Antifa Attacks Liberal Over American Flag.

[Kubumba Tribe]

I wouldn't be a good Islamist if I were a supremacist
Not that you have to be an Islamist to hats America.

And you don’t have to be American to love America

And you don't have to be a foreigner to hate America
Also, about the "I don't want dissidents in my country":
Hating a country =/= dissident

Don't you mean, "stop acting like a hair and get out of my butthole"?
If you've got buttholes in your hair, I'd switch shampoos.

Flag burning is an effective means of political speech. There shouldn't be any penalty provided the flag you burn belongs to you.

Using the army on a loose band of college attention whores, liberal activists, and violent communists is silly. Infiltration by the FBI for the purposes of finding and arresting the violent members is much better. Also, it's constitutional.

I absolutely hate to say it, but they DO have the rights granted to them by the US to burn the US flag if they wish, again, as long as its theirs. But at most of these protests, they dont go buy their own flags, they steal them from other protesters and THEN burn them.

Source?

[Cedoria]

Using the army on a loose band of college attention whores, liberal activists, and violent communists is silly. Infiltration by the FBI for the purposes of finding and arresting the violent members is much better. Also, it's constitutional.

This. Just arrest everyone who engages in violence and call it a day. We do the same to white nationalist groups.

Except you don't, which is part of the problem. If you did, there'd probably be no Antifa in the first place.

[Scomagia]

This. Just arrest everyone who engages in violence and call it a day. We do the same to white nationalist groups.

Seriously this. If we want to be especially cruel we can send them all to the same prison and let them be forced to work together.

No. Looking at prison gangs it becomes clear that you should separate group members from each other.

[Nakena]

So how do we know they identify as Antifa? The source doesn't say explicitly.

Regardless, Antifa is not an organisation, so calling them 'members' is a stretch. The attack itself is both stupid and sick, if indeed the source is telling the truth about it. Absolutely should throw the book at em if that's what happened.

Have a better source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwE620VkaD0

[Liriena]

I love it when someone unironically thinks that hurting an inanimate piece of fabric should be treated as a serious crime

[Nakena]

I love it when someone unironically thinks that hurting an inanimate piece of fabric should be treated as a serious crime

Actually the guy got hurt.

[Cedoria]

So how do we know they identify as Antifa? The source doesn't say explicitly.

Regardless, Antifa is not an organisation, so calling them 'members' is a stretch. The attack itself is both stupid and sick, if indeed the source is telling the truth about it. Absolutely should throw the book at em if that's what happened.

Have a better source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwE620VkaD0

The day when Youtube is considered a better source...

Thanks anyway.

[Scomagia]

I love it when someone unironically thinks that hurting an inanimate piece of fabric should be treated as a serious crime

Provided it belongs to you it really shouldn't be. Theft and destruction of someone else's flag should be a very serious crime.

[Liriena]

I love it when someone unironically thinks that hurting an inanimate piece of fabric should be treated as a serious crime

Actually the guy got hurt.

I was just too lazy to quote the one poster who argued for treating flag desecration as a crime. The guy getting attacked I do think is a crime and just plain wrong.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

t isn't a minor story.

Yes, it's a minor story. It is for the purposes of making a broad discussion about political violence.

A single case of battery and potentially attempted murder, specially when it's not premeditated or really organized, is a very sorry sample if you want to talk about political violence in a broad context. And it becomes even worse when the case is not even recent enough that its immediacy would justify intense attention. OP might as well have made the thread about Richard Spencer getting punched last year.

It's kinda scary to me.

I don't want Antifa attacking me now that they show that they don't care about moderate liberals.

[Nakena]

Actually the guy got hurt.

I was just too lazy to quote the one poster who argued for treating flag desecration as a crime. The guy getting attacked I do think is a crime and just plain wrong.

Interestingly flag desecration isn't a crime in the US, and chances are that this is not going to change.

The problem is the self-righteous attitude of Antifa when it comes to violence. Aside from the fact that it doesn't helps their cause. But they don't want or care to know.

[Kubumba Tribe]

Yes, it's a minor story. It is for the purposes of making a broad discussion about political violence.

A single case of battery and potentially attempted murder, specially when it's not premeditated or really organized, is a very sorry sample if you want to talk about political violence in a broad context. And it becomes even worse when the case is not even recent enough that its immediacy would justify intense attention. OP might as well have made the thread about Richard Spencer getting punched last year.

It's kinda scary to me.

I don't want Antifa attacking me now that they show that they don't care about moderate liberals.

Hey at least you're still alive. I'd get probs dismembered lol.
Buy you'd be fine, most Antifa groups would like you.

[Vassenor]

So how do we know they identify as Antifa? The source doesn't say explicitly.

Regardless, Antifa is not an organisation, so calling them 'members' is a stretch. The attack itself is both stupid and sick, if indeed the source is telling the truth about it. Absolutely should throw the book at em if that's what happened.

We're not allowed to mention that bit.

[LiberNovusAmericae]

So how do we know they identify as Antifa? The source doesn't say explicitly.

Regardless, Antifa is not an organisation, so calling them 'members' is a stretch. The attack itself is both stupid and sick, if indeed the source is telling the truth about it. Absolutely should throw the book at em if that's what happened.

We're not allowed to mention that bit.

You can mention it, but others have the right to tell you that you're wrong.

[El-Amin Caliphate]

We're not allowed to mention that bit.

You can mention it, but others have the right to tell you that you're wrong.

So where does the source mention antifa?

[Cedoria]

We're not allowed to mention that bit.

You can mention it, but others have the right to tell you that you're wrong.

And you also have a right to BE wrong when you tell other people that.

Which is lucky for you, as it turns out.

[LiberNovusAmericae]

You can mention it, but others have the right to tell you that you're wrong.

So where does the source mention antifa?

It's in the title of the news article, as well as in several other paragraphs in said article.

[Chernoslavia]

B-but guyz he was a fascist!

[Cedoria]

So where does the source mention antifa?

It's in the title of the news article, as well as in several other paragraphs in said article.

Which presents no evidence beyond it's own say-so that it is Antifa, hence my query as to whether there was independent verification.

The source is not one I trusted to report accurately, so I wanted to know if anyone heard them say they were Antifa, or if another group picked it up with another verification. If it IS Antifa, I would imagine dozens of media organisations will jump on it.

[The Liberated Territories]

Antifa are violent. What else is new?

[LiberNovusAmericae]

It's in the title of the news article, as well as in several other paragraphs in said article.

Which presents no evidence beyond it's own say-so that it is Antifa, hence my query as to whether there was independent verification.

The source is not one I trusted to report accurately, so I wanted to know if anyone heard them say they were Antifa, or if another group picked it up with another verification. If it IS Antifa, I would imagine dozens of media organisations will jump on it.

Doubt it. The mainstream media barely covers violence in Portland at all. The Hill has reported on it, but not many others have. Antifa violence has not unheard of though, because they have started a riot at Berkeley, and that was something that mainstream media has covered.

[Nakena]

Which presents no evidence beyond it's own say-so that it is Antifa, hence my query as to whether there was independent verification.

The source is not one I trusted to report accurately, so I wanted to know if anyone heard them say they were Antifa, or if another group picked it up with another verification. If it IS Antifa, I would imagine dozens of media organisations will jump on it.

Doubt it. The mainstream media barely covers violence in Portland at all. The Hill has reported on it, but not many others have. Antifa violence has not unheard of though, because they have started a riot at Berkeley, and that was something that mainstream media has covered.

Thats a good source. Thank you for it.

[El-Amin Caliphate]

Antifa are violent. What else is new?

Which group are you talking about?

[Nakena]

Antifa are violent. What else is new?

Which group are you talking about?

The one that attacked the guy in Portland, because he was carrying an american flag. Supposedly it is now a fascist symbol (sic!)

[South Ccanda]

So how do we know they identify as Antifa? The source doesn't say explicitly.

Regardless, Antifa is not an organisation, so calling them 'members' is a stretch. The attack itself is both stupid and sick, if indeed the source is telling the truth about it. Absolutely should throw the book at em if that's what happened.

they wear a signature all-black attire plus a face mask. they don't wear markings on their clothing to avoid getting caught.