Just a thought exercise here.
The BLM/Antifa people have organized and designed their protests to take advantage of the rules that society and the police have. They do things the way that they do, and they are as effective as they are because the rules say that society and the police MUST respond in a certain way. They know that they can do what they do, because they know that there are no real repercussions for their actions.
But what happens when the rules change? What if there were a group of people who decided that they have had enough? Or what happens if they export their violent bullshit into an area where the locals DON’T do what is expected of them? In other words, when people have had enough and the switch gets flipped, what then?
Read this article, think about the tactics they have used so far, then come back here. Go ahead, I will wait right here until you are done.
So hear me out. It seems to me like there are a couple of glaring weaknesses here. One is, as a crowdsourced movement, they announce their actions ahead of time, so the followers know where they are needed for the next peaceful protest. Suppose that some opponent knew this, and then used that foreknowledge to prepare the area. Say, an old junk car filled with ANFO, parked next to the location, left there the day before. It could be command detonated, or could simply self initiate when tampered with. To ensure that it is tampered with, it could be covered in Trump or “Blue Line” stickers.
Or suppose some belligerent found out the location of the REAL attack, the one that the main demonstration was intended to be the distraction for, and simply set up an ambush? Say, three or four guys with firepower that would open up on the Antifa unit. These ambushers could be backed up with a fire support team, just in case the ambush team ran into something unexpected and needed covering fire to disengage. Antifa shows up to vandalize a police station while the cops are busy on the other side of town, and as soon as they begin their attack, some unknown party opens fire on them from a nearby building. Four or five of them are shot, and the shooters disappear, only leaving 100 or so pieces of generic factory brass behind.
Use your imagination. How much would such a rule change send a message? What would follow?
3 Comments
E · May 9, 2021 at 6:36 pm
Don’t forget the first rule of fight club.
As Tyler Durdin says, if one were so inclined…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21293.The_Cat_Dancers
in a related tangent, any would-be-homies thinking about solving some problems ought to give this book a read and some thoughts before getting all gangster together.
I read this book 10 or 15 years ago but it’s been a mental itch waiting for the current craziness to resurface. If one were so inclined to go around saving the world, how do you know everyone’s on board and not a snitch? This book has some ideas about how to sort things out…
Skeptic · May 10, 2021 at 10:54 am
A couple of thoughts here.
First, I’ve said from the beginning that these “people” are willing to risk minor imprisonment. They are not willing to risk their lives. So far they haven’t had to. A genuine mass casualty event would stop this shit toot sweet.
Second, if such an ambush were to occur, I think their losses would number far more than four or five, assuming even average marksmanship. Which refers back to my point above.
joe · May 10, 2021 at 7:07 pm
what followed jan 6th and continues to follow jan 6th is what would happen to those that participated…but i get what you are saying…would only take one time to send a message that patriots ain’t fucking around anymore…
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