“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
–T.S. Eliot.
Category: Quote O’ The Day
The biggest mistake America made was thinking domestic communists weren’t real.
– Sarah A. Hoyt
BLUF:
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
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 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 SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. 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.
“Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.”
-Thomas Sowell
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
– Oeuvres de Maximilien Robespierre
“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” —
If you look at every issue in this country, every issue I believe traces back to this fact: On the one hand, the elites in the ruling class in this country are robbing us blind, and on the other, if you dare complain about it, you are a bad person.
– J.D. VANCE
Our Citizens have been always free to make, vend, and export arms. It is the constant occupation and livelihood of some of them…
-Thomas Jefferson.
Our Constitution is our rule of law, and the first 10 amendments of that venerable document contain our Bill of Rights. Those First Amendment rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble, and the right to petition the government for redress of grievance, do not come with any requirement to obtain a permit.
– Allen West
“I would never wish for the death of anyone, that being said, there are some obituaries I have read with a great deal of pleasure.”
-Mark Twain
“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
– Rush Limbaugh
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy.
– Fred Smith
The only reason we have warning labels is because government officials realized that they personally require them to survive and not accidentally kill themselves.
-unattributed
“One of my rules-of-thumb is that anything that can’t be explained with normal words is BS”
-Scott Adams
Carnivores are just as cultish as vegans, but I have yet to see a human barricade of carnivores at the entrance of Whole Foods to stop people from buying veggies.
– unattributed
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
— Mark Skousen
You are only an Apex Predator when armed – Zendo Deb
“There is a true law, a right reason, conformable to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty.”
– Cicero
Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please.
Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle
There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.
— James Madison