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|    Colon Powell to All    |
|    =?UTF-8?Q?Former_Special_Forces_Officer=    |
|    27 Jan 26 16:34:26    |
      XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh       From: Colon.Powell@tutanato.com              https://joehoft.com/former-special-forces-officer-whats-unfoldin       -in-minneapolis-isnt-a-protest-its-an-insurgency/              A former Special Forces Warrant Officer witnessed organized resistance       firsthand around the globe. What is going on in Minnesota isn’t a       “protest,” it’s an insurgency.       An individual on Twitter reported a couple of days ago that he/she had       obtained access to Signal and had “the sole intention of tracking down       federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them.”              In response to this, a former Special Forces Officer shared his       observations and a warning (emphasis added):              As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations       running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to       separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized       resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar:       spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined       comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while       bleeding the stronger force slowly.              What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s       low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly       studied the playbook.              Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile       chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7       dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity,       Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily       chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery.       Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals       (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate       lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from       observation to physical obstruction—or worse.              This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with       redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF       team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying       coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban       cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.              The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and       directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to       paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate       this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against       federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment       that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil       disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the       lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold       most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular       support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.              I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of       apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled       by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep       every thinking American awake at night.              Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things       don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the       cadre believe they’re winning the information war.              We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s       still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.              Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026       politics anymore.       It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our       own soil.              https://twitter.com/camhigby/status/2015093523733733474               |
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