WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of court documents tell a different story.
“They said it was appropriate because the patrol car was used in interstate commerce.”
Why would a local or even a state patrol car even be used for interstate commerce? Do these idiots think that just because they use the interstate highway system they are going from state to state?
“Very few of those charged appear to be affiliated with highly organized extremist groups,”
Antifa itself isn’t a “highly organized extremist group”. They are neither “highly organized” nor “extremist”. Their core belief is “fascists are violent and bad”. That really doesn’t seem 'extremist" to me.
It has become necessary for the media to play along with Trump’s depiction of Antifa as a gang of violent extremists setting fires all over the country. This is what’s known in the business as a Big Lie. Antifa is nowhere near as large as right-wingers would have you believe.
It’s telling that, every time I ask somebody for evidence of Antifa’s crimes, I get pointed to the same “reporter”, Andy Ngo, a right-wing propagandist who has had a close working relationship with Proud Boys and similar groups.
‘Well sure…you are using FACTS and statistics…Donnie and Company are just lying for ‘politics’. It really isn’t fair to hold them accountable for their lies…just more biased Leftists trying to smear him because they hate him’…I can hear it now…
SCOTUS used the Interstate Commerce Clause to uphold prosecutions of local marijuana growers who were raising the crop legally under their state’s medical marijuana laws.
The Interstate Commerce Clause is really quite flexible, it would seem.
Why Trump’s _______ Against _______ Is Pretty Much Bogus
Dear TPM, might as well keep this headline handy for multiple daily uses until election day.
If a police vehicle is being used in any commerce we probably have a more important issue to deal with…
Maybe this article’s title could just be shortened to “Why Trump is All Bogus.”
Here is a little “Cheat Sheet” every moderator or Reporter or Journalist could use to counter Donald’s never ending, increasingly voiced lies. Daniel Dale is a great fact-checker:
This ANTIFA tag is used to deflect from the irrefutable fact that 90% of the rioting damage is actually caused by right-wingers. The Right has taken this narrative and run with it because no one challenges it. We saw this in Minneapolis. We saw this in other places where rioting took place. Images taken pulled the identification back to right-wingers coming from outside the area to make the left look bad.
This isn’t conjecture. This has been proven out by multiple media outlets.
They’ve been at it for a long time.
This one is a local case where they actually tried to confiscate an insurance payment for a wrecked vehicle they questionably seized.
Civil forfeiture, (A/K/A highway robbery) is a business model for LE across the country. They use it for funding equipment purchases for their departments.
Interesting quote I saw on a tweet reply to Scott Baio bitching about a Ron Howard tweet supporting Wisconsin Ds.
And unlike many internet memes, Truman actually said that.
Antifa = Emmanuel Goldstein.
Careful, Big Brother is watching.
Good I kinda wondered since I didn’t google and check it!
"It is highly unusual, and without precedent in recent American history,” said Ron Kuby, a longtime attorney who isn’t involved in the cases but has represented scores of clients over the years in protest-related incidents.
Kuby would know since he worked with William Kunstler for years.
Just popping in to say that it’s never ever a good idea to differentiate “good protesters” from “bad protesters”.
Part of why the civil rights movement was successful was that King et al understood this, and understood that nonviolence worked because it was presented as an alternative to violence, NOT, as the whitewashed narrative that nonviolence activated the conscience of the nation.
Part of why similar mass movements struggle today is that they don’t understand this, and divide protests into “good” and “bad” protesters.
Andy Ngo is a piece of shit. His fame comes from the ‘milkshake incident’ in which he claimed that a milkshake thrown at him had Quikset concrete in it. A friend of mine witnessed the incident from a few feet away: the shake was made with coconut milk; the person who tossed it at Ngo was being harassed by Ngo who was following and filming him. He still harasses people at protests in Portland, but now people just ignore or yell at him to go away. He also edits his film to make protesters look bad.
That would need a pretty hefty structural upgrade just to qualify as “flimsy”.
In Portland, the appearance of so called AntiFa was in reaction to white racist types showing up at the Women’s March and the March for Science. Then when these self-same racist types attempted their own “marches”, counter-protesters out-numbered them and they started getting cranky and violent. Early skirmishes where almost entirely self-defense on the part of non-racist protesters. That has (arguably) changed in recent months and the violence (almost all after dark) is probably more about hitting people than it is about protesting.
The larger point is that none of the protests are organized by “AntiFa”, they are organized by women’s groups, LGBTQ groups, scientists, BLM folks, none of whom call themselves AntiFa (though most are decidedly anti-fascist). On the other hand, all of the racist reactions are organized by racist extremists (with comical, counter-productive, funny names) who at the very least show up with a weapon and plan on inciting violence, usually so it can be recorded by a compatriot and used as “proof” that they’re being targeted by “AntiFa”.
