From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:18:02 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
      
      
   There's a word for all of this: insurrection.   
      
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