ANTIFA: Wary of support

Responding to ANTIFA: Breaking it down. Janet Callen is my friend. We are 180 degrees opposite politically, but there are other issues where we agree, so we get along amicably, and do not talk politics.

When I first heard the term Antifa, I thought like Janet, against Fascism, what could be wrong with that, until I started to dig into it further. Antifa was started in Germany in the late ’30s where they fought the Nazis. I’m sure they were underground and not protesting because no one could protest Hitler or the Nazis and keep on living. It simply wasn’t allowed by the Nazi regime.

After the War they migrated to Russia, where they kept the name, but Fascism was no longer in their lexicon. In Russia they picked up some Marxist members and leaders, and by the time they arrived in the United States they were a full-fledged Marxist organization.

They soon received backing by George Soros who financed their training in riot, looting and mayhem techniques. Antifa is a highly trained army of really bad people. All they need is a trigger, and that trigger is “police brutality.” Remember the Ferguson Riots, and the Baltimore riots, and now that despicable heinous act by one Minnesota policeman. And now the left leaning media and Democrats want to get rid of all policemen. That won’t happen, but it surely will result in more stifling regulations that prevent police from doing what they do best: Fight Crime.

To equate Republicans to Antifa, even tongue-in-cheek, is not nice. It isn’t funny.

HERB SEVERTSON

Coeur d’Alene