in New York City. At least one protester also yelled multiple anti-gay slurs, but the Guardian Angel wasn't about to let that slide, either.
Video caught the moment when a BLM demonstrator wearing a black ski mask accosted the lone Guardian Angel, yelling "suck d**k!" in his ear.
"You don't like gay people?" the Guardian Angel replied to the BLM protester. Fox News said the Guardian Angel was identified as Joshua Penner.
The BLM protester replied, "I love gay people," and said that his brother is gay — but the protester's homophobic language continued: "Suck d**k, bitch!"
Soon others in the crowd begin to move toward Penner and holler at him, but the Guardian Angel kept his cool — and didn't move an inch. In fact, at one point the BLM protesters — one of them on a bullhorn — ordered him to leave, but Penner refused and told the crowd, "I live here."
Amazingly, the BLM protesters backed down and decided to be the ones to clear the area instead. You can view video here of the incident.
"He withstood a lot of verbal abuse and physical threatening," Guardian Angels leader Curtis Sliwa said, according to Fox News, which cited WABC-AM. "He stood there and didn't get sucked into the cursing, finger-pointing, and harassment. All they do is sell wolf tickets in order to fall into their trap." Sliwa added that "they were there to cause trouble — that's all they ever do is cause trouble."
Blaze News readers may recall a terrifying 2021 incident in Portland during which heavily armed leftists surrounded and threatened a lone motorist who soon got fed up and pointed his own gun at them. The following is the rest of the story.
Joseph Hall — a 53-year-old handyman — said he was simply trying to get home after his May 6 workday. However, he was soon involved in an armed standoff with militant leftists who had closed off roads as part of their protests against police brutality. Hall ended up in the hospital with several broken bones and other serious injuries after the black-clad militants beat him up.
A moped allegedly cut off Hall's red pickup truck, and a male with a handheld radio ordered Hall to stop. Hall said another vehicle blocked his path, "and all of a sudden I have three or four people around me." Some members of the group pointed their rifles at Hall.
Hall told the Oregonian how the situation escalated:
Hall said he grabbed hold of a non-lethal handgun that can shoot hard pellets to try to get the people to clear the way and hadn't realized there was a march until people circled his truck. He said he heard a woman outside on a megaphone yelling at the crowd to let him go, but the people continued to block his truck and call him a "Nazi."
"They're screaming and yelling at me, claiming I was out there trying to run people over. That's when I discovered a march was going on," he said. "I was trapped. A vehicle in front of me trapped me in. I couldn't go forward or around."
Hall is seen on video standing outside the driver's seat of his red pickup, his door open, holding the firearm, while a man standing in the street points a rifle at him at North Alberta Street and Michigan Avenue. Hall can be heard yelling: "You have about five seconds to lower that weapon," as others respond that his truck is a weapon.
Hall said he stepped out of his pickup and someone snatched the keys from the truck. When he went around to the back of the truck, he said several people in the crowd remained hostile and pointed handguns and rifles at him. He said he then pulled his .38-caliber pistol from his pants and headed into the fray.
"I'm trained in the military to walk towards the threat and fight your way through the threat," said Hall. He said he served in the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army and has a concealed weapons permit out of Columbia County.
Video shows one of the protesters shoving Hall and another tackling him from behind. Other militants punched, kicked, and held Hall on the ground. Hall's .38-caliber gun popped out of his hand and was stolen, and he added that other firearms and tools were stolen from his truck during the attack.
Hall was taken to a hospital for a partially collapsed left lung, two fractured vertebrae, a broken collarbone, five broken ribs, and head trauma. Despite his injuries, Hall told KPTV-TV, "I stood my ground, and I would do it all over again."
Hall filed a police report for assault and said he would be pursuing bias crime charges based on what the mob was shouting at him.
A furious lone man was caught on video confronting a large group of left-wing militants gathered in front of police on the night of April 14, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where protests and riots had ensued following the police-involved fatal shooting of Daunte Wright.
Independent journalist Brendan Gutenschwager posted video showing the confrontation, noting that the man "briefly tried taming the line of umbrellas" and stood "between them and police" and was "discouraging agitation" of officers.
It isn't clear who the man is, but it's most definitely clear that leftist protesters toting their umbrellas to hide their identities have inflicted violence upon others in the streets and damaged and destroyed property.
"Don't you dare start this s**t!" he yelled at the group, grabbing one of the umbrellas and pointing his finger through the opening. "Not here tonight! Not here tonight!"
At one point the man's body shook as he clenched his fists and jumped in place while screaming at the mob. One of the militants hollered back at the man that "they're the ones that are starting that s**t!" presumably in reference to police. Another militant who sounded like a female yelled at the man, "Yo! Get the f*** outta here!"
Another militant questioned why the group should be "peaceful" and then screamed at police, "There's no such thing as f***ing peaceful! You f***ing killed from the beginning, bro! F*** you!" The man began trying to engage the latter militant when the clip ended.
A small-town police department in Texas stood its ground amid a social media firestorm that resulted from a selfie one of its deputies took with Kyle Rittenhouse.
On Aug. 11, 2022, the Facebook account of the Thrall Police Department in Williamson County posted a photo of an unidentified deputy with Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of all charges in the shooting deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and the shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz during the 2020 Kenosha riots.
The initial post using a photo of Rittenhouse with the officer read: "Make those stops, you never know who you might meet. Today it was Kyle Rittenhouse, welcome to Texas."
As you might guess, a swarm of critical comments ensued. But instead of backing down, the department doubled down and added the following message to the original post: "I must have missed something, I believed that this young man was arrested, charged, indicted, and then found not guilty by a jury of his peers. Is this not how our country works anymore? The hate in these comments is terrible; if you have information that is contrary to that I would honestly love to hear it." It's unclear how the unnamed deputy and Rittenhouse met.
Stratis Morfogen, owner of several popular New York City restaurants, refused to comply with the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandates in January 2022 — and even challenged Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to arrest him over his resistance.
Speaking with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Morfogen said he wouldn't fire any employees over politician-enacted vaccine mandates: "I'm not doing the mandate, and I told Gov. Hochul to come and arrest me."
He added, "I'm not doing it because, first of all, the employees we have, these were our heroes. In the early part of COVID, we fed 8,400 health care workers. I'm not firing these people for a jab, for a job."
Morfogen also said "none of this makes sense" and that a fully vaccinated person who possesses a legitimate COVID-19 vaccination card is a "superspreader ... because I can have a vax card, I can be asymptomatic-positive, and I can walk into my crowded restaurant ... and I can spread it to everyone!"
You can view a video here of the interview.
The captain of the University of Nevada women's volleyball team told Blaze News in an October exclusive interview that she's disappointed her school decided not to support the team's decision to forfeit a game against a squad with a transgender player.
"Unfortunately our university decided not to back us, and they decided they're going to have the match as scheduled," Nevada Wolf Pack captain Sia Liilii said.
As Blaze News previously reported, the women's volleyball team at San Jose State University features 6'1" male athlete Blaire Fleming, born Brayden. Fleming's presence on the SJSU squad has been the unofficial reason behind a number of opponent forfeitures, including by teams at Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State, and Wyoming. Even Fleming's own teammate has spoken out about the unfair advantage the male athlete has over female players.
Nevada was next in line to withdraw from a match against SJSU after the Wolf Pack players released a statement announcing their refusal to participate in a match that would jeopardize their safety. However, school officials decided to override the will of the players and declare that the match against SJSU would proceed as scheduled. The University of Nevada claimed the players made their decision and statement "independently" and "without consultation with the University or the athletic department."
However, Liilii said she and her teammates tried to go through the proper channels and inform school administrators how they felt, but the university still decided to push forward with the scheduled match: "The vast majority of us decided that this isn't right, [that] we need to protect women's sports, and we're going to forfeit."
She added, "To know that the university didn't acknowledge the fact that we're the team that is going to play against [Fleming] was really frustrating, and the way they went about it was not OK."
Liilii said administrators later scheduled a meeting with the team to apologize and let players know the school would not be punishing them if they choose to sit out against SJSU — and she believed the school was finding a way to distance itself from the players' stance while still following state and NCAA rules surrounding gender diversity.
Soon after Liilii spoke to Blaze News, the San Jose State-Nevada women's volleyball game scheduled for Oct. 26 was moved to California "in the best interest of both programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, athletic staff and spectators," the University of Nevada said.
Then just one day before the game, Nevada officials finally announced a forfeit "due to not having enough players to compete," the school reportedly said.
"This is what bravery looks like, this is what leadership looks like," women's sports advocate Riley Gaines stated in a news conference coinciding with the game's scheduled start. "Certainly more bravery and leadership than the people who are supposed to be protecting them have shown."
Gaines then introduced Liilii, who received a standing ovation upon taking the podium and was brought to tears as she prepared to deliver her remarks: "I never expected to be blindsided ... having to compete against a male athlete. When the news broke, I was stunned, as many of my teammates were. This is not what we signed up for."
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In July 2020, far-left U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) — chairman of the House Judiciary Committee at that time — said on camera incredulously that Antifa violence that had been documented night after night that summer in Portland, Oregon, is a "myth."
A month before, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — who now chairs the Judiciary Committee — blasted Nadler for calling Antifa "imaginary."
But it does no good for those who sit in power on the far left to acknowledge Antifa's lawlessness because its militant, psychotic pseudo-soldiers do the dirty work of leftist elites.
"They're not imaginary; they're real," Jordan said to House members, adding that "to have the chair of the Judiciary Committee, on the House floor, say ... these words ... 'imaginary things like Antifa.' They are far from imaginary. And there are people in every major city in this country who know that, and yet the chair of the Judiciary Committee just made that statement. That is scary."
What's more, during a September 2020 presidential debate, then-Democrat nominee Joe Biden told then-President Donald Trump that FBI director Christopher Wray said "Antifa's an idea, not an organization."
While Wray confirmed in testimony before Congress earlier in September 2020 that "Antifa is a real thing," he did say it's "not a group or an organization. It's a movement, or an ideology may be one way of thinking of it."
Well, readers of Blaze News know all too well that Antifa is all too real. We know for a fact that the collection of violent, black-clad left-wing militants is organized in regional and local groups throughout the U.S. — and they view it as their calling to attack police, set fires, destroy property, and roam the streets looking to intimidate all those who get in their way.
But it does no good for those who sit in power on the far left to acknowledge Antifa and its lawlessness because Antifa members — psychotic pseudo-soldiers one and all — do the dirty work of leftist elites.
The following are a few stark reminders of why it's still crucial to deal swiftly and harshly with Antifa.
Conservative radio host Jason Rantz of KTTH-AM posted truly enlightening cellphone video — apparently recorded on the sly — showing a group of "radical activists, including Antifa" holding an outdoor meeting in Seattle on the night of April 16, 2021, following their usual violent street hijinks.
During their chat, the "comrades" — a term actually uttered by one freedom fighter in the clip — discuss strategy, pat themselves on the back after they "fought with the pigs," and emphasize not to discuss with anyone that they've met or their activities, as well as other methods to keep authorities at bay.
Shockingly, one militant tells the group that "autonomous doesn't mean unorganized. So we do have to make decisions as a crew, as a team." Seriously, since when do "myths" and "ideas" band together like ... an organization?
Another militant suggests that next time out, they divide themselves into groups dressed as "black bloc" and "plain clothes" in order to prevent police from identifying members according to attire. In addition, another militant reminds members to look at the "Seattle [Black Lives Matter] calendar" and other groups' activities to keep informed.
Prior to departing, one militant adds, "Once we de-bloc and leave, you weren't at this autonomous action. So you don't go home and talk about it. You didn't see anything; you didn't talk to anybody." Another group member chimes in, "Our general policy is, 'I didn't see s**t or know s**t.' If somebody asks you what you did Friday night — 'nothin'.'"
Others also offer tips about phones, primarily to keep them turned off, to "get a burner if you can," to avoid phones "tied to you personally," and to make them password-protected with "no bio, no face, no thumb."
Toward the end, another woman tells the group, "While we're not necessarily out in the streets every night, we are doing actions every night. We're sharing information, we're watching livestreams, we're educating ourselves, we're educating our peers, our families, our friends. So keep that momentum up." She adds that there's plenty to be done to aid the "revolution."
The militants also express a desire for "more organization" as well as concerns about being "infiltrated," especially since they're in a "vulnerable location" and "the longer we stay here, the easier it is for them to start picking out people as they walk out."
A supporter of former President Donald Trump told KGO-TV that he infiltrated an Antifa group in Sonoma County, California, and collected recordings of the far-left violent militants making threats against police and even preparing major action for May 1, 2021 — also known as May Day.
Here's a sampling:
Group Leader: "It's May Day, baby, like come out and take, take somethin' over with us, I don't, I don't [bleep]-ing know."
Member: "Let's kill people [laughs]."
Group Leader: "Let's kill some cops."
The Trump supporter who infiltrated Antifa appeared on camera in an interview with the station, but his face and voice were disguised. He told KGO he saved messages, documents, and recordings of the Antifa group's meetings.
You can view a video report about the infiltration here; it includes KGO's interview with the Trump supporter who infiltrated Antifa.
The infiltrator gave KGO the group's "target list," which included former Santa Rosa Police Officer Barry Brodd, who testified for the defense as an expert on use of force in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd.
Four days after Brodd's testimony defending Chauvin, the station said masked figures in black threw a severed pig head and pig blood at the house where Brodd used to live.
The infiltrator told the station, "So I saw that they were here, I read their manifesto, and I could tell that they were a threat to the community, and somebody needed to do something about this."
More from KGO:
The manifesto posted online for SoCo [Sonoma County] Radical Action or SRA says, "Do not hesitate, do not wait ... the brick in the street is meant to be thrown! The paint in the can is meant to be sprayed! The cop in your head is meant to be killed!"
The Trump supporter was able to join the group that communicates through the encrypted messaging app Wickr.
The infiltrator added to the station that, "I said, 'Comrade, you know ... I want to smash the system the same as you,' [to] make them not feel alone, because that's what they really want to hear, to know that there's more people like them."
More from KGO:
The I-Team has learned the group's leader who goes by the screen name "Marb" is a 25-year-old college student, who was arrested for "felony assault on a police officer" last year at this Oakland riot after the death of George Floyd; the district attorney declined to file charges. The Trump supporter says he made this recording in March, when Marb discussed naming the group "SoCo Antifa." [...]
The infiltrator tells the I-Team he copied what the group calls its "target list," people they want to "dox" — to publish their private information, their addresses and phone numbers, to surveil them for possible vandalism. After his testimony, they placed Brodd at the top of the list and within an hour of the attack on his former house, Marb is back on Wickr at 3:48 a.m. telling the group, "Hey y'all, late notice, but some comrades took action at a house owned by Barry Brodd and if someone could swing by in the morning and get pictures, our comrades would be very grateful!"
The target list also includes the head of the deputy sheriffs' union — or "killer deputies," as Antifa calls them — as well as officers involved in fatal confrontations and Trump supporters like Sandy Metzger, the station said. Metzger, who heads the Santa Rosa Republican Women Federated, told KGO that she "really came out strongly against Antifa and [Black Lives Matter]."
When the station told her that she's on the target list, Metzger said it does concern her "a little bit, but that's not going to stop me from speaking out. Somebody has to speak out. And I feel very strong about some of these things." The recordings show the group has already checked out Metzger's house, KGO reported.
The infiltrator told the station he's been in touch with the sheriff's department and Santa Rosa police about the potential threats.
KGO's Dan Noyes said Marb refused his attempts for an interview with him, but the infiltrator actually intercepted a message from the group leader about "Dan Noyes at ABC7 asking about SRA. ...To firmly restate our position, nobody, myself included, should cooperate with press or cops."
The infiltrator added to the station that his interactions with SoCo Radical Action began last year — and he wanted to do something about the group.
"It felt like seeing Antifa getting sort of a pass all the time from government," he told KGO, "saying they don't exist, saying that they're a myth, saying that they're just an idea. You know, when obviously, they are very real, and they're a big threat."
The station reported that since it has been working on the story, Marb has been taking down his social media, both the public and private accounts.
San Diego prosecutors on Dec. 6, 2021, charged multiple Antifa militants with conspiracy to commit a riot, saying they physically attacked supporters of former President Donald Trump the previous January, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The kicker? A criminal complaint said the arrestees "are self-identified to be affiliated with Anti-fascists or Antifa" and began organizing themselves into San Diego- and Los Angeles-based groups a week before a pro-Trump "Patriot March" on Jan. 9, the paper said. Pretty nifty trick for "an idea, not an organization" and a "myth."
The office of District Attorney Summer Stephan, citing video evidence, said "overwhelmingly the violence in this incident was perpetrated by the Antifa affiliates and was not a mutual fray with both sides crossing out of lawful First Amendment expression into riot and violence,” the Union-Tribune said.
Videographer Sean Carmitchel recorded Antifa attacking people with pepper spray, sticks, a wooden folding chair, punches, and kicks — assaults prosecutors described in the complaint, the paper said, adding that several attacks noted in the complaint appear to match incidents recorded and shared online, such as an Antifa militant pepper-spraying a dog and its owner.
Those arraigned in San Diego Superior Court were with a group arrested in raids by police officers and sheriff’s deputies across Southern California, the Union-Tribune reported.
You can view a video report here about the Antifa violence in San Diego.
A follow-up Blaze News story in July reported that a San Diego judge threw the book at eight violent Antifa militants in connection with the January 2021 incident, bringing the total sentenced to 12.
You can view a video report here about the sentences.
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Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas covered firsthand Antifa militants fighting Chicago police outside the consulate of Israel on Aug. 20 amid protests against the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war. There were calls on social media to "make it great like '68," a reference to the riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Protesters wearing masks and all-black clothing raged not only against Democrats but also against the March on the DNC, the main organizer for protests this week — for being too peaceful. They argued that peaceful marches with help from the police betray the movement to "free Palestine."
After rallying outside the Israeli consulate, the crowd of around 300 started to march straight into a police line, after which a large fight broke out as police pushed and shoved the Antifa marchers back. At least one Antifa member was smacked in the mouth by a police baton. Multiple arrests were made as police grabbed marchers who refused to leave the area.
The protesters who were not initially arrested after the clash gathered themselves into a formation and held a standoff in the street with police, who had now vastly outnumbered the smaller crowd. On the other side of the police line, a few pro-Israel protesters rallied but left at the request of police for their safety.
Eventually, the Black Bloc marchers started walking around downtown, with police following them to ensure they stayed on the sidewalk. The protesters made it onto a street and refused to disperse. Police then declared the remaining crowd to be an unlawful assembly and moved in to arrest the remaining marchers who did not leave after the declaration was made.
A radical leftist was arrested April 10 in connection with a February bombing outside the office of Steve Marshall, Alabama's attorney general — a Republican — in Montgomery. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale was indicted on two felony counts of malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
Calvert, an anti-Israel "pansexual" and self-described engineer, apparently reckons himself part of the left-wing extremist group Antifa, which former President Donald Trump suggested in 2020 should be designated a domestic terrorist organization. Weeks ahead of the incident, Calvert showcased the same Antifa propaganda that was later found near the bomb site along with pro-abortion and LGBT agitprop.
The nail bomb was detonated around 3:42 a.m. Feb. 24. Marshall revealed in a statement that "thankfully, no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion." Court documents alleged that Calvert was spotted making his way to the AG's office at 3:35 a.m. There was an explosion several minutes later.
Prosecutors indicated that one of the stickers Calvert allegedly posted near the bomb site read, "SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ANTIFA." In a Jan. 10 video he originally shared to his TikTok page, referred to in his charging document, Calvert shows off stickers "of identical design to the stickers placed by the subject in and around the Alabama Statehouse and downtown Montgomery," along with stickers that read, "Smash the patriarchy," "Anti-fascism is community defense," and "Queer liberation, not rainbow capitalism."
Prosecutors emphasized that "Calvert is violent, and he is dangerous, just as he said. If Calvert is released, the danger to the community from a second offense is greatly increased." The DOJ noted that if convicted, Calvert faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years behind bars.
Five Antifa extremists were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in December 2022 after Georgia law enforcement finally responded to their violent months-long campaign aimed at halting the construction of a new police training center in Dekalb County's South River Forest.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that a task force composed of GBI agents, Atlanta police, the FBI, the DeKalb County Police Department, and other agencies executed a successful operation on Dec. 13 to remove leftist barricades from the entrances to Atlanta's new $90 million police training center and to clear the area of criminal activity.
The operation was prompted by "ongoing criminal activity at the site location," including "carjacking, various crimes against persons, destruction of property, arson, and attacks against public safety officials," wrote GBI spokesman Nelly Miles.
Leftist attacks and threats in the area have become a common occurrence in recent months.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in October that the extremists — keen on halting construction of what they called "Cop City" on city property — hurled Molotov cocktails at police. The leftist extremists reportedly also threatened contractors, destroyed equipment, and vandalized offices. Richard Porter claimed that when he stopped briefly in the area, he was set upon by people apparently living in the woods and wearing "camouflaged stuff." The extremists allegedly threw a "gas bomb" at Porter and then torched his truck.
WXIA reported that firefighters on Dec. 10 were dispatched to the area to put out a fire apparently set by the leftists. However, when they attempted to extinguish the flames, they were struck by rocks and firecrackers.
While leftist extremists reportedly pelted police and first responders alike with rocks and bottles on Dec. 13, police appear to have answered back with pepper balls.
The task force that addressed the extremist threat arrested 22-year-old Francis Carroll of Maine, 25-year-old Nicholas Olson of Nebraska, 25-year-old Serena Hertel of California, 20-year-old Leonardo Vioselle of Georgia, and 22-year-old Arieon Robinson of Wisconsin, each of whom have been charged with domestic terrorism. Vioselle was the only local among the five. The leftist extremists, held in jail without a bond, were also hit with various other charges, including criminal trespass, aggravated assault, obstruction, and interference with government property. The GBI indicated that police found "explosive devices, gasoline, and road flares" in their search of the "area of concern."
A journalist poet tied to Antifa on Oct. 7, 2022, was convicted of stabbing Proud Boy members at a Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the New York state Capitol. Alexander Contompasis was convicted by an Albany jury of first-degree assault and other charges.
While the rioting at the U.S. Capitol unfolded, surveillance video captured a fight between Trump supporters and Antifa supporters broke at the New York state Capitol protest. The Times Union obtained video of the attack, which showed two stabbings. A person was seen on the video swinging wildly at Trump supporters before police swept in to break up the fight. The attacker walked off as the video ends.
Multiple arrests were made in relation to the incident, and one of the victims suffered an eviscerated bowel. Police said they found a knife in Contompasis' car that they believed was used in the assault.
One of the stabbing victims said an Antifa member said to him after he was stabbed, "I'm coming for you. I know who you are. I know where you live." The suspect's attorney argued in his defense that he was just defending himself from an "unprovoked" Proud Boys attack. You can view video of the knife attack here.
Police later identified the suspect as Contompasis and charged him with the attack. Prosecutors noted that the man had published posts on social media supportive of the Antifa political group. He also identified himself as an independent journalist and a poet. He claimed that he was not a member of Antifa.
In addition to the first-degree assault charge, Contompasis was convicted of first-degree attempted assault, second-degree assault, and felony possession of a weapon. Prison records indicate the earliest date Contompasis could be released is Nov. 21, 2039.
Protests erupted across America after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, culminating in a Night of Rage in major cities on June 24, 2022 — and Antifa was front and center.
Antifa-linked pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge vowed to undertake the "night of rage," and black-bloc protesters wielding umbrellas marched through the streets of Washington, D.C. The group chanted slogans such as, "If abortion ain’t safe, neither are you," "If we don’t get it, burn it down," "Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground," and "F*** the church, f*** the state, we won't let them decide our fate." The protesters burned American flags. You can view related videos here, here, here, and here.
Commenting on a video recorded in Los Angeles, journalist Andy Ngo wrote that "a rioter at the #Antifa pro-abortion riot" used a "homemade flamethrower to try to burn police. Antifa also throw an explosive mortar firework right at @LAPDHQ officers. A suspect who tried to escape was arrested."
In Seattle, Antifa attacked and pepper-sprayed a pro-life woman, according to Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt. In addition, journalist Jonathan Choe posted video and wrote the following: "I was trying to record Antifa trying to break windows. Then the mutual aid far-left activists spotted me and pointed me out. This black bloc group may be [the] most emboldened crew ever. Knocked my phone down, but I picked up right away. Had to out run them. I’m OK."
Antifa reportedly assaulted videographer Mason Lake while he was covering Night of Rage protests in Portland, Oregon.
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A Georgia man was arraigned in federal court on Monday on charges related to allegedly making threats against two GOP senators and their families. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, 25-year-old Robert Davis Forney was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 10 […]
Just like the first attempt on Donald Trump's life, the media will be quick to move on, because they know they help inspire Democrat violence.
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