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“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity
(theintercept.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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Let's hope no court will consider antifa terrorists, but there's always a few judges.
Antifa doesn’t exist. It’s a straw man label to get what they want.
Any protester is antifa. It's a suppression tactic.
All the combined allied forces at WW2 where antifa.
Every single US military member swears an oath which essentially amounts to being Antifa
but will they follow that oath?
In Texas, there's going to be judges who goosestep behind Trump
First they claimed everything good is Socialism, and now there is a whole generation that thinks Socialism is good.
Now they are taking any opposition and call it terrorism, what do they think is going to happen when more and more people start opposing their living conditions?
Step one of fascist government label anyone that doesnt agree with them as antifa
Well, I mean, are they not?
The real problem is the people in charge taking a common abbreviation of an arguably positive ideology, twisting that abbreviation into a "scary" name, calling it a violent group, packaging it all up with a neat little bow, and then parroting it to the brainwashed masses.
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btw, attacking them isn’t terrorism… at worst you could say treason? (although the people being attacked were actually treasonous).
terrorism would be attacking civilians randomly… like, say blowing up boats full of people who aren’t waging war…
Or having gangs of non-uniformed, masked thugs kidnapping people off the street.
i would say that fits the definition of terrorism and treason
Between what?
what do you mean?
if constitution doesnt protect them, that means the whole thing is just piece of paper and effectively null under america's current government.
One more indicator that the constitution has been suspended for the foreseeable future.
Im not giving than an email address to read sn article.
So I like the intercept a lot. And also find their current way of collecting support really annoying.
There is no point in individual resistance of this sort. You will only go to jail. If you are truly a revolutionary fighter who is ready to do stuff like this well gtfo offline first, & get organized with a lot of ppl.