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As our country is rocked by protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, in one of the most horrific deaths attributed to police brutality, ANTIFA has all of the sudden populated our media outlets at full steam even to the point of quieting the concern for social distancing over Covid 19.

George Floyd was a man that was brutally killed at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  The now former police officer Derek Chauven, is charged with third degree murder and second degree manslaughter for kneeling on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds as the man complained he could not breathe and called for his mother. Two minutes and 53 seconds of that time, Floyd was not saying anything because he was completely unresponsive.  Even now, after that brutal display of murder by authority, Main Stream Media and the powers that have become tentative dictators through the Covid 19 response, escalated for political reasons by the democratic party, are affording that officer every opportunity to not be held accountable for his actions.  The New York Times, not even three days after the crime occurred is already building a case for acquittal, stating,

Potentially complicating the prosecution of Mr. Chauvin, preliminary results from an autopsy found that Mr. Floyd, 46, did not appear to have died from strangulation or asphyxiation. “Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease,” prosecutors said, also listing “potential intoxicants.” The combined effects of his conditions and the way the police restrained him “likely contributed to his death.”

Here at the CAAPS Organization we find that unacceptable and find it worthy cause for the protests in the streets. We were also pleased to note that the battle went to the front door of the enemy in that police stations were attacked and burnt to the ground.   When you declare war on the people, you need to be ready for a war like response. You can’t run up and punch someone in the face, or murder someone as in this case, and then say, “now, play nice; be peaceful”.  We are not going to pull punches and call for peace as we have seen that peaceful protests only empower dictators because they can turn the ear off, or the television up. As PA Governor Wolf stated during the first protest over business shut downs and Constitutional Rights violations that drew over 4000 protesters to the capital, “Oh, there are protests out there? I didn’t notice.” Then he proceeded to issue another edict extending and enhancing the unconstitutional restrictions he imposed on the people of Pennsylvania while at the same time vetoing a bill that the legislature (the people’s direct voice) passed to end the shut down. These types of protests that happened over the death of George Floyd should have happened when businesses were shut down and people were told they HAD to stay home and where masks … not recommended to do so, but ordered to do so at the cost of criminal and civil penalty. They should have targeted government buildings and political offices all across the country, stormed capitals and taken governors into custody, as according to our Constitution we have the right to do. Dismantle our government in any way we see fit in the protection of our constitutional rights.

ANTIFA is a political statement that stands for anti-fascism, yet the cries of ANTIFA were not heard when fascist governors closed private businesses, ordered people to stay home.  Perhaps the extreme violence ripping across our country is from the deeper rooted cause of being stripped of rights, shut down, and told how to act?

Those protests did not take place as 300,000,000 people’s rights were being violated, and nearly 100K people died as the democratic governors ordered nursing homes to take in infected Covid patients, when nursing homes were the most vulnerable to fatality where 70% of those 100K deaths occurred. Instead, the protests occurred over one man dying at the hands of four police officers, and ANTIFA popped onto the scene,  by mainstream media as if it is a bad word. We cheered when CNN’s offices were attacked, though we do not condone the ransacking of businesses and looting. Let’s be clear there. We feel all business owners should be protecting their businesses with arms and condemn those attacking private businesses.

Further prompting the writing of this article and our thoughts about ANTIFA was the following exchange on twitter with Jeremy Thompson @imahockeyguy that claims he is also now a terrorist with his 47 followers because he is ANTIFA. It should be noted that because he, like most typical democrats that get stumped when they can’t justify their actions in a debate, or answer tough questions about stupid things they say, made a quick response then blocked us to somehow preserve that he is right in the face of his own realization he was wrong. So, we were unable to further explore him being ANTIFA and now a terrorist in our efforts to answer the questions we have.

I’m sorry, I didn’t see you opposing fascism when your rights were stripped away from you, businesses were closed and you were told to stay home. THAT is when these riots should have taken place, if you were really ANTIFA.

— CAAPS Organization (@CAAPSorg) May 31, 2020

Lol i didn’t have a single right taken from me so I’m not sure what you mean by this.

— Jeremy Thompson (@Imahockeyguy) May 31, 2020

Oh, so because you don’t own a business that was shut down and you don’t feel someone telling you to stay home or wear a mask is not a reflection on your rights, then there was no reason for you to protect others. Well, you weren’t killed either, so why did you stand up?

— CAAPS Organization (@CAAPSorg) May 31, 2020

I want you to know that I’m blocking you because you’re a psychopath and for no other reason.

— Jeremy Thompson (@Imahockeyguy) May 31, 2020

Apparently the questions got too difficult for Jeremy and we were never able to explore with him about whether ANTIFA was racist since he claimed he is ANTIFA, but his response complicates the issue more as to who is actually part of this movement and what do they stand for? Are they the bad word that media and makeshift dictators are painting them out to be?

Is ANTIFA racist since most of the speakers about the protests are very quick to state George Floyd was a black man that died at the hands of a white man,  rather than simply stating a man died at the hands of a police officer.  It is almost as if George Floyd was not part of our human race, because he has to be identified specifically as a ‘black’ man, rather than a man. For us at the CAAPS Organization, George was a man, one of all of us, and he died at the hands of another man that was a police officer sworn to uphold the law, not break it. If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, we believe that he would be so disappointed in the fact that the people assigning any racial label, black or white, to this tragedy, he would probably make a statement to the effect that as long as people assign colors to events, it does not defeat racism, it only deepens the racial divide as those doing so are showing that they absolutely refuse to join the human race as one, and that serves no purpose other than alienating a lot of people with the same beliefs as you away from your cause.

As long as this event and others are identified as a ‘black’ or ‘white’ thing, it will always be frowned upon as allowing and continuing oppression for racial reasons and those involved will be looked upon as racists. When you attach a color to something, you are creating racism.

We are people… as one, and these battles should be focused on as people …as one. Only then will we achieve real change. In order to have change, you must also accept that change has occurred and move on, not assign colors to everything that goes wrong as the motivation for rebellion.  At this point in time, racism is as much fiction as ANTIFA, only taken out of the closet when a bad word is needed, and that may be why people are so quick to make it a bad word. Those holding on to race, or using terms as ANTIFA to broadcast racial bias are actually oppressing and victimizing themselves, and continuing racism in the world.

We are people … together…. standing up to tyranny and abuse of power. Anything else is allowing racism to survive.