My LTE today to our hometown newspaper [View all]

[CanonRay]

I would like to address misunderstandings about what antifa is and isn’t.
Antifa is short for anti-fascist. Period, that’s it. There’s no such organization as Antifa. It’s political philosophy, not an organization with members and leadership.
Fascists have actual political parties such as Mussolini’s aptly named Partito Nazionale Fascista, or National Fascist Party; Hitler’s Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist Workers Party; Franco’s Moviemento Nacional, or National Movement, commonly called Phalange Party. All of these had leaders, members, party cards and even their own newspapers.
In America we had the German American Bund with headquarters at 178 East 85th Street in New York. In 1939 they held a rally in Madison Square Garden and 20,000 attended. U.S.Treasury raided the Bund‘s headquarters and arrested it’s leaders. I guess you could say Treasury Agents were the first antifa.
During WWII the entire nation was antifa. My father-in-law fought the fascists in Africa and Italy, and won a Bronze Star doing it. He was antifa. So am I.
I have no antifa membership card. I report to no antifa leaders. There’s no antifa headquarters to be found (or raided). In short, antifa an idea in my head, and maybe yours.




This led from a discussion with a moron about someone's antifa banner on their Facebook page. He thinks antifa is a terrorist organization.