Seems like a lot of the media is discussing the riots, albeit calling them something else. What is more hilarious to me is how they are no longer discussing COVID.
Imagine once these riots end them trying to pivot back to it. A lot of folks are now waking to up to how fake stupid and pitiful this virus was and is.
The death toll didn't amount to the civilization ending numbers that were pumped into our airwaves nonstop. A lot of folks thought this was it though. The end of the world.
I wonder how, in strictly legal terms, one can designate something that isn't an actual organization a terrorist organization? By their very nature, they aren't structured like one. I guess the announcement is a placeholder for a later, more specified list of specific, named antifa groups scattered across the US that have a criminal history of politically motivated violence.
I suppose they would range from highly decentralized to highly centralized, with a decentralized structure being the most efficient to avoid detection by authorities. That's how most of the jihadist organizations worked according to reports, I've read over the years. Whether centralized or decentralized, however, they'd still be aorganization, singular. And they'd be an organization, as opposed to something that isn't an organization...
Antifa is not an organization, it's a movement. It would be like criminalizing white supremacy as a movement or political belief, as opposed to a specific white supremacist organization that systematically employs political violence. One ought to be protected by free speech rights, the other not. One is a movement, the other an organization. So again, I suspect the announcement is just a placeholder for the future naming of specific organizations.