SLO County sending law enforcement to LA as looting, violence escalates

Francesca Bolognini, commonsenseguy, & y’all, imho from this distance, it is impossible to judge who is behind what. Antifa or boogaloo or ? Anybody can disguise themselves as the other. However, some riot tactics appear organized. We should be aware. Wiki summaries:

Antifa “Individuals involved in the movement tend to hold anti-capitalist and anti-government views, and subscribe to a range of left-wing ideologies. A majority of adherents are socialists, anarchists, and communists who describe themselves as revolutionaries … The movement is pan-leftist and non-hierarchical, and is united by opposition to right-wing extremism and white supremacy, as well as OPPOSITION TO a centralized STATE. Antifa activists reject anti-fascist conservatives as well as liberals. The movement eschews mainstream liberal democracy and electoral politics in favor of DIRECT ACTION. … Antifa is not an interconnected or unified organization, but rather a movement without a hierarchical leadership structure, comprising multiple autonomous groups and individuals. Activists typically ORGANIZE protests VIA SOCIAL MEDIA and through websites … peer-to-peer networks”

Boogaloo groups typically believe in accelerationism, and support any action that will speed impending civil war and eventually the collapse of society. … [per] Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), groups belonging to the boogaloo movement organize on … ONLINE PLATFORMS … [per] Tech Transparency Project [TTP] … members … ‘exchang[e] detailed information and tactics on how to organize and execute a REVOLT AGAINST American AUTHORITIES.’ … Extremism researchers first took notice of the word “boogaloo” being used in … 2019, when they observed it being used among fringe groups including militias, gun rights movements, and white supremacist groups. … term … originated on … website 4chan, where it was often accompanied by references to ‘racewar’ and ‘dotr’ (day of the rope, a neo-Nazi reference to a fantasy involving murdering … ‘race traitors’). … NCRI found that the usage of the term ‘boogaloo’ increased by 50% on Facebook and Twitter in the last months of 2019 and into early 2020. … TTP also found that 60% of boogaloo Facebook groups had emerged following the pandemic lockdowns, during which time they amassed tens of thousands of members.

Our political leaders should start calling out these clusters (hesitate to call them organizations since that may further their ends). We should criticize any politician or pundit who tries to appeal to these elements. If they start appealing to or playing these groups that’s when it gets scary. COVID allows for anyone to assault an officer by coughing.