Raising money to finance illegal activity is illegal for anyone – so why do the rules not apply to the Left?
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Antifa, like the Democrat Party, is built on the model of nonprofit support infrastructure.
In the party, that means everything except the most direct campaign activities are outsourced to networks of nonprofits that use tax-deductible donations for everything from voter registration and outreach, media and messaging, to funding election infrastructure ‘Zuckerbucks’ style.
Unlike its Black Lives Matter allies, the Antifa networks aren’t funded by a single nonprofit. Antifa’s illegal activities and the radical tendencies of its participants, many of whom are involved in a variety of radical groups, some of them domestic terrorist organizations, makes that a non-starter. However, unlike conservative groups which have been ‘debanked’ from Big Tech fundraising platforms, Antifa gains support through leftist 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) groups which includes fundraising platforms, bail funds, street medics and promotional media organizations.
One of the worst examples also operates arm in arm with the Democratic Party.
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund raises money through crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe, Patreon and FundRazr (also utilized by the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Cambridge) despite clear bans on raising money for illegal or criminal activity.
But its primary fundraising platform is also utilized by the Democratic National Committee.
Connected by a shortlink titled ‘DefendAntifa’, the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund, its fundraising page flying the Antifa flag and bearing a banner “Free All Antifa Prisoners” describes itself as providing “direct, immediate support to anti-fascists” including medical bills, legal defense and an “antifa prisoner fund”, uses the Action Network: a leftist 501(c)(4) and (c)(3).
The Action Network boasts that “after three months of using Action Network the DNC shattered all sorts of fundraising records.” The Antifa defense fund, which claims to have dispensed $75,000 in three years, is apparently also doing well with the overlapping DNC donor base.
What is the Antifa defense fund raising money for?
While the Action Network home page shows off a picture of Biden to promote its DNC fundraising, the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund’s blog features a story about helping out during the Biden inauguration riots featuring of black masked antifa thugs bearing a banner featuring an AK-47 and the message, “We don’t want Biden, we want revenge.”
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund post describes how “stuff got vandalized and Dak, one of the sole arrestees, was left holding the bag, taking a plea deal that kept him out of prison but also left him on the hook to pay for all of the property damage done in both actions – nearly $50,000USD in all!.That’s a lot of money for anyone to come up with. A donation page has been set up to help with those costs and the Defence Fund… decided to help contribute directly.”
This would appear to refer to the Biden inauguration riots in Portland during which the windows of the Democratic Party of Oregon headquarters were smashed and vandalized with the anarchist ‘A’. Police seized “Molotov cocktails, knives, batons, chemical spray and a crow bar”.
Is a fundraising platform used by the DNC also raising money for antifa rioters smashing Democrat offices? If so it would be one of many examples of Democrats incubating the leftist radicals who are destroying their party and the country.
The Action Network was set up by Senator John Kerry’s digital director during the Occupy Wall Street riots, is emblematic of the relationship between the Democrat establishment and the most extreme elements of the Left. As is an antifa defense fund raising money for a defendant in the Biden inauguration riots using the Action Network whose home page features Biden’s picture.
Beyond the DNC, the Action Network is the fundraising platform for the AFL-CIO, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, the DSA and Communist Party USA. The spectrum reflects the growing extremism that the Democrats have become complicit in and even directly support.
The Action Network is a 501(c)(4) and while the C4 status comes with greater freedom to engage in lobbying, it does not sanction any involvement in illegal activities.
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund is quite cheerful about them.
One post on the Antifa defense fund’s blog is titled, “Found Out” and features a photo of a man’s bloody head while raising money for the perpetrators.
The Antifa defense fund claims that the police “decided to charge someone, someone who asked us to help with their legal defense. And help is what we did. Because teaching people like Adam Kelly how the sentence ‘Fuck around…’ ends is never a crime.”
The legal system disagrees. The DNC and the Action Network clearly do not. But does the IRS?
Raising money to finance illegal activity is illegal for anyone, but nonprofits have their status regulated by the IRS.
IRS regulations state that, “not only is the actual conduct of illegal activities inconsistent with exemption, but the planning and sponsoring of such activities are also incompatible with charity and social welfare.” For example, “Rev. Rul. 75-384 holds that an organization formed to promote world peace that planned and sponsored protest demonstrations at which members were urged to commit acts of civil disobedience did not qualify for IRC 501(c)(3) or (4) exemption.”
“G.C.M. 36153, dated January 31, 1975, states that because planning and sponsoring illegal acts are in themselves inconsistent with charity and social welfare it is not necessary to determine whether illegal acts were, in fact, committed in connection with the resulting demonstrations or whether such a determination can be made prior to conviction of an accused.”
These rules have not been applied to the Left in some time. But they ought to be.
Walter Sieruk says
First during the election year of 2020 the vicious violent malicious subversive Marxist domestic terrorist organization backed and support the Joe Biden campaign for the Presidents for Joe Biden.
Biden did accept their support. That alone reveals much the horrendous evil charter of Joe Biden
Second, a number of members of the Democrat party actually approve, but not often openly approve, of the violent looting shooters and arsonists of the hooligans who are members of Antifa
Those members of the Democratic Party who condone and even encourage the violence of arson looting and shooting by Antifa have conveniently forgotten the truth spoken by their Democrat hero President, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Who in a speech declared “There is no American right to loot stores, or to burn buildings, or to fire rifles from the rooftops. That is crime – the crime must be dealt with forcefully and swiftly, and certainly –under the law.”
Linde B. says
To Walter-Your comments are always on target, and thank you.
Do you know of any list that has
names of DemoncRAT leaders
who support ANTIFA and other
disgusting groups like them?
In my opinion, ANTIFA, Black Lives Matter, and other extremist groups of the left and right should all move to Communist China or North Korea. They would be much happier in those places and I would help them pack, for free. 🥳😎🤣
Walter Sieruk says
O Linde B , thank you for the nice reply, As for your question I have no such list.
Nevertheless, we may be sure that ,in time, they will lose power go away forever . The tragic part is before that occurs they will do much harm.
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
Look into VA Senator Timmy Kaine. His boy Woody is a force in antifa. Due to his father, he was let off a bunch of charges related to an arrest at a President Trump rally.
Tim has already indicated that a portion of his campaign funds go to support his boy’s organization.
Wellington says
And let’s not forget that in the midst of over 500 major riots during 2020 and led by Antifa and BLM, Nancy Pelosi said, “I don’t know why there aren’t more uprisings. Maybe there will be.”
But Trump who said on January 6th, “protest peacefully and patriotically,” needed to be impeached.
We live in a pure double standard America nowadays and anyone denying this is demonstrating either their ignorance or their mendacity.
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding the horrendous criminal malice –filled rioting looting violence arson and other wicked kinds of destruction committed by domestic terrorists of Antifa ,it’s therefore fitting to reiterate to quote from the liberal Democrat US President ,Lyndon B. Johnson had in a speech, rightly , declared” “There is no American right to loot stores, or to burn buildings , or to fire rifles from rooftops . That is crime – and crime must be dealt with forcefully and swiftly, and certainly – under law.”
Walter Sieruk says
That cartoon illustrates much. As the Bible reads “Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11:21. [K.J.V.]
wpm says
Did not Joe “mumbles” Biden declare in the debate with Trump in 2020 that Antifa were not an organized “group” but a political idea. Bought to you by the political party of democrats who can not official state clearly what is a women ! Would you trust these people ,why would you vote for people so removed from reality ,or so wicked and thinking you are so stupid or morally bankrupt you believe these lying sacks of sh*t. They cheer the rioter, legs up Harris wanted to bailed them out ,Soros back judge gave them no jail time or light sentences .Lets make believe that billions of dollars of damage was not done or over 20 people lost their lives ,because a drug addict criminal with health problem cross the path of a bad cop and fought the police and lost..
wpm says
The FBI is busy trying to track down angry parents at PTA meeting that do not want drag time story hour read to their 8 year old on the public dime?
Deodata says
If they are not classed as domestic terrorist they should be and why not? The protests in Mosley. Liverpool were peaceful, but near the end some people turned up in black and set fire to a police van and started the violence. Yet the media start saying that it was an extreme right protest. Obviously ANTIFA activists but never expect the media to be truthful.
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
Antifa clown Woodie Kaine, son of antifa’s own senator, Timmy Kaine, has pledged a portion of his campaign war chest to his boy’s organization.
TLC says
Since early summer of 2020, when I first stumbled onto this, antifa.com will ALWAYS take you to joe bidet. First to his campaign site, then “president-elect” site now straight to THE WHITE HOUSE.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No surprise. The Democratic Party is the political wing of Antifa, just like Sinn Fein is of the IRA
wpm says
The democratic party in the Southern United States was in bed with the KKK in the 1920s ., Now they are in bed in blue states and blue cities with Antifa in the 2020s .They seem to love violent terrorist that can keep them(the democrats) in power. In both cases the democrats and MSM refused to admit that were a real organization or a real problem. In both cases the elected democrats back them with money ,and many members were secret not so secret backers of these terrorist organizations. The United States Justice department do not go after the KKK until the 1960s do we have to wait 40 years for them to go after Antifa ? Will America as a country stay whole as one country with 40 years of living with these terrorist groups that are an arm of the progressive democratic party?