For several years we have warned that Antifa cells were moving from mass movement protest tactics to small cell violent direct action, including firebombing police cars, pregnancy resource centers, and Tesla dealerships, and now attempted murder of police.
These warnings aligned with the historic practice of the New Left communist urban guerrillas from which Antifa is a direct linear descendant, as we proved in testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate.
This was also the conclusion of the German ministry of interior as early as 2020, which my colleague @JMichaelWaller was first to report, making available in English translation intelligence reports on the growing threat of Antifa violence. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/germany-sees-l…
We’ve provided this information to hundreds of local, and state agencies as part of our law enforcement program. Antifa remains our most requested briefing subject because, officers tell us they just can’t get the info anywhere else. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/policy-law-enf…
We have also consulted with state legislators on anti-terror and anti-rioting legislation which has passed in multiple states, and which directly counter and criminalize Antifa tactics. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/center-for-sec…
Warning has been provided, and off the shelf and easily customizable legislative solutions are available. Now action has to be taken.
With due respect to Elon, this represents a mistake everyone is making in the USAID conversation. The left does not seize power to make money. The left expropriates money and resources to recruit, indoctrinate, train and reward cadres.
The $ is not what is important to the left. What is important is the people and organization that money helps buy. The left knows that people X organization= Power. Money can sometimes buy those things, but not always.
This incorrect analysis has everyone thinking that the tail is wagging the dog. The view that USAID is directing a hydra of non-profit fronts to wage color revolution on behalf of some clever plan of the USG has things completely reversed.
This attack on the White House had a very specific purpose. It blew up any hope of Trump utilizing the insurrection act to get the riots under control in blue states where governors were refusing to act.
Trump hit blue governors hard on getting the riots under control using the NG, but they were resistant. After the attack on the WH and the clearing of the park, pressure was brought to bear on DoD until they publicly began leaking that they would not support use of the insurrection act to end the multi-city riots.
So riots continued. I often get asked “what is the purpose of the violence and chaos?” You have to look at the totality of the circumstances and see the how the media and political allies of the Antifa types utilize the opening created by violence to achieve a political outcome.
We saw road & airport blockades last week, & encampments on colleges this week. Why? Bcuz in Civil Resistance methodology you want to continuously change up your tactics to keep opponents off balance. Ivan Marovic in "Path of Most Resistance" calls this "Tactical Sequencing."
You alternate either active or passive "non-cooperation". (active is doing something you are not allowed to do like block roads, and passive is refusing to do something you are supposed to do, like striking from class.) Marovic uses breathing metaphor: "in, out, in, out."
Marovic: "When we engage in tactical planning, we have to take into consideration previous tactics we have used and ask ourselves how a planned tactic will fit into the sequence, how will it contribute to that sequence, and how it will build momentum..."
This is an extremely interesting report from an excellent investigative reporter @MiaCathell that you should check out. One thing worth noting, is that IfNotNow was one of the first groups trained by Momentum Strategies. Who is Momentum? Let's dive in.🧵 townhall.com/tipsheet/miaca…
Momentum Strategies is the brainchild of a couple of professional left organizers, but especially Paul Engler, author of "This is an Uprising," which is a must-read. amazon.com/This-Uprising-…
Momentum Strategies is a synthesis between three separate elements of left-wing organizing which were often historically in disagreement. 1) Alinsky's structure-based organizing for power . 2) Fox Piven's emphasis on the disruption of mass protest events...
The Bud Light boycott is a classic example of right wing activists not taking organizing seriously enough. It can still be salvaged but we have to stop pretending politics is solely a contest of wills and ideas and not a contest of organization.
The bud light boycott immediately resonated with the base. They LIKED the idea and they were having fun with it. If your side ENJOYS a tactic keep doing it is textbook Alinsky. It was good.
Turns out AB InBev is a huge GOP and Trump donor. Shouldn’t have been a surprise, and could have been an advantage. Did activists do a power mapping exercise to determine these relationships and to prepare a response when they were inevitably deployed? (Spoiler: probably not)
It is not your imagination. There is a growing mainstream effort to lionize and normalize left-wing extremism and terrorism.
Is it a double standard that FBI spys on kids using the words "based" and "red-pilled" on Discord, while the Left produces Hollywood feature films showing the entire process of carrying out deliberate sabotage of U.S. infrastructure?
Sure. They don't care.
Consider: Almost no one in modern America had ever heard of the obscure 1970s group The Jane Collective, radicals who conducted illegal back room abortions prior to Roe V. Wade. There were 2 movies in 2022 about them.
Then Jane's Revenge started firebombing pro-life targets.