Opinions on "Antifa"?

[LisaM]

104. Seattle is a liberal city and however loosely you want to associate them with other groups or not,

they are a disruptive force here (as they are in the entire PNW). They disrupted the planned peaceful labor protests at the WTO event in 1999 and brought long-planned, permitted marches to a halt, thereby changing the narrative of the entire event. They tried to disrupt the women's march (we marched by them). They caused a ruckus at a Milo Yiannopoulos event at UW and no, I don't like Milo Yiannopoulos and anything he stands for, so don't go there. The night after the election I heard about some protests at Westlake and I headed down to see if I could join it, and I quickly turned back because the mood was ugly and looked as if it could turn violent at any moment, and yes, it had a heavy Antifa turnout.

I also didn't say one article defined the movement, though I think it's a good article.

I do think that in general Antifa is anti-government, and I don't ideologically line up with that.