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Worse than Antifa:
Inside the new breed of ultra-extremist groups dedicated to chaos, violence
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and even alleged murder
Worse than Antifa: Inside the new breed of ultra-extremist groups dedicated to chaos, violence — and even alleged murder
The far-left radical movement known as Antifa has been getting its own taste of cancel culture.
But experts warn that could be a dangerous thing, as the vacuum has given way to even more fringe and violent offshoots that are coalescing in the Marxist ether. And we’re only beginning to see the deadly fallout.
Last month, Benjamin Song, a member of the Antifa militant groups Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club and the Socialist Rifle Association, led a group of 10 radicals — eight of whom were found living in a reportedly squalid transgender commune — in an armed ambush at an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. The shooting left one officer injured.
Song then formed his own group, focused on “trans and queer identity issues,” and used an Arlington, Texas, martial arts studio, where his mother worked, as a base for training lefty militants how to fire guns.
An even more gruesome story unfolded with the February arrest of Jack “Ziz” Lasota, head of a murderous transgender cult accused of a multi-state killing spree that took six lives. The so-called Zizians espoused an ideology of anarchism and extreme veganism, seeking to slaughter figures of “petty authority,” cops say.
“It’s a seditionist movement, where they are all in one box and they all believe a civil war, instability, and burning the country down will bring in this greater era of prosperity that they think they’re going to implement,” Ryan Mauro, an extremist group investigator for the nonprofit Capital Research, told the Post.
“It’s more than just a consequence of general radicalism increasing on all sides. It’s part of an actual plan and a strategy. When you look at their internal communications, they describe themselves as guerrillas and insurgents by their own declaration,” he added of this new class of extremist cells.
It usually goes like this: Stragglers and lost souls latch on to a charismatic elder in the movement—someone with nothing else going on in life but the communist hustle — and new factions are forged under the general “anti-fascist” umbrella, said Gabriel Nadales, a 31-year-old former Antifa member.
They have names like Smash Racism, Redneck Revolt, and Refuse Fascism. (It should be noted that those particular groups are not accused of murder or fatal violence.)
Antifa was never a structured organization but more of a catch-all movement for youthful anti-capitalist angst. That broad ideology exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 lockdowns and the social-justice riots of 2020 — attracting plenty of bored people under the banner of freedom fighting. But from the ashes, as many fly-by-night activists have returned to their normal lives, truly dangerous figures are emerging.
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“They were all looking for that inflection point. You had all these extremists building ties with each other and, particularly since the riots in 2020, they were looking for the next big thing in order to show their power,” said Mauro, who monitors left-wing radical groups on platforms like Telegram, Discord, and BlueSky.
Show of power is a primary tool of recruitment, according to Mauro. Blocking traffic and smashing up Wendy’s has gotten old. The natural course is escalation to increasingly shocking, headline-stealing acts of violence and even murder.
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Mauro, who advises law-enforcement agencies on domestic terrorism, said they’re often quite strapped, and even overwhelmed, to handle increasing violence from fringe and deranged Antifa spinoffs.
“They really can only go after the most top-tier cases — and that’s just not enough, because you have so many bad actors capable of creating mayhem,” he explained.
“Anyone in law enforcement will tell you how it is basically a miracle that we’re not having attacks almost every day, because you have so many people out there that want to do it.”
Commentary:
The people you see on the street are the useful idiots. The pawns. They are not an underground. They are in the open.
Lots of money from foreign sources that seek to destabilize. From George Soros & Son to Open Society Foundation that funds groups like Antifa and BLM..
What you really need to find is where the money is coming from and who the organizers really are.
I don’t believe for a second that these people are purely organic. It’s not a revolution, cultural or political. It is probably a model more similar to ISIS where they are groomed to hate.
While, Antifa was metastasizing into this more violent group, where was Mr. Wray and the FBI, where was Garland and the DoJ, Where was Mayorkas of Homeland Security?
Indeed, they were chasing Catholics, Pro-Lifers and Jan 6'ers
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