{"id":4161,"date":"2025-11-15T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:31:12","slug":"rubio-labels-antifa-foreign-terrorist-group-to-go-after-u-s-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Labels Antifa Foreign Terrorist Group To Go After U.S. Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hungarian Prime Minister<\/span> Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government launched a continentwide manhunt<\/a> when a group of European antifascists attacked a neo-Nazi rally three years ago.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n, though, showed no such appetite for cracking down on the annual fascist rally, which this February drew attendees <\/a>sporting SS patches, swastikas, and the \u201cTotenkopf\u201d death\u2019s head symbol \u2014 all under the watchful eye of Hungarian police.<\/p>\n

The aggressive response to antifascist activists, compared to the kid-gloves treatment of neo-Nazi demonstrators, has roiled European politics for years.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the fray, inserting the U.S. into the debate by declaring the antifascist group that attacked the 2023 rally a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

Though the designation is aimed at foreign groups, Rubio said that he was acting in accordance with President Donald Trump\u2019s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, regarding purported \u201cdomestic\u201d terrorists.<\/p>\n

The terror designation will cut off the small Antifa Ost group, and three others designated by Rubio on Thursday, from raising funds in the U.S. It could also imperil American antifascist groups with civil and criminal allegations of \u201cmaterial support\u201d for terrorism, a civil rights lawyer warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clever way to go about it for them is to designate some foreign organization, because a foreign organization can be designated and there is almost no due process,\u201d said Shane Kadidal, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. \u201cThen, you go after the U.S. groups for supposedly coordinating their political messages with the messages of the foreign groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rubio\u2019s announcement follows on the heels of one from Trump in September that he was designating antifa a \u201cmajor terrorist organization,\u201d<\/a> which has no basis in law. The foreign terrorist organization designations, however, entail significant legal consequences.<\/p>\n

Under a 2010 ruling<\/a> from the Supreme Court, domestic groups can face \u201cmaterial support\u201d charges for providing nonviolent support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n

Kadidal said the Trump administration could essentially try to use the foreign terrorist designations as a workaround to target domestic antifascists with \u201cmaterial support\u201d charges. Key questions such as whether domestic activists had knowledge and intent to coordinate with foreign groups can be left for a jury to decide based on circumstantial evidence, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is one of those things that makes this so dangerous,\u201d he said. \u201cThe jury may just decide, \u2018Yeah, whatever you have alleged about this coordination of messaging is true, because these are bad people in front of me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJuries do this thing all the time. They jump to conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thousands of neo-Nazis gathered in Budapest for the annual so-called Day of Honour march, an event that openly glorifies those who fought alongside the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Participants displayed Nazi insignia, uniforms, and slogans, with known extremists from across Europe joining the rally.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/ZUY1a9eS9J<\/a><\/p>\n

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The antifascists who targeted the neo-Nazi \u201cDay of Honor\u201d rally held in Budapest in February 2023 are accused of beating and bloodying several people, some of whom may have been victims of mistaken identity, according to Hungarian authorities.<\/p>\n

Even leftists who disapprove of street violence, however, were outraged by what happened next. Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government relentlessly sought the extradition of alleged participants in the antifascist action and pressed for long prison terms.<\/p>\n

In the years since, neo-Nazis have continued to gather in Budapest under the protection of Hungarian police, in sharp contrast to the country\u2019s ban on pride parades<\/a>. Antifa Ost\u2019s alleged members, meanwhile, have faced trials in Germany<\/a> and Hungary, where one faces up to 23 years in prison.<\/a><\/p>\n

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