Thread by @JMichaelWaller

1) Check out Germany's domestic intelligence report on Antifa and related violence in the country. It isn't just happening here. Germany is more sophisticated in assessing subversive threats than are US services. This is a lesson for what to expect here. innenministerkonferenz.de/IMK/DE/termine…

2) English translation of sections of introduction to German interior ministry report. See the parallels:

"A high level of radicalization of the violence-oriented left-wing extremist scene is recognizable nationwide, but the development is not the same in all federal states."

3) "For Saxony, Hamburg and Berlin but also in Thuringia, Bavaria and Bremen there are indications that that a small part of the violence-oriented left-extremist scene is becoming increasingly radicalized." #Antifa

4) "In Leipzig in particular, a focus on the increasing radicalization of violent left-wing extremists has emerged.

"Radicalization can currently be measured by two qualitative indicators: the change in acts and the change in the scene."

5) "Change of acts: There is a change in the forms of action from mass militancy to clandestine small group actions. The target selection of left-wing extremist attacks is shifting more and more often from an institutional level to a personal level...."

6) "... Serious physical injuries to the victims up to possible death are accepted with approval."

Sounds familiar to what's happening in Portland?

7) "Changes in the scene: In several federal states there are indications that clandestine small groups are developing within the violence-oriented left-wing extremist scene, commit their own acts and, due to an increasing willingness to use violence, act on their own."

8) "In the context of the 'defense of open spaces' [autonomous zones] in the fight against urban restructuring and against political opponents - especially (alleged) right-wing extremists - the left-wing extremist scene increasingly seems to legitimize acts of high violence."

9) Last sentence of German interior ministry report intro:

"The formation of terrorist structures in left-wing extremism appears possible under these conditions."