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Rose City Antifa Distances Itself From Protesters Who Smashed Windows, Vandalized Property The group says protests that are not in direct opposition to the far right are more aptly described as “anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, or another term.” Portland police officers observe a J20 protest on Inauguration Day. (Chris Nesseth) Updated February 2 In an email to local media Feb. 1, Rose City Antifa seemed to distance itself from recent protests that have led to vandalism. Rose City Antifa has not been organizing recent protests, although we stand in solidarity with those who express opposition to current systems of oppression, the Portland anti-fascist group, founded in 2007, wrote.
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Murmurs: Mayor Will Have Security Protection in Public Settings In other news: Kotek aims to decriminalize homelessness. DESPERATE MEASURES: House Speaker Tina Kotek presided over two previous special sessions of the Oregon Legislature. Updated February 3
MAYOR WILL HAVE SECURITY PROTECTION IN PUBLIC SETTINGS: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler will now have a security detail with him nearly every time he goes out in public following the Jan. 24 pepper-spraying by the mayor of a lawyer who followed him to his car outside a McMenamins pub. The mayor has enhanced security measures, and we believe they will be effective in protecting the mayor s safety, said Jim Middaugh, a spokesman for Wheeler. Given recent events, the mayor will be using that service more frequently and virtually any time he is in a public settin
Antifa’s True Goals and Tactics Exposed: Andy Ngo
Antifa is both an ideology and a movement that uses intimidation and violence to oppose capitalism and anybody who disagrees with its far-left, anarchist political agenda, says journalist Andy Ngo, an expert on the anarcho-communist group.
In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described Antifa as more of an ideological movement than an organization.
“Antifa is a real thing. It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement, or an ideology may be one way of thinking of it,” Wray said, acknowledging that Antifa does have “small groups,” or “nodes.”
(Image credit Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia)
Antifa is the muscle, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other non-profits help pick the targets, and anyone who points out their totalitarian intolerance is called a fascist, promptly canceled, or burned in effigy. That’s the crazy Leftist triangulation playing out these days on the streets of Portland and in many other riot-prone American cities. Journalist Andy Ngo knows this all too well.
The angry red communist comrades of antifa and BLM have tried to cancel the Portland-based journalist but Ngo told PJ Media that it obviously hasn’t worked out too well for them. Antifa “protesters” beat him senseless and sent him to the hospital with brain damage in 2019, engaged in a sustained smear campaign against him due to his coverage of the group, and basically put out a hit on him, but Andy Ngo’s still standing. And thriving.