Antifa, in a rather lunatic statement released the day before the Dallas ICE office shooting, has called for a significant escalation in attacks on ICE facilities. Could this have further provoked, or at least precipitated, the September 24th attack on an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas? It's not impossible, and it makes one wonder what might come next.
Antifa agitators are calling for further attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, as ICE agents already face an unprecedented wave of left-wing violence.
AnarchistNews.org, an anarcho-communist propaganda site popular among antifa militants, issued a call this week instructing “all anarchists across the country” to converge in the streets and “wage a carnival of war against ICE.”
“Every fist that hurls a piece of concrete through a bank or an ICE agent’s car window has the potential to ignite a wildfire,” reads the call-to-action.
Citing mass deportations under President Donald Trump, the message outlines the revolutionary Left’s strategy of exploiting civil unrest to incite political violence, topple institutions, and stoke widespread chaos in furtherance of “becoming ungovernable.”
We might note that throwing a piece of concrete through a bank or a car window is an act that could result in a serious injury or death. It's not as deadly and deliberate as a rifle shot, but it's a difference in degree, not in kind; both are violent attacks aimed at great bodily injury.
And yet, that's what Antifa seems to want.
“[C]hannel hopelessness into a frenzy of outbursts,” the communiqué says, listing off accelerant acts, such as “nocturnal smash and grabs or spontaneous attacks on institutions,” to bring about a state of lawlessness. “With the ammunition of love and rage, we reclaim our lives with every momentary rupture against a world that can never be voted away.”
The anonymously authored edict, titled “A Call for Anarchist Action in America: Occupy and Disrupt ICE Facilities in Every City,” was published one day before a rooftop sniper, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, shot up a Dallas immigration detention center on Wednesday in an apparent anti-ICE attack.
Could Joshua Jahn have seen this communique?
It seems unlikely that Jahn was completely inspired by this particular missive. It was released, after all, only a day before he carried out his attack. An attack like Jahn carried out would likely take more than 24 hours to prepare for; it's not impossible to have planned and set up such an attack within that time, but it seems unlikely.
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You can read the original Antifa release here. It closes:
We invite all anarchists across the country not only to occupy and disrupt operations at ICE facilities in every city, but to celebrate life with fire against the death march of american (sic) law and order. With tactical diversity, lets (sic) meet in the streets and wage a carnival of war against ICE and all authority!
A "carnival of war." That seems a pretty clear statement; it's a call for open violence. It's impossible to interpret that any other way. And if it's war they want, it may very well be war they get. It may be war against American law and order, as they claim is a "death march" to be fought by "celebrate(ing) life with fire."
It's not inconceivable that they could spark a limited or even a widespread civil war. Such an attempt on Antifa's part would be bloody, decisive, short, and not in Antifa's favor.
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