(Antifa was created by the establishment as a form of black-bloc agent provocateurs years ago. They were part of a destabilization campaign Our domestic version started in 2007 in Portland right near a military base where the Pacific brand of the global war on terror is housed. In 2017 even Nancy Pelosi condemned the group for their use of violence during protests against police violence. The idea was to make all of us antifascists look violent and it worked except for the fact that the group didn't really exist.They showed up at protest looking like blackbloc agent provocateurs and acting as such. Now in Texas they have charged a number of activists with terrorism charges for showing up to a protest wearing all black.In Texas that is enough to you Osama bin Laden.)
from Common Dreams
The government has largely won its first case bringing material-support-for-terrorism charges against protesters alleged to belong to “antifa,” which President Donald Trump designated as a domestic terror group in 2025 despite the fact that no such organized group exists and the president has no legal authority to designate organizations as domestic terror groups.
A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas agreed on Friday to convict eight people of domestic terrorism because they wore all black to a protest outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas on July 4, 2025, at which one of the protesters shot and wounded a police officer. Legal experts say the verdict could bolster attempts by the administration to stifle dissent.
“A case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protests and also helps them kind of intimidate, increase the fear, hoping that folks in other cities then will think twice over protesting,” Suzanne Adely, interim president of the National Lawyers Guild, told The Associated Press...
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