"In a broadly-worded executive order issued Monday evening, Donald Trump declared antifa the decentralized antifascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization. With his order, Trump is delivering red meat to his base after years of drumming up fears around left-wing activism, which his administration has characterized as a dangerous scourge. Following the murder of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk at a speaking event in Utah earlier this month, Trump and his allies vowed an aggressive crackdown on leftists, despite the fact"
"In his order, Trump describes antifa as a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. In a statement he called it a SICK, DANGEROUS RADICAL LEFT DISASTER. The order and an accompanying fact sheet states that antifa's campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide includes doxing of political figures and activists, assaults against Ice officers and organized riots."
Donald Trump issued a broadly-worded executive order designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. The order characterizes antifa as a decentralized, militarist and anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for overthrowing the United States government, law enforcement, and the legal system, and labels it a "SICK, DANGEROUS RADICAL LEFT DISASTER." An accompanying fact sheet accuses antifa of doxing political figures and activists, assaults on ICE officers, organized riots, and nationwide violence. Civil liberties experts and activists raised immediate concerns that the designation could be used to suppress or criminalize First Amendment activities. Antifa lacks formal leadership and functions as a loose network of local far-left chapters known for black bloc counterprotest tactics.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]