Dutch Parliament Declares Antifa a Domestic Terrorist Organization

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*The Dutch House of Representatives has just adopted the motion to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.*

A Dutch parliamentary majority supported a motion to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.

75-74 out of 150 seats.

This follows after the Trump admin said it will add Antifa to the terror list.

J. Michael Waller, a national security expert, opines:

J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller

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Since the Germans already listed Antifa as a left-wing violent extremist group, and the Dutch are in favor of a terror listing, @realDonaldTrump can list Antifa as a foreign terrorist group and set the legal wheels on motion for a domestic crackdown on its members & supporters.

Mike Jackson @mkjcksn

ANTIFA is not a real group y’all, they just have a flag, official colors, uniforms, local chapters, meeting places, email signups, and clear directives for "members."

David Strom:

Democratic Party politicians are criticizing Donald Trump for classifying Antifa as a terrorist organization.

"It is an idea, not an organization."

Sure, it is an idea with all the hallmarks of an organization, but if you think about it, aren't all organizations really just ideas unless they have a tax ID number? Nothing is real until the IRS has a number to classify it.

Well, the Dutch don't care about tax ID numbers, and their parliament agrees with President Trump that Antifa is a thing, and that it is a violent terrorist organization that needs to be destroyed.

Apparently antifa and its many Democrat Party supporters are claiming that antifa can't be an "organization" as they have no membership lists and do not recruit members. Apparently all of these people just show up for antifa riots without being antifa.

Andy Ngo says this is bullshit (of course):

Kyle Shideler, an expert on antifa and violent left-wing extremism, lays out a department by department, agency by agency plan for taking down the antifa death cult -- if we're serious about it.

A roadmap for the Trump Administration.

There is a growing urgency within the Trump Administration to take on what the president has called "the radical left lunatics" following the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. But despite much of the talk from the Right, including even from the administration itself, there is no easy way to dismantle the far-left's networks. Defeating the forces arrayed against the American republic will require a detailed understanding of the enemy and a systematic plan to break up their networks, utilizing all methods of national power.

Defining Terms

The biggest initial problem the Trump Administration faces in confronting the radical Left is a refusal by the national security, federal law enforcement, and intelligence apparatuses to even recognize whom the president has identified as a threat.

Currently, the U.S. government refers to domestic terrorist threats in only the broadest possible categories, such as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist (REMVE), Anti-Government/Anti-Authority Violent Extremist (AGAAVE), Animal Rights/Environmentalist Violent Extremist (AREVE), and Abortion-Related Violent Extremist (ARVE). In every case, these categories are deliberately constructed to appear content-neutral, which allows the bureaucracy to appear even-handed while selectively emphasizing preferred political targets and ignoring others.

So, for example, while REMVE theoretically includes both white and black supremacist groups, in practice the USG spends its efforts targeting groups that are perceived as white supremacist and underemphasizes black supremacist groups. Similarly, while the bureaucracy might claim to target Antifa and similar radical Left actors under the AGAAVE category, in practice it has emphasized investigating parents at school board meetings, J6ers, Catholic church attendees, and the like.

While federal law enforcement devoted 12 informants to the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case (which collapsed at trial over questions of how much of the plot was inspired by the government itself), all evidence suggests it completely neglected to investigate the John Brown Gun Clubs, which have conducted numerous armed Antifa attacks on federal officers in multiple places around the country.

The president must direct the creation of the Far-Left Violent Extremist category and implement its immediate use across all departments and agencies. While the actual name is up for debate, it must explicitly include "anti-fascist" (Antifa), anarchist, autonomous Marxist, socialist, Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, and Communist extremists, and ensure that these distinctions are accurately and correctly defined.

Such an approach is not radical--in fact it is used by American allies abroad. The German Ministry of the Interior's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution defines Far-Left Extremism in precisely this way and meticulously categorizes each sub-category every year in reports that are openly available to the public.

A Far-Left Extremist category should also include individuals, groups, networks, and movements based on these ideologies that utilize single-issue activism on topics like animal/environmentalist extremism and abortion as cover for their efforts. Often these apparently single-issue organizations are used as a recruiting tool to activate individuals who may be interested in a specific political topic and bring them further into a movement whose true objective is revolution. This simple tactic alone shows the uselessness of the present set of federal categorizations.

For too long the government, media, and academia have minimized the extensive threat posed by Far-Left Extremism, treating it as merely examples of single-issue activism. But cases like the BLM riots, Defend Atlanta Forest, Jane's Revenge, and the Palestinian campus encampments have all demonstrated that for Far-Left Extremists, changing names and logos before taking action on behalf of a changing cause is standard operating procedure. By siloing these cases in different categories, federal law enforcement fails to document--and fails to understand--the danger posed by the far-left at the strategic level.

Getting the USG to use new terminology will be a challenge. In 2021 DHS insiders aggressively leaked about the first Trump Administration's attempt to require the Department of Homeland Security to use accurate terminology to describe Antifa by creating the category of Violent Antifa Anarchist Extremist. The bureaucracy vociferously rejected the effort, which effectively limited and derailed this very necessary addition.

This time the Trump Administration must not be cowed.

That's just step one in a long series of steps, which he explains in detail. This is a plan of attack, not a blog post.

And this would help, too:

posted by Ace at 03:19 PM

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