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Video: Robert Spencer confronts Antifa in Stuttgart, Germany, 2011

Jul 2, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Antifa is much in the news these days with their brutal beating of journalist Andy Ngo in Portland. Many Americans assume that Antifa is a new group, but in reality, it is only new, or relatively new, in the United States. Back in 2011, I spoke at an outdoor rally in Stuttgart, Germany, and Antifa was out in force. Hundreds of police were there also, and if they had not been, I would not be writing this today: before I spoke, I was standing in front of the massive police phalanx with some members of the German group that had invited me; among them was a young man who I took to be one of their number until I shook his hand and smiled and he responded, “If it weren’t for all these police here, I would have knifed you by now.”

As the other speakers and I spoke, Antifa members threw rocks, bottles, and manure at us, while screaming things such as “Nazis raus.” This was ironic, as they were behaving much more like Nazis than those they were screaming at. So I decided to address them. In the midst of this barrage, I stood at the front of the stage and addressed the Leftists, while they blew their vuvuzelas and booed to try to drown me out, and kept on throwing things. This is what I said:

I came from the United States of America to stand for freedom, with all free people, against the forces of oppression and darkness which you are representing.

I came here in order to stand with the people who are fighting for the freedoms that make it possible for you to do what you are doing today.

Not the violence and hatred, but to stand and dissent, but you can’t stand to have any kind of rational discussion, you can’t stand having dissent, you have to try to throw bottles, and drown us out, because you are cowards, because you know that you stand for nothing except for oppression and darkness and hatred, and that is why you are there.

And that is why I am here.

You are fronting for the most radically intolerant and hateful ideology on the planet. Everywhere in the world, everywhere in the world, where there are Muslims and non-Muslims, there is conflict because the Muslims attack the non-Muslims. The Qur’an teaches to make war against the unbelievers, and to subjugate them.

And you are already subjugated! You are already their useful idiots. You are already their tools. You are out here in their service.

And you think you’re fighting for freedom. You are fighting for your own slavery!

You are fighting for your own enslavement.

And it will come. It will come to you.

You are fighting for an ideology that denies the freedom of speech, and one day you will wish you had the freedom of speech, and one day, you will wish you had the freedom of speech that you are trying to fight against today.

You are fronting for an ideology that denies the freedom of conscience and will kill you if you disagree, which is exactly what you want to do already.

You are fighting on behalf of an ideology that denies equality of rights for women, and all the women among you will one day be enslaved, if you get what you want.

You are fighting for the destruction of all the freedoms that you enjoy.

You are fighting for the utter defeat of your own selves, and your own life.

You are slaves seeking slavery. You are the oppressed loving your oppression, and thinking that you are standing for freedom.

You are the most foolish, you are the most evil, foolish, people on Earth.

We are standing for the human rights of all people. Of the oppressed Christians in Indonesia, in Pakistan, in Egypt, in the Sudan that you just heard about.

We are standing for the oppressed people who are targeted by Islamic jihad everywhere around the world. In Israel. Everywhere around the world.

And so, in closing, I have to say: Shame on you!

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  1. nicu says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    Antifa – SAntifa – is the second RAF ! they should be forbidden !

    • t. says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 7:49 am

      Those words spoken in the video above are by far truer today than 8 years ago!

      Really ”useful idiots”.

    • juleonly says

      Jul 4, 2019 at 12:40 am

      In 1993 or so I was still a Dem and protesting NAFTA/WTO in Seattle. It was these guys, then called black block, because of the black masks, who ruined Everything and who we tried to chase out. Their Excuse is, no one will listen and give no publicity unless we get destructive. Then there was the nearly proven rumor that one of the police dressed as masked marauder helped start the ruckus to shut down the peaceful part of the protest too.That was when Repubs and Neo Dems (newly wealthy with Techies) wanted NAFTA & got tricked into ‘Globalism’ with all kinds of ‘humanitarian excuses’ which do not turn out and are not the purpose of this mass atrocity on the world. But Anarchists and ANTIFA (along with Nazigroups, KKKlan, Islam and any Supremacist apartheid groups, need to be reminded by enforcement, that these things are Against The Law and not a matter of ‘free Speech’. Some things are not to be allowed like Slander, (not facts but slander) libel, threats, mob destruction, intentionally injuring people or property, treason, plagiarism and many other things people seem to AFRAID to stand up against.

  2. jarmanray says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 3:13 pm

    Robert, Are you trying to say that they are masochistic? Your speech is as valid today as it was then and you epitomize the words perspicacious and prescience. I just pray that the world wakes up before it is too late.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 7:21 pm

      Standing up in the face of abuse means you are brave–not that you like abuse.

      • David Pimentel says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 8:15 am

        Given jarmanray’s comments about masochism, are you, gravenimage, suggesting that the antifa thugs are brave? in my view, they are nothing but cowardly thugs that need to be dealt with swiftly and violently.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 3, 2019 at 11:40 pm

          David, I thought that jarmanray was asking if Robert Spencer was masochistic. Now I see that he was asking if Antifa was masochistic.

          No, of course I don’t mean that the thuggish Antifa are brave–they are vicious thugs. I meant that Robert Spencer is brave.

  3. Johneice says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    soros supports these people; why are we not deporting this bastard; his own country, Hungary, has banned him. that should give one cause for pause. soros IS ALL BAD, PERIOD.

  4. Hardy Bauer says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    Thank you so much for your commitment and your awareness campaign!!

    Greetings from a town near Stuttgart/Germany – Hardy Bauer

  5. CRUSADER says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    🇺🇸 Long may freedom of speech and the Flag of America wave against oppression !

    Bravo! Robert said what needed to be said, even if it seemed like lighting a candle
    when a dark sea was surrounding the small crowd who wanted to listen to him.

    I’ve been in many situational scenarios (“actUp!” / “antifa”) all doing their worst
    to drown out Free Speech / Celebrations / Commemorations / Marches Against Shariah.

    They do things which really should be disallowed:
    whistles and bull horns and blaring decibels
    objects of disgust and destruction being thrown

    What that does is wash out the Free Speech, and creates more intolerance,
    as well as drowns out knowledge and concern. These are Leftist tactics right
    out of the Playbook. And it is time to stand against these tactics.

    May the Spirit of ’76 consume the hate and ignorance and override the arrogance.

    🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

    Happy 4th!

    🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

  6. Dan says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    Holy moly!

    Maybe Mr. Spencer really just needed a break from the grind, cause he sure seems to pepped up since I last saw him speak.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 4:39 pm

      2011 was a banner year….

      • Lydia Church says

        Jul 2, 2019 at 4:53 pm

        Yes, another bullseye speech!

  7. Angemon says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    Splendid impromptu skills.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 2, 2019 at 6:43 pm

      There needs to be a SpencerU
      to show us how to do this….

    • Norger says

      Jul 4, 2019 at 12:59 pm

      I was going to say the same thing. Remarkable eloquence under extreme duress.

  8. James Lincoln says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    To Robert Spencer:

    A fantastic speech – and spot on. No notes, right from the heart.

    You are sincerely a very brave man…

    Thank you so much for all that you do.

    God bless…

  9. Brigitte from Germany says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    And since this time I know Robert Spencer. I was not in Stuttgart, but I watch the
    videos.
    Robert Spencer did a good job by us in Germany.
    Thanks a lot.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 4, 2019 at 2:24 am

      Be sure to check out Brigitte Gabriel as well!

      • CRUSADER says

        Jul 4, 2019 at 2:24 am

        More of Brigitte Gabriel….

  10. gravenimage says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    Video: Robert Spencer confronts Antifa in Stuttgart, Germany, 2011
    …………………

    Yes, I remember this brave speech from the time. “Antifa” hasn’t gotten any better in the past near decade.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 12:33 am

      Graven Image, you’ve been at this Jihad Watch, for quite some time!

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 11:58 pm

        CRUSADER, Robert Spencer started Jihad Watch in 2003. I discovered it in 2006. There are some posters who have been here longer than I have.

  11. Kepha says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    Antifa is about as anti-liberty as you can get. They are the real Brown Shirts of our day.

  12. Edmund says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 9:54 pm

    Robert have a guts to do, what he is doing. I often pray for him.
    Speaking about Antifa I see them as childish movement, the same as Skinheads. They just want to be together, start a fught and kick some assess. Sort of banditry and ideology they “represent” is often just an excuse to do that.

  13. Terry Gain says

    Jul 2, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    Great speech Robert Churchill Spencer. You are a lion.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 12:08 am

      Hear, hear!

  14. Jim Austin says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 12:39 am

    Antifa is the militia of the liberal contingent, goon squads, the bully boys, the private army. Liberals have been going leftward over the years, but they’re still too squeamish about using violence themselves.

    Thus whenever the liberal contingent believes a riot or a physical assault would be useful to their cause, liberal authorities just order the police to stand aside, and Antifa is all too willing to oblige. Antifa thugs are always willing to beat up on fascists. Of course, they define fascist as anybody to the right of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Un, et al.

    So far, they’ve beaten up on real fascists.

    They’ve beaten up on conservatives.

    They’ve beaten up on moderates.

    They’ve even beaten up on liberals who”re still to the right of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Un, et al.

    They live for such moments.

    Antifa is the means the liberal contingent use to reap advantages of violence without any direct risks to themselves.

    As an organization seeking to violently enforce their own laws that are at variance with the U.S. Constitution regarding free speech and assembly, Antifa is engaging in insurrection. The essence of insurrection is violent challenge to legitimate authority, a direct challenge to the Constitution itself. It’s a challenge to the governments right to make and enforce certain laws.

    Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution refers to the president’s power and responsibility to “suppress Insurrections.” That makes Antifa a military problem, not a law enforcement problem.

    It means the government has the power and responsibility to send armed personnel to hunt them down and kill them along with quislings and collaborators in college administrations and local governments.

    Antifa has achieved the status of the Confederacy, and the government should look to Lincoln as a guide in dealing with them.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 12:56 am

      Antifa is a nasty bunch.

      • Kay says

        Jul 3, 2019 at 10:38 am

        On their website they talk about the need for violence. Also, they ask all to dress and mask the same so as to be a cover for their front line.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 4, 2019 at 12:06 am

          They are vicious *and* cowards.

  15. Antiislamicman says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 3:53 am

    These people are totally crazy, they clearly have no idea what they are asking for. They are asking for their own destruction and enslavement to a evil false ideology. Slaves begging for enslavement. Islam is the most evil ideology on the planet. Robert is trying to help these insane people. Antifa are just a hard left terrorist organisation.

  16. Ginny says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 3:55 am

    In 2011 I had Robert scheduled for a 9/11 anniversary panel discussion in Hamburg. The other panelists were a Pashtun diplomat involved in youth projects for “reformed” Muslims and a Ezidi princess, who had been a judge and a protector of women’s rights in Baghdad. Hardly a one-sided fascist line up. The politically correct members of the elite board of directors cancelled this private club event by sending details of the meeting to 3,000 leftists, including Antifa, and we could not afford the resulting exhorbitant security costs. A typical leftist establishment tactic to stifle freedom of speech and information in Germany

    I have been a human rights activist in Germany for 35 years and Antifa and their brutal communist pals have been a constant and serious threat to any attempts to counter the leftist agenda here. Physical violence and intimidation are always part of their repertoire and the police are ordered to stand down. Be sure to nip this phenomenon in the bud right now, before you lose America to globalist thugs the way Germany has!

    • J_not_a says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 10:20 am

      Truly the blind leading the blind. They will all fall into the deep, dark pit of Satan.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 4, 2019 at 12:24 am

      Appalling, Ginny. Thank you for that background.

  17. FRANK LOSOS says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 8:29 am

    Bravo, Robert! Bravo!

  18. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 3:38 pm

    Those vicious and lawless hooligans who compose Antifa with all their chaos and mayhem they commit are so heinously violent that the curse from the Bible , might well, be upon them. For the Bible reads “May disaster hunt down the violent.” Psalm 140:11. [N.I.V.]

  19. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    The only job of government (politicians, police, courts) is to defend citizens from disasters both natural and man-made (aka crimes) so for politicians to tell cops to ‘stand down’ (to stop defending innocent citizens, enabling crimes) is a crime.

    Arrest the political authorities and all the cops who obey any of these illegal criminal “stand down!” orders!

    And what is their main excuse for such stand-down orders, in the face of leftist gangster mob-rule (aka “antifa”) aggression?

    “Hurt feewings!” of course! The notion that they are ‘triggered” to “have to” attack people, simply for hurting their feelings.

    The whole Western notion of “sticks and stones” has been thrown out the window in favor of the Eastern, islamic tropes against “blasphemy” and “disrespect” and impugning one’s “dignity” – the false notion that hurt feelings are worse than physical pains!

    And who, exactly, CHOOSES to pretend to feel all emotions as thinking and as fears, and all fears AS Pain? Only hypocritically “paranoid,” self-masochism-inflicting criminal psycho-paths, of course! The exact sort of people putting them selves in charge!

    In other words: The Enemies of Mankind – those in “Authority:” government. politics, law, banksters, corporazis, and the media.

    😉

    And islam’s CAIR, Antifa, and the Democrats are all the exact same thing/s: Totalitarians (total control, aka slavery) and Collectivists (gangsters) because they all like using group-might-made-rights mob rule force to get others to do what they want, which is to do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it, to whomever they want to, and wherever they want to. They want pleasure without pain and rights without any reciprocal responsibilities.

    That’s why liberal “Progress!” really ever only means “We have to legalize all crimes, because simply calling criminals “criminals” and accusing them of their crimes and  might hurt their pwecious feewings and MAKE them commit even more crimes! Whee!”

  20. Jim says

    Jul 4, 2019 at 6:03 pm

    Robert, thank you for telling ANTIFA exactly what they needed to hear.

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