Editor, Gazette-Journal:

In the wake of Charlottesville, and the incidents at Berkeley and Evergreen State College in Oregon, the public rise of the Antifa movement must be addressed, and their similarities to the Ku Klux Klan of the first part of the 20th century, or 2nd Klan, recognized.

Both use masks whenever possible to hide the identity of their members.

Both pretend to support legitimate causes (Klan=law and order; Antifa=civil rights) to hide their real agendas (Klan=anti-Roman Catholic; Antifa=anti-conservative).

Both use members of the clergy to help legitimize their actions.

Both use terror, violence and the threat of violence to obtain their political objectives.

Both are known to law enforcement as dangerous, but tacitly allowed to operate by federal administrations seeking support (Klan=Coolidge; Antifa=Obama).

Both seek to deny Constitutional rights to their opponents by any means.

Both seek to undermine the Constitution.

Both rely on the support of political op...