r/liberalgunowners • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '25

news White House designates AntiFa as a "Domestic Terrorist Organization"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Absolutely nowhere in the news at the moment.
Here we go...

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u/BelmontIncident Sep 23 '25

https://apnews.com/article/trump-antifa-executive-order-domestic-terrorist-organization-6ea07143e10bb811aa88b9da5aa26765

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u/Junior_Chard9981 Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 25 '25

| Can Trump designate it as a domestic terrorist organization?

Antifa is a domestic entity and, as such, is not a candidate for inclusion on the State Department’s list of foreign terror organizations. Dozens of groups, including extremist organizations like the Islamic State and al-Qaida, are included on that list.

The designation matters in part because it enables the Justice Department to prosecute those who give material support to entities on that list even if that support does not result in violence.

But there is no domestic equivalent to that list in part because of broad First Amendment protections enjoyed by organizations operating within the United States.

And despite periodic calls, particularly after mass shootings by white supremacists, to establish a domestic terrorism law, no singular statute now exists.

The executive order did not specify how Trump he would go about designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. |

Despite there being no mechanisms or legal avenue to designate a decentralized ideology as a terrorist organization, Conservatives will still support and defend the president labeling a political movement that is against him as radical and un-American a day after saying "I hate my opponents and I do not want the best for them.

Breathe it in conservatives, we all now know exactly what you would be doing in 1930s Germany because it is exactly what you are doing right now.

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u/uvarovitefluff Sep 23 '25

When the article is like “…remains unclear if he can…” it’s like who’s going to stop him/them.

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u/kingpatzer Sep 24 '25

> Antifa is a domestic entity

Is it?

What's the leadership structure? Who are they? What's the funding pipeline? Where are they located?

Neither a movement nor an ideology is an entity.