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J Michael Waller

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Oct 10

🧵 It can be a joy to read J. Edgar Hoover's speeches, articles, and books.

Here's a selection from "The Twin Enemies of Freedom," a 1956 speech the FBI Director made about Crime and Communism.

Excerpts below.

J. Edgar Hoover:

"Communism, like crime, advances and takes hold because men ignore God."

"The real danger in Communism lies in the fact that it is atheistic and seeks to replace the Supreme Being."

"Either the Faith of our fathers will triumph or communism will engulf us."
leb.fbi.gov/file-repositor…

Fighting crime and defending against Communism start at home, with both parents, Hoover said.

"A child above all needs the firm moral backing of a conscientious mother and father and the love, understanding, and security that a good Christian home affords."

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J Michael Waller

@JMichaelWaller

Oct 9

🧵 "Angelo Codevilla was one of the finest strategic minds America has ever produced, and his lessons are more urgent than ever," writes @ToryAnarchist in the @nypost.

A new @ClaremontInst book recalls his "scrappy rise from penniless immigrant to MAGA guru."

@ToryAnarchist @nypost @ClaremontInst Character matters.

Angelo Codevilla was forged in a smithy for a purpose.

We can spend the rest of our lives learning from him and emulating him to get our country back. amazon.com/Fighting-Enemi…

Thomas Codevilla recounts how his dad grew up ready to fight the destroyers:

"You learn English from John Wayne movies and perfect your accent by repeating Winston cigarette ads. You deliver newspapers to mobsters; you learn to knife fight to protect yourself in school ..."
nypost.com/2025/10/06/opi…

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J Michael Waller

@JMichaelWaller

Oct 9

Terrorist groups and movements have their own family trees.

It isn't hard to track them.

Private experts are usually far ahead of national intelligence services.

To tear out these networks by the roots, follow the Red Thread.

h/t @realDianaWest. See comment below.

@realDianaWest We've dusted off an unpublished paper I wrote in 2002, marking the first anniversary of 9/11. The paper was a 25-year retrospective on Stefan Possony's "International Terrorism - The Communist Connection," published in 1977.
centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/upl…

@realDianaWest The point of publishing it now is to show, historically, that private analysts can be years ahead of the intelligence community in documenting the linkage of terrorist networks and movements.

It's going to take a lot of private expertise to face the terror threats of today.

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J Michael Waller

@JMichaelWaller

Oct 5

🧵 Core principles of Marxism include what Marx called imposition of "terror" and "dictatorship."

Anybody who even flirts with Marxist ideology implicitly accepts these notions, or will accept them as the price of staying in office.

Marx: "When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."

(Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 19, 1849)

marxists.org/archive/marx/w…

For decades, Marx wrote about imposing a "dictatorship" to achieve his goals. He called it a "dictatorship of the proletariat."

For Marxists to achieve this in the US, it would require the violent overthrow of the Constitution.
marxists.org/archive/marx/w…

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J Michael Waller

@JMichaelWaller

Oct 2

🧵 The Trump administration really knows what it's doing to smash violent anarchist and Marxist radicals and to go after their intellectual and financial sponsors.

National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 shows a comprehensive, legally based vision and action plan. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

"This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society."

"A new law enforcement strategy that investigates all participants in these criminal and terroristic conspiracies — including the organized structures, networks, entities, organizations, funding sources, and predicate actions behind them — is required."

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J Michael Waller

@JMichaelWaller

Sep 29

🧵 The most solid brief yet on the extremist networks in Utah. Law enforcement in other states can learn from this report. So can federal authorities. By my colleague @morganwirthlin at @securefreedom.

Armed Queers of Salt Lake City is a focal point. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/upl…

Direct action: "In accordance with the concept of “diversity of tactics,” individuals are expected to participate in activities that they are comfortable with and align with their values and priorities, while at the same time refusing to judge, criticize, or even notify authorities about the criminal or violent activities of others."

In horizontal networks, "All participants can act and react instantly without waiting for orders – yet with a clear idea of what to expect from one another,” according to CrimethInc, an anarchist and antifascist site."

The "antifascists" view everything they don't like as fascist.

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