The face recognition software company says Antifa members were among the protesters who broke into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress.
According to The Washington Times, a retired military officer revealed that XRVision, the company that developed the facial recognition system, used its face recognition software to analyze the protesters who broke into Congress. It turns out that the two men in the Senate were supposed to be members of Antifa in Philadelphia.
The source also reportedly provided the newspaper with the results of the photo comparison.
One of the two Antifa members identified had a tattoo with an image indicating his support for Stalinism.
The Washington Times noted that the goal of the Antifa members was to promote anarchism through violence and thus end the United States and create a Stalinist state. “No more USA at all” is a slogan often used in their protests.
Another suspect identified by XRVision, whose connection to Antifa has not been established, has appeared at climate-related protests in the western United States and at “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations.
Antifa, an acronym for Anti-Fascist, originated in the 1930s and is present in Europe and the United States. Its members are mostly young people who advocate violence and believe that violent attacks are a necessary means to take an anti-government, law-abiding, far-left stance. In Italy and Spain, Antifa simply practiced communism.
According to an earlier report by the Epoch Times, Antifa actually dates back to the 1921 United Front of the Third Communist International in the Soviet Union, according to the German-language booklet “80 Years of Antifa” by Bernd Langer, a senior figure in the “Autonome Antifa” organization.
The Washington Times said that before the election, a branch of Antifa sent out a reminder on social media for its members to wear red Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats and disguise themselves as Trump supporters.
“Don’t forget to disguise yourself as a patriot/Trump supporter on Nov. 4, 2020. Wear a MAGA hat. An American flag. A convincing police uniform is even better. That way American police and patriots won’t know who their enemies are, onlookers and the media will think there are Trump supporters rioting, and it will be harder to turn popular opinion against us.”
After the joint session resumed, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said, “Some of the people who broke into the Capitol today were not Trump supporters, they were disguised as Trump supporters, but were actually members of the violent terrorist group Antifa.”
A day before the joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump had signed a memo seeking to block individuals associated with the far-left group Antifa from entering the United States, saying the group’s radical and violent actions have endangered the fabric of the country.
According to “credible reports,” Antifa is responsible, directly or indirectly, for certain “recent violations” in communities across the country, the memo said.
The memo states that Antifa “has used the tragedy to advance a radical, leftist, anarchist and often violent agenda,” adding that the organization “has long used otherwise permissible demonstrations to commit criminal violations to advance its radical agenda.
On Aug. 9, 2020, former Attorney General William Barr described the group as a revolutionary organization intent on establishing socialism or communism in the United States. Barr said the extremist group has been engaged in this goal since the first day of the Trump administration.
Trump previously said the U.S. would declare Antifa a terrorist organization, but the administration has not yet taken formal steps to do so.
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