I can’t decide if these militia are cosplayers who are merely playing a part, or if they seriously think that they are ready for the revolution but incompetent. I don’t understand the fascination they seem to have with .22LR. They certainly won’t be able to engage anyone at any sort of range with underpowered cartridges and no attention to sights of any sort.
Just remember that a .22 can still kill you, and a bad shooter can still get lucky.
I didn’t mark up these pictures, but they are informative:
This is a three part series. Part one is here. Part two is here.
In the first two parts, we talked about how the insurgency laid the groundwork: protests, propaganda, and initial recruitment. The second part covers how, now that the groundwork has been laid, mild violence begins.
Mao called this the “crisis” phase. The crisis state distinguishes resistance movements from social movements more generally. The essential characteristic defining an insurgency that has entered the crisis state is a decisive moment of escalated confrontation between opponents, however long or short. I think the recent nationwide riots fulfilled that characteristic.
Moving from an incipient to crisis state occurs when the movement grows powerful enough to pose a serious threat to its opponent. How we can determine when the threat has become serious is when the opponent of the resistance, the government, escalates its approach because previous methods of countering the resistance failed.
Scholars have identified signals of this crisis state to include a decisive loss of legitimacy by the government, financial collapse, breakdown in authority, strong symbolic actions, and perception of dual sovereignty or provisional authority, among others. (I think that this is why the movement is trying so hard to establish an autonomous zone.)
A great example of this would be Northern Ireland in 1972 was in the crisis state. The maintenance of barricaded “no-go” and “free” zones in Derry/Londonderry and Belfast during this period contributed to perceptions of provisional authority and separation of resistance from opponents. Heightened contention and escalation of resistance action occurred after British troops killed thirteen demonstrators at the civil rights march that became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
The insurgency gains power if the group or movement either persists through, or gains strength from, the crisis state. Surviving the crisis state deepens its organizational into an established opposition player. In other words, the essential characteristic of a resistance in the institutional state is an established role in society.
Once the last phase begins, totalitarian elites let loose their inclination to brutally eliminate their perceived enemies. Once this phase begins, things happen very quickly. The entire country will collapse in a matter of weeks.
Violence is considered a means to achieving the goal of centralized power. There is not even a pretense of due process or respect for free speech. Yes, there are pretexts given for eliminating perceived enemies, excuses that have the perpetrators projecting their own intentions upon their victims, but the accusations are merely for show.
America is still a free nation with laws on the books that protect individuals from abuses by the state. That appears to be changing. Criminals being released from jails to make room for business owners who are violating COVID closure orders. Rioters walking away with no charges. Rioters attack cars and motorists, the motorist tries to escape, and then the motorist is charged with a crime for injuring one of their attackers while escaping.
It even seems as if there are police and prosecutors who are actively assisting the insurgents. That is typical, and there will be much more of that as time goes on. Expect to see military units who side with the insurgents. In a country armed with thousands of nuclear weapons, anything can happen.
There is no doubt in my mind that we are currently in the early part of phase 2. Violent action has begun, and the crisis phase has begun. There are two ways forward from here. Either this insurgency will survive the crisis phase and things will get worse, or the insurgency will wither and die.
Protesters tried to stop the Iowa Governor’s motorcade by stepping in front of the vehicles, but his State Police driver did what he should have done- drove through them.
The Iowa governor stated later that the trooper “acted appropriately” in driving through.
The group from my last post claims that they are carrying weapons because they believe that the police will not use less lethal force like tear gas on a crowd that contains people who are armed, because police do not want to begin a firefight. Here is the quote:
Rules of engagement for the police force are actually different now that we’re armed. They can’t openly fire into a crowd with people with AR’s or rifles because that would lead into a firefight. It’s a strategic thing that we do for our people, to be armed,
Make no mistake, he is banking on the fact that no one will dare oppose them for fear of getting in an active firefight. He knows that the police can’t risk that while there are large numbers of unarmed protesters in the crowd. He is essentially using the crowd as human shields. He is also standing there armed with an unloaded weapon.
If anything, these actions bring us closer to the mag dump that will start full on combat.
I know I have written about the NFAC and other insurgents. They are a clear danger to the American public. They also have posers out there who are stealing the look in order to gain more press and “legitimacy” for their cause. Take these guys:
Let’s start with clothing:
Take a look at the 7 people dressed in black in the above picture. They are all wearing “rigs” that appear to be some sort of military appearing rigs for carrying weapons and associated equipment. Look closer. The ones that the men are wearing obviously do not have any armor panels in them. They are shells only. The woman is wearing a chest plate designed for baseball catchers. The man on the right has a shell that is covered with magazine pouches, but they are all empty.
Look at the three who are wearing berets. The patch they have is from the 66th Infantry Division, not the New Black Panther Party.
There is a closeup of the woman and her rifle.
If you zoom in, you can clearly see three things: There is an M&P logo clearly visible on the mag well, the ejection port is clearly too short to be anything but a .22 (making the rifle a Smith and Wesson M&P15-22 Sport). This leads one to also notice that the magazine is empty. Also note that the sling swivel is empty (indicating that she is clutching it because there is no sling) and the rifle only has the fold down BUIS that ship with the rifle, and they are folded down.
You can also see the man next to her is wearing a completely empty ballistic vest cover.
So I did some checking. It turns out that the white guy in the picture up top is a guy by the name of Michael Pierino. He is an Atlanta area professional actor. Here is his IMDB page. He is mostly a bit actor from things like “The Walking Dead.”
Also from IMDB, here is a cast picture from a short he was just in called “Protectors of Life”
Some more searching discovers that the people in the top photo are ALL actors. They claim to be “for real” and are not being paid to act. If this is true, they are in REAL danger. Carrying unloaded firearms and empty plate carriers while trying to provoke a civil war is just asking to get owned in a gunfight.
The attorney who is representing them- Alann Pugh. He also appears to be posting to Instagram as SpiikeG.
If you wind up positive for COVID, contact tracers will call you in order to figure out where you got it, and who you may have given it to. One thing they aren’t allowed to ask you is if you have been to a protest. Apparently, whether or not you have been to a protest is not scientifically important.
Every year, teachers begin their school year a week or two before students. This time is used to cover new policies, goals, and other changes to education from the previous school year.
New York wants to require police to carry personal liability insurance for wrongful use of force. Just three years ago, the NRA offered insurance just like that, and New York liberals called it “murder insurance.”
This is part 2 of a 3 part series. The first part can be found here.
Now that there are consequences for not giving in to the Communist aims and goals, false confessions proliferate, along with apologies and recantations for showing even the slightest hint of a politically incorrect viewpoint.
Now the violence can begin. This is when the Insurgency begins. We are seeing this today.
Almost every group out there protesting, whether it be Antifa, BLM, La Raza, and others are Communist. It is my belief that, since we are seeing armed and organized militia marching in the streets unopposed by the police, that we are well into phase 2.
Lest you think that, as officials claimed, this was a ‘peaceful protest’ look at this video, beginning with the 7:15 mark and ask yourself what it would have been called if any organization of armed white people had been talking to black motorists in the same manner.
The Insurgents are following the same playbook that every demagogue has used for more than a century. Even thought the insurgency is the violent part of a communist revolution, it depends on the political and propaganda portion in order to be successful. In other words, the insurgency can’t begin until there is sufficient public support to prevent the government from simply arresting the insurgents as soon as they are identified.
For reference, here are the three phases to any Insurgency:
Phase I (pre-hostility or incipient phase) corresponds to infrastructure development plus initial recruiting, organizing, training, and equipping of combat elements.
During this phase, insurgents may engage the government in open political
confrontations like public demonstrations, labor strikes, and boycotts. Insurgents often establish secure base areas for military command elements and guerrilla operations during this phase. Political-ideological cadres focus on indoctrination of civilians and armed revolutionaries.
Phase II (guerrilla warfare phase) is the first level of armed violence. Irregular forces engage in sabotage, interdiction of communication and logistics links, assassination, and selective attacks against government forces. Insurgents expand their secure base areas and, where possible, link them to form strategic enclaves of political autonomy.
Phase III (conventional confrontation phase) marks the transition from guerrilla actions to operations incorporating the tactics, techniques, and procedures of conventional fire and maneuver.