x.com/DrKarlynB/stat… Sara Nelson, head of the Association of Flight Attendants union, talks about plans to shut down critical infrastructure as part of the insurgency against ICE.

What she describes is a textbook case of how unions and other civic organizations use the power of their membership to join insurgencies.

"I called on the labor movement to talk about a general strike" in solidarity with the operation against ICE, Nelson says in this February 1 Zoom call.

The general strike is planned to take place on May 1, which is International Workers Day (more on that later).

What she Nelson says is revealing. It shows the raw emotion and ideological extremism of the flight attendants' union, and how the union leadership exploits the membership to force a strike to support the anti-ICE operation.

Pay attention to her use of words:

"General strike." In revolutionary practice, a general strike is not to meet economic or labor demands, but to challenge and overthrow the political and economic order by paralyzing the economy and imposing hardship on the public. This is a term of insurrection or insurgency. It creates parallel power structures. Leon Trotsky viewed general strikes as the last step before armed insurrection.

"Capitalism unchecked." Anarchists and Marxists have different views of this term, but in general, the term is understood to mean that capitalism is irredeemably evil and oppressive, and that oppression must be resisted or "checked." It does not mean checks and balances in the American sense. It implies the urgency of action to check the oppressor.

Repetition of "fight" and "demand." Working-class movements that exhort people to "fight" and "demand" are calling for class struggle against established institutions. The words are not metaphors, but calls for direct action to build toward the overthrow of existing society. Demands are ultimatums that provide focus for the fight.

"Jacobin." Nelson recommends a reading from the Jacobin.com website about unions organizing against ICE. The Jacobins were he most extreme element of the French Revolution, the Robespierre faction that orchestrated The Terror and the mass beheadings with the guillotine. Marx, Engels, and Lenin praised the Jacobins.

In her 11-minute monologue, Nelson dwells heavily on working class history, tying an industry-specific "safety strike" to labor conflicts from 1981 and 1914, and extending solidarity to a larger cause that has nothing to do with the airline industry, safety, or organized labor.

She calls for acts of "redemption" for unions' failure to stand by Air Traffic Controllers strike from 44 years ago.

She combines "massive inequality" and "capitalism unchecked" with "private prisons," "slavery," and "ICE."

She demonizes the entire free enterprise system: "We have to be really clear that Capitalism has no humanity attached whatsoever."

Nelson urges people lot read a Jacobin.com article about "why unions need to care about this movement and need to make immigration central to the concerns of union members."

Her approach is a rehash of Stalin's Comintern-era "popular front" broad coalition strategy: "The capitalists have used racism and sexism to divide us" and "the immigrants and refugees to try to divide us as well."

"The only way that we can build up power is if we do it collectively," she adds.

Nelson frames the mass hiring of ICE agents in old Marxist class struggle terms. In her words, the Trump administration is providing "good paying jobs" at ICE to be "pitted against the rest of the working class."

More pure class struggle words, straight out of Marx and Lenin: "It's also important, as a union leader myself, that we all have to be preparing for a general strike. We all have to be preparing for that strike readiness. That is fundamentally the check on capitalism."

The flight attendants' union chief says that many in her organization don't "understand" the urgency: "I have more work to do in my own union on this ... and we are starting to see this seep into our airports" with ICE agents pursuing targets on aircraft.

She explains, in her own words, why the Association of Flight Attendants union is tied directly to "mass action" and "getting into the streets":

"For the people who are trying to get the tools tonight about what to do next, understand that the only way that we are going to have mass action is if everyone understands what the problem is," Nelson says.

"And if everyone understands what the demands are about why we're getting into the streets. The people of Minneapolis understand this very well because the fight was brought to their doorsteps." (Gets emotional, chokes back tears.)

There is no alternative but to fight, she says: "People have no choice but to fight." She talks about a 1914 strike of immigrant coal miners. "They were experiencing what Minneapolis is experiencing today. They were experiencing violence from the state." (Chokes up again)

Nelson whips up a siege mentality to put people in a fighting mood:

"we have to organize. ... we have to talk about the fight that is coming to our doorsteps all across this country. We have to organize around that. We have to set our demands. The people of Minnesota have set their demands, and they're very clear about it. It is immediate demands, about ICE out...."

She is not calling for pressure on politicians as much as pressure on the private companies that keep America running.

In her words: "this is not about putting pressure on the White House. This is about putting pressure on the people who control our economy. So define the problem, set your demands, back up your demands with what you are willing to do - that is the strike readiness that you're preparing for - and add urgency. And in this moment there could not be more urgency. So we stand with you and we are preparing and having those conversations in our union about how to shut it down ...." The Association of Flight Attendants, under its present leadership, is a threat to aviation.

@USDOT & @DHSgov should declare it a threat.

AFA is on 20 airlines and has targeted @Delta next. afacwa.org/airlines/

This "checkpoint" looks lame, but it's the start of a network of what will become stronger and more numerous checkpoints.

Such illegal checkpoints are early nodes of an illegal policing system characteristic of insurgencies worldwide.

Loyal citizens should take them down.

https://twitter.com/VenturaReport/status/2018402742264336640

Another purpose of the illegal checkpoints is to make the public lose confidence in the police and the judicial system.

The intent is to break down law and order. This breakdown replicates itself elsewhere.

This is by design, and it's been done many times over the past century.

Back in 1987, Benjamin Linder of Portland, Oregon, was working with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and got killed by the US-backed anti-communist resistance fighters, known as Contras.

I testified at a congressional hearing that the Sandinistas wanted people like him killed as a martyr.

The reason was that the killing of Americans would put pressure on Congress to cut off support for anti-communist forces in Central America.

We see a similar pattern inside our own country today.

Linder was raised in a left-wing activist household. His mother was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which collaborated during the Cold War with Soviet international front organizations.

Both her parents were pro-Hanoi radicals during the Vietnam War. They raised their son to support similar causes such as communist revolutionary movements in Central America.

Both Linder parents sat next to me in the hearing and were obviously displeased with my testimony. Members of Congress got upset when I said that American supporters of the Sandinistas wanted Americans like Ben Linder to die.

Part of the hearing is digitized here. books.google.com/books?id=eCZxb…

I will cite from my testimony in a subsequent post. Here is what I said in my 1987 congressional testimony about American radicals who wanted US citizens to get killed as martyrs to promote their cause.

It concerns a group called Witness for Peace, which remains active in Minnesota. This is what I testified to Congress 38 years ago, so this is nothing new:

"The political tactics used by Witness for Peace are extremely unethical .... for two years it anticipated the killing of American citizens by the contras so that they could use the death for political propaganda. They wanted someone like Benjamin Linder to die."

"Now that the military value of Witness for Peace's activities have been established, the organization's motives must be considered." (See next post)

🧵 Trump's squeeze on Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 passportholders is having an effect on the pro-Maduro @gastonbrowne cartel that runs the Caribbean country.

Browne's opposition is not blaming Trump. It is blaming Browne.

And Browne blames Trump. @DeputySecState @SecRubio @StephenM facebook.com/itsmyupp/video… 2) "We are in a place that we have never been before - a place where lifelong friends are not only telling us we can’t be trusted, but they’re telling us we are no longer welcome in their house," says opposition leader Jamale Pringle. Not only in the US, but Canada & EU. facebook.com/reel/181162564…

🧵 1) The Cuban regime will collapse soon. We must be prepared to deal with its 66 year-old international terror network - and the people in it.

Including people in the United States.

Mike Gonzalez @Gundisalvus summarizes that network in this new report (link in next post). @Gundisalvus 2) "From training Marxist terrorists in the 1960s, to the pro-Hamas mayhem at U.S. universities in 2024 and 2025, to the spread of transnational crime syndicates in U.S. cities, Cuba’s rulers have long plotted America’s demise."
heritage.org/global-politic…

🧵 The new National Security Strategy of the US is more pro-Europe than many Europeans are.

Page 5: "We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" 2) The US supports European countries keeping their national identities. Page 12:

"We will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.:

🧵 Horrified at the @nypost report that President Trump might pardon (former) CCP secret police man Miles Guo Wengui.

Guo is not a victim of Biden. He was on the losing end of an internal CCP purge when his patron, Vice Minister of State Security Ma Jian, lost favor with Xi Jinping.

Guo sought to gain influence in the US by infiltrating President Trump's inner circle in 2017, pretending want to "take down the CCP" while at the same time making a written statement and video swearing loyalty to Xi Jinping. @nypost Guo worked to penetrate Trump45's inner circle while trying to get back in Xi Jinping's good graces.

He is a Fifth Amendment Communist who refused in federal court to answer questions about his continued ties to the CCP & the CCP's intelligence services.

https://x.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1415528938634416128?s=20

🧵 It's important for President Trump to restore the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine, which the neocons abandoned & the Left renounced.

He should update & adapt the Monroe Doctrine, modernizing it with a Trump Corollary to guide strategic thinking and action in our hemisphere. In his first term, President Trump pledged to "reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs" - nations like Russia, Iran, and China - but the State Department didn't get far.

Things just got worse.
centerforsecuritypolicy.org/how-president-…

🧵 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…

🧵 "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…

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…

🧵 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…

🧵 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."

🧵 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."

🧵 To make President Trump's desired Antifa terrorist designation stick, @SecRubio must first designate Antifa as a foreign terrorist entity.

He can do this easily. Antifa was founded a century ago in Germany. Germany's BfV considers it a "left-wing violent extremist" network. 2) Once the State Department designates Antifa as a foreign terrorist "entity," the administration can implement Executive Order 13224 to block assets, prohibit transactions, and penalize foreign supporters of Antifa in the United States - and the Americans who assist them. state.gov/executive-orde…

🧵 Fantastic piece by my colleague @ShidelerK on how the Trump administration can dismantle Far Left Extremist networks. americanmind.org/memo/how-to-di… @ShidelerK Federal law enforcement does not recognize Far Left Violent Extremism as a threat. It does not train its personnel to understand, designate, anticipate, identify, and defend society against these threats.

Shideler calls for a Far Left Violent Extremism category.

🧵24 years ago this week, Vadim Bakatin was appointed chairman of the Soviet KGB.

Soviet Communist Party chief Mikhail Gorbachev, under duress from Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, reluctantly ordered that Bakatin be empowered to dismantle the KGB. Nobody was prepared for this. Bakatin wanted American help about what to do.

He had a modern but still Soviet worldview. He thought the KGB could be broken apart along functional lines so it could never abuse power again.

Bush41 feared a collapse of the USSR and its Communist Party, & provided no help.

President Trump zeroed out ALL funding for the Organization of American States after a Chinese proxy became secretary general, in league with Marxist Latin American regimes.

Republicans on House Appropriations Committee just restored full $46,504,000 funding to OAS.

The House Subcommittee on Appropriations Committee Chairman is Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. @MarioDB
docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP… The OAS was already woke, but it's now super-woke under its new Chinese proxy leadership. It intends to use American tax dollars to spread DEI and wokeness throughout the hemisphere.

🧵My Old School FBI mentors taught me that, to take over a hostile organization with very few people, the first thing to do is seek out insiders who had worked with the worst offenders.

This is how the old FBI took down the Communist Party and broke the back of the KKK. 2) There are always insiders with second thoughts & are looking for a way to do the right thing.

Or they just want to keep their jobs.

They know who did what. They can identify others who feel as they do.

They are the sherpas needed to work the networks of the bureaucracy.

The USA pays half of the budget of the 34-member Organization of American States (OAS), yet has only 1 vote.

Countries that each pay 44/1000 of 1 percent formed a bloc to elect a Chinese proxy to run the organization. State Dept is in denial. @DOGE
oas.org/budget/2025/Ap… @DOGE We created the OAS to fight the spread of Communism. Over time, our leaders - Democrat and Republican - abandoned the OAS and, through design or neglect, allowed the Marxists to overrun it.

https://x.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1897345219672334379

The International Leadership School of Texas, with a campus at the illegal immigrant development of Colony Ridge, received funding from the Pentagon and support from the Chinese government.

General C.Q. Brown was a big supporter.
iltexas.org/news-media/new… x.com/JMichaelWaller… The International Leadership School's website describes its Pentagon funding for students to learn Mandarin. Trace this, and one can see that the program is accredited by the Chinese Communist Party's ministry of education. iltexas.org/about-us/grant…