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In reply to the discussion: Merrick Garland will NOT paint us with the same brush with which he paints the MAGA maggots. [View all]maxsolomon
(33,531 posts)58. OK, I read it. It defines far-left violence very broadly.
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n the fatal far-left attack, Michael Reinoehl, an Antifa extremist, shot and killed Aaron Jay Danielson in Portland, Oregon, on August 29.
Reinoehl asserted this was self-defense before he was gunned down by the US Marshals.
While the primary targets (58 percent) of anarchists and anti-fascists were police, government, and military personnel and institutions, 42 percent of their attacks and plots in 2020 also targeted demonstrators. These included crowds supporting the police and Donald Trump, as well as protesters against abortion.
Here, they're asserting that confronting fascists (which is what Antifa does in Portland) is "targeting demonstrators".
Forgive me if I don't panic about Far-Left violence.
A little Googling on CSIS: https://fair.org/home/nyt-reveals-think-tank-its-cited-for-years-to-be-corrupt-arms-booster/
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Merrick Garland will NOT paint us with the same brush with which he paints the MAGA maggots. [View all]
PTWB
Jan 2022
OP
If he said that then my prediction has come true already. He aint gonna do jack shit
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2022
#4
Contextually Garland is technically correct, there's 330 million people in this country and to claim
uponit7771
Jan 2022
#11
He called out case involving the judge as example in his book. I can see that being TECHNICALLY...
uponit7771
Jan 2022
#14
Ah, well ... that wasn't a good example to your point BUT he didn't narrow the bad actions of
uponit7771
Jan 2022
#19
Right. They're saying Antifa counter-protesting at a Proud Boy rally is Terror.
maxsolomon
Jan 2022
#60
It's reasonable that demonstrators confronted by "counterprotestors" using or threatening to use
lapucelle
Jan 2022
#61
A google search of both the full name and the initials of CSIS do not show the 2016 piece
lapucelle
Jan 2022
#65
A Bernie Sanders supporter literally committed an act of terrorism against congress in 2017
mathematic
Jan 2022
#64
Geez. Instead of worrying about parsing every word or inuedndo, can people just wait and see what
JohnSJ
Jan 2022
#13
So we're talking about this and not the fact that DOJ has done nothing against the leaders of the
dem4decades
Jan 2022
#17
Of course you can't think of a single case. Because you've narrowed the entire investigation down...
Budi
Jan 2022
#32
If you see right wing extremists as being identical in partisanship or ideology, you may have a case
Beastly Boy
Jan 2022
#21