Following swiftly on from Donald Trump’s renewed pledge to ban Antifa, a majority of Dutch MPs have voted to follow the U.S. example and label Antifa a terrorist organisation. A majority in the lower house of the Dutch parliament wants the Netherlands to follow the United States’ lead and designate the far-left Antifa movement as a terrorist organization. A motion to that effect by Lidewij de Vos (FvD), Caroline van der Plas (BBB), and Geert Wilders (PVV) was passed with the support of other right-wing and Christian parties. The motion’s sponsors warn “that Antifa cells are also active in our country, threatening politicians, disrupting meetings, intimidating students and journalists, and not shying away from using violence.” Predictably, leftist journalists all over the world are scrambling to defend the right of their ultra-left boot-boys to continue to spy on, dox, intimidate, beat and even kill political opponents – including parents who are labelled ‘transphobic’ for opposing the grooming of children for sexual mutilation. “Look how stupid Donald Trump is – he’s trying to ban something that doesn’t even exist”, is the new party line. They argue that Antifa is a fragmented, shapeless, non-organisation; just a set of slogans and tactics picked up and used by amorphous groups without cohesion or central organisation. Therefore, the leftists crow, it is impossible to “ban Antifa”. As with so much leftist propaganda, this starts with a shred of evidence, which is then stretched and spun until it becomes a lie. It is true that Antifa is highly decentralised, a set of slogans, a mindset and some oft-shared ‘optics’ – black clothing, facemasks, red and black banners, placards with handles that double as clubs to beat down opponents. Or assault rifles, for that matter.
A ban on Antifa must extend to similar bodies using similar tactics to advance LGBTQ and anti-white objectives, as well as far-left political ideas So if President Trump, or the Dutch state, or anyone else for that matter, simply bans Antifa as an organisation, they will indeed be making a futile and empty gesture, punching at, if not thin air, at most a nasty smell. But what happens when the UK government proscribes an organisation? Not one that a lot of their voters agree with, such as Palestine Action. People making a very public show of supporting such groups after they are banned are likely to be arrested, but we have already seen how they are then invariably released without charge. No, I’m talking about a group that journalists, MPs and judges really don’t like – such as the now defunct neo-Nazi honeytrap National Action. Utter a word in support of them, and the most pitiful mummy’s boy Incel is looking at three to four years in an Islamist-controlled prison. That’s a potential death sentence, they all know it, and they’re all happy with that. There’s no need for the prosecution to produce evidence of meeting others, of attending or organising anything. There’s no need for a current membership card. It goes even further than that: It is enough for the Home Secretary to rule that any new grouplet has some connection with the already banned body – whether in terms of personnel, ideology, aims or actions – for the new one to be proscribed as well. Its supporters are then similarly outlawed. Individuals are arrested in dawn raids and immediately thrown in prison. Any attempt to mobilise in public would lead to the instant arrest and imprisonment of every single person who attended. This is what Trump and others need to do with Antifa. Yes, classify it as a domestic terrorist gang for a start, but then go on to outlaw and crush any future manifestation of any of its tactics, slogans, ideas and optics. This would include any and every call by leftists, and ethnic and sexual ‘minorities, of any stripe to “crush”, “smash” or otherwise physically intimidate or attack opponents. When Kiss Means Kill It would include too little tricks to ‘code’ such calls to violence. The slogan “Kiss the Boer”, used in South Africa by black Communists after their “Kill the Boer” slogan was belatedly banned is a good example. In the wake of Donald Trump’s fresh promise to ban Antifa, there has been a rapid clean-up on Google. This has seen the overnight disappearance of huge numbers of pictures of mobs dressed in back and carrying Antifa banners. It’s all part of the “Antifa doesn’t even exist… Trump is a moron” line being peddled by the legacy media. Further proof of the fact that, for all the Fact Check denials that George Soros funded Antifa, these Marxist thugs have very powerful friends. But, never mind. There are enough photos and videos of mobs shouting Antifa slogans and carrying out Antifa activities while carrying red/back anarchist flags, plain red communist flags, and plain black ‘black block’ flags for all of them to be declared to be illegal signs of Antifa affiliation, the moment they are connected with any of Antifa’s violent actions. If someone wants to display such a flag from their home, or to put a hammer and a sickle on a stall from which they try to interest passers by in the ideas of Marx and Lenin, that’s no-one’s business but their own. But when a gang of them gather with such flags, or all dressed in dark clothing, or all wearing face masks, or all hurling abuse at political opponents – that is the point at which the riot police need to go in, drag them off, lock them up and throw away the key. In short, an effective ban on Antifa has to go beyond looking for membership cards that have never existed; it has to outlaw calls for violence which are linked to leftist causes, and all the means by which such violence is mobilised: Flags, uniformed clothing, public displays of any and all sorts of weapons of makeshift weaponry, threats and attacks. Even hard-core leftists should be free to argue for their ideas. Including the idea that a Charlie Kirk, a Donald Trump, a mother opposing sex education in school, or a Nick Griffin, are wrong. They should even be free to argue that we are dangerously wrong.
But the moment they in any way call for, or even hint at, the use of violence, the ban on Antifa should unleash the full force of the law on them. Every last one of them. Because, at its dark heart, Antifa is not a thing so much as a state of mind: The leftist mentality that political opponents and enemies of the revolution are sub-human and should be persecuted, silence and even exterminated. Such fanatical hatred cannot be reasoned with, cannot be excused and cannot be tolerated. The will to persecute and exterminate must be persecuted until it is exterminated. Any weakness or compromise over passing and implementing such law is the high road either to Marxist tyranny, or to a time when only civil war can prevent it. Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale is free today. But if you enjoyed this post, you can tell Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale that their writing is valuable by pledging a future subscription. You won't be charged unless they enable payments.
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