Antifa knew it wouldn’t end well for them attempt protest at the Sturgis Bike Rally, so why did they do it? A major event for decades drawing bikers from all over, good behavior prevails, including from Hell’s Angela. Everyone wants to enjoy each other. Not exactly known to back down from disruptive outsiders, Antifa was quickly marched out of town by experienced police before the bikers jumped Is there more to this incident than that? Brad Johnson analyzes the possible deeper motives of Antifa. Join the former CIA Officer and Chief of Station as he picks it all apart.
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brad johnson it is august the 17th to
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2020 and just this weekend
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there was a massive biker
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meetup in sturgis uh
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certainly an odd place for antifa
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decided to go
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protest i guess i don’t know if that’s
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suicide or some kind of genius i don’t
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get
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what’s your make what’s your take on all
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that
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yes i again an interesting thing now
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this wouldn’t normally be something i
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would talk about this but there’s an
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aspect to it that i find interesting
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and just for everyone’s background
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sturgis is probably the largest
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motorcycle type you know centered event
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that takes place in the united states
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it’s an annual event it’s been taking
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place for decades it’s a big deal
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every motorcycle manufacturer of any
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significance whatsoever
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goes there harley-davidson is big there
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also it’s a big event for all
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motorcycle riders and of course i think
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we all recognize at the heart of
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motorcycles are also the gangs too now
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sturgis there’s it’s a uh
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considered uh a big deal in the
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motorcycle world so it’s a peaceful
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event for the most part
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and all of the like gang type people
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that go
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the hell’s angels all of all of the
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different motorcycle related gangs
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go but out there they they
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to keep the event going recognize they
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can’t
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take you know go to war there sort of
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thing so
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but they are all represented there now
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the the interesting part that
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that took place here was that antifa
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decided that it was going to be a good
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place to protest which as you say
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is this some sort of hidden tricky
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genius going on that we just simply
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haven’t figured out or
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or pure stupidity i lean towards the
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second myself
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but there’s an interesting aspect to it
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they all show up and they have their you
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know the
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antifa masks on and they’re all dressed
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up in these little outfits that they
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wear
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and of course by sturgis standards they
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were very cute
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and not dangerous looking at all
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and they show up and then start pushing
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up against some of the motorcycle guys
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and uh and they start a shoving match of
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course the police recognized that i
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don’t know how many
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antifa guys were there but it was you
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know a dozen or 15 or something along
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those lines it wasn’t
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you know 200 people marching in or only
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one or two guys it was a group of people
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and so they start shoving match trying
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to basically kick things off and and
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make it turn ugly
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the police of course at sturgis have
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been doing this a long long time
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like i said this has been around for
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decades and they recognize immediately
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what’s going to happen and so they
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tackle the antifa guys
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and as you say kind of started frog
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marching out the guys that were pushing
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immediately got just arrested by the
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police and hauled off
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because like i said the police recognize
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what’s going to happen i mean these
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aren’t the type of guys you screw around
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with like that
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and start shoving matches these guys
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would just kill the antifa guys so
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you know they would beat him to death
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stomp on him and stuff so the police
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actually
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were doing the antifa people a favor and
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save their lives to take them out
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now the aspect of it and the reason i i
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wanted to
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to include this uh was because if
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everyone recalls maybe
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i don’t know six weeks ago or so we we
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did kind of
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actually kind of a little uh humorous
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type interview
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over that there were reports that antifa
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said that it was going to wipe out
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hell’s angels
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because they’re a racist organization
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which you know i was kind of
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you know yucking it up at that whole
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concept but now it makes me revisit that
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and uh certainly hell’s angels and you
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know
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there are a lot of motorcycle gangs all
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of them were there
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and so i actually now look back at that
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earlier report that i
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completely discounted as being realistic
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and now i’m re-examining that
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thinking that you know antifa must have
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actually decided to try and do some of
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this i think they’re actually going to
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try and
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take on some of these groups like hell’s
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angels
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and i’ve got to say i i i find that
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extraordinarily stupid on their part but
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also interesting the fact that they
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would think that that’s something that
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they
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that they should or could do and
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uh if hells angels ever discovers that
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antifa’s at war with them
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you know it’s going to turn ugly quick
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and
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uh so i’m i i’m i’m very surprised by
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this having taken place at a place like
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sturgis because that’s
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so famous i mean it’s the event of its
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type
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and and been around for decades so i i
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now
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am as i say kind of revisiting that
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earlier report about antifa trying to
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take on motorcycle gangs
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and thinking well there must be some
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truth to it as stupid and weird as it
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sounds
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they must think that this is something
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that they’re going to be able to get
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away with and
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of course california has got great
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weather uh
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and antifa really is in many ways based
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out in the pacific northwest and
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certainly a lot of their money
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backing a lot of their funding comes to
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them via california where these
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motorcycle gangs are also quite active
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because of the good weather so
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i’m i’m thinking there must be some sort
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of conflict there
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that’s that is causing this because
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antifa wouldn’t take them on
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just for the joy of it so there has to
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be some deeper motive that we haven’t
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come across before
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and i would say you know i would be in
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the high
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certainty that this is based on some
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sort of money conflict
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that somehow uh motorcycle gangs are
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cutting into what the
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antifa views as their their their source
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of money
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so i would i would be i would anticipate
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that over time as this comes out we’ll
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learn more details about this and some
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sort of
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a pre-existing conflict over money or
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maybe power
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uh influence in certain areas is is
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there in dispute between them
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the one other factor i would remind
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everyone of is that
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antifa does have uh
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numbers you know certainly i would say
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probably in the in the hundreds
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people who have gone over to fight in
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syria with the different
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groups and so on so they’re they do have
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a cadre of people
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that have actually seen combat time uh
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over in these wars that are taking place
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in in that area
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and so these people will come back so
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they’re going to view themselves
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as having a very like elite core of
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combat veterans now uh i i think
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it’s worth pointing out i mean there’s a
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huge difference
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between being in combat behind the lines
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and being part of essentially a militia
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group fighting
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and the street type fighting that takes
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place say within the gang world
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so uh if that is indeed the case and if
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they have become
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confident in their group and their
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abilities to
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actually confront violence of that level
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uh i i think they’ll be sort you know
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very
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big surprise waiting for them put them
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put it that way this is not an area
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where you can line up
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behind a berm with your assault rifles
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and and try to charge or you know bring
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in mortar and stuff like that that’s not
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what this would be
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and hell’s angels is very experienced
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they’ve got they’ve also been around for
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decades and all of these
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other motorcycle gangs of which there
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are many uh they’re they’re used to this
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street fighter mentality
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and and capability to do it and
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certainly they have weapons to
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to conduct those sorts of things as well
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so
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i think i think tifa antifa is
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ill-prepared
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in every way shape and form to actually
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you know try to you know go to war i’ll
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use that term loosely
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to try to go to war with motorcycle
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gangs i think they’re completely
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ill-prepared
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but it does strike me as the type of
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kind of stupid arrogant thing that they
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would come up with if
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there’s an issue behind it somewhere
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with the money deal going on so
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like i said i think this sturgis thing
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is just a little tiny pointy end of the
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spear or better
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better yet the the tip of the iceberg i
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think that
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antifa is gearing up to try and do
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something in this area now we’ve had a
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report which i discounted immediately
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but now this actually took place
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there was a confrontation the police
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came in and broke it up but it means
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that antifa is willing to do this
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and uh yeah like i say i think it’s
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foolish if
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if any motorcycle gang ever figures out
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that that
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antifa is trying to attack them it’ll
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it’ll basically end pretty quickly at
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that point so
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we’ll see how this unfolds see if it
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continues
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if there’s more and i think we’ll hear
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data eventually some of the reporters
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out in those areas will start to dig up
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some background to this
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and we’ll start to see some of the
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aspects so
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this is all like kind of like a little
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tickle at this point but it looks like
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it’s shaping up
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to for antifa to get its rear end handed
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to them by some motorcycle gang who’s
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who who lives that type of violent
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lifestyle and is perfectly happy to
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to go kill a bunch of antifa guys so
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we’ll see how
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but as i said this is kind of the little
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tickle feather warning that that
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something like this seems to be shaping
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up
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you know i suspect if things keep going
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as they are which
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you know they they can’t forever but if
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they keep going as they are
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antifa might also find themselves up
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against a lot of
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recently retired police officers from
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around the country
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it might just feel the need to be parts
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of a militia
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opposing them since they weren’t able to
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be effective as police officers
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what do you think i
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have an interesting point there as well
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and i wouldn’t be surprised
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if you see that actually excuse me
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expand
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and uh you’re not just retired policemen
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but also there’s a lot of
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patriots out there too that see what’s
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happening and see this for what it is
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which is a
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communist uprising and i don’t like it
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and
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uh i think younger guys might be willing
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to jump into the fray there as well and
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form
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you know we can call them militia groups
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but form groups that are kind of
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anti-communist and just don’t want to
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see this sort of thing expand
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and certainly don’t want to see it in
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their neighborhoods and
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that is what we’re seeing antifa and
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black lives matter try to do and that’s
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to expand this nationwide
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and they’re still doing in portland
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still out in seattle still in chicago
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and there are now places where they’re
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trying to do it otherwise which as
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as we just discussed we’ve seen them try
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to take it to the streets in sturgis as
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well
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which that just weird but
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i think they’re certainly going to try
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to do this in other areas and certainly
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areas
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like florida which is where i sit now
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for this conference
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because it’s a swing state and they want
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to make sure that the elections
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go to democrats and not not president
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trump so
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i think in those states like florida
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that are important states that
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is a must win uh certainly for for
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president trump
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i think we’ll see them try to bring the
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unrest there and anyplace else they can
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