Antifa -- Shrodinger's Terrorist Organization. You can see it attack people and set fire to buildings with your very eyes, while bringing in troops from around the country, but the criminal co-conspirator Chris Wray says it's more of an "idea" than an organization and anyway doesn't have any "national reach."
You know who does have national reach? QAnon Shaman, that's who. We have to nip that Looming Threat right in the bud.
Antifa is the violent bloodsport fire-games playground of the gender-imaginative slumming offspring of wealthy Democrats and their donors, so it's officially a Regime-Protected Recess Activity.
John Sexton:
A large group of protesters gathered Saturday morning to protest the construction of the new police training center. It started off peacefully enough albeit with some chanting praising an infamous cop killer. By Sunday night a portion of the group were running around in black bloc, setting fire to construction equipment and throwing rocks at police. The Atlanta Police Department released video of a portion of this activity last night and this morning. The arson was clearly planned.
Here he quotes from Antifa Apologist organization CNN (former host Chris Cuomo opined that "not all punches are created equally," defending antifa's right to stomp people's heads into the pavement if they want to protest your right to breathe):
"A group of violent agitators used the cover of a peaceful protest of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers," the police department said.
The group changed into black clothing, went into the construction area and threw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at police officers, destroying construction equipment "by fire and vandalism," the agency said in a statement. "The illegal actions of the agitators could have resulted in bodily harm."
"Appropriate charges" are being coordinated with DeKalb County prosecutors and the Georgia Attorney General's office, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said Sunday in a news conference, adding some detained are not from Atlanta and no officers were hurt...
"When you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw Molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm, and the charges are going to show that," Schierbaum said.
Sexton notes this NY Times reporter got very good video of the fires set by antifa:
Sexton remarks dryly, "Somehow he manages to not get anyones face on camera." He explains: "Reporters who have filmed faces have been beaten up in the past and I'm guessing Sean Keenan knows that." Brave heroes! Firefighters!
But it's not just that -- many/most of these reporter are actually in league with antifa. They're fellow travelers. They don't want to capture their faces on camera. So they do for antifa what they would never do for any other group: they actively aid and abet them in their crimes.
DC_Draino posts the mugshots.
He says one of the men charged identifies himself as a staff lawyer at the Southern Poverty Law Center. You know, the organization the FBI consults to help them find The Real Terrorists.
I don't know if his identification of the man is accurate. If it is, the FBI will never acknowledge it.
Apparently the Daily Caller has confirmed this lawyer's identity. So the FBI's partner organization for identifying you and me as terrorists is a terrorist.
Sounds about right!
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attorney Thomas Webb Jurgens was charged with domestic terrorism on Monday for violently protesting against the construction of a new police facility in Atlanta.
Jurgens was one of 23 people arrested and charged with domestic terrorism after a music festival devolved into a violent protest against a police training site on Sunday, according to local outlet WSBTV.
Jurgens is a staff attorney for the SPLC's economic justice project and obtained his law degree from the University of Georgia, his LinkedIn profile says. He is an active member of the Georgia bar and the Florida bar, based on publicly available profiles, which include his middle name.
Speaking of hiring terrorists to find The Real Terrorists -- the FBI admits that maybe it did have a couple of instigators, I mean sources, in the January 6th Insurrection Pageant.
The FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) affirmed that there may have been "undercover officers" and "confidential human sources" inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to whistleblower testimony obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The FBI's Washington Field Office requested the Boston Field Office open investigations into 140 individuals who took buses from Massachusetts to D.C. on Jan. 6., but denied the office's request to see video proving those individuals were inside the Capitol, FBI whistleblower George Hill said during a Feb. 10 interview with the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The office claimed they needed to "protect" the identity of possible undercover agents, according to Hill.
The Boston office initially opened cases on two individuals that "definitive evidence" showed were in restricted areas of the Capitol, Hill said. Because those individuals organized the buses to D.C., the WFO wanted cases opened on every individual on the bus.
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"Why can't you [give us access] to the 11,000 hours of video that's available?" the SSA asked.
The WFO responded that there "may be" undercover officers or confidential human sources "on those videos whose identity we need to protect," according to Hill, who said he heard the conversation firsthand.
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The FBI declined to comment.
It's too busy raiding Trump's estate.
Ed Morrissey, quoting from the Washington Post:
Prosecutors argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing secret documents at his Palm Beach, Fla., home and urged the FBI to conduct a surprise raid at the property. But two senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump's permission to search his property, according to the four people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive investigation.
Prosecutors ultimately prevailed in that dispute, one of several previously unreported clashes in a tense tug of war between two arms of the Justice Department over how aggressively to pursue a criminal investigation of a former president. The FBI conducted an unprecedented raid on Aug. 8, recovering more than 100 classified items, among them a document describing a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.
Starting in May, FBI agents in the Washington field office had sought to slow the probe, urging caution given its extraordinary sensitivity, the people said.
Morrissey observes:
Prosecutors insisted that Trump was hiding highly classified material on purpose and wouldn't cooperate with a search request anyway. The raid did find some highly classified material, but thus far not of the sort that the DoJ believed Trump held. (In fact, since the raid, the DoJ has gotten very very quiet about that material and have thus far resisted briefing Congress on it. Hmmm.) It's not clear why prosecutors wanted a raid rather than just ask for access first, but one can bet that they wanted a big media splash more than the FBI, and the political damage to Trump that they thought it would incur.