Minnesota Insurgency Needs to Be Addressed
Yes, in one sense these people are playing dress-up. But the incantations contained in these militant direct-action “spell books” are all very real.
Donald Trump successfully delivered on his promise to halt illegal border crossings without going to Congress. However, when deporting illegals already in the country, the president ran into something very different, something that should take priority over all other issues, namely a violent insurgency.
The insurgency’s most publicized battlefield is in Minneapolis, where ICE agents shot and killed two individuals they apparently judged to be directing deadly force at immigration cops. These two incidents grabbed the headlines, but violence against ICE usually goes unnoticed. Yet it is routine in blue cities—and it’s meticulously organized, connected to the state and local seats of power, flush with dark money and supported from abroad.
Minnesota officials, including the mayor, Jacob Frey, and the governor and former vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, talk of Minneapolis being “under siege” by the Trump Administration, which, they insist, grabs “neighbors” off the street and assassinates “protestors”.
Barack Obama, the extent of whose influence on the Biden Administration policies at the peak of the migrant invasion remains murky, picked up the “peaceful protest” trope, posting a recruitment call on social media:
In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we’re seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you’re looking to get involved, here are some ways to help[.]
Predictably, the talking point was amplified by the media—Time magazine made “the siege” narrative into a cover story.
Americans, skeptical of astroturf since the appearance of Occupy encampments in Obama’s second term, got the first glimpse of the extent of NGO and government involvement in anti-immigration riots with SignalGate. The scandal broke out when independent investigator Cam Higby joined the encrypted Signal chats for anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis. He tweeted:
I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them.
He discovered a professionally organized guerrilla force, structured by neighborhoods and tasks. Aside from creating physical barriers for law enforcement, they were apparently illegally scanning license plates, in effect policing their own precincts.
Extremism expert Kyle Shideler pointed out that the anarchic-communist goal is to seize and hold American territory violently, establishing neighborhood councils on a model similar to Hezbollah’s. They are quite pleased with their achievement in Minneapolis.
The Signal group allegedly received orders from the state and city elite, including Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, who appeared to coordinate the illicit activity under the alias “Flan Southside”. One Signal group screen name “Aurin Chowdhury” matches that of a Minneapolis City Council member. Minnesota state Rep. Alex Falconer admitted to being on the encrypted talk and recruiting for the operation. The chat participants implied that the County Sheriff helps out with the plate reader. In other words, it looks like the secessionist “sanctuary state” of Minnesota built up an illicit paramilitary to fight federal law.
Kash Pattel’s FBI has now opened its own investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, the independent researcher who goes on social media by “Insurrection Barbie” pointed out that one of the leaders of the ICE Out protest is a communist NGO partially financed by Neville Roy Singham. Singham, she explains “is a U.S. born tech multimillionaire, long time socialist, and resident of Shanghai who is closely aligned with the Chinese Communist Party.”
Another foreign donor is the Canadian community organizer Jonny Soppotiuk. NGO and media involvement extends to the employees of the publicly financed NPR.
The Minnesota political establishment and foreign actors manipulate vulnerable Americans, putting them in harm’s way. City Journal writer Christina Buttons infiltrated the Signal chats and discovered a sophisticated public relations operation that grinds unfortunate souls into cannon fodder. Their deaths are later leveraged for political influence as the same politicians decry the “murder” of “peaceful protesters”.
Investigative reporter and Antifa Unmasked Author Andy Ngo observed that the 2026 ICE insurgency improved on the 2020 BLM tactics, which deployed “white allies” as human shields, adding:
Again, these are not protests. They are tactical operations meant to normalize insurgent behavior on the left. In Minneapolis, city leaders and police have tolerated masked activists establishing checkpoints, forcing drivers to slow or stop while license plates are logged into their databases.
The logical question to ask is: “What comes next?” Surely, this is not the last time the insurgency will fine-tune its tactics.
An average American needs to start taking domestic terror groups seriously. While officers of the law absorb most of the blows, political violence threatens everyone. Recall that Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign, and Charlie Kirk was murdered by a trans ally—who was once a nice Utah boy. Anti-Zionist Elias Rodriguez shot two Israeli embassy staffers execution-style, and Luigi Mangione did the same to a corporate executive.
While those events are almost certainly not coordinated by any domestic terror group, we know who the violent Left despises. Should domestic disturbances escalate, the logic of revolution suggests they will come for “enemies of the people”.
For decades, conservatives laughed off the Left’s revolutionary fantasies: “If there will be a civil war, it will be the fastest civil war ever!” What can the gun abolitionists who probably don’t know how to spell the word “gym” do to us?
Let’s reconsider. Signal Gate revealed—if it wasn’t clear already—that we are dealing with disciplined jackboots. They have friends in high places, and at least some of them are armed.
Shideler argued that even if the self-styled revolutionaries themselves are under the impression that they are participating in a LARP, their bosses know what they are doing:
But perhaps a better comparison would be to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Yes, in one sense these people are playing dress-up. But the incantations contained in these militant direct-action “spell books” are all very real. The true revolutionaries, the ones who put the books into the hands of these apprentices, know all too well what they are trying to achieve. Reproduced accurately, these techniques can produce uprisings, insurrections—and even revolutions—as they have for generations of insurgents on every continent except Antarctica.
There’s always an element of play-acting at the beginning of every insurgency. Whether it’s an ignorant campesino given a red bandana or a soccer mom given a whistle, for that hapless foot soldier it may all seem like a bit of a lark, a quaint diversion from their humdrum day-to-day lives.
But though every revolution begins as a LARP, they usually end in bloodshed.
It was evident in 2020 that Antifa-BLM doesn’t have the numbers for a revolution. Today’s Melt ICE protests are also numerically unimpressive. Just a thousand people, many from outside Minneapolis, signed up with the Signal chat. Here, in the San Francisco Bay Area, rallies in support of Minneapolis are weak.
Still, the Bolsheviks were an extreme minority party, but they overthrew Russia’s liberal Provisional Government. The Democratic Socialists of America, the depository of revolutionary sentiment in the U.S., is a rapidly growing organization that now boasts 100,000 members. The insurgents are well-financed and have friends in strategic positions.
Since bumping into problems in Minneapolis, Trump appears to have scaled back. Citing “unprecedented collaboration,” border czar Tom Homan announced the withdrawal of 700 agents from the Midwestern state. Even assuming that he isn’t saving face, the administration needs to shift priorities.
As important as it is to fight the invasion, most illegals are male—they are demographic dead ends. We can pass them like a kidney stone within a few decades. Yet, the insurgency is endemic to the U.S., and it threatens the very existence of our republic. Squishing it should take priority, and it will make deportations easier.
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The US government, due in part to constitutional restrictions and frequent flip-flopping of administrations and therefore policy, is particularly unsuited to dealing with an insurrection of any sort, especially one that is generally sub-kinetic.
OTOH, there are large number of armed patriots who believe the social contract with our fellows is not a suicide compact.
Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
I wrote this in 2015 in a comment to an article about the growing threat of Islam in Europe and governments’ inability/unwillingness to deal with it:
“(I)f things continue the way they have been going in Europe, the people will take matters into their own hands. They always have.”
I have no reason to think a similar solution won’t eventually, if necessary, arise here as well.
They staged their insurgency when their fraud was exposed.
Yes, it does need to be addressed, and it needs to be treated as what it is. Going back to the “occupy” movement and CHAZ, the goal is not whatever the issue du jour happens to be, it’s the overthrow of the US government. The same is true for the riots outside the courthouse in Portland; the sole purpose is to defy the US government’s authority.
That’s why Tom Cotton was correct in 2020 when he called on President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the troops. Trump declined, presumably because he was worried about the impact on the election, but look how that turned out.
The FBI needs to dig into this Signal ring, and particularly to investigate whether elected officials were indeed involved in it, and find proof that they knowingly conspired in an insurgency. Then they must be arrested; there’s no other way to do it.
“…most illegals are male—they are demographic dead ends. We can pass them like a kidney stone within a few decades.”
In other words, they don’t father children, because they are male and there are no women who will marry them or have their babies??
I enjoyed the article up to that point.
Doesn’t make sense, does it.
If they have children with US women, what’s the problem?
Early in my short and inglorious consular career, I stopped in Honolulu on the way to a posting in Asia for briefings with INS (that’s what we had back in the 1990’s). They’d hauled in an Asian man and a white woman, plopped them across a desk from an officer who was handing them a stack of papers”
OFFICER: An American who wishes an alien spouse to stay in the USA must file these papers with us…
ASIAN MAN: My wife’s not from Mars! She’s from Vancouver!
I admit that earlier, when I was a private citizen teaching in Taiwan, I had a fairly open-and-shut case when I petitioned for my wife to immigrate. We had been legally married for a bit over two years, had an infant son together (who had to get a US citizen’s Consular Report of Birth Abroad and a passport earlier), were on the same host country household registrationtogether, law-abiding, healthy, etc.
But, in any case, if a citizen marries a foreigner who is in the USA, the paperwork needs to be filed with USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) ASAP. Probably things will be complicated if the foreigner is in the US as an overstayer or has entered illegally, though, and they may get hard-a%$ed.
BTW, I’m of the mind that we should be a lot more lenient if US citizen spouses and minor children are involved, and there’s no criminal record.
No sob stories. Deport them all. Every time an alien without lawful permission to be in the USA encounters anything that requires ID/proof of Citizenship they should be fearful of discovery and deportation.
The US Citizen and their illegal alien Spouse and their minor children can decide to stay together wherever the alien came from. Alternatively the Parents could leave the minor children with relatives in the USA and the married couple depart together. Frankly if they’ve been together long enough to have a relationship, get married and have children together they’ve had time to figure out a solution for getting a green card. The US Military has a fast track program for both obtaining a green card and Naturalization which these folks decided not to take advantage of.
I think you and chief are missing the point. We’re discussing Katya Sedgwick’s point that “As important as it is to fight the invasion, most illegals are male—they are demographic dead ends”, and Tom Orrow’s objection that males can have children with American women.
My reply to Tom Orrow is that if an illegal male has a child with an American woman, what’s the problem? The child is undoubtedly American and belongs here, and will be raised by its mother as an American.
The problem Ms Sedgwick raises with female illegals is that they are likely to have children here and raise them themselves, or with an illegal partner, and the children, while US citizens, will not have a cultural connection to the USA. But to mitigate that she points out that this isn’t a huge problem because only a relatively small proportion of the illegal aliens are women. It would be worse if they were half.
Nope. I responded to the post made by Kepha H. and the specific point made within that post not the main thread.
Exactly.
Trump only has three years left. And the commies are pushing their legacy media comrades hard to put as much bullschiff about Trump and their ideas of the rule of law as they can.
Once the dems get power back -possibly next election – the border will reopen and this time the illegals will be given citizenship and voting rights.
Your guns might not matter at all.
Think about their impact on our gene pool and their reproductive rate.
The author ducked the big question: What do we do? The article is merely a recitation of well known facts.
“In other words, it looks like the secessionist “sanctuary state” of Minnesota built up an illicit paramilitary to fight federal law.”
Good thing we stomped out “citizen militias” in the bud, so shitlib local governments would have the flexibility necessary to assemble outright insurrectionary forces.
As a teacher of English Language Development for immigrant high schoolers (and I use the term “immigrant” to cover anyone who’s moved in from another contry, including both documented and undocumented), I saw more of my students deported or presenting summons to immigration hearings as absence excuses when Obama was in office. It’s why I think his pronouncements on “peaceful demonstrations” hupocritical in the extreme.
I will further note that our very partisan media does not report on the “human tragedies” of immigration enforcement when a Democrat is at the helm of the executive branch.
As a former consular officer who had to work with INS (what we had before the creation of USCIS and ICE in the early 2000’s), I’m also aware of the issues that immigration enforcement faces. Don’t ask or tell about the immigration status of the workers at your favorite Chinese takeout if it comes out that they’re from somewhere near Fuzhou. The people smuggling gangs (snakeheads) from that buckle of the illegal immigration belt are some very nasty people who make the Sicilian Cosa Nostra of yesteryear look like choirboys.
We’ve known that something had to be done about illegal immigration for some time. It’s why Clinton’s administration pushed through expedited deportation.
Sanctuary jurisdictions are clearly in violation of federal laws passed by both Houses with bipartisan support. Messrs, Walz and Frey probably need to be charge with obstruction of justice, if not outright insurrection. On Jan. 6 2021, Trump at least could be publicly heard (at the Washington Monument) that he wanted a “peaceful and patriotic” protest. It seems that the Guv and Hizzoner are actively encouraging resistance.
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No, they’re not. Not only are there no laws that they’re breaking, there can’t be any, because what they’re doing is protected by the constitution, as the courts have consistently ruled for at least the past 200 years. Just because we don’t like what they’re doing, just because we think it’s destructive and harmful, doesn’t change the fact that it’s their decision, not Congress’s.
They know where the line is and are careful not to cross it, while at the same time encouraging others to break the law and making it easy for them to do so.
As a former consular officer who had to work with INS
And you are?
‘As an annoying Democrat gadfly on LI”
Ah.
Why is it you think you know people’s jobs better than they do?
And hey, wasn’t there something about you leaving? Some whiny comment?
Go back to Hell, you slandering disgusting demon.
An insurgency is not a criminal issue which can be effectively resolved using relatively tame law enforcement tactics. It requires deployment of military counter insurgency tactics to crush it and very critically the willingness of the population to accept these harsher tactics and the continued resolve to see it through to the end. One example is Israel using pagers to eliminate targets and their acceptance that some collateral damage would be done. Another aspect is greater domestic surveillance and the use of info obtained without a warrant to plan and execute raids/strikes to disrupt the insurgents. Those insurgents not killed would be detained not arrested and held as unlawful combatants until they were squeezed for Intel and a determination was made to execute or imprison them for life, probably outside the USA. I suspect that neither the politicians nor the public are willing to use such tactics.
I think liberal use of rubber bullets would do a good job of discourage paid protesters Multiple hits would be painful enough to most of them. Instant consequences are something no woke judge can dismiss.
I disagree. Hizballah is not an Israeli insurgency but a foreign enemy that is attacking it from outside its borders. That’s why it could use the pagers. It didn’t and wouldn’t do that against its own citizens.
A US government dealing with a domestic insurrection can’t violate the fourth amendment, or any other part of the constitution. It has to respect its citizens’ rights while cracking down harshly on their lawbreaking and rebellion. Give them the J6 treatment: analyze the videos and track them each down, and throw the entire library at them.
You are making my argument for me. The broad public isn’t ready to effectively fight an insurgency. You and they balk at the deployment of the military tactics needed to do so and refuse to recognize that an insurgency is a military threat not a normal criminal threat.
I’d point out there was quite the insurrection in the USA from 1861-1865 and it was definitely not treated as a law enforcement issue.
Deal with the insurgents, yes. Can it wait until after midterms because biased media.