Enemies Within the Gates

Eric Schwalm:

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.

58 Replies to “Enemies Within the Gates”

  1. I smell a filthy dirty America-hating commie Jewboy rat at the bottom of this and its name is George Soros with his Muslim faggot choreboy Barack Obama.

    1. You would improve your messaging if you would clean up your antisemitism and potty mouth. These do nobody any good.

      Your post is at the eighth grade mental level.

      1. It’s interesting that the corporate media has placed the Minneapolis riots as the lead superstore over the weekend, ahead of the nordic freeze and the oncoming Iran war. A perceptive YouTube commenter said that the protests have been small, but violent, fueled by radical leadership and sympathetic national media coverage. The ICE arrests are part of the federal government’s move against widespread organized crime, a criminal network tied to Somali illegal immigration. The corporate media, in placing the riots ahead of Iran and the freezing storm, is purposely aiding organized crime.

        (This post is supposed to bec a stand alone post).

        1. https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-media-has-become-the-propaganda-arm-of-an-insurrection/

          Please see the “A Media Insurrection” link directly below, or the above link. The corporate media IS leading the violent insurrection in Minneapolis. Since the dominant media is this extreme, it is necessary for conservatives to continue to build up a media to counter the left-media’s dominance. We should support the dissident blogs and YouTube channels. Pull the cable TV plug.

      2. ‘Muslim faggot’ doesn’t phase me, but ‘commie Jewboy’ is a step too far IMO.

        I’m as big a proponent of free speech as the next guy/gal here, but consequences always need to be considered (especially if it’s not your site).

        Let’s not give the woke hall monitors who roam the internet looking for stuff they can retweet any reason to target us here, is my thought.

    2. Soros has been a nonpracticing Jew all his life. Most Jews regard him as having betrayed everything their people and religion stands for. Stop referring to him as a Jew.

    3. Calling someone who is perhaps best known for directing Nazis to Jewish homes a “jewboy”, is at best idiotic.

      1. If you can look at George Soros’s life and find nothing to hate but his genes, you have nothing to contribute.

    4. “I smell a filthy dirty America-hating…”

      You know how to tell who’s a Fed in any group? Just watch for who’s screaming the loudest. The guy with the foulest mouth and the wildest-eyes, he’s the Fed.

      Or a Commie sock puppet, that’s a strong possibility these days.

    5. I see a lot of purple and gold at them.
      No, that doesn’t mean Vikings fans. What it does mean is that SEIU is involved — purple and gold are their colors. (and if you saw those No Kings protests and Mamdani’s campaign you’d have seen the same colors — fascinating, huh?)
      Do you know where your union dues go?

  2. The bad news: they’ve read the playbook.
    The good news: they’ve read the playbook.

  3. Whether they were ordered to or not…Minnesota NG handing out donuts to Antifa is not a good look.
    This will come to a head very soon and it won’t be pretty.

    1. Minnesota’s law enforcement and NG need to watch their six — they get ordered to do the dumb thing and they comply; it goes south; and guess who gets thrown under the bus by their lovely politicians?
      I’m not sure the country would be as forgiving as it was the last time. Especially when it comes to light that there was foreign involvement (which there was the last time as well, something to keep in mind too).

  4. 45% of Americans lean left. Every loony left wing half baked idea always comes out of and starts in the US.
    As Canadians, data demonstrates Canadians are less likely to support radical political positions than their American counterparts, especially in Liberal Minnesota.
    Its no wonder the National Guard in Minnesota is handing out coffee and donuts to the protestors.

    1. Americans feel bolder in expressing and acting upon more radical positions — that’s why some truly wild notions come out of my country. But, most people tend to be centrist (or just pragmatic) and eventually speak up for themselves — that’s why those wild notions tend to start here but come to fruition some other place.

      1. “Americans feel bolder in expressing and acting upon more radical positions — that’s why some truly wild notions come out of my country. ”

        I’ve always admired that about you guys, Jane. My personal theory is that it is because you had to actually fight for your freedom from Britain, whereas we Canadians had ours just handed to us (mostly because of your fight).

        Canadian politicians have long ridiculed Americans for their patriotism, yet they seem to have rediscovered the joy of loving your country now that they need it to sucker voters into keeping them in power.

        1. It’s a blessing as well as a curse. It can give you some innovation and quick change — but those aren’t always for the best (that sterilization bs we had was horrible) — but it can also give you chaos (see Minneapolis).
          Still, it does tend to act as a pressure release valve and a long term stability measure — as long as the center holds. And that is exactly what the enemies of my country, foreign and domestic, have been going after for decades now.

    2. I respect your viewpoint, but I think we must know very different people.

      As a Canadian who has spent most of my life in Canada, but the past 12 years living in America, I absolutely believe that, on average, Canadians are more left of center than Americans. This is confirmed in most every conversation I have with my many Canadian friends.

      Certainly, there are Leftist nutters in places like San Francisco and Seattle, but are they really altogether different than the Leftist nutters in Vancouver and Toronto? I think not.

      1. I agree with you, Robert. Most indicative (to me) of the leftist nature of Canadians was the near-universal approval of Obama, while sensible Americans detested him.

      2. So true. Americans are also the hardest working people I have ever met while Canadians….not so much. As far as ideological polarity goes, Americans are fiercely independent and resourceful and thus lean libertarian to conservative. Canadians on the other hand rely heavily upon big government to solve all of their problems and thus lean socialist to communist.

      3. “…on average, Canadians are more left of center than Americans.”

        I honestly don’t know if that is true. Being here and walking around in Canaduh, I do find that the Normies are far, far more likely to repeat media talking points than Normies in the USA. #OrangeManBad, Elbows Up, yeah, they talk the talk. But do they walk the walk?

        If we take a look at Lefty demonstrations, they are invariably the Lefty Rent-A-Mob of a few hundred people, mostly old women with signs. I mean, you can recognize some of them, they show up to everything. Zero Normies are there. Just the ones gettin’ paid.

        But anti-lockdown demonstrations during Covid, we were seeing THOUSANDS of Normies swarming Queens Park every weekend for months. And they never broke anything or burned anything, they just showed up, sang some songs, listened to some speakers slag the government and cheered, then went home. And the Freedom Convoy, of course. Normies showed up for that one, bigtime.

        So idiot Normies say what they think is popular, and apparently vote whatever way is popular. But if you got rid of the rent-a-mob phenomenon and started defunding that whole NGO structure, would the Normies keep voting that way if it was no longer popular? I wonder.

      4. “America, I absolutely believe that, on average, Canadians are more left of center than Americans.”

        Absolutely we are. It’s the Christian component, and the difference between multiculturalism (a dismal failure almost everywhere it has been tried) and the US ‘melting pot’ approach.

        Stephen Harper would be a Democrat down there….the Liberals would be laughed at and the NDP would just be illegal.

      5. Robert:

        AGREED.
        Also, over about 20 years riding motorcycles all over America
        N S E W, I came fo feel that Americans are more open and friendly as well.

    3. 45% of Americans lean left? And they’re bad? In the last federal election here, the Conservatives got around 41% of the vote, meaning that the other 59% voted for the Liberals, NDP, Bloc and Greens, all leftist parties.

      We’re much more left than the Americans.

    4. “As Canadians, data demonstrates Canadians are less likely to support radical political positions than their American counterparts”
      That is unless the said political position is presented under the Lieberal banner. Then it’s “Elbows Up!” and chicken dancing.

  5. The comparison to a low level insurgency is totally accurate. This indicates that you are dealing with an implacably hostile population which is going to do everything it can to interfere with security forces like ICE. Reacting by doubling down on a punitive response will only make things worse. I’d recommend the book Say Nothing which is an account of the insurgency in Northern Ireland. Despite eventually placing 30,000 British troops there, the war resulted in a decades long stalemate which was only resolved with a negotiated settlement. A friend of mine fought in the Rhodesian army and wrote a book about his experiences called A Walk Against The Stream. He details the response to guerilla infiltration of rural African settlements by burning huts, killing livestock, closing stores and shooting curfew breakers in the belief that a punitive strategy would “teach the locals a lesson”. It didn’t work. Support for the insurgents only grew as a result until there could never be enough “boots on the ground” to exercise effective control. Rhodesia consequently lost the war and had to opt for a negotiated settlement.

    1. “This indicates that you are dealing with an implacably hostile population which is going to do everything it can to interfere with security forces like ICE.”

      Until you arrest their leaders and throw them in jail, then the rest will scatter like scared chickens. This is not even remotely comparable to Northern Ireland or Rhodesia.

  6. Speaking of Canada: if I was an Albertan wanting to sign a petition, I would probably want to take heed of how these insurgents in the U.S. are operating. Just saying — you’ve already had some incidents and some social media commentary. We are talking about people who don’t believe in borders after all.

    1. Trump is exceptional in many ways. In the matter of Greenland and the resuscitation of the Monroe Doctrine I believe he’s the first US president since JFK to have a plan for the Western hemisphere that extends beyond five years into the future.

      1. I’m sure unbeknownst to a lot of folks is that the Monroe Doctrine was enacted to put a stop to European expansion/colonialism and rightfully so in my opinion. The first real test case came when Britain wanted to carve out a big chunk of Venezuela for themselves. “Oh how the turntables have…”
        Seems everyone on the left think it means “We’re American…so we’ll take whatever the F we want, so get out of our way!”

        1. I thought the “Monroe Doctrine” was what Madonna followed when she made the video to “Material Girl”?

    1. “…the maximum professional killing machine, its potency amplified by the optical device. ”

      I can see where a half-trained #Pantifa weenie would think that was the best thing ever. It doesn’t work that way in #RealLife, but he wouldn’t know that. Because half-trained means you’re good on paper.

      Bottom line, he showed up to rumble with the cops and he pulled out a gun? Yes, obviously that guy got shot. That’s the other part of half-trained. He had never experienced what other people do when threatened.

      Half-trained means you still think you are the Main Character, and you will hit every target. Because you always hit every target. That’s what happens at the range, right? You always win. The paper always loses.

      Fully trained means you know you are a little fluffy bunny in a world full of tigers.

      1. “Because you always hit every target. That’s what happens at the range, right? You always win.”
        more likely,,,
        Because you always hit every target. That’s what happens {when you play video games/Call of Duty}, right? You always win.

      2. “Fully trained means you know you are a little fluffy bunny in a world full of tigers.”

        Oh, I am SO stealing that one… 🙂

      3. Nobody knows what’s going to happen until the moment arrives — training is good because it teaches you muscle memory, but it never truly represents the big moment. That’s a different psychological ball game.
        Luck is real. Mr. Pretti was very stupid and very unlucky. Oh well…thems the breaks.

    2. Sig P320 means (possibly, this is just conjecture): somebody who knew enough to know that particular sidearm is widely used by the U.S. military and law enforcement without knowing that it has some definite quirks to it…like going pew pew without you wanting it to.

      Rather like some of the new Walther’s…they’re uh, not what they used to be.

  7. I’m old enough to remember when George Bush said we needed to fight them over there, instead of over here …

    then Obama threw the borders open during his third term … and they’re fighting us over here now.

  8. Only right wingers can be insurgents.
    Everyone else is a patriot.
    Just ask anyone from the Squad or Nancy Big Titted Cow Pelosi or Slick Gavin the twat.

  9. I was going to suggest Banishment for those who so hate us and our luxurious civilization..
    But Minneapolis ?
    Isn’t that the original place the dangerously dumb were encouraged to move to?
    What about building a fence around it?
    “They use real bullets”?
    This is not an insurrection,it is brain washed children playing.
    The same idiots who demand all adult citizens must surrender their weapons,then fantascize about killing all who laugh at them..
    Those with no hand skills shall instruct those who can do…
    Yup , gonna end well.

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