I could not more strongly disagree with the tactics of the youths involved in Antifa, and expect you are right that they are being used. Some of them might even wear pussy hats when out of the black hoodie Antifa uniform.

However, unless these people start making bombs, they are merely ordinary rioters, not terrorists.

There are plenty of laws on the books to handle the crimes they commit. The USA needs no encouragement to use the draconian laws, such as the Patriot Act, to further degrade American citizens - or anyone - through torture, indefinite imprisonment without trial, charges, or even any public acknowledgement they are incarcerated.

The word terrorism applies to government. It, like communism, socialism, and other isms, is a form of government. The term was coined during the French revolution, and France is the original terrorist state.

Terrorism is in truth acts of war, and when civilians are targeted, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. There have been laws against such acts, and potent forces to counter them, since long before the French, or American, revolutions.

All the laws against terrorism are simply more bloat, propaganda, and means to impose greater surveillance and police state tactics against Americans.

Therefore I will not join the call to label Antifa as a terrorist organization.

Canada, on the other hand, given the recent legislation I have been hearing about where parents can be jailed if they fail to use the proper pronouns in conversation with their little snowflakes, is a whole 'nother matter.