White supremacist hate groups cleverly flooded the nation, our state and our town with fear-mongering lies about a group they said was planning to loot and vandalize. This resulted in men with guns coming to my hometown, Snohomish, to “protect” us from, well, nothing. Information about an invasion was ultimately found not to be credible which meant Antifa had never planned to attack our town. The intimidating rifles and automatic weapons which were not in the hands of our police, in fact, did not “prevent” anything. There was nothing to celebrate.
I am not Antifa, but I am anti-fascist because I know what fascism is and I never use that term lightly. In the early ’70s I lived and worked in Barcelona, Spain, when the friend and ally of Hitler and Mussolini, the shameless fascist, Francisco Franco, was in complete control. Franco was the military leader who in 1937 invited, yes invited, the Nazis and Italian fascists to aerial bomb the Spanish city of Guernica because many opposed his push for dictatorship. Pablo Picasso’s famous painting, “Guernica,” depicted that horror.
When I was in Spain there was no free press because people knew any credible and honest reporting had been and would be crushed. There were sycophantic newspapers and magazines gushing over the dictator, his family and the so called royals. There were no marches protesting oppression and brutality because people knew that Franco and the fascists would have no qualms about brutally oppressing any group that wanted Spain to be a democracy.
All of the weapons were in Franco’s hands. He dominated the country.
The streets were quiet, but there was no peace.
Candace Jarrett
Snohomish
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