{"id":226704,"date":"2021-02-04T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T08:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226704"},"modified":"2021-02-07T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:01:17","slug":"antifas-true-goals-and-tactics-exposed-andy-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226704","title":{"rendered":"Antifa\u2019s True Goals and Tactics Exposed: Andy Ngo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Phillip \u2013 Epoch Times Feb 2, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Antifa is both an ideology and a movement that uses intimidation and violence to oppose capitalism and anybody who disagrees with its far-left, anarchist political agenda, says journalist Andy Ngo, an expert on the\u00a0anarcho-communist group.<\/p>\n

In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described<\/a>\u00a0Antifa as more of an ideological movement than an organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cAntifa is a real thing. It\u2019s not a group or an organization. It\u2019s a movement, or an ideology may be one way of thinking of it,\u201d Wray said, acknowledging that Antifa does have \u201csmall groups,\u201d or \u201cnodes.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Ngo told The Epoch Times in an interview with the \u201cCrossroads\u201d<\/a>\u00a0program that Antifa is \u201cmore than an idea. It\u2019s also a movement.\u201d It has networks of organizations, and some of them are organized into formal groups, he said.<\/p>\n

One of its groups is Rose City Antifa, \u201cthe oldest Antifa organization in the U.S.,\u201d which is based in Portland, Oregon, the epicenter of the movement\u2019s violent activity, Ngo said.<\/p>\n

Ngo has also uncovered a lot of evidence showing that Antifa is a formal organization, which he presented in his upcoming book \u201cUnmasked: Inside Antifa\u2019s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy\u201d<\/p>\n

Antifa is extremely well-organized into secret cells and meeting locations, he said. Its training curriculum mirrors a lot of what is included in the radicalization process that jihadists put Muslims through, he said. It launches some events that look like social gatherings, such as soccer leagues, to recruit people and disseminate its extremist literature and later carry out riots, Ngo said.<\/p>\n

Antifa has many chapters in different cities such as the Torch Network or Atlanta Antifa that \u201care formal groups,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rose City Antifa states on its website<\/a> that it works to oppose racial prejudice, bigotry, fascism, and fascist organizing.<\/p>\n

Ngo said that Antifa doesn\u2019t use the academic definition of fascism that refers to the national socialism of the Nazis or Italian Fascist Party. Antifa remade the definition of fascism for its own use by \u201cdescribing it essentially as anything that is in opposition to the far-left political agenda,\u201d Ngo said, adding that Antifa has always considered liberal democracy and capitalism as fascism.<\/p>\n

For example, Antifa called both the Trump administration and the United States itself fascist, Ngo said.<\/p>\n

The original Antifa was established during the interwar years in Germany as a \u201cparamount tree of the German Communist Party,\u201d Ngo said. In East Germany, Antifa\u2019s ideology was institutionalized into the formal ideology of the German communist state; he noted that the Berlin Wall was officially called \u201cthe anti-fascist defense barrier.\u201d<\/p>\n

How Antifa Works<\/h2>\n

Antifa works together with socialist and communist groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) because they have a common enemy in the United States, its institutions, civil society, and free markets.<\/p>\n

The DSA, America\u2019s largest socialist organization, is in reality a communist organization, according<\/a> to Trevor Loudon, an author and filmmaker who has been researching radical Marxist and terrorist groups and their covert influence on mainstream politics\u00a0for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

Antifa and communist organizations have ultimately different agendas, but currently have enough in common to work together, Ngo said. It\u2019s that same type of coalition that was built throughout 2020 between Antifa and Black Lives Matter<\/a> (BLM)\u2013a movement founded by militant communists, he said.<\/p>\n

The communist goal to establish a totalitarian state is in contradiction to the anarchist aspect of Antifa\u2019s agenda, but for now it has partnered \u201cin calling for the end of American criminal justice system, demonizing free markets, demonizing property ownership,\u201d Ngo said.<\/p>\n

The ultimate agenda of Antifa is to abolish nation states all around the world and to create anarchist, communist communes, Ngo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey believe that they can actually organize society without a government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One principle shared by Antifa and communists is that nobody should own private property.<\/p>\n

Although \u201cit sounds like a big wild fantasy that [Antifa] will never achieve,\u201d Ngo said, Antifa was actually able to claim territory in the United States in 2020 by establishing the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle.<\/p>\n

Ngo, who spent some time there, said \u201cit was a lawless area.\u201d Homicides, arsons, shootings, and sexual assaults occurred in the zone. Warlords competed with each other, a hard border was created, and armed volunteers guarded it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey thought that they didn\u2019t need capitalism to function,\u201d Ngo said, but the zone was only able to sustain itself only because of donations from the United States as restaurants and people provided food and supplies.<\/p>\n

Antifa uses the tactic of terrorizing its targets through a sustained onslaught of intimidation, which includes publicly releasing one\u2019s personal information such as private addresses, place of employment, employer contact information, and phone numbers, a practice known as doxing, Ngo said.<\/p>\n

The goal is to fill a person with dread that they can be attacked from anywhere, he said.<\/p>\n

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: Andy Ngo, a Portland-based journalist, is seen covered in an unknown substance after being attacked by Antifa in Portland, Ore., on June 29, 2019<\/p><\/div>\n

Ngo himself was physically\u00a0attacked<\/a> by Antifa in June 2019. Antifa members beat and robbed him, and hurled cups of cement\u00a0mixed into milkshakes at him. As a result of this assault, Ngo suffered a brain injury and was hospitalized.<\/p>\n

Ngo said that he\u2019s had to undergo various therapies and treatments to address his injuries, but to this day he has not received any justice.<\/p>\n

Antifa recently demanded that the largest independent bookstore in Portland remove Ngo\u2019s new book from its shelves and online catalog, he said. The store agreed to pull the book from its shelves but resisted removing it from its catalog.<\/p>\n

Ngo expressed sympathy for the store, a family-owned business, because he knows that Antifa is good at following through on its threats. It has a record of setting businesses on fire or initiating looting.<\/p>\n

Despite these incidents and other threats, Ngo continues to expose Antifa because he wants to provide this information to a wider audience.<\/p>\n

He said he hopes the information he provides helps \u201cthose in law enforcement to actually begin to seriously work on systematically dismantling these [Antifa] networks, and more importantly, also to challenge the ideology that they are polluting the minds of people with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Phillips contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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