Town Hall - Matt Vespa:
Antifa (“anti-fascists”) groups have entered the limelight. After the horrific chaos that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia between these far left protesters and white nationalist groups this month, in which scores of people were injured, and one woman, Heather Heyer, was killed, there’s a debate as to which group is worse. White nationalists descended into Thomas Jefferson’s hometown to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, but it quickly descended into a rumble. Then, in Berkeley, Antifa protesters started to beat up Trump supporters and journalists who were there for the Patriot Prayer rally, which wasn’t a white supremacist gathering. The rally was cancelled, but that didn’t stop Antifa from just beating up people outright because they disagreed with them. Some on social media have argued that Antifa are committing acts of domestic terrorism and now we know that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI were warning local law enforcement of the group’s activities since early 2016, with the former classifying the violence as acts of domestic terrorism. New Jersey’s Department of Homeland Security has already done so (via Politico):
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