BARR: ANTIFA A 'REVOLUTIONARY GROUP': ESTABLISH SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM

BARR: ANTIFA A 'REVOLUTIONARY GROUP': ESTABLISH SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM

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The Epoch Times: August 12-18, 2020, Barr: Antifa a 'Revolutionary Group' That Wants to Establish Socialism, by Bowen Xiao

 

"For the first time, the nation's top law enforcement has explicitly outlined the nature of far-left anarch-communist group Antifa, describing it as a "revolutionary group" intent on establishing socialism or communism in the United States - and the experts agree.

 

Attorney General William Barr delivered a scathing critique of Antifa in an Aug. 9 interview with Mark Levin on Fox News, noting that the group's organization and tactics make it a difficult phenomenon to deal with.

 

"They are a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism. They're essentially Bolsheviks. Their tactics are fascistic," Barr said.While Antifa publicly identifies with communist and socialist ideology, the interview marked the first time for Barr to go into such detail.

 

"The Attorney General's comments represent a significant improvement over previous government statements on Antifa, and he should be commended for his outspokenness," Kyle Shideler, director and senior analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, told the Epoch Times.

 

Shideler - who testified on Aug. 4 before the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution about the structure and origin of Antifa - said he hopes Barr will direct the Justice Department to take Antifa's core mission to heart and begin "to treat the group as the subversive and insurectionist force it is.

 

"Antifa's distributed and non hierarchical network structure requires better intelligence to counter," he said that noting that the federal government has a unique responsibility to address this threat as local and state governments are unable or unwilling to do so.