{"id":13793,"date":"2019-07-08T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:53:18","slug":"my-apology-to-antifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/08\/my-apology-to-antifa\/","title":{"rendered":"My Apology to Antifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dc-protest-7-6-antifa-day-after-add-DSC_0212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13790\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dc-protest-7-6-antifa-day-after-add-DSC_0212-532x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dc-protest-7-6-antifa-day-after-add-DSC_0212-532x800.jpg 532w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dc-protest-7-6-antifa-day-after-add-DSC_0212-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dc-protest-7-6-antifa-day-after-add-DSC_0212.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>American Conservative, July 8, 2019<\/h3>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/camera-shy-antifa-hits-washington-d-c\/\">Camera-Shy Antifa Hits Washington D.C.<\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 id=\"deck\">There was a list of &#8220;rules&#8221; for media covering their antics, which we now know include destroying property and clubbing journalists.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by James Bovard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/author\/james-bovard\">James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Washington\u2019s Pennsylvania Avenue saw two competing protests near the White House on Saturday\u2014a Proud Boys\u2019 \u201cDemand Free Speech\u201d\u00a0 rally, and a left-wing counter-protest organized by #AllOutDC which promoted the immediate expulsion of all accused Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists from the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>I slipped into the latter protest and took some close-up photos of black-drabbed Antifa activists gathered there to ostensibly lend a hand. After I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/06\/proud-boys-vs-antifa-demonstrations-washington-july-6-2019\/\">few photos online, <\/a>\u00a0I saw a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Julio_Rosas11\/status\/1147530669083570176\">notice that AllOutDC organizers<\/a> distributed warning the media not to photograph the faces of the left-wing demonstrators without \u201ctheir explicit, stated consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mea Culpa! At least I didn\u2019t violate the first rule of furtive photography: make sure the durn flash does not inadvertently go off.\u00a0 (I also took quirky photos of the right-wing rally, including an unusual number of pro-Roger Stone t-shirts and a \u201cBikers for Trump\u201d dude holding a giant \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1147582564145795077\">End the Bolshevik Media Monopoly<\/a>\u201d sign, but I saw no micro-managing of the media there.)<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after I left the protests, Antifa demonstrators<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/finley_peter_dunne_154259\"> tried to attack the conservative protestors but the D.C. police easily swatted<\/a> them away. No wonder AllOutDC\u2019s sheet warned the media: \u201cBe aware that photographs or videos can be used as evidence in court. Please avoid publishing any potentially incriminating photographs or video footage.\u201d Such as the <i>Washington Post<\/i> photos of Antifa zealots <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntiAntifa_187\/status\/1147560343335579648\">dragging that arch-symbol of fascism<\/a>, newspaper vending machines, into the street before they were routed by D.C. cops. That media notice could be helpful if prosecutors wanted to prove that Antifa violence was premeditated. (D.C. police did an excellent job of minimizing clashes at the demonstrations.)<\/p>\n<p>Antifa outfits always make me think of Cirque du Soleil rejects. Or maybe their attire was inspired by overdosing on Batman re-runs. The media warning sheet also declared: \u201cPlease ensure that you have explicit consent before capturing <strong>auto<\/strong> recordings or directly quoting interviewees.\u201d (Emphasis mine). Were they worried that someone might capture the sounds of the Batmobile, or what? They meant \u201caudio\u201d but were perhaps too distraught by Trump\u2019s July 4th military-themed speech to proofread.<\/p>\n<p>The media notification sheet concludes: \u201cMembers of the media who refuse to comply with these reasonable guidelines will be removed from the [safe space] permitted protest area.\u201d\u00a0 Perhaps after they are attacked with lead pipes and left with brain damage, as Antifa recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/antifa-attack-conservative-blogger-andy-115152895.html\">brutalized journalist Andy Ngo<\/a> in Portland, Oregon? Or when Antifa activists knocked <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Julio_Rosas11\/status\/1147547028559450115\">journalist Julio Rosas\u2019s phone<\/a> out of his hand on Saturday?\u00a0 Or when Antifa attacked journalists in Washington after the counter-protest to the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d micro-rally in Lafayette Park? Or when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/08\/12\/unite-right-sputters-antifa-fails-hopeful-signs-america-column\/971952002\/?utm_source=feedblitz\">Antifa attacked the police and the media<\/a> last August in Charlottesville?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/kotakuinaction2\/comments\/c9x10b\/antifas_rules_for_press_to_get_access_to_their\/\">One Reddit user commented<\/a>, \u201cThe anarchists sure have a whole bunch of rules.\u201d But Antifa are not anarchists\u2014unless one presumes that any group has the right to award itself a monopoly on violence.<\/p>\n<p>Those media guidelines tacitly presume Antifa folks deserve impunity when they physically assault anyone whose ideas they dislike.\u00a0Antifa activists pride themselves on being anti-fascist shock troops. But their methods are little different than the Nazi Brown Shirts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/SA-Nazi-organization\">Sturmabteilung<\/a>) who maximized violence to destroy all confidence in the political system and spur Hitler\u2019s rise to power.<\/p>\n<p>Antifa\u2019s absolutism brings to mind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/finley_peter_dunne_154259\">Finley Peter Dunne\u2019s definition<\/a> of a fanatic as \u201csomeone who does what the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.\u201d Antifa and any other group should be allowed to publicly denounce President Trump as a fascist, tyrant, or serial golf score cheater.\u00a0 But if the entire nation becomes like Portland, tacitly <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/antifa-attack-conservative-blogger-andy-115152895.html\">permitting masked Antifa attackers to maim<\/a> who they please, American democracy is doomed.<\/p>\n<p><i>James Bovard is the author of\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LsDHUb\">Lost Rights<\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2uSsrq2\">Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a><i>, and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2mN0dbO\">Public Policy Hooligan<\/a><i>. He is also a\u00a0<\/i>USA Today<i>\u00a0columnist. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard?lang=en\"><i>@JimBovard<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Conservative, July 8, 2019 Camera-Shy Antifa Hits Washington D.C. There was a list of &#8220;rules&#8221; for media covering their antics, which we now know include destroying property and clubbing journalists. By James Bovard Washington\u2019s Pennsylvania Avenue saw two competing protests near the White House on Saturday\u2014a Proud Boys\u2019 \u201cDemand Free Speech\u201d\u00a0 rally, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1670,2067,1309,2065,52,2064,2063,2066,2062,139,2061],"class_list":["post-13793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alt-right","tag-andy-ngo","tag-antifa","tag-batman","tag-democracy","tag-fanatic","tag-finley-peter-dunne","tag-julio-rosas","tag-nazi-brown-shirts","tag-photography","tag-washington-demonstrations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Apology to Antifa - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/08\/my-apology-to-antifa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Apology to Antifa - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"American Conservative, July 8, 2019 Camera-Shy Antifa Hits Washington D.C. 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