{"id":14210,"date":"2020-01-21T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=14210"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T16:45:03","slug":"the-fascist-roots-behind-todays-justification-of-political-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-fascist-roots-behind-todays-justification-of-political-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fascist Roots Behind Today&#8217;s Justification of Political Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"946\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-20-Antifa-hit-with-backlash-over-\u2018granny-bullying\u2019-after-blocking-elderly-woman.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-20-Antifa-hit-with-backlash-over-\u2018granny-bullying\u2019-after-blocking-elderly-woman.png 946w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-20-Antifa-hit-with-backlash-over-\u2018granny-bullying\u2019-after-blocking-elderly-woman-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-20-Antifa-hit-with-backlash-over-\u2018granny-bullying\u2019-after-blocking-elderly-woman-768x468.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><figcaption>Image source &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/oct\/3\/antifa-hit-backlash-canada-over-granny-bullying-af\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/oct\/3\/antifa-hit-backlash-canada-over-granny-bullying-af\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>=====================================<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>American Thinker<\/strong> &#8212; by  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/author\/doug_petrikat\/\">Doug Petrikat<\/a> &#8212; January 17, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A  few weeks ago, I met an old friend who is a professor.\u00a0 We discussed  various issues, but when the subject of Antifa came up I was surprised  by what he said.\u00a0 He stated that the acts of violence committed by  Antifa are justifiable because we know what fascists have done and  should do anything to prevent that from happening again.\u00a0 When I  mentioned that some of the people being assaulted are ordinary Americans  wearing MAGA hats, he merely said maybe Antifa should be more specific  about whom they target.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Justifying  Antifa\u2019s violent actions is nothing new.\u00a0 I have heard or read enough  similar statements that I was starting to think new members of Antifa  and its fan club in academia, the media, and in the Democratic Party,  all receive the same flyer instructing them how to respond if anyone  criticizes their acts of violence, even when journalists and bystanders  are among the victims.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Antifa  began a century ago in 1921 as a front group under the direction of the  Soviet Union to incite a Communist revolution in Germany.\u00a0 In 1923 the  Politburo of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia held a meeting to plan  an armed insurrection to overthrow the struggling democracy in  Germany\u2019s Weimar Republic.\u00a0 Following the Politburo\u2019s instructions, the  German Communist Party formed its armed movement to silence rival  political parties through violence and to overthrow the government.\u00a0 The  party named its movement Antifaschistische Aktion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The  party chose the name Antifaschistische Aktion, now known as Antifa,  because an Italian Marxist fell out with his nation\u2019s Socialist Party,  founded his own party, and took power in 1922.\u00a0 Although he still held  leftist views, nationalized 75% of Italy\u2019s economy, and expanded the  state\u2019s social safety net, he believed that a hierarchy should be part  of society and ignored the dictates from both the Socialists in his  former party and the Communists in Moscow.\u00a0 For this heresy, his new  party was branded as a rogue movement.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>His  name was Benito Mussolini and he was the founder and leader of the  Revolutionary Fascist Party.\u00a0 This was another socialist party, which  French socialists supported but the Soviets condemned. Even before  seizing power, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was never very  tolerant of other socialist parties; after it seized power, it executed  those parties&#8217; members. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/the_fascist_roots_behind_todays_justification_of_political_violence.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/the_fascist_roots_behind_todays_justification_of_political_violence.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>===================================== American Thinker &#8212; by Doug Petrikat &#8212; January 17, 2020 Excerpts: A few weeks ago, I met an old friend who is a professor.\u00a0 We discussed various issues, but when the subject of Antifa came up I was surprised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-fascist-roots-behind-todays-justification-of-political-violence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14213,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions\/14213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}