Originally published at: New DHS reports reveals terrifying scope of the Department's manufactured Antifa scare | Boing Boing
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And barely a peep about this from major news outlets.
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The DOJ should be investigating Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli. Unless someone goes to jail over this, the RW will be much more effective next time.
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Lock 'em up; lock 'em all up. This is part of the right’s attempt to overthrow democracy.
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Given how many times the Feds have invented or grossly exaggerated the threats posed by left-leaning activist groups (NAACP, Black Panthers, various socialist and environmental groups, etc.) one would hope that American society would stop falling for it, but alas no.
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How is this being ignored by the media? This should be top headline, last-minute surprise that should drop GOP support, especially here in Oregon. It didn’t even get reported in the Oregonian.
It’s like they are getting notes on what they got wrong with their first draft so they can improve for the next go-round.
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The vast majority of those who fell for it the first, second, third, etc. time were never convinced it was a hoax in the first place.
Believe all the conspiracies!
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Silly reporters posting their phone numbers!
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They have important high school sports to report
We can’t expect them to do everything 
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The Mercury didn’t even have a blurb in their morning roundup. Maybe this afternoon?
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They were too busy parroting “rainbow fentanyl” Halloween scare stories to make sure federal law enforcement agencies continue to get funding increases.
There’s no financial upside for the corporate media or the cops in supporting anti-fascists. That’s been the case for more than a century in the West.
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It’s always projection with conservatives.
Also, there are a shitload of elite media reporters (and particularly editors and publishers) who really, really, really want a fully fascist America. Part of this is because they think ratings will be better. And a lot of it is because they tend to be rich, white, and Republican, and therefore, they favor fascism.
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IMO - because they think it will create backlash for them.
Corporate Media doesn’t really care, and riots make for good TV. They were nearly gleeful in some of the coverage. In KC we had pretty tame reactions compared to most places. Partly, I think, to the Mayors reactions to it all, and partly with community planners keeping it tame during the day and at night it rarely got out of hand. I remember that the protest down at the fancy shopping district, The Plaza, had a fairly big protest at night, but the only noteworthy violence was a smashed glass door at the Nike store that they kept cutting to - gasp - not the Nike store!!
There already are cries over the media white washing the “violent riots”, this reporting will probably be skewed more as the right saying that the media is once again doing the heavy lifting for the “radical leftists” and ignore the actions of the DHS, or assume it is made up by the media. “I know what I saw on my TV that summer, they were riots and fires all over the place”. etc etc.
YMMV
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also the latest shooting by police:
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That’s because American society has allowed itself to be manipulated and conditioned to believe that anyone slightly to the left of Atilla the Hun is a raving Communist. According to current Republican ideology, I’d be bundled in with Stalin and Mao for supporting the idea of an actual democracy.
I’ve never voted for the U.K. Labour Party, the nearest I get is supporting our Liberal Democrat’s, who are slightly left of centre.
And now America has Musk openly campaigning for voters to create a real Fascist government and State.
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Holy crap! I mean, it’s not like the government hasn’t done this kind of shit before, but to have actual documented evidence of it is huge. My thanks to Senator Wyden for bringing that to light, and to Gizmodo, but the fact that it’s not a major headline everywhere is deeply disappointing.
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Nothing in The Merc’s afternoon roundup either…kinda disappointed (not nearly enough to stop enjoying their local snark though)
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It’s fucking COINTELPRO all the fuck over again… who did they assassinate this time, I wonder? Which organizations did they infiltrate and bring down from within? How many lives were ruined by this shit?
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