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  1. Thank you for a putting my, and other’s words, into a great article. I am old enough to remember the tail end of the hippy movement and the terror they caused. Another rhyme with them was they too were considered peaceful by many. Sadly, my spouse thinks we are crazy, so I won’t be able to relocate, but your words are truth.

  2. The biggest difference in our response to violence from these groups is the level at which we can legally respond at all.
    During the riots of the 60s and early 70s, we used firearms to guard our properties without consequence. In most areas doing this today will get you arrested while the police continue to ignore the looters.

  3. Can’t be said any clearer than the author in this article, and in his precepts. “Encourage…readers…to avoid trouble, most importantly via relocation to safe areas where trouble is unlikely to come to visit”. Folks, they aren’t going to blow up the “Hon Deere Tavern” in Big Rock Tennessee, or the Post Office in Bovill Idaho. But you’d better believe that Mortons Steakhouse on 5th Ave or the Los Angeles Federal Building would make any Left-Leaning terrorists eyes glimmer. Leave while you still can

  4. amen to this article, hope it doesn’t come to pass. But be ready at all times. I believe like the writer that the left will stop at nothing to destroy America.

  5. Working as an active duty Marine in CID (criminal investigation division) in Southern California in the 67-70 time period, I saw exactly what JWR describes. Seeing how the leftist media and politicians have idolized and canonized people like Bill Ayers is proof enough that the left sanctifies violence when perpetuated by their own, evidenced by the support shown by some media and politicians for the individual who recently gunned down several republicans in Washington DC. This repeat of history is going to be even more violent.

  6. Thanks for the memories!!! Yes, I do remember all to well living thru those turbulent, violent times. They were not pleasant nor comforting. I agree with JWR; we do seem to be entering the same turbulence of a country divided. This time, the unrest seems to be given greater impetus and acceptance by politicians and their behavior in Congress and the RESIST actions. We can also thank the Hippie movement for the growing acceptance of the recreational use of mind-altering substances, which MAY in part contribute to the social/societal unrest and escalating violence. But one other more positive thing came out of the hippie movement – “Why can’t we all get along???” The answer is simple: there are always those who don’t want to get along; they want their own way and nothing else will do. If they don’t get what they want, they have a temper tantrum. My generation called them “Spoiled Brats.” Now, their tantrums are more violent.

  7. 1) Last time I checked there are over 300 million private firearms in America — and very few are in the hands of leftists. Which suggests the Antifa operatives will be stacked up like firewood if they ever become anything more than hilarious propaganda theater.

    2)The Sixties radical groups probably had more FBI and Army infiltrators than true believers.
    A friend of mine infiltrated the Weathermen while in the Army — he still laughs about shaking off local police detectives who tried to follw him from a meeting. He didn’t want them to see his license/find out his name so he drove onto a local Army base. MPs armed with M16s were a creative countersurveillance technique.

    Re explosives, Weathermen blowing themselves up trying to make IEDs using the stupid Anarchist’s Cookbook were a self-correcting problem.

    3)It’s a well known rule that you can do violent direct action/terrorism or you can do political organizing but you can’t do both — any attempt to expand your message and recruit more members leaves you wide open to infiltration and surveillance. And to hostile provocateurs who stage surprise violent acts under your banner so your enemies have an excuse to crush you with mass arrests and loud accusations that make supporters melt away from you like ..er.. snowflakes.

    4) Yes, the CIA used to manipulate foreign politics covertly before the job was handed off to NGOs. But that takes enormous amounts of foreign money for little return and only works if you stay within local law and strongly avoid any links to criminals. Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’s $250 Million purchase of the Washington Post would become worthless the first time he was caught funding a violent group. The more violence Antifa commits the more their funding will shrink because no one with something to lose can be caught tied to a terrorist group. Especially a PUBLIC terrorist group, which is a truly idiotic idea.

    5) The shortcoming of drones is their broadband comm link back to the operator. Straightforward jamming should disrupt directed attacks and they are also vulnerable to gunfire.

    6) On the other hand, stealth drones guided solely by GPS , directed to a fixed location and programmed to detonate at a specific time could one day be a pain in the tush. Which is why the nuclear-armed Russians are annoyed by Obama mounting the Ukrainian coup in order to roll NATO forward to within 300 miles of Moscow and Russian ICBM bases. A swarm of our RQ180 stealth drones carrying 300 kt nuke warheads , if launched from Ukraine, could take out Russia’s entire group of ICBMs one night. So much for Mutual Assured Destruction. Assuming, of course, Russia doesn’t launch first. Amazing what the Wash Post does NOT report, isn’t it?

    PS
    7) Beware of Neocon propaganda hyperventilating about “Iranian” explosively formed penetrators (EFPs). Our Green Berets were spreading that tech to our own terrorists …er.. freedom fighters back in the Sixties. See e.g,
    “Platter Charge” on page 281 of Army Field Manual 31-20 “Special Forces Operational Techniques” , dated December 1965. Available on the Internet.

    1. Don Williams, Do not forget that in the 60’s federal agents provocateurs along with various ‘undercover’ police officers set in on the planning of, and sometimes initiated protests simply to provide reason for their continued employment.
      Many of the officers were well known, and tolerated amusedly as they tried to buy drugs or promote dissention by the local ‘filthy degerates’ who were there mainly to meet members of the opposite sex.
      I met some interesting folks preaching revolution on the streets who later made the headlines. There is no way that the various ‘alphabet’ agencys did not know exactly who these people, and their backers were!
      Why the backers were allowed to remain free and continue their treasonous activitys remains an unanswered (and generally unasked) question.
      (although I have suspicions)

      1. Jim Allen asked “Why the backers were allowed to remain free…”
        Why is George Soros still free? Consider that his son has been seen having lunch with Chuck Shumer. The traitors to the Constitution are deeply embedded.

    2. Having just visited the Titan II Missile Museum in Green Valley AZ, it will take more than a stealth drone can carry to impact a missile silo. You might burn the paint off the blast door, but the silo and its missile wont notice the diff.

  8. I remember the 60’s and 70’s well, I was at Ft. Ord for basic training when gate guard (MP’s) number’s were increased during the Angela Davis trial.

    Antifa, with the left seemingly at the epicenter of social problems, proponents for socialist actions claiming “their America should ____” (fill in the blank), has me wondering if they’re more the nazi’s (national socialist party) than what they refer to the right as being.

  9. Sometimes I wish I didn’t know of these dangers. This article gave me a stomach ache. Other times glad for the reminder as it makes me more diligent. Being exposed to “duck and cover” as a seven year old put me on my guard my whole life.

    1. I’m with you, Kathy. The depravity of left-wing maniacs knows no bottom, and it leaves me sick to my stomach. They desire nothing less than to tear down all of western civilization. Sadly, I’m afraid it’ll be a long road before the civilized defenders of our world finally decide to ‘take the gloves off’. And it may be too late.

  10. All of the concerns you have mentioned have been floating around in my head. some for over 20 years. not organized, just floating around. Thanks for organizing and coalescing them. Yes you are correct , the biological could be developed to be gene specific, However if used by an American of European decent on an American of European decent the enemy would have to have an antidote. Yes I do have a medical background and yes I have tried to study as many of the potential pathogens I consider possibilities but you can never know or cover all the possibilities for sure. Looking forward to part 2.

  11. I grew up in the 50’s and remember air raid drills where we went to the local post office for shelter from a nuclear blast.
    In April 1968 as a fresh from jump school 18 year old assigned to the 82nd. Airborne Div. I found myself and others in Washington D.C. with an M-16 rifle with a bayonet attached trying to break up riots.
    The 60’s and early 70’s were very turbulent times with much of it starting on Liberal collage campuses like today. Many of the ANTIFA are the children of the parents that went to these collages and were brainwashed by the liberal professors.
    I remember in the 90’s my son coming home from High School with a black beret and a picture of Che Guevara telling me about how great his teacher said this man was. To say the c**p hit the fan is an understatement. I just wonder haw many other children still believe this.

  12. Matthew 24:8-13King James Version (KJV)

    8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

    9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

    10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

    11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

    12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

    13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

  13. History lesson, most of the 60’s groups are outgrowths of the 50’s and early 60’s “civil rights” groups. I believe the first targets are going to be the corrupt police that have caused so much damage to our country and have no trust in the communities they threaten on a daily basis,retaliation may start as simple equipment destuction and may go as far as “phoenix” style operations with judges and local officals next. Being in a more rural area may help but being know as just and honest may be better,a rural area still depends on large cities for many capital intensive necessitys and services. Just hope that anyone we have wronged in the past doesn’t decide on retribution.

  14. The use of toxic zone-delivery weapons by any domestic insurgency would be a fatal strategic mistake. While the likely effect would be small, the observed willingness to use such substances would escalate the threat to an entirely different intensity. Which would likewise escalate the response intensity, in ways that include kinetics but reach beyond. As (leftist) cartoonist xkcd notes, it may take $1 million to crack your data encryption, but a $5 wrench applied to a friend will get them to talk. Metadata tells enough of a story to begin these processes. And the independent citizen reprisals would probably begin shortly after toxic attack #2 if no draconian crackdown was forthcoming.

    One can never underestimate the stupidity of people who live in a “dream palace,” and see others as props in their personal psychodramas. Case in point: they all think they’ll end up as commissars, rather than the statistically likely “body by the side of the road.” But I still wouldn’t spend much time planning for toxic attacks from this quarter. It’s very hard to do properly, as effective dispersal/delivery is complex and difficult. And if they do it, they forfeit both Boyd’s Moral Level of War and most of the system’s inherent brakes on escalation.

    Frankly, what’s far more likely is the use of small commercial drones as part of a surveillance/C3 network used in street battles (think hoplite warfare with drones and electronic comms) and assassinations. Essentially, the use of off-the-shelf tech to duplicate capabilities available to advanced militaries. Strongly encrypted communications add-ons for the drones and mesh networking are the key complementary tech. Both are well within the horizon of current commercial developments.

    It would appear that we are entering a Latin American model of politics in the USA: oligarchic and divided, where impunity destroys Rule of Law and thereby requires the growth of extra-legal organizations. In addition to their extra-legal moneymaking activities, they also end up as a key alternative option for key personal needs around justice/ safety, and sometimes even certain social supports.

    One can probably expect infusions of the Russian model as well, where factions of the Deep State end up having their respective pets and wind up playing key direct roles in the criminal syndicates.

    That “push from behind,” more than anything else, strikes me as the likely threat driver for serious escalation.

    If one buys that model, one must also assume that low-level terrorism by Antifa would spark a strong unofficial counter-reaction within a deep pool of highly-trained civilian and Praetorian Class personnel. The power of anarcho-tyranny from above would be the brake, and its ongoing decay/ relaxation/ pace of counter-enablement by other state factions would be signalled by new levels of counter-reaction.

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