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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR March 4, 2021 at 12:03 pm

Paul Plante says:

And OMG, STOP THE PRESSES!

HUGE BREAKING NEWS JUST OUT!

According to the website Newser article “House Cancels Thursday Session Over Attack Fears – The Senate has not followed suit” by Luke Roney, Newser Staff, posted on Mar 3, 2021, we have to wit:

(Newser) – The House of Representatives has canceled its Thursday session over reports of a possible plot by an “identified militia group” to attempt a repeat of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.

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And here we go with an even bigger blizzard of BULL**** flying in our faces from these DICTATORAL DEMOCRATS in the House of Representatives.

Look at this HORSE**** they are feeding us here as they try to provoke fear in this country:

* Reports of a “possible” plot; and

* An “identified militia group.”

Which is all more DEMOCRAT fear-mongering.

Getting back to that dose of breaking news from Nancy Pelosi, we have:

One Democratic lawmaker tells the Hill that there is “growing concern about threats to the Capitol and Democratic lawmakers in particular tomorrow.”

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Now, consider how ******* stupid that sounds in the light of the fact that right now, Washington, D.C. is the most militarized capital of any third-world ****hole on the face of the planet, guarded by a massive military security presence, with modern weaponry to include helicopter gunships and Bradley fighting vehicles with their automatic weaponry, and the capitol itself, now a symbol of TYRANNY and OPPRESSION and DESPOTISM, is ringed with razor wire, and yet we are to believe that some type of “militia” group, maybe those lard asses we see toting huge weapons in the pictures of WHITE SUPREMACIST/WHITE NATIONALIST threats the main-stream media are always posting to make us feel the need to be scared and afraid, are going to cut their way through all that military force so they could get into the Capitol to kill Democrats.

And right on schedule, here comes National Propaganda Radio to push that story, which is so totally ridiculous it is not funny.

Welcome to the THIRD WORLD, people – America is no more!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR March 4, 2021 at 8:06 pm

Paul Plante says:

Yes, people, following the tried-and-true model of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister who never shied away from copying the most effective Socialist and Communist strategies, and who asked in June of 1935 the rhetorical question “(I)s propaganda, as we understand it, not also a form of art,” which it very much is, especially here in the United States today now that the Democrats have seized control of our national government and are now cementing their hold on the legislative and executive branches of our government, tightening their iron grip by blasting us with a steady stream of propaganda from National Propaganda Radio (the Volksempfänger,’ or radio receiver, was Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ preferred method of mass communication) about insurrections and militias over-running Washington, D.C. in order to keep us scared and confused, which is to say, easy to manipulate, and fearful, which is to say, mind dead, unable to think, so that the floodgates are now full open 24/7 so that we are now being inundated under a deluge of BULL**** and HOG**** and HORSE**** from the Democrats about IMMINENT ATTACKS ON WASHINGTON, D.C., BY THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY OF IVAR THE BONELESS AND HALFDAN RAGNARSON, AN IDENTIFIED MILITIA IF THERE EVER WAS ONE (we’re talking real bad-ass dudes here, people, like that wild bunch on motorcycles who took over that town in California back when) WHICH JUST LANDED IN CAPE CHARLES, VIRGINIA AND IS MAKING ITS WAY TO WASHINGTON AS WE SPEAK!

And the military forces arrayed around Washington are now so weakened because Joe Biden ordered them purged of everybody he deemed a threat to his autocracy, that they cannot hold out against this militia threat caused by the Great Heathen Army of Ivar the Boneless and Haldan Ragnarson as we see in a REUTERS article entitled “Pentagon, stumped by extremism in ranks, orders stand-down in next 60 days” by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali on February 3, 2021, where we learned about the state of our United States military, as follows:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military on Wednesday acknowledged it was unsure about how to address white nationalism and other extremism in its ranks, and announced plans for military-wide stand-downs pausing regular activity at some point in the next 60 days to tackle the issue.

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And now look what is happening – these militias that almost very nearly assassinated AOC, because people, it is really about her, on 6 January 2021 are exploiting that stand-down to make yet another assault on the Capitol, as we see by returning to the Newser article, to wit:

The Capitol Police said in a Wednesday statement: “We have obtained intelligence that shows a possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group on Thursday, March 4.”

“Our Department is working with our local, state, and federal partners to stop any threats to the Capitol.”

“We are taking the intelligence seriously.”

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Now, there we go, people – these are professionals speaking here, so when they say this Great Heathen Army of Ivar the Boneless and Halfdan Ragnarson is going to breach the Capitol like it wasn’t defended at all by the biggest military force in the capital city of any despotism on the face of the earth, they know just what it is they are talking about, which takes us back to REUTERS for the reason why, to wit:

The decision to a hold a stand-down was made by Lloyd Austin, who made history by becoming the military’s first Black defense secretary after a long career rising in the ranks of the Army.

In his confirmation hearing, Austin underscored the need to rid the military of “racists and extremists”.

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Yes, people, it’s past time we got rid of white people in the U.S. military because everybody knows that if they have white skin, they have implicit bias which makes them into WHITE NATIONALISTS and WHITE SUPREMACISTS, so there in no room for them at all in Joe Biden’s army, which takes us back to Reuters, for more, as follows:

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Austin ordered the stand-down after a meeting with the U.S. military branch leaders, who are under pressure to show progress in combating extremism after current and former military servicemembers were found to have participated in the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The Pentagon has yet to define how it will deal with extremism or offer data estimating how many service members hold white nationalist ideology.

It has also not disclosed how many troops have been disciplined for extremism.

“We don’t know how we’re going to be able to get after this in a meaningful, productive, tangible way and that is why he had this meeting today and that is why he certainly ordered this stand-down,” Kirby told reporters.

It was unclear whether the announcement was meant to foreshadow any near-term concrete actions by President Joe Biden’s Pentagon or whether the stand-down was more of a symbolic move, meant to demonstrate Austin’s acknowledgement of the problem and continued resolve.

The Pentagon did not define whether stand-downs pausing regular activity across the U.S. military might last minutes or hours, or what commanders would do during that time to express opposition to extremism.

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And there we have the latest, people, as the AUTOCRAT Joe Biden re-makes America in his image as a part of his MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN agenda.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR March 5, 2021 at 9:57 pm

Paul Plante says:

And while we are on the subject of what is known today in government propaganda circles as the “Goebbels’ Model,” so successfully employed by the main-stream media in this country today along with National Propaganda Radio (NPR) on behalf of the Democrats, with respect to what that model is based on, a time-tested truism, Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945), a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 who was one of Adolf Hitler’s closest and most devoted associates, known for his skills in public speaking and who obtained a Doctor of Philology degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1921, joining the Nazi Party in 1924, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme, and after the Nazis’ seizure of power in 1933, whose Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted control over the news media, arts, and information in Germany, and who was particularly adept at using the relatively new media of radio and film for propaganda purposes, described it thusly, to wit:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.”

“It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

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And that thought about the Democrat propaganda floodgates based on the successful “Goebbels’ Model” of “(I)f you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” which is so true in America today, where people no longer have the ability to think, now being full open 24/7 so that we are being literally inundated under a tsunami of BULL**** and HOG**** and HORSE**** from the Democrats through National Propaganda Radio (NPR) and the main-stream media takes us back in time a bit to a Brookings op ed article “What the Capitol insurgency reveals about white supremacy and law enforcement” by as dude named Rashawn Ray on January 12, 2021 where the HORSE**** flows freely in a torrent, we have a masterpiece in the art of “THE BIG LIE, ” to wit:

Make no mistake, the Capitol insurgency was about making America great for white people.

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That’s BULL****, Rashawn, dude!

First of all, there was no Capitol insurgency, which is “THE BIG LIE” being repeated over and over by the Democrats and their media lackeys in an effort to make the lie into the “truth,” because no grand jury has determined there was an insurgency, nor could they, since the elements of the CRIME of insurgency do not exist, period, or Donald Trump would have been indicted for insurgency, a serious federal crime, by now, despite being acquitted by the Senate, because acquittal by the Senate is not a bar to a criminal indictment once a president leaves office.

So, since there was no insurgency, it follows that the statement by this Rashawn dude that “the Capitol insurgency was about making America great for white people” is just ignorant horse****, but let’s go back and see what more Rashawn of Brookings, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. whose mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level, has to say, which is at follows, to wit:

In erecting a hangman’s noose, waving the Confederate flag, and wearing white nationalist paraphernalia, including an Auschwitz Concentration Camp shirt, the domestic terrorists showed America they fundamentally believe in maintaining and enacting white supremacy.

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The domestic terrorists showed America they fundamentally believe in maintaining and enacting white supremacy?

My goodness, do tell, Rashawn, but what John Sullivan?

What about him?

According to the BBC, we have as follows concerning that individual, to wit:

A left-wing activist was also arrested after tweeting video of himself inside the US Capitol as protesters breached security.

John Sullivan, 26, was charged with entering a restricted building and violent entry or disorderly conduct.

He claimed in media interviews that he was just “documenting” the rampage, though the affidavit notes he has no press credentials.

The court document says Mr Sullivan can be heard saying in a video he filmed of the Capitol riot: “Let’s burn this shit down.”

He has identified himself in media interviews as a Black Lives Matter supporter, but rejects any association with antifa, a loosely affiliated group of far-left protesters.

Following the death of George Floyd last year, Mr Sullivan founded an activist group called Insurgence USA that advocates for racial justice.

He was charged in July 2020 with felony riot and criminal mischief over civil unrest in Provo, Utah.

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What about him, Rashawn?

There is a DOMESTIC TERRORIST who is a BLACK LIVES MATTER supporter!

Where does he fit into your narrative of what you are trying to tell us happened in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021, where you were quoted in your article thusly:

Donald Trump, and Trumpism as an ideology, has opened a Pandora’s box of hate into the American mainstream, giving the permission some racists needed to reveal themselves proudly and wreak havoc on symbols of American democracy that have withstood wars and attacks for centuries.

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What absolute horse**** that is.

First of all, in the United States of America today, there is no ideology, defined as a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy, known as “Trumpism,” which is an invention of this Rashawn Ray dude, something that doesn’t really exist, but following the tenets of Joseph Goebbels to keep repeating the lies over and over until they become the only “truth” people know, Rashawn will keep repeating the mantra of “Trumpism, Trumpism, Trumpism,” until people actually begin to believe such a thing actually has a concrete existence outside of the mind of Rashawn Ray as an ideology.

And how about this burst of genuine horsecrap, to wit:

Trumpism has opened a Pandora’s box of hate into the American mainstream, giving the permission some racists needed to reveal themselves proudly and wreak havoc on symbols of American democracy that have withstood wars and attacks for centuries.

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Rashawn, dude, I have no clue as to what somebody has to do to become an expert for Brookings, but from what you are putting forth here, it appears you can be pretty ignorant and still be considered an expert by them.

As to wreaking havoc on symbols of American democracy that have withstood wars and attacks for centuries, 207 years ago. or slightly more than two centuries ago, on August 24, 1814, as the War of 1812 raged on, invading British troops marched into Washington and set fire to the U.S. Capitol and destroyed it.

And “symbols” of American “democracy?”

What a crock that is, unless of course one wants to be very realistic and say that all of the many, many scandals associated with the House of Representatives and the Senate are the real symbols of American democracy, which is so similar to organized crime that I am not at all sure how on can tell the difference.

We have, for example, Democrat John B. Clark kicked out of the “People’s House” on July 13, 1861 for Disloyalty to the Union; fighting for the Confederacy.

That was back during the Democrat insurrection against the United States of America in which they were defeated by LOYAL AMERICANS.

And how about Democrat John W. Reed whom was booted from the House of Representatives on December 2, 1861 for Disloyalty to the Union; fighting for the Confederacy.

Or Democrat Henry C. Burnett given the boot on December 2, 1861 for Disloyalty to the Union; fighting for the Confederacy.

Or Democrat Michael J. Myers, convicted of bribery, booted from the House on October 2, 1980.

Or Democrat James A. Traficant, convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery, defraud U.S., receipt of illegal gratuities, obstruction of justice, filing false tax returns, and racketeering, booted from the House on July 24, 2002.

Those are the real symbols of the “democracy” of the Democrats here in the United States of America.

And with regard to a real ideology here in the United States of America that in real life, as opposed to the vivid imagination of Rashawn Ray of Brooking, a propaganda organ that rivals NPR, that opened a Pandora’s box of hate into the American mainstream, giving the permission some racists needed to reveal themselves proudly, we are talking the history of the Democrat party since the 1800s, with their violent, racist terror gangs such as the Red Shirts, and White League.

And when it comes to Democrat party political violence, who can possibly forget the famous “Dead Rabbits,” an Irish American criminal street gang active in Lower Manhattan in the 1830s to 1850s.

Besides street-fighting, the Dead Rabbits supported politicians such as Democrat Fernando Wood and the Democrat Tammany Hall machine, and under the leadership of Isaiah Rynders the gang acted as enforcers to violently persuade voters during elections to vote for their candidates.

God bless Democrat party “democracy,” isn’t it, people?

No finer “democracy” in all the land than the “democracy” of the Democrats is what they all say, and who can argue with them, especially if it will get your head bashed in for you by a Democrat thug!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR March 8, 2021 at 11:47 am

Paul Plante says:

And here we have to stop for a moment, because as AOC, the DEMOCRAT DRAMA QUEEN who this is really all about, says, not only do words have a lot of letters in them, but they also have meaning, which takes us back to that Brookings op ed article titled “What the Capitol insurgency reveals about white supremacy and law enforcement” by a dude named Rashawn Ray on January 12, 2021 where we had as follows, to wit:

Make no mistake, the Capitol insurgency was about making America great for white people.

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And the word we have there with a lot of letters in it is a new word in this on-going drama about what actually did take place in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021, that word being “INSURGENCY,” as opposed to “INSURRECTION,” which is what Nancy Pelosi impeached Trump for – inciting an insurrection, not an insurgency.

So why is Dr. Rashawn Ray, a very highly educated man with a BA from University of Memphis in 2003, an MA from Indiana University in 2005, and a PhD from Indiana University in 2010 using the term “insurgency,” while National Propaganda Radio (NPR) and the media and the Democrats are using the word “insurrection” for the same set of events on 6 January 2021?

Is it a Freudian slip on his part where a Freudian slip is an unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings?

What does Dr. Rashawn Ray know that we don’t know?

As to an “INSURGENCY” not being an “INSURRECTION,” let us go to an article on the Foundation for Defense of Democracy website entitled “America in 2020: ‘Insurrection’ or ‘Incipient Insurgency’?” by David Kilcullen on June 23, 2020, where we have as follows

In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in the capital; helicopters buzzed protesters; and police armored vehicles appeared on the streets, while Predator drones and other aircraft flew surveillance racetracks over Minneapolis and 14 other cities.

Amid the tear gas and brick-throwing, more than 11,000 people were arrested; hundreds were hurt, and at least 20 were killed.

Extremists on both the left and right exploited the chaos.

Millions heard the words “Antifa” and “Boogaloo” for the first time and instantly decided, on purely partisan grounds, that they knew precisely what the problem was and that – oddly enough – the same political opponents they already hated were to blame.

But the truth is more complex, and a term used by both sides offers some clarity here: “insurrection.”

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And here, people, we are finally getting some much-needed clarity here that we will not get from National Propaganda Radio (NPR), which keeps bleating about an “insurrection” day after day after day, as if the “BIG LIE” will finally become the truth if repeated often enough, and the media and the Democrats.

Getting back to that analysis, we have:

In an interview on June 3, California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters rejected the term “rioting,” which she considers racist, to describe the unrest.

Instead, she said, “I choose to call it an insurrection.”

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Words in the mouth of a Democrat politician are very squishy, indeed, because Democrats are driven by pure emotion, so they use words for their shock value, like “insurrection,”or they don’t use words because they are “racist,” like “rioting,” which is all just a bunch of pure horse****, which again takes us back for more as follows:

The following day, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas wrote that under today’s circumstances, “the Insurrection Act authorizes the president to employ the military ‘or any other means’ in ‘cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws.’”

The controversy around Cotton’s piece – which prompted the purging of New York Times opinion editor James Bennet – obscured the fact that Cotton and Waters share a similar assessment, while differing on the response.

But is that assessment accurate?

“Insurrection” has a specific meaning under U.S. law.

It means “a violent uprising by a group or movement acting for the specific purpose of overthrowing the constituted government and seizing its powers.”

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So is that what we saw on 6 January 2021 – a violent uprising by a group of WHITE NATIONALIST/WHITE SUPREMACISTS spurred on by inflammatory rhetoric from Donald Trump acting for the specific purpose of overthrowing the constituted government of Donald Trump as president and seizing its powers?

Sounds kind of stupid, doesn’t it?

Going back to that article for more clarification, we have:

Insurrection is not mere rioting, looting, or mob violence, even if politically motivated.

Nor is it simply the exclusion of government from a no-go area such as Seattle’s Capitol Hill.

It is an organized, armed uprising with the intent of overthrowing and replacing governing authority.

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So if an insurrection is an organized, armed uprising with the intent of overthrowing and replacing governing authority, who were these insurrectionists intent on overthrowing Donald Trump as president and replacing governing authority in somebody else going to place it in?

Joe Biden?

Because that is exactly what did happen on 6 January 2021, which again takes us back for more clarification, to wit:

Insurrection, then, is narrower than insurgency, which the military defines as “organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region.”

This has implications for how U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies approach the problem.

A decade ago, when I began studying the organization and tactics of groups that are openly arming and training for conflict inside the United States (roughly 380 right-leaning militias and 50 left-wing armed groups), I approached an FBI friend with a simple question: “How is this legal?”

He responded with a question of his own: “Are they advocating the armed overthrow of the state?”

“If they’re not, and they’re not violating other laws such as firearms statutes, what they’re doing is perfectly legal.”

For the most part, in fact, U.S. armed groups do not advocate armed overthrow of the state.

Left-wing militias describe themselves as community self-defense organizations or above-ground militant formations engaged in “active resistance” – resisting, rather than overthrowing the state.

On the right, militias call themselves “constitutionalists” and “patriots” who, far from advocating the overthrow of the government, pledge to “uphold the law and the Constitution.”

A few groups, such as the white-separatist Northwest Front, seek “an independent and sovereign White nation in the Pacific Northwest” but aim to achieve it through internal migration and demographic change, not violent insurrection.

Likewise, “accelerationists” on the Marxist or environmentalist left and the neo-Nazi right promote violence to trigger class war, save the planet by culling the human plague, or provoke “racial holy war.”

Some fit the definition of terrorist groups, but it would be a stretch to call them insurrectionists.

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Not if you are Nancy Pelosi, however, or the media or National Propaganda Radio (NPR), all of whom are peddling HYPE and HYSTERIA, which again takes us back for more, to wit:

So, some do not meet the definition of insurrection, since they are not pursuing the “specific purpose of overthrowing the constituted government and seizing its powers,” or because they are not engaged in an armed uprising.

Many also fail to meet the organizational threshold of being a “group or movement” – in some cases, by design.

Consider Antifa.

Individuals and local chapters self-identify as members, are recognized as such by others, and conduct pre-planned “direct action,” which in the Antifa lexicon means confrontational violence to disrupt opponents.

Direct action forms part of a mix of methods known as “diversity of tactics.”

Antifa groups have websites, Facebook pages, and social media tools; study the tactics of other groups; host training events; and have thought-leaders, such as Mark Bray and Matthew N. Lyons.

Antifa action is carried out by self-recruited, self-synchronized cells known as “affinity groups,” which collaborate loosely in clusters and apply something akin to swarming “netwar” tactics both in real life and online.

Antifa, in this sense, operates like a militant mash-up between the hacker collective Anonymous and the Occupy movement, not as a formal organization with a central staff or membership list.

Declaring Antifa a terrorist organization – as President Donald Trump has threatened to do – would thus be fraught with practical problems and civil rights concerns.

There is cross-pollination here.

Just as right-wing groups borrowed accelerationism from an earlier generation of Marxists, modern Antifa draw heavily on the organizing method of leaderless resistance, pioneered by white supremacist leader Louis Beam in the 1980s and picked up by jihadist groups as a way to operate under pervasive, but constitutionally constrained, law enforcement.

Similarly, Antifa have co-evolved through repeated rounds of street combat with their arch-enemies Patriot Prayer, the Proud Boys, and Identity Evropa, until these groups now resemble each other and fill similar niches of the left and right within an overall conflict ecosystem.

None of these groups could be considered insurrectionists in the formal, U.S. legal sense.

Still less could this term be applied to the unorganized looters who pillaged property or to the mobs that attacked police precincts over the past several weeks.

These people, however violent, were committing acts of civil disturbance, property destruction, and assault that are well-addressed by ordinary civil and criminal law.

And of course, protesters legitimately exercising the First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” are committing no crime whatsoever and should be protected, supported, and – most importantly – heard.

In this respect the argument that the protests have been “largely peaceful” may be true, but it is also irrelevant.

Only a tiny minority – 2 to 5 percent – of individuals in insurgencies, civil wars, or criminal gangs actually commit violence.

In Iraq during the “Surge,” my team started from the assumption that 20 percent of insurgents would prove so irreconcilably violent that they would never negotiate and must therefore be killed or captured.

We were off by an order of magnitude –the true number was not 20, but 2 percent.

Likewise, the nonprofit Cure Violence has found that only 2 to 3 percent of gang members engaged in violence, while an alternative name for the militia – Three Percenters – rests on the assertion that only 3 percent of American colonists took up arms against the British during the Revolutionary War.

Any guerrilla leader knows that it takes only a tiny violent cadre to turn civil unrest, street disorder, and social discontent into armed insurrection, given appropriate conditions.

Che Guevara’s “focoism” theory – despite many failures in practice – is founded on his real-world observation that a small armed element of a few hundred guerrillas at most, operating in the mountains and along the urban fringe, could create revolutionary change when combined with mass urban unrest, strike action, legal political organization, and underground resistance in the cities and plains of Cuba.

Sendero Luminoso in Peru, Nepal’s Maoist guerrillas, and the Continental Bolivarian Movement in Latin America specialize in this technique.

Several successful “color revolutions” have used some variant of it, and American groups – from far-left Antifa to right-wing accelerationists – are fully aware of the approach.

Thus, as this month’s disorder fades, the main long-term impact may be its radicalizing effect on a tiny minority of participants who join more violent groups as a result.

It is commonplace in insurgencies for guerrilla talent spotters to identify recruits through street violence, inducting them into armed, organized groups over time.

More broadly, the military concept of insurgency – subversion plus violence, intended to seize, nullify, or challenge political control – may be more applicable here than insurrection.

One possible interpretation is that America may be in what the CIA Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency calls “incipient insurgency.”

This encompasses pre-insurgency and organizational stages; it may involve inchoate action by a range of groups, followed by organization, training, acquisition of resources, and building external and public support, then increasingly frequent antigovernment incidents displaying improved organization and forethought.

Many simultaneous proto-insurgencies can coexist, and it may be impossible to determine which (if any) of them will progress to a more serious stage.

Clearly, current conditions in the United States match some – though not all – of these criteria.

There is no reason why, even with today’s toxic political polarization, we must inevitably slip further toward conflict.

But if we want to avoid that risk, it is essential to recognize that it does exist and that, “insurrection” or not, the best thing to do is to treat the current unrest as a wake-up call and act urgently to address it.

David Kilcullen serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

FDD is a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy.

Foundation for Defense of Democracies

P.O. Box 33249, Washington D.C. 20033
202-207-0190
info@fdd.org

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