From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 28, 2026 at 2:26:46 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Two people are dead and a third has been injured over the last three weeks   
   in   
   >> Minneapolis alone because leftists cannot accept the idea that the other   
   side   
   >> gets a say in how this country is governed, even when they lose an election.   
   >   
   > I'm calling bullshit. The immigration enforcement has been anything but   
   > useful. Federal agents don't get to tear gas protestors   
      
   But they do get to tear gas violent insurrectionists. If all these people did   
   was stand on the sidewalk holding signs, beating their bongos, and chanting,   
   no one would be tear gassed. But they're not doing that. They're assaulting   
   the agents, throwing bricks and other dangerous objects at them, squirting   
   them with water guns filled with urine, blocking their vehicles, trying to   
   pull illegal alien arrestees out of their custody, and trying to run them down   
   with cars.   
      
   None. Of. That. Is. Protesting.   
      
   None. Of. It. Is. Protected. By. The. 1st Amendment.   
      
   And using tear gas on crowds of committing criminal acts like that is   
   precisely what tear gas is for.   
      
   I posted this earlier in the week but it bears repeating:   
      
   We're not looking at protests anymore. What we're seeing is a well-planned,   
   well-funded insurgency, built by people who've clearly studied the playbook   
   and have support from within the state and local governments.   
      
   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 local   
   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 Teams   
   sergeant nod in recognition. Replace "ICE agents" with "occupying coalition   
   forces" and the structure maps almost 1:1 to the early-stage urban cells   
   hunted by American special forces in the mid-2000s.   
      
   The most sobering part? It's domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and   
   directed by people who live in the same country whose law enforcement they're   
   trying to paralyze. 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.   
      
   > The three victims were shot because federal agents got trigger happy.   
      
   No. One person was shot because she was clearly trying to run down a cop.   
      
   Another was shot because he was an illegal alien under lawful arrest and   
   escaped, and when reprehended he (and his family members) surrounded the cop   
   and started beating him with deadly weapons.   
      
   The third shooting is the most iffy and if those cops are found to have acted   
   wrongly, they should go to prison for it. But bringing a loaded gun to a   
   protest where you intend ahead of time to get into physical confrontations   
   with police (Pretti was assaulting ICE agents just the week before his death   
   and kicking the taillights out of government vehicles so fighting with cops   
   was clearly on his to-do list) is a monumentally stupid thing to do.   
      
   > Period. Let's not blame indirect causes.   
   >   
   > Gee. Tom Homan just suspended the two who shot and killed Alex Pretti.   
   > Perhaps the killing was unjustified, if not criminal.   
      
   Every LEO is "suspended" after a shooting while the investigation takes place.   
   You don't shoot someone and then two hours later be back out on the street   
   chasing bad guys. This isn't an episode of BLUE BLOODS.   
      
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