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Glock-Man takes on Antifa

June 23, 2020 By John Young

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It was a small misunderstanding. A little thing, really.

The two men were prone on the ground face-first, fearing for their lives. A man with two Glocks and the tactical vest had ’em there. He was sure they were Antifa.

Leave it to the media to make a big thing out of this: the fact that they were not antifa but roofing salesmen walking the streets of Loveland, Colo., wearing pandemic facial coverings, wearing company logos on their polo shirts, carrying clipboards and company pamphlets.

Also, the media made a big deal out of the fact that the one who is black, a member of the Colorado State University football team, had been secured by the man’s knee to his neck.

Antifa

Big overreaction by the media.

As President Trump has advised, we should be on the lookout for antifa. They (it?) could be anywhere.

Glock-man Scott Gudmundsen was doing his job as a patriotic citizen. Why should a court order him to explain this to a shrink?

What about a man’s freedom to express himself with his carbine? That’s Amendments 1 and 2.

I know; a few who don’t watch Fox News ask, “What the ‘fa’ is antifa?”

What and where and who? Tell us where it is, so we can smite it and them.

Well, as Donald Rumsfeld once explained about weapons of mass destruction, antifa is there, and there, and over there.

So, yeah, what is this antifa? Is it the antifa? Is it an antifa? Capitalized or no? Anywhere, everywhere or nowhere?

The failing Washington Post sent out one of its two-bit, no-talent reporters, Isaac Stanley-Becker, with his worthless doctorate in history from Oxford, to ask.

His conclusion: Though antifa may actually be a thing, it isn’t much of one. Par for the course, lamestreamers.

After interviewing a raft of experts about domestic extremism, he reported, “The group the Trump administration has labeled a menace has mostly been non-existent.”

You mean Trump was misleading us when he said a bony 75-year-old white man pushed to the ground at a Black Lives Matter protest in Buffalo was not doing antifa’s bidding by menacing –“scanning” — police with his – um — cell phone?

Can’t be true. Trump always levels with us, he and Fox News. Don’t dare call this just another example of right-wing hysteri-“fa.”

Oh, sure, Fox on occasion has taken a speck of something and built an interstate with it, but it’s all for a good cause.

In 2008 with the threat of a black president looming over our nation, Fox News constructed a mortal threat out of a near-handful of Black Panthers – well, two — who showed up at a Philadelphia polling station looking intimidating. Fox News devoted 95 news segments to the matter.

That paled in comparison to the white rage over brown people coming our way in 2018 via a Central American “caravan” awash with criminals – 300, count ’em.

Inquiring, pain-in-the-patootie reporters tried to apply math to the claim. They asked the Trump administration to provide a list or actual evidence. But why provide evidence if straight-shooters like Sean Hannity will devote sufficient air time without it?

And now with marches about racial justice involving a goodly sample of multi-colored bodies, set your binoculars on the advance of antifa, the formless foe.

Sen. Chuck Schumer calls the whole thing an attempt to frame legitimate protests “as terrorist threats to justify unnecessary federal, even military, intervention.” What a snowflake.

“Antifa.” It means anti-fascist. And what is fascism? It’s a leader who puts himself above the people, who uses the military to bolster himself and his ego, who elevates the unholy to the holy and his kin above the whole.

Well, I’m against that. My wife is against that. So are the sons we’ve raised and all their friends and mine. So, Glock-man has a legitimate fear. Antifa is everywhere.

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About John Young

For 25 years John was editorial page editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, his columns for Cox Newspapers read widely via the New York Times News Service. He was syndicated by Creators Syndicate out of Los Angeles from 1992 to 1993. The Tribune-Herald published his book, One Oar in the Brazos. In 2007 in advance of the 2008 election, he wrote Ghosts of Liberals Past (Authorhouse). Read his biohere. John Young lives in Colorado. Email:jyoungcolumn@gmail.com.

Comments

  1. wzrd1 says

    June 23, 2020 at 3:01 PM

    Well, count me in as well. All of my uncles fought a war against fascists, so I’d be in good company.
    As for smite, they’re welcome to try to send some smite my way. I’m a veteran of our ongoing wars and have quite a bit of experience in dealing with attempts to besmitten and smote upon, delivering and perservering through the delivery of some right smartful smite myself.

    Besides, mine is bigger than theirs is, which means it’ll most certainly smart if I drop it on my toe. Whatever it is.

    As for the roofing salesmen, as I’ve told their, local to me peers, no thanks, I already have a roof.

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  2. antico says

    October 1, 2021 at 6:09 PM

    the essence of antifa is communism, then fightind with popular leaders. But the history sais that most evil leaders show up in communism. cure an evil with a bigger evil. take any statistical indicator and compare.

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