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Janine's avatar

Andy I hope they will have Congressional hearings and ask you to testify

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Janine's avatar

Designating a group a major terrorist group opens up the type of law enforcement methods that can be used to investigate.

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Andy Ngo's avatar

Only international terrorist groups, and that designation would fall under the State Department and Congress.

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Sandra Pinches's avatar

Say more, please.

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Tom D.'s avatar

But it will set in motion Federal Law enforcement priorities and resources. ANTIFA will be more closely monitored, more intelligence will be collected, and a multi-agency task force will be established.

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Janine's avatar

Yes and I personally believe the international nature of anarcist action will indicate international funding. It's my opinion that many NGOs which funded censorship efforts in the US will also be linked to groups like Antiifa/Occupy/BLM. I think these people overlap in terms of activity like protests and occupations

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Charles Casaburi's avatar

The FBI labeled the proud boy’s a terrorist organization & all they ever did was serve as bodyguards to conservative speakers

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Andy Ngo's avatar

The FBI labled them extremists in their internal documents, from my understanding. But it wasn't a criminal label, just how they thought their agents should understand the group. It was Trudeau's government in Canada that designated Proud Boys as a terrorist organization.

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Sandra Pinches's avatar

Your presentation is riveting and the information you imparted is of the utmost importance! Thank you for risking so much to speak openly about terrorists operating domestically. I learned a great deal and received answers to questions I have had about what the impact would be if antifa were to be designated a terrorist organization.

I wonder about an additional strategy for containing leftist terrorists groups, which is for Democrats to stop enabling these organizations to carry out antisocial acts against citizens and law enforcement officers. When the people who are elected to govern cities actively voice their alignment with antifa and refuse to declare a riot or allow police to employ riot control strategies then why wouldn't terrorists and criminals of other kinds take advantage of the situation? In making this comment about the amount of influence Democrats could exert in a more constructive way, I am by no means saying I expect they will change their approach to the disintegration of our cities.

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Mariana's avatar

Thank you for explaining the complexity of the issue.

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TeaPartyGeezer's avatar

Thanks, Andy. Not what we were expecting or looking forward to, but useful. I was not under the impression that Trump was banning Antifa, but giving law enforcement the ability to investigate them and start enforcing the laws.

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Janine's avatar

Sorry to keep adding comments as I listen but PKK is apparently designated terror org

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Andy Ngo's avatar

It is. But not the YPG, which is a similar far-left Kurdish nationalist militant group that many American Antifa trained with in Syria.

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Aussie@ozaus1919's avatar

Andy, Thank you so much for explaining the situation.

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Aussie@ozaus1919's avatar

Thank yo

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