Glenn Beck got a visit from the FBI.
It wasn’t one of “those” kinds of visits, where you don’t know whether to reach for your lawyer, your publicist or your … Get Out of Jail Free card.
The visit was arranged by Kash Patel, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As Mr. Beck tells the tale, this was all in response to his recent analyses of Antifa.
“So we dove in head first, and we analyzed the Antifa network and we went from the street thugs to the support groups, eventually to the funding. To say the FBI was interested in this might be an understatement,” said Beck.
Beck is enthusiastic about the president’s defining of Antifa as a terrorist organization.
Is this good?
Yes. And maybe no.
Yes, in that watching its leaders now flee the country is a joyous occasion; and yes, in that Antifa is a terrorist organization — and treating it as such is a recognition of fact, of reality. Governments shouldn’t operate under delusions or lies.
Antifa has been very localized in practice, engaging in violence on the streets of big cities from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Oregon.
And in most of those Democrat-run cities, the authorities have turned the other way, saying (as covered last week) that Antifa “doesn’t exist” and “isn’t a real thing.”
Local law enforcement should have started rooting out this vile nest of anarchs years ago. Making federal cases out of Antifa should not be necessary.
But maybe it is — since Antifa’s mob violence supports one national party and is so often given license by that party. While police and voters are supposed to ignore the masked “protesters’” violence because “they do not exist.”
As Glenn Beck relates, this trickery does not appear to be working any longer.
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4 replies on “The FBI vs. the Anarchs”
The last time that you wrote of Antifa, Pam demanded “Name 10 members of Antifa.” and so I named twelve. Will she up the ante, and ask for ten more? or twenty?
The truth within the weird lies that the corporate left tells us is not that the violent demonstrations by their stooges are mostly peaceful, nor that Antifa does not exist, but that mostly peaceful demonstrations by Antifa do not exist.
“Glenn Beck claims he was visited by the FBI” and “Glenn Beck was actually visited by the FBI” are two different claims, only one of which is obviously true.
It’s sad to see you siding with the regime and against freedom so often lately, especially when it’s over a moral panic like this “antifa” nonsense.
Mr Knapp, a sneer is not a proper argument.
Antifa seems not to be an internally centralized association, but it plainly exists, and has a degree of organization (as opposed to being a spontaneous movement). Hypothetically, one might argue over whether Antifa were weak or ineffectual; yet, instead, a large share of left-wing activists, pundits, journalists, and officials deny the very existence of Antifa.
This denial — which in the case of officials who ought to be taking action amounts to nonfeasance, to misfeasance, or to malfeasance — naturally amplifies concern and naturally provokes a greater urging to action.
For obvious reasons, I have only limited trust in Director Patel when he promises revelations about those who have been providing funding for Antifa and, through this funding, coördinating its actions on a national level. But, on the other hand, I don’t think that Patel is so stupid as to imagine that he can break another great promise, so I don’t think that he’d make the promise if he didn’t expect to fulfill it.
Derrick Chauvin was just stabbed 22 times by a Ukrainian FBI informant and Mexican mafia member that had killed a number of the Mexican mafia members and resulted in 40+ of them being incarcerated. He had claimed he “had” to do this, Implying that the FBI required it.
Most curiously, the FBI was the first law enforcement to interview this guy after the attempted murder. Not clear why they were even in the loop. Then he was transferred to a different federal facility.