How NOT to Wage War on the Enemies Within

How NOT to Wage War on the Enemies Within

By Cliff Kincaid

John Solomon’s outlet “Just the News” reports that FBI Director Kash Patel claims that the bureau is “on the verge” of “unmasking the command structure and financing for anarchist groups like Antifa.” Pardon me for being skeptical. While identifying sources of funds is important, it is even more important to identity and punish these people. But who are they?

On occasion, they carry Antifa flags and wear black but membership in Antifa is vague and ambiguous.

Following a White House declaration that Antifa is a terrorist threat, the Department of Justice brought terrorism-related charges against TWO alleged members of Antifa who were involved in an attack on ICE agents in Alvarado, Texas. However, a previous criminal complaint on the same matter identified 10 people as  being involved in the attack. So were they other eight members of Antifa or not?

In many of these cases, membership is something that cannot be ascertained on a definitive basis.
Consider the case of the “Frederick Four” in Frederick, Maryland, who participated in an anti-Trump rally and, according to police, “chose to cross the line from lawful demonstration into criminal conduct. Instead of engaging in lawful expression, they turned to aggression, destruction, and outright criminal behavior.” In  fact, the police report that they were part of “a group of approximately 20 individuals wearing all black striking passing vehicles with umbrellas, endangering motorists and escalating tensions.”

This may be an “anarchist group” like Antifa but a large part of their financing appears to be conducted on a local basis. And only four were taken into police custody and none was openly identified as Antifa. They are raising money locally through a web site.

The police reported, “Several of these individuals were also wearing protective goggles and gas masks, a tactic commonly used by protestors anticipating confrontation or preparing to engage in unlawful activity while avoiding identification or the effects of crowd control measures. As officers attempted to deescalate the situation, several individuals responded by assaulting law enforcement officers. One officer was struck in the head with an object thrown by a protester while another officer was struck in the groin with a metal pole. Four members of this protest group were immediately taken into custody.”

However, when one of the agitators were brought to trial, a local prosecutor dropped three charges at the last minute -- obstructing and hindering, riot, and assault, leaving charges of disturbing the peace/hindering passage, failure to obey a lawful order, and disorderly conduct.

On March 5, 2023, when the Atlanta police said “a group of violent agitators used the cover of a peaceful protest of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to conduct a coordinated attack on construction equipment and police officers,” they were not identified as Antifa, even though “They changed into black clothing and entered the construction area and began to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police officers.”

Those arrested included a member of the Southern Poverty Law Center and were represented by the National Lawyers Guild, a long-time communist front.

Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas has just asked the Department of Justice to investigate the NLG for its “close ties with left-wing extremists and domestic terrorist organizations like Antifa.”

It is much easier to identify communists than Antifa.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), once identified by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as a Communist Party front, is defending those apprehended in the attack on Cop City, saying they were “environmental justice protesters” trying “to defend their communities from the harms of militarized policing and environmental degradation on stolen Muscogee land.”

The NLG is still an affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), an old Soviet front.

One place to begin is the report from the Committee on Un-American Activities, “Communist Legal Subversion the Role of the Communist Lawyer,” published in 1959.

As part of the investigation, Congress could probe anti-Trump Special Counsel Jack Smith and his wife, Katy Chevigny, whose father Paul was a leftist lawyer associated with the NLG who tried to put the New York Police Department’s “Red Squad” out of business. Her mother Bell was a mentor to convicted and incarcerated terrorists.

For more on Smith and his wife, we recommend our 12-page special report, “The Communists, Globalists, Terrorists and Fellow Travelers Trying to Jail President Trump.”

Trump, of course, was elected in 2024, thereby defeating Smith’s crusade.

Nationally, groups whose members can be easily identified Include the Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism & Liberation, Workers World Party, Communist Party USA, African People’s Socialist Party, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Socialist Unity Party, Spartacist League, Revolutionary Communist Party, and the Party of Communists USA.

The FBI does not monitor these groups anymore because so many are tied directly to the Democratic Party. That can and should change under FBI director Kash Patel. However, there is no indication that it has changed.

If Patel won’t do the job, Congress can. House Speaker Mike Johnson could bring back the House Internal Security Committee, which was abolished in the 1970s. Today, the Congress has no committees, subcommittees, or panels, devoted exclusively to internal security.

We held a conference, “Traitors, Spies and Terrorists: America's Internal Security Crisis,” on June 28, 2011, at the National Press Club.

As for the FBI, to overcome its timidity, the bureau could start its investigation of communists by examining so-called “solidarity groups,” including in Chicago, where the Washington Post once acknowledged, some of these “activists” had “crossed paths” with a politician named Barack Obama.
But that would open a can of worms, wouldn’t it?

• Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org