Antifa Member Who Took Axe to Senate Office Given Probation and his Axe Back

The self-avowed Antifa member took an axe to the office of Sen. John Hoeven's in Fargo on Dec. 21, 2020.

He displays the Antifa symbol and, while awaiting sentencing, reportedly wrote: "I am ANTIFA. I will always attack fascists, racial superiority complexes built around nationalism that promotes genocide to fuel a war machine is the worst humanity has to offer."

It is reminiscent of the defiance shown by arrested Antifa member Jason Charter, who declared "The Movement is winning" after his own arrest.

Last year, I testified in the Senate on Antifa and the growing anti-free speech movement in the United States.

I specifically disagreed with the statement of House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler that Antifa is a "Myth." It is at its base a movement at war with free speech, defining the right itself as a tool of oppression.

Bray emphasizes the struggle of the movement against free speech: "At the heart of the anti-fascist outlook is a rejection of the classical liberal phrase that says, 'I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'"Indeed, Bray admits that "Most Americans in Antifa have been anarchists or antiauthoritarian communists From that standpoint, 'free speech' as such is merely a bourgeois fantasy unworthy of consideration." It is an illusion designed to promote what Antifa is resisting "White supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, ultra-nationalism, authoritarianism, and genocide." Thus, all of these opposing figures are deemed fascistic and thus unworthy of being heard.

Bray quotes one Antifa member as summing up their approach to free speech as a "Nonargument ... you have the right to speak but you also have the right to be shut up."

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/11/26/antifa-member-who-took-axe-to-senate-office-given-probation-and-his-axe-back/