The Rise of Civil Terrorism
City Journal ^ | Winter 2025 | Tal Fortgang
Posted on 03/10/2025 4:57:54 PM PDT by T Ruth
The criminal bands that have arisen act for ideological reasons. They operate where they believe that they have the most latitude: on college campuses and in Democratic-controlled jurisdictions. And their beliefs are overwhelmingly left-wing: radically environmentalist (“Just Stop Oil”), anarcho-socialist (Antifa), and, most often, anti-Israel.
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Road closures and similar disruptions can inflict real economic damage, from logistical breakdowns to personnel unable to get to work. They can impede key services, like ambulances. And they have the potential to beget more serious violence.
Yet there seems to be little appetite for throwing the book at the activists, their organizers, or their funders. This might reflect the belief that the activists’ tactics are counterproductive to their own ends, leading Americans to associate the anti-Israel movement with aggravating—even enraging—inconvenience. The movement would be self-defeating, on this view.
This assumes, however, that anti-Israel activists want to “persuade.”
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They are not just trying to reorient American foreign policy; rather, as one of the main Columbia University anti-Israel groups declared in August, “We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”
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Of course, the principle of prosecutorial discretion means that no effort to crack down ... is assured without widespread buy-in from prosecutors. When former U.S. attorney general Bill Barr tried to use RICO to prosecute Antifa, the civil-servant lawyers beneath him did not just subvert his effort; they also leaked it to the press to make it seem ridiculous.
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Private civil litigation is making headway. Class-action attorney Ted Frank has sued several civil-terror organizations on behalf of drivers blocked by demonstrators for the tort of false imprisonment. Discovery will likely be fruitful, if slow. If Frank is successful, he may make a dent in the defendants’ resources. But public policy is still necessary.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; civilterror; democrat; terrorism
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It's a long article, but the problem is serious. I have posted only a few snippets.
1 posted on 03/10/2025 4:57:54 PM PDT by T Ruth
To: T Ruth
Only happens in blue cities.
I wonder why?
2 posted on 03/10/2025 5:02:38 PM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
To: T Ruth
Civil Terrorism
Well, I think they're rude. Not civil at all.
To: T Ruth
A lot of them are paid Rent-A-Mob violent thugs paid for by Soros funded organizations
4 posted on 03/10/2025 5:16:32 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: T Ruth
5 posted on 03/10/2025 5:17:06 PM PDT by Gaffer
To: T Ruth
6 posted on 03/10/2025 5:19:44 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: T Ruth
The fall of Minneapolis was the result of civil terrorism. You would think after Minneapolis, those guilty participants would have been rounded up by now.
7 posted on 03/10/2025 5:21:00 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
To: T Ruth
Yet there seems to be little appetite for throwing the book at the activists, their organizers, or their funders.
They are home-grown anarchists and terrorists. Jail them for 20 years or more. The J6 people jailed didn't impact or impede regular folks, like the leftist protesters that stop traffic, cause mayhem, and assault others. Leftists should not get a pass.
8 posted on 03/10/2025 5:23:11 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
To: Pontiac
It’s past time to arrest Gyorgy boy, confiscate all of his wealth and extradite him to face the music.
9 posted on 03/10/2025 5:36:28 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Blueflag
Happening here also. Fr is under attack from never Trumpers.
10 posted on 03/10/2025 5:54:18 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING 0F AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE oNO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
To: Pontiac
A lot of them are paid Rent-A-Mob violent thugs paid for by Soros funded organizations laundered USAID grants.
11 posted on 03/10/2025 6:10:11 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
To: T Ruth
There is an answer to this, and it’s a kinetic one.
12 posted on 03/10/2025 6:31:04 PM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
To: T Ruth
13 posted on 03/10/2025 6:31:51 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
To: T Ruth
14 posted on 03/10/2025 8:19:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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