Antifa was expressly founded as a movement at war with free speech, defining the right itself as a tool of oppression. That is also clearly stated in this handbook. The signature of the group is a self-righteous, rage-fueled violence that parallels Fascistic groups that they claim to oppose. Tellingly, the Antifa handbook begins with the quote, “Fascism is not to be debated. It is to be destroyed.” And Fascism is a term that morphs into a wide variety of targets deemed unacceptable by Antifa, from Capitalism to Patriarchy to Police. Antifa bears strong resemblance to groups that emerged in earlier periods of attacks on free speech like the Red Scare. Simply by replacing anti-communism with anti-fascism does not materially change the same anti-free-speech purpose of these movements.
Jonathan Turley Testimony to Congress August 4, 2020.
NB: The Southern Poverty Law Center, to which one of the senators appealed near the end of the video has been discredited. See:
- The SPLC Has Lost All Credibility
- Has A Civil Rights Stalwart Lost Its Way?
- The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered
- The Southern Poverty Law Center Is in a State of Moral Collapse
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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