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3/10 - Karen Schoen Show
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4/2/21
Antifa thriving on campus thanks to previous generation of radical professors and administrators working to demoralize and degrade students (ACAT speaker Dr. Martin Catino)
3/28/21
Antifa: “a misogynistic group of white men, trampling over women and anyone else that doesn’t join their pseudo-cult”
ANTIFA UPDATE - Portland Public School Attack
MARTIN SCOTT CATINO, PH.D.
ANTI-COMMUNISM ACTION TEAM
MARCH 20, 2021
RE: ANTIFA in Portland, Oregon area escalating violence
EVENT: “The Portland Public Schools headquarters was the target of both an arson attack and various vandalism during the early morning hours of March 6th.
“Among the destruction at the building was various spray painted taggings – including one tagging with the phrase “No Justice, No Peace”. [See https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/now-violent-anarchists-are-targeting-schools-portland-public-school-hq-hit-with-arson-and-vandalism/]
SUMMARY:
The escalation of operations and of target selection of ANTIFA in the Portland area follow an organized phasing of operations in accordance with organizational growth and freedom of movement in permissive political and geographical space.
ANTIFA in the Portland, Oregon area demonstrates increasing capabilities to escalate violence, phase operations to more violent actions, select high value targets including a public-school headquarters, develop dispersed and associate organizations such as the Youth Liberation Front, and coordinate international operations via social media. This development is due in large part to its organizational gains in recruitment from the summer of 2020 and afterward, refinement of tactics from recent street activities, and increasing operational space implicitly granted by Mayor Edward (Ted) Wheeler and other local political leaders, and the failure of Federal, state, and local law enforcement to prevent or interdict ANTIFA’s mobilization for attacks. Often these mobilizations are openly announced on social media, and at times followed by coordination meetings at public parks, trainings at specified locations, and gatherings at other physical locations where final stage planning, logistics, and tactical considerations occur.
CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS:
1. Target escalation. Deliberate targeting of a public-school headquarters with graffiti messaging, arson attacks, and coordinated information operations demonstrates the malign character and phasing of operations of ANTIFA in its base area: Portland, Oregon. The targeting of a school headquarters is thus an emerging threat to be considered for its danger to public safety, indication of organizational growth, and increasing escalation of violence by ANTIFA.
2. Decentralized organization and high operability. The decentralized nature of ANTIFA's organization is an advanced capability of terrorist groups, which choose this formation in countries where state authority has breadth (wide geographical presence; and manpower density per mile). This arson attack illustrates this fact.
3. Tactical level organization. The Youth Liberation Front (YLF) appears to be emerging as a more active and prominent player in the operational environment and therefore is worthy of consideration by the public and security community. The YLF’s multiple and dispersed locations allow it to cover not only larger cities but also diverse geographical regions. If the YLF continues to take an increasing role in violence, the activity thus demonstrates the planning, phasing, and organizational growth of ANTIFA.
4. International connection and inspiration. The UK-based Green Anti-capitalist Media capability of coordinating operations through social media messaging demonstrates the nature of decentralized organizations like ANTIFA and its international reach.
5. Adversary vulnerabilities. The use of "workshops" as a planning (final stages), mobilization, coordination platform before attacks is a vulnerability of ANTIFA. Law Enforcement (Federal, State, and Local) can and should implement Florida-like laws to arrest conspiracies like these which are both visible and vulnerable. Thus the counter terrorism, counter-ANTIFA laws are critical for preventing these terrorist events. Active surveillance by LEOs (law enforcement officers) of social media is thus a critical operation for public security as it has been on Islamic terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. The permissiveness given to ANTIFA is clearly demonstrated in the lack of preventive action taken against ANTIFA by law enforcement.
6. The strategic activist must be encouraged to report. Activist Andy Ngo played a prominent role in the news event by clearly documenting the vandalism, arson, and terrorism were not random or criminal but the work of ANTIFA, evident in the graffiti using the ANTIFA “A” symbol as well as messaging matching social media from the group. Left to either government or mainstream media, strategic and critical events like this one would be minimized, underreported, and outright misrepresented. Citizen responsibility to observe, report, and distribute information on ANTIFA, as demonstrated by activists like Ngo, is thus strategic in value and should be encouraged.
3/20/21
Antifa agitator from Montana arrested twice during riots in Portland in one day, first for breaking into buildings and resisting arrest, then after trying to escape when a crowd tried to set fire to the courthouse
Florida House Set To Take Up Antifa Protest Bill
3/13/21
State Antifa Laws
Antifa is a serious threat to the constitutional order. The threat is being addressed through legislation in at least three states. The legislation raises criminal penalties, addresses Antifa’s funding, and holds elected officials accountable for allowing far-left radicals to run amok in their cities with impunity.
Please consider introducing laws to counter Antifa in your state, or lending your support if efforts are already underway.
This material will get you started. Please do not hesitate to suggest additional items.
Florida
Press Release - Governor Ron DeSantis Announces the “Combatting Violence, Disorder and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection Act”
Bill Text
* liability for government entities
Florida Governor drops tactical nuke on Antifa & BLM
Montana
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billhtml/HJ0011.htm
*Urges laws to designate Antfia a terrorist group.
Utah
Senate SB 138, https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/SB0138.html
Utah Senate Bill 138 Would Punish Antifa Rioters and Its Accomplices in Government
Kentucky
Kentucky is moving in the right direction by introducing Senate Bill 211. It has some of the features of Florida's anti-Antifa proposed laws but seems to add strong prohibitions against "camping," an obvious counter to the occupied zones Antifa and other radical leftists use as a tactic. Here is the proposed SB 211, https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb211/orig_bill.pdf
Glad to see these security and countermeasures emerging in the fight for our Constitutional values and public security.
Available for Consultation
Dr. Scott Catino is a former intelligence analyst who worked counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now an assistant professor at Liberty University, Scott has done a deep dive on Antifa’s ideology, structure, strategies, and tactics. He is beginning to publish on the subject. Scott is available for consultation - mailto:mail@spider-and-the-fly.com
3/6/21
The arrest of Antifa/BLM insurgent John Sullivan in connection with the January 6lth Capitol Hill riot shows:
2/20/21
Utah Senate Bill 138 Would Punish Antifa Rioters and Its Accomplices in Government
by Martin Scott Catino, Ph.D. Anticommunism Action Team Speakers Bureau
SUMMARY: Utah Senate Bill 138, Violence, Disorder, and Looting Enforcement Protection Act, is far more than a good idea providing relief for Utah as it suffers from escalating Left wing violence from Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA—among other groups. The Bill is also a good idea that could benefit the security of all Americans. The proposed legislation addresses key problems that are national: the freedom to riot (not protest); impunity for rioters; government complicity by granting impunity and leniency to rioters and criminals; violence against police and military (National Guard) during civil disturbances; the destruction of private property; and the entanglement of two opposing concepts: civil liberties to peacefully protest; and civil disturbances masked as “peaceful protests.”
As importantly, the Bill details the criminal acts of protesters and thereby censures harassment, agitation, intimidation, throwing “saliva, blood, urine, or fecal material,” and other criminal acts often not prosecuted by local, state, and national government entities. The proposal adds teeth to its measures by holding local government accountable, increasing penalties for civil disturbances, and allowing the state to deny bail and benefits to offenders. Utah SB 138 is also a testimony of the importance of community action; the United Citizen Alarm, a professed Constitutional advocacy organization, fostered the legal action.
KEY ACTIONS: While protecting the right to peacefully protest, the Bill proposes to immediately address street level violence by:
1. INCREASING PUNISHMENT OF RIOTERS. The Bill “increases penalties for the crime of rioting under certain circumstances. . . .”
2. HOLDING COMPLICIT GOVERNMENTS ACCOUNTABLE. The Bill “provides that a victim of a crime during a riot may sue a local governmental entity for damages if the local government is grossly negligent in protecting private property. . . .”
3. PENALIZING KEY TACTICS OF RIOTERS. The Bill “increases the penalty for harassment. . . .”
4. PROTECTING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND MILITARY. The Bill “enhances the penalty for assaulting a peace officer during a riot. . . .”
5. PREVENTING RELEASE OF DANGEROUS RIOTERS. The Bill “provides that a person may be denied bail if charged with rioting. . . .”
6. PENALIZING AND PUNISHING RIOTERS. The Bill “makes an individual convicted of rioting ineligible for certain state benefits or assistance. . . .”
CONCLUSION: Utah Senate Bill 138 addresses critical problems associated with Left Wing and other civil disturbances that are creating national unrest, public safety issues, impunity for violent protesters, and erosion of the rule of law in favor of mob rule. The stipulations of the proposed legislation highlight the importance of holding government and rioters accountable, criminalizing violent street tactics, and protecting law enforcement officers, military, businesses, and the local community. Without legal action against violent protesters and complicit government entities, and protection of law enforcement and local communities, radical violence will continue to threaten our Constitutional freedoms and public safety.
Antifa thriving on campus thanks to previous generation of radical professors and administrators working to demoralize and degrade students (ACAT speaker Dr. Martin Catino)
- Antifa occasionally reveals its terrorist nature and objectives by temporarily dropping its cover of fighting "fascists" and instead directly threatens government officials while calling for the destruction of the United States. In this case, an Antifa video recently released by them does both and threatens Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. The video concludes with the words: "Blood is already on your hands, Ted. The next time it just may be your own."
- Leader was arrested for felony assault on a police officer in an Oakland riot but district attorney declined to file charges
3/28/21
Antifa: “a misogynistic group of white men, trampling over women and anyone else that doesn’t join their pseudo-cult”
ANTIFA UPDATE - Portland Public School Attack
MARTIN SCOTT CATINO, PH.D.
ANTI-COMMUNISM ACTION TEAM
MARCH 20, 2021
RE: ANTIFA in Portland, Oregon area escalating violence
EVENT: “The Portland Public Schools headquarters was the target of both an arson attack and various vandalism during the early morning hours of March 6th.
“Among the destruction at the building was various spray painted taggings – including one tagging with the phrase “No Justice, No Peace”. [See https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/now-violent-anarchists-are-targeting-schools-portland-public-school-hq-hit-with-arson-and-vandalism/]
SUMMARY:
The escalation of operations and of target selection of ANTIFA in the Portland area follow an organized phasing of operations in accordance with organizational growth and freedom of movement in permissive political and geographical space.
ANTIFA in the Portland, Oregon area demonstrates increasing capabilities to escalate violence, phase operations to more violent actions, select high value targets including a public-school headquarters, develop dispersed and associate organizations such as the Youth Liberation Front, and coordinate international operations via social media. This development is due in large part to its organizational gains in recruitment from the summer of 2020 and afterward, refinement of tactics from recent street activities, and increasing operational space implicitly granted by Mayor Edward (Ted) Wheeler and other local political leaders, and the failure of Federal, state, and local law enforcement to prevent or interdict ANTIFA’s mobilization for attacks. Often these mobilizations are openly announced on social media, and at times followed by coordination meetings at public parks, trainings at specified locations, and gatherings at other physical locations where final stage planning, logistics, and tactical considerations occur.
CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS:
1. Target escalation. Deliberate targeting of a public-school headquarters with graffiti messaging, arson attacks, and coordinated information operations demonstrates the malign character and phasing of operations of ANTIFA in its base area: Portland, Oregon. The targeting of a school headquarters is thus an emerging threat to be considered for its danger to public safety, indication of organizational growth, and increasing escalation of violence by ANTIFA.
2. Decentralized organization and high operability. The decentralized nature of ANTIFA's organization is an advanced capability of terrorist groups, which choose this formation in countries where state authority has breadth (wide geographical presence; and manpower density per mile). This arson attack illustrates this fact.
3. Tactical level organization. The Youth Liberation Front (YLF) appears to be emerging as a more active and prominent player in the operational environment and therefore is worthy of consideration by the public and security community. The YLF’s multiple and dispersed locations allow it to cover not only larger cities but also diverse geographical regions. If the YLF continues to take an increasing role in violence, the activity thus demonstrates the planning, phasing, and organizational growth of ANTIFA.
4. International connection and inspiration. The UK-based Green Anti-capitalist Media capability of coordinating operations through social media messaging demonstrates the nature of decentralized organizations like ANTIFA and its international reach.
5. Adversary vulnerabilities. The use of "workshops" as a planning (final stages), mobilization, coordination platform before attacks is a vulnerability of ANTIFA. Law Enforcement (Federal, State, and Local) can and should implement Florida-like laws to arrest conspiracies like these which are both visible and vulnerable. Thus the counter terrorism, counter-ANTIFA laws are critical for preventing these terrorist events. Active surveillance by LEOs (law enforcement officers) of social media is thus a critical operation for public security as it has been on Islamic terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. The permissiveness given to ANTIFA is clearly demonstrated in the lack of preventive action taken against ANTIFA by law enforcement.
6. The strategic activist must be encouraged to report. Activist Andy Ngo played a prominent role in the news event by clearly documenting the vandalism, arson, and terrorism were not random or criminal but the work of ANTIFA, evident in the graffiti using the ANTIFA “A” symbol as well as messaging matching social media from the group. Left to either government or mainstream media, strategic and critical events like this one would be minimized, underreported, and outright misrepresented. Citizen responsibility to observe, report, and distribute information on ANTIFA, as demonstrated by activists like Ngo, is thus strategic in value and should be encouraged.
3/20/21
Antifa agitator from Montana arrested twice during riots in Portland in one day, first for breaking into buildings and resisting arrest, then after trying to escape when a crowd tried to set fire to the courthouse
Florida House Set To Take Up Antifa Protest Bill
3/13/21
State Antifa Laws
Antifa is a serious threat to the constitutional order. The threat is being addressed through legislation in at least three states. The legislation raises criminal penalties, addresses Antifa’s funding, and holds elected officials accountable for allowing far-left radicals to run amok in their cities with impunity.
Please consider introducing laws to counter Antifa in your state, or lending your support if efforts are already underway.
This material will get you started. Please do not hesitate to suggest additional items.
Florida
Press Release - Governor Ron DeSantis Announces the “Combatting Violence, Disorder and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection Act”
Bill Text
* liability for government entities
Florida Governor drops tactical nuke on Antifa & BLM
Montana
https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billhtml/HJ0011.htm
*Urges laws to designate Antfia a terrorist group.
Utah
Senate SB 138, https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/SB0138.html
Utah Senate Bill 138 Would Punish Antifa Rioters and Its Accomplices in Government
Kentucky
Kentucky is moving in the right direction by introducing Senate Bill 211. It has some of the features of Florida's anti-Antifa proposed laws but seems to add strong prohibitions against "camping," an obvious counter to the occupied zones Antifa and other radical leftists use as a tactic. Here is the proposed SB 211, https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb211/orig_bill.pdf
Glad to see these security and countermeasures emerging in the fight for our Constitutional values and public security.
Available for Consultation
Dr. Scott Catino is a former intelligence analyst who worked counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now an assistant professor at Liberty University, Scott has done a deep dive on Antifa’s ideology, structure, strategies, and tactics. He is beginning to publish on the subject. Scott is available for consultation - mailto:mail@spider-and-the-fly.com
3/6/21
The arrest of Antifa/BLM insurgent John Sullivan in connection with the January 6lth Capitol Hill riot shows:
- Antifa is capable of projecting power nationally, which is the sign of a tactically and strategically advanced group
- Antifa’s tactics continue to evolve - Sullivan mimicked Trump supporters (to such an extent his own followers thought he was a traitor), infiltrated them (he gave a speech), and led them in attack
2/20/21
Utah Senate Bill 138 Would Punish Antifa Rioters and Its Accomplices in Government
by Martin Scott Catino, Ph.D. Anticommunism Action Team Speakers Bureau
SUMMARY: Utah Senate Bill 138, Violence, Disorder, and Looting Enforcement Protection Act, is far more than a good idea providing relief for Utah as it suffers from escalating Left wing violence from Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA—among other groups. The Bill is also a good idea that could benefit the security of all Americans. The proposed legislation addresses key problems that are national: the freedom to riot (not protest); impunity for rioters; government complicity by granting impunity and leniency to rioters and criminals; violence against police and military (National Guard) during civil disturbances; the destruction of private property; and the entanglement of two opposing concepts: civil liberties to peacefully protest; and civil disturbances masked as “peaceful protests.”
As importantly, the Bill details the criminal acts of protesters and thereby censures harassment, agitation, intimidation, throwing “saliva, blood, urine, or fecal material,” and other criminal acts often not prosecuted by local, state, and national government entities. The proposal adds teeth to its measures by holding local government accountable, increasing penalties for civil disturbances, and allowing the state to deny bail and benefits to offenders. Utah SB 138 is also a testimony of the importance of community action; the United Citizen Alarm, a professed Constitutional advocacy organization, fostered the legal action.
KEY ACTIONS: While protecting the right to peacefully protest, the Bill proposes to immediately address street level violence by:
1. INCREASING PUNISHMENT OF RIOTERS. The Bill “increases penalties for the crime of rioting under certain circumstances. . . .”
2. HOLDING COMPLICIT GOVERNMENTS ACCOUNTABLE. The Bill “provides that a victim of a crime during a riot may sue a local governmental entity for damages if the local government is grossly negligent in protecting private property. . . .”
3. PENALIZING KEY TACTICS OF RIOTERS. The Bill “increases the penalty for harassment. . . .”
4. PROTECTING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND MILITARY. The Bill “enhances the penalty for assaulting a peace officer during a riot. . . .”
5. PREVENTING RELEASE OF DANGEROUS RIOTERS. The Bill “provides that a person may be denied bail if charged with rioting. . . .”
6. PENALIZING AND PUNISHING RIOTERS. The Bill “makes an individual convicted of rioting ineligible for certain state benefits or assistance. . . .”
CONCLUSION: Utah Senate Bill 138 addresses critical problems associated with Left Wing and other civil disturbances that are creating national unrest, public safety issues, impunity for violent protesters, and erosion of the rule of law in favor of mob rule. The stipulations of the proposed legislation highlight the importance of holding government and rioters accountable, criminalizing violent street tactics, and protecting law enforcement officers, military, businesses, and the local community. Without legal action against violent protesters and complicit government entities, and protection of law enforcement and local communities, radical violence will continue to threaten our Constitutional freedoms and public safety.
1/31/21
Teacher Turns the Tables on Antifa/BLM
An ACAT Exclusive
Samantha is not yet 15 years old, far too young to be so angry, disrespectful, and frustrated with the exciting and fresh world around her. But her embittered words against “the police who are all racists” slid out of her mouth smoothly one morning in History class, howbeit trailing her own understanding of her intense emotions and ideas like “structural racism”— the pernicious theory giving support to the brutal images of violent police connected ever so artificially and out of context on social media, the parallel world of the young whose finger tips access phones and computers allowing easy travel between the material and cyber realms. Her words glided across her fellow dough-faced classmates who likewise struggled to understand these complexities. The dozen or so students in the class divided neatly during her combative dialogue on the police: a third opposed her; another third timidly doubted her; and the remainder smiled in support—and later spoke with similar invective.
But Samantha and her classmates soon had a change of heart—most but not all. As the History teacher I knew it was my responsibility to connect her and others in class to the realities of the world around her. Using Prager University videos and others, I introduced Samantha and the class to video testimonies of the police who are so vilified, the Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA “protesters” who the media lionizes, and the grieving families, friends, and communities victimized by these terrorists like ANTIFA and BLM. Stripped of media images, propaganda slogans, and outright disinformation, these testimonies are revealing—and even startling as the facial expressions in class exposed. The student attitudes of hate, despair, and confusion soon evaporated with one exception. Three heavy measures of truth, two handfuls of love, and one large cup of mercy is the recipe I offer for other educators facing similar situations in their classes.
Videos Show the Other Side of the Story -
Teacher Turns the Tables on Antifa/BLM
An ACAT Exclusive
Samantha is not yet 15 years old, far too young to be so angry, disrespectful, and frustrated with the exciting and fresh world around her. But her embittered words against “the police who are all racists” slid out of her mouth smoothly one morning in History class, howbeit trailing her own understanding of her intense emotions and ideas like “structural racism”— the pernicious theory giving support to the brutal images of violent police connected ever so artificially and out of context on social media, the parallel world of the young whose finger tips access phones and computers allowing easy travel between the material and cyber realms. Her words glided across her fellow dough-faced classmates who likewise struggled to understand these complexities. The dozen or so students in the class divided neatly during her combative dialogue on the police: a third opposed her; another third timidly doubted her; and the remainder smiled in support—and later spoke with similar invective.
But Samantha and her classmates soon had a change of heart—most but not all. As the History teacher I knew it was my responsibility to connect her and others in class to the realities of the world around her. Using Prager University videos and others, I introduced Samantha and the class to video testimonies of the police who are so vilified, the Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA “protesters” who the media lionizes, and the grieving families, friends, and communities victimized by these terrorists like ANTIFA and BLM. Stripped of media images, propaganda slogans, and outright disinformation, these testimonies are revealing—and even startling as the facial expressions in class exposed. The student attitudes of hate, despair, and confusion soon evaporated with one exception. Three heavy measures of truth, two handfuls of love, and one large cup of mercy is the recipe I offer for other educators facing similar situations in their classes.
Videos Show the Other Side of the Story -
- Prager U, Heather Mac Donald, "Are the Police Racist"
- Prager U, David Clarke, "The Cops are the Good Guys"
- James O'Keefe, Featuring Project Veritas Undercover Video (‘put a beating on them’), 01 AUG 2018
- An undercover sting video showed Antifa training prospective rioters to destroy their enemies and gouge their eyes out. Project Veritas